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R24: Team #11 ~ Page Flippers
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
Hi EveryoneSo happy to be back playing bingo.
Just popping in at the end of my day to find my team and say hi.
I'm Rosina and live in Canada. Great to see Debbie again. Marisa nice to meet you. I have a very active work and social life and reading is my relaxation and happy place.
I would prefer not to be captain this round, busy with doing an audit at work till the end of November.
Team name suggestions.
Two of a kind
Page Flippers
Selection PostWeek 1 - Food on the cover
Book: Southern Karma by Amy Boyles
How it fits: from Goodreads' Paranormal Romance shelf showing mint and lemon on the cover
R24 Shelf/Genre: (4) Paranormal Mystery.
Hello everyone, checking in the middle of my work. I am Marisa and I live in Spain, so expect strange hours :D Reading is my relaxing place too, since long time ago. About name, I like "Page Flippers". And, if nobody else wants to be captain, I can be.
Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) wrote: "Hi Captain Marisa!":D So, are we going to flip pages? ;)
Free Space (Stamped)Debbie's Spurts (DA): Magic & Mirrors by Annabel Chase (21/10/2023 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Marisa: Dust Born by Elizabeth Hunter (04/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Rosina: Hungry Like the Wolf by Paige Tyle (30/10/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Category 1: Nat'l Food Day (Stamped) (Week Summary)
Debbie's Spurts (DA): Southern Karma by Amy Boyles (21/10/2023 - 📚📚½) Review
Marisa: Spirits and Sourdough by Bailey Cates (27/10/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Rosina: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (24/10/2023 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Category 2: Nat'l Book Month (Stamped) (Week Summary)
Debbie's Spurts (DA): Shifting Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter (29/10/2023 - 📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Mad for a Mate by MaryJanice Davidson (01/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Rosina: Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates (01/11/2023 - 📚📚📚) Review
Category 3: Nat'l Boyfriend Day (Stamped) (Week Summary)
Debbie's Spurts (DA): The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire (03/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Knighthunter by Anna Hackett (02/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Rosina: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (10/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Category 4: Nat'l Savings Day (Stamped) (Week Summary)
Debbie's Spurts (DA): The Viper’s Nest Roadhouse & Cafe by Seana Kelly (17/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Marisa: The Gorgon Agenda by Lisa Shearin (12/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Rosina: Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch (12/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review
Category 5: Nat'l Cat Day (Stamped) (Week Summary)
Debbie's Spurts (DA): The King's Captive by K.M. Shea (18/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Her Rogue Alpha by Paige Tyler (19/11/2023 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Rosina: The Mane Event by Shelly Laurenston (19/11/2023 - 📚📚📚) Review
Category 6: Kindness To Animals Day (Stamped) (Week Summary)
Debbie's Spurts (DA): Probable Paws by Leighann Dobbs (23/11/2023 - 📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: A Night's Tail by Sofie Kelly (25/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Rosina: The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon (28/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Category 7: Nat'l Mad Hatter Day (Stamp Requested) (Week Summary)
Debbie's Spurts (DA): Witch's Sorrow by Taylor Aston White (02/12/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Deception Cove by Jayne Castle (03/12/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Rosina: Heart of Malice by Lisa Edmonds (03/12/2023 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Category #1 ~ 18 Oct: Nat'l Food DayRequirement ~ Read a book featuring any type of food on the cover
Link for shelf information
Category 1: Nat'l Food DayDebbie's Spurts (DA): Southern Karma by Amy Boyles (21/10/2023 - 📚📚½) Review
Marisa: Spirits and Sourdough by Bailey Cates (27/10/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Rosina: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (24/10/2023 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Summary Post
Yes, Page Flippers. (deleted some previous small talk comments to move summaries up.)
hi Marisa...Spain....wow we are an international group...Debbie....I started my book so far liking it...will keep you posted once I can spend a good 3 hours reading...
Added your team name, and added you to the Captain's list for Steph, Marisa.
Well, posts updated. Now the funny part: choose book and read
Selection PostCategory 1: Nat'l Food Day
Book: Cookies and Clairvoyance by Bailey Cates
Pages: 304
How it fits: Shelved 11 times as Paranormal Mystery
Completion Post~Shelf- Week 1: Food on the cover
Book- Southern Karma
Author- Amy Boyles
How it fits- Goodreads paranormal romance shelf, cover shows mint and lemon
R24 Shelf/Genre: (4) Paranormal Mystery
Pages- 211, Kindle Unlimited Edition
Date Finished- 10/21/2023
Rating- ★★½☆☆
Review: Enjoyable paranormal cozy mystery, sixth in "Southern Sweet Tea Witches." A nice find in kindle unlimited and I also like other series by author. Six books in, the main character, Pepper Dunn, has more angst and insecuirty than she should have (I have little patience with angst). She was eyerolling-ly trusting of the big bad proven awful in previous books. I'm okay with slow burn or even clean romance, but I think this book needed more romance. I do enjoy the series; I put off this book until needed for BINGO since I don't enjoy plots like synopsis noted where time stands still or loops like Groundhog's Day. Overall, I rate this one average with plenty of action and fast paced. I'll continue the series. Hopefully less angst and less trusting in future books. Pepper outsmarted the bad guy, but is way too trusting.
