SOS: Serious Overload of Series discussion

Team #2
Captain: Art

Members:
Stacey
Charlie
Art
Victoria

Just a Hop, Skip & Click Away
Happy 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, Sandra or Judithe) should you need us for any reason throughout the game

Link to print your own copy: BINGO card

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Tracking post

Free space 1/4
Stacey
Steph Ann -(from best of ya fantasy series) Red Rising by Pierce Brown Rating: 4 stars Read: 3/12/18 review
Art
Delitealex -(from best of ya fantasy series) Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

Shelf #1-3/7/18:futuristic romance 3/4
Stacey -Devoted in Death by JD Robb rating: 5 stars read: 3/15/18 Review
Steph Ann- Fantasy in Death by JD Robb rating: 4.5 stars read: 3/9/18 review
Art- Jane's Warlord by Angela Knight rating: 3.5 stars read: 3/10/18 review
Delitealex- Kindred in Death by JD Robb

Shelf #2 Immortals
Stacey Hammered by Kevin Hearne
Steph Ann Charming by Eliott James
Art The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
Delitealex Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill

Anyone know what they are reading for the free space? I plan to read Spirit Bound

So Here goes ...

TRACKING POST ... SOS BSB Round 16

Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week ELEVEN ~ Spin Off ~ Stamp Req'd
Art ~ The Vampire King by Heather Killough-Walden ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 5/19 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ Chaser by Kylie Scott ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 5/24 ~ REVIEW
Charlie ~ Blood Fury by J.R. Ward ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 5/22 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ The Vampire King by Heather Killough-Walden ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 5/17 ~ REVIEW



Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week 10 ~ GOTHIC HORROR ~ Stamp Req'd
Art ~ The Diviners by Libba Bray ~ ★★★★★ ~ 5/18 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 5/17 ~ REVIEW
Charlie ~ Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge ~ ★★★★½ ~ 5/16 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco ~ ★★★★★ ~ 5/24 ~ REVIEW

Weeks 1 thru 9 and Free Space moved down due to a few spaces ...

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Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week # ~ < a href=calledspace ~ Stamp Req'd
Art ~ BOOK LINK by AUTHOR ~ ★★★★★✩✩✩✩ ~ Date Read ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ BOOK LINK by AUTHOR ~ ★★★★★✩✩✩✩ ~ Date Read ~ REVIEW
Charlie ~ BOOK LINK by AUTHOR ~ ★★★★★✩✩✩✩ ~ Date Read ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ BOOK LINK by AUTHOR ~ ★★★★★✩✩✩✩ ~ Date Read ~ REVIEW



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Hi, all! This is my favorite team challenge, and I can't wait to get started!

I'm 35 and live in Illinois. I work from home as a transcriptionist and have 3 boys, ages 3 1/2, 2, and soon to be 1. So they keep me busy, lol.

I'll try to come up with some team name ideas. I would prefer not to be Captain, but could do it if no one else wanted the job.

Hi everyone! I'm in North Carolina and keeping my fingers crossed we are done with snow and ice for the year. ☺

I am truly horrible at names, but will see if I can think of anything possibly useful. I'm Captaining another Bingo challenge currently, so would prefer not to in this one, but can if needed.

Excited to get started!

I think for Free Space, I'm going with , which is on the group's Best of YA Fantasy List. I've always meant to read it, just never had a chance.

I'm absolutely awful at coming up with team names. Here's a few ideas though. I'm not in love with any of them, by any means, so if anyone has some better ideas, please toss them into consideration!

Page Turners
Bingo Bookworms
Paranormal Bookies
Bingo Brigade

Steph Ann wrote: "Hi, all! This is my favorite team challenge, and I can't wait to get started!

I'm 35 and live in Illinois. I work from home as a transcriptionist and have 3 boys, ages 3 1/2, 2, and soon to be 1. ..."

I have 3 boys too :)

I can be captain. I'm still trying to think of some name possibilities

How old are your boys, Delitealex?

13 and 10

Delitealex wrote: "I can be captain. I'm still trying to think of some name possibilities"

O.K. Delitealex, I did it last round, you got here first, ... it's Your turn ...

We're early-on, so deleting won't hurt yet. I'll pull my first two posts, leaving you set up for "Tracking" ...

Stacey wrote: "Hi everyone! I'm in North Carolina and keeping my fingers crossed we are done with snow and ice for the year. ☺..."

