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R24: Team #3 ~ Easy Threesie ~ WINNING TEAM
Just a Hop, Skip & Click AwayHappy Reading!
Shelf Announcements ~ Check for the latest shelf announcement & review the requirements for each shelf
Captain's Log ~ Share team shelf stats prior to requesting a stamp
Stamp Me! ~ Request a stamp for your bingo card
Discussions ~ Throughout the game, head here to chat with other players & shelf chant til your heart's content
Bingo Rules ~ Rules of the game
Free Space Rules ~ Where to look when pickin' your free space book
Bingo FAQ ~ Don't hesitate! If you have a question, let us know.
Hiya, Team Caps! Thanks for volunteering to guide your team through a round of BookShelf Bingo! Your job, should you choose to accept it, will require a few things:
1 ~ Be our go-to person should we have any questions about your team
2 ~ Organize your teammate's weekly reads for each shelf/category so that the BSB Ninjas can quickly and easily verify and approve your stamp request(s)
2a ~ Create a master list in a post (preferably on the first page of your team's thread) and update it weekly or as often as necessary
2b ~ Post your team's stats on the Captain's Log prior to requesting a stamp
3 ~ Encourage and motivate your team (you may also ask to borrow Judithe's whip whenever necessary)
4 ~ Post regularly to ensure your team is communicating and on track each week
4a ~ Send them a PM and friendly poke if they haven't posted at least once a week, noted their book choice, and/or appear to have dropped out of webspace
5 ~ Send us a PM (Steph or Sandra) should you need us for any reason throughout the game
Team #3 - Easy Threesie - Master List Free Space - Stamped
~JustMel~ The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter 4✮ rating, Date Read: 11/23/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ Shield's Lady by Jayne Ann Krentz 5✮ rating, Date Read: 11/4/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ The Other Half of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost 5✮ rating, Date Read: 10/22/23 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Category #1 ~ 18 Oct: Nat'l Food Day - Stamped
~JustMel~ Them Bones by Carolyn Haines 4✮ rating, Date Read: 10/26/23 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon 3✮ rating, Date Read: 10/23/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ Potions and Pastries by Bailey Cates 4✮ rating, Date Read: 10/21/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Category #2 ~ 25 Oct: Nat'l Book Month - Reader's Choice - Stamped
~JustMel~ Sun God Seeks…Surrogate? by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff 5✮ rating, Date Read: 11/3/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ Tales From The SFR Brigade by J.C. Cassels 3✮ rating, Date Read: 10/28/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews 5✮ rating, Date Read: 10/29/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Category #3 ~ 1 Nov: Nat’l Boyfriend Day - Stamped
~JustMel~ Last Dragon Standing by G.A. Aiken 5✮ rating, Date Read: 11/11/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs 5✮ rating, Date Read: 11/9/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ Both Feet in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost 5✮ rating, Date Read: 11/4/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Category #4 ~ 8 Nov: Nat'l Savings Day - Stamped
~JustMel~ Delicate Freakn' Flower by Eve Langlais 4✮ rating, Date Read: 11/12/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ A Ghostly Undertaking by Tonya Kappes 4✮ rating, Date Read: 11/11/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ The Girl Who Sees by Dima Zales 2✮ rating, Date Read: 11/13/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Category #5 ~ 15 Nov: Nat'l Cat Day - Stamped
~JustMel~ When He’s Dark by Suzanne Wright 5✮ rating, Date Read: 11/25/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ Megan's Mark by Lora Leigh 3✮ rating, Date Read: 11/18/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston 4✮ rating, Date Read: 11/18/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Category #6 ~ 22 Nov: Kindness To Animals Day - Stamped
~JustMel~ Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston 5✮ rating, Date Read: 11/27/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ The Man Within by Lora Leigh 2✮ rating, Date Read: 11/22/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ Big Bad Beast by Shelly Laurenston 5✮ rating, Date Read: 11/25/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Category #7 ~ 29 Nov: Nat'l Mad Hatter Day - BINGO
~JustMel~ Ask Alice by Kell Frillman 4✮ rating, Date Read: 12/2/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ Freeing Luka by Victoria Aveline 4✮ rating, Date Read: 12/2/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ Alice by Christina Henry 4✮ rating, Date Read: 11/30/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hi ladies! This, plus it helps me to kinda sorta break down my Mt. TBR. Kinda sorta because I’ll read the first book in the series and wind up adding the remainder of the series to said mountain lol
Or someone reads a book and gushes about it and on the pile it goes!!But seriously, I do so many challenges that lead off in different directions and I don't keep up with some of my favorite series in this genre. This game gets me back to them without feeling guilty.
