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Jane (PS) wrote: "Jean wrote: "Jane (PS) wrote: "C wrote: "Jane (PS) wrote: "C wrote: "Hi TeamWanted to update you I will be behind a week. I haven’t even had a chance to start my book yet and it’s a 400 page book...."
Thank you! I thought I was correct but got confused. I do try to keep the completed commented posted at the beginning of our thread in case you do ever miss one. We are all up to date through last week now!
Sorry...I think I posted this to the wrong Challenge thread...so, it was re-posted where it belongs in the Amazing Race challenge📚SELECTION📚
Task 9. 58. Read 6 books published in (our team pick) 2022
Book: Peanut Butter Panic by Amanda Flower
Qualification: Published August 1, 2022
Pages: 304
Date Begun: April 24, 2023
(FYI: Since this task requests 6 completions from the team, I will finish the above book before moving on to Killers of a Certain Age, published September 6, 2022. Both books should be done by late this evening.)
One Sentence Audio wrote: "Sorry...I think I posted this to the wrong Challenge thread...📚SELECTION📚
Task 9. 58. Read 6 books published in (our team pick) 2022
Book: Peanut Butter Panic by [author:Amanda ..."
Benita, this is on the wrong thread.
Jean wrote: "One Sentence Audio wrote: "Sorry...I think I posted this to the wrong Challenge thread...📚SELECTION📚
Task 9. 58. Read 6 books published in (our team pick) 2022
Book: [book:Peanut Butter Panic|5..."
Thank you Jean. It has been reposted in the Amazing Race Challenge thread. Sorry!
Van wrote: "🎉 Completion post 🎉😴 Week #4 💤
Rating 4,5✨
📝Review: This was a re-read\listen inspired by C pick from week 3 - THANK YOU 🙌😁💕👍- Love this story and the origi..."
Omg glad I could influence 😂! She’s a really good writer. I’m excited to eventually read Ben’s story!
Completion Post Week # 4
Bookcover/link:
Rating (1-5): 2/5
DNF: 124/168
Review:
DNF @ page 124/168. Overall it was just really boring. There were also errors in the writing like the tense which was the biggest one for me. Also before she’s even told that they’re dragons she literally says something about them being dragons and then she finds out they’re dragons and is shocked?? Like huh??
I would maybe try this author again? Not sure.
📚SELECTION📚Week 5. Option 1
Book: The Enchantress by May McGoldrick
Qualification: plants on cover, rolling hills covered with heather...see pink and lilac, near top of cover
Pages: 340
Date: April 28, 2023
Selection postOption 1 Read a book with a plant on the cover
Week # 5
Bookcover/link: Just My Type
Page numbers: 368
How the book qualifies: Plants on cover
Week 5Option 1
13. In 1927 a French geophysicist discovered that plants generate their own internal time.
Read a book with a plant on the cover.
Trees, bushes, flowers, grass count.
Include the book cover in the qualification.
Option 2
Key date: 28 October 2022
*Team mate read on or after this date and rated at least 3 stars
Series rule applies:
If the book is in a series but does not match where you are up to, you may read another book from that same series.
Option 3
*Pass
Completion postWeek # 5
Bookcover/link: Just My Type
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: A cute, funny second chance romance that unites high school sweethearts in a competition for the same writing job. Both, of course, still harbor feelings for the other and throughout the competition endure all the associated angst of being reunited, competing, not knowing the others feelings and so on.
📚COMPLETION📚Week 5. Option 1
Book: The Enchantress by May McGoldrick
Qualification: plants on cover, rolling hills covered with heather...see pink and lilac, near top of cover
Pages: 340
Date: April 28, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Completion PostWeek #4 ~ Option 1
Bookcover/link: Slade by Kade Boehme
Page numbers: 179
How the book qualifies: Exposed human body on cover
Finished: 04/29
Rating: 4 stars
Review: I really enjoyed experiencing Johnny and Shane getting to know one another. I liked that the author showed how the age difference and life experiences can effect a relationship in both positive and negative ways, and these characters didn't shy away from the things that made them leery.
Shane and Johnny met one another in a time in both their lives where they needed someone to shine a mirror on them so they can see themselves more clearly. The did that for each other while experiencing this unstoppable chemistry.
The only thing that I wish was explained is why Shane made it seem like public displays between Johnny and himself was a problem. There was nothing that happened that made it seem like the people in this small town were homophobic. Heck the owner of the restaurant and Shane's friend was also gay and married. I guess that was supposed to be a read herring?? Either way, I wish the subject had came up in conversation at some point.