@Stacey ... Which "other bingo"???
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Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week 9 ~ URBAN FANTASY ~ Stamp Rec'd
Art ~ Ill Wind by Rachel Caine ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 5/6 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ Frostbite by Richelle Mead ~ ★★★✩✩ ~ 5/8 ~ REVIEW
Charlie ~ Blade Bound by Chloe Neill ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 5/8 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn ~ ★★✩✩✩ ~ 5/7 ~ REVIEW


Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week 8 ~ Hunter ~ Stamp Rec'd
Art ~ Hunter by Mercedes Lackey ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 4/27 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ Outpost by Ann Aguirre ~ ★★★✩✩ ~ 5/3 ~ REVIEW
Charlie ~ Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost ~ ★★★½✩ ~ 4/30 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas ~ ★★★★★ ~ 4/30 ~ REVIEW

Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week 7 ~ Necromancers ~ Stamp Rec'd
Art ~ Grave Witch by Kalayna Price ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 4/22 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ The Last Necromancer by C.J. Archer ~ ★★★★★✩✩✩✩ ~ Date Read ~ REVIEW
Charlie ~ Necromancer Awakening by Nat Russo ~ ★★★½✩ ~ 4/24 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ The Last Necromancer by C.J. Archer ~ ★★★✩✩ ~ 4/28 ~ REVIEW


Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week Six ~ Shifters ~ Stamp Rec'd
Art ~ Tempting Danger by Eileen Wilks ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 4/14 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs ~ ★★★✩✩ ~ 4/21 ~ REVIEW
Charlie ~ No Ifs, Ands, or Bears About It by Celia Kyle ~ ★★★½✩ ~ 4/19 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur ~ ★★★✩✩ ~ 4/20 ~ REVIEW


Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week Five ~ DEMONS ~ Stamp Rec'd
Art ~ Born in Fire by K.F. Breene ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 4/6 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor ~ ★★★★★ ~ 4/17 ~ REVIEW
Steph Ann ~ The Beautiful Ashes by Jeaniene Frost ~ ★★★★★✩✩✩✩ ~ Date Read ~ REVIEW
Charlie ~ Burn by Suzanne Wright ~ ★★★★½ ~ 4/11 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ Born in Fire by K.F. Breene ~ ★★★✩✩ ~ 4/11 ~ REVIEW



Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week Four ~ DETECTIVE ~ Stamp Rec'd
Art ~ The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde ~ ★★★★★ ~ 3/31 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ~ ★★★✩✩ ~ 4/3 ~ REVIEW
Steph Ann ~ Turn Coat by Jim Butcher ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 3/31 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton ~ ★★★★★ ~ 4/4 ~ REVIEW



Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week Three ~ PART OF A SERIES ~ Stamp Rec'd
Art ~ A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle ~ ★★★★★ ~ 3/25 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ Wild Wolf by Jennifer Ashley ~ ★★★✩✩ ~ 3/28 ~= REVIEW
Steph Ann ~ Small Favor by Jim Butcher ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 3/26 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh ~ ★★★★★ ~ 3/23 ~ REVIEW


Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week Two ~ Immortals ~ Stamp Rec'd
Art ~ The Iron King by Julie Kagawa ~ ★★★★★ ~ 3/18 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ Hammered by Kevin Hearne ~ ★★✩✩✩ ~ 3/25 ~ REVIEW
Steph Ann ~ Charming by Elliott James ~ ★★★¼✩ ~ 3/20 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ Beyond the Veil by Pippa DaCosta ~ ★★★★★ ~ 3/22 ~ REVIEW




Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Week One ~ FUTURISTIC ROMANCE ~ Stamp Rec'd
Art ~ Jane's Warlord by Angela Knight ~ ★★★¾✩ ~ 3/10 ~ REVIEW
Stacey ~ Devoted in Death by JD Robb ~ ★★★★★ ~ 3/15 ~ REVIEW
Steph Ann ~ Fantasy in Death by JD Robb ~ ★★★★½ ~ 3/9 ~ REVIEW
Victoria ~ Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh ~ ★★★★★ ~3/18 ~ REVIEW



Breakneck Bookworms ~ Team 2 ~ Free Space ~ *Free Space* ~ Stamp Rec'd
Art ~ Her Sky Cowboy by Beth Ciotta ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 4/1 ~ REVIEW
...from choice #3 members' bookshelves...
Stacey ~ Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 4/1 ~ REVIEW
...from the "Best Urban Fantasy" list
Steph Ann ~ Red Rising by Pierce Brown ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 3/12 ~ REVIEW
...from choice #2 best of YA Fantasy List...
Victoria ~ A Demon Bound by Debra Dunbar ~ ★★★★✩ ~ 4/4 ~ REVIEW
...from the option 2 ... (best of UF series) list

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A couple of few ideas ...


Rapid Readers ...

Bookhounds ...

Bingo Bookhounds ...

Boogiein' Bookworms ...

