Mini Challenge: Blind Date (Feb-Apr)

[PAS, Moderator AC]

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



This is basically a random read sort of challenge.

Firstly, you'll need to pick about 20 books. All books will need to fit into a Prompt. You may wish to wrap your books and number them 1 to 20. Or if you prefer to do this only digitally; create a list of 20 books and number them 1 to 20. It does not matter how you number/order your books.

A random draw will be conducted weekly and you will read the book with number that was drawn.

The draw will be announced here in this thread so do check in every Monday, starting 31st January.

The last draw will be on Monday 4th April. While this Mini Challenge officially ends that week, there is no pressure for you to keep up with the weekly draw during the challenge. You may catch up with these reads outside of the official challenge period. This is just a bit of fun & to help along with the overall Just Read It! challenge.

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Numbers Drawn:

Jan-31: #5
Feb-7: #2
Feb-14: #16
Feb-21: #7
Feb-28: #1
Mar-07: #11
Mar-14: #15
BONUS: #10
Mar-21: #6
Mar-28: #20
Apr-04: #14

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Bea

Brandi

Christina (AKA Babbling)

Ellis

Jayme(the ghost reader)

Kristina Simon

Lagullande

LynnB

Marina

Rosalynn

[Tien]

YES! I wrapped my books ;)

I had so much fun the last time we played Blind Date, I decided that I had to do this again :D

[Rosemary]

This is such a great idea! I will wrap physical books too, and mix them up before numbering them, so by the time one is unwrapped I will have no idea what is in there :)

I will pick lots of mysteries set in England for my favourite trope, and some series books :)

[Marina]

This is going to be so much fun! I will do it digitally as I mostly read ebooks, although the other option is brilliant :)

Do the 20 books need to fit into just one prompt?

[Tien]

Marina wrote: "Do the 20 books need to fit into just one prompt?"

Not at all - it can be spread over all 6 prompts.

[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}

[Marina]

Good, thanks Tien :)

[Bea]

Christina, I am copying your post format. Hope you don't mind.

Blind Date (10 weeks starting 1-Feb; last draw on 4-Apr)
√1. Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark (prompt 1 - series) Read 3/4/22 - 4*
√2. To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith (prompt 1 - series) Read 2/11/22 - 3*
3. Death in Delft by Graham Brack (prompt 1 - series)
4. First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen (prompt 1 - series)
√5. The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (prompt 3 - Ireland/Australia) Read 2/6/22 - 4*
√6. Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton (prompt 3 - UK/Scotland) Read 3/31/22 - 3*
√7. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (prompt 3 - Nigeria/Nigeria) Read 2/26/22 - 3*
8. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (prompt 3 - India/India)
9. Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine (prompt 4)
√10. Cold Magic by Kate Elliott (prompt 4) Read 3/27/22 - 4*
√11. Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien (prompt 4) Read 3/18/22 - 3*
12. A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (prompt 4)
13. Make Mine Magic by Shanna Swendson (prompt 2)
√14. A Dog's Perfect Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron (prompt 2) Read 4/15/22 - 3.5*
√15. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan (prompt 2) Read 3/19/22 - 3*
√16. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (prompt 2) Read 2/24/22 - 4*
17. Black Rose by Nora Roberts (prompt 6)
18. Murder With Puffins by Donna Andrews (prompt 6)
19. Hexes and Hemlines by Juliet Blackwell (prompt 6)
√20. Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson (prompt 6) Read 4/4/22 - 3*
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1/31: #5. The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (prompt 3 - Ireland/Australia)
2/7: 2. To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith (prompt 1 - series)
2/14: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (prompt 2)
2/21: My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (prompt 3 - Nigeria/Nigeria)
2/28: Zapped by Carol Higgins Clark (prompt 1 - series)
3/7: Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien (prompt 4)
3/14: Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan (prompt 2)
BONUS: Cold Magic by Kate Elliott (prompt 4)
3/21: Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage by M.C. Beaton (prompt 3 - UK/Scotland)
3/28: Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson (prompt 6)
4/4: A Dog's Perfect Christmas by W. Bruce Cameron (prompt 2)

