PtP - No Rest While Reading (10)

[Shan ~A~]

Completion Post
Week #9 ~ Option 1
Book cover/link: If Only You
Page number: 376
How it qualifies: MPG Sports Romance
Finished: 06/03
Rating: 3 stars
Review: I love the Bergman family and had been looking forward to Ziggy's book. I have to say I was a bit disappointed. I was glad she was paired with someone that was the opposite of her, but it was something about it that was unsatisfying to me.

I guess the reason for their "plan" seemed to benefit Sebastian more than it did Ziggy. I really don't think she need him for her side of things, but I do feel like he needed her.

Overall, it was a decent addition, but I still left wanting more of whatever is to come for Viggo's story, than the outcome of this one.

[Shan ~A~]

Completion 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...
Finished: 06/05
Rating: 3 stars
Review: There were enough quirky characters in this small town to keep me interested, especially Georgie's parents.

I liked both Georgie and Levi, but I kept felt like I was missing something throughout the evolution of their relationship. It seemed like it quicky went from, "what are you doing in my parents house, almost stranger" to "now I love you."

Add to that I didn't really get why Georgie wanted to do the things in the friendfic diary, but I guess that led her somewhere?

I don't know, I'm confusing myself.

[Jean]

Jane is calling the task for this week 2 hrs early and it will be on the Q&A thread. This is the final week. If you are interested in winning, then you need to be ready to read tonight with short books! There is a list on the first page of our thread of the potential tasks for the final task.

There are already a few Q&A about whether books will qualify for various tasks.

[Jean]

Option 1
1. Author: Matthew Walker
Read a book with the letters M & W in the book title and/or author's name.

Option 2
Key date: 9 December 2022
Read a book from a member of the specified team below your team on the following list. The book must have been read on or after this date and rated at least 3 stars.

4 Bookish Knights
6 If You Snooze, You Lose
7 Seven Silver Selkies
11 The Daydreamers
1 Dreaming for Book Boyfriends
2 BookwormZzz
9 Cloud 9 Readers
3 Read 'Em and Sleep
8 Sleepwalking Readers
5 Sleepreaders
10 No Rest While Reading

So for this last week, team 4 choses a book from team 6, team 6 from team 7 etc with team 10 chosing from team 4.

[CB]

Completion Post
Week 10
Book:
Rating: 3/5
Review:
This was a good historical read. I love a story where the FMC is supposed to be “smart/wise” and doesn’t care about society etc. and the MMC is some sort of high rank in society - like in this book. There’s a short period where they fake a marriage, he’s a viscount yet dresses and looks like a pirate, and she’s extremely quirky. Overall it was cute and I was definitely entertained. Pretty light on the 🔥 which I thought Amanda Quick historicals were usually a bit more 🔥 but it was still good. This was a physical copy. Probably wouldn’t reread this. Maybe I’ll put in a free library.
I will absolutely read more historicals by Amanda Quick.
3/5

[♏Vanessa♏]

Jean wrote: "Option 1
1. Author: Matthew Walker
Read a book with the letters M & W in the book title and/or author's name.

Option 2
Key date: 9 December 2022
Read a book from a member of the specified team bel..."

Is there a minimum page requirement? I can't find the info anywhere.

[One Sentence Audio]

Selection
Week 10. Option 1.

Book: Murder Boogies with Elvis
Qualification: Option 1 "with the letters M & W in the book title"
Murder Boogies With Elvis
Pages: 292
Date: June 9, 2023

[Jean]

Van wrote: "Jean wrote: "Option 1
1. Author: Matthew Walker
Read a book with the letters M & W in the book title and/or author's name.

Option 2
Key date: 9 December 2022
Read a book from a member of the speci..."

It’s 100 pages

[Jean]

Selection post
Option 1
Week # 11
Bookcover/link: Marked by the Alpha Wolf, Part 1
Page numbers: 126
How the book qualifies: M & W in title

[One Sentence Audio]

COMPLETION
Week 10. Option 1.

Book: Murder Boogies with Elvis by Anne George
Qualification: Option 1 "with the letters M & W in the book title"
Murder Boogies With Elvis
Pages: 292
Date: June 9, 2023
Review: (👩‍🎓👩‍🎓👩‍🎓👩‍🎓.25 )Written by Anne George, a Nobel prize and Agatha Award nominee and southern humorist, this delightful series (Southern Sisters) is about 2 retired siblings in their 60's in Birmingham, AL. While the plot is cozy murder mystery, the real genre is humor with a touch of romance. If you understand why wearing white after Memorial Day will start gossip at a Southern country club, this book may be for you. This book is #8 of 8. The narrator, Ruth Ann Phimister, does an awesome job with the various dialects and vocal characterizations of age and class. The plot is a murder mystery, and nothing is more Southern than Elvis impersonators, and while entertaining for a wedding, one is murdered. To involve the sisters more deeply, the murder weapon ends up in a sister's purse which leads to her arrest for murder.

As a cautionary tale for us all, author Anne George died from infection complications after a minor surgical procedure, terminating her life and publishing.

Available on some library's Libby apps.

(Jean ...while not intellectually demanding, these books are Southern older lady culture cute! You might enjoy?)

[Jean]

Completion post
Week # 11
Bookcover/link:Marked by the Alpha Wolf, Part 1
Rating:⭐️⭐️
Review: Set in post WWIII landscape (inlcuding a dome ala Stephen King Under the Dome), this book couldn’t decide what it wanted to be. In a short 126 pages the novel included mutated werewolves, zombies, witches, aliens, psychics, another dimension, holograms from the other dimension, an evil corporation, and something called a dryad. I swear the book had attention deficit disorder.

[♏Vanessa♏]

⚜️💓 Selection post - Option 1 💖⚜️
😴 💤 🌚 Week #11 🌙 🛌 😴

📚 Something Fierce - Page numbers: 155 📖 4h48m 🎧
✔️How the book qualifies -M & W in author name and/or book title (SoMething Fierce by Jenika Sno⩖)

[♏Vanessa♏]

🎉 Completion post 🎉
😴 Week #11 💤

Rating 3,5✨
📝Review: Jenika Snow knows how to write spicy scenes, and they need to be savoured 🥵, always. This is the first contemporary romance I read from Jenika, and I got to say I prefer her monster smut more.
The story was ok, entertaining enough, and it was slow burn with lovely tension, but the spice was great. Instant lust happens when they meet and eventually they give in to their urges and felling develop which leads them to a hea with very hot moments.
Great narration made the story better and it was a quick and fun listen.

[Shan ~A~]

Had fun! Looks like there was a winner before I had a chance to find a book

[CB]

Same here!! Yesterday I didn’t even get to read at all so I wouldn’t have been any help for winning. Had fun ladies!

[♏Vanessa♏]

It was great being part of our team. Thank you Jane for being the team leader and Thank you Caitlyn Bell for all the books you read that are now on my tbr 😁

[CB]

Van wrote: "It was great being part of our team. Thank you Jane for being the team leader and Thank you Caitlyn Bell for all the books you read that are now on my tbr 😁"

Same to you Van! We definitely have very similar reading tastes!! If you have KU I definitely recommend this Mindf*ck series - I’m about to start the last book. So damn good!

[♏Vanessa♏]

C wrote: "Van wrote: "It was great being part of our team. Thank you Jane for being the team leader and Thank you Caitlyn Bell for all the books you read that are now on my tbr 😁"

Same to you Van! We defini..."

Thanks, just added to my kindle 😊