The Challenge Factory discussion

Team #8 Players
Captain: Thenia
Sallie (GeorgiaGirl)
Elizabeth
Paula
Abbie DiscoSuperFly
Delitealex

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Hello!

I'm Paula from Chile.
This is my first team playing Bingo, so I prefer not to be captain.

Are you reaady?

Checking in. I cannot be captain, I work 2 jobs and wont be able to check in all the time.

Hi im checking in as well...would rather not be Captain.....

Hi checking in as well and I also would not like to be captain.

Does anyone has any ideas for team name?
I can be captain if no one else can, but has anyone played before? because I might be a litlle confused at times =/

Hey team, it's nice to meet you all!

I'm a veteran at bingo so I can pick up the captain reigns if Claire doesn't want the position either.

As for a team name, we can look into the team number in Wikipedia for inspiration: link here.

Awesome Thenia!
I believe Claire was assigned for team 5 too, so I'm not sure if she is on this team

Thenia wrote: "

Hey team, it's nice to meet you all!

I'm a veteran at bingo so I can pick up the captain reigns if Claire doesn't want the position either.

As for a team name, we can look into the team number ..."Awesome

Paula wrote: "Awesome Thenia!
I believe Claire was assigned for team 5 too, so I'm not sure if she is on this team"

This is her team, not Team 5. Team Captain needs to send her a pm

Ok, I was sure I read her name on the other team as well, I hope she'll show up soon.

We're starting tomorrow, is everyone ready? I'm a little anxious to know what category we'll have to read

Ezinwanyi wrote: "Paula wrote: "Awesome Thenia!
I believe Claire was assigned for team 5 too, so I'm not sure if she is on this team"

This is her team, not Team 5. Team Captain needs to send her a pm"

There's an update on Claire's homepage: "Currently not active on GR due to health problems. Hope to be back soon."

How should we proceed?

we should ask for a replacement to Ezinwanyi, right?

Paula wrote: "we should ask for a replacement to Ezinwanyi, right?"

I sent a message to the replacement

Team name, the only thing that I could think of was:

The Gr8ful Read

I have a question, the fisrt shelf is Historical, we have to read it before next tuesday?

Hi all I'm the replacement player

Gr8 escape

Whose the captain?

Hello! Welcome, the captain is Thenia
I liked Gr8 Escape =P

Delitealex wrote: "Hi all I'm the replacement player"

Welcome

Shelf:Historical
Book:The Damned
Pages:353
Qualification: Historical fiction

Shelf: Historical
Imprudenceby Gail Carriger
Pages: 368
Fits: Historical fiction

Please use the selection post sample that I used in the rules part. It will make it easier for me to check the posts.
Thank you

Delitealex wrote: "Hi all I'm the replacement player"

Welcome to the team!

Team Progress:
 Free Space - 5/6
 Shelf #5 - Animals/Pet - 6/6 ~ stamp pending
 Shelf #6 - Humor/Satire - 5/6
 Shelf #7 - Goodreads Choice Nominee - 4/6
 Shelf #8 -Dual/Multiple Authors - 3/6
 Shelf #9 - Books to TV/Movies - 2/6
 Shelf #10 - Pregnancy/Child - 1/6

Stamped:
☑ Shelf #1 - Historical
☑ Shelf #2 - Disability
☑ Shelf #3 - Fantasy/UF/Paranormal
☑ Shelf #4 - Suspense & Thriller

(view spoiler)[Pending books:
Free Space - 5/6
 Sallie

Shelf #6 - Humor/Satire - 5/6
 Delitealex

Shelf #7 - Goodreads Choice Nominee - 4/6
 Paula
 Thenia

Shelf #8 -Dual/Multiple Authors - 1/6
 Delitealex
 Paula
 Sallie

Shelf #9 - Books to TV/Movies - 0/6
 Abbie
 Delitealex
 Paula
 Thenia

Shelf #10 - Pregnancy/Child - 0/6
 Abbie
 Delitealex
 Elizabeth
 Paula
 Sallie
 Thenia
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Abbie:
 Books to TV/Movies
 Pregnancy/Child

Delitealex:
 Humor/Satire
 Dual/Multiple Authors
 Books to TV/Movies
 Pregnancy/Child

Elizabeth:
 ---

Paula:
 Goodreads Choice Nominee
 Dual/Multiple Authors
 Books to TV/Movies
 Pregnancy/Child