[Lagullande]

Blind Date (10 weeks, Mondays, starting 1 Feb; last draw on 4 Apr)

Read: 6/11

✔️Jan 31: No 5: The Scarlet Pimpernel (prompt 1) [5/2/22]
✔️Feb 7: No 2. The Diehard (prompt 2)[10/2/22]
Feb 14: No 16. The Storyteller (prompt 3 - Jordan/Lebanon)
Feb 21: No 7. Seeing (prompt 1)
✔️Feb 28: No 1. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (prompt 3 - Nigeria) [16/6/22]
Mar 7: No 11. The Book of Strange New Things (prompt 4)
✔️Mar 14: No 15. Strangers on a Train (prompt 2) [29/3/22]
✔️BONUS: No 10. Maigret's Revolver (prompt 2) [14/6/22]
Mar 21: No 6. Trent's Own Case (prompt 1)
✔️Mar 28: No 20. Ruddy Gore (prompt 1 or 5) [8/11/22]
Apr 4: No 14. Department of Dead Ends: 14 Stories (prompt 2)
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Blind Date (10 weeks starting 1-Feb; last draw on 4-Apr)
1. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (prompt 3 - Nigeria)
2. The Diehard (prompt 2)
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God (prompt 3 - USA)
4. A God in Ruins (prompt 1)
5. The Scarlet Pimpernel (prompt 1)
6. Trent's Own Case (prompt 1)
7. Seeing (prompt 1)
8. My Friend Maigret (prompt 1)
9. Maigret's First Case (prompt 1)
10. Maigret's Revolver (prompt 2)
11. The Book of Strange New Things (prompt 4)
12. The Moving Toyshop (prompt 2)
13. Verdict of Twelve (prompt 2)
14. Department of Dead Ends: 14 Stories (prompt 2)
15. Strangers on a Train (prompt 2)
16. The Storyteller (prompt 3 - Jordan/Lebanon)
17. The Queen of the Night (prompt 5)
18. Why You Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica--The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds (prompt 5)
19. A Brief History of Seven Killings (prompt 5)
20. Ruddy Gore (prompt 1 or 5)

[Marina]

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

1. Spiccioli per il latte (prompt 4)
2. L'impronta della volpe (prompt 1)
3. Strong Poison (prompt 1)
4. The City & the City (prompt 4)
5. The Night Land (prompt 4)
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream (prompt 4)
7. The Phantom Rickshaw (prompt 6)
8. Blood Queen (prompt 2)
9. Rom (prompt 5)
10. The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur (prompt 3)
11. Unknown Sands: Journeys Around the World's Most Isolated Country (prompt 3)
12. The Warden (prompt 2)
13. The Lost Stradivarius (prompt 5)
14. The Little Stranger (prompt 6)
15. In the Country of Last Things (prompt 6)
16. Frangipani (prompt 3)
17. Un freezer per il morto (prompt 2)
18. Notte, lucente notte (prompt 5)
19. Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories (prompt 6)
20. Le notti di Vladivostok (prompt 2)
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31/1: 5. The Night Land (prompt 4) - DNF
7/2: 2. L'impronta della volpe (prompt 1) - read 14/02
14/2: 16. Frangipani (prompt 3) - read 20/02
21/2: The Phantom Rickshaw (prompt 6) - read 26/02
28/2: Spiccioli per il latte (prompt 4) - read 06/03
7/3: Unknown Sands: Journeys Around the World's Most Isolated Country (prompt 3)
14/3: In the Country of Last Things (prompt 6)
Bonus spin 19/03: The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur (prompt 3)
21/3: A Midsummer Night's Dream (prompt 5) - read 27/03
28/3: Le notti di Vladivostok (prompt 2)
4/4: The Little Stranger (prompt 6) - read 15/04

[LynnB]

Blind Date (10 weeks, Mondays, starting 1 Feb; last draw on 4 Apr)
Completed 15 Apr 2022