Selection Post Week #5 ~ Option 1
Book cover/link: Spiral of Need by Suzanne Wright
Page number: 322
How it qualifies: Trees on cover
Selection Post Week 5
Option 1
Book Cover/link:
Page #: 224
How it Qualifies: flowers on cover - seen behind the model on the cover.
Completion Post Week #5 ~ Option 1
Book cover/link: Spiral of Need by Suzanne Wright
Page number: 322
How it qualifies: Trees on cover
Finished: 05/01
Rating: 4 stars
Review: Suzanne Wright really knows how to incorporate the things I love in her books: wonderful world building, kickass heroine, alpha male, and lots of sexy times.
The world had already been established from the Phoenix pack series, Ally is a badass heroine who can take care of herself in all the ways that matters, Derren may be beta in the pack, but he is dominant in all of the best ways, and the sexy times were really hot.
So about the story, Ally is a Seer. She is originally in a pack where someone is out to get her. She knows who it is, but things are looking bleak. She gets the assistance of a friend, who calls in a favor to Derren and she ends up at the Mercury Pack. Sad thing is the members of this pack doesn't trust Seers. If you've read the Phoenix pack series, then you know some of the why. It's understandable, but it annoyed me because they were judging her on what other did without giving her the benefit of the doubt.
Ally is a force of nature though, so she took it in stride, and just remained true to who she is and eventually the tides turned.
Derren's life had been affected personally by a Seer in his youth, so he didn't trust her either, but he helped her anyway because of their mutual friend called in the favor. The thing is no matter how much he didn't trust her, he couldn't control the draw he had to her.
Once the started on their intimate journey, it was hot and things quickly started feeling like more.
It was great ride with a lot of action thrown into the mix.
⚜️💓 Selection post - Option 1 💖⚜️😴 💤 🌚 Week #5 🌙 🛌 😴
📚 My Midlife Crisis, My Rules - Page numbers: 286 📖 - 6h2m 🎧
✔️How the book qualifies - Plant on the cover: Daisies on the skull and tree branches in the background
🎉 Completion post 🎉😴 Week #5 💤
Rating 5✨
📝Review: This book is perfection (except for the lack of spice). It is hilarious with all the craziness of the characters, preposterous situations and insane dialogues, I almost wet myself laughing several times. Action packed with a big battle near the end of the book and some loved up moments too, even if it's not the main focus, and fade to black
My second complaint is the lack of gluing body parts party in the book I always find those really funny.
Free on KU and free audio on catalogue plus Audible too.
Jessica's performance is outstanding, her voice is perfect for Daisy and her interpretation of the many side characters perfection. Obviously, it would have been better to also have a male narrator, but Jessica still kicked backsides on her own.
Completion Post Week # 5
Bookcover/link:
Rating (1-5): 2/5
Review:
Hmm what to say - overall the story was just meh. The characters were not well developed. If I had to choose one character to like it would be the MMC. The FMC was just so obnoxious. Her parents sucked so bad. And then in the end she forgives him at the drop of a hat yet for like 4 chapters she was furious with him. Obviously I’m not an author so I’m sure it’s difficult to build a good story full of depth when you’re trying to keep it at 200 pages but man I’ve noticed these shorter books are harder for me to get into because they’re just lacking in regards to depth. I also clearly am struggling to find the perfect mix of angst and falling in love quickly. Because too much angst I hate but some of these stories where it’s like insta love it’s really hard to get into those too. Ugh. Maybe I just wasn’t feeling this particular story. I would probably give this author another go if another ebook is free or if she’s on KU.
2/5
All done for week 5. On to week 6 tonight!
Oh gosh I’m sorry I didn’t realize I was the last to post! I finished the book Wednesday. I’ll make sure I’m posting when I actually finish.
C wrote: "Oh gosh I’m sorry I didn’t realize I was the last to post! I finished the book Wednesday. I’ll make sure I’m posting when I actually finish."No you don’t have to worry about that. It really doesn’t matter until the very last round!
Week 6Option 1
10. The author states that he would be delighted if you found yourself nodding off as you read his book.
Read a book that would 'comfort' or 'relax' you. The book MUST NOT have a MPG of Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Action or Adventure!
Specify that the list of MPG do not use the above genres
Option 2
Key date: 4 November 2022
*Team mate read on or after this date and rated at least 3 stars
Series rule applies:
If the book is in a series but does not match where you are up to, you may read another book from that same series.
