TART Challenge - Round 6 - Snakes on a Plane (15)

[MountainKat, Moderator]

The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Round 6
September 14, 2022 through November 10, 2022
Caught a Second Wind!

Team:
✓ Louise
✓ LaurLa
✓ Laura
✓ Jackie

[MountainKat, Moderator]

The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Round 6
September 14, 2022 through November 10, 2022
Caught a Second Wind!

Tracking:
Task 1 - 0. Read a sports romance (MPG) or a book with a primarily green cover, teams decide which. No pass for this task. 9.14.2022 - 9.16.2022
Task 2 - 8. Read 4 books with a beach on the cover. 9.16.2022 - 9.20.2022
Task 3 - 13. Read a minimum of 750 pages in books tagged/shelved as sports. 9.20.2022 - 9.22.2022
Task 4 - 21. Each teammate reads a book with a night sky on the cover, no pass for this task. 9.22.2022 - 9.30.2022
Task 5 - 1. Each player reads a book by the same author, teams decide author - no pass for this task. 9.30.2022 - 10.5.2022
Task 6 - 35. Read 6 books first published between 2011 and 2020. 10.5.2022 - 10.9.2022
Task 7 - 36. Read 6 books with animals on the cover. 10.9.2022 - 10.14.2022
Task 8 - 50. Read 6 books set in the same location, teams decide the location. 10.14.2022 - 10.20.2022
Task 9 - 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. 10.20.2022 - 10.27.2022
Task 10 - 22. Read 4 books #5 or higher in a series. 10.27.2022 - 11.3.2022
Task 11 - 23. Each teammate reads a book that has been read by one of the RRRC moderators. No pass for this task. 11.3.2022 - 11.8.2022
Task 12 - Read books by authors whose first or last name begins with the first letter of your team name. 11.8.2022

[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 Snakes on a Plane, just let me know!

[MountainKat, Moderator]

As of right now, you are a team of three. If you find someone to add, please feel free to do so. I will adjust tasks as needed, number of books or page count. If I forget, and I know I will, please ask me about it in the Q&A thread. 😊

[Louise]

Made it.

[Laura]

I’m here.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Hi! Jackie signed up to be added to your team - hopefully they will be along soon!

[Jackie]

I'm here.

[LaurLa]

hellooooo!!

[Louise]

First Task - All Teams!

0. Read a sports romance (MPG) or a book with a primarily green cover, teams decide which. No pass for this task.

Louise Completion
LaurLa Completion

[Louise]

I can do either option :)

[Laura]

I can do either.

[LaurLa]

Me too!

[Jackie]

Not crazy about sports romance but I have found a book that fits. So can do either.

[Laura]

If everybody says either, I’ll vote sports romance.

[Jackie]

Okay with me.

[Louise]

Okay with me too 🙂

[Laura]

Yay! I have one with all the vowels in the title! Hopefully I can get my Quidditch books done early enough tomorrow to fit it in!

[Laura]

Laura wrote: "Yay! I have one with all the vowels in the title! Hopefully I can get my Quidditch books done early enough tomorrow to fit it in!"

I thought Turf Wars ended today! I will totally get my book read by or on tomorrow.

[Louise]

Completion Post
Task: 0 - Read a sports romance (MPG) or a book with a primarily green cover.
Team Chose: Sports Romance

Line Mates & Study Dates by Eden Finley
Pgs: 308
Date Read: 9/15
Rating: 3*
How It Fits: MPG Sports Romance

[Jackie]

I won't get to mine until tomorrow. I'll be doing my Quidditch books until close to the deadline.

[Laura]

Jackie wrote: "I won't get to mine until tomorrow. I'll be doing my Quidditch books until close to the deadline."

I'll probably be reading until midnight tonight for my Historical!

[LaurLa]

Completion Post ➺ LaurLa
Task 0


Task: Read a sports romance (MPG)
Book: Empty Net
Pages: 498 464 pp (first kindle edition)
How it fits: mpg sports romance
Date Read: 09.15 ★★★

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Task: 0 - Read a sports romance (MPG) or a book with a primarily green cover.
Team Chose: Sports Romance
Book: It Had to Be You
Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Date read: 9/16/22
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 384
How it fits: MPG Sports Romance

[Laura]

Completion Post

Task: 0 - Read a sports romance (MPG) or a book with a primarily green cover
Team Chose: Sports Romance
Book: The Accidental Pregnancy Situation
Date Read: 9/16
Rating; 3 stars
Pages: 349
How it fits: MPG Sports Romance

[Laura]

I checked us in.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is your next task!