Sallie:
 Free Space
 Dual/Multiple Authors
 Pregnancy/Child

Thenia:
 Goodreads Choice Nominee
 Books to TV/Movies
 Pregnancy/Child
(hide spoiler)]

✦ Free Space Shelf:

☑ Abbie DiscoSuperFly - The Princes in the Tower - Alison Weir - Review ~ ★★★ (13/06/2019)
☑ Delitealex - In Other Lands - Sarah Rees Brennan - Review ~ ★★★ (18/06/2019)
☑ Elizabeth - Hide and Seek - Mary Burton - Review ~ ★★★★★ (15/07/2019)
☑ Paula - Zombie Town + Criaturas del Mas Alla - R.L. Stine - Review ~ ★★★★ (16/06/2019)
 Sallie (GeorgiaGirl) -
☑ Thenia - Ice Planet Barbarians - Ruby Dixon - Review ~ ★★★ (16/06/2019)

☑ Completed: 5/6

✦ Shelf #1 - Historical

☑ Abbie DiscoSuperFly - Mischling - Affinity Konar - Review ~ ★★★ (10/06/2019)
☑ Delitealex - Imprudence - Gail Carriger - Review ~ ★★★★ (13/06/2019)
☑ Elizabeth - The Damned - Tarn Richardson - Review ~ ★★★★★ (07/06/2019)
☑ Paula - El niño en la cima de la montaña - John Boyne - Review ~ ★★★⋆ (12/06/2019)
☑ Sallie (GeorgiaGirl) - The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See - Review ~ ★★★★ (18/06/2019)
☑ Thenia - The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband - Julia Quinn - Review ~ ★★★ (05/06/2019)

☑ Completed: 6/6

Planning

Shelf: Historical
Mischling by Affinity Konar
Pages: 344
Fits: Historical fiction

Has a team name been decided yet?

Selection Post

Shelf: Historical
Book: El niño en la cima de la montaña by John Boyne
Pages: 256 pages
Qualification: tagged as Historial 68 times

Shelf:Historical
Book:
Pages: 377
Qualification: Historical fiction

Shelf #1: Historical
Book: The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband - Julia Quinn
Pages: 384
Qualification: Tagged as "Historical" by 267 users
Read: 06/05/2019
Rating: ★ ★ ★

Review:

The story of Cecilia, a worried sister who travels to America to find her missing brother Thomas, but finds his injured best friend Edward instead.

Edward wakes up missing a good chunk of his memory, including that of his marriage to Cecilia. The two have been corresponding through Thomas's letters and have grown quite fond of one another, but never actually got married or even made plans to do so. Cecilia lied about that to be allowed to care for Edward while he was sick, and the lie kept growing since being Edward's wife meant she was more likely to get some answers about her brother.

Edward takes Cecilia at her word and he is even happy to be married to her, but (view spoiler)[when his memory finally returns and the truth comes out, he feels understandably upset and betrayed, especially since is in love with her. Unfortunately, the return of his memory also meant answers about Thomas, and the news are not good. Edward keeps the fact that he knows about Cecilia's deception to himself, intending to give her some time to mourn her brother before confronting her, but doesn't get the chance to do so.

Cecilia, who is also in love with Edward, feels awful about deceiving him, and now that she knows what happened to her brother, she arranges passage home and leaves a letter for Edward, explaining everything.

Thankfully for both of them Edward finds it in time to follow her before it's too late, and the two finally clear the air and decide to make their fake marriage real (hide spoiler)].

An engaging story that I enjoyed despite my usual dislike of characters keeping secrets for too long.

The series continues with The Other Miss Bridgerton and the story of Edward's brother Andrew.

Previous book reviews:
✦ Because of Miss Bridgerton (Rokesbys #1) ~ ★★★★ (04/04/2017)

Delitealex wrote: "Has a team name been decided yet?"

Unless anyone has any other suggestions we could go with "The Gr8 Escape".

just checking in , I'm almost done with my pick , and can I say I'm glad that I'm giving this a try , it'll help me pick books form my Netgalley shelf as well as my kindle TBR

Shelf: Historical fiction
BookThe Damned

Pages: 352
Read: 6/7
Rating: 5 Stars
Review:1914. The Outbreak of War In the French City of Arras,

Father Andreas is brutally murdered and the Catholic Inquisition sends its most determined and unhinged inquisitor to investigate. Poldek Tacit's mission is to protect the Church from those who seek to undermine it. At any cost.

