TART Challenge - Round 5 - SHAFT (5)

[MountainKat, Moderator]

The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Round 5
April 12, 2022 through June 8, 2022
Still Running and My Feet Hurt!

Team:
★ Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆
✓ Helke
✓ F.
✓ Ashley

[MountainKat, Moderator]

The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Round 5
April 12, 2022 through June 8, 2022
Still Running and My Feet Hurt!

Tracking:

Task 1 - 0. Read a book with either blue or yellow on the cover, teams decide which. No pass for this task. 4.12.2022 - 4.17.2022
Task 2 - 4. Read 4 books tagged/shelved as PNR or fantasy. 4.17.2022 - 4.19.2022
Task 3 - 12. Read a book recommended to you by a teammate - no pass for this task. 4.19.2022 - 4.22.2022
Task 4 - 21. Each teammate reads a book with a night sky on the cover, no pass for this task. 4.22.2022 - 4.27.2022
Task 5 - 23. Each teammate reads a book that has been read by one of the RRRC moderators. No pass for this task. 4.27.2022 - 4.30.2022
Task 6 - 14. Read a minimum of 1000 pages in books with Contemporary Romance as MPG. 4.30.2022 - 5.2.2022
Task 7 - 35. Read 6 books first published between 2011 and 2020. 5.2.2022 - 5.5.2022
Task 8 - 22. Read 4 books #5 or higher in a series. 5.5.2022 - 5.8.2022
Task 9 - 9. Each player reads a book in the same series, teams decide. No pass for this task. 5.8.2022 - 5.10.2022
Task 10 - 69. Read 6 books that have won/been nominated for an award. 5.10.2022 - 5.13.2022
Task 11 - 41. Read 6 books with over 10,000 ratings. 5.13.2022- 5.16.2022
Task 12 - 33. Read 6 books in the same sub-genre, teams decide. 5.16.2022 - 5.18.2022
Task 13 - 63. Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books tagged 'magic' or 'magical'. 5.18.2022 - 5.22.2022
Task 14 - 44. Read 6 books by authors who use initials in their name. 5.22.2022 - 5.25.2022
Task 15 - 71. Pick another team and each member reads one book that was read by a member for this challenge. No pass for this task. 5.25.2022 - 5.27.2022
Task 16 - 95. As a team, select an animal. Read 8 books tagged with that animal. 5.27.2022 - 5.30.2022
Task 17 - 32. Read 6 books with over 2500 ratings. 5.30.2022 - 6.2.2022
Task 18 - 91. Add up the years of the teammates' births and each teammate reads a book with that minimum number of pages. For example, teammates were born in 75, 83, 87 and 94 - each teammate reads a book at least 339 pages long. No pass for this task. 6.2.2022 - 6.5.2022
Task 19 - 62. Read a minimum of 1000 pages in books written by an author whose first or last name begins with the first letter of a teammate's screen name. 6.5.2022 - 6.7.2022
Task 20 - Last Task. Read books with a 5 in the first edition Kindle page count. No pass for this task. 6.7.2022

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Information required when posting your completion/s:

Task
Book/cover link
Page numbers with source
How book qualified, with links or cover as necessary.
Date Completed.
Rating/Review.


**Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count only! If your page count comes from a Kindle edition published on the initial publication date on the editions page, it will count. If your page count comes from a Kindle edition labeled '1st edition', it will count. If your page count comes from the earliest dated English language Kindle edition, it will count. I am looking for one of those three things when confirming your books! As long the page count you list is correct, I will accept any link to the book. Ebook page count will be acceptable if no Kindle page count available. The acceptability of other page counts will be made on an individual basis.**

Please note that a rating is now required in your completion posts! A small review is also welcome. 😊

[MountainKat, Moderator]

I think most of you know each other, at least a little, but feel free to introduce yourself again. Please give any relevant information, especially time zone as that helps know when it is best to communicate. 😊

Please select a team leader to help keep track of where your team is in any given task. And as necessary guide discussions for task decisions. Any teammate can report your completions though.

Remember, it is the team's responsibility to notify the host (me) if a teammate fails to complete the task in a timely manner or otherwise goes missing! I am not checking all the team threads regularly to notice and may only check when notified a task is complete.

PS - If you want to be known as anything other than Team 5, you are free to come up with a team name. 😉

[F.]

Hi guys! Team name - using our initials - how about S.H.A.F.T.

[Helke]

Sounds good to me. This will be fun.

[F.]

I haven't played before so would rather not be in charge.
Just been for my mammogram, got rung this morning as they had a cancellation.
Tomorrow DH is 65 and is having a party so I have been busy trying to organise food and drink. As such I will be probably not be on GR much tomorrow or get any reading done this weekend.

