R13: *** 2ND PLACE *** SS Team 5 - High 5

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Team 5 - High 5

Co-Captains: Michelle (2) & Mamacita
Shannon
Teresa
Coral
Ketutar
Lanelle

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Used for Week 12 roll (hide spoiler)]


Bonus Points:
Earned: 6
Used: 6

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Helpful Links:

Dice Roll: https://www.random.org/dice/ (2 dice on Fridays, US Central Time)
R13 SS Post Your Spot
R13 SS Discussion Thread

Time Zone Converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

ALTERNATE LIST:
**titles exclude leading articles (a, an, the)


2. Male Author
3. Cover: Red
4. MC has a pet
5. Mystery/Thriller
6. Set in space
7. Cover: Orange
8. Cover Item: One person
9. Several authors
10. Cover: Pink
11. Author 'N'
12. Cover Item: Book
13. Title 'B'
14. Two Word Title (excluding articles like A, An, The) Deadly Silence, The Hunger Games
15. Cover Item: Sun/Moon
16. Asia
17. Title 'D'
18. Set in a place you've visited
19. Less than 100 ratings
20. Set in a Fictional Location/Universe
21. Favorite Author
22. Set anytime between 1837-1901
23. South America
24. Book to Movie/TV (must state how book qualifies: listopia, imdb, precis)
25. Published 2011-2015
26. Four or More Words Title (excluding articles like A, An, The) The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
27. Title 'Y'
28. Europe
29. MC is older than 60
30. Author 'E'
31. Set on an island
32. Title 'L'
33. Cover Item: Hat/Helmet/Other Headwear
34. MC travels by airplane
35. New to You Author
36. Author uses their middle name/initial (e.g. Robert J. Sawyer, Rita Mae Brown)
37. Title 'M'
38. Book that a teammate rated 5 stars
39. Three Word Title (excludes articles like A, An, The) Behind Closed Doors or Etched in Bone
40. Cover Item: Building
41. Author 'V'
42. MC travels by train
43. Set anytime between 1600-1837
44. Book with a funeral in it
45. Title has a subtitle
46. Cover: Yellow/Gold
47. Science Fiction
48. Cover Item: Lamp/Candle
49. Author 'Z'
50. MC has at least one child
51. Title 'O'
52. Originally published in a language other than English
53. Cover: Purple
54. Australia
55. Cover Item: Umbrella/Parasol
56. Author uses a pseudonym
57. Young Adult/New Adult
58. Cover Item: Jewelry
59. Non-Fiction
60. Cover: Brown
61. Title 'H'
62. North America
63. Set in the future
64. Published 2021
65. Author 'G'
66. Fantasy
67. Cover Item: Food/Drink
68. LGBTQ+
69. One Word Title (excluding articles like A, An, The) The Witness or Divergent
70. Published 2016-2019
71. Author 'F'
72. Romance
73. Africa
74. Title 'S'
75. Published 2001-2010
76. Cover Item: Animal
77. Author 'L'
78. MC is in their 20's
79. Number in the Title (Third Grave Dead Ahead or Every Fifteen Minutes)
80. Published before 1950
81. Title 'P'
82. Author 'B'
83. Published between 1950 and 1999
84. Title 'W'
85. Cover Item: Hands/Arms/Feet/Legs (no other body parts visible)
86. Seasonal Theme (i.e Christmas, Halloween etc)
87. Title 'R'
88. Cover Item: Mode of Transportation
89. Set sometime before 1600 AD
90. Author 'G'
91. GR average rating >4.0
92. Cover: Blue
93. Award Winner (must state which/when)
94. Cover Item: Weapon
95. Author 'T'
96. Published 2020
97. Title 'I'
98. Book with a wedding in it
99. Cover: Black
100. Author 'J'
101. Cover: White
102. Female Author
103. Title 'F'
104. Cover Item: Water
105. Cover Item: Two or more people
106. Published the year you were born
107. Cover Item: Furniture
108. Author 'C'
109. Debut Novel or Debut Author
110. Cover Item: Dress
111. Cover: Green
112. School/College/University

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

A couple of things to keep in mind:

✸ Communication is key. Please make sure to check in regularly with your team.

✸ Let your team know if it looks like you won't get your review posted by Thursday, 11:59pm. You do have all of Friday to submit your review, but it can be intensely frustrating for your captain if they don't know when or if they can expect your review before the deadline.

✸ If you know beforehand that you won't be able to read and review a book during a certain week, you can request a pre-arranged absence from me, either by posting the request in the discussion thread or by sending me a pm. The request has to be submitted before the team rolls for the week in question, can only be approved by me as the mod in charge of running the game, and has to state a reason for the absence. (Reasons for pre-arranged absences can include e.g. going on vacation or work trips, planned hospital stays, exam period, etc.)

