TART8 - It’s Raining Men and we've got Umbrellas! (6)

[Tammie]

ooops...I can probably read one quick Benita if you don't have time...I have to find a last minute author that starts with T...maybe I can knock this one out with that.

[Kira]

I read one last night apart from the one I used for myself, we could do that if it's allowed Tammie?

[Tammie]

Kira wrote: "I read one last night apart from the one I used for myself, we could do that if it's allowed Tammie?"

I don't think it said 'everyone had to read' so I think it could work...check with MKat to see...she's probably updating as we're typing.

[Kira]

I posted a query on the QnA page!

[Tammie]

I hope we can go your route Kira...will safe Benita from having to read another.

[One Sentence Audio]

Tammie wrote: "Completion Post: Task 3

Kira: Post 45
Benita: Post 46
Jane: Post 47
Tammie: Post 48"

I have posted a substitute the book MKat DQed

[Tammie]

Benita...thank you! I'm sorry for not paying attention :)

I posted and UPDATED checkin for us.

[One Sentence Audio]

Completion
Task 3 5

The Roommate Pact
Qualification: 2023 published
Pages: 320 1st Kindle edition
Date Completed
Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️contemp romance

My apologies to the team for not catching the higher min. page limit on this challenge.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Awesome - here is your next task! (You wouldn't have gotten it before now anyway...)

Task 4 - 15. Read a minimum of 600 pages in books with an audio edition.

You do not need to listen to the audio, but an audio edition must be available for you book to work for this task! Please include a link to the audio edition in your completion post. Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count.

[Tammie]

I did clarify...we all do have to complete the task unless we use a pass...we all have 1 pass, but only one of us can use it per round...there are exceptions and it will say in the task if passes can't be used.

[One Sentence Audio]

As a team we read 600 pages, or is it...each team member reads a 600+ page book?

[Tammie]

It's as a team...so pretty much a slam dunk even if we each read 150p we're good :)

[One Sentence Audio]

COMPLETION
Task 4 - 15

An Authoress and a Rake by Ann Hawthorne
Pages: 140
Date Completed: September 30, 2023

[One Sentence Audio]

COMPLETION

Task 4-15
Book/cover link:
Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich
Page numbers with source: 320 Kindle 1st
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
How book qualified, with links or cover as necessary.
Date Completed: September 30
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ very similar to JE's Plum series, but not as funny

[Kira]

Completed

Task 4 - 15. Read a minimum of 600 pages in books with an audio edition.

The Dancing Girls by M.M. Chouinard
308p, Kindle 1st edition
Audible Audio Edition
Date Completed | 10/01
Rating/Review | 2 stars - Review

[Jane]

Completion Post

Task 4: 15. Read a minimum of 600 pages in books with an audio edition.

Book/cover link:
The Daring One by Cami Checketts
Page numbers with source: 162
How book qualified: Audio version 1
Date Completed: 10/1-23
Rating/Review: ★★★

[Tammie]

I'm going to put in for MKat to make our team name; It’s Raining Men and we've got Umbrellas!

Just a heads up as it'll change our thread name.

[Tammie]

Hopefully everyone's settling in to this new month of challenges!

I highlighted a few in yellow for decision. Should a decision that requires a team discussion, we'll refer to the SS first.
Because we're basically in 3 different zones of the world, it will be helpful to have this information...we may still need clarifications but at least we've all had a chance to give this some thought.

Everyone could use some updating if you have the time...Benita you didn't get to the because of your travels. Feel free to change your mind or add to this as often as you like...not set in stone.

Happy reading everyone!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Tammie]

One Sentence Audio wrote: "Tammie wrote: "Hopefully everyone's settling in to this new month of challenges!

I highlighted a few in yellow for decision. Should a decision that requires a team discussion, we'll refer to the S..."

I don't know that there is a big difference...you could use your list for both if you wanted to.

