The Challenge Factory discussion

Captain: Brittany

Laura
Denise
Brittany
JoAnne
Michelle

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Hello team! *waves* Looking forward to playing with all of you! :)

Hello everyone! I eager to start with this challenge :)

Hi - sorry for the delay. When I got home from work I had to go with my husband to pick up our son's car that we bought him. He graduated college in May and officially started his job today although he was hired last January. Then came home and made dinner, picked up my son from the train station - he had to go to NYC for his first day of training - then come home, feed him, "play" with his car with him and finally got a chance to go on the computer.

Can't wait to start. I would love if someone else would be captain.

Name suggestions - Speedy Sixers; Super Four; Fun Four

I like the sound of Speedy Sixers :)

Agreed, Speedy Sixers sounds good! :)

I'm pretty busy these days so I'm not all that keen on being captain either... Laura & Brittany, how about you? Any volunteers? :)

Hello all!! I like the name too! I think that it what we should go with. I have no problem being captain if no one wants to. :)

I'm quite busy too with my blog and Japanese class, so I rather not be a captain.

Great so we have a name and a captain - YAY! That was painless.
Can't wait to start. Sunday I can be on the computer early; Thursdays it will have to wait until I get home from work to see the # choices, alternate chosen and decide on a book.

Have a good weekend all if we don't "talk" until Sunday.

Brittany - you'll post where you're supposed to our name and that you're our captain?

JoAnne

Yep I will right now :)

Brittany wrote: "Yep I will right now :)"

Saw it - like our name. Some other names are interesting.

Michelle will be joining y'all :)

Hi Ladies,

Looks like I'm joining you all for this challenge :)

The more the merrier! Glad to have you, Michelle! :)

Welcome Michelle!!

Can't wait to get started tomorrow :)

Looking forward to it! I sent you all friend requests, except Laura cause we are already friends from a previous game :)

I'm in Scotland, so a different time zone from you all. Once it starts I should have a better idea of when to have my reviews in, I'll try not to have you waiting on me.

I'm in Finland, so much closer to you than to the others - we'll figure the timing out together, I never remember exactly how much difference there is between my time zone and US Central time. XD

I'm in Connecticut on the east coast of the US.
Welcome Michelle! I accepted your friend request. I sent friend requests to the rest of the team members.
JoAnne

I'm in Belgium, but originally from Estonia :)

Welcome to the team Michelle :)

Awesome! It's nice to meet you all and I am glad I will have help figuring the time difference out.

Look at us, such an international team! :D (And I'm originally from Germany.)
How about you, Brittany? :)

I'm in Pennsylvania on the east coast side :)

I'm originally from NY - Queens - but moved to CT when I was 16 a long time ago and have never left except for vacations and visits to friends and family.

Game has officially started, all we need is Brittany to roll the dice & we can pick our books to read. Alternate for this week is author initial, first middle or last name, beginning with B. :)

Michelle wrote: "Game has officially started, all we need is Brittany to roll the dice & we can pick our books to read. Alternate for this week is author initial, first middle or last name, beginning with B. :)"

Yay - can't wait. Come on Brittany!!!! Feel like I'm at the dice table in Vegas or Atlantic City - LOL!

Roll 1 : 5
Spot: 5

Brittany: Review

Laura: Review

Denise: Review

JoAnne: Review

Michelle: Review

ooh - thanks - going through my series pile now that I've separated out; otherwise I'll go with the B author

Thanks, Brittany! I'm out just now, I'll pick my book when I get home from the inlaws :)

I'm going with a B author - the books I have that are 5 in a series I'm not interested in rereading and the one I would reread the person I lent it to hasn't returned it yet. Plus I don't have time to go to the library in the next few days and pick one of them up so I'll go with something I have in my Nook already.

Great, that finally gives me an opportunity to read that one mystery I've had sitting on my shelf for almost ten years - turns out it's #5 in a series. :)

I am going with a b author. :)

Denise wrote: "Great, that finally gives me an opportunity to read that one mystery I've had sitting on my shelf for almost ten years - turns out it's #5 in a series. :)"

always a good feeling - I have lots of other numbers for books on my TBR pile but not 5

I'll go with a B author as well :)

I'm going with B author as well!

Happy Reading Ladies!!

wow 4 out of 5 of us are going for the alternate choice!

just back from taking my son to the airport - 3 hours round trip

going to get back to reading - almost 1/2 way done
Thursdays won't be like this though - LOL

Happy Reading to all!

Finished the first book in the challenge!

space 5
Alternate-B for author's name-first, middle or last

Read: Bridleton by Becky Barker

# of pages per Goodreads: 187 pages

Finished: 10/6/13

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review: Wow what a steamy and quick read. Love cowboys, TX settings and a prominent ranching family. This book had it all. Lots of romance and love, heartache, caring, siblings, laughter, tears and a happily ever after. This is book one in the Bridleton series and Barker is a new to me author but I'll be going back for more!

Great job JoAnne!!

I will have my review up tomorrow at some point.

As long as they're all posted before you roll the die on Thursday we're good.
I always like seeing what others read and how they liked it. Another reason my TBR pile never goes down!

Brittany wrote: "Great job JoAnne!!

I will have my review up tomorrow at some point."

:)

Current Spot: 5
Read:
House of Blues by Julie Smith (Skip Langdon #5)
Finished: 07 October 2013
Rating: ****

Review:
A good, engaging mystery set in mid-1990s New Orleans, House of Blues has Homicide Detective Skip Langdon investigating the murder of a prominent restaurant owner and the disappearance of three of his family members from the scene of the crime. A quick and entertaining read.

How do you attach the copy of the book to your review? No matter what I try I can't do it.

JoAnne, Click on Add book/author at the top of the comment box, do a search for your book and at the bottom it will have the option to post a picture of a link.. I hope that helps.

I'm starting my book now, review will be up tonight or tomorrow. I'll sort out all my series/standalone books when I'm done so I'll have a list of possible reads.

Finished my book, battery is about to die so I will get the review up in the morning :)

Brittany wrote: "JoAnne, Click on Add book/author at the top of the comment box, do a search for your book and at the bottom it will have the option to post a picture of a link.. I hope that helps."

Thanks Brittany - got it to work. Never realized what that was for. I kept trying to copy from the page showing the book.

Space: 5

by Parker Blue

5 Stars 07.10

This is a book where you don't feel any dull moments. There is always something going on and I loved every moment of it :) Great read with amazing main character. Love!

Space: 5

by Maya Banks

Date Read: 7/10/13
Rated: 4 Stars
Page Count: 286 pages

My Review: I have been looking forward to this book since I started this series but I can honestly say it was a tough one to get through, not because it was badly written or anything, but because of the subject material. Bad things do happen to good people and there are some violent scenes in this book. An emotional journey for sure!

Michelle wrote: "Space: 5

by Maya Banks

Date Read: 7/10/13
Rated: 4 Stars
Page Count: 286 pages

My Review: I have been looking forward to this book since I started this ser..."

Sounds like a tough one Michelle. Hopefully next book for the challenge will be an easier read.