The Challenge Factory discussion

Team 1 Members
Captain: ❀~Amy~❀
Denise
Sherlock
Krissy

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Helpful Links:

Dice Roll (1 die on Thursdays and Sundays US Central Time)
Post Your Spot
Discussion Thread

ALTERNATE LIST:
Each number corresponds with the spot on the board.
For colors: The cover has to be at least 50%
For locations: As long as the book takes part at all in the given location
For Shelves: Any book on the given shelf
For Publication Years: I'll be using how GR has it's publication date listed.
For Authors Names: The first, middle, or last name of the author is ok.
For Cover Items: Must have the given item on the cover
For Titles: Only the first word of the title. A, An, And, and The do not count.
So if the letter is B: The Best Day would be ok. Dear Betty would not be ok.

**5 links where gotten from RRRC's Let's Partner Up! challenge which I am currently enjoying**

1. Title D
2. Cover: Black
3. Goodreads Choice Awards 2015
4. England
5. I Saw the Movie & Read the Book
6. Cover Item Vehicle
7. Author M
8. The Ultimate List of Fighter Romance
9. California
10. Cover Purple
11. 2001
12. Title L
13. Author J
14. Cover Item Weapon
15. Goodreads Choice Awards 2014
16. Texas
17. New Release in 2016
18. Cover: Gray/Silver
19. Geek/Nerd/Genuis Romance
20. Cover Item Food/Drink
21. Title W
22. Best Book Boyfriends
23. Author H
24. Tattoos
25. Released the month you rolled (year doesn't matter)
26. Science Fiction
27. Cover: Orange
28. Athletes or Sports. This link might help Athletes, Sport stars etc
29. Title T
30. Cover Item Water
31. Author L
32. Mental Illness
33. On Teammate's shelf
34. Cover: Red
35. Law Enforcement/Military
36. Audiobooks
37. Title B
38. Cover Item Building(s)
39. Amazon 2016 Bestsellers
40. Artist/Dancer/Musician
41. Enemies to lovers (must state how book qualifies i.e. listopia or precis)
42. Friendship
43. Road trip
44. Sequel in a series you've already started. Must have read a book in that series already.
45. Freebies
46. New to me Author
47. Humor
48. New York
49. Author I
50. Fairy Tale Retellings
51. Man Protagonist
52. Favorite Author
53. Title R
54. Cover Item: 2 or more People
55. Tagged DNF
56. Second chance love (must state how book qualifies i.e. listopia or precis)
57. Florida
58. White
59. Goodreads Choice Awards 2012
60. Title S
61. Cover Item An Animal
62. Author Z
63. Best Book Ever
64. Title E
65. College
66. Mexico
67. Beautiful covers
68. Cover: Green
69. Priority Reads
70. Cowboy (girl) take me Away (western)
71. Historical (fiction, nonfiction, romance etc)
72. Author S
73. suspense thriller
74. Multi-Colored (3 or More Colors)
75. 2009
76. Has at least one child
77. Title C
78. Cover Item No People
79. Author A
80. Standalones
81. Europe
82. Cover: Yellow/Gold
83. LGBT
84. I Don't Understand All That Fuss
85. Title M
86. Cover Item Moon
87. Author F
88. Amnesia/Memory loss (temporary, real, faked)
89. Reader's choice
90. Cover: Blue
91. 2013
92. Author E
93. Title G
94. Cover Item Weapon(s)
95. Detective
96. Non-caucasian author
97. Illinois
98. Cover: Purple
99. Character has a pet
100. Amazing
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102. Author M
103. Multicultural
104. Seasonal Theme (i.e Christmas, Halloween, Valentine etc)
105. Wisconsin
106: 2008
107. 3 Star
108. Canada
109. Cover: Pink
110. Book read by anyone (regardless of team) in this challenge this round (hide spoiler)]

Hi team, looking forward to playing with you! :)

Ezi, as I've noted in my SS team thread, I'll likely be on vacation first or second week of August and will definitely need a vacation pass for this game (for SS, it'll depend on which days of the week we'll be gone, so I can't say for sure yet.). Thank you!

Hi everybody!

Hello team. =D

quiet thread so far...

Where is everybody??