Hello! I’m looking forward to playing this round. I’ve been in a reading slump and need this to get me going again.
Hello! I’m looking forward to playing this round. The National Day theme makes me smile. I’m a co-mod on a cozy mystery group and I post a National Day each morning. (Today is National Chocolate Cupcake Day!) I am headed out for a day trip with my bonus sister and will check back in later.
We need to designate a team captain. Anyone interested? I could do it. I have done it before, but if someone else wants to do it, that is fine with me.
It’s been so long since I’ve done it so you’ve got my vote!
I'll do the Captain thing - here is the first CategoryCategory #1 ~ 18 Oct: Nat'l Food Day
Requirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
A Master list is in our first post above. I changed my Hi team message to this. Please do a Selection Post and a Completion post and I will gather data from them. Remember books have to be a minimum of 200 pages.
Besides satisfying the category requirement the book also has to come from one of the 5 R24 Shelves on the Announcement page.
I asked Sandra about those lists since the GR lists only show the 1st 25 pages. She said that you can also consider them as being on the GR list if they have the shelf listed on the book's page.
Also Remember we need to read for the Free Space. Check out the rules for that under the link at the top.That's it for now. Let me know if you have questions or put them in the Discussion thread for the Mods to answer.
Selection PostCategory #1 ~ 18 Oct: Nat'l Food Day
Requirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
Book: One Poison Pie
Author: Lynn Cahoon
Series: Kitchen Witch Mysteries #1
Shelf used: GR Paranormal Mystery - 7x
Pages: 274
How it Fits: There is an apple pie on the counter behind the stove
Team #3 - Category #1 ~ 18 Oct: Nat'l Food DayRequirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
~JustMel~ Them Bones by Carolyn Haines 4✮ rating, Date Read: 10/26/23 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon 3✮ rating, Date Read: 10/23/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ Potions and Pastries by Bailey Cates 4✮ rating, Date Read: 10/21/23
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Thanks for being captain, Linda! I’ll post my selections shortly.
Selection PostThe Other Half of the Grave Jeaniene Frost
424 pages
How it fits: Option 3 On SOS bookshelf (added 04.27.23)
Selection PostShelf 1- 18 Oct: Nat'l Food Day
Requirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
Potions and Pastries Bailey Cates
292 pages
How it fits: Pastries and hot drink on the counter
Tagged 12 times on GR as paranormal mystery
Team #3 -Easy Threesie - Free Space ~JustMel~ The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter 4✮ rating, Date Read: 11/23/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ Shield's Lady by Jayne Ann Krentz 5✮ rating, Date Read: 11/4/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ The Other Half of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost 5✮ rating, Date Read: 10/22/23 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Selection PostFree Space
Book: Shield's Lady
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Pages: 341
How it Fits: Option #2: #3 on Stand Alone list
Selection PostFree Space
Title: The Darkest Night by Gena Showalter
Pages: 379
Shelf: SOS Group Shelf
Good morning! Do we want to pick a team name? I’m terrible at that but did check the team name generator. A few that popped up were:Bookish Ghouls
Reading Raiders
Word Wenches
Booked For Bingo
Easy Threesie
I like using the word three, since we're Team 3 and there are three of us. So maybe Easy Threesie or Three for Bingo
I have completed both of my books. I will get the reviews posted as soon as I can. I spent some time away this weekend and had limited internet access.
Name added :)
Completion PostCategory #1 ~ 18 Oct: Nat'l Food Day
Requirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
Book: One Poison Pie
Author: Lynn Cahoon
Series: Kitchen Witch Mysteries #1
Shelf used: GR Paranormal Mystery - 7x
Pages: 274
Read: 10/23/23
Rating: 3 stars
How it Fits: There is an apple pie on the counter behind the stove.