Option 3
*Pass
Selection postOption 1
Week # 6
Read a book that would 'comfort' or 'relax' you. The book MUST NOT have a MPG of Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Action or Adventure!
Bookcover/link:Where Wildflowers Bloom
Page numbers: 337
How the book qualifies: No MPG Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Action or Adventure!
⚜️💓 Selection post - Option 1 💖⚜️😴 💤 🌚 Week #6 🌙 🛌 😴
📚 In a Jam - Page numbers: 474 📖 - 15h52m 🎧
✔️How the book qualifies - No MPG Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Action or Adventure!
Selection Post Week #6 ~ Option 1
Book cover/link: Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
Page number: 368
How it qualifies: No MPG Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Action or Adventure!
Selection PostWeek 6 - Option 1
Book: Dance: Cinderella Retoldby Demelza Carlton
Pages: 234
How Qualifies: not MPH Thriller, horror, suspense adventure
Van wrote: "⚜️💓 Selection post - Option 1 💖⚜️😴 💤 🌚 Week #6 🌙 🛌 😴
📚 In a Jam - Page numbers: 474 📖 - 15h52m 🎧
✔️How the book qualifies - No MPG Horror, Thriller, S..."
Great book! Happy Reading!
Selection Post Week 6
Option 1
Book Cover/Link:
Page #: 466
How if qualifies: is not a MPG of Horror, Thriller, Suspense, mystery, or adventure!
🎊📚 COMPLETIONWeek 6 - Option 1
Book: Dance: Cinderella Retold by Demelza Carlton
Pages: 234
How Qualifies: not MPH Thriller, horror, suspense adventure (MPG Romance, fairy tale, historic)
Review: ⭐⭐⭐ a retelling of the Cinderella story, recast to a mythic, sword wearing era in an fantasy oriental medieval culture. In this one Cinderella travels with and fights beside her price, successfully posing as a young man.
Completion Post Week #6 ~ Option 1
Book cover/link: Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
Page number: 368
How it qualifies: No MPG Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Action or Adventure!
Finished: 05/07
Rating: 4 stars
Review: I am continuing to fall in love with Ali Hazelwood's work. She makes me laugh and swoon just a bit. She also has these women who make you root for them so hard. Women who are very intelligent, but have the same issues that the rest of us have when it comes to relationships, so they are relatable.
Then there are the intelligent, sexy men, who also have their relationship issues too.
In this we have Bee and Levi. The are the opposite of friends, going back to their grad school days, and are now tasked with working on project together at NASA. Things do not get off to a great start.
As usual, there are some misunderstandings, but these are more deep-seated and intricate.
Were parts of the story a bit predictable? Yes. It was pretty clear what the cause of the issues with their work was, but I enjoyed the overall story either way.
🎉 Completion post 🎉😴 Week #6 💤
Rating 5✨
📝Review: This was a reread with the audiobook and the narration made a great story even more amazing. First time around I got this book on KU only, as it was recommended in a reading challenge and I loved it. So, this reread I decided to add the audio (1/2 price for subscribers that have the ebook) and it made it all even more amazing. The story starts with drama and it is sweet and addictive with slow burn and delicious tension until it all happen and it becomes very steamy. There is a potty mouthed kid who is hilarious and a bunch a interesting characters in a rural setting.
Amazing performances from both narrators.
100% recommend
Completion postWeek # 6
Bookcover/link: Where Wildflowers Bloom
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: set after the civil war, it is the story of two people grieving the loss of loved ones and loss of innocence finding love and solace in each other.
Change to Selection Post Week 6
Option 1
Book Cover/Link:
Page #: 139
How if qualifies: is not a MPG of Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Action, or Adventure!
Hey needed to change my book this week to a much shorter book so I don’t get behind! Been another bad reading week for me 🤦🏻♀️
C wrote: "Hey needed to change my book this week to a much shorter book so I don’t get behind! Been another bad reading week for me 🤦🏻♀️"No problem got you changed.
Completion Post Week # 6
Bookcover/link:
Rating (1-5): 5/5
Review:
I love this series! It’s on KU and it’s a great length. For such a short book you get tons of new information but enough is left out I just want to jump right into the next book! Bran might be the hottest vampire like ever. I love some of the vamps from Black Dagger Brotherhood but so far I think Bran has them beat.
Also totally want to know what is so “terrifying” about Mouse??? She’s not done anything terrifying yet!
Excited to read the next book.
