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Jean wrote: "😁"Sorry 🤭 I may have gone of on one there🤦🏽♀️ . Silly me getting red faced over blue 🍆, alien smut 🤷🏽♀️ I need to take a chill pill💆🏽♀️😅
Van wrote: "Jean wrote: "😁"Sorry 🤭 I may have gone of on one there🤦🏽♀️ . Silly me getting red faced over blue 🍆, alien smut 🤷🏽♀️ I need to take a chill pill💆🏽♀️😅"
Oops you thought I was commenting your book when I was putting a place marker in the comments so I knew where I had entered to. Maybe I need a different place marker!
Option 115. About 40% of the population are Early Birds
Read a book that was first published in the last 6 months.
For the purpose of this challenge, it will be a book published on or after 1 October 2022.
Date of publication must be stated in the qualification
Option 2
Key date: 18 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.
These have been so hard haha! Does anyone know a quick way to search this in Goodreads? Tags for publication dates?? Lol
C wrote: "These have been so hard haha! Does anyone know a quick way to search this in Goodreads? Tags for publication dates?? Lol"Goodreads has plenty of lists for new releases, upcoming releases, most anticipated releases for certain dates. It not a problem for me because I have a stack of mostly new releases library books to get through.
Here’s a sample for January 2023 https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
But you can do lots of different searches.
C wrote: "These have been so hard haha! Does anyone know a quick way to search this in Goodreads? Tags for publication dates?? Lol"You could choose from your "want to read" shelf. Just click on table view and make sure your settings include date published, you then sort by date published. At least that is what i did, so all of my tbr latest releases are on top of my list.
I hope you dont mind but i checked and you got around 100 books published from oct 22 to now in your tbr.
hope that helps.
For thos of you with access to the public library app for ebooks and audiobooks (etc.) HoopLa, if you use "advanced search" you can search by published in the last 6 months...you can also add your favorite genre and format.
Jane (PS) wrote: "One Sentence Audio wrote: "🎊📚 COMPLETIONWeek 6 - Option 1
Book: Dance: Cinderella Retold by Demelza Carlton
Pages: 234
How Qualifies: not MPH Thriller, horror, su..."
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🎊📚 COMPLETION
Week 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, sleeps with and fights beside her prince, successfully posing as a young man.
SelectionWeek #8, Option 1
Book: Nantucket Homes by Pamela M. Kelley
Qualification. Published w/in last 6 months. January 24, 2023
Pages: 223
Date: May 19, 2023
Selection postOption 1
Week # 8 Read a book that was first published in the last 6 months
Bookcover/link: Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Page numbers: 416
How the book qualifies: published January 17, 2023
Jean wrote: "C wrote: "These have been so hard haha! Does anyone know a quick way to search this in Goodreads? Tags for publication dates?? Lol"Goodreads has plenty of lists for new releases, upcoming release..."
Omg thank you so much! I’ll check this out. My issue is that I’m also trying to choose books from one’s I already own so I don’t have to go out and buy a new book. But I’m 95% sure I’ll have own something that was published since then!
Van wrote: "C wrote: "These have been so hard haha! Does anyone know a quick way to search this in Goodreads? Tags for publication dates?? Lol"You could choose from your "want to read" shelf. Just click on t..."
Huge huge help thank you!! I’ll definitely check out my own TBR first since I definitely should have something in there that I already own! I just didn’t have any clue how to search this. Really appreciate it!
One Sentence Audio wrote: "For thos of you with access to HoopLa, if you use "advanced search" you can search by published in the last 6 months...you can also add your favorite genre and format."Thank you for this info too! I don’t have Hoopla but still great info for everyone - thanks!
Selection Post Week # 8
Option 1
Book:
Pages: 290
How it Qualifies: The book has a publication date of January 9th, 2023
Selection Post Week #8 ~ Option 1
Book cover/link: The Girl in the Woods
Page number: 432
How it qualifies: Published March 21, 2023
CompletionWeek 8 Option 1
Book: Nantucket Homes by Pamela M. Kelley
Qualification: pub. within last 6 months, pub. Jan 24. 2023
Date: May 20, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This challenge option was fortuitous for me, since it led me to this book, #8 in a series (Beach Plum Cove). I had previously done 1-7, but had not known #8 had been published. In general, the series is a sweet family and friends, empowering saga set in Nantucket, sure to make you hungry for lobster, if you are a fan. While characters reappear in books through the series, each book can function as a stand alone, but are more enjoyable as part of a binge.
This book features a fairly new widow, in her seventies, who comes to Nantucket for a 2 month vacation. Characters from previous book make cameo, epilogue-esque appearances.
Completion postWeek # 8
Bookcover/link: Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: This was a narrative version of the escape of two slaves per civil war from Macon GA. Both were skilled workers and had the ability to save some money for the journey. The woman, Ellen disguised as an affluent white sickly man and the man, his slave journeyed north and later to Canada and England. I learned a lot about the pre civil war laws and viewpoints that I did not know.
