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Team 6: Six on the Beach
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Hi team. I'm looking forward to playing with you - I really enjoy Bingo!
Shelf StatusShelf - Free Space: Any Book that was obtained free - 6/6 --STAMPED
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Week 1 - Historical - 6/6 -- STAMPED
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Week 2 - Disability - 6/6 -- STAMPED
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Week 3 - Fantasy/UF/Paranormal - 6/6 --STAMPED
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Week 4 - Suspense & Thriller - 6/6 --STAMPED
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Week 5 - Animals/Pets - 6/6--STAMPED
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Week 6 - Humor/Satire - 6/6 --STAMPED
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Week 7 - GoodReads Choice Nominee - 5/6
Linda C: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman - 7/26/19 - Completion Post
Marty: Circe - Madeline Miller
Nathan: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World - Stephen Brusatte - 7/23/19 - Completion Post
Ira: There There - Tommy Orange - 7/30/19 - Completion Post
Book Concierge: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond - 7/21/19 - Completion Post
Suzanne (Idaho Falls): Space Opera - Catherynne M. Valente - 7/23/19 - Completion Post
Week 8 - Dual/Multiple Authors - 6/6--STAMPED
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Week 9 - Books to TV/Movie - 4/6
Linda C: The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times - Jennifer Worth - 7/31/19 - Completion Post
Marty: Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer - 8/3/19 - Completion post
Nathan: The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan - 7/31/19 - Completion Post
Ira: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
Book Concierge: Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene
Suzanne (Idaho Falls): Seabiscuit: An American Legend - Laura Hillenbrand - 8/6/19 - Completion Post
Week 10 - Pregnancy/Child - 4/6
Linda C: The Midwife of Hope River - Patricia Harman - 8/11/19 - Completion Post
Marty: Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward
Nathan: Protecting Your Child from Predators: How to Recognize and Respond to Sexual Danger - Beth Robinson & Latayne C. Scott - 8/7/19 - Completion Post
Ira:
Book Concierge: Three Wishes - Liane Moriarty - 8/9/19 - Completion Post
Suzanne (Idaho Falls): All the Stars in the Sky - Sarah Lyons Fleming - 8/9/19 - Completion Post
Week 11 - Young Adult - 0/6
Linda C:
Marty:
Nathan:
Ira:
Book Concierge:
Suzanne (Idaho Falls):
Week 12 -
Linda C:
Marty:
Nathan:
Ira:
Book Concierge:
Suzanne (Idaho Falls):
Hi, Team - my first time playing BINGO. Do NOT want to be captain.
Given my voracious reading, I look forward to this. I don't know who should be captain but this looks like fun :D
Hi team. Looking forward to playing. It's going to take some time getting used to this, but it is going to be fun
That's very cool that almost everyone has checked in - and hopefully we'll see Marty soon. I can be captain if needed, but I'm also more than happy to not be captain.
I was looking at free space stuff - which I guess we can choose but not start reading. I'll post it here, as much for myself as for everyone else:
Free Space: Any Book that was obtained free
*Kindle Freebie
*Library Loan
*Goodreads (or any) Giveaway win
*Advance Reading Copy
I have to read Looking for Me for another challenge in June and I've got it on Hold at the Library. So that will be my Free Space.
I love when a book works for multiple challenges :)
Do we have to announce the FREE SPACE read before reading it?I have a couple of ARCs on hand ... and I get all my books at the library in any case. But, so far, everything I have on schedule for June already fits one of the other spaces. So I'm hoping to hold off for a bit in terms of announcing my FREE SPACE (especially if I need one of the arcs for the 2018-2019 space)
I wouldn't mind doing Captain. I've participated in several Bingos and would be willing to give it a try. I will be out of town 8/4-8/17 but will have my computer with me. Can I call on you, Suzanne, if I need help during that time? Of course, we could be real lucky and have won by then. ;-)
Linda C wrote: " I will be out of town 8/4-8/17 but will have my computer with me. Can I call on you, Suzanne, if I need help during that time? Of course, we could be real lucky and have won by then...."Love the positive thinking! Just what a team needs in a Captain!
Linda that would be awesome! I'm around all of August, so can definitely help then, or whenever you need a backup. Thanks so much!
I am going to convert my Hi team message (Message 5) to a reserved slot to track our weekly stats, so it is near the top and easy to find.
Maybe we could start thinking about team namesBingo Warriors
Six Winners
Shelf Toppers
Bring Home the Win
Reading to Victory
Six on the Beach
Those are some good names; I must admit that I don't have any particular personal preference as far as what we are called, I just want to win :D.
I like Six on the Beach
and
Bingo Warriors
Great list. I'd be happy with any of them, although my favorite is probably Six on the Beach.