Selection post Free Space
Book: Magic & Mirrors by Annabel Chase.
How it fits: Option 3, a book off group bookshelves
R24 Shelf/Genre: (4) Paranormal Mystery.
Completion Post~Shelf- Free Space
Book- Magic & Mirrors
Author- Annabel Chase
How it fits- Option 3, on group bookshelves
R24 Shelf/Genre: (4) Paranormal Mystery
Pages- 228 (Kindle Unlimited Edition)
Date Finished- 10/21/2023
Rating- ★★★½☆
Review: #17 in "Starry Hollow Witches" paranormal cozy mystery series. Series is still going strong. I'm still enjoying this world and the main characters. No surprises or spoilers in this one; it seems more like an episode (if this were a tv series) than a full part of series progression. As synopsis mentions, there is a marriage proposal, but not really anything else essential to storyline progression.
Completion Post~Shelf- Week 1: Food on the cover
Book- Legends & Lattes
Author- Travis Baldree
How it fits- SOS Paranormal Mystery shelf & cover shows bakery items
Pages- 288 pages ebook
Date Finished- 10/24/2023
Rating- ★★★½☆
Review: I wasnt sure what to expect from this read. I knew it was a popular book last year and I went in blind. I try hard to read books that are fantasy but usually cast them aside as they are just too much for my brain to figure out.
I was pleasantly surprised with this read. Definitely is a cozy read. The MC is Viv who is retiring from being an adventurer of sorts. She is an Orc and is wanting a more peaceful life. She had saved her money over the years and is ready to start out on this different type of adventure.
I liked how all the secondary characters were ones that you root for and want the best for. There were some villans but they were not too viscious or unlikeable.
The story starts with Viv finding a place to start her coffee shop in a city that she likes but that have never had gnomish coffee.
There are many renovations that need to be done after she bought a livery building. The characters come in as needed. A carpenter, a baker, an assistant, a musician. There are many different types of beings - succubus, rattkin, gnomes, elf, fey, a dire-cat.
This is a quick read and nice slow pace, a great read for a lazy weekend read. Characters I really enoyed were Thimble the rattkin baker and Amity the dire cat.
I will source out the new one as I enoyed the writing style and pace.
Just popping in to see if shelf called.
It's called: "Reader's Choice - 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)"
Selection Post - Readers ChoiceI will read Gallows Hill it has been shelved by 1 person on Supernatural Thriller GR list.
Selection PostWeek 2 - Reader's Choice fantasy subgenre
Book: Shifting Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter
R24 Shelf/Genre: (1) Urban Fantasy
How it fits: on goodreads shelves as "fantasy" "Paranormal Romance" and "urban fantasy"; on group bookshelf as "pnr"
Edited all previous posts to make sure noted which of the five R24 Shelf/Genre categories book fit.
Category #2 ~ 25 Oct: Nat'l Book Month (I guess)Requirement ~ Reader's Choice - 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)
Category 2: Nat'l Book MonthDebbie's Spurts (DA): Shifting Dreams by Elizabeth Hunter (29/10/2023 - 📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Mad for a Mate by MaryJanice Davidson (01/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Rosina: Gallows Hill by Darcy Coates (01/11/2023 - 📚📚📚) Review
Summary Post
Marisa....I am reading Gallows Hill for Week 2 Readers ChoiceHungry Like the Wolf is for Free Space
Rosina wrote: "Marisa....I am reading Gallows Hill for Week 2 Readers ChoiceHungry Like the Wolf is for Free Space"
Sorry, 7AM is not a good moment to update the bingo :(
Completion PostCategory 1: Nat'l Food Day
Book: Spirits and Sourdough by Bailey Cates
Pages: 284
How it fits: Cover shows bread
Shelf/Genre: (4) Paranormal Mystery / GR
Read: 27/10/2023
Rating: ★★★★
Review
This book has two threads: The murder itself, isolated in the book, and a long thread, the recovery of Conell (not saying more, spoilers). I've liked the mystery itself, how it evolves, the end, absurd but sadly human, and how all of the characters are ready to help the others. A good feeling after reading the book, but a sad feeling too. I hope there will be more books in the series.
