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May 22, 2023 07:54PM
Finally done. Apologies for delay ladies. Work is kicking my butt.
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Lea wrote: "Finally done. Apologies for delay ladies. Work is kicking my butt."No worries, I well remember those days and am glad that now my time is my own!
Here is your next task!Task 23 - 98. Read
The books selected for this task need to have 9 or fewer letters in the title. Do not count punctuation or spaces, ampersands count as 1 letter.
I am so sorry for the delay! I was rushing and it just got missed, no excuses for that.Because of the delay, I altered the task slightly - so you only need to read 6 books, not 7 as you would have if I hadn't messed up this morning.
Again, my apologies.
MountainKat wrote: "I am so sorry for the delay! I was rushing and it just got missed, no excuses for that.Because of the delay, I altered the task slightly - so you only need to read 6 books, not 7 as you would hav..."
I completely understand, I don’t know how you keep tract of all you!
Hi Team...for Task 23, I will be doing Obsidian (8 letters) and Shadows (7 letters), both by Jennifer L. Armentrout. Benita
One Sentence Audio wrote: "Hi Team...for Task 23, I will be doing Obsidian (8 letters) and Shadows (7 letters), both by Jennifer L. Armentrout. Benita"I’ve got a trio of shorter books I will work on!
Completion postingTask 23 - 98. Read 6 books with fewer than 10 letters in the title.
Book/cover link: Fetching
Pages: 226
How book qualified: 8 letters in title
Date Completed: 5-23
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ a cute romantic with an adorable little dog named Snowball. First in a series all staring a puppy.
CompletionTask 23 - 98. Read 6 books with fewer than 10 letters in the title.
Book/Author: Shadows (0.5 of Lux series) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Pages: 175
How book qualified: 7 (less than 10) letters in title
Date Completed: 5-23
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5. Very YA. Starcrossed lovers, literally, alien and human teen. Shocking similar to Twilight series, just with alien male love interest rather than vampire. Audiobook is performed by Justine Eyre, one of my favorites narrators.
Completion postingTask 23 - 98. Read 6 books with fewer than 10 letters in the title
Book/cover link: Dashing
Pages: 188
How book qualified: 7 letters in title
Date Completed: 5-24
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 2nd in series of cute dog romances this one with an ex fiancée and fake engagement.
CompletionTask 23 - 98. Read 6 books with fewer than 10 letters in the title.
Book/Author: Obsidian (1.0 of Lux series) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Pages: 287
How book qualified: 8 (less than 10) letters in title
Date Completed: 5-24
Review: ⭐⭐⭐.5 Written a few years after Twilight, this book has many similarities..a teen human girl (17), moves to a very small town in a heavily wooded area, meets non-human boy (17) who is very close to beautiful siblings. This time the boy is an alien. Boy and girl get together in a literally star crossed love affair, with woodsy dates, after he saves her from a deadly vehicle accident, while hordes of evil beings hunt them. See? Similar to Twilight.
Completion postingTask 23 - 98. Read 6 books with fewer than 10 letters in the title
Book/cover link: Sporting
Pages: 186
How book qualified: 8 letters in title
Date Completed:5-24
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3rd in series of cute romances featuring
dogs. This was the most humorous of the books. The Mc has had a crush on his older sisters best friend since high school.
CompletionTask 23 - 98. Read 6 books with fewer than 10 letters in the title
Book/Author: Julie by Jean Craighead George
Pages: 244
How book qualified: 5 letters in title
Date Completed: 5-24
Rating/Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.25. I am doing an Alaskan cruise next week, so this is cruise/trip prep, since it is book 2 in the Julie series, following the life of a young Inuit woman living close to nature in Alaska. With many awards, I had put off doing this book because of the harshness of nature and animals dieing. If you ever need a book for a competition-here are some of its qualifying characteristics; set in Alaska, POC author-Native American, award winning.
Lea...you are an awesome teammate. But with work being busy, if you need a pass on this task, Jean and I have it covered. You may have to do the same for me next week. 🚢🛫🧳
Benita
Completion postTask 23 #98 read 7 books with fewer than 10 letters in title
Book: Flirt
Pages: 385
How it qualified: Title character length
Date read: 25 May 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
One Sentence Audio wrote: "CompletionTask 23 - 98. Read 6 books with fewer than 10 letters in the title
Book/Author: Julie by Jean Craighead George
Pages: 244
How book qualified: 5 letters in t..."
I appreciate the offer. I’ll try get a couple of shorter titles as everything I select seems to be 300+ 😆 I enjoy reading but both of you ladies blow me out of the water. Thanks for taking the load. I’m hiring so hopefully work will get back in its box soon.
Here is your next task!Task 24 - 94. Read
Books for this task need to be initially published in sequential years, for example 2010-2011-2012-2013-2014-2015. Teams decide which years to use. Please include the selected years in your completion posts along with which year your book was published. Remember to use the initial publication date. 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.
UPDATED Task 24-94 5 books sequential years..