Review: Mia Malone has bought an old school building to fix up for a catering business and home delivered meal service. Her first catering client is a woman with many enemies who is murdered on the day of the event. The antagonistic cop harasses her and Cristina, her young helper. There are run ins with Mia's ex (Cristina's brother) and a new love interest introduced. A fun new series.
Completion PostShelf 1- 18 Oct: Nat'l Food Day
Requirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
Potions and Pastries Bailey Cates
292 pages
How it fits: Pastries and hot drink on the counter
Tagged 12 times on GR as paranormal mystery
Read: 10.21.23
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
The bleat of a boat horn drifted from the river to mingle with the sounds of the Savannah waterfront.
Book seven of the Magical Bakery series begins with Katie, Lucy, Declan, and Ben celebrating the second anniversary of Honeybee Bakery. The waterfront is alive with street performers and Lucy's friend Orla is telling fortunes. The following day, Orla is killed in a freak accident that the police originally believe to be suicide. Lucy feels that something is not quite right and begins to investigate the death.
I enjoy this series and have been remiss in reading it for a while. Katie has fully embraced her life as a hedgewitch and uses her magic to instill a little something extra into her baked goods. Her fortune from Orla bothers her. Katie needs to learn more about the Irish Travelers community that Orla belonged to in order to understand the death. The various elements of the family's abilities plays heavily into the investigation.
I love the characters in this series. I really like seeing how Katie and Declan are progressing with their relationship. The house hunting thread ended the way I had hoped it would.
The Spell Club is a wonderfully diverse group of women that come together to help each other. I always pick up something new about each woman in each book.
The mystery was well done and I was looking at the wrong person as the culprit throughout the book. I enjoyed realizing who the person was just as Katie did.
The description of the food in the bakery always makes me hungry. I would love to have such a bakery near me, with or without the magical pastries.
This series is a fun paranormal cozy that I recommend highly.
Completion PostThe Other Half of the Grave Jeaniene Frost
424 pages
How it fits: Option 3 On SOS bookshelf (added 04.27.23)
Read: 10.22.23
Rating: 5 stars
Review:
Tonight, Bones hunted.
Wow! Just, wow! I didn't think I could love Bones any more than I already do, but I was wrong. I was late starting this series and can't believe it has been thirteen years since I first read Halfway to the Grave. Hearing everything from Bones point of view brought back great memories from the first book. In fact, I pulled it off my shelf and followed along as I listened to Bones.
I always remember when Bones first saw Cat and his reactions. I had forgotten some of the people from the original book and how they related to the story.
This is such a powerfully written book that gives me all the feels. I know I have a multitude of book boyfriends but Bones is in the top five.
I went back and forth between listening and reading this book. I had to stop listening in the car because the narrator's voice is very similar to a hypnosis series I use. Other than that, the narration was fabulous.
Being able to see and hear Bones total devotion to Cat was amazing. I can't wait to read/listen to the next book. I already have it in queue.
I highly recommend this book and series!
I had a sixteen hour day yesterday and crashed when I got home. (Welcome back to work after being off for two weeks!) I’ll post my book when I get a break this morning.
Selection PostShelf 2: Reader’s Choice
Steel's Edge Ilona Andrews
Shelf 1- Urban fantasy
890 tags in GR
Added to SOS bookshelf 05.31.2013
388 pages
Category #2 ~ 25 Oct: Nat'l Book Month - Reader's ChoiceRequirement ~ Read a book found on one of the five shelves, 200+ pages, genre must be part of a fantasy subgenre (PNR, UF, PN-Mystery, Sci-Fi Fantasy, SFR, etc)
~JustMel~ Sun God Seeks…Surrogate? by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff 5✮ rating, Date Read: 11/3/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Linda C ~ Tales From The SFR Brigade by J.C. Cassels 3✮ rating, Date Read: 10/28/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Moondance ~ Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews 5✮ rating, Date Read: 10/29/23, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Selection PostCategory #2 ~ 25 Oct: Nat'l Book Month - Reader's Choice
Book: Tales From The SFR Brigade
Author: J.C. Cassels, editor
Pages: 276
How it Fits: #851 on the GR SFR list
~JustMel~How is you week 1 read coming?