Hope you are feeling better Helke.

[Helke]

Yes thank you. Maybe it helps that today it is the last day at school for the next two weeks lol.
We got our motorhome back yesterday. I will be busy cleaning and preparing for our trip. So not much reading for me either.

Congrats to DH on his big day. And I hope your mamo came back clear.

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Oh geeze, I was looking at the wrong place.

I can captain.
But I'm west coast, so if someone sees we are complete on a task, can someone go post we are complete, so they will give us the next task?

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

I guess we should try to agree on a few items.

Maybe throw out some ideas we can agree on
I'm gonna post here the questions we need to decide on.
And then I'm gonna post my ideas after.

1. same author
9. same series
12. Recommend a couple books to each teammate
24 and 25 look at task 24 and 25 (at least I need to)
29. books about the same profession need to agree
27. Published in one year prior to 2018 (need to agree on a year
33. same sub-genre need to agree (is mm romance an option?)
49. Each teammate reads a book published in the same month and year, (oh god, maybe we can all just do a buddy read...
need to agree on something.
50 books set in the same location
51. another Each teammate reads a different book by the same author
52. books with the same color cover,
53. Each teammate reads a book set in one of your teammates' home town (born in, raised in, currently live in - all work), teams decide. oh boy
55. books set in the same country outside the US,
56. pick a list with over 100 romance books on it,
58. books published in the year one of the teammates joined
64. books not set on a continent of a teammate (list our continent
70. in books of the same sub-genre, but by different authors. Need the Sub-genre
71. Pick another team and each member reads one book that was read by a member for this challenge (probably need to find Roger or another team that reads MM
72. Read 4 books published in the decade of a teammate's birth, team decides which teammate. OKAY who's the youngest on our team?
73. Read a minimum of 1500 pages in books by the same author,
Another sam author
74. teammates' birth month, Everyone post birth month
75. Read over 1000 pages in books that start with the same letter (no articles), teams decide letter.
76. Read 6 books with a specific item on the cover (easy enough if we chose a Male on cover?)
79. the same romance trope,
80. Read 4 books initially published in different decades. (HUH?)
82. Each teammate reads a different book from the same series. (so we need a series we can read in any order...or one we are all in different stages for)
84. .gotta look at the options.
90. Each member reads a book published in sequential months, i.e. June, July, August and September 2019. Teams decide which months.
91. Add up the years of the teammates' births and each teammate reads a book with that minimum number of pages. For example, teammates were born in 75, 83, 87 and 94 - each teammate reads a book at least 339 pages long. (so need birth years
92. set in the future or the past - teams decide.
93. List from GR Listopia with less than 100 books on it need to decide on list
94. Read 6 books published in sequential years, teams decide years.
95. As a team, select an animal. Read 8 books tagged with that animal. (huh? tagged?)
96 with the sun or the moon on the cover, teams decide which.
99. Each teammate lists 5 favorite books. Select books from 2 different teammates and read them. (list 5 favorite books

Holy cow that's a lot.

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

I'm gonna save this spot for DEFINITE answers.
Like age and birth months
Just to keep track

Skye-April
F.-July
Ashley- April
Helke-March

Skye - 75
F. - 60
Ashley-82
Helke-66
Total 283

goodreads
Skye-2012
F.-2013
Helke - 2019
Ashley- 2015

Skye- California
F.-New Zealand
Ashley- NJ
Helke- Germany

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

And save this post for anything we decide for sure.

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Suggestions so far

1st same Author -- Rhys Ford
2nd Same Author -- Josh Lanyon

Suggestions for same series
The Cardigans Criminal Intentions series
Among the Living Psycop series
Dead Speak Cold Case series
Any other suggestions?

[F.]

Thanks Skye for being leader.

My birth month is July
My birth year is 60
I joined goodreads in 2013
Home New Zealand

Name suggestion - SHAFT

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Just waiting for Ashley to check in! 😊

[Ashley GR]

I’m here! Sorry we’ve been roaming Tuscany for days.

[Ashley GR]

Birth month April
Birth year 82
Joined goodreads in 2019
Home town NJ

[Helke]

Birrth month march
Year 66
Home Germany
Joined GR Nov 2015

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Everyone good with the name Shaft?

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Ummm common authors that you think everyone might have something for everyone.

Josh Lanyon
Amy Lane
Mary Calmes

who else has a ton of books that everyone could agree on?

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

Andrew Grey has a wide mix.

[Helke]

Rhys Ford
Megan Derr


The name is OK for me.

[Ashley GR]

The name is ok for me!
I’m good with all authors.

[Helke]

As we start today we probably should select an author to start with.

[Ashley GR]

Helke wrote: "As we start today we probably should select an author to start with."