✸ If you do not have a pre-arranged absence and won't be able to finish your book in time for an unforeseen reason, please let your team know as soon as possible. If the team has earned the free pass, it can be used to cover the missing review. Without a free pass, the team has to sit out the next roll.

✸ We all know that real life gets in the way sometimes, be it through family emergencies, work emergencies, natural disasters, technical problems making it impossible to get online, or in other ways. That being said, please do keep in mind that this is a team challenge and your team relies on you to do your part unless an emergency occurs.

✸ If you find that the pressure of keeping up with the pace of the game gets too much for you or you wish to stop playing for any other reason, you can drop out of the challenge at any time. In that case, please let your team captain and/or me know that you wish to drop out rather than just disappearing without a word so your team won't be penalized when you fail to turn in your review. Thank you!


Captain's Handbook

✸ The team's captain is its chief organizer. This includes rolling the dice, posting the team's new spot to the team thread and the Post Your Spot thread, collecting links to team members' review posts in a single post to be linked in the Post Your Spot thread, doublechecking that books and review posts comply with requirements, reminding team members to post their reviews in time if necessary, etc.

✸ The captain may delegate some tasks, such as rolling and posting the new spot to the team thread, to another team member if they so choose. (Either a designated roller who fulfills this role every week, or whichever team member is online first once rolling is possible.) Collecting reviews into a single post and posting to the Post Your Spot thread should always be handled by the captain.

✸ Instead of having everything handled by a single team captain, teams can also choose two co-captains to handle the workload.

✸ Selection posts are not strictly required by the game's rules and I won't be checking for them. It's up to the team captain to decide whether they want them.

✸ If the team captain requests a pre-arranged absence, it's their responsibility to arrange for another team member to step in as temporary captain.

✸ The team captain is my primary point of contact for the team and should allow receiving private messages.

[Michelle]

First timer here, checking in.

[Shannon]

Hello everyone!!

[Teresa]

Hello!

[Teresa]

I figured I would introduce myself! I am Teresa (she/her), mother of two teenagers, 18 & 16, and married to a wonderful man. I love reading, cats, and I crochet when I have time. I mostly read mm romance with paranormal/fantasy/sci-fi story-lines but do enjoy some historical and contemporary stories as well.

I'm looking forward to clearing up some series that I've left languishing for the newest pretty - there are just so many books I want to read!!

[Michelle]

I’m the same way, Teresa! So many series that I’m working on. I signed up to hopefully help me get through a few of them.
I’m in Oregon and read a little of everything. But my favorites are mysteries, historicals, and non-fiction. I’m game to read anything if it helps a challenge!

This looks like a fun challenge. Looking forward to getting started.

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Cking in

[Michelle]

Hey, Mamacita! is this your first time playing, too?

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Michelle wrote: "Hey, Mamacita! is this your first time playing, too?"

Nope. I've played a couple of times. I like it. Helps me get back to some series & get over the hump in others. You know That one book in the series That is holding you up from getting further in the series because it just doesn't speak to you.

[Michelle]

Ah, yes! That’s part of why I signed up. It’s my first challenge with this group. It looks fun.

[Michelle]

Looks like we are still waiting on Coral and Ketutar.

I can't take on captain since I am captaining for UNO, but I can be a good #2. I am only on at night during the week. Anyone willing to step up for us?

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

I can co-captain with you if nobody wants to captain.

I don't mind either rolling, doing links or posting our spot.

I DON'T WANNA deal with reminding or nagging people to do their Completion Post & review.

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Anybody got any name suggestions? All I can think of is

High Five


or All Hands on Deck


so thing to do with a Fist...

[Teresa]

Hey! I only have internet on my phone at the moment. Hopefully the company can figure out what’s going on with my new home internet soon. However, as I don’t know when it’ll be back, and updating things will be difficult at the moment, I don’t think I can captain...

I like High Five 😀

I think I’ve used Serial Killers with this challenge before, so not original but fun.

[Michelle]

Haha! I love High Five.

If you handle the posting stuff, I can be the heavy. I’ll set a reminder to message people before check in who haven’t posted their books. Gotta look over the rules and see what we need and when.

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Michelle wrote: "Looks like we are still waiting on Coral and Ketutar.

I can't take on captain since I am captaining for UNO, but I can be a good #2. I am only on at night during the week. Anyone willing to step u..."

Denise was able to message our missings. I tried but it would not accept PM from me. Their settings may only allow friends or Mods to message them.

[Michelle]

I tried to message Coral and had the same thing happen. Ketutar accepted my friend request so I will shoot her a PM to come join the planning!

Looking forward to our first roll.

[Shannon]

Thanks for volunteering for the captaining stuffs Mamacita and Michelle!

