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[Cat]

eh... a bat, brick, rock, log, tree?


I do have a book with a tree on cover on the go...

[Melindam]

OK. 😊

[Melindam]

Apropos of an earlier conversation with Sammy, I very much liked The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury and

@Sophie,

I think Joe would probably enjoy it too. Maybe a bit later, though from what you say, he is much tougher at 7 than I am at almost 50. 🤭

I'm really sorry it has not been translated into Hungarian, as I thought Domi may like it as well.

[Sammy]

Yeah, I was thinking clubs and staffs. mostly I have a gazillion swords though, it seems.

Taking a break from yet more paint slinging (finally doing the living room now. Final stretch!) because I'm aching in places I didn't know existed 😆

[Cat]

just finished the book with trees and rocks!

Do we trust my spinning luck? for context: when asking for World Wheel spins I was delivered Egypt & Russia, both on the harder end of the range...

[Melindam]

Cat,

go ahead! Come what may! 😍

[Cat]

not too heinous! I thought about spinning World Villain, but was worried we'd end up with an easy country that no one was reading for as I assume we are all excitedly hunting down hard locales! (incidentally, Luxembourg! WOW that was tricky. The interesting local-authors were all poetry or short stories that didn't hit 100 pages.)

Alicanto
1 350 to 450
2 Author initials in ENTIERRO
3 Item or animal with wings on cover
4 Set in a mountainous location
5 "treasure" in text

[Melindam]

Cat wrote: "not too heinous! I thought about spinning World Villain, but was worried we'd end up with an easy country that no one was reading for as I assume we are all excitedly hunting down hard locales! (incidentally, Luxembourg! WOW that was tricky. The interesting local-authors were all poetry or short stories that didn't hit 100 pages.)"

Indeed. I have upcoming DR Congo, Uganda, Monaco and Holy See. 🤭

And I just realised that I could use some Hungarian classics for Slovakia and Romania settings (because of history & stuff) or authors born there for later.

[Melindam]

Cat wrote: "Alicanto
1 350 to 450
2 Author initials in ENTIERRO
3 Item or animal with wings on cover
4 Set in a mountainous location
5 "treasure" in text"

I could cover page count, animal with wings and treasure in text if someone can take Historical Fiction where my Queens' Play is currently languishing. I'm keeping it for TT, so haven't started yet.

[Cat]

nice :)

I've born-in-Egypt (World Wheel), Congo-Brazzaville, Luxembourg, Croatia, Albania for my first lot, with some medium ones in the Tower planning tower too :)

Good gang of readers: Danielle's holding off on the newest Nalini Singh for Fiji purposes, bless her, and others have volunteered for Monaco, Laos, Bulgaria and such. love an engaged team!

[Melindam]

🥰

[Cat]

Melindam wrote: "Cat wrote: "Alicanto
1 350 to 450
2 Author initials in ENTIERRO
3 Item or animal with wings on cover
4 Set in a mountainous location
5 "treasure" in text"

I could cover page count, animal with win..."

lets do the switch! I'm not at my leisure to choose what I fancy, so can peruse with a view to Historical Fiction :)

[Melindam]

Awesome. :))

[Sammy]

Yeah, Lux is a hard one! I went to our resident expert (more commonly known as E) for my personal world reading thing I have going on, and after her lamenting a distinct lack of Luxembourgian books by writers born there (local authors being a requirement for me personally) that have been translated into English, I've settled on dusting off my German for that one. But not until after the move!

Also, easy countries not a huge problem, as I can cover most if needed 😉
I may not be playing, but I have made myself a copy of the SS and intend to go through a few that are on my TBR for those in solidarity, time permitting 😁

[Melindam]

🥰

[Melindam]

This is what I could do...

Genghis Khan (Mongolia)
1. 651+
2. takes place in Central Asia (Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) or Mongolia
3. MPG War
4. character goes horse riding
5. takes place in a cold climate (your interpretation)

[Sammy]

Grabbed 1, 3 & 4 and the mountainous location from the previous monster with upcoming books 😁

[Sammy]

Am I not seeing for looking, or is Afghanistan not on the TT country list?

[Cat]

it is a medium. there was a copy fail that has been highlighted in the Caps Q&A...

