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Here is your next task!Task 12 - 19. Each teammate reads a book another teammate read and rated 4 Stars or higher in the last 3 months. No pass for this task.
Books selected for this task need to have been read by a teammate on or after January 30, 2023 and rated at least 4 stars. (Series rule applies.) Please include a link to the teammate's review or read shelf showing the selected book in your completion post.
I am traveling today to see the national tour of Million Dollar Quartet...so it may be tomorrow before I get this challenge task done.
One Sentence Audio wrote: "I am traveling today to see the national tour of Million Dollar Quartet...so it may be tomorrow before I get this challenge task done."You’re allowed to take some time! I’m reading one of your books BTW.
Jean...great minds...I picked 2 off your list...one and a back-up in case of Libby tech problems..Because of our recent GR challenges, my read shelf now has a variety of genres.
Completion postingTask 12 - 19. Each teammate reads a book another teammate read and rated 4 Stars or higher in the last 3 months
Book/cover link: Once Pregnant, Twice Shy
Pages: 192
How book qualified: Benita read 3-23 and rated it 4 stars https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Date Completed: 4-30
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A friends to lovers novel with an accidental pregnancy thrown in.
One Sentence Audio wrote: "I am traveling today to see the national tour of Million Dollar Quartet...so it may be tomorrow before I get this challenge task done."Have a wonderful evening.
📚COMPLETION📚 Task 12 - 19. Reads a book another teammate read, 4 Stars or higher, Last 3 months
Book: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Qualification: Read by Jean March 3, 2023, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read, Page 5
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Pages: 306
Date: April 30, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Made into a TV series, available on Hulu, Kindred is a time travel story of an author from 1976 who travels into the past of her ancestors, circa 1800's. This has become a very popular community public library book club selection. Written in 1979, but read today, readers get a bonus time travel story of how things were in the US right before Reagan became President and the first personal mobile phones were being sold.
Completion postTask 12 - 19. Each teammate reads a book another teammate read and rated 4 Stars or higher in the last 3 months.
Book: Kindred
Pages: 306 GR
How it qualifies: read by Jean, 03/03/23
Date: 01/05/23
Review: 5* this is, in equal measures, compelling, thought provoking, and quitely horrific. Bulter uses time travel as a device to explore racism and the bonds created by family in a way that would have been more palatable to readers of the time.
Completion postTask 12 - #19 Each teammate reads a book another teammate read and rated 4 stars or higher in the last 3 months
Book: In the Middle of Somewhere
Pages: 350
How it qualifies: Starstruck rated 4 stars 25 April 2023
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Date read: 2 May 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: I haven’t read M/M for a while and this was a great reintroduction. I bought the 3 book set so will be reading the rest of Rex and Daniel’s story. I’ve got to find out what Colin’s deal is.
Here is your next task!Task 13 - 69. Read 6 books that have won/been nominated for an award.
Books selected for this task need to have won or been nominated for an award that is listed under 'Literary Awards' in the book details on the main book page. Please include the award/nomination in your completion posts, if there are multiple awards you only need to list the first one.
I’m going to start with The daughter of doctor Moreau since I need to read it anyway. I will finish it tonight and have a second book I also need to read that works I can read tomorrow.
Doing by Umberto Eco...who by day The Name of the Rosewas a professor in my discipline! Won several international awards. Met him in the 80s...very charming.And will move to Divergent later (this evening) if we do not have 6 yet.
📚COMPLETION📚 Task 13 - 69 Team does 6 Award Winning Books
Book/Author: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Qualification: Won awards, as listed on book main page, link above: 1) CWA New Blood Dagger Nominee (1983), 2) إمبيرتو, Los Angeles Times Book, このミステリーがすごい！ for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (1991), Prize Nominee for Fiction (1983).
Pages: 552
Date Completed: May 2, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This was Umberto Eco's 1980 debut novel, since he was a distinguished professor of communication and poetics in his primary career. While the book is an award winning historic mystery, imbedded in its liguistic structure is a primer on the use of rhetorical tropes, poetic forms and an intricate dialogue on democracy vs. a strict Middle Ages theocracy, with condemnation of the Inquisition and conservative Catholicism. In the late 1980's I met the author when he was on a US academic tour...totally charming. Just as the movie of Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged do not capture the ideological position or passion of Ayn Rand, the movie of The Name of the Rose is great film fun; but, does not portray the issues of the rant in one of the final chapters (Seventh Day) --->or the fire, that burns buildings from the top down, killing many...See! Allegory and Symbolic Layers of meaning!
