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Apr 21, 2023 01:13AM
Thanks Jean. I'm someone who finds it far easier to believe in dragons falling in love with vampires than assassins who engage in wildy enthusiastic shagging after being tortured/ shot etc.
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One Sentence Audio wrote: "COMPLETION. draftingTask 7. 43-June..."
Benita, your post says drafting - I'm not sure if that will confuse the issue when Kat does her checks.
Here is your next task!Task 8 - 34. Read 6 books first published between 2000 and 2010.
Books selected for this task need to have been initially published between 1.1.2000 and 12.31.2010. If there is a date listed at the top of the editions page, use that one. Otherwise I will be looking for the earliest dated English language edition regardless of format for the qualification. Please include the initial publication date in your completion posts.
Completion postingTask 8 - 34. Read 6 books first published between 2000 and 2010
Book/cover link:Year of Wonders
Pages: 323
How book qualified: First published June 5, 2001
Date Completed: 4-22
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Recommended to me by dear friend, this book is the story, told from one woman’s perspective, of a village in England that quarantined themselves to avoid the spread of the black plague in 1665-1666. It tells of a period of history I know little about but found fascinating.
📚⭐COMPLETION⭐📚❤Task 8. 34-book pub. 2000-2020❤
Book: The China Bride by Mary Jo Putney
Qualification: (2000-2010) Jan. 1, 2000
Pages: 448
Date Completed: April 22, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ historic romance, Regency UK & China
Mary Jo Putney's second book, and the second book in the five book Brides Trilogy series is richer in cultural and historic detail than many other historic romance authors. This book shares tidbits about Chinese culture at the height of the empire period.
In this book, a Chinese concubine travels to England to reunite with the man to whom she was briefly wed, while he awaited execution. Book has a complex, spiraling multiple timeline structure.
While book two in the series focuses on a twin, whose brother is the hero of book one, it functions well as a stand alone and can be read out of order. Book two happens both before and after the events in book one if the series.
Audiobook is narrated by Dame Davina Porter, the Outlander narrator, who has won many Audie Awards.
Available on some libraries' HoopLa and Libby apos as ebook and audiobook.
Completion postTask 8 - #34 Read 6 books first published between 2000 - 2010
Book: The Host
Pages: 625
How it qualifies: Publication date 6 May 2008 GR
Date read: 23 April 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: Reread as I had a conversation with my goddaughter as she was reading it and realised my recollection was hazy. As average as it was the first read but now I’m able to have great convos when we chat.
Completion postTask 8 - 34. Read 6 books first published between 2000 and 2010.
Book: The Curse of Chalion
Pages: 512 GR
How it qualifies: First published August 14th 2001
Read: 4* 23/04/23
Review: Caz is a compelling POV character. The time spent getting to know him during the first part of the story is rewarded once the main plot takes off.
Completion postTask 8 - 34. Read 6 books first published between 2000 and 2010.
Book: The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks
Pages: 293 GR
How it qualifies: First published December 1, 2008
Read: 3.5* 23/04/23
Review: an interesting murder mystery with a fun cast of secondary characters. Perry is a bit too naive but it works in context.
📚⭐COMPLETION⭐📚❤Task 8. 34-book pub. 2000-2020❤
Book: The Bartered Bride
by Mary Jo Putney
Qualification: (2000-2010) April 1, 2002
Pages: 432
Date Completed: April 22, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ historic Regency romance. Arranged marriage, pirates, troubles while travelling under sail...a hit parade of historic romance novel plot tropes.
I’ll check us in. Our next task will be on Monday. You all are the best!
Lea wrote: "Completion postTask 8 - #34 Read 6 books first published between 2000 - 2010
Book: The Host
Pages: 624
How it qualifies: Publication date 6 May 2008 GR
..."
Please correct to the first edition Kindle page count (625). Thanks.
I'll be back tomorrow with your next task!
MountainKat wrote: "Lea wrote: "Completion postTask 8 - #34 Read 6 books first published between 2000 - 2010
Book: The Host
Pages: 624
How it qualifies: Publication date 6 ..."
Done. I’m blaming fat fingers 😜
Here is your next task!Task 9 - 58. Read 6 books published in the year one of the teammates joined RRRC, teams decide which teammate.
Books selected for this task need to be initially published in a year one member of the team joined RRRC (not GR), the teams decide which member. You can find the year you joined RRRC on the members page for the group. Make sure you use the initial publication date for this task. If there is a date listed at the top of the editions page use it, otherwise I will be looking for the earliest dated English language edition regardless of format for the qualification. Please include the selected teammate, the year they joined RRRC and the initial publication date of you chosen books in your completion posts.
Starstruck wrote: "I think we decided on 2022?"Yes we did
I can do two books if needed but the second I will not finish until tomorrow as I’m working this afternoon.
