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[Melindam]

Sorry, it's

The Hiver (again)

1. 500 to 650
2. Person wearing a cloak or cape on the cover
3. MPG Travel
4. word BOREDOM in text
5. features a powerful character (your interpretation)

[Sammy]

I've got the page count with one I'll be finishing tonight or in the morning...

[Sophie, The other one]

Magpie murders has boredom in the text according to Google books but it doesn't give a page number and it's the last word of a sentence so they give me boredom. then the next sentence. I'm listening to the audio and don't have a way to get the actual number or the full sentence.

[Sammy]

I've gotcha!

ch 8 "He was listening to the vicar with a look that teetered on the edge of impatience and boredom"

hubby had it on his kindle 😁

[Melindam]

Yaaay! Team❤️Work

[Melindam]

I guess Martin Luther is as strong a character as it gets, but He'll keep, Sophie/Sammy if someone in your book fits the description. :)

[Sammy]

Meh, I think the characters in my book like to think they are, but...

[Melindam]

😆

[Sophie, The other one]

Sammy wrote: "I've gotcha!

ch 8 "He was listening to the vicar with a look that teetered on the edge of impatience and boredom"

hubby had it on his kindle 😁"

Yay! Thank you Sammy and hubby.

I wouldn't count any of the characters in this as strong or powerful. All v flawed.

[Melindam]

In that case, Martin Luther stays. :)

[Melindam]

I guess this is more like a coat than a cloak, right?

[Sammy]

Yeah, looks like a coat from what I can see...

Going to have a looksee what I have for open tasks.

[Sammy]

I've got travel with an upcoming! 😁

Oh, I see Cat's grabbed it. One you were wanting to read anyway? (I have that on my tbr too actually!)

[Melindam]

On a positive note, it will probably work either for Oxford or for university setting for the Tolkien challenge. 😊

[Cat]

the travel one also has dictionary :)

[Sammy]

Excellent! Because I know I came up with the task, but I'm not reading a book set in Leeds. It's bad enough I have to live here! 😆

[Sammy]

Cat wrote: "the travel one also has dictionary :)"

Not only multiple birds, but crossing challenges with the one stone. Score!

[Sammy]

I grabbed the flower because I'd snagged one from audible+ recently that works.

Have about half a dozen books lined up tbr this week, then will see what's still in need of filling.

[Melindam]

Sammy wrote: "Excellent! Because I know I came up with the task, but I'm not reading a book set in Leeds. It's bad enough I have to live here! 😆"

😆

[Sammy]

actually, the book I found in my upcoming with a travel MPG also has empty chairs on the cover, so I'm slotting it in there!

[Melindam]

Found an audible plus listen Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs that will work for the Mexico/Central America task, so I'm grabbing it.

[Cat]

hurrah! :)

That pesky "SEA or DEVIL(S) in title" task is starting to annoy though!

[Sammy]

I do have a devil, but it's an odd one!

Moriarty: The Devil's Game. it's on audible+ (audio only). It's split into 2 "chapters" of just over half an hour each. So very short. there'as no page limit for this challenge, right?

And it's listed as a single volume on GR...

[Sammy]

Ok, sea devils gone!

Reapers

1 200 to 299
2 "gargoyle" in text
3 Letters in TARDIS in Title
4 Bladed weapon on cover
5 9th or greater book in a series

[Melindam]

Grabbed TARDIS and gargoyle tasks

[Sammy]

And that's Mr Pin and Mr Tulip seen off as well!

Hundred Knot Bamboo Tree

1 200 to 299
2 Number in title or series (not series number)
3 Book where labor conditions or workers rights is central to the plot
4 Tagged Asia (at least 10 times) or a country in Asia
5 Yellow and/or green cover (>50% combined)

[Sammy]

I've got 1, 2 & 5. just checking 4...

[Sammy]

yep, 4 as well!

[Sophie, The other one]

I have literally just finished which is a non-fiction that discusses labour conditions and workers rights in almost all of its chapters.