[Tammie]

Completed

Task 4 - 15. Read a minimum of 600 pages in books with an audio edition


Where the Forest Meets the Stars, Glendy Vanderah | 10/2
333 pages, Kindle Edition
How book qualified: Audio is version 8
Rating/Review: ★★★+1/2
I liked it. You could tell it was a debut book though...there were a few plot points that weren't really necessary or said another way, they really didn't support the overall story well. But I liked it. It didn't end like I thought it would :)

[Tammie]

Benita...could you add your rating to your post...clarify kindle page count
Here's the template we're supposed to follow: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Tammie]

Team completion Links

Benita Post 64 (reposted at message #82)
Kira Post 65
Jane Post 66
Tammie Post 71

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Tammie wrote: "I did clarify...we all do have to complete the task unless we use a pass...we all have 1 pass, but only one of us can use it per round...there are exceptions and it will say in the task if passes c..."

I wanted to correct one point here. Each teammate has one pass per round. It can be used on any task that allows it, tasks that don't will say so in the description.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

One Sentence Audio wrote: "COMPLETION
Task 4 - 15

An Authoress and a Rake by Ann Hawthorne
Pages: 140
Date Completed: September 30, 2023"

This book does not qualify for this challenge, the minimum page count is 150.

Also since there is no audiobook listed on GR, without a link to either audible or Amazon, I would need a correction. This info is only for the future if something similar is needed.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

One Sentence Audio wrote: "COMPLETION
Task 4-15

Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich
Pages: 320
Date Completed: September 30"

Please add your rating and how the book qualifies. Thanks.

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Since I am not waiting for corrections - yet. And you didn't need the second book from Benita... Here is your next task!

Task 5 - 25. Read 4 books written by one of the 2021 FACs (Featured Author Challenge).

Read a book written by one of 2021's FACs (found in the monthly challenge.) You may also read a book written by a pseudonym of the FACs or co-written by one of the FACs.

Authors for 2021:
January - Jayne Ann Krentz
February - Jill Shalvis
March - Kristen Callihan
April - Eloisa James
May - Kaje Harper
June - Thea Harrison
July - Vi Keeland
August - Jewel E. Ann
September - Sarah MacLean
October - Lynsay Sands
November - Samantha Towle
December - Jennifer Ashley

[Kira]

Completed

Task 5 - 25. Read 4 books written by one of the 2021 FACs (Featured Author Challenge).

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean
325p, Kindle 1st edition
Author Sarah MacLean was featured in September for FAC 2021
Date Completed | 10/03
Rating/Review | 4 stars - Review

[Tammie]

I asked...not sure if we have to read 4 different authors. I doubt it.
I'm reading one for Jayne Ann Krentz

[One Sentence Audio]

Please ignore. Book too short.
COMPLETED

A Duke Worth Falling For by Sarah MacLean
Pages: 148
Date: October 2, 2023
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

[Tammie]

Reply to Q
No, you each can choose whichever author is most appealing - even if you all choose the same author or the same book.

[One Sentence Audio]

COMPLETED


Book: The Devilish Lord Will
Qualification: by Jennifer Ashley (December)
Pages: 315 first Kindle edition
Date Completed: October 3
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Highlanders search for post-Culloden French Jacobite gold. #10 in series, Mackenzies & McBrides.

[One Sentence Audio]

Edited Repost...sorry for previous errors...I was on a long car trip to see and review my spouse's (and my own) headstone.😟

COMPLETION

Task 4-15
Book/cover link:
Love in a Nutshell by Janet Evanovich
Page numbers with source: 320 Kindle 1st
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Qualification: 320 pages of 600 required for Task 4-15
Date Completed: September 30
Rating/Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ very similar to JE's Plum series, but not as funny

[Jane]

Completion Post

Task 5: 25. Read 4 books written by one of the 2021 FACs (Featured Author Challenge).

Book/cover link:
Hot Winter Nights by Jill Shalvis
Page numbers with source: 388
How book qualified: Jill Shalvis: February
Date Completed: 10/4-23
Rating/Review: ★★★

[Tammie]

Completed

Task 5: 25. Read 4 books written by one of the 2021 FACs

The Vanishing, Jayne Ann Krentz | 10/4
322 pages, Kindle Edition
Krentz was FA in January
★★★★
Pretty good. It's tagged high for horror...but I wouldn't say horror at all. A romantic suspense.

[Tammie]

Team completion Links

Kira - Post 77
Benita - Post 81
Jane - Post 83
Tammie - Post 84

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is your next task!