I'm Shannon and also in Oregon. I have 2 girls 18 & 21 still at home most of the time, a hubby, 3 dogs (1 is a tiny puppy) and 2 cats. Full house here. I read only M/M and all kinds of books within the genre. I have so many series to work through it's just frustrating trying to remember them all.

Can't wait to get this show on the road. Also like "High Five"!

[Michelle]

Can't wait for our first roll. I have a stack of book series queued up to pick for tomorrow.

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Since we still have 2 people to show up, we'll see what their opinions are but for preliminarys, I will put our name as High 5 & put Michelle & me down for Co-Captaining since the game has begun.

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Let's get some Business stuff taking care of. I was hoping to hear from everyone by now. We have our 1st roll.

Questions...
1. Do you want to take turns rolling? Or... Would you like just me to roll?

2. Do you want to do Selection Post? (not required.) all that is required is a Completion Post like following...
COMPLETION POST ~ Week ?
Spot: ?
[bookcover] [book] (series name #?) by [author] (just link the book somehow)
Fits: (how this book fits)
Bonus; (as if it works for a Bonus points)
Completed: (finish date)
Rating: (how many ★'s)
Review: (Written review of book, please make a minimum three sentence if not longer.)

3. How competitive are you? Are you dying for Bonus Points? want to bbs the first ones across the finish line?
Me? Not at all. 🤣🤣🤣


Summary of BONUS POINTS
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✸ One point can be earned for reading three or more books in a series.
✸ One point can be earned for reading a book with >500 pages.
✸ One point can be earned for starting and finishing a series. There must be at least 4 books in that series. Series + spin-off totalling ≥4 books also counts. For series with >9 books, point will be awarded for reading books 1-9. For still ongoing series, all books published to date (OR up to #9 in longer series) must be read.~ No re-reads on this one.
✸ 2 in 1: One point can be earned for reading a book that fits both the series number and the alternate for the spot you are on.
✸ One point can be earned for never picking a book from the alternate lists. This point is awarded when your team rolls past 90.
✸ Valentine's Bonus: One point can be earned for reading a Romance book for the roll on (hide spoiler)]

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

OK Team, it's after Midnight here in Texas, so I'm gonna roll for us.

Team High 5
Week #1

Roll: 5 & 3
Spot: 8
Posted Our Spot

Options
8th in series

Alternate:
8. Cover Item: One person

[Michelle]

First roll, yay!!
1) I’m totally fine with you rolling. Keeps it simple.
2) I hate having to do a selection post, so I vote no.
3) I want all the points!!

Let me look at my #8 in series. Maybe I can get us that 2 in 1 bonus.

[Teresa]

I don’t mind selection posts. I’ll probably do a simple one just to let you all know I’m paying attention lol

[Teresa]

Endings and Beginnings by KC Wells
Cuffs and Collars book 8
352 pgs
One man on cover

[Michelle]

Oooh, yes! Get that bonus point early for us. Nice, Teresa.

[Michelle]

I think I am going to read On the Way to the Wedding. Love spending time with the Bridgerton family.

Wait. I also have Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd for #8. Decisions, decisions.

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Michelle wrote: "I think I am going to read On the Way to the Wedding. Love spending time with the Bridgerton family.

Wait. I also have Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd for #8. Decis..."

Me too. I'm actually gonna ReRead that series before the TV show comes back on.

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

#8 is the one number that I didn't have anything I've been dying to read, or I have 1 or 2 books I need to read 1st.

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

OK so since most of ya'll don't wanna do Selection Post, why don't we just say ck in my Sunday so we know you saw the roll.

[Michelle]

If we don’t hear from you by Sunday night, I’ll send you a quick PM to check in. :)

[Shannon]

I'll be reading for this roll.

[Shannon]

Week 1 Completion Post
Space: 8
Alternative: One person on cover


Just Business by Anna Zabo
Pages: 318
Qualification: One person on cover
Read: 1/22/22
Rating: ★★★★

Whew, that was intense. Started out snarky then went to the BDSM sexy, then kind of heartbreaking and back to the good stuff. Much more emotional than I was expecting. Not the fluffy read I was prepared for but really good. Great read.

[*book:Just Business|58404736]

[Teresa]

COMPLETION POST ~ Week 1
Spot: 8

Endings and Beginnings by K.C. Wells
Pages: 387
Fits: Book 8 in the Collar and Cuffs series
Bonus: Cover Item: One person
Completed: 01/24
Rating: ★★★
Review: This was a reread and I changed my rating from 4* to 3*- I didn't enjoy this as much this time around. I read rather than listening to it and it was a slog to get through - much too long. It was good to see everyone get their HEA though.

