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No, I think that would get confusing.
I'm finding it especially interesting to read this time having read The Phantom of the Opera in the meantime. Practically everything outside of our witchy friends has been lifted from the book (and given the Pratchett treatment, naturally)
I also find it extremely entertaining how overwhelmingly about sex this book is... Even for one featuring Nanny Ogg! 😆


Have several very long books coming up in the next couple of weeks, so now would be a good time for really high page count tasks😆

The Sontarans
1 350 to 450
2 Climate fiction
3 "potato" in text
4 Title starts with a letter in SPACESHIP
5 Honor important to plot (your interpretation)

Daleks
1. 500 to 650
2. "Exterminate(d)" in text
3. Letters in DALEKS in title
4. 6 and 3 in page number (started in 1963)
5. Xenophobia is important to plot (your interpretation)

I'm sure you'll find out about the next challenge in the next couple of days. It'll put you in a spin.

I'm just going to apologise in advance... I should never be allowed to spin things again...
Sammy wrote: "Again. I am really, really sorry..."
What have you done?!
That is a horrible combination.
What have you done?!
That is a horrible combination.
Currently refusing to vote because I can't pick. Hopefully sleep will make the decision clearer.
It's the worst, Sammy!
I voted Richard so that he had some love. And am also seeking the silver lining of at least one of them is into the next round.
But really....!
I voted Richard so that he had some love. And am also seeking the silver lining of at least one of them is into the next round.
But really....!

I fancy re-reading Termination Shock, but I'm hanging on until I can get it to fit somewhere 😁
Just realised that one of my current books (all to be finished from tomorrow for the mini) could work for tropical island.


So in case you finish a book that fits "6 and 3 in page number" just oust his. :)

My apologies. Against anyone else he'd have my vote, but he's up against my favourite.
Fully expect you guys to vote Tom though! 😉
I've finally managed to defeat the Dunnes, but Grendel's Mother has come to call instead.
350-400
Title includes a relationship (i.e. Clockmaker's Daughter)
Char loses a limb or is an amputee
Oldest book on your TBR list (publication date)
"hark" in text
350-400
Title includes a relationship (i.e. Clockmaker's Daughter)
Char loses a limb or is an amputee
Oldest book on your TBR list (publication date)
"hark" in text

I'm just about to start a superheroes vs zombies book, so someone losing a limb is a possibility (there was an amuptation to stop zombie infection in book 1. Fingers crosssed, lol)
I've got a read of The Faerie Queene coming up, which would work for oldest on TBR, but not until after Book Games ends.

Tomas and Tereza (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
1 100 to 175
2 MC owns a dog
3 character is a waitress
4 communism important to plot
5 takes place in the 1960s and/or 1970s
and I just realised that I didn't update yesterday, about to spin having cleared off Madagascar Tree.
Spun us a Greek snek. soz!
Python
1 100 to 175
2 features twins
3 Author name (first or last) starts with a letter in SWORD
4 character is pregnant
5 mentions some type of championship games (World Cup, Olympics, World Series, etc)
Spun us a Greek snek. soz!
Python
1 100 to 175
2 features twins
3 Author name (first or last) starts with a letter in SWORD
4 character is pregnant
5 mentions some type of championship games (World Cup, Olympics, World Series, etc)

Tipua
1 350 to 450
2 Set in Australia or Oceania
3 Plant on cover
4 At least three vowels in one word in title
5 Author initials in MAORI

I'll see what I can add the day after tomorrow.
Sophie, in the U-book I have finished the MC has a dog, so if you don't mind, I'll add it to that slot as well.
do we think it's three unique vowels? I guess so, given the name of the monster... booo
ETA: oh! un-booooo! I'#m reading The Unbroken - with a U O & E!
ETA: oh! un-booooo! I'#m reading The Unbroken - with a U O & E!
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I just finished it. Warm and sunny definitely, but it doesn't especially scream tropical.