✔Jan 31: The Lost Man, Jane Harper, 2 Feb 2022, Prompt 3
✔Feb 7: Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Judy Christie, 9 Feb 2022, Prompt 2
✔Feb 14: Miss Kopp Investigates, Amy Stewart, 21 Feb 2022, prompt 1
✔Feb 21: Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz, 18 Mar 2022, Prompt 3
✔Feb 28: Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge, Helen Rappaport, 28 Mar 2022, Prompt 2
✔Mar 7: The End of Everything, Katie Mack, 17 Mar 2022, Prompt 2
✔Mar 14: An Irish Country Welcome, Patrick Taylor, 22 Mar 2022 ,Prompt 1 or 3
BONUS: 10. With Open Hands, Prompt 2, can't find so I'll skip it.
✔Mar 21: The Mercies, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, 31 Mar 2022, Prompt 3
✔Mar 28: At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays, Anne Fadiman, 10 Apr 2022, Prompt 5
✔5Apr 4: A Promise of Ankles, Alexander McCall Smith, 15 Apr 2022
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Choices:
1. Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917 – A World on the Edge, Prompt 2
2. Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Prompt 2
3. A Fine Summer's Day, Prompt 1
4. An Unwilling Accomplice, Prompt 1
5. The Lost Man, Prompt 3
6. The Mercies, Prompt 3
7. Magpie Murders, Prompt 3
8. The Pull of the Stars, Prompt 3
9. Ring for Jeeves, Prompt 3
10. With Open Hands, Prompt 2
11. The End of Everything, Prompt 2
12. How We Disappeared, Prompt 3
13. The Daughters of Ireland, Prompt 3
14. A Promise of Ankles, Prompt 1 or 3
15. An Irish Country Welcome, Prompt 1 or 3
16. Miss Kopp Investigates, Prompt 1
17. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Prompt 3
18. When the Apricots Bloom, Prompt 3
19. Songbirds, Prompt 3
20. At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays, Prompt 5

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Blind date
1)Ruff Justice
2)Intrigues
3)At First Sight
4)Wagging through the Snow
5) Dealing with Dragons
6)Searching for Dragons
7) Calling on Dragons
8) Talking to
Dragons
9) Wish You Were Here
10) Once Upon a Summer Day
11) The Choice
12) To by Two
13)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
14) The Christmas Wedding
15) Three Sisters, Three Queens
16) 4:50 from Paddington
17) The Good Father
18) Keeping Faith
19) Changeless
20) "Choices" by Mercedes Lackey

Week 1-1/31-5 Dealing with Dragons
Week 2 2/7 -2 Intrigues
Completed 02/18/22
Week 3 2/14 16- 4:50 from Paddington
completed 3/8/22
Week 4- 2/21 7-Calling on Dragons
week 5- 2/28 1-Ruff Justice
Week 6- 11 3/7/22
The Choice
week 7- 15 3/14/22 Three Sisters, Three Queens
Bonus-10 Once Upon a Summer Day
Week 8- 6 Searching for Dragons
Week 9-20 Choices
Week 9-14 The Christmas Wedding

[Dee]

ohhh i loved this lsat time we did it be back with my list later on

Jan 31: Tricks (prompt 5)
Feb 7: Captain Dreamboat (prompt 1) - Finished - hmmm I know a lot of ppl rave about this author, but she just didn't work for me
Feb 14: Heart of Stone (prompt 2) - in progress
Feb 21: Boyfriend Material (prompt 2) - Finished - ok i laughed so much during this audiobook, i think i snorted my soda at one stage
Feb 28: The Husband's Secret (prompt 2)
Mar 7: No Comfort for the Lost (prompt 2)
Mar 14: The Bookshop on the Corner (prompt 3)
BONUS: Sinopticon 2021: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction (prompt 5)
Mar 21: Devon's Island (prompt 3)
Mar 28: Would Like to Meet (prompt 2)
Apr 4: Rosemary and Rue (prompt 2)
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1 The Husband's Secret (prompt 2)
2 Captain Dreamboat (prompt 1) - Finished
3 Munro (prompt 1)
4 Flirting with the Frenemy (prompt 1)
5 Tricks (prompt 5)
6 Devon's Island (prompt 3)
7 Boyfriend Material (prompt 2)
8 Feed (prompt 2)
9 The Bond That Ties Us (prompt 4)
10 Sinopticon 2021: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction (prompt 5)
11 No Comfort for the Lost (prompt 2)
12 The Gift of Rain (prompt 2)
13 Convenience Store Woman (prompt 3)
14 Rosemary and Rue (prompt 2)
15 The Bookshop on the Corner (prompt 3)
16 Heart of Stone (prompt 2)
17 Anatomy: A Love Story (prompt 3)
18 The Purity of Vengeance (prompt 1)
19 Play Dead (prompt 1)
20 Would Like to Meet (prompt 2)