Not a chatty bunch. Lol

So since I like hearing a bit about everyone else and seeing where we are all from, I'll get that ball rolling. =/

I'm 41, live in NC, work nights for the Post Office, divorced with 2 sons still living at home (18 & 20), and read mostly M/M with the occasional M/F and M/M/F thrown in for fun.

Oh, and I am willing to captain. ;)

Krissy wrote: "Not a chatty bunch. Lol"

I was just thinking that. I always seem to get the quiet bunch. *sigh*

Team name ideas anyone?

Chatty? I can do chatty. Well, I can try, anyway. *lol*

So, introductions... I'm 29, originally from Germany but have been living in Tampere, Finland, since 2008, where I'm currently living the immigrant dream jobwise (which is my way of attempting to put a positive spin on "I'm working a crappy cleaning job to pay the bills that I was wildly overqualified for the moment I graduated from highschool."). I've got a lovely boyfriend, 2 mostly lovely cats (when they're not trying to kill me), and a lovely little library I like to sit in muttering "My preciousssss" like a total weirdo. I mostly read... a lot. *lol* Right now I'm having a bit of a sci-fi phase, but that might change at a moment's notice. I also love fantasy of all descriptions, historical fiction, mysteries, M/M romance (especially when combined with any of the aforementioned genres rather then just plain old contemporary romance stories)... and the list goes on. The list of genres I don't read is far shorter than the list of genres I do. Any questions? :D

Yay, finally I'm on a team where somebody else wants to be captain!! This round will be sooo relaxing in comparison to the last several I've played. XD

I think I've exhausted all my passable team name ideas a few rounds back...

My turn I guess. Well... I'm a 34 SAHM and army wife. I have 3 kids (G13, G6, B4). We are currently stationed in Texas. Reading is my only hobby so I read a lot. I will read just about any genre though I read more MM than anything else.

Denise, I worked for a cleaning company back in my younger days. For about 4 years. I remember those days fondly. It was also one of the best incomes I've ever had.

I really suck at coming up with names so I'm hoping you guys can spit out a few options and I can sit back and just vote on one of the choices. I'm lazy that way. Lol

Any team names I throw in the pot will be very, very bad. lol! I will give it a go in a bit though. =D

So a few ideas...

Aces Wild
Flying Aces
Spitfire Book Nerds
Reading Zealots
Strategic Strikers

I like Flying Aces!
I'm also gonna throw these in for consideration:

First Choice
Rampant Readers
Gold Medallists
One Book To Rule Them All

(... see what I mean about sucking at coming up with team names?)

Anyone tried to contact Sherlock yet?

I'm going to send a message this morning.

ETA: Message sent!

I like Rampant Readers on your list and Flying Aces was my favorite of mine. Hopefully the others will weigh in soon.

hello

Hi Sherlock! Glad you made it. =D

glad im here! what time will we role the dice?

Sherlock wrote: "glad im here! what time will we role the dice?"

I can't find anywhere that it gives a time, just a date. I think we can roll at midnight on Thursday.

You have any input on our team name?

We can roll after Midnight US Central time. :)

Denise wrote: "We can roll after Midnight US Central time. :)"

Thanks Denise. I figured it was something like that.

So Denise, should I just go ahead and use Flying Aces as our team name and assume it's ok for me to be captain. I thought Krissy and Sherlock would have input, but we're down to the end of our time.

Hint about Krissy she is Captaining in the other version. so it should be safe to assume she is OK with you Captaining this team.

Oops. Sorry. Flying Aces is fine with me :)

Alrighty then. I'll go tell Ezi. :-)

You can roll at 12:01a. I can't promise to be up at midnight but I'll try. I'm excited to see book choices.

Can't wait! I'm ready!

Amy, will you be up at midnight in order to roll? If not I don't mind rolling for the team. I'm always up at that time

Krissy wrote: "Amy, will you be up at midnight in order to roll? If not I don't mind rolling for the team. I'm always up at that time"

Thanks for the offer Krissy. I'm planning to be awake, but if I haven't posted a roll by 12:30 or so, go ahead and roll for me.

Central right?

Yup. Central time. So you have 2 hrs, 51 mins to go

Krissy wrote: "Central right?"

Yep. So 1am where I am. Ugh!!