As Tacit arrives, British and German soldiers confront each other across the horror that is No Man's Land and a beautiful French woman warns Lieutenant Henry Frost that there is a dark and unnatural foe lurking underground more awful than even Tacit can comprehend.
My thoughts:
dark and twisted from the very start to the last page, it has every thing in that I love in a book historical backdrop with supernatural ties, the struggle of good against evil and that no matter what you might want to stay inside and lock your doors and even then you might not be safe , yes its slow going but I still enjoyed it so much that I couldn't stop reading it, and yes I would recommend it to my friends ,

Shelf: Historical Fiction
Book: Mischling

Page: 344
Rating: 3
Finished: 6/10/19
How it Fits: Tagged Historical Fiction 524 times

Review:

So this one is a bit hard to review. I originally picked it up because I was interested Auschwitz and Dr. Mengele who was said to have some crazy experiments during the war.
However the story itself followed a pair of twins who BTW Mengele was obsessed with, and kind of "collected" them during the war. You hear about some of the things he did to these children and the things that he made them do.
Once the twins get separated, as when I kind of lost interest in the story, and then it was just story of finding each other.

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "Shelf: Historical Fiction
Book: Mischling

Page: 344
Rating: 3
How it Fits: Tagged Historical Fiction 524 times

Review:

So this one is a bit hard to ..."

Abbie, you forgot to add the date you finished the book in your review post!

I've updated our team progress shelves - you can find the post with their links here.

Thenia wrote: "Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "Shelf: Historical Fiction
Book: Mischling

Page: 344
Rating: 3
How it Fits: Tagged Historical Fiction 524 times

Review:

S..."

Fixed!

Shelf: free
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Pages: 437
Fits: library loan

Selection Post

Shelf: Free
Book: Zombie Town + Criaturas del Más Allá by R.L. Stine
Pages: 208 pages
Qualification: it was a Christmas gift

✦ Shelf #2 - Disability:

☑ Abbie DiscoSuperFly - Still Me - Jojo Moyes - Review ~ ★★★ (17/06/2019)
☑ Delitealex - You're Welcome, Universe - Whitney Gardner - Review ~ ★★★ (24/06/2019)
☑ Elizabeth - The Christmasaurus - Tom Fletcher - Review ~ ★★★★ (12/06/2019)
☑ Paula - La luz que no puedes ver - Anthony Doerr - Review ~ ★★★★⋆ (30/06/2019)
☑ Sallie (GeorgiaGirl) - Me Before You - Jojo Moyes - Review ~ ★★★★ (19/06/2019)
☑ Thenia - Romancing the Duke - Tessa Dare - Review ~ ★★★★ (13/06/2019)

☑ Completed:6/6

Shelf:Disability
Title:The Christmasaurus
Author:Tom Fletcher
Pages:387
How it fit: The main character is in a wheelchair do to an accident that happened .

Shelf: disability
Book: You're Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner
Pages: 304
Fits: tagged disability

Hello! I'll be finishing today my historical book.

Also, do you have some recommendations for the disability shelf, maybe something available for kindle?

Shelf: Disablility
Title: The Christmasaurus
Date: 6/12
Pages: 387
rating: 4
Review: Once upon a time--long, long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth--an egg rolled away from its mother and landed in the ocean, where it froze solid and stayed peacefully for thousands of years. Then one day Santa and his elves discover the frozen egg, and Santa sits on it to see if it will hatch. But he can't guess what's inside. . . . A dinosaur!

Meanwhile, a young boy named William Trundle has only ever wished for one thing for Christmas: a dinosaur! So when Santa accidentally gives William the real Christmasaurus instead of a stuffed replica, it's the BEST CHRISTMAS EVER! Until an evil man known as the Hunter decides a dinosaur will be the perfect addition to his collection.
my thoughts:
Charming, funny, whimsical and heart-warming, it's truly a festive treat for readers young and not so young , and the more you read it the more you fall in love with the characters , it could be a favorite of anyone no matter their age.

Paula wrote: "Hello! I'll be finishing today my historical book.

Also, do you have some recommendations for the disability shelf, maybe something available for kindle?"
I don't know if its on kindle but the only one I can think of is :Wonder
by R.J. Palacio