⚜️💓 Selection post - Option 1 💖⚜️😴 💤 🌚 Week #8 🌙 🛌 😴
📚 Juneau - Page numbers: 373 📖
✔️How the book qualifies - published April 17th 2023
🎉 Completion post 🎉😴 Week #8 💤
Rating 3,5✨
📝Review: Fun omegaverse with time travel, magic and a fiery virgin fmc. She is from 1915 and gets sucked into a mirror, falling through it and into the arms of her new pack in 2022. It was interesting watching her getting acquainted to the many differences of her new reality and getting cosy with the pack's omega and his alphas.
Completion Post Week # 8
Option 1
Book:
Rating: 5/5
Review:
Wow, I don’t know what I was exactly expecting but it definitely was not to have loved this book so much. The writing was so freaking good. Of course it was hella smutty but it didn’t overshadow the plot. There was still a plot! The FMC Alice was just so well written. Her personality and character and just overall ability and what she liked was so believable. The book was also the perfect length! I will absolutely reread this and I’m definitely going to go check out more by this author!
5/5
Option 112. The likelihood of breaking an Olympic record has been tied to the time of day, being at the maximal peak of the circadian rhythm in the early afternoon.
Read a book featuring an athletic MC or sport.
Qualification may be from the precis, list or tag.
Option 2
Key date: 25 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
Hi Jean - what are the lists and tags to choose from? Or they just mean any sport lists/tags?
C wrote: "Hi Jean - what are the lists and tags to choose from? Or they just mean any sport lists/tags?"it can be any sport oriented list or tag, doesn’t need to be from a specific list. Also a précis or title if the sport is mentioned works.
Jean wrote: "C wrote: "Hi Jean - what are the lists and tags to choose from? Or they just mean any sport lists/tags?"it can be any sport oriented list or tag, doesn’t need to be from a specific list. Also a p..."
Perfect thank you!
SELECTIONWeek 9. Option 1.
Book/Author: Full House by Steffie Hall and debut of Janet Evanovich
Qualification: MC = athlete. Précise "Polo instructor Nicholas Kaharchek..."
Pages: 352
⚜️💓 Selection post - Option 1 💖⚜️😴 💤 🌚 Week #9 🌙 🛌 😴
📚 Kulti - Page numbers: 570 📖 16h08m 🎧
✔️How the book qualifies - tagged as sport romance. FMC is a football player and she gets involved with her coach (an ex player himself).
Completion 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
Finished: 05/25
Rating: 3 stars
Review: It took me most of this book to warm up to these characters because they were behaving so juvenile for most of the beginning.
Once I got past that I started to really enjoy their interactions.
The fact that they have chemistry is evident, even when they are bickering (mainly for no reason), but once they start going another direction in their relationship, it really heats up.
COMPLETIONWeek 9. Option 1.
Book/Author: Full House by Steffie Hall
Qualifications: team picked contemporary romance, MPG Contemp Romance
Pages: 352
Date: May 27, 2023
Review: 🧳🧳🧳🧳 A divorced mother of three becomes involved with a wealthy, media owning polo instructor...and a colorful cast of secondary characters. Funny.
Selection Post Week 9
Option 1
Book Cover/Link:
Page #s: 356
How it Qualified: on page 3 of Sport-Romance list. Shelved 27 times. About a film/tv star and ex hockey player.
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Selection postOption 1 Read a book featuring an athletic MC or sport
Week # 9
Bookcover/link: Dark And Forbidden Lucas' Secret Baby
Page numbers: 124
How the book qualifies: précis When I share one night with Luca, the captain of St. Dominic’s hockey team,
Completion postWeek # 9
Bookcover/link: Dark And Forbidden Lucas' Secret Baby
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: A shifter, sports romance with a bad pack, rival hockey teams, unexpected pregnancy, deception over who the father is, this book had a lot going on in just 122 pages. Definitely had a clear good guy, bad guy vibe with the girl caught in the middle.
Completion Post Week #8 ~ Option 1
Book cover/link: The Girl in the Woods
Page number: 432
How it qualifies: Published March 21, 2023
Finished: 05/30
Rating: 4 stars
Review; Rus comes to MP after a young woman is found murdered in the same vain as a serial killer he's been tracking. He immediately knows that something is not right with this particular case.
So with the help of the local sheriff, Harry Moran, and former FBI profiler, Cade Bohannan he sets out to find who this young lady's killer is.
That puts him in the path of Lucinda, who he is immediately intrigued by.
I liked that Rus was all about business. Even though he was attracted to Lucinda, he didn't let that interfere with his investigation, but at the same time he didn't leave her hanging either. I have often read romantic suspense novels that had me rolling my eyes when the people involved seemed more involved with the romance than solving the murder, finding he villain, etc.... I'm glad to see that Kristen Ashley found a great balance in this book, while also creating likeable characters that I want to keep coming back to read about.