Well, posts updated (and corrected), and requested our first stamp, good!
CONGRATULATIONS, Page Flippers!You now have an updated BINGO card with a stamp on 'Nat'l Food Day'.
[Your updated BINGO card can be viewed on page 1]
Good Job!! :D
Thank you, Steph! And a very proper stamp for this time of the year.
Congratulations on the stamp Page Flippers!!And I agree Steph has picked a good one this round :)
Completion Post~Week 2 - Reader's Choice fantasy subgenre
Book- Shifting Dreams
Author- Elizabeth Hunter
R24 Shelf/Genre: (1) Urban Fantasy
How it fits: on goodreads shelves as "fantasy" "Paranormal Romance" and "urban fantasy"; on group bookshelf as "pnr"
Pages- 316 (Kindle Unlimited Edition)
Date Finished- 10/29/2023
Rating- ★★★☆☆
Review: #1 in "Cambrio Springs" paranormal romance series. Well written. A better developed worldbuilding than I was expecting in that you got a sense of the history of the town and the residents, even pulled in local mythologies.
Definitely a series that is firmly in the "paranormal romance" genre with each HEA book to be following a different couple's romance.
I read this in one sitting and it gripped me the entire time. Liked the main character and even the mystery element. But after finishing, without some of the paranormal elements, I felt I could have been reading any of the romances I read decades ago with a widowed settler with children relocating to a new town or returning to an old one--which while a compliment to the atmosphere author created for the town made it less interesting for me.
The romance was fine, but the hero was a bit of wish fulfillment for the MC right down to adoring her kids. The town/society punishing their own (basically murder) with neighboring law enforcement aware, restrictive rules and measures to protect the secrecy was creepy even though not unusual for pnr/uf genre books. Almost a small cult town feel.
So, overall a well-written, original story with interesting elements. But not a series I'm likely to continue even free in kindle unlimited. Next books are romances of side characters that didn't engage my interest. Not enough "urban" to warrant calling it "urban fantasy" -- the small rural southwestern U.S. town could have been set in any time period. I suspect the murder victim may have been the most interesting character.
Everything was there for this to become a new favorite series, but just not into it.
Category #3 ~ 1 Nov: Nat’l Boyfriend DayRequirement ~ Read a book featuring your book boyfriend
Link for shelf information
Category 3: Nat'l Boyfriend DayDebbie's Spurts (DA): The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire (03/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Knighthunter by Anna Hackett (02/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Rosina: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (10/11/2023 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review
Summary Post
Selection PostCategory 2: Nat'l Book Month
Book: Mad for a Mate by MaryJanice Davidson
Pages: 323
How it fits: Shelved 10 times as paranormal-romance
Shelf / Genre: (2) Paranormal Romance: GR / SOS / Amazon
Completion Post~ Free SpaceBook- Hungry Like the Wolf
Author- Paige Tyler
R24 Shelf/Genre: (2) PNR
How it fits: Option 3 - On SOS bookshelf
Pages- 320 (ebook)
Date Finished- 10/30/2023
Rating- ★★★★☆
Review:
Oh my goodness I do love me some shifters. This story kept my attention from the beginning. I enjoyed the writing style and the story line. A bunch of shifters I think 16 if memory serves, member of the Dallas SWAT team.
THere is lots of action, this is more of a romantic suspense story. Gage is the commander of SWAT and the story opens with a crime boss son being killed by the SWAT. Mackenzie is a journalist who is doing a story on the SWAT as she was told they used performance enhancing drugs and she wants to find out the truth. Gage and Mackenzie are attracted to each other right away. I thought it was a good start to a series and I will continue on.
Completion Post~ Week 2 - Reader's Choice Book- Gallows Hill
Author- Darcy Coates
R24 Shelf/Genre: GR (5)Supernatural Thriller - tagged 1x
Pages- 377 (paperback)
Date Finished- 11/01/2023
Rating- ★★★☆☆
Review:
Oh my goodness what a long winded snoozefest this was. Over 50% was just a tad boring for me, just soooooo drawn out. I am use to reading SK or DK or RL for horror and this just does not measure up. Definitely wanted more action or something to make me want to keep reading. The last third of the story once it picked up was quite good and very descriptive.
Margot is inheriting the family winery. She is going home for her parents funerals and hasnt seen them since she was quite young. She was sent away and raised by her grandmother. The land is cursed and the house is haunted.
At the end I was still left wanting to know more of the backstory. I wanted to know about Margot’s parents, and their experiences, as well as the rest of the Hull family
Category #3 ~ 1 Nov: Nat’l Boyfriend DayRequirement ~ Read a book featuring your book boyfriend
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Captain: Marisa
Members:
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