5/5
📚⭐SELECTION⭐📚🗓 Week 7. Option 1: 15 and 9🗓
Book: Second Chance Pass by Robyn Carr
Qualification: 15 and 9
Published October 15, 2009, page 209, edition linked above
Pages: 352
(Jean is travelling this weekend. I think this is our weekly task, but I could be wrong..)Week 7
Option 1
14. In the absence of sunlight (days/nights) humans continue to maintain the circadian rhythm of roughly 15 hours awake and 9 hours asleep.
* Read a book with the numbers 15 and 9 in the publication date and/or the page numbers.
Eg - book published on 15 May 2005 paired with the same edition's page number 209.
Any edition can be used, but both 15 & 9 must be used in the date/page numbers of that same edition. The number 9 can be converted into the month September.
Option 2
Key date: 11 November 2022
Team mate read on or after this date and rated at least 3 stars
Series rule applies:
That is, if the book is in a series but does not match where you are up to, you may read another book from that same series
Option 3 Pass.
A selection post must be made for whichever option you choose - INCLUDING A PASS
Refer msg 3 for formatting of all 3 options. This format is also in msg 3 of your team threads.
One Sentence Audio wrote: "Jean is travelling this weekend. I think this is our weekly task, but I could be wrong.Week 7
Option 1
14. In the absence of sunlight (days/nights) humans continue to maintain the circadian rh..."
Yes this correct thank you for posting! My niece’s wedding weekend is off to a wonderful start.
Selection postOption 2
Week # 7
Bookcover/link: Whispering Rock
Page numbers: 368
Name of the team-member, their star rating, the date they read the book
Read by Benita ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3-12-23 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
📚COMPLETION📚🗣 🗓 Week 7. Option 1: 15 and 9 🗓 🗣
Book: Book: Second Chance Pass: Virgin River #5 by Robyn Carr
Qualification: 15 and 9. Published October 15, 2009, page 209, edition linked above
Date: May 12, 2023
Pages: 352
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5. Former Marine is befriending the pregnant wife of a dead colleague, and falling for her, when he impregnates a casual friend with who he was enjoying benefits. Isn't ironic that the town is called "Virgin" River?
Selection Post Week 7
Option 3: Pass
I’m going to pass this week :(. My TBR is too big and I can’t find a book that matches option 1. I also looked at everyone’s book reading history but idk if my app was glitching but I wasn’t seeing read dates.
Happy reading this week everyone!
⚜️💓 Selection post - Option 1 💖⚜️😴 💤 🌚 Week #7 🌙 🛌 😴
📚 From Blood and Ash - Page numbers: 480 📖
✔️How the book qualifies - published 15\09\2021
One Sentence Audio wrote: "🎊📚 COMPLETIONWeek 6 - Option 1
Book: Dance: Cinderella Retold by Demelza Carlton
Pages: 234
How Qualifies: not MPH Thriller, horror, suspense adventure (MPG Roman..."
Hi Benita - please add an actual review. More than a short 'I liked it', but it doesn't need to be much more than that. Just something to show you actually read the book :)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Just Shan's selection outstanding for this week otherwise :)
Completion postWeek # 7
Bookcover/link: Whispering Rock
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: This book from the virgin river series hits some hard topics of sexual assault and date rape but it has strong women characters who overcome along with introducing new characters for future books and catching up with characters from previous books. This is one of my favorites from the series.
Selection Post Week #7 ~ Option 2
Book cover/link: Twisted Hate
Page number: 522
How it qualifies: Read by Jean 04/24/23 and rated 3 stars
📢🚨 CHANGE OF BOOK 🚨📢I`m changing the book because whilst FBAA is still one of my favourites and the physical books are really pretty I realised the print is really small, so I just swapped to the audiobook which doesn't match the criteria.
⚜️💓 Selection post - Option 1 💖⚜️
😴 💤 🌚 Week #7 🌙 🛌 😴
📚 Barbarian Lover - Page numbers: 191 📖
✔️How the book qualifies - 9 in page number & 15 published date (published 28\08\2015)
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Wanted to update you I will be behind a week. I haven’t even had a chance to start my book yet and it’s a 400 page book. I will make ..."
Hi Jean - C can have no more than 2 books outstanding when I announce week 4. Therefore your first interpretation is correct.
Week 1 - read & completed
Week 2 - outstanding
Week 3 - outstanding
Week 4 - at some point selected and therefore outstanding, but a book must be completed in week 4 so that there are only 2 books not completed when week 5 is announced.
I think the confusion is that I didn't realise that week 1 was complete? I had missed C's week 1 completion post at msg 44.
What I've outlined above is the way it works...