Hi Team 6, sorry for the late checkin. I'm Marty and I like Six on the Beach a lot for a team name. This is my first time playing Bingo, at least on GR.
Hi Marty. Now we're complete. Looks like Six on the Beach is our name. I'll let Ezinwanyi know
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I got it!
I have a running status post for our shelves near the beginning of this thread. I am going to set up individual status posts as we go along. This is the post that I will use when I need to make our stamp request.
Team 6: Six on the BeachShelf - Free Space: Any Book that was obtained free - 6/6
Linda C: Looking for Me - Beth Hoffman - 6/5/19 - completion post
Marty: The Lazaretto - Jason Phillip Reeser - 8/5/19 - Completion post
Nathan: Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil - Tom Mueller - 6/4/19 - Completion Post
Ira: Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien - 7/19/19 - Completion Post
Book Concierge: The Two Faces of January - Patricia Highsmith - 6/7/19 - Completion Post
Suzanne (Idaho Falls): Aftershocks - Marko Kloos - 6/8/19 - Completion Post
Team 6 - Six on the BeachShelf 1 - Historical
Linda C: The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead - 6/10/19 - Completion Post
Marty: Zoli - Colum McCann - 6/11/19 - Completion Post
Nathan: The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts - Siân Rees - 6/5/19 - Completion Post
Ira: Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier - 6/10/19 - Completion Post
Book Concierge: Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras - 6/11/19 - Completion Post
Suzanne (Idaho Falls): Beauty and the Blacksmith - Tessa Dare - 6/9/19 - Completion Post
Selection Post - Free SpaceBook: Looking for Me
Author: Beth Hoffman
How it Fits: borrowed from the library
Pages: 354
Selection Post - Free SpaceBook: Lost Gods
Author: Brom
How it fits: free library conference advance copy
Pages: 496
Marty, are you a librarian? I am a retired university librarian.
Just curious as this is my first time playing Bingo ....Is the call-out something like regular Bingo? (e.g. B-4)
Or is the call-out the title of one of the spaces? (e.g. Sports)
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Is the call-out something like regular Bingo? (e.g. B-4)
Or is the call-out the title of one of the spaces? (e.g. Sports)"
There is a Shelf thread. I will post something like “week 1: 19th century novels”
Linda C wrote: "Marty, are you a librarian? I am a retired university librarian."Hi, yes I am! I currently work for a university library and just received tenure. I'm fairly excited about that. :)
Looks like it; I'm going to have a history on a floating brothel that was used in the settlement of Australia in the late 18th century to be read tomorrow and reviewed on Thursday; does anyone else have something on this soon? For my free slot I will use a book I am reading today, Extra Virginity, by Tom Mueller, that I got from the library:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
And the link for: The Floating Brothel by Sian Rees:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
I guess we can do that in the right format:
Selection Post - Week 1 - Historical
Book: The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
Author: Siân Rees
Pages: 236
Qualification: It's about Australian History and prostitutes
Selection Post - Free Space
Book: Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
Author: Tom Mueller
Pages: 238
Qualification: The book came from the library.
Read: 6/4/2019
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Selection Post - Week 1 - HistoricalBook: Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Author: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Pages: I'm listening to the audio .... Hardcover 1st edition has 304 pg
Qualification: Main page genre "Historical>Historical Fiction"
Selection Post - Week 1 - HistoricalBook: Zoli
Author: Colum McCann
Pages: 333
Qualification: Main page genre: Historical-Historical Fiction
Marty wrote: "Linda C wrote: "Marty, are you a librarian? I am a retired university librarian."Hi, yes I am! I currently work for a university library and just received tenure. I'm fairly excited about that. :)"
Congratulations! I was the liberal arts reference librarian at a technical university. So I got to work with a wide variety of subjects but with the smallest budget.
Selection Post - Week 1 - HistoricalBook: The Underground Railroad
Author: Colson Whitehead
Pages: 313
How it Fits: Main page genre "Historical>Historical Fiction"
Selection Post - FREE SPACEBook - The Two Faces of January
Author - Patricia Highsmith
Pages - 320 pg
Qualification - Book borrowed for free from the Library
Ack - I apologize - my Tuesday got away from me. I'll post my selections below.
Selection Post - FREE SPACEBook - Aftershocks
Author - - Marko Kloos
Pages - 288
Qualification - ARC from Netgalley
Selection Post - Week 1 - HistoricalBook - Beauty and the Blacksmith
Author - - Tessa Dare
Pages - 224
Qualification - MPG Historical (263 users)
Selection Post - Week 1 - HistoricalBook - Girl with a Pearl Earring
Author - Tracy Chevalier
Pages - 233
Qualification - MPG Historical (5627 users)
Sorry for being so late. Turns out this was a busy day. Looking forward to starting the book, although it wasn't my first choice. My first choice World Without End is 1014 pages long and I can't read it in just one week, so I changed my plan. I don't want to let my team down.
