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TART9 - Snakes on a Plane (12)
If 1 doesn't work for everyone I can go with any of Laura's other pics. but I do prefer 1.
I can do Team 1 - someone read an In Death book so with series rule, I can do that.
Completion PostTask 15 - 71. Pick another team and each member reads one book that was read by a member for this challenge. No pass for this task.
Team Selected: Team 1
Book: Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin
Date Read: 6/3
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 328
How it fits: Read by Elizabeth for their task #3
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
MKat posted this yesterday:‼️ Please note‼️
After today, I will not be assigning new tasks if a book does not qualify or needs correction. This will include missing links for tags, lists or other editions! The book will need to be made up or the post corrected before a new task will be assigned!
Please make sure you read the complete message when a new task is assigned!!
Completion PostTask 15 - 71. Pick another team and each member reads one book that was read by a member for this challenge. No pass for this task.
Team Selected ~ Team 1
Book: Nightwork
Read: 6/3/2024
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 448
How it fits: Read by KarenH for thier Task 19
Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
I should be finished with my book tomorrow morning.
Task 15 🏈 Pick another team and each member reads one book that was read by a member for this challenge. No pass for this task.Team Selected ~ Team 1
The Rule Book
Dates: 6/4
Rating: 4*s
Pages: 358
🏈Read by Elizabeth Team 1 task 1
Completion Post🚦LaurLaTask 15🚦71. Pick another team and each member reads one book that was read by a member for this challenge: TEAM 1
Book🚦Encore in Death
Pages🚦375 pp (first kindle edition)
How it fits🚦series rule for Celebrity in Death read by Karen H (msg 115) for their task 5
Date Read🚦06.04 ★★★★
Berit - your link doesn't go to Elizabeth's completion post, just to the team thread - can you update that?I've checked us in but MKat probably won't give us a new task until that is corrected... Sorry.
Here is your next task!Task 16 - 112. Each teammate picks two books for the other teammates from their regular (not special) to-read shelf that has been there over a year and the teammate picks one of those books to read. No pass for this task.
Each of you will select two books from your other teammates ’to-read’ shelves that have been there over a year. (If no books over a year on their ‘to-read’ shelf, then select from the 20 oldest books on their shelf. But how is it possible to not have books that have lingered over a year?!) Each teammate will pick one of the books selected from their shelf and read that book. So each teammate will have to read one book from the six picked options.
Yikes. So it sounds like you can't use my "up next" shelf, which is what I would have requested you pick from. But I would ask that you keep it closer to a year ago than to the oldest ones on my shelf. I need to go through there and clean up my TBR because there are a lot of books on there that I no longer have any interest in reading.
Any series books or less than 3 years would be good for me! It if there’s something you’d really like me to read, then that’s fine too.
My picks:Berit:
LaurLa
(Honestly, I picked it because you might be able to make it work for an orange cover for Book Games)Nancy
(I loved both of these, although I've seen online that it's either love or hate with them). Honorable mention would have been The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but it's not a series. I almost picked Hollywood Husbands for you, but then I saw you read the first one in 2013, and if it's been that long, there's probably something that has kept you from it, or your tastes have changed, so I went with books I loved.
OK I will get to this after dinner.
Agree with Laura - please stick to closer to a year than 2013 (which there are ALOT of still lingering on the regular to-read shelf....).Laura, those are good picks, thanks. I actually have the maybe orange book slated to read this month!
LauraMaggie Moves OnBreathe
LaurLa
A Hard Day for a HangoverFinlay Donovan Jumps the Gun
Nancy
The Secret PlaceWrong Place Wrong Time
Maggie Moves On is set in Idaho, so I was already planning to fit it in before the 15th!LaurLa and Nancy, you’ll have to work hard to beat that choice. 😂
Here you go, Nancy. I know that one of these is not part of a series, but it's still a great book! You had a lot of great standalone books on there as well. And please pick out newer books for me too. I have no idea what's on there from 10 years ago
Thank you! Ladies. I’m working on your selections
Here are my picks:Laura
picked for same reason, orange cover
maybe the author initials will help youBerit
def an unfairly cute book!
rather chilling and not my usual genre... but still a good readNancy
Penelope Ward is a favorite of mine
a really great read!
Thanks, Berit - I decided Finlay is not for me but the other has merit, we'll see what Nancy brings!
The hangover series is one of my favorites a lot of fun.
Laura:
Steal the Dragon
The BelovedBerit:
The Chestnut Man
The Things We Leave UnfinishedLaurla:
Flame
Taking a Shot
Laura wrote: "Maggie Moves On is set in Idaho, so I was already planning to fit it in before the 15th!LaurLa and Nancy, you’ll have to work hard to beat that choice. 😂"
I don’t think I can beat that but did select yours based on ratings and I love Patricia Briggs
Great picks! Unfortunately, I don't think I'll get my book done until late Thursday. I need to read another one first and I'll be traveling and cleaning out MIL's old condo tomorrow.
