The Amazing Race Reporting Thread

[Jen K]

Week 11 Report: Crazy 8th Wonders (Team 8)

Team Member: Jen
Book and Author: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Date Read: 9/25/21
Rating: 3.5 stars
Pages: 384 pages
Task: Location: read a book set in China
How it Fits: at least 80% set in China

Team Member: Kati
Book and Author: The Prince by Jillian Dodd
Date Read: 9/24/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 290 pages
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane
How it Fits: MC flies on multiple private planes

Team Member: Krissy
Book and Author: The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Date Read: 9/25/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 319 pages
Task: Mission: read a book which a teammate gave 5 stars
How it Fits: Kati gave it 5 stars- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Team Member: Lanelle
Book and Author: Sweet Masterpiece (Samantha Sweet #1) by Connie Shelton
Date Read: 9/26/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 242 pages
Task: Roadblock: read a book with a prepared food on the cover
How it Fits: there is a cupcake on the cover

Team Member: LaurLa
Book and Author: From Glowing Embers - Emilie Richards]
Date Read: 9/22/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 256 pages
Task: Open Choice- Transportation: read a book where the MC flies in an airplane
How it Fits: Both MCs fly to Hawaii from the mainland

[Shelly]

WEEK 11 COMPLETION POST RACE2READ TEAM 2

⛩LOCATION:
Team member: SHELLY
Book and Author: Cinder/Marissa Meyer
Date Read: 09/25/21
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pages: 387
Task: Location - Read a book set in China
How It Fits: set In New Beijing, Eastern Commonwealth, CHINA
This book is futuristic/syfi, however it is a future Beijing

✈️TRANSPORTATION:
Team member:CILLA
Book and Author: Airport by Arthur Hailey
Date Read: September 25, 2021
Rating: ****
Pages: 476
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies in an airplane
How It Fits: MC fly on plane.

🛵MISSION:
Team Member: JADE
Book and Author: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Date Read: 23rd Sept
Rating: ***
Pages: 370
Task: MISSION: - read a book on the Best Traveling Vicariously list
How It Fits: #205 on the list

🧁ROADBLOCK
Team member: JANE
Book and Author: Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse by Harper Lin
Date Read: 9/28-21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 286
Task: Roadblock: Read a book with a prepared food on the cover
How It Fits:


🛩OPEN CHOICE:
Team member: ROGER
CHOSE TRANSPORTATION
BOOK: Slick by E. Davies
252 pages/GR
how it fits: Roman is as pilot and flies TransAlantic routes
date read: 9/27/2021
rating: 5 Stars

[Michelle]

Week 11 completion tasks for team one

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Week 11 Completion Posts for Team One

Team Member A - Michelle
Book and Author: Distant Sunflower Fields by Li Juan
Date Read: 9/28/21
Rating: 3 Stars
Pages: 335
Task: Location: read a book set in China
How it fits task - Set in China

TEam Member B - Wanda
Task #11-Roadblock: give food purchases to a chef at Donghuamen Night Market and eat what he prepares - read a book with a prepared food on the cover
Book:Death by Dumpling-Vivien Chien
Date Read: 9/27
Rating: 🍜🍜🍜🍜🍜
Number of Pages: 328
How it Fits: Chinese noodles and dumplings are on the cover.
Death by Dumpling (A Noodle Shop Mystery, #1) by Vivien Chien

Team Member C - Kathy D
Task 11—Transportation: main character flies on an airplane
Demon's Mercy (Dark Protectors, #9) by Rebecca Zanetti
Demon’s Mercy, Rebecca Zanetti – 3/23/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Kindle first-edition ➔ 320 pages
How the Book Qualifies ➔ page 117: “...as silence replace the drone of the plane’s engine. They’d landed…”

Team Member D - Rosina
Mission:
Read a book which a teammate gave 5 stars
Book and author: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Read: September 24 2021
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 403
How it fits: Read by Michelle and she gave it 5 stars

Team member e - wanda
Wanda (oma1229) | 340 commentsWeek 11-Completion Task

Free Choice:

Payback and a Bottle of Merlot-Bria Marche
Date Read: 9/24
Rating: 🍷🍷
Page Count: 289
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies in an airplane
How it Fits: The MC flies from New York to Tampa.