Breakneck Bookworms ...

I like Bingo Bookhounds or Boogiein' Bookworms

Delitealex wrote: "I like Bingo Bookhounds or Boogiein' Bookworms"

... added "breakneck" to the stew ...

or Breakneck Bookhounds

rapid readers = fast something

fast worms seems sillier/more fun to me ...

more suggestions, team-mates???

Bingo stamping bookhounds

I like Bingo Bookhounds!

Just to let you guys know, I may not be able to post my book choice for today's shelf call until tomorrow. It's my sister's birthday, and then, my husband and I are having a mid-week date night after we get back from my sister's bday dinner. I'll go ahead and start my free space book tonight though so I won't get behind at all! :)

Hey...
We all have a whole week to choose, read, and review our books before we're a even little late.

The only critical requirement is to check in (i.e. post) at least once weekly...

...of course, this changes the closer to bingo we get

That's very true, Art! :-)

Any variation of Bingo Bookhounds sounds good to me. :) Delitealex thanks for taking Captaining duties!

Art (Posting elsewhere as Whistler Reads) wrote: "Stacey wrote: "Hi everyone! I'm in North Carolina and keeping my fingers crossed we are done with snow and ice for the year. ☺..."

@Stacey ... Which "other bingo"???"

Art, I'm playing Fairytale bingo over at A Million More Pages (AMMP). I am a challenge fool so I'm in about 10 groups with challenges going on at the same time. The theory is the same with different categories, so I'm going to see how lucky I am and if I can get any of them to overlap with this group. :)

I used to love being in as many challenges as I could find! Then, my kids came along, and I completely lost all my reading time, lol. I'm finally finding time for myself again almost four years into this whole parenting thing, so maybe I should start looking into doing more challenges, again. :)

Shelf #1- futuristic romance
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

I'm reading for futuristic romance

How about Bingo bibliophiles

Ooh, I was worried about this one until I saw JD Robb on the list. :)

I'm going to read Devoted in Death. I'm going to do this on audiobook, which sometimes takes me a little longer, but should be done close to next Wednesday.

I like Bingo Bibliophiles!

I'm going with Fantasy in Death by JD Robb for this shelf!

@Stacey, I love the audio for the In Death books!

Steph Ann wrote: "@Stacey, I love the audio for the In Death books!"

Aren't they great? I gave up actually reading them about 15 books ago because I just enjoyed the audio so much more. :)

You are making we want to check overdrive for the audiobook of kindred in death :)

You should definitely check out the audio, Delitealex! :-)

Selection Post ... Week One ... Shelf One ... Futuristic Romance



Jane's Warlord by Angela Knight
320 pages ... #85 on linked list

...I almost wish I hadn't read forty-some "In Death"s just last year ...

Anyone have any more suggestions for team name?

I don't have any more ideas. I still like Bingo Bibliophiles though!

Here are the names people mentioned liking

Bingo Bookhound
Bingo stamping bookhounds
Bingo Bibliophiles
Boogiein' Bookworms
Breakneck Bookhounds
Breakneck bookworms

Has everyone picked their free space books no hurry just wanted to make sure I hadn't overlooked anyone :)

Completion Post ... Shelf One ... Futuristic Romance



Jane's Warlord by Angela Knight
320 pages ... #85 on linked list
Read: 3/10
Rated: ⭐️⭐️⭐️½✩

Review:

Genetically altered jerkey hero, seemingly strong heroine, insta-lust/love ... all contribute to lost points ... with a few (that's "barely a few") recovered by the cleverly upgraded dangerous yet comedic sidekick. The book was published nearly 14 years ago, I don't know if that really gives an excuse for drawbacks. ... but the time travel logic sorta works... and the story was a little better than OK.

I'll give this new-to-me author another chance Oops ...
looking thru book descriptions, I realize I've read at least a couple a bunch more (most of her "mageverse") in fact. It was just pre-compooper, and therefore pre-goodreads, and my print books are lost in the move from MO to CA ... out of sight 8 yrs, out of mind ... I'd rate them ⭐️⭐️⭐️ to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ today, as they have all the "insta-issues" of "Jane's Warrior" too, as I remember.

Delitealex wrote: "Here are the names people mentioned liking

Bingo Bookhound
Bingo stamping bookhounds
Bingo Bibliophiles
Boogiein' Bookworms
Breakneck Bookhounds"

I sorta like the "fun-ness" of the mental image of dancing or racing worms ... breakneck bookworms ...

Looks like its down to these names

Bingo Bookhounds
Bingo bibliophiles
Breakneck bookworms

I haven't picked my Free space book yet. I'll work on that today.