📚COMPLETION📚Task 9. 58. Read 6 books published in (our team pick) 2022
Book: Peanut Butter Panic by Amanda Flower
Qualification: Published August 1, 2022, 2022 is our team's selected year (Jean & I)
Pages: 304
Date: April 24, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
#7 of the 8 book Amish Candy shop mystery series...small town, no sex, Amish, a tiny bit of romance, mystery. Lightly Christian.
I have done a few of the books in this series, out of order. Because of the author's ability to write in key descriptive phrases, the plot was easy to follow. Of course, you have a spoilers issue if you read out of order, so it is more enjoyable to do the series in publication order.
In this book, a elderly female hanging judge (80+) returns to town, with her much younger boyfriend, only to see the boy-toy be murdered. Chief suspect is the judges daughter, the town's 1 person Chamber of Commerce.
Completion postTask 9 - #58 Read 6 books published in 2022
Book: A Summer in Sweet Grove
Pages: 316
How it qualifies: Publication date 17 May 2022 GR (2022 is the year Jean and Benita joined RRRC)
Date read: 25 April 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: The title and cover should’ve given it away that it was not my usual read. I normally steer clear of Christian/religious and mafia titles, just not my thing. Technically a solid book but so sweet my teeth hurt.
Completion postingTask 9 - #58 Read 6 books published in 2022
Book/cover link: Twisted Hate
Pages: 522
How book qualified: Benita joined in 2022 book First published January 27, 2022
Date Completed: 4-24
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Third in a series and my least favorite book of the series. These characters were not likable at all and partly because it was the third book you knew how it all was going to resolve itself. I’m not sure that would read anything else by this author but I have a hard time not finishing a series once I have started it and there is one more book in this series.
COMPLETIONTask 9. #58 - 6 books pub. 2022
Book: Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Qualification: Pub. Sept. 6, 2022 (Jean and I)
Pages: 365
Date: April 24, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 Four slightly bitter, elderly women, professional assassins, take a cruise..cruise anyone? The plot is a version of the old saying "there is no free lunch."
Completion postTask 9 - 58. Read 6 books published in the year one of the teammates joined RRRC. Jean & Benita joined 2022
Book: The Last God
Pages: 168 GR
How it qualifies: First published June 14, 2022
Read: 3.5* 24/04/23
Review: I would have liked this to be longer, it felt more like a prequel to a series than a complete story.
Completion postTask 9 - 58. Read 6 books published in the year one of the teammates joined RRRC. Jean & Benita joined 2022
Book: The Red Scholar's Wake
Pages: 336 GR
How it qualifies: First published November 24, 2022
Read: 4.5* 25/04/23
Review: A brilliant new space opera set in the Xuya universe.
Here is your next task!Task 10 - 29. Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession, teams decide which profession.
Professions such as LEO, military or musicians are ok. Just don’t try to pass off a rancher and a chef as both being in the food industry - they are simply not close enough. Please include the selected profession in your completions post and to let me know how you know the book qualifies - title, precis, tags or lists, including links and any other necessary information. I need to know where to look to confirm your books. Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count.
Please note that private investigators/private detectives are NOT considered law enforcement officers.
I think our team selected profession is:29. Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession, teams decide which profession.
Health care to include doctors, nurses, EMT, Veterinarians, vet techs, etc
Jean will confirm later today.
One Sentence Audio wrote: "I think our team selected profession is:29. Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession, teams decide which profession.
Health care to include doctors, nurses, EMT, Veterinarians, vet..."
Yes that is correct.
📚COMPLETION📚Task 10. 29-750 pages about 1 profession
Book: Happy Place by Emily Henry
Qualification: Team profession = healthcare. MC is surgical resident = doctor. Tagged 5+×, page 4, column 3
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Release Date: April 25, 2023 (yesterday)
Pages: 395
Review/Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 Courtesy of a skip the line option from the Libby public library app, this is the book Emily Henry released yesterday. A contemporary romance, it follows the story of a super stressed surgical resident (doctor) who must live out a fake engagement with her former financé as they do their annual vacation trip to Maine with friends. Plot uses a spiraling time line to include the history of the relationship. Audiobook narrator is the wonderful Julia Whelan.
Completion postingTask 10 - 29. Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession. The team chose health care profession.
Book/cover link: Shadowed Rubies
Pages: 196
How book qualified:précis Dr. Danica Waters had valid reasons for moving away from her quaint hometown tagged doctor physician surgeons by 1 person pg 1 https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Date Completed: 4-26
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A little bit suspense, a little bit humorous due to misunderstandings, a little bit of family drama. A quick read with a happy ending and a short segue to the next book in the series.
Completion postTask 10 - 29. Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession - health care
Book: Charlie's Doctor
Pages: 272 GR
How it qualifies: title
Read: 27/04/23
Review: this is a second chance romance featuring kind hearted Dr Will and Charlie the ex-spy turned mercenary who's one regret was leaving Will behind. It's a fun read with an interesting cast of secondary characters.
COMPLETION Task 10 - 29 750 pages
Book; A Sinister Revenge
Pages: 320
How it Qualifies: 750 pages, profession health care.