[Kristina Simon]

Blind Date (10 weeks, Mondays, starting 1 Feb; last draw on 4 Apr)

Jan 31: #5. The People We Keep by Allison Larkin (prompt 5)
✔ Feb 7: #2. The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins (prompt 2) Read: 2/24/22
✔ Feb 14: #16. Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell (prompt 2) Read: 3/7/22
✔ Feb 21: #7. Waiting on You by Kristan Higgins (prompt 1) Read: 3/10/22
Feb 28: #1. Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney (prompt 2)
✔ Mar 7: #11. Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison (prompt 3) Read: 3/13/22
Mar 14: #15. Flash Fire by T.J. Klune (prompt 4)
✔ BONUS: #10. Cockroaches by Jo Nesbø (prompt 3) Read: 2/8/22
Mar 21: #6. Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie (prompt 6)
✔ Mar 28: #20. The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews (prompt 1) Read: 3/24/22
Apr 4: #14. Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (prompt 4)
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1. Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney (prompt 2)
✔ 2. The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins Read: 2/24/22
3. Break Your Glass Slippers by Amanda Lovelace (prompt 5)
4. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton (prompt 5)
5. The People We Keep by Allison Larkin (prompt 5)
6. Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie (prompt 6)
✔ 7. Waiting on You by Kristan Higgins (prompt 1)
8. Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb (prompt 1)
9. The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (prompt 3)
✔ 10. Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs (prompt 1)
✔ 11. Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide by Peter Allison (prompt 3)
12. The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles (prompt 6)
13. Late Eclipses by Seanan McGuire (prompt 4)
14. Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (prompt 4)
15. Flash Fire by T.J. Klune (prompt 4)
✔ 16. Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell (prompt 2) Read: 3/7/22
17. The Puma Years: A Memoir of Love and Transformation in the Bolivian Jungle by Laura Coleman (prompt 3)
18. The Guncle by Steven Rowley (prompt 2)
19. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (prompt 2)
✔ 20. The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews (prompt 1)

[Rosalynn]

Blind Date (10 weeks, Mondays, starting 1/31/2022; last draw on 4/4/2022)

1/31/22:Beartown ( Prompt 4)
2/7/22: Crazy Rich Asians (Prompt 1)
2/14/22: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev ( Prompt 5)
2/21/22: China Rich Girlfriend Prompt 1
2/28/22: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
3/7/22: Hollow City (Prompt 1)
3/14/22:
3/21/22:
3/28/22:
4/4/22:

[Brandi]

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


1. Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes by Margaret Weis (Prompt 1)
2. Violeta by Isabel Allende(Prompt 2)
3. (Prompt 3)
4. (Prompt 4)
5. (Prompt 5)
6. (Prompt 6)
7. (Prompt 7)
8. Under a Velvet Cloak by Piers Anthony(Prompt 1)
9. (Prompt 2)
10. (Prompt 3)
11. (Prompt 4)
12. (Prompt 5)
13. (Prompt 6)
14. (Prompt 7)
15. DoOon Mode by Piers Anthony (Prompt 1)
16. (Prompt 2)
17. (Prompt 3)
18. (Prompt 4)
19. (Prompt 5)
20. (Prompt 6)
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1/31:
2/7:
2/14:
2/21:
2/28:
3/7:
3/14:
3/21:
3/28:
4/4:

[[deleted user]]

1/31: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (2/6)
2/7: The Silence of the Lambs (2/12)
2/14: Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise DNF :(
2/21: Virgin: The Untouched History (3/10)
2/28: Repeat
3/7: Kill the Farm Boy DNF :(
3/14: Repeat
3/21: Repeat
3/28: The Love Hypothesis (4/2)
4/4: How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope (4/18)

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I'm having a really hard time coming up with 20 titles right now, so I'm doubling up and I guess just reading all of these scrambled over the next 10 weeks.