Yeah, that's a bit ambitious for a one-week read, I must agree, and that's as someone who regularly reads more than one book a day :p.
Completion Post - Free SpaceBook: Looking for Me - Beth Hoffman
Pages: 354
How it Fits: borrowed from library
Read: 6/5/19
Rating: 4 Stars
Review: Teddi and her 4 year younger brother, Josh, grew up on a farm in KY. Josh has a special connection to animals and the wild. When Teddi is 10 she drags home a chair she finds in a ditch, refurbishes it and sells it. She sees her calling in antiques. After high school she takes off for Charleston, SC with a dream of her own shop. On a summer visit home after her brother's graduation an incident ends in his heading off to the woods. He never returns.
The story mainly takes place covering the 2 years when Teddi is 36 to 38 years old. We see her early life in scenes scattered throughout the book, not necessarily in chronological order. The secondary characters are delightful. There are some lovely anecdotes and some times when a tissue might be useful. Very good.
Completion Post - Free SpaceBook: Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
Author: Tom Mueller
Pages: 238
Qualification: The book came from the library.
Read: 6/4/2019
Rating: 5 Stars
Review: To what extent should olive oil be treated like wine? I consider myself in general a fan of olive oil, someone who appreciates using it as part of salad dressings as well as something to dip bread in and even something to cook with. I'm aware that I have probably never had genuine extra virgin olive oil, and find myself intrigued at the possibility that olive oils have a sense of terroir similar to wines, although I am not sure that I would appreciate the strong bitterness that many olives have in their natural and pure form. That said, the question remains. This book demonstrates the wide gulf between the high quality of olive oil that exists in many regions of Italy and other places (even Australia and California) and the lack of quality in the olive oil that is treated more or less as a bargain commodity and is regularly adulterated by inferior seed oils through rampant corruption and tariff evasion principles. I consider myself at least interested in being able to tell the difference between the good stuff and the bad stuff, even if there is a significant price premium for the good stuff. Perhaps you feel the same way yourself.
This relatively short book of about 200 pages is divided into seven chapters and various other material. The author begins with a prologue in which he discusses his search for the history and tragedy of olive oil. He then discusses the lives of people who find themselves drawn to grow olives despite the struggles of making a living honestly in the field as an olive grower (1). This leads to a discussion of the large companies and often disobeyed regulations that govern olive oil in the contemporary world (2) as well as the lengthy history of the use of olives for sacred and profane purposes from the ancient world to today (3). The author discusses the lovely burn and the ways in which one can develop a taste for high quality olive oil and differentiate between different varieties (4), and also talks about the low quality industrial oil that is generally made of various sources--often rapeseed or cottonseed oil--and marketed under false pretense (5). The author discusses food revolutions and how this state of affairs came to be (6) as well as the new worlds of oil that exist in the United States and Australia where olives and their growing techniques have been imported (7). The author then closes with a discussion of mythologies as well as a glossary, a discussion of how to choose good oil, and some acknowledgments.
This book raises some fascinating questions as to how it is that olive oil can be treated as an item worth paying for quality rather than simply as a cheap commodity. For olive oil to be profitable to grow in an artisan, family farm fashion, it will be necessary for enough people to develop a taste for the good stuff so that it can command a considerable price premium over inferior material. And once there is enough money in growing good olives and enough of an ability to distinguish among grades of quality, then the high profitability of cheating will be diminished with an informed populace that is willing to pay for that which is grown and manufactured the right way. How much consumer education is necessary for this to happen, and is it something that can be expected? Whether or not you are as passionate about olive oil and its uses in good food as I am, this is a question that I believe is worth asking and worth investigating, not least because I come from a family farming background myself and appreciate the difficulties and importance of good farming and food preparation practices.
Ira wrote: "Sorry for being so late. Turns out this was a busy day. Looking forward to starting the book, although it wasn't my first choice. My first choice World Without End is 1014 pages long an..."Just so you know, Ira ... you do NOT have to finish it in one week. Especially this early in the competition. But you don't want to be 3-weeks behind ....
Nathan,What a comprehensive review. Well done.
One question I need to clarify before signing off on your Free Space book is when you began reading the book. The rule says: FREE SPACE selection can be made early BUT you must wait until on the day the game starts to begin reading.
So, did you start and complete the book on Tuesday the 4th? If so I will add it; if you started before the 4th, it will not count and you need to read something you started on or after the 4th.
Let me know. thanks.
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