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[Louise]

Week 11
Team 6 - Overbooked

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Date Read: 9/27
Rating: 5*
Pages: 418
Task: Location: read a book set in China
How It Fits: Set in China

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: The Deceived by Brett Battles
Date Read: 9/25
Rating: 3*
Pages: 358
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies in an airplane
How It Fits: MC travels by plane repeatedly throughout the book, beginning with a flight from LA to Houston

Team Member: Patti - free choice
Book and Author: Peaches and Schemes by Anna Gerard
Date Read: 9/25
Rating: 4*
Pages: 305
Task: Roadblock: give food purchases to a chef at Donghuamen Night Market and eat what he prepares - read a book with a prepared food on the cover
How It Fits: Wedding cake on cover

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: Vanilla Vengeance by Molly Maple
Date Read: 9/27
Rating: 3*
Pages: 256
Task: Roadblock: Read a book with prepared food on the cover.
How It Fits: Cupcake on the cover

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: by Luanne Rice
Date Read: 9/25
Rating: 3*
Pages: 336
Task: Mission: This leg has a choice between Volley or Rally.
b) In Rally, teams had to take three common forms of local transportation. - read a book from the Best Traveling Vicariously list
How It Fits: #1112 on the Best Traveling Vicariously list

[Agnieszka]

Completion Post Week 11 - All Booked (team 3)

Team Member: Agnieszka
Book and Author: Poison in Paddington by Samantha Silver
Date Read: 9/23
Rating: 4*
Page #: 196
Task: Roadblock - read a book with a prepared food on the cover
How It Fits: Soup on cover (cover approved in Q&A thread)

Team Member: Amanda
Book and Author: These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Date Read: 9/28
Rating: 4*
Page #: 449
Task: Location - read a book set in China
How It Fits: Takes place in Shanghai

Team Member: Emma
Book and Author: Falling by T.J. Newman
Date Read: 9/23
Rating: 1*
Page #: 304
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC flies in an airplane
How It Fits: the MC is the pilot of the plane.

Team Member: Shan A
Book and Author: Wrong Number, Right Guy by Elle Casey
Date Read: 9/27
Rating: 2*
Page #: 353
Task: Mission (Volley) - read a book which a teammate gave 5 stars
How It Fits: Rating 5 stars by Agnieszka

Team Member: Maritza (Free Choice)
Book and Author: The Innocent Behind the Scandal by Abby Green
Date Read: 9/26
Rating: 3*
Page #: 224
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC flies in an airplane
How It Fits: MC flies on Jet (pg 37)

[Janeylou]

Week 11
Team 4 readers wondering around the world

Janeylou
Roadblock: give food purchases to a chef at Donghuamen Night Market and eat what he prepares - read a book with a prepared food on the cover
Baby Doctor by Beau Brown
Baby Doctor (Poppy Field #1) by Beau Brown
152 pgs
Finished 26th sept
Decorated cookies on cover

Christina
Transportation: read a book where the MC flies in an airplane
Second Chance Girl by Susan Mallery
Pages: 384
Finished 9/27/21
How it fits: Ulrich flies back to England towards the end of the book and in the Epilogue all the characters fly to England for Violet and Ulrich's wedding

LeslieAnn
Mission: This leg has a choice between Volley or Rally.
b) In Rally, teams had to take three common forms of local transportation. - read a book from the Best Traveling Vicariously list
My Family and Other Animals
9/23/21
4 stars
#94 on the list

Vicki
Location..set in China
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) by Shelley Parker-Chan
Book: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Task: Read a book set in China
Pages: 416
Finished 9/28/21
How it fits: Set in China in 1345

Janeylou DDBR
Roadblock
b) In Rally, teams had to take three common forms of local transportation. - read a book from the Best Traveling Vicariously list
Roadblock: give food purchases to a chef at Donghuamen Night Market and eat what he prepares - read a book with a prepared food on the cover
An Omega for Brewster by Corie Rosling
An Omega for Brewster (Sugar Beach #2) by Corie Rosling
169 pges finished 27 sept
How fits .....Two cooked dinners on cover

[Laila Jane]

Completion Post - Week 11
Team 7 - Adventure is Just a Page Away

Team Member: Ira
Book and Author: The Library of Legends by Janie Chang
Date Read: 09/28/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 400
Task: Location - Read a book set in China
How It Fits: It is set in China in 1937, during a war with Japan

Team Member: Jeanne
Book and Author: Class Act by Stuart Woods
Date Read: 09/26/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 336
Task: Transportation - Read a book where the MC flies in an airplane
How It Fits: MC has an airplane that he flies between his houses in NYC, Maine, England, and Palm Beach. He flew to all those places in this book.