ETA: This dummy didn't account for repeats, but boy howdy am I glad for an extra week here or there to catch up.

1-2: The Silence of the Lambs (Prompt 1)
3-4: Tower of Dawn (Prompt 1)
5-6: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women (Prompt 2)
7-8: Virgin: The Untouched History (Prompt 2)
9-10: Rosewater (Prompt 4)
11-12: Kill the Farm Boy (Prompt 4)
13-14: How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope (Prompt 5)
15-16: Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise (Prompt 5)
17-18: Boyfriend Material (Prompt 6)
19-20: The Love Hypothesis (Prompt 6)

[PAS, Moderator AC]

I nearly forgot!!! First up is... *drum rolls*

[Tien]

Blind Date

Progress: 11 / 11 books

1. #5: Sherwood (Prompt 6) -DNF 02/09
2. #2: These Shallow Graves (Prompt 3) -Read 02/17
3. #16: Royal Assassin (The Farseer Trilogy #2) (Prompt 2) -Read 02/22
4. #7: The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Prompt 6) -Read 03/02
5. #1: Lifespan of Starlight (Lifespan of Starlight #1) (Prompt 6) -Read 03/07
6. #11: Telegraph Avenue (Prompt 5) -DNF 03/11
7. #15: When It's Real (Prompt 5) -Read 03/19
BONUS - #10: Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle #3) (Prompt 6) -Read 04/17
8. #6: Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper #4) (Prompt 3) -Read 04/28
9. #20: Vendetta (Blood for Blood #1) (Prompt 3) -Read 04/07
10. #14: Kushiel's Chosen (Phèdre's Trilogy #2) (Prompt 2) -Read 04/18

[Dee]

First up for me is Tricks

[Tien]

ooh that looks interesting, Dee.

[Coralie]

Blind date
1. #5 The Small House at Allington (prompt 3) read Feb 26
2. #2 The Siren Depths (prompt 6) read March 7
3. #16 Cyber Mage (prompt 6) read March 9
4. #7 An Artificial Night (prompt 6) read March 13
5. #1 Scourged (prompt 1) read March 17
6. #11 Paragon Walk (prompt 1) read March 12
7. #15 One Day All This Will Be Yours (prompt 4) read March 18
BONUS #10 Who Buries the Dead (prompt 1) read March 28
8. #6 Heirs of the Blade (prompt 1) read April 10
9. #20 A Christmas Escape (prompt 1) read March 31
10. #14 Shaman's Crossing (prompt 2) read April 18

[Bea]

#5 The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan (prompt 3 - Ireland/Australia)

[Rosemary]

Blind Date
Books read: 10/10, all done 9 June 22

✔ Week 1: #5 = Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg by H R F Keating
used for Prompt 1, Killing Me Serially
Finished 13 Feb 22

✔ Week 2: #2 = Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell
used for Prompt 3, Read the World
Finished 4 Mar 22

✔ Week 3: #16 = The Appeal by Janice Hallett
used for Prompt 6, Sweet Books
Finished 16 Mar 22

✔ Week 4: #7 = Breakfast With The Nikolides by Rumer Godden
used for Prompt 4, Your Story is a Wonderland
Finished 24 Mar 22

✔ Week 5: #1 = The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
used for Prompt 3, Read the World
Finished 4 April 22

✔ Week 6: #11 = Collected Short Stories by E M Forster
used for Prompt 5, Bibliophile Rhapsody
Finished 19 Apr 22

