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[Sammy]

Pretty easy tasks this time!

[Sammy]

My paladin book could be moved to the sharp weapon task if anyone else happens to have something pointy...

[Melindam]

Grabbed PNR-Shapeshifter from Manticore.

[Sammy]

Alicanto gone, thought I'd go for a different wheel this time:

George & Martha (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)

1 200 to 299
2 MC is married
3 character name is also a type of animal (first, last, nickname)
4 tagged 'classic' at least 10 times
5 made into movie or TV show

[Sammy]

If anyone needs any books for Algeria, I'm really enjoying What the Day Owes the Night (despite having to read it on my kindle...).

Only about 2/3 through, but unless it goes drastically downhill in the final third, it's looking like a 4 star read for me.

[Melindam]

HAPPY GLORIOUS REVOLUTION DAY!

Don't forget to smell the lilacs or eat a hard boiled egg! 💜🥚

[Sammy]

I note you left out the reasonably priced love..? 😂

It's probably the lilacs that are causing the current issues with my eyes doing the watery-itchy thing. I'm about 5 minutes from trying to scrub them with a wire brush... ARGGGHHHH!

[Melindam]

🤣🤣

I didn't want to push it...

In that case, just eat a reasonably priced egg, Sammy.

[Sophie, The other one]

I've grabbed the set somewhere cold task - a book set on Antarctica has come up in TT.

[Sammy]

That'll do it!

[Melindam]

Manticore is gone, we have

Hayreddin Barbarossa (Ottoman Empire)

1. 200 to 299
2. Takes place in a country ruled by the Ottoman Empire in the 1400s (Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia - see map - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...)
3. MPG Pirate
4. character has red hair
5. person with facial hair on cover

[Sammy]

I just now finished a book set in Greece 😁

[Melindam]

😌phew!!

[Melindam]

I have moved around my books, my Monaco one will qualify for facial hair on cover.

[Sammy]

I'm about to start on one for the double letter task, which also happens to have a sword on the cover. (ETA: It also works for the character name is animal name task if it comes to that!)

If you're only reading for the task, or if it fits another task as well Sophie, there is the option to move stuff around.

[Melindam]

Grabbed character name is also a type of animal (first, last, nickname) with Kitty.

[Sammy]

Yay!

[Melindam]

Nemean Lion
1. 350 to 450
2. takes place in Africa
3. Both hands (of one person) visible on cover
4. open plain on cover
5. features a cat (cat shifter accepted)

[Melindam]

Claiming both pages / hands on cover tasks.

[Sammy]

I've got the cat.

[Melindam]

😊

[Sammy]

Not just a cat, but narration by our lovely RA. My ears are very happy right now.

[Melindam]

Mmmm ... are they purring or what? 😆

[Sammy]

Something like that 😆

[Sammy]

I have a book set in Africa coming up in June, but probably not right away (buddy reading with Jenny & Judith and we haven't settled on when we're reading yet). I won't claim the task, as there's a good chance one of you will have a suitable book pop up in the meantime 😉

But if not, I can cover.

[Sophie, The other one]

Gremlins have got into the spreadsheet.

200 to 299
Trickster character (your interpretation)
MPG Historical Fiction
2nd in a series
Author first or last name starts with R, A ,or F

[Melindam]

Grabbing trickster character with The Odyssey narrated by Ian McKellen - I couldn't resist buying it. 😆

I read it when I was 17... OMG..

[Sammy]

So only about 8 years ago, yes? 😉

[Melindam]

🤣

Precisely. In August I'll turn 25 the second time. 🤭

[Sophie, The other one]

I've got the historical fiction covered. Sorry Mel it's only 164p so not great for TT but does cover our author born in Turkey.

[Melindam]

Thank you for taking Turkey-born author for us, Sophie.

I don't mind about low page count at all!! 😊

[Sophie, The other one]

Melindam wrote: "🤣

Precisely. In August I'll turn 25 the second time. 🤭"

There I was thinking it would be 21 for the second time.

[Melindam]

🤭

[Melindam]

OMG ... absolutely love Ian McKellen's narration.

[Sammy]

Melindam wrote: "🤣

Precisely. In August I'll turn 25 the second time. 🤭"

I've had my 25th birthday many, many times now 😆

[Sammy]

Melindam wrote: "OMG ... absolutely love Ian McKellen's narration."

*tries to convince self I really don't need yet another copy of The Odyssey...*

[Melindam]

🤭 Sorry Sammy, but I did promise to let you know how I find it.

BTW, I also love the translation by Robert Fagles. 😊

I decided that for The Iliad I will try Emily Wilson's out of curiosity.

[Sammy]

Weird... for some reason it has appeared in my audible wishlist...

😆

[Melindam]

😆

I knew that to happen.

I'm sure that there is reasonable explanation beyond the supernatural.

[Sammy]

I think those gremlins Sophie mentioned must have migrated to audible...

[Melindam]

😆could be, could be....

I sampled the Emily Wilson translation of Iliad, but I'm not impressed with the narrator.

On the other hand, Dan Stevens is narrating the translation by Robert Fitzgerald (internet claims his is the most accurate), so....

look, the gremlins put this one onto my wishlist 😆

[Sammy]

Weird that... It's some kind of epidemic 😆

[Sophie, The other one]

I enjoyed the Emily Wilson translation on audible.

Haven't read the Odyssey so the Ian McKellen narration may be beset by more gremlins.

[Melindam]

It's a virus-spreading gremlin. 😆

[Sammy]

Chased off the Lion, got Ms. Snek-head instead...

Medusa

1 350 to 450
2 takes place in a desert
3 someone is beheaded
4 Mirror on cover
5 Snake on cover

[Sophie, The other one]

Is sharp weapon or snake on cover harder? Once and Future Witches has both.

[Sammy]

I'd say snake. In fact I believe one of the books I read for that monster also covers sharp weapon. I will have made a note of it, but have no SS access until the morning

[Sammy]

I moved your book to the Snake sophie, and finished off J. Ripper esq.

Burke & Hare (Scotland / Edinburgh)

1 100 to 175
2 takes place in Scotland
3 dual POV
4 16 in publication date
5 character does some type of research

[Sammy]

I have a gazillion books set in Scotland, and am pretty sure I have at least 2 in the 100-175 page range. I'll take a peek shortly.

[Melindam]

AAARRGHHH!

There's an audiblecom 80% sale going on.

Have I just bought several books? Yes, of course I have!

I couldn't resist Daunderlust: Dispatches from Unreported Scotland b/c of Sammy - it was 3 USD foreffssake ..... among other books.

Also bought the Scalzi-Christmas b/c of Sammy, obviously. 😆🥰