The working list
DONE 1. 2023. Jean Ghostly Game
DONE 2. 2022. Lea The Coastguard's House Darling Island
DONE 3. 2021. Benita. Life's Too Short
DONE 4. 2020. Benita. The Happily Ever After Playlist
DONE 5. 2019 Benita. The Friend Zone
COMPLETIONTask 24 -94 5 books, sequential pub. years
Book/Author: Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez
Qualification: published April 6, 2021, team 5 year window 2023-2019, see link above
Pages: 385
Date: May 25, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A travel YouTuber (with a short life expectancy), a sudden parent caring for her addicted sister's baby, accidentally becomes involved with her next door, lawyer neighbor. #3 in a 3 book series. Funny, bitter sweet, very contemporary. Liked it!
Completion postingTask 24 - 94. Read 5 books published in sequential years, teams decide years. Team decided 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Book/cover link: Ghostly Game
Pages: 397
How book qualified: published 5/2/2023
Date Completed: 5-25
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The newest book in the Ghostwalker series. This one is based on the urban Ghostwalkers and first I have read featuring them. High on mystery and suspense less so on romance.
COMPLETIONTask 24 -94 5 books, sequential pub. years
Book/Author: The Happily Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
Qualification: published, April 14, 2020, team 5 year window 2023-2019, see link above
Pages: 400
Date: May 25, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 A young bereaved woman falls in love with a stray dog, only to have its owner surface and pursue them both. A nice take on a romance involving a star singer, which doesn't involve gang sex or drugs. Abby Jimenez only has 5 books published, all in the last five years. All are written with a multi-layered style and cleverly crafted contemporary characters. All 5 of her books have become best sellers and run long wait lists at the public libraries.
Completion postTask 24 #94 read 5 in sequential publication years
Book: The Coastguard's House Darling Island
Pages: 344
How it qualified: published in 2022 (23 March 2022)
Date read: 26 May 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: a known author to me but the one had a different vibe. Was left a tad frustrated and dissatisfied with ending.
COMPLETIONTask 24 -94 5 books, sequential pub. years
Book/Author: The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
Qualification: published, June 11, 2019, team 5 year window 2023-2019, see link above
Pages: 385
Date: May 25, 2023
Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 This is Food Network host Abby Jimenez's, award nominated, debut, best selling novel. It is book 1 in a 3 book series. I liked #s 2 and 3 so much, I broke a personal rule and bought this book so I could finish the series. (I have a rule that I do not buy books for challenges, but use library resources, ScribD, etc.) The series is only loosely linked, with just a common these of the female characters facing serious medical challnges.
I’ll check us in, our next task should be Saturday
Here is your next task!Task 25 - 70. Read a minimum of
As a team select a sub-genre and then read books by different authors totaling at least
COMPLETIONTask 25-70 1000 pages in a subgenre
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. Available on some public library Libby apps.
Completion postTask 25 #70 read 1,000 pages in a team chosen subgenre by different authors
Book: Damaged Like Us
Pages: 401
How it qualified: Selected genre contemporary romance
Date read: 28 May 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: part of series but said it could be read alone yeah nah. So many secondary characters I didn’t know who was who. Haven’t read M/M for awhile and really found it hard to connect. So many annoying characters. Felt like I was being talked to not shown with this read.
Completion postingTask 25 - 70. Read a minimum of 1000 pages in books of the same sub-genre, but by different authors. team picked contemporary romance.
Book/cover link:Here With Me
Pages: 528
How book qualified: author Samantha Young, not read by other team members, MPG contemporary romance
Date Completed:5-28
Rating/Review:⭐️⭐️⭐️ this was a long book, but had good character development and a thriller suspense vibe with a twist at the end. I wondered if I was guessing right but never really knew until all was revealed. I would definitely read the other books in this series.
We are due a new task on Monday
I'll be back tomorrow with your next task.
Here is your next task!Task 26 - 96. Read a minimum of
As a team decide whether you are reading books with the sun or with the moon on the cover, then read books totaling over 1200 pages with the selected 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. Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count.
Completion postingTask 26 - 96. Read a minimum of 1000 pages with the sun or the moon on the cover, teams decide which. team picked moon
Book/cover link:Someone Else's Shoes
Pages:426
How book qualified:
crescent moon in left topDate Completed: 5-28
Rating/Review:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was a cute book where two woman accidentally switch bags at the gym and the resulting mayhem from that makes for an entertaining book.
Completion postTask 26 #96 read a minimum of 1,000 pages with the sun or moon on cover
Book: Foretold: St. Bastian Institute
Pages: 346
How it qualified: Selected moon as a team see cover above
Date read: 30 May 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: so much going on/universe building at beginning. Does include characters from previous series as well. Straddles genres. Well put together but too HS for me.
CompletionTask 26 #96 read a minimum of 1,000 pages with the sun or moon on cover
Book: Under a Maui Moon
Book link...on a cruise ship ...can't access the GR short link syste
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
Qualification: moon on cover
Pages: 290
Rating: 🛳🛳🛳 A Christian empty nester woman considers having an affair, while on a Hawaiian getaway. After her husband grows distant. A little too Christian for my tastes
I'll be back in a couple of days with your next task.
Here is your next task!Task 27 - 82. Each teammate reads a different book from the same series.
