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[Cat]

Sammy is a menace!

[Sammy]

Teehee.

Hopefully the UK one will have another sale soon. I'm getting itchy scratchy and need to buy books! (not that I'm allowed to, but meh... 😆)

[Sammy]

Cat wrote: "Sammy is a menace!"

I shall change my name to Dennis forthwith 😆

[Melindam]

Oh, also bought The Princess Diarist b/c of .... Yes, Sammy 🥰 and b/c of tagged diary 16x for TT. So it's shared responsibility for this one. 🤭

[Melindam]

Sammy wrote: "Cat wrote: "Sammy is a menace!"

I shall change my name to Dennis forthwith 😆"

😆

[Sammy]

Don't you just love it when you move a book up your TBR to meet a challenge task and it turns out to be exactly what you needed to read at that moment?

A Toast to the Old Stones: A Tale from Kinloch made me LOL several times. Thank you Scotland task! 😆

[Melindam]

😍

[Sammy]

While it seems wrong to celebrate such a thing, someone was just beheaded in my current book, so... Yay..? 😆

[Melindam]

😅

[Cat]

So, I finished Brotherless Night. currently in for a page count task, but could push Sophie's "The White Castle" for Historical Fiction out to finish a set?

Thoughts? Don't want to go unilaterally, as I am scarred from fall out of that in TT teams!

[Sophie, The other one]

Either is fine for me

[Cat]

right! I switched for a new spin:

John Julian (South America)
1 100 to 175
2 Takes place in South America
3 Tagged indigenous 10 or more times
4 published in March
5 author or character named John or Julian

Open Tasks
MPG Vampires (Vlad)
tagged dragon 10x (Vlad)
MPG Pirate (Barbarossa)
350 to 450 (Ms Snek-Hair)
takes place in a desert (Ms Snek-Hair)
Mirror on cover (Ms Snek-Hair)

[Cat]

I'm currently reading a book set in Argentina, but it doesn't fit for anything else, so I won't hog anything yet :)

[Sammy]

I'm on the Ukraine etc. task right now.

Just to be perfectly clear for future situations as far as I'm personally concerned: it is always ok to boot me out of a spot if you have something that will finish a set.
Even if I'm reading something specifically for a task, it won't normally taske me much more than a day, so I don't feel like I'd lose out much if it gets (re)moved (much more of an issue for slower readers, I imagine!).

I don't expect everyone else to feel the same - I know I read faster than most - but just wanted that out there so folk don't feel they need to hesitate if I'm in a spot they can use 😉

[Melindam]

You all get free pass to kick my books oit if you finish sth sooner. :)

[Sammy]

have grabbed the vampire task. dragons may be trickier!

[Sophie, The other one]

I'm chilled when it comes to my books being moved. I know I'm not the fastest reader here, but I get to chat with you all and my books are used often enough that I won't be upset.

[Sammy]

Grabbing pirates with an audible freebie too.

[Sammy]

Done with Barbarossa!

Black Caesar (Florida)

1 500 to 650
2 Takes place in Florida
3 Author born in Africa (any country)
4 color word in title
5 Author first or last name starts with C

[Melindam]

I can take page count for this.

[Sammy]

I have a C author coming up, but won't get to it for at least a week, so will leave it open for now.

And of course I just read the only Florida book on my TBr a couple of weeks ago. 🙄

[Cat]

I've got author born in Africa covered :)

[Sammy]

I just went through my tracker SS and looked at how many audible+ books I've read this year. 46 so far. almost a quarter of my read books.
The vast majority of them were to cover a challenge task, and the majority of those were for this particular challenge 😆

[Melindam]

😅

[Sophie, The other one]

Basically everything I ever read on kindle unlimited was challenge related!

You've taken it to an extreme on the percentage of your books for a year though!

[Sophie, The other one]

I've got a Florida one but it might take me a while, so I ly let me read for it if you aren't in a rush.

[Sammy]

Guess I can't say this challenge isn't getting me reading stuff I otherwise wouldn't...

Although the less said about the quality of some of those books, the better 😂

[Sophie, The other one]

There are books with X authors or titles that I don't think should be published, but have been read and the later books in the series seriously considered.

Nothing will top intergalactic space detective or whatever nonsense it was though.

[Sammy]

We've all read some stinkers in the name of challenges, I'm sure!

[Sophie, The other one]

I'm trying to cut down on the number of them, but I'm a sucker for seeing a task that has been left lingering for a while and deciding that it must be read for!

[Sammy]

Ditto 😆

[Melindam]

Sammy wrote: "We've all read some stinkers in the name of challenges, I'm sure!"

Did we? 😆

[Melindam]

Burke & Hare were sent hoppig, we have

Francis Fernando (Jamaica/Caribbean)

1. 350 to 450
2. Takes place in Caribbean
3. Author initials in "Nuestra Señora de Belén"
4. cover >50% teal
5. two word title

[Melindam]

Can this get away with 50% teal?



First I need to finish 2 other books, but can read this one afterwards if there are no other contenders.

[Cat]

I think it's teal, and just 50% :)

I don't think I've anything sooner. Got 3 books left in my TT cap, 3 books being currently read. Happily they are all longer ones, and I'm busy this weekend - Pulp on Friday night then back to my sister's for the weekend :)

[Sammy]

I grabbed the 2 word title. glad the trainwreck of a book I'm just about to finish will come in handy 😂

[Melindam]

OK then, I'll get to it eventually. :))

[Melindam]

I'm removing Kulti from the page count 500-650, sorry.

I wanted to give Mariana Zapata a very last try with a kindle version instead of audio, but I find I'm bored out of my wits and I'm just not in the mood for 500+ pages of self-indulgence & bad wish-fulfilment writing.

[Sammy]

Yeah, I'm not a fan either.

I can cover though 😁

[Melindam]

I hoped you would, but didn't want to push. 🥰

I will take the 350-450 page count instead.

[Sammy]

I'm currently doing a year-long challenge that requires up to 10 chunky books a month, so I pretty much always have one in the wings 😆

[Sammy]

Grabbing the desert task to finish that monster off. Still strugling to find dragons!

[Sammy]

There is also a character named John, but I'm thinking that one is easier, so I'll stick with the desert for now...

[Melindam]

🥰

[Sammy]

and I found a dragon! It's book 2 in a series, but I don't care. it's short 😆

[Sammy]

Medusa done!

Elizabeth Bathory (Hungary/Slovakia)

1 350 to 450
2 takes place in Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Poland or Czech Republic
3 Female or non-binary author
4 BLOOD BATH (any order) found in title and/or series name
5 Folklore tagged 5 or more times

[Sammy]

Off to finish Vlad now 😁

[Melindam]

Hungry...
Ouch! 😆

[Sammy]

lol! someone obviously hadn't had lunch when they wrote the tasks 😆

[Sammy]

And that's Vlad staked and beheaded!

Alexander Pearce (Tasmania)

1 350 to 450
2 Takes place in Tasmania
3 food item on cover
4 Someone runs away (your interpretation)
5 Letters in HOBART in title