MC. Stoker, was trained as a doctor, Univ. of Edinburgh. Tagged doctor is 4x, column 2
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Read: April 27
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ #8 in the Veronica Speedwell series, best read in order, Victorian era mystery romance. Veronica, a trained scientist and museum curator, works with her partner Stoker to investigate a murder plot targeting Stoker's brother, Lord Templeton-Vane.
Completion postTask 10 - #29 Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession- healthcare
Book: Doctor Daddy
Pages: 176
How it qualifies: Title
Date read: 27 April 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: Smut with semblance of a plot but it did feature a totally unethical doctor.
Lea wrote: "Completion postTask 10 - #29 Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession- healthcare
Book: Doctor Daddy
Pages: 176
How it qualifies: 6..."
Lea, the qualification is just in the name or précis, This challenge doesn’t use inside the book quotes, only titles, précis, tags.
Jean wrote: "Lea wrote: "Completion postTask 10 - #29 Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession- healthcare
Book: Doctor Daddy
Pages: 176
How it ..."
I’ve amended to Title and checked team in. Unsure where you are obtaining that info but GR has both doctor and medical genre tags listed.
Lea wrote: "Jean wrote: "Lea wrote: "Completion postTask 10 - #29 Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession- healthcare
Book: Doctor Daddy
Pages..."
Thanks! It’s just how Kat structures her challenges. It’s in the full description of the tasks “ Please include the selected profession in your completions post and to let me know how you know the book qualifies - title, precis, tags or lists, including links and any other necessary information. I need to know where to look to confirm your books”. My guess is that sometime in the past she had people that tried to cheat on a challenge, why I don’t know, I mean I’m competitive but it’s still just a fun way to meet other readers, explore new books, and challenge yourself with goals.
I've checked your completions and all look good. 😊The main reason you can't use something inside the book is that there is no way for me to check it. It has to be something I can check on GR and occasionally other websites. And yes, believe it or not, people will cheat. I don't care if people stretch meanings in personal challenges, but in team challenges it isn't fair to the other players.
MountainKat wrote: "I've checked your completions and all look good. 😊The main reason you can't use something inside the book is that there is no way for me to check it. It has to be something I can check on GR and ..."
Thank you Jean and Kat for the rule clarification…and educating a newbie. Where is the fun in cheating?! I enjoy the hunt in finding a read to meet the challenge criteria.
Enjoy your day and know Friday looks mighty fine here in Aus.
Lea wrote: "MountainKat wrote: "I've checked your completions and all look good. 😊The main reason you can't use something inside the book is that there is no way for me to check it. It has to be something I ..."
Ugh, we are rainy and cold for spring with chances of severe storms throughout the weekend. Enjoy your Friday!
Here is your next task!Task 11 - 46. Read over 1000 pages in books written by duo authors.
Books selected for this task need to be written by two authors. If both authors names are listed on the main book page/cover, then just list the authors as your qualification. If the two authors write under a pseudonym such as Ilona Andrews, then include a link to the pseudonym's profile page or a website showing the pseudonym is two authors. Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count.
Okay I’m doing wildcat by Max Monroe and it’s 371 pages for planning purposes. So ~630 pages left to go. It will be tonight as I’m off to ‘volunteer work’ this afternoon.
For planning, I am doing The Dreamer by author May McGoldrick at 336 pages.May McGoldrick is the pen name of the husband and wife writing team of Nik James and Jan Coffey.
297 pages remain for team.
📚COMPLETION📚Task 11 - 46 1000+ pages
Book: The Dreamer by May McGoldrick
Qualification: Author May McGoldrick is the pen name for husband life team Nik James and Jan Coffey
Date Finished: April 28, 2023
Pages: 336
Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5. One of their earliest books. Needed more plot.
Completion postTask 11 - #46 Read over 1,000 pages in books written by duo authors
Book: Not Pretending Anymore
Pages: 365
How it qualifies: authors are Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward
Date read: 29 April 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: I’m a fan of this duo writing team already but this title would cement it. It gave me all the feels. Declan for the win.
Completion postingTask 11 - #46 Read over 1,000 pages in books written by duo authors
Book/cover link: Wildcat
Pages: 371
How book qualified: Max Monroe from their bio “dynamic duo of romance authors teamed up under the pseudonym Max Monroe”
Date Completed: 4-29
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I thought this was a really cute book about an NFL quarterback and Flight attendant with zero knowledge about sports.
Completion postingTask 11 - #46 Read over 1,000 pages in books written by duo authors
Book/cover link: Wildcat
Pages: 371
How book qualified: Max Monroe dynamic duo of romance authors teamed up under the pseudonym Max Monroe
Date Completed: 4-29
Rating/Review:
Completion postTask 11 - #46 Read over 1,000 pages in books written by duo author's
Book: Unbreakable Stories: Snow
Pages: 152 GR
How it qualifies: authors Jocelynn Drake & Rinda Elliott
Read: 4* 29/04/23
Review: this is a fun and sexy collection of short stories featuring Snow and Jude.
Starstruck wrote: "I've checked us in."Thank you!
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