[Sammy]

Gotcha. Am I missing any others, or was it just that one?

[Cat]

just that one, AFAIK

[Sammy]

Awesome, ta.

[Sophie, The other one]

Enjoy your world travels Sammy! I need to look at the SS and see where I might be able to fill in some gaps.

[Sammy]

I have been! There have been some great ones, including a Hungarian one Mel pointed me towards - . That has one of the most memorable characters I've come across to date!

[Melindam]

🥰

[Melindam]

There's a movie as well with Helen Mirren. :))

[Sammy]

Absolutely on my watchlist!

[Cat]

Finished my Historical Fiction, and spun us....

Manticore
1 500 to 650
2 set in Persia (Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan)
3 letters MAN EATER in title
4 MPG Paranormal > Shapeshifter
5 3 in the publication date

[Sammy]

I don't have those, but do have Bulgaria and albania coming up. Want to swap monsters with your Egypt book? Or does anyone have any of these coming up?

[Melindam]

I have DR Congo, Uganda and Monaco coming up.

[Sophie, The other one]

I'm reading an Albania ATM so Egypt could be switched.

[Sammy]

Mel, I just swapped our MPG war books around so I could finish the Chimera. Yours is now in the Genghis Khan section 😁

[Sammy]

New monster:

Vlad the Impaler (Romania)

1 500 to 650
2 Takes place in the Eastern European countries of Belarus, Ukraine, or Romania
3 MPG Vampires
4 Pointy object on cover
5 tagged dragon 10x

[Cat]

sorry, missed the earlier chats due to GR playing silly buggers with my notifications!

I'm planning on finishing the BOM (Eygpt book) this evening, probably, but happy to be bumped :)

[Cat]

Incidentally, The Mountains Sing - recommend? I think I have it in the depths of my kindle - should I push it up?

[Melindam]

Sammy wrote: "Mel, I just swapped our MPG war books around so I could finish the Chimera. Yours is now in the Genghis Khan section 😁"

Sure!! I won't be starting it for a while.

[Sammy]

I enjoyed it, but it could have been better, or maybe didn't quite fit my mood.

It's mostly about the writing in this one. Not much there in the way of story, and the characters were a bit samey.

[Melindam]

Can take MAN EATER in title for Maticore or the page count for Vlad as I have finished my DR Congo book.

[Sammy]

I'm not gonna get the pagecount until Jun. (650+, yes, lol), so unless anyone else has one brewing, that may be the way to go?

[Melindam]

👍😊

[Cat]

Tasks Unclaimed

knife/dagger on the cover - Sammy's taking one for the team!
Author initials in ENTIERRO - Sammy here, hopefully better!
takes place in Central Asia (Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) or Mongolia - Cat claimed
letters MAN EATER in title - Mel claimed
takes place in a cold climate (your interpretation)
MPG Paranormal > Shapeshifter
Takes place in the Eastern European countries of Belarus, Ukraine, or Romania
MPG Vampires
tagged dragon 10x


just because sometimes it's nice to get a round up :)

and helps me focus my mind on what to read next

[Melindam]

I can claim MAN EATER with another book.

[Cat]

OK, I'm grabbing an Afghanistan book :)

[Sammy]

After going through hundreds of books in the Plus catalogue, I finally found one with a knife on the cover. It's probably going to be awful, but I would really like that monster dealt with 😆

[Sammy]

Cat wrote: "Tasks Unclaimed

knife/dagger on the cover - Sammy's taking one for the team!
"


Sammy really is! 😆

[Sammy]

Found one for ENTIERRO too 😁

[Melindam]

Sammy wrote: "Cat wrote: "Tasks Unclaimed

knife/dagger on the cover - Sammy's taking one for the team!
"


Sammy really is! 😆"
🤣

[Sophie, The other one]

Thank you Sammy!

Feels overoptimistic to describe London as a cold climate! Is the closest my current 2 reads would get to working.

[Sammy]

Welp, it was indeed pretty pants. But also very short, so yay for that!

Returning to the Paladin book and then will roll into the Rutherford.

[Sammy]

Carcer done, on to:

Jack the Ripper (England / London)

1 500 to 650
2 takes place in England or Wales
3 MPG Crime
4 sharp weapon on cover
5 author's name (first or last) has a double letter