✔ Week 7: #15 = Bonus book used for a swap:
Newcomer by Keigo Higashino
Was intended for prompt 3, but I've finished that prompt, and have already read for number 8 in series in prompt 1, but I read the book anyway :)
Finished 26 Apr 22

✔ Week 8: #6 = Hangman's Holiday by Dorothy L. Sayers
used for Prompt 5, Bibliophile Rhapsody
Finished 28 Apr 22

✔ Week 9: #20 = In the Teeth of the Evidence by Dorothy L. Sayers
used for Prompt 5, Bibliophile Rhapsody
Finished 3 Jun 22

✔ Week 10: #14 = Dead Ground by M.W. Craven
used for Prompt 1, Killing Me Serially
Finished 6 Jun 22

I swapped out #15 The Girl in the Red Coat because I want to save it for By The Month in May.

[Marina]

Blind date

Progress: 3/10 books

Week 1: #5 The Night Land - DNF
Week 2: #2. L'impronta della volpe - read 14/02
Week 3: #16 Frangipani - read 20/02
Week 4: #7 The Phantom Rickshaw - read 26/02
Week 5: #1 Spiccioli per il latte - read 06/03
Week 6: Unknown Sands: Journeys Around the World's Most Isolated Country
Week 7: In the Country of Last Things
Bonus spin: The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Week 8: A Midsummer Night's Dream - read 27/03
Week 9: Le notti di Vladivostok
Week 10: The Little Stranger - read 15/04

[Marina]

I'm off to a good start lol - the first one was a DNF for me!

[LaurLa]

Mini Challenge: Blind Date
February - April 2022

My Blind Date Challenge (msg 29)

Blind Date Calls

Week 1 ➺ 5
Book ➺ The King ➺ 02.11 ★★★★

Week 2 ➺ 2
Book ➺ Dare to Love ➺ 08.28 ★★★★

Week 3 ➺ 16
Book ➺ Risking It All ➺ 08.18 ★★★★

Week 4 ➺ 7
Book ➺ Free-Wrench ➺ 09.14 ★★★★

Week 5 ➺ 1
Book ➺ The Lady Most Likely... ➺ 08.03 ★★★★

Week 6 ➺ 11
Book ➺ Shopping for a Billionaire ➺ 08.12 ★★★

Week 7 ➺ 15
Book ➺ First Comes Scandal ➺ 03.20 ★★★★

Bonus ➺ 10
Book ➺ Marking Time ➺ 07.06 ★★★★

Week 8 ➺ 6
Book ➺ The Killing Game ➺ 08.28 ★★★★

Week 9 ➺ 20
Book ➺ Hard as Steel ➺ 11.13 ★★★★

Week 10 ➺ 14
Book ➺ Random Acts of Crazy ➺ 07.10 ★★★★

Book List

1 ➺ The Lady Most Likely... ➺ Week 5 ➺ Read 08.03
2 ➺ Dare to Love ➺ Week 2 ➺ Read 08.28
3 ➺ Devil in Winter
4 ➺ Part-Time Lover
5 ➺ The King ➺ Week 1 ➺ Read 02.11
6 ➺ The Killing Game ➺ Week 8 ➺ Read 08.28
7 ➺ Free-Wrench ➺ Week 4 ➺ Read 09.14
8 ➺ Duncan
9 ➺ Blitzing Emily
10 ➺ Marking Time ➺ Bonus ➺ Read 07.06
11 ➺ Shopping for a Billionaire ➺ Week 6 ➺ Read 08.12
12 ➺ Wishful Sinful
13 ➺ It Had to Be Fate
14 ➺ Random Acts of Crazy ➺ Week 10 ➺ Read 07.10
15 ➺ First Comes Scandal ➺ Week 7 ➺ Read 03.20
16 ➺ Risking It All ➺ Week 3 ➺ Read 08.18
17 ➺ Hot Six
18 ➺ Sweet Surrender
19 ➺ Fate's Edge
20 ➺ Hard as Steel ➺ Week 9 ➺ Read 11.13

[Tien]

Marina wrote: "I'm off to a good start lol - the first one was a DNF for me!"