I have to say, I was not expecting the CK to be who it turned out to be....AT ALL. I usually think I'm good at anticipating these things, but this one came completely out of left field. Nice job!!!
Selection Post Week #9 ~ Option 1
Book cover/link: If Only You
Page number: 376
How it qualifies: MPG Sports Romance
🎉 Completion post 🎉😴 Week #9 💤
Rating 4✨
📝Review: Football ⚽ is the main character here. Sal is a professional player in the US, she is overworked, under paid and underappreciated too.
The book is quite funny at times, and her habit to constantly think of poop in order to act normal and think of him as a normal person is hilarious.
This book is slower than slow burn, at 88% of the book we get the very first kiss and around 92% when they get hot and heavy.... For a moment there I thought the book was going to be completely clean. We didn't even get much angst and not any explicit tension.
Over all it was really good, but a bit too long too, still I'd listen to it again.
🍭Just current week's completions outstanding for C and Shan :)
Week 10Option 1
6. Every animal species sleeps - some for up to 22 hours each day.
Read a book featuring an animal from one of the following lists:
Favourite Romances with Pets
Pawsitively Love
Cats: Wonderful Pets in Romance
Dogs: Great Pets in Romance
MM Small Shifters
Gay Romances With Pets
Include the list used in your qualification
Option 2
Key date: 2 December 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.
Selection Post Week #10 ~ Option 1
Book cover/link: Georgie, All Along
Page number: 352
How it qualifies: #284 on Favourite Romances with Pets list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Selection postOption 1
Week # 10 Read a book featuring an animal from one of the lists
Bookcover/link: Father's Day
Page numbers: 192
How the book qualifies: #331 on the list Favorite Romances With Pets here https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Completion postWeek # 10
Bookcover/link: Father's Day
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: What’s not to love about a boy without a father and a dog without a boy? A feel good romance where a family is formed and the boy and dog find each other along with their parents.
Selection Week #10
Book: Slightly Married
Pages: 368
Qualification: #22 on Fav Romances with Pets
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Selection Post Week 10
Option 1
Book/Author:
Pages: 368
Qualification: #155 on Fav Romance with Pets List
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
COMPLETIONWeek #10
Book: Slightly Married
Pages: 368
Qualification: #22 on Fav Romances with Pets
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Review: 🛳🛳🛳🛳🛳A great book, which begins the super popular Bedwyn series of Mary Balogh. An uptight, proper Captain of the Napoleonic wars pledges to care for the unconventional sister of a fallen comrade. And thus begins the first introduction to the large and entertaining Bedwyn clan.
⚜️💓 Selection post - Option 1 💖⚜️😴 💤 🌚 Week #10 🌙 🛌 😴
📚 The Bone Witch - Page numbers: 292 📖 09h10m 🎧
✔️How the book qualifies - Number 110 on Pawsitivily Love list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
🎉 Completion post 🎉😴 Week #10 💤
Rating 5✨
📝Review: This was a re-read/listen of this book and it was as good as the first time (a little less as there were less surprises). Lennox is sassy, independent and has a questionable relationship with coffee. Rogan is a grumpy ass that forces them to work together. Their tension is hot hot hot. and many interactions are extremely funny, Lennox makes me laugh a lot. Her dog is something else, just hilarious. The other pet/familiar was a big surprise.
Over all it was action packed, funny, full of magic and mystery too.
Amazing narration. She makes you feel it all, hilarity, hurt, disappointment, excitement, etc. Amazingly good narrator.
Completion Post Week 9
Book:
Rating: 1/5; DNF
Review:
DNF @ 227/356
Only giving it a 1 star because I picked it up for a challenge that requires 1 star for DNFs. Would not actually give this that rating.
just not feeling this book right now however I can see myself liking it at some other point. I just am not feeling how they speak to one another. It’s like baby talk but not and yeah I’m just not feeling it. Will probably pick this up again in the future though.
Selection Post Change Week 10
Option 1
Book/Author:
Pages: 402
How it Qualifies: #40 on the Fav Romances with Pets List
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...
Changed Book Selection cuz I’m in the mood to read a historical. However can’t wait to read Sweethand!
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😴 Week #7 💤
Rating 3✨
📝Review: I'm not sure why the hype for this series yet. It was ok but I actually skipped some parts as it was quite boring at times. Towards the end there were some really interesting parts and she was like a warrior but I still don't understand why she couldn't use the technology to help them have a better life, it doesn't make any sense and it seems stupid not to utilize all she can get her hands on in a primitive planet. and why they have to take the injured warrior to the healer instead of using the medical pod that is nearer?
I like smutty alien and monstrous books but I detest when the author overlooks things that enhance the story and only focus on the smut.