Lol. Luckily I'm central so makes things easier

Well it could be worse, I guess. lol! I'm usually at work at that time so I shouldn't have a hard time staying awake. Of course, at work I'm not reading while drinking margaritas either. ;)

Mmmmmm.... margaritas

Week 1 - Roll 1

Roll: 3
Spot: 3
Alternate: Best Books of 2015

Amy - Review
Krissy - Review
Denise - Review
Sherlock - Review

So Amy rolled a 3. That means we can read the following:

#3 in a series OR a book from Best Books of 2015 found HERE

Selection Post
Week #1 - Thursday Roll (Spot 3)

Alternate Option: Best Books of 2015- Best Fantasy
My Choice: The Aeronaut's Windlass
Pages: 630

Oooh, nice choice! :D

Week 1: Roll 1
Spot: 3
Alternate: Best Books of 2015
Book: Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3)
Pages: 492

Krissy wrote: "So Amy rolled a 3. That means we can read the following:

#3 in a series OR a book from Best Books of 2015 found HERE"

Thanks Krissy. I was so tired I completely forgot I needed to do that.

Selection Post
Week 1 - Roll 1

Spot - 3 (alternate: Best Books of 2015)
Book - Practice Makes Perfect
Pages - 168

week 1 role 1

spot- best books of 2015
book- the girl on the train
pages- 336

Week 1: Roll 1
Spot: 3

Book: Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
Qualification: Cormoran Strike #3
Finished: 16 July 2016
Rating: ★★★★

Review:
The third of J.K. Rowling's mysteries written under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith begins with a macabre package delivered to private detective Cormoran Strike's office, addressed to his assistant Robin Ellacott. Its contents: A woman's severed leg. Strike quickly comes up with four potential suspects, all men from his past with a history of violence and a grudge against him. With the police promptly focussing on the one person on his list that Strike is almost sure can be ruled out, it is up to him and Robin to investigate the other three in what may be their most dangerous case yet.

A solid thriller with a number of unexpected twists and plenty of suspense, although I have to admit I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the two previous ones. Mostly I just got very, very impatient with Robin and her personal drama. (view spoiler)[How can you actually marry that jackass, you idiot?! *argh* (hide spoiler)] But well... let's see where that goes in the next book.

Week 1, Roll 1

Spot: 3 (alternate:Best books of 2015)

Book: Practice Makes Perfect by Jay Northcote
Qualification: Housemates #3
Read: 7/17/16
Rating: 3 stars
Review:
I am a huge fan of Jay Northcote's books. Her writing style just works so well for me. That said, this book didn't quite live up to my expectations going in.

First off, what I liked...Dev, so very much Dev! He is a strange duck, but also awkward and totally adorable. I loved getting his pov. It was sometimes painful to see his struggle to understand the people around him and sometimes very funny. He was sweet and shy in the bedroom, but also unintentionally dirty and occasionally bold. The sex was crazy hot! I enjoyed seeing glimpses of the characters from the previous two books, though that's really all you get.

There were really only 2 things I had issues with. Ewan just didn't do anything for me. I didn't dislike him, he just seemed kind of bland. Also the lack of any real talk between these two drove me nuts. They talked at the beginning to get things rolling, they talked during sex, but once the true feelings started...nothing. Lots of internal dialog going on, but not a word to each other. That's not something that typically bothers me in a book because it is so true to life, at least in my experience. Must be my mood because it bugged the hell out of me here. With as much as I enjoyed the first two books, I'm sure I'll be revisiting this series again at some point. Hopefully I'll enjoy it more next time.

week 1 , role 1



Book-girl on the train
Read- 16/7/16
Rating-5 stars
Review

this book was amazing! i still don't know why i didn't read it till now. the writing style was so gripping and unique and the characters felt so real.

my favorite character was Rachel because of her emotions and how she expressed them. i felt i knew her yet she was so hidden and i loved her way of thinking about the world. how she expressed her dreams and hopes where so breathtaking and i could really feel her pain and as she realized that they couldn't come true. i could really see her struggle and her curiosity. the character was very well built and she is one of the characters that will stick with me for a long time.

in short this is a fantastic book that is very well written and is truly one of the best book of the decade. I am looking forward more of Paula Hawkins writing.

Ok, I sent Krissy a pm just in case she forgot. I'm hoping she shows up with her review soon, because I really, really need sleep!!