Ooh, sorry to hear that, Marina... I haven't even started mine yet! Today I'm determined! lol

[LaurLa]

I can't remember from last time - if we 'accidentally' read one of our books before the # is called, we can replace it with another... or we uh, need to be be careful about reading books from the list we create?

[Tien]

I'd prefer if you're being careful but err, I guess you can still accidentally read one so please replace if that's the case.

[Dee]

i love that "accidently" i purposely didn't put SRC books since it ends this month - even though several of them fit my prompts

[LynnB]

Just finished my first week's book: The Lost Man by Jane Harper. Yay me! I'm trying to read them at the start of each week so I don't start falling behind.

[Amy]

Blind Date (10 weeks, Mondays, starting 1/31/2022; last draw on 4/4/2022) - DONE!

1/31/22: #5 - A Different Dawn (JRI-1) - Completed 2/10/22
2/7/22: #2 - The Body Keeper (JRI-1) - Completed 2/12/22
2/14/22: #16 - Crimson Lake Road (JRI-6) - Completed 2/17/22
2/21/22: #7 - The Night She Disappeared (JRI-3) - Completed 2/22/22
2/28/22: #1 - Fear No Evil (JRI-1) - Completed 3/4/22
3/7/22: #11 - The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (JRI-5) - Completed 3/20/22
3/14/22: #15 - A History of Wild Places (JRI-4) - Completed 3/23/22
3/21/22: #6 - The Loop (JRI-4) - Completed 4/3/22
3/28/22: #20 - The House of Ashes (JRI-3) - Completed 4/2/22
4/4/22: #14 - Alive (JRI-4) - Completed 4/30/22
Bonus: #10 - It's a Wonderful Woof (JRI-1) - Completed 3/31/22


1. Fear No Evil (JRI-1)
2. The Body Keeper (JRI-1)
3. The Far Field (JRI-3)
4. Their Last Breath (JRI-2)
5 A Different Dawn (JRI-1)
6. The Loop (JRI-4)
7. The Night She Disappeared (JRI-3)
8. Seven Perfect Things (JRI-2)
9. Seven Perfect Things (JRI-2)
10. It's a Wonderful Woof (JRI-1)
11. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (JRI-5)
12. Their Last Breath (JRI-2)
13. An Unreliable Truth (JRI-2)
14. Alive (JRI-4)
15. A History of Wild Places (JRI-4)
16. Crimson Lake Road (JRI-6)
17. An Unreliable Truth (JRI-2)
18. Mary Jane (JRI-5)
19. An Unreliable Truth (JRI-2)
20. The House of Ashes (JRI-3)

[Tien]

LynnB wrote: "Just finished my first week's book: The Lost Man by Jane Harper. Yay me! I'm trying to read them at the start of each week so I don't start falling behind."

Great read, hey! And terrific job in finishing already!
I'm only on chapter 1 lol

[Tien]

Amy wrote: "Blind Date (10 weeks, Mondays, starting 1/31/2022; last draw on 4/4/2022)

1/31/22: A Different Dawn (JRI-1)"

Loving this series, Amy! And third book coming right up :)

[Amy]

Tien wrote: "Amy wrote: "Blind Date (10 weeks, Mondays, starting 1/31/2022; last draw on 4/4/2022)

1/31/22: A Different Dawn (JRI-1)"

Loving this series, Amy! And third book coming right up :)"

Thanks for the recommendation, Tien. Another series to enjoy :-)

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I will be a little late starting my first book.