8. Read 4 books with a beach on the cover.

To qualify for this task, the book’s cover needs to clearly and obviously show a beach. Ideally, you would want to show sand/dirt and the edge of water on your covers. You can use any edition’s cover to qualify for this task. Please include the qualifying cover in your completion posts.

[Laura]

I’ve got a Jill Shalvis book off the Turf Wars list planned for tomorrow. Several of the covers show a beach, so I should be done tomorrow.

[Jackie]

I'll read

[Louise]

I’m going for

[LaurLa]

I need to read Beach Read... unfortunately it doesn't actually show a beach😝


Boo!


I guess I'll read California Homecoming instead

[Laura]

LaurLa, some editions show a beach. The beach doesn’t have to be on the edition you read. Just make sure to link the cover of the beach edition in your completion post.

[Louise]

LaurLa wrote: "I need to read Beach Read... unfortunately it doesn't actually show a beach😝


Boo!


I guess I'll read California Homecoming instead
.."

These editions do

[LaurLa]

Laura wrote: "LaurLa, some editions show a beach. The beach doesn’t have to be on the edition you read. Just make sure to link the cover of the beach edition in your completion post."


Hmmmm. That's a consideration. I need to read both though and the California one is shorter. Decisions decisions!

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Task: 8. Read 4 books with a beach on the cover.
Book:
Author: Eva Gates
Date Read: 9/17
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 292
How it fits: Beach on cover

[Laura]

We can’t get a new task until Sunday, right? 2 days in between tasks?

[Jackie]

Right.

From rules: New tasks will not be assigned more frequently than every other day.

[Laura]

Good. I will finish today, because it’s for Turf Wars, but I’ve been so tired.

[LaurLa]

I won’t be able to start mine until tomorrow. Hopefully finish too…

[Jackie]

Quidditch wore me out. lol

Took an hour and a half nap this afternoon.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

LaurLa wrote: "Completion Post ➺ LaurLa
Task 0


Task: Read a sports romance (MPG)
Book: Empty Net
Pages: 498 pp (first kindle edition)
How it fits: mpg sports roman..."

Please correct to the first edition Kindle page count (464). Thanks.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Other than that, all your completions look good. 😊

[Laura]

Completion Post

Task: 8. Read 4 books with a beach on the cover.
Book: Forever and a Day
Date Read: 9/17
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 384
How it fits:

[LaurLa]

Completion Post ➺ LaurLa
Task 0


Task: Read a sports romance (MPG)
Book: Empty Net
Pages: 498 464 pp (first kindle edition)
How it fits: mpg sports romance
Date Read: 09.15 ★★★

[LaurLa]

MountainKat wrote: "Please correct to the first edition Kindle page count (464). Thanks"


Okay, I couldn't remember if we could update the original or had to repost the completion, so I did both.

I'll be more careful next time. I usually AM reading the earliest edition of books and I didn't even think to double check it this time.

[Louise]

Completion Post
Task: 8. Read 4 books with a beach on the cover.

A Killer Cupcake by Fiona Grace
Pgs: 190
Date Read: 9/20
Rating: 3*
How It Fits:

[LaurLa]

Completion Post ➺ LaurLa
Task: 8. Read 4 books with a beach on the cover


Book: California Homecoming
Pages: 230 pp (first kindle edition)
How it fits: beach on cover
Date Read: 09.18 ★★★

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is your next task!

Task 3 - 13. Read a minimum of 750 pages in books tagged/shelved as sports.

The selected books need to be tagged/shelved as either the generic 'sports' or more specific such as 'football' or 'hockey' as examples. Tags are the only qualification for this task! Please include a link to the qualifying tag along with the exact tag, the top shelves page number and the number of tags in your completion posts. Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count.

[Laura]

Darn it! I started Beast Behaving Badly yesterday. I’ll find something, though.