Task 6 - 28. Each teammate reads a book from a teammate's to-read shelf, no pass for this task.

Everyone picks a book off a teammate's 'to-read' shelf, or variation of that shelf such as 'read-next'. You can choose any teammate's shelf to select your book. Please include a link to the teammate's to-read shelf in your completion posts.

[Kira]

Completed

Task 6 - 28. Each teammate reads a book from a teammate's to-read shelf, no pass for this task.

Flying by the Seat of My Knickers by Eliza Watson
206p, Kindle 1st edition
Tammie's To-Read Shelf
Date Completed | 10/05
Rating/Review | 3 stars - Review

[Tammie]

Completed

Task 6 - 28. Each teammate reads a book from a teammate's to-read shelf, no pass for this task.

American King, Sierra Simone | 10/5
485 pages, Kindle Edition
Qualification: Benita's to-read shelf
★★★
I've now finished the trilogy...lots of sex in these books. The author 'goes on and on' a bit too much in portions of the book. The plot is good...this one ended a bit different than I expected.

[One Sentence Audio]

COMPLETED
Task 6-28 From teammates's TBR shelf

Book: Surviving Savannah
Qualification: on Tammie's TBR shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Pages(Kindle 1st Edition): 432
Date: October 5, 2023
Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. The story of a Savannah history professor who investigates a deadly ship explosion, the survivors and the missing, set in Savannah...interesting to me because I usually spend several months a yea in the Low Country.

[Tammie]

One Sentence Audio wrote: "COMPLETED
Task 6-28 From teammates's TBR shelf

Book: Surviving Savannah
Qualification: on Tammie's TBR shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Pages(Kind..."

I'm glad you liked it...I just added it to my shelf...our Bookclub picked it for our December read.

[One Sentence Audio]

Tammie wrote: "One Sentence Audio wrote: "COMPLETED
Task 6-28 From teammates's TBR shelf

Book: Surviving Savannah
Qualification: on Tammie's TBR shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list......"

The author is also very popular with my IRL book club....so I already had the book checked out via Libby. Win-Win!

[Jane]

Completion Post

Task 6: 28. Each teammate reads a book from a teammate's to-read shelf, no pass for this task.

Book/cover link:
Chaos in Little Leaf Creek by Cindy Bell
Page numbers with source: 234
How book qualified: Tammie's to-read, page 8
Date Completed: 10/5-23
Rating/Review: ★★★
Okay read but I didn't feel invested in any of the characters.

[Jane]

Completion Post: Task 6

Kira: Message 87
Tammie: Message 88
Benita: Message 89
Jane: Message 92

[Jane]

I've checked us in

[MountainKat, Moderator]

Here is your next task!

Task 7 - 33. Read 6 books in the same sub-genre, teams decide.

As a team select a sub-genre of romance and than read 6 books in that sub-genre. Please include the selected sub-genre in your completion posts.

[One Sentence Audio]

Hi Y'All...what is our team subgenre...I tried to check the threads and SS...sorry...I can't figure it out...subgenre?

[Tammie]

Popular subgenres I can think of

Contemporary romance
Historical romance
Paranormal romance
Romantic Suspense
Regency romance

For sub, I believe the word ‘romance’ needs to be listed with the genre as I’ve listed above

Please list here the ones that work for you or others if I’ve left off something obvious…
We can vote or one of us can choose the common sub that works for everyone.., just list your preference here…also list if you can do a second book as we need to read x6

[One Sentence Audio]

Tammie wrote: "Popular subgenres I can think of

Contemporary romance
Historical romance
Paranormal romance
Romantic Suspense
Regency romance

For sub, I believe the word ‘romance’ needs to be listed with the gen..."


Historic romance

I can do 2, if we can start tomorrow. I have a NYC trip 10/9-14.

[Tammie]

One Sentence Audio wrote: "Tammie wrote: "Popular subgenres I can think of

Contemporary romance
Historical romance
Paranormal romance
Romantic Suspense
Regency romance

For sub, I believe the word ‘romance’ needs to be list..."

We all have to read the same sub genre…is historical the only one that works for you?

[Tammie]

For sub genre—I’d prefer contemporary romance
Am ok with others listed except not regency