[Snowtulip]

Blind Date (10 weeks, Mondays, starting 1 Feb; last draw on 4 Apr)

Read: 8/11

✓Jan 31: (5) Infinite Country, 2/5/22, 4 stars
✓Feb 7: (2) Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World (2), 3/12/22, 4 stars
✓Feb 14: (16) Woven in Moonlight (4), 3/13/22, 3 stars
✓Feb 21: (7) The Girl He Used to Know (6), 3/11/22, 3.5 stars
✓Feb 28: (1) Noor (3), 3/25/22, 4 stars
✓Mar 7: (11) Hunt the Stars (4), 3/19/22, 2 stars
✓Mar 14: (15) We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2), 3/20/22, 2.5 stars
BONUS: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (2)
✓Mar 21: My Skylar (6), 4/10/22, 2 stars
Mar 28: Light from Uncommon Stars (5)
Apr 4: The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (2)
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1) Noor (3)
2) Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World (2)
3) Piranesi (4)
4) In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran (5)
5) Infinite Country (3)
6) My Skylar (6)
7) The Girl He Used to Know (6)
8) Something Like Thunder (6)
9) People We Meet on Vacation (6)
10) Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (2)
11) Hunt the Stars (4)
12) Seven Days in June (6)
13) Black Girl, Call Home (5)
14) The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (2)
15) We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2)
16) Woven in Moonlight (4)
17) On Animals (2)
18) Louder Than Love (5)
19) Loud is How I Love You (5)
20) Light from Uncommon Stars (5)

[Lauren]

Blind Date - Books Read

January 31 - #5: Born in Ice by Nora Roberts
February 7 - #2: M is for Marquess by Grace Callaway
February 14 - #16: The Hot Zone by Jayne Castle
February 21 - #7: 'Til Death Do Us Part by Amanda Quick
February 28 - #1: The Truth About Lord Stoneville by Sabrina Jeffries
March 7 - #11: The Hiding Place by Paula Munier
March 14 - #15: When We Met by Susan Mallery
Bonus Spin - #10: Deadly Cry by Angela Marsons
March 21 - #6: Copper Beach by Jayne Ann Krentz
March 28 - #20: A Wicked Conceit by Anna Lee Huber
April 4 - #14: Mercury Striking by Rebecca Zanetti
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Blind Date - List

✔︎ 1. The Truth About Lord Stoneville (1)
✔︎ 2. M is for Marquess (1)
3. Shadow (1)
4. Forgotten in Death(2)
✔︎ 5. Born in Ice (2)
✔︎ 6. Copper Beach (2)
✔︎ 7. 'Til Death Do Us Part (2)
8. The Daredevil Snared (2)
9. Lion in the Valley (3)
✔︎ 10. Deadly Cry (3)
✔︎ 11. The Hiding Place (3)
12. The Ranger (3)
13. The Secrets We Bury (3)
✔︎ 14. Mercury Striking (4)
✔︎ 15. When We Met (4)
✔︎ 16. The Hot Zone (4)
17. Lick (5)
18. In Dublin's Fair City (6)
19. Murder on Cold Street (6)
✔︎ 20. A Wicked Conceit (6)

[Tien]

Are you ready for week 2 draw?!?

Did you finish your week 1's book? I've only managed 100 pages of the 480 pages :( And am considering DNF atm soooo... ah wells, will still try slowly read for the next couple of days before I officially decide one way or the other. A bit of a disappointing start to the challenge & I was rather excited about the book too.

[LynnB]

Tien wrote: "Are you ready for week 2 draw?!?"

I am! I will hopefully finish my current book tonight (90 pages to go) and will be ready for a new book tomorrow!

[Tien]

You are on Fire, LynnB!

[PAS, Moderator AC]

Aaaandd… here's Week 2:

[Tien]

Another YA for me and another thick one (almost 500p). I need to start this one earlier lol

These Shallow Graves

[LynnB]

I ended up with non-fiction and I have to get it from the library which doesn't open until 10 tomorrow.
Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Prompt 2
This was put on my list after I read Lisa Wingate's Before We Were Yours, a novel about this.

[Tien]

It looks like it's going to be a heartbreaking read...

[Marina]

Lol Tien, looks like I'm not the only one after all! I hear you – I was looking forward to my first one, too, but ended up DNF'ing it. I'm looking forward to the second one, too – hope it's going to prove a good one this time! I also need it for another challenge in my own group. It's a mystery set in Africa.

[Bea]

Finished my first and really enjoyed The Ruin.

Looking forward to my second one - To the Land of Long Lost Friends