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I'm Denise, 32, originally from Germany but have been living in Finland for the past 10 years where I happen to share a house with one silly boyfriend and two silly cats. I read a lot (as in, A LOT) across a variety of genres, including but not limited to fantasy, sci-fi, historical fiction, thriller, MM romance, non-fiction, mixtures of several of the above, and more.
Looking forward to this game! It's been too long since the last team challenge. :)
Hi everyone! Nice to see some familiar faces and some new ones.I'm Cait, 29. I'm a Navy wife so I'm from all over, although right now we live in Florida. I have three kids and three big dogs and a clear death wish for my patience levels. My favorite genres are horror, thriller/mystery, and fantasy.
Looking forward to getting started! Team challenges are my favorite things on Goodreads :)
I'm Karen, a very young 68! I still work part time from home. Hubby and I live in Chicago. We have 3 grown sons and 2 DILs. My favorite genres are romantic suspense, contemporary romance, mystery and erotica.I love Team Challenges too!
Hi I'm Louise, 42 from South Wales where I live with my OH and 2 year old dog. My favourite genres are Mysteries/thrillers; Romance and Paranormal. I am totally addicted to team challenges and will Read the most obscure books if it works for multi challenges.
Well I am Roger, I am an old hand at bingo in other groups I am a fifty year old gay man and live with my SO, we are both mobility challenged. I read mainly M/M romance and all kinds of Fantasy Sci-fi and Mystery. And if it is M/M plus the other genre quite a bonus. I live in Milwaukee WI. I am a voracious reader and one thing I will not read is tentacle erotica, let just say my stomach can't handle it. any volunteers for Captain, And Denise I am glad to see you so I will not be the only M/M reader.
Roger, I'm originally from Wisconsin as well! I'm so homesick for it, I can't even tell you. I'll pass on being captain. I'll have no problem getting my book in, I read 3-5 books a week, but I have my hands too full to take on the captain role. Whoever wants it is more than welcome :D
Roger - president of NBR United - wrote: "Well I am Roger, I am an old hand at bingo in other groups I am a fifty year old gay man and live with my SO, we are both mobility challenged. I read mainly M/M romance and all kinds of Fantasy Sci..."I really enjoy M/M also, Roger.
So far it seems like I'm the only one who doesn't read romance! I sure wish I did because you can find so many short ebooks for it.
Cait S wrote: "So far it seems like I'm the only one who doesn't read romance! I sure wish I did because you can find so many short ebooks for it."Before I found M/M romance I read a lot of M/F romance especially the harlequin and Shilouette(?) serials.
I read a little here and there when I absolutely have to for challenges but I think I'm just too jaded and cynical for the genre as a whole lol I think it's great, just not for me :) I will randomly find a series that I absolutely love though, like Larissa Ione 's Demonica or Maya Banks 's KGI. If you've got recs for good M/M series, I'd love to hear them!
I read M/M but I don't actively seek out particular genres. My method of finding a book goes something like:Challenge 1: Read a book with mountains on the cover
Challenge 2: Read a book with Author begin with W
Challenge 3: Read a book with a dog on the cover
Search owned books/ kindle books/ Amazon come up with book 🙂
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I'm really hoping someone else will volunteer to be captain, though I can do it if necessary. (Would need someone to spot me some time in July, though, as I'll be travelling out of the country and busy having a life for a change. ;) No worries, I'll have no trouble getting my books done.)
I can be captain, but I will need a Co-captain as I am dealing with a knee injury and might have to get surgery in late July. and some times the pain will keep me from getting to the library.
Does anyone have thoughts on a team name?
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Band of Bibliophiles
Novel Nerds
First Class Readers
... nope, no creativity happening on this end today. Anyone else?
Novel nerds also.
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Now we just need to sort out the captain situation... Normally I'd jump and say "Sure, I'll do co-captain!", but I'm a little hesitant since my plans for July are still kinda up in the air - I might end up having all the time in the world on my hands, or I might end up hopping around Europe for a couple of weeks with just about enough time to squeeze in a couple of books and not much else.
thanks Louise
So am I right in thinking this week we need to read both the free space book (preferably this week, to have it done asap) and the shelf that gets called today? Just trying to make sure I'm caught up and understanding :)
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But all shelves must be in to win Bingo at the end
SELECTION POST Shelf: Historical
Book: River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
Pages: 170 pages
Qualification: Main page genre Historical > Historical Fiction.
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Shelf: Historical
Book: A Borgia Daughter Dies by Maryann Philip
Pages: 252
Qualification: Main page genre Historical > Historical Fiction
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Shelf: Free Space
Book: Elven Fury by Lindsay Buroker
Pages: 286
Qualification: Kindle Unlimited
SELECTION POST Shelf: Free Space
Book: The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson
Pages: 297
Qualification: Borrowed from the library.