How about Josh Lanyon or Rhys Ford? I have a bunch of them in my queue.

[Helke]

Do you know of a book by one of them with a guy 100% of Asian descent? I need one book desperately.

[F.]

6pm EST is around 10pm here so I won't be online until I wake up next morning.

[Helke]

We play for fun so don't stress it. Which author would you prefer?

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Ashley wrote: "Helke wrote: "As we start today we probably should select an author to start with."

How about Josh Lanyon or Rhys Ford? I have a bunch of them in my queue."

I THINK the entire series Dirty Kiss Jae-Min is 100%, but I could be wrong....Cole isn't though
Might double check first.

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Oh oh, I know one...now it's driving me crazy. I'll think of it. I read several of the books last year. I'll look when I get off work.

[F.]

Helke wrote: "We play for fun so don't stress it. Which author would you prefer?"

I will read whoever anyone has a preference for. I have books by all aforementioned authors on my tbr.

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

We have where it could pop up serveral times.

Why don't we say
Rhys Ford first time it's called
Josh Lanyon the 2nd time it's called.
And worry about the 3rd time later?
Sound good? Remember this is for fun, so we can always change it if someone doesn't want to read that author.

[F.]

Sounds great!!

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Q
Is anyone else reading the The Cardigans series?

I know a lot of people are, but it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
I see everyone has at least 1 book on their tbr, but didn't know if that would be a good one for if we all had to read the same series or not?

Or maybe Psycop. That series is usally an easy go to for most.
Unless your not a fan of anything paranormal?
Maybe no...Ashley doesn't have any books on TBR, and it's not KU.

Pandora Pines Cold case files? Its KU and I think we all have that series.

Idk just throwing out ideas.

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

0. Read a book with either blue or yellow on the cover, teams decide which. No pass for this task.

[F.]

Do we have to read the same book?
Do we have to have the same colour?
If so, I pick blue and will read Sink or Swim

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

Not same book but same color.

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

primarily the selected color.
I didn't read that part.

I'm down with blue, that's the primary color of the book I wanted to read too.

[F.]

Blue Covered MM books

[F.]

Is Sink or Swim primarily blue or black?

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

F. wrote: "Is Sink or Swim primarily blue or black?"

I would say blue.

[F.]

Thanks Roger!!

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

Waiting for my team to show up, one other showed up with an either vote, me to as when I was looking for the lists so I could provide links I found books I wanted to read.

[F.]

Changed my book as tineye said black was the dominant colour.


Reading
Captive Mate by Eliot Grayson
[*book:Captive Mate|55129651] by [*author:Eliot Grayson|17300496]
207 pages
52.7% blue.

[Helke]

OK Blue it is. Will have to search for a book I can also fit into sh and uno.

[Ashley GR]

Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆ wrote: "Q
Is anyone else reading the The Cardigans series?

I know a lot of people are, but it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
I see everyone has at least 1 book on their tbr, but didn'..."

I'm good with all of these :)

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

Ya'll I'm not very good at being a captain.

We all seem to be used to finding something we'll like within the guid of different challenges....and we all seem to go with the flow of what everyone decides.

We started off just going with the flow of what ever the first couple suggestions are. And maybe that is easies, with us all in different time zones.

But if we just rolling with the flow....but if the flow that started doesn't work for someone, please speak up. None of us should be forcing ourselves to read something they won't like, or have a hard time finding.

If you come check the next task, and you find it's headed one direction and you find yoursellf with no options that you would enjoy, I don't think any of us in the group would mind changing the options. This is for fun.

[Skye Blue ☆*~ﾟლ(´ڡ`ლ)~*☆]

I don't think I wrote that very well.
My brain is shutting down for the day.

[F.]

Completion Post

Read a book with a predominately blue or yellow cover.


Captive Mate by Eliot Grayson
Kindle Edition, 207 pages
Published August 25th 2020 by Smoking Teacup Books
Read 14/04/22
3.5 stars (4 for GR)

I haven't read the first in the series but wasn't too lost in the world dynamic.
A shifters' enemies to lovers story from Arik's POV. Arik is a prickly character who trusts no-one, he is also a sharman. Matthew is a werewolf and leader of his pack. In the first book Arik put a spell on Matthew to bond him to Arik which hasn't gone down well and the story opens with Arik in magic manacles in the pack basement.
Through many obstacles, pack fights and magic the story unfolds.
While I enjoyed the book I felt no affinity with either MC and am in no hurry to read Bk1 or further in the series.

[Ashley GR]

I'm sorry, I'm so confused. What is the first book that we're supposed to be reading? Is it the same author or the book with a blue or yellow cover? If it's the blue or yellow cover, will this work?