Mini Challenge: Blind Date (Feb-Apr)

[Lagullande]

Tien wrote: "I am still mid-read of bonus, week 8 & week 9 books (yes, all at the same time!) and managed to draw a Big book once again

Kushiel's Chosen (Phèdre's Trilogy #2) @678 pages... teeny ..."

Karma for making us read that bonus book???

[Lauren]

PAS wrote: "Keep your eyes peeled for our next mini challenge but don't worry, you have until the end of the month to finish up this one ;)"

I will probably finish up last week's book this week and read this week's next week. That is a lot of "weeks" in one sentence!

[Tien]

Lagullande wrote: "Karma for making us read that bonus book???"

Bahaha! Most possibly, yes! Getting me back for being over confident in finishing my reads lol

[Bea]

Well, I did catch up...and #14 is an Audible book, so no waiting for library holds.

I am currently listening to an audible book (only 66% done), and I only listen when I am in the car, so it may be a bit before I get to this week's book. Good thing it is the last in the game!

[Marina]

I started out well, but now I'm really sucking at this! I still have 5 to go (this week's included) and I'm not sure I'll make it before the month ends...

[Dee]

yeah i def. won't finish this one - but at least it'll help me prioritize my reading order for this

[Rosemary]

I just finished my fifth book and unwrapped number 11 (week 6) which is The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer.

After that I have another 4 wrapped books plus the bonus book which I haven't unwrapped either, all lined up on my "to read this month" shelf. I hope I will get to most of them :)

[Tien]

Oooh, you haven't unwrapped them!! What self control :O

[Rosemary]

Tien wrote: "Oooh, you haven't unwrapped them!! What self control :O"

The surprise is part of the fun! Although a couple of times I have hunted everywhere for a book that's on my TBR and I keep looking thinking "I KNOW I have that book somewhere" but it isn't on any of my shelves or even fallen behind my desk or anything... and finally I realise, of course! I must have wrapped it up LOL

[Tien]

Hahaha, I've done that too!!

I should've kept a list of what's wrapped even if unnumbered (in hindsight)

[Bea]

Finished my last Blind Date book! It was an audiobook that I read mostly on the drive to and from my week of camping.

[LynnB]

Congrats, Bea! I just finished my last one, too, late last night.

[Tien]

I just finished my bonus book, halfway through 8th & 3/4 through 10th soooo.... time to announce the next Mini Challenge, yea? :D

[Lauren]

Oops! I completely forgot about my last blind date book. I am reading it next

[LynnB]

Tien wrote: "I just finished my bonus book, halfway through 8th & 3/4 through 10th soooo.... time to announce the next Mini Challenge, yea? :D"

Ok! I'm curious to see what it is.

[Bea]

Of course, Tien! Just when I catch up, you add another. WOW!

BTW, I am so busy with this game that I have not even started on Trim and Moving Mountains!

[Lagullande]

LynnB wrote: "Congrats, Bea! I just finished my last one, too, late last night."

Yes, Bea, way to go!

[Lauren]

I finished my last book last night. This has been fun and it got me to read a few books that I otherwise wouldn't have gotten to any time soon.

[Rosemary]

I found that my 7th book was a May book for By The Month so I decided to save it for next month and read my bonus book instead, Newcomer by Keigo Higashino. Finished on Tuesday.

My 8th book was Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers for the anthologies prompt. I finished that today.

My 9th book is another collection of Dorothy Sayers short stories, In the Teeth of the Evidence.

My 10th book is still wrapped! But I have unwrapped all the books that weren't picked, so I just have that one surprise left...

[Tien]

You are amazingly disciplined, Rosemary!!

I've finished my last book yesterday, woot! Ready for Mini Bookopoly.

[Rosemary]

Tien wrote: "You are amazingly disciplined, Rosemary!!"

Not sure about that. I took the whole month of May off from this mini challenge, and finished the last two books this week... But it's all done now!

[Christina (AKA Babbling)]

completed
Blind Date (10 weeks starting 1-Feb; last draw on 4-Apr)


1. Ash and Quill by Rachel Caine {Prompt 4}
2. A Girl From Nowhere by James Maxwell {Prompt 2}
3. The Clocks (Hercule Poirot #37) by Agatha Christie {Prompt 1}
4. Autumn Bones (Agent of Hel #2) by Jacqueline Carey {Prompt 1}
5. What The Librarian Did: a ROCK SOLID romance by Karina Bliss {Prompt 5}
6. The Ippos King by Grace Draven {Prompt 4}
7. Abyss (Prometheus project #4) by Deborah Cooke {Prompt 1}
8. One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence {Prompt 2}
9. Jane and Austen by Stephanie Fowers {Prompt 6}
10. Breath of Fire by Amanda Bouchet {Prompt 4}
11. The Importance of Being Emma by Juliet Archer {Prompt 6}
12. Roommaid by Sariah Wilson {Prompt 2}
13. Synchronic: 13 Tales of Time Travel by David Gatewood {Prompt 5}
14. Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories by Stephanie Perkins {Prompt 5}
15. The Taming of Annabelle by Marion Chesney (England/ Scotland) {Prompt 3}
16. Rock Redemption by Nalini Singh {Prompt 5}
17. Two Spies in Caracas by Moisés Naím (Venezuela/Libya) {Prompt 6}
18. Break the Day (Midnight Breed #16) by Lara Adrian {Prompt 1}
19. In a Field of Blue by Gemma Liviero (Europe/Australia) {Prompt 6}
20. For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund {Prompt 6}
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✔ 1/31: 5. What the Librarian Did by Karina Bliss February 3, 2022 ★★★★ {Prompt 5}
2/7: 2. A Girl from Nowhere by James Maxwell December 29, 2022 ★★★★ {Prompt 2}
✔ 2/14: 16. Rock Redemption by Nalini Singh October 30, 2022 ★★★★★ {Prompt 5}
✔ 2/21: 7. Abyss (The Prometheus Project #4) by Claire Delacroix November 3, 2022 ★★★ {Prompt 1}
✔ 2/28: 1. Ash and Quill byRachel Caine March 30, 2022 ★★★★★ {Prompt 4}
✔ 3/7: 11. The Importance of Being Emma by Juliet Archer November 30, 2022 ★★★★ {Prompt 6}
✔ 3/14: 15. The Taming of Annabelle by Marion Chesney December 2, 2022 ★★★(England/ Scotland) {Prompt 3}
✔ 3/21: 6. The Ippos King by Grace Draven June 16, 2022 ★★★★★ {Prompt 4}
✔ 3/28: 20. For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund July 21, 2022 ★★★★★ {Prompt 6}
✔ 4/4: 14. Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories by Stephanie Perkins July 16, 2022 ★★★★★ {Prompt 5}

[Tien]

woo hoo!!