700+ editions, over 20 languages, widely available for free on public library apps
"I have never doubted the power of signs and symbols" Eco, final chapter, The Name of the Rose
Completion postTask 13 - #69 Team reads 6 award winning books
Book: Boy Swallows Universe
Pages: 424
How it qualifies: Take your pick of 2019 ABIA Book of the Year Award, Winner
2019 Indie Book Award, Winner
2019 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner
2019 People's Choice Award, SW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner
MUD Literary Prize 2019, Winner
2019 ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Winner
2019 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, Winner
2019 ABIA Audiobook of the Year, Winner
2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Longlisted
2019 Colin Roderick Award, shortlist
Date read: 3 May 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: I found the hard going as not my usual read but met challenge criteria.
📚COMPLETION📚 Task 13 - 69 Team does 6 Award Winning Books
Book/Author: Divergent by Veronica Roth
Qualification: Won awards, as listed on book main page, link above, including Goodreads Choice Award for Favorite Book and for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction 2011.
Pages: 487
Date Completed: May 2, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I will "dauntlessly" say I enjoyed it.
📚COMPLETION📚 Task 13 - 69 Team does 6 Award Winning Books
Book/Author:Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore by Stella Duffy
Qualification: Awards, nominee, as listed on book main page, link above, including Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Lesbian Mystery (2011)
Pages: 352 (oldest Kindle)
Date Completed: May 3, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐.5. A fictionalized version of the life of the Roman Emperoress and Christian Orthodox Saint Theodora of Constantinople. Narrated by Davina Porter, one of my favorite narrators (top 2 whith Julia Whelan).
Completion postTask 13 - 69. Read 6 books that have won/been nominated for an award.
Book: A Master of Djinn
Pages: 401 GR
How it qualifies: Literary awards
Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2022) [...]
Read: 03/05/25
Reivew: 4.5* brilliant storytelling with a vividly realised world. It was refreshing to read fantasty with a diverse cast of female characters. Fatma is complex, flawed, and utterly compelling.
Completion postingTask 13 - 69. Read 6 books that have won/been nominated for an award
Book/cover link:The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Pages: 342
How book qualified: Literary awards
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2022)
Date Completed: 5-3
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ okay so not my genre. I found it slow moving until the last 60 or pages when finally something happened in the book.
I’ll check us in.When do you sleep Benita?
Jean wrote: "I’ll check us in.When do you sleep Benita?"
Rarely...it is a common problem in grief. (Oddly, many who lose a spouse go the other way and sleep all the time.) Sleeping was a skill I was bad at before Kelly died. Now, I am awake most of the time.
But, books give me countless hours of entertainment while I rest and worry. Great distractions!
You are set to get your next task tomorrow. 📚
Here is your next task!Task 14 - 88. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which.
As a team select which vehicle you are looking for on the covers and then read 6 books with that item on the cover. You can use any edition's cover to qualify for this task. Please include the selected item and the qualifying cover in your completion posts.
📚😆COMPLETION 😆📚Task 14-88. Team Reads 6 w/ Vehicle-Car😆
Book/Author: The Hollywood Daughter: A Novel by Kate Alcott
Qualification: Cars in parking lot, right side - middle
Pages: 310 Kindle 2017
Date Completed: May 4 ...may the force be with you day
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.25 A well written novel telling the coming of age story of Jesse Malloy, whose father is a Hollywood PR exec brokering the issues of Ingrid Bergman giving birth in 1950 to a child by director Rosallini, when married to someone else. An intersting take on early parasocial relationships, in a pre-social media Hollywood print magazine era. The fictional story line is embedded in detail rich historic research of the Hollywood movie industry 1942 - 1950s.
Completion postTask 14 - 88. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which. Car
Book: Moon Called
Pages: 298 GR
How it qualifies:
Read: 04/05/23
Review: 4* this is rightly considered a classic UF. Mercy gets pulled into a difficult situation and does her best to protect herself and the people she cares for.
Completion postingTask 14 - 88. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which. Team picked car.
Book/cover link: One Summer
Pages: 313
How book qualified: car on cover this edition
Date Completed: 4-5
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ two photographers travel together across America one summer to photograph the summer. One catches the scene, the other the people, macro and micro. Of course because this is Nora Roberts, they fall in love along the way.
I’ve started a second book that I will finish tomorrow. It’s a library book also due tomorrow so I’m reading it anyway.
Completion postTask 14 - #88 Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover. Team selection = car
Book: The Bitterroot Inn
Pages: 400
How it qualifies: has a cars parked in front of inn on cover
Date read: 6 May 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: I always enjoy reading a DP title. This was a reread for challenge criteria and I enjoyed it as much as I did the first time.
Completion postTask 14 - 88. Read 6 books with a boat, plane, car or motorcycle on the cover, teams decide which. Car
Book: The Glamour Thieves
Pages: 164 GR
How it qualifies:
Read: 05/05/23
Review: 5* this is one of my favourites and I really wish the author had more books in the works. The world a brilliant mix of urban fantasy and cyberpunk with a strong characters and an epic fantasy type quest alongside the romance.