If you are happy that can take task 3.

[Melindam]

Yaaay!! :))

[Sammy]

Sophie wrote: "I have literally just finished which is a non-fiction that discusses labour conditions and workers rights in almost all of its chapters.

If you are happy t..."

Perfect!

[Sammy]

I will probably finish mine this evening too, so this will be a super quick monster 😁

[Sammy]

Hundred Knot Bamboo Tree done! 😁

Danny Zuko (Grease)

1 200 to 299
2 car on cover
3 takes place in 1950s
4 character wears leather jacket
5 author initals found in HICKEY

[Melindam]

Reapers are done with, but managed to spin a mostrous new one

Clifford Orji (Nigeria)
1. 651+
2. Takes place in Nigeria
3. skull on cover
4. Someone commits multiple murders
5. character is in sales (your interpretation)

[Sammy]

Yikes!

I can do the skull with Company of Liars (lots of little skulls inside the wolf's head). I've not started yet. Cat, will #4 apply?

[Melindam]

Let me check, if I find something for Nigeria.

[Sammy]

I have a short story for Nigeria (at least I think it's set there...) if no-one has anything a little more substantial for that one.

[Melindam]

I'm happy for you to take it, Sammy. 😊

[Sophie, The other one]

King of the Murgos has someone committing multiple murders and I'm 1/3 through.

[Sammy]

Sophie wrote: "King of the Murgos has someone committing multiple murders and I'm 1/3 through."

Awesome! Been ages since I read that one. The Belgariad was our kids' gateway from kids books to more grown up stuff. Our son was almost named Garion 😆

[Sammy]

Melindam wrote: "I'm happy for you to take it, Sammy. 😊"

I will if Cat doesn't have something up her sleevses.

[Sophie, The other one]

Sammy wrote: "Sophie wrote: "King of the Murgos has someone committing multiple murders and I'm 1/3 through."

Awesome! Been ages since I read that one. The Belgariad was our kids' gateway from kid..."

They were the first of my parents fantasy books that I read so did the same for me. The other was L.E. Modesitt Jr.

[Sammy]

I used to be in a writing group (back in the dawn of the interwebs, when said groups were email based!) with L.E. Modesitt Jr.!

Really nice guy. He was always really good when critiquing people's stories, always had great advice.

[Melindam]

Wow, I've never heard of him (not that that counts!), so any recs? 😊

[Sammy]

His Recluce books (starting with The Magic of Recluce ) are his most popular, though I was personally always quite fond of the Spellsong cycle.

[Sophie, The other one]

Recluce is massive series and seems to still be coming. It has an interesting tale on good Vs evil and how that can change a society.

Imager series is another of his that I've enjoyed and is less epic in scope.

Being in a writing group with him sounds like an excellent experience. Glad to hear that he was good about his interactions as well.

[Melindam]

Fermin Mundaca is gone, we have

Ardent and the Deep-Downers

1. 200-299
2. a character has followers (your interpretation)
3. tagged RACE or INTERRACIAL at least 5 times
4. a board or card game (real or fictional) is mentioned in text
5. A bearded person on the cover

[Melindam]

Pending tasks for a better overview:

- Person wearing a cloak or cape on the cover
- takes place in 1950s
- character wears leather jacket
- author initials found in HICKEY
- 651+ (I guess Sammy's doorstopper will suffice ;)
- Someone commits multiple murders
- character is in sales (your interpretation)
- 200-299
- a character has followers (your interpretation)
- tagged RACE or INTERRACIAL at least 5 times
- a board or card game (real or fictional) is mentioned in text
- A bearded person on the cover

[Melindam]

I'll check with Domi if his next Wimpy Kid has a board/card game mentioned. It can also work for the 200-299 page count.

[Sammy]

I put myself down for the chonky one, but feel free to bump if anyone finish one before I do.

I suppose I can grab character in sales too, as one of the characters in Norwegian Wood runs a bookshop with her sister?