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The Amazing Race - Team 6



Louise - captain
Denise (mod)
Patti
Namita
Linda C

Task Thread
Amazing Race Questions
Weekly Check In

Details:
*There are 13 'Weeks' to the game.
*The game begins on Wednesday, July 14 at 12:01 a.m. (Pacific Daylight Time)
*The game concludes Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 12:59 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time)
*If your profile is set to private, you will need to open it for the duration of the game. You may need to be contacted by the head of your team.


How to Play
* Each team member must read one book each week.
* All four tasks must be completed from each week's list.
* You may not start reading your book before Wednesday morning and
you must finish reading your book by Tuesday night (midnight).
* Each week's tasks will be posted Monday mornings.
* The fifth member of each team can choose to read a book for any task they'd like.

Rules:
* Re-reads are allowed.
* Graphic novels are allowed, but they must be 250+ pages.
* No cookbooks or poetry books.
* Books must be at least 140 pages. Audio book page length is determined by the first paper version.
* For cover items, the item must be obvious and distinct.
* For cover color, the color must be at least 50% (check with tineye)
* For location, the MC must be in the country or city at least 50% of the time.

Points
Each task will receive 5 points, which means teams can earn 20 points each week. Also, I will randomly select 1 task to receive an extra 5 points. If the fifth member (or DDBR) reads for that task, the team will earn 25 points for that week.

The team with the most points at the end of the race wins.

DDBR and Missing Players:
If a team has fewer assigned members than five at the beginning of the game, one member may read an extra book to make up the difference. That member is the Designated Double Book Reader (DDBR). The DDBR may change from week to week.