📚😆COMPLETION 😆📚Task 14-88. Team Reads 6 w/ Vehicle-Car😆
Book/Title: Close Up by Amanda Quick
Qualification: Car on cover
Pages: 320 (Kindle pub date)
Date Completed: May 5, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.25. Author Amanda Quick (126) is a.k.a. Jayne Ann Krentz (368), Jayne Castle(58), Stephanie James, Jayne Bentley, Jayne Taylor and Amanda Glass. With over 500 books to this author's credit, I wonder how the productivity is accomplished. Are there many assistant writers? Is it a cottage industry or is the effort managed by her publishing house? This is #4 in a series, but introduces new characters so works as a stand alone. It is a historical mystery situated in historic Hollywood. That was a fluke, not a theme to follow The Hollywood Daughter, since I picked something from my Libby app with a car.
You are set to get your next task tomorrow.
Here is your next task!Task 15 - 68. Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books with one word titles.
Books selected for this task need to have one word titles, articles and exclamations included. So books such as NautiCal would work, but books like The Thief would not. Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count.
I'm going to start with Origin 392p
I will do Springwater at 308 pages, so Lea just needs something with the minimum # for this challenge.
📚🎊COMPLETION 🎊📚🎊📚Task 15- 68 Team reads a minimum of 1200 pages📚🎊
Book: Springwater by Linda Lael Miller
Qualification: has pages
Pages: 308
Date: May 6, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐.5. Montana mail order bride ends up with different man.
🎊COMPLETION 🎊📚🎊📚Task 15- 68 Team reads a minimum of 1200 pages📚🎊
Book: Savannah by Linda Lael Miller
Qualification: has pages
Pages: 201
Date: May 6, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐.5. Western mail-order romance books in a series are my metaphoric fresh potato chip from a big bag! No "nutritional value" but a treat! Springwater Series #3 bring us the story of a Miss Kitty of Gunsmoke type and her meetings with the town doctor (who is written more attractive than Milburn Stone)
Task count ...1200 - 308 = 892
892 - 201 = 691
691 pages remain in Task challenge
Completion postTask 15 - #68 Read a minimum of 1,200 pages in books with one word titles
Book: Pandemonium
Pages: 396
How it qualifies: One word book title page count counts to total
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: read to meet challenge criteria. IMO it could have been a lot shorter.
Completion postTask 15 - 68. Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books with one word titles.
Book: Origin by A.J. Sherwood & Jocelynn Drake
Pages: 392 GR
How it qualifies: Title
Read: 07/05/23
Review: 3.5* I enjoyed this more the first time around. This time the start felt a bit to slow with manufactured conflict.
Kat - sorry I can't currently add in links (or reply to posts).
Starstruck wrote: "Completion postTask 15 - 68. Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books with one word titles.
Book: Origin by A.J. Sherwood & Jocelynn Drake
Pages: 392 GR
How it qualifies: Title
Read: 07/05/23
Review..."
Starstruck and Kat.....Here is the book link...had the same probem yesterday...
Origin by A.J. Sherwood
Completion postinTask 15 - 68. Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books with one word titles
Book/cover link:Icebreaker
Pages: 435
How book qualified: 1 word title
Date Completed: 5-7
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ I debated the stars the book was incredibly boring, all drunken parties and drunken sex for the first half, but the author redeemed herself the second half of the book with an actual plot line, conflict and resolution. But my lingering question is this what college athletes are like today?
I’ll check us in, we should have a new task tomorrow.
Here is your next task!Task 16 - 83. Read 8 books with a white flower/s on the cover.
You can use any edition's cover to qualify for this task. Please post the qualifying cover in your completion post. Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count though!
Benita, thank you for posting the link. Every time I try to do something GR is throwing up errors. I hope this is resolved quickly - otherwise this challenge will be a lot more challenging.
Starstruck wrote: "Benita, thank you for posting the link. Every time I try to do something GR is throwing up errors. I hope this is resolved quickly - otherwise this challenge will be a lot more challenging."Happy to help anytime! I have a Samsung Z Fold 5 (beta model) phone which runs the newest Android OS and most GR functions do not operate on it...so I keep a back up phone to act as a tablet for GR thread posts.
So happy to help!
🤴👸COMPLETION👸🤴👑📚 Task 16 - 83. 8 books/white flower📚👑
Book: Sunset Embrace by Sandra Brown
Qualification: white flower on cover
Pages: 384
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Written in 1985, Sunset Embrace is a Western romance, complete with wagon train, with characters that are more complex than many Western romances. Ellen Archer, the narrator, does excellent work by deploying accents and styles that clearly marks the various characters.
One Sentence Audio wrote: "📚🎊COMPLETION 🎊📚🎊📚Task 15- 68 Team reads a minimum of 1200 pages📚🎊
Book: Springwater by Linda Lael Miller
Qualification: has pages
Pages: 308
Date: May 6, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐.5. Montana..."
Please correct your qualification to 'has one word title'. (All books should have pages... 😂)
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