Linda C wrote: "~JustMel~How is you week 1 read coming?"
Hey Linda! Finished my week 1 pick last night. I’ll post my review in a bit :)
Completion PostShelf #1- 18 Oct: Nat'l Food Day
Requirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
Title: Them Bones by Carolyn Haines
Pages: 336
Shelf: Paranormal Mystery GR Shelf
Read: 10.26.23
How it Fits: Basket of cherries and a mint julep on the cover
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review:
This book was actually better than I thought it would be. I decided to go with the audiobook version for this one which made for a pretty good time. The narrator was AWESOME and easily made Gitty my favorite character. She’s a ghost by the way… The plot itself took a little bit for me to fall into since it is about the southern belle/ debutante lifestyle, (which I didn’t think was still a thing) but once I figured out that it absolutely is still a thing today I was able to put myself in a “fly on the wall” mindset and really immerse myself in the story.
Overall, I really liked this one. I felt for poor (literally) Sarah Booth being in the predicaments she found herself in. Especially at the end. I just wanted to give her a hug. Le sigh… The mystery part of the story actually caught me off guard. I thought I had it figured out, but was completely thrown for a loop when the big reveal was… well… revealed lol
I’ll have to read/listen to the rest of the books in this series. If this first book is anything to go off of, I’m sure I’ll have a good time.
Selection PostShelf #2
Title: Sun God Seeks…Surrogate? by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
Pages: 300
Shelf: SOS Paranormal Romance Shelf
~JustMel~ wrote: "Completion PostShelf #1- 18 Oct: Nat'l Food Day
Requirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
Title: Them Bones by [author:Carolyn..."
Mel, you'll need to add a rating to your review :)
Completion PostCategory #2 ~ 25 Oct: Nat'l Book Month - Reader's Choice
Book: Tales From The SFR Brigade
Author: J.C. Cassels, editor
Pages: 276
Read: 10/28/23
Rating: 3 stars
How it Fits: #851 on the GR SFR list
Review: A group of writers calling themselves the Science Fiction Romance Brigade came together to digitally publish a collection of their stories. I downloaded this for free in 2016 because of Linnea Sinclair and Marcella Burnard, whose works I have read and enjoyed.
The stories vary widely in length and complexity. Some are little more than a vignette. Others were OK. One, Prime Sensations by Liana Brooks feels like a book proposal with lots of promise. It has all the ingredients but lacks a complete backstory, most of the action and character depth. Burnard’s story was good but would be nice expanded to novella length.
Sinclair’s story about Sass and Kel-Paten could have fallen neatly into her novel about them. She’s the best. Too bad she doesn't seem to plan on writing any more. She is more involved in teaching the craft.
So, some good stuff. Some authors that look like they have potential. I'll be checking to see if they have done more.
Sandra wrote: "~JustMel~ wrote: "Completion PostShelf #1- 18 Oct: Nat'l Food Day
Requirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
Title: Them Bones ..."
Mel has a rating of 4 stars on the book page. I will use that on the team listing.
I have requested the stamp for Category #1
Linda C wrote: "I have requested the stamp for Category #1"Whoo hoo!
Linda C wrote: "Sandra wrote: "~JustMel~ wrote: "Completion PostShelf #1- 18 Oct: Nat'l Food Day
Requirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
Title: [book:Them..."
Sorry it has to be on review on your team page.
I've sent two messages to Mel. When she updates rating I'll request stamp again.
No worries Linda, appreciate the frustration :) But at least its early in the game.
AnnouncementCategory #3 ~ 1 Nov: Nat’l Boyfriend Day
Requirement ~ Read a book featuring your book boyfriend
Selection PostCategory #3 ~ 1 Nov: Nat’l Boyfriend Day
Book: Smoke Bitten
Author: Patricia Briggs
Pages: 319
How it Fits: Book boyfriend - Adam
GR UF - #150
SOS: Serious Overload of Series
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Captain: Linda C
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~JustMel~
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