Team Member: AnnMarie
Book and Author: Twice Baked by Andrew Grey
Date Read: 09/27/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 174
Task: Mission (A) - Read a book which a teammate gave 5 stars
How It Fits: Emeli rated this 5 stars

Team Member: Emeli
Book and Author: A Slice of Love by Andrew Grey
Date Read: 09/24/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 200
Task: Roadblock - Read a book with a prepared food on the cover
How It Fits: Slice of cake on the cover

Team Member: Laila
Book and Author: We Can't Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Date Read: 09/26/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 336
Task: Free Book - Roadblock - Read a book with a prepared food on the cover
How It Fits: Cake on the cover

[Beth]

Week 11: Team Five: Fifth Wheels

Team Member: Jen
Book: She Who Became the Sun
Author: Shelley Parker-Chan
Date read: 9/26
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 416
Task: Location: read a book set in China
How it fits: Book is set in China

Team Member: lorii
Book: Notorious
Author: Allison Brennan
Pages: 336
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies in an airplane
How it fits: "...but didn’t sit—she’d done enough sitting on the airplane." (12%)
Date Read: Sep 28
Rating: ★★★★✰

Team Member: DeeDee
Book and Author: Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) (2018) by Martha Wells
Date Finished Reading: September 28, 2021
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 158
Task:Mission: Volley: Read a book a teammate gave 5 stars
How It Fits: Beth gave this 5 stars on April 15, 2018

Team Member: Bobbi
Book and Author: Awfully Appetizing by Leod D. Fitz
Date Read: 9/26
Rating: 💛💛💛💛🖤
Pages: 249
Task: Roadblock: read a book with a prepared food on the cover
How It Fits: Awfully Appetizing (Corpse-Eater Saga #1) by Leod D. Fitz

Team Member: Fifth Reader: Beth
Book and Author: The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
Date Finished Reading: September 25, 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 326
Task:Fifth Reader: Mission: Volley: Read a book a teammate gave 5 stars
How It Fits: DeeDee gave it five stars (May 30, 2011)

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

random.org choose Roadblock for the extra points.

Here are the results for Week Eleven:
Team 1 - 20 points
Team 2 - 20 points
Team 3 - 20 points
Team 4 - 25 points
Team 5 - 20 points
Team 6 - 25 points
Team 7 - 25 points
Team 8 - 20 points

Team 1 - 245 points
Team 2 - 235 points
Team 3 - 225 points
Team 4 - 240 points
Team 5 - 235 points
Team 6 - 245 points
Team 7 - 230 points
Team 8 - 230 points

[Jen K]

Week 12 Report: Crazy 8th Wonders (Team 8)

Team Member: LaurLa
Book and Author: Wolf with Benefits - Shelly Laurenston
Date Read: 9/30/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 433 pages
Task: LLocation: read a book with 400+ pages
How it Fits: 433 pages

Team Member: Jen
Book and Author: Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
Date Read: 10/2/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 272 pages
Task: Location: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or snowmobile
How it Fits: Flies from NYC to Alabama "It was the first time I had ever been on a plane, but that part felt insignificant in comparison to the bigger adventure of college."

Team Member: Kati
Book and Author: Final Check Out by CeeCee James
Date Read: 10/3/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 218 pages
Task: Mission: use a marked map to find three kite flyers - read the third book of a trilogy or series
How it Fits: #3 in series

Team Member: Krissy
Book and Author: Murder in Christmas River by Meg Muldoon
Date Read: 10/3/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 238 pages
Task: Roadblock: read a book set in the wintertime
How it Fits: The story is set in December

Team Member: Lanelle
Book and Author: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse by Charlaine Harris
Date Read: 10/4/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 240 pages
Task: Open Choice- Mission - read the third book of a trilogy or series (Open Choice)
How it Fits: the book is the third book of a series

[Louise]

Week 12 - Team 6 Overbooked

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: A Streak of Bad Cluck by Ellen Riggs
Date Read: 10/2
Rating: 3*
Pages: 232
Task: Mission: use a marked map to find three kite flyers - read the third book of a trilogy or series
How It Fits: #3 Bought the Farm Mystery

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Blood of Empire by Brian McClellan
Date Read: 10/5
Rating: 4*
Pages: 672
Task: Mission: use a marked map to find three kite flyers - read the third book of a trilogy or series
How It Fits: #3 in Gods of Blood and Powder trilogy

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: The Christmas Fair Killer by Amy Patricia Meade
Date Read: 10/5
Rating: 3*
Pages: 224
Task: Roadblock: climb an ice wall - read a book set in the wintertime
How It Fits: set in winter/Christmas

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey
Date Read: 10/2
Rating: 4*
Pages: 460
Task: Location: The Great Wall of China - read a book with 400+ pages
How It Fits: Over 400 pages

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Date Read: 9/29
Rating: 5*
Pages: 226
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or snowmobile
How It Fits: p. 177 Bruce takes an air-taxi to Dawson Island

[Shelly]

TEAM 2 RACE2READ

WEEK 12 COMPLETION POST

Team member: JANE
LOCATION:
Book and Author: All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Date Read: 10/3-21
Rating: ★★★★★
Pages: 433
Task: Location: The Great Wall of China - read a book with 400+ pages
How It Fits: 433 pages in book

Team member: JADE
TRANSPORTATION:
Book and Author: Everything Has Changed by Kendra Smith

Date Read: 29th Sept
Rating: ****
Pages: 369
Task: TRANSPORTATION: - James and the children fly to Switzerland skiing

Team member: ROGER
MISSION:
Mission: read a book third in series or trilogy
Hexslayer by Jordan L. Hawk
pages: 344/GR
date read: 10/3/2021
rating 5 stars
how it fits: book 3 in Hexworld series.

Team member: SHELLY
ROADBLOCK:
Book and Author: Owl Be Home for Christmas
Date Read: 10/05/21
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Pages: 292
Task: Roadblock - read a book set in wintertime
How It Fits: book set at Christmas time

Team member: CILLA
OPEN CHOICE:
CILLA:
Book and Author: Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
Date Read: October 2, 2021
Rating: *****
Pages: 446
OPEN CHOICE - Location: The Great Wall of China - read a book with 400+ pages
How It Fits: Book has 446 pages.

[Janeylou]

Week 12 check in
Team 4 ..Readers wandering around the world

Vicki
Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
Book: Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or snowmobile
Pages: 360
Read: 10/02
How it fits: Miranda and her Ma fly to America after Miranda's father dies

Janeylou
Mission: use a marked map to find three kite flyers - read the third book of a trilogy or series
How to Hack a Hacker by A.J. Sherwood
193 pgs
Finished 5/10
4.25 stars
Book #3 in the"Unholy Trifecta" series

Christina
Location: The Great Wall of China - read a book with 400+ pages
Neanderthal Marries Human (Knitting in the City, #1.5) by Penny Reid
Neanderthal Marries Human by Penny Reid
Pages: 417
Finished:10/03/21
Rating: 4.5 Stars

Leslie
Roadblock: climb an ice wall - read a book set in the wintertime
Sugar Cookie Murder
380 pages
10/4/21
Takes place in winter

Janeylou DDBR
Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or snowmobile
Borrowing Blue by Lucy Lennox
307 pgs
Finished 5/10
4.5 stars
..."When I got to the airport I had to race to catch the next flight out. Stacey was scrambling to deal with the cancellation of the wedding and I had to talk her through it until the flight attendant forced me to turn off my phone."....88%

[Michelle]

Week 12 - Team 1

WEEK 12 COMPLETION POST FOR TEAM ONE

Team Member A - Wanda
Hour of the Witch-Chris Bohjalian
Date Read: 10/2
Rating: 🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹
Page Count: 406
Task: Location: The Great Wall of China - read a book with 400+ pages
How it Fits: The page count is 406 pages

Team Member B - Rosina
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
Date Read: 10/4
Rating: 4 stars
PAges: 295
Task: Roadblock: climb an ice wall - read a book set in the wintertime
How it fits: Set in February in the Scottish Highlands during a snowstorm

Team Member C - Kathy
Mission: third book in a series
Defending Morgan (Mountain Mercenaries, #3) by Susan Stoker
Defending Morgan, Susan Stoker – 10/3/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Kindle first-edition ➔ 282 pages
How the Book Qualifies ➔ third book in the Mountain Mercenaries series

Team Member D - Michelle
Book and Author: Northern Bites by Nikki Jefford
Date Read: 10/5/21
Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 241
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or snowmobile
How It Fits: Aurora and Valerie fly from Fairbanks to Sitka.

Team Member E - Jenny ( out sick)
No one was able to get an extra book i n this week.

[Agnieszka]

Completion Post Week 12 - All Booked (team 3)

Team Member: Agnieszka
Book and Author: Whisper to the Blood book 7 in The Kate Shugak Investigation Books 10-20 Box Set by Dana Stabenow
Date Read: 10/3
Rating: 4.5*
Page #: 318 (pages 1455-1773 in the book set)
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC travels by airplane or snowmobile
How It Fits: Within the Park she travels mostly using a snowmobile (though the author uses in this book mostly the expression snow machine or snowgo), later in the story she travels to Cordova and Ahtna (and back into the Park) in a small plane (a Cesna Super Cub)

Team Member: Amanda (Free Pick)
Book and Author: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Date Read: 10/5
Rating: 4*
Page #: 527
Task: Location - read a book with 400+ pages
How It Fits: Over 400 pages

Team Member: Emma
Book and Author: The Architect of Song by A.G. Howard
Date Read: 10/4
Rating: 2*
Page #: 425
Task: Location - read a book with 400+ pages
How It Fits: has enough pages!

Team Member: Shan A
Book and Author: Mrs. Saint Nick by Caroline Mickelson
Date Read: 10/5
Rating: 2*
Page #: 174
Task: Roadblock - read a book set in the wintertime
How It Fits: Set during wintertime (Christmas Season)

Team Member: Maritza
Book and Author: Entangled Rivals by Tonya Clark
Date Read: 9/29
Rating: 4*
Page #: 153
Task: Mission - read the third book of a trilogy or series
How It Fits: The Raven Boys #3

[Laila Jane]

Completion Post - Week 12
Team 7 - Adventure is Just a Page Away

Team Member: Ira
Book and Author: Battle Ground by Jim Butcher
Date Read: 10/05/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 418
Task: Location - Read a book with 400+ pages
How It Fits: 418 pages

Team Member: Jeanne
Book and Author: The Ice Bridge by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Date Read: 10/03/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 345
Task: Transportation - Read a book where the MC travels by airplane or snowmobile
How It Fits: The book takes place on Mackinac Island in the winter. As no cars are allowed on the island, the residents all use snowmobiles to get around and to return across the "ice bridge" to the mainland for supplies

Team Member: Emeli
Book and Author: Good Boy by Jayda Marx
Date Read: 10/04/21
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 236
Task: Mission - Read the third book of a trilogy or series
How It Fits: Secret Desires #3

Team Member: AnnMarie
Book and Author: Wild by Adrienne Wilder
Date Read: 10/03/21
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 341
Task: Roadblock - Read a book set in the wintertime
How It Fits: The book is set in winter

Team Member: Laila
Book and Author: Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones
Date Read: 10/03/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 330
Task: Free Book - Mission - Read the third book of a trilogy or series
How It Fits: Book #3 of the Charley Davidson series

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Completion Post - Week 12
Team 5 - The Fifth Wheel

Team Member: Jen
Book: Ash and Quill
Author: Rachel Caine
Date read: 10/5/21
Pages: 338
Rating: 4 stars
Task: Mission: use a marked map to find three kite flyers - read the third book of a trilogy or series
How it fits: 3rd book in the Great Library series

Team Member: DeeDee
Book and Author: Why Can't I Be You by Allison Larkin
Date Finished Reading: October 05, 2021
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 297
Task:Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or snowmobile
How It Fits: Our main character, in the first 20 pages, flies from Rochester, New York to Cleveland, Ohio; has a six hour layover, then flies from Cleveland to Seattle, Washington

Member: loriidae
Book: Cold As Ice
Author: Toni Anderson
Pages: 460
Date Read: Oct 5 ★★★★✰
Task: Location: The Great Wall of China - read a book with 400+ pages
How it fits: 460 pages

Team Member: Bobbi
Book and Author: Frostbite by Richelle Mead
Date Read: 10/3
Rating: 💛💛💛🖤🖤
Pages: 336
Task: Roadblock: Read a book set in the wintertime
How It Fits: Takes place during their winter break

Team Member: Fifth Reader (Tranportation): Beth
Book: To the Hilt
Author: Dick Francis
Pages: 404
Rating: 5 Stars
Date Read: 10/5
Task: Transportation: MC travels by airplane
How it fits: Protagonist flies back and forth from Heathrow to Scotland (when his stepfather dies and when the idealists try to steal the hilt)

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

random.org choose Roadblock for the extra points.

Here are the results for Week Twelve:
Team 1 - 20 points
Team 2 - 20 points
Team 3 - 20 points
Team 4 - 20 points
Team 5 - 20 points
Team 6 - 20 points
Team 7 - 20 points
Team 8 - 20 points

Team 1 - 265 points
Team 2 - 255 points
Team 3 - 245 points
Team 4 - 260 points
Team 5 - 255 points
Team 6 - 265 points
Team 7 - 250 points
Team 8 - 250 points

[Jen K]

Week 13 Report: Crazy 8th Wonders (Team 8)

Team Member: Lanelle
Book and Author: Brides for Brothers
Date Read: 10/7/21
Rating: ★★★
Pages: 192 pages
Task: Location: Alaska (USA) - read a book set in Alaska
How it Fits: the story is set in Alaska

Team Member: LaurLa
Book and Author: 30 Pieces of Silver - Carolyn McCray
Date Read: 10/9/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 535 pages
Task: Transportation: where the MC travels on an airplane or by subway
How it Fits: The team travels by plane from Ecuador to Belgium

Team Member: Jen
Book and Author: Milkman by Anna Burns
Date Read: 10/10/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 352 pages
Task: Mission: don snowshoes and follow the flags 1 mile (1.6 km) to Takosha Lodge - read a book with a one-word title
How it Fits: one-word title

Team Member: Kati
Book and Author: True to Me by Kay Bratt
Date Read: 10/10/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 267 pages
Task: Roadblock: read a book where the MC goes swimming
How it Fits: Quinn and Liam swim in the ocean (pages 81-85)

Team Member: Krissy
Book and Author: Caulky by K.M. Neuhold
Date Read: 10/11/21
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 204 pages
Task: Open Choice- Mission - read a book with a one-word title
How it Fits: Title is only one word

Thanks Lanelle for another excellent challenge, fun prompts and ll the work you put into keeping the game going!!! The game was very appreciated and enjoyed!!

[Shelly]

COMPLETION POST RACE2READ - Team 2
WEEK 13 - FINAL WEEK


CILLA - LOCATION
Book and Author: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Date Read: October 11, 2021
Rating: ****
Pages: 207
Location: Alaska (USA) - read a book set in Alaska
How it fits: The book is set in Alaska.

JADE - TRANSPORTATION
Hello, Again by Isabelle Broom
Book: Hello, Again by Isabelle Broom
Task - read a book where the MC travels on an airplane or by subway
Pages: 400
How it qualifies: Pepper and Josephine fly to Barcelona and Lisbon
Date read: 7th Oct
Rating: ***

ROGER - MISSION
Oz - Lily Morton
274 pages/GR
how it qualifies: See title
date read: 10/6/2021
rating: 5 stars
Review: I love oz, such a powerful little spifire. Milo is definitely my favorite side Character. Silas and Oz are different if you look at the superficial thing but in character they are the same. Somehow Oz fits in the life of Silas. That mother of Silas is a monster.

SHELLY - ROADBLOCK
BOOK/AUTHOR: Sleeping with the Fishes/MaryJanice Davidson
DATE READ: October 11, 2021
RATING: 🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️
PAGES: 268
TASK: ROADBLOCK- Read a book where the MC goes swimming
HOW IT FITS: Main character, Fred (Fredrika) Bimm is a human-mermaid hybrid, and a marine biologist. She swims daily in the large fish tank &/or in the ocean.

JANE - OPEN CHOICE: TRANSPORTATION
Book and Author: Fair Game by Patricia Briggs
Date Read: 10/7-21
Rating: ★★★★★
Pages: 317
Task: Open Choice🚇Transportation: - read a book where the MC travels on an airplane or by subway
How It Fits: Pg306: Charles had flown home the night before - all the way from Boston
Pg 307: He'd woken up after flying from Boston to Montana to find his da cooking breakfast for them.

Thank you for a wonderful challenge.

[Agnieszka]

Completion Post Week 13 - All Booked (team 3)

Team Member: Agnieszka
Book and Author: A Night Too Dark book 8 in The Kate Shugak Investigation Books 10-20 Box Set by Dana Stabenow
Date Read: 10/8
Rating: 4*
Page #: 302 (pages in book set: 1773-2075)
Task: Location - read a book set in Alaska
How It Fits: set in a national Park in Alaska (around Niniltna)

Team Member: Amanda
Book and Author: The Summoning by J.P. Smith
Date Read: 10/11
Rating: 3*
Page #: 320
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC travels on an airplane or by subway
How It Fits: She lives in NYC and takes a subway a few times.

Team Member: Emma
Book and Author: Skellig by David Almond
Date Read: 10/10
Rating: 5*
Page #: 208
Task: Mission - read a book with a one-word title
How It Fits: The title is one word only.

Team Member: Shan A
Book and Author: Ever After Always by Chloe Liese
Date Read: 10/8
Rating: 5*
Page #: 358
Task: Roadblock - read a book where the MC goes swimming
How It Fits: ...Not waiting for Aiden's response, I swim away and catch a wave in. (pg. 157)

Team Member: Maritza
Book and Author: Unseen by Stephanie Erickson
Date Read: 10/7
Rating: 4*
Page #: 222
Task: Mission - read a book with a one-word title
How It Fits: Title is one word

[Janeylou]

WEEK 13 CHECK IN
Team 4 Readers wandering around the world

WEEK 13 CHECK IN
Janeylou
Location: Alaska (USA) - read a book set in Alaska
An Egg for Ansel by Amy Bellows
212 pgs
Finished 9th october
4.25 stars
Set in Alaska

Christina
Roadblock: strip down to underwear or bathing suit and plunge into the freezing waters of Fish Lake - read a book where the MC goes swimming
The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
Finished: 10/7/21
Pages 373
Rating 4 stars
How it fits: at the beginning Maya and several friends are swimming in the local lake. The synopsis on the MPG mentions the drowning of Maya's friend, Serena.... how did the captain of the swim team drown on a calm lake with all her friends there? After finishing the book I still don't know.

Leslie
Mission: don snowshoes and follow the flags 1 mile (1.6 km) to Takosha Lodge - read a book with a one-word title
Dweller
10/6/21
pages 368
3 stars

Vicki
Task: Transportation: - read a book where the MC travels on an airplane or by subway
Book: Everything for Her
384 pgs
Read: Oct 7
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: Oz flies to London

Janeylou..DDBR
Mission: don snowshoes and follow the flags 1 mile (1.6 km) to Takosha Lodge - read a book with a one-word title
Alaska by Cate Ashwood
183 pgs
Finished 8th october
How fits ..one word in title

[Louise]

Team 6 - Overbooked
Week 13

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Something Blue bybEmily Giffin
Date Read: 10/12
Rating: 3*
Pages: 419
Task: Transportation: - read a book where the MC travels on an airplane or by subway
How It Fits: Darcy flies from New York to London

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: Unforgivable by Laura Griffin
Date Read: 10/7
Rating: 3*
Pages: 387
Task: Mission: don snowshoes and follow the flags 1 mile (1.6 km) to Takosha Lodge - read a book with a one-word title
How It Fits:One word title

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Date Read: 10/11
Rating: 5*
Pages: 445
Task: Location: Alaska (USA) -read a book set in Alaska
How It Fits: Set in Alaska

Team Member: Denise - Free Choice
Book and Author: Protector
Date Read: 10/10
Rating: 4*
Pages: 416
Task: Mission: don snowshoes and follow the flags 1 mile (1.6 km) to Takosha Lodge - read a book with a one-word title
How It Fits: One word title

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: In Too Deep by Tracey Alvarez
Date Read: 10/7
Rating: 3*
Pages: 332
Task: Roadblock: Read a book where the MC goes swimming
How It Fits: MC is a diver and swims many times

[Michelle]

Completion Posts for Week 13 - Team 1
Link - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

TEam Member A - Rosina
Roadblock: read a book where the MC goes swimming
Widow Falls by Kiersten Modglin by Kiersten Modglin
Date Read: October 9
Rating 4 stars
Pages: 350
Task: Roadblock read a book where the MC goes swimming
How it fits - Sloane goes swimming with Gabe

TEam Member B - Michelle
Location - Read a Book set in Alaska
Book and Author: Stakeout by Nikki Jefford
Date Read: 10/9/21
Rating: 3 Stars
Pages: 182
Task: Location - read a book set in Alaska
How It Fit - Set in Alaska

TEam Member C - Wanda
Task: Mission- Mission: read a book with a one-word title
Book: Unguarded-Noelle Adams
Date Read: 10/9
Rating: 👰🏻🤵🏻👰🏻🤵🏻
Pags: 158
How It Fits: The book has a one word title

Team Member D - Kathy
Task 13—Transportation: main character flies on an airplane
The Stopover (Miles High Club, #1) by T.L. Swan
The Stopover, T.L. Swan – 10/11/21 – ✮✮✮✮✰
Kindle first-edition ➔ 521 pages
How the Book Qualifies ➔ from the précis: “...I was upgraded to first class on a flight from London to New York.…”

Team Member E - Michelle
Free Choice - Mission: read a book with a one-word title
Book and Author: Bulwark by Brit Lunden
Date Read: - 10/10/21
Rating: 2 Stars
Pages: 146
Task: Free Choice - Mission: read a book with a one-word title
How It Fits: 1 Word Title

[Laila Jane]

Completion Posts - Week 13
Team 7 - Adventure is Just a Page Away

Team Member: Jeanne
Book and Author: Cold Company by Sue Henry
Date Read: 10/11/21
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 336
Task: Location - Read a book set in Alaska
How It Fits: The book is set in Alaska

Team Member: Laila
Book and Author: Not Quite Perfect by Catherine Bybee
Date Read: 10/12/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 329
Task: Transportation - Read a book where the MC travels on an airplane or by subway
How It Fits: Hero is a pilot, and main characters travel by plane multiple times

Team Member: AnnMarie
Book and Author: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Date Read:
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 800
Task: Mission - Read a book with a one-word title
How It Fits: The book has a one-word title

Team Member: Emeli
Book and Author: Soaked by Jayda Marx
Date Read: 10/07/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 208
Task: Roadblock - Read a book where the MC goes swimming
How It Fits: MC goes swimming underwater with his mate

Team Member: Ira
Book and Author: Dust by Hugh Howey
Date Read: 10/12/21
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 401
Task: Free Book - Mission - Read a book with a one-word title
How It Fits: It has a one-word title

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Completion Post - Week 13
Team 5 - The Fifth Wheel

Team Member: Bobbi
Book and Author: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
Date Read: 10/9
Rating: 💛💛🖤🖤🖤
Pages: 272
Task: Mission: Read a book with a one-word title
How It Fits: One word in the title

Team Member: DeeDee
Book and Author: Murder on the Iditarod Trail (Jessie Arnold & Alex Jensen #1) (1991) by Sue Henry
Date Finished Reading: October 10, 2021
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 304
Task:Location: Alaska (USA) - read a book set in Alaska
How It Fits: Set 100% in Alaska

Team Member: Beth
Book and Author: Rat Race by Dick Francis
Date Finished Reading: October 10, 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 292
Task: Roadblock: strip down to underwear or bathing suit and plunge into the freezing waters of Fish Lake - read a book where the MC goes swimming:
How It Fits: MC goes swimming in chapter 8 with his friends, one of whom becomes his girlfriend.

Team Member: Jen
Book: Code Name Verity
Author: Elizabeth Wein
Pages: 452
Task: Transportation: - read a book where the MC travels on an airplane or by subway
How it fits: Main character flew on British spy plane
Date read: 10/12/21

Team Member: loriidae (Fifth Reader)
Book: Entranced
Author: Nora Roberts
Pages: 297
Task: Mission: don snowshoes and follow the flags 1 mile (1.6 km) to Takosha Lodge - read a book with a one-word title
How it fits: Entranced is a one-word title
Date Read: Oct 12 ★★★★★

[Lanelle, Production Chief]

random.org choose Location for the extra points.

Here are the results for Week Thirteen:
Team 1 - 20 points
Team 2 - 20 points
Team 3 - 20 points
Team 4 - 20 points
Team 5 - 20 points
Team 6 - 20 points
Team 7 - 20 points
Team 8 - 20 points

Team 1 - 285 points
Team 2 - 275 points
Team 3 - 265 points
Team 4 - 280 points
Team 5 - 275 points
Team 6 - 285 points
Team 7 - 270 points
Team 8 - 270 points

Congratulations to Teams 1 and 6. They tied to win the Race!

[Agnieszka]

Congratulations Teams 1 & 6!