NancyMagaly wrote: "Laura wrote: "Maggie Moves On is set in Idaho, so I was already planning to fit it in before the 15th!LaurLa and Nancy, you’ll have to work hard to beat that choice. 😂"
I don’t think I can beat ..."
You came pretty close with The Beloved. I have it checked out from the library, sitting on a shelf right by reading chair. It will be read before the end of the June. And Briggs is great. I enjoyed the first one in this series. It was nice to read what she can do outside of Mercy Thompson.
is the series rule in place for this? Like could I read the second book in the Tessa Bailey series?
I saw the second book on your shelf, and I was going to pick it, but then I saw you hadn’t read the first I didn’t want to be mean.
yeah that first book has pretty bad reviews, but I do appreciate you thinking about that.
I'm going to read Get a Life, Chloe Brown. It was between that one and The Secret Place. Get a life is shorter and I wanted to make sure I was done by tomorrow. The others were not available to borrow. All excellent for my up next shelf.
Completion PostTask 16: 112. Each teammate picks two books for the other teammates from their regular (not special) to-read shelf that has been there over a year and the teammate picks one of those books to read. No pass for this task.
Book: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Read: 6/6/2024
Rating: 3.5 stars
Pages: 387 Kindle Edition 11/5/2019
How it fits: Team member LaurLa picked this book for me Message 375
Completion Post🚦LaurLaTask 16🚦112. Each teammate picks two books for the other teammates from their regular (not special) to-read shelf that has been there over a year and the teammate picks one of those books to read
Book🚦Better Hate than Never
Pages🚦399 pp (first kindle edition)
How it fits🚦picked by Laura; added to TBR Jan 2023
Date Read🚦06.06 ★★★★
Unfortunately it didn't work for Book Games as an orange cover but has good resources and works for HERACLES
Completion PostTask 16 - 112. Each teammate picks two books for the other teammates from their regular (not special) to-read shelf that has been there over a year and the teammate picks one of those books to read. No pass for this task.
Book: Maggie Moves On
Date Read: 6/6
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 417
How it fits: Selected for me by Berit (message #370); added to my TBR 12/10/22
i'm almost done I'll post and then check us in in about an hour.
Task 16 🩷 Each teammate picks two books for the other teammates from their regular (not special) to-read shelf that has been there over a year and the teammate picks one of those books to read.Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
Date: 6/6
Rating: 4.25*s
Pages: 320
🩷Picked by LaurLa on my shelf since2/23
I am heading out today, so will check books later. 😊Last Task - Read a book with a naturally occurring body of water on the cover.
June 9, the last day of this round, is Donald Duck’s birthday! And we all know how ducks love water… To help Donal celebrate his 90th birthday, read a book with a naturally occurring and permanent body of water on the cover. Allowable bodies of water would include an ocean, a lake, a pond, a river, a stream or a waterfall. Pools, puddles and ice rinks are not acceptable. No pass for this task.
Remember completion posts with errors or missing elements will not count towards your team total or the completion of this task. The task will be considered ‘completed’ when each team member has completed one book for this task, additional books will count towards a tie breaker if necessary. Help each other out by double checking posts are complete with the first edition Kindle page count!
There is no need to post a team completion in the Q&A thread, I will be checking all team threads at the conclusion of the challenge. 😊
I've got a Jill Shalvis series set in Idaho, so I'm ready for this one!
lol you're living in your own private Idaho!
Book Games. At least it’s better than the Crete task!
Completion Post🚦LaurLaTask 17 - Last🚦Read a book with a naturally occurring body of water on the cover
Book🚦How Much I Love
Pages🚦310 pp (first kindle edition)
How it fits🚦ocean on cover (approved by MKat)
Date Read🚦06.09 ★★★★
Completion PostTask 17 - Read a book with a naturally occurring body of water on the cover
Book: Secrets of a Summer Night
Pages: 384 Kindle Edition 10/13/2009
How it fits: Lake on cover
Date 6/9/24
Rating 4 stars
My Kindle says I have about an hour left. But I’m watching baseball while I read, so it’ll probably be more like 2 hours.
Completion PostLast Task - Read a book with a naturally occurring body of water on the cover.
Book: Animal Attraction
Date Read: 6/9
Rating: 3.5 stars
Pages: 293
How it fits: This cover -
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5 seems to be mainly MM, which I don't generally read.
7 wouldn't be a top choice for me. I could find something, but nothing that is currently on my TBR.
9 has a lot of variety.