As a team, select a series and then everyone reads a different book in the selected series. Please include the selected series in your completion posts.
I going to do Prisoner of the night or Where winter finds you or a Warm Heart in Winter. Let me know if you want one of these I will switch it up. They are all online at my library and available, but I volunteer today so I will not read it til tonight.
I am in Skagway AK...pop. 1102...limited internet access...I am switching to 0.5 Darius. Let me know if that is not o.k.
Completion postTask 27 #82 Each teammate reads a different book from the same series.
Book: The Jackal
Pages: 369
How it qualifies: Black Dagger Brotherhood series
Date read: 1 June 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: a fan of the series or at least the earlier books. Things seem to have lost their way a little in the expanded AU. Use to be a one click author for me. I still one click but have several titles in my tbr pile.
COMPLETION...while cruising Glacier Bay AKTask 27 #82
Book: Darius by JR Ward
Qualification: Book 0.5 of series selected series, Black Dagger
Pages: 320
Review: ⭐⭐I had started the book that is 1.0, (Dark Lover) in the series and found the large number of characters overwhelming and had tons of tech problems with the HoopLa and Libby, so backed up to Darius which is 0.5. The book is an efficient introduction to the characters that are instrumental to this vampire series. The book tells the tragic love story of Darius and Anne, to set up the backstory of their offspring, a key character of the bigger series.
Lea wrote: "Completion postTask 27 #82 Each teammate reads a different book from the same series.
Book: The Jackal
Pages: 369
How it qualifies: Black Dagger Bro..."
Just FYI - this book is from a spin off series, not the original BDB series. I am going to allow it, but technically to use a book like this there would need to be an overall 'world' series page listed on GR, not separate links.
Completion postingTask 27 #82 Each teammate reads a different book from the same series
We pick Black Dagger Brotherhood.
Book/cover link:Prisoner of Night
Pages: 176
How book qualified: #16.5 of series
Date Completed:6-1
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’m not really one for vampire books but this one was less about being a vampire and more about the action and motivations of the characters.
You can get your next task from the Q&A thread tomorrow. 😊
Completion postingLAST TASK
Read a book initially published in February or August of any year
Book/cover link: Then You Came Along
Pages: 371
How book qualified: published February 21, 2023
Date Completed: 6-3
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ cute book that was refreshingly easy to read with likable characters compared to the The Happy Place which I had to slough through and thought I would never finish. What’s not to love a cute little boy without a father and dog without a boy.
2nd Completion
LAST TASK
Read a book initially published in February or August of any year
Book/cover link: Secretly Yours
Pages: 380
How book qualified: published February 7, 2023
Date Completed: 6-3
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ kind of a rom com feel where the Main characters write anonymous letters to each other not realizing who they were writing to.
Completion postLast Task Read books published in February or August of any year
Book: I'm Glad My Mom Died
Pages: 320
How it qualifies: Published on 9 August 2022
Date read: 3 June 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: Wow! Crazy sad especially in this day and age. This is why I don’t read my bios
Completion post
Last Task Read books published in February or August of any year
Book: From Lukov with Love
Pages: 493
How it qualifies: Published on 1 February 2018
Date read: 4 June 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review:while ice skating isn’t my jam I can see the appeal. I alway enjoy a MZ title her writing style is easy to read and entertaining
COMPLETIONLast Task Read a book initially published in February or August of any year
Book/cover link: Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
Pages: 380
How book qualified: published February 7, 2023
Date Completed: 6-3
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5. I do not think Bailey's last two books have been as funny as her previous works. This one is a steamy story of an top R1 Univ. prof and his girly giggly gardening neighbor. FYI..having taught at Yale...the pressure to publish is extreme, so a bit unrealistic, certainly more demanding than the MC's faculty 30 minutes a day writing schedule could suffice. However, maladjusted men of that age being faculty, is very realistic. The early sections of the audiobook were burdened by a narrator with hissing "s" pronunciations. Also, the author is obviously NOT an avid gardner. A gardener "plants" perennial bulbs, they do not "bury" them; if they want them to bloom. So a technical editor would have enhanced the book.
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COMPLETION
Read a book initially published in February or August of any year
Book/cover link: Murder Makes Waves
Pages: 272 (the only Kindle edition that shows up when you use the Goodreads Kindle menu function)
How book qualified: published August 1, 1997
Date Completed: 6-4
Rating/Review: 🛳🛳🛳🛳..I give this cozy murder mystery of Southern Sisters visiting Destin FL 4 or 4.6 stars, because I loved the setting and I, like the main character, own vacation property in that area. The lightly bickering sisters are funny, in a Southern women over 40, realistic way. Besides, these mature women are on a close to water pleasure trip....females only....and so am I! The enjoyment of this series for me comes from the quipping sisters, not the murder mystery.
I may be wrong, but I seem to think this finishes this challenge.If it does a big thank you to Lea, our hardworking captain Jean, and our tireless sponsor MKat!
Thank you! Hope to see y'all again on a future challenge.
From the Norwegian Cruise Ship Encore, off the coast of Alaska or BC!
Benita
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