Selection Post - Week 1Shelf: Historical
Book: Cheating Death by April White
Pages: 428
How It Fits: Historical MPG
Selection Post - Week 0Shelf: Free Space
Book: Her Counterfeit Husband by Ruth Ann Nordin
Pages: 244
How It Fits: Kindle Freebie
SELECTION POSTShelf: Free Space
Book: Texas! Lucky by Sandra Brown
Pages: 336
Qualification: Library book
SELECTION POST - Week 1Shelf: Historical
Book: Texas Rain by Jodi Thomas
Pages: 374
Qualification: Main page genre Historical > Historical Fiction
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Selected books ✔ for completed books(view spoiler)
✔ Week 9:
✔ Roger Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone book made into a movie read 8/4/2019 5 stars https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ Louise Big Little Lies tagged book to movie 8/5/19 5 stars https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ Denise The Night Manager Listopia https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1... read 08/01/19 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ Karen ♐ Safe Haven Tagged books to movie read 8/7/19 5 stars https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Week 10: Pregnancy/Child
Roger Frog tagged Kids 24 times
✔ Louise His Human Slave Pregnancy tagged three times read 8/7/19 2 stars https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
✔ Denise I Am Half-Sick of Shadows MC is a child read 8/7/19 4 stars https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Karen ♐ Cage Listopia - #17 Surprise You're a Daddy
Week 11:
Roger
Louise
Denise
Karen ♐
If neededWeek 12:
Roger
Louise
Denise
Karen ♐
Week 13:
Roger
Louise
Denise
Karen ♐
Selection Post: Week 1 HistoricalBook and Author (prefer links): Nova Praetorian by N.R. Walker
Pages: 394
How it Fits: Historical Genre on goodreads main page
Completion Post: Week 1 HistoricalBook and Author (prefer links): Nova Praetorian by N.R. Walker
Pages: 394
How it Fits: Historical Genre on goodreads main page
Rating 5 Stars
Read 6/5/19
Review: Quintus Furius Varus is the owner and main trainer of a Ludus, a place where gladiators train to compete. Kaeso Agorix was taken from his homelands of Iberia and delivered to Rome as a slave. They are brought together by the plotting of a Senator hoping to overthrow the Emperor. The overthrow was attempted on the same day in 79 AD that Mt. Vesuvius exploded destroying Pompei and other cities and villages in the area. Love between a freeman and a slave was not looked at favorably at that time even though it did happen. Great banter and action between the two MC.
Selection Post: Free SpaceBook and Author (prefer links): Hexhunter by Jordan L. Hawk
Pages: 244 pages
How it Fits: borrowed from a friend
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Shelf: Free Space
Book: Elven Fury by Lindsay Buroker
Pages: 286
Read: 05 June 2019
Rating: ★★★★★
Review: Just when Jev and Zenia are finally on the verge of embarking on a romance, Jev receives the highly unappreciated news that his father has arranged a suitable bride for his only living son and heir. Trying to talk the old man into breaking off Jev's unwanted engagement and letting him marry Zenia instead soon takes a backseat to another most unwelcome problem: A team of extremely lethal elven assassins is in town, hunting Jev's friend Lornysh whom they consider a traitor who must be eliminated.
Fun, fastpaced entertainment as always. We finally learn Lornysh's backstory, which has been a huge mystery thus far, as well as more about Zenia's extraordinarily powerful dragon tear. Too bad that the next book is already the last in the series!
Completion Post: Free SpaceBook and Author (prefer links): Hexhunter by Jordan L. Hawk
Pages: 244 pages
How it Fits: borrowed from a friend
Rating 5 stars
Read 6/5/19
Review: Isaac, a mastiff familiar, and detective Bill Quigley have loved each since they first met. but think they are too broken to be loved. When children are missing and in danger they have to step it up and work together even if it means their secrets are exposed. What start with a murdered nun become another plot to take over the city/world with weird ancient hexes and help from old friends who are featured in their own stories in this series.
Updated to here.
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Shelf: Historical
Book: A Borgia Daughter Dies by Maryann Philip
Pages: 252
Read: 07 June 2019
Rating: ★★
Review: How on Earth do you manage to make a murder mystery involving historical figures as fascinating as the Borgias, da Vinci and Machiavelli boring? This was a disappointment in so many ways. All the characters, the historical ones as the well as the fictional ones (including the implausibly named and behaving Nicola, supposedly Machiavelli's illegitimate daughter who somehow ended up with a man's name and acting like no girl in a convent at the time would ever be permitted to act), remain flat and uninteresting - which is quite a feat, given the complex figures Philip had to work with. The actual plot is drowned in endless amounts of irrelevant historical facts that seem to serve no purpose other than showing off the author's knowledge, and I ended up caring about neither the characters, nor the mystery, nor its solution.
Updated to here.
Completion Post: Free SpaceBook and Author (prefer links): The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson
Pages: 297
How it Fits: Loaned from the library
Rating: 2 stars
Read: 6/8/2019
Review:
Shaun David Hutchinson is one of my favorite authors and people. I love that he writes found families because I think that's the best kind. And queer characters because I think that's the best kind. We Are the Ants is one of my all time favorite books.
But this one just didn't hit the same note for me. Apparently this is my year of being disappointed by books by favorite authors. He'll have to get in line with John Green to receive his hug and apology.
I just...didn't like the main character. I didn't buy the romance because it seemed like it mostly developed off screen. The fact that the MC literally never leaves this one building means the whole thing felt very repetitive. It just wasn't for me, I don't think, but I'm sure it's the book for someone. Gay own voices stories are so important and I'm grateful Shaun continues to write them.
COMPLETION POST - Week 1Shelf: Historical
Book: Texas Rain by Jodi Thomas
Pages: 374
Read: 6/9
Qualification: Main page genre Historical > Historical Fiction
Rating: ★★★★
Review: Travis is a Texas Ranger and meets Rainey at a local dance. This story takes us through Rainey stealing Travis' horse as she is running from her father who set up a marriage for her that she didn't want. There is a lot of action in this book. Rainey running from the law as she thinks her father is probably trying to find her, Travis getting shot when trying to help settlers, etc. I really enjoyed this book which is the first book I've read by this author. Definitely reading more of her books. I loved her writing style.
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Captain: Roger - president of NBR United –
Co-Captain: Louise
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