[*book:Endings and Beginnings|30642123]

[Michelle]

I should finish mine tonight or tomorrow. Had to work late so my night is a mess.

[Ketutar]

Sorry, sorry, sorry!
I'm here!

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Ketutar wrote: "Sorry, sorry, sorry!
I'm here!"

Welcome Ketutar!

[Ketutar]

And here I thought I had prepared for this :-D
I don't have any books for #8!
I started reading The Mark of Athena (#8 in combined Camp Half Blood), but couldn't finish it - I could barely start it, it was so awful!
So I decided to go for Agatha Raisin, BUT I'm on #4... luckily they are very quick reads, so I can read 2 a day, but it's already Tuesday... :-D (Or Wednesday here in Sweden...)
Bah, I'll make it :-D

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Mama's SS Completion Post


Week #2
Spot: 8
Book: The Highlander's Excellent Adventure 3.5* ✔️ 1/23
*rounded up to 4*)
Pages: 325 pages
Fits: The Survivors Series #8
Bonus: ✸ 2 in 1: applies but already claimed for the team by Teresa

Review: This was a 2-fer from one of my favorite authors & favorite series. I really HATE to lower the rating for this book as it should have be a 5* but I had to more than barely ding it for a mistake Duncan pulled. Well get to that in a minute because once I start on him it may be awhile...



Anyhoo... in this book you got two girls running away from the life their families have planned out for them.

The 1st romance was Ines & Duncan. I really liked this couple. it's funny in places because she makes him think she doesn't speak English so he won't take her back to London after she hides out in his carriage.

The 2nd romance is Stratford & Wellesley. This is a Friends to Lovers, Secret Love type of Romance.

Both H's were friends. Stratford & Duncan were in the War Group Survivors together. Ines & Wellesley are strangers who become friends after the meet up at an inn & continue on in a road trip to Scotland together.





DUNCAN... What an ASSHOLE!!!


Don't get me wrong, I usually LOVE the assholes. But he pulled something that had me turning my back on him. Ines forgave him ALOT sooner than I would have. I'd have made him Grovel. & on top of that I would have let (view spoiler)[Draven continue to whoop his ass. (hide spoiler)]
Boy, was he....



What he did to Ines & how he hurt her...


Oh & about...



She doesn't get a pass either.







BTW, the rant is only over because I don't wanna waste my time on the waste of words because the mistakes these characters made were Uncalled For!




If not for these highly offensive mistakes these 2 characters, this would have been a 5* read.

So all Hail to the Douches!

[Michelle]

Ketutar wrote: "And here I thought I had prepared for this :-D
I don't have any books for #8!
I started reading The Mark of Athena (#8 in combined Camp Half Blood), but couldn't finish it - I could..."

You've got this, Ketutar! Read like the wind!

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Ketutar wrote: "And here I thought I had prepared for this :-D
I don't have any books for #8!
I started reading The Mark of Athena (#8 in combined Camp Half Blood), but couldn't finish it - I could..."

You know you can also just read from the alternate list.
Alternate:
8. Cover Item: One person

[Ketutar]

Mamacita aka MawMaw wrote: "You know you can also just read from the alternate list."

Yes, I do, but that's no fun :-D
I can always fall back on Agatha Christie or Terry Pratchett if it looks like I can't make it :-D

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Also FOR FUTURE REFERENCE... if we have all our reviews done by tonight midnight US CST which is a day early we will get a free pass to use at a later date...

FREE PASS
✸ Teams will have a chance to earn 1 Free Pass to roll. To earn your free pass your team has to complete their reads a day before the next roll (i.e. 11:59pm Thursday). Once your team has done this you will have 1 free pass. The free pass will allow a team to roll if they are missing a review(s) before the cutoff. Once you've used it, you can't earn another one. It's a one-time shot. NOTE:
✸ The free pass may not be used for the win.
✸ If the player whose review the free pass is covering for has already previously missed a deadline, they must submit the missing review within one day after the deadline if they wish to retain their place on the team.

[Michelle]

All done with mine! Posting now.

[Michelle]

COMPLETION POST - Week 1
Spot: 8


On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn
Pages: 384
Fits: Book 8 in the Bridgerton series
Completed: 1/26
Rating: 4 stars
Review: I love spending time with the Bridgerton family! Gregory reminds me of Colin. He thinks he wants one thing, then true love sneaks up on him while he isn't paying attention, and *bam*, he's done. This was my second time reading the series, and I'm sure it won't be the last. 4 satisfied stars.

[Mamacita aka MawMaw]

Michelle wrote: "COMPLETION POST - Week 1
Spot: 8


On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn
Pages: 384
Fits: Book 8 in the Bridgerton serie..."

Awesome Michelle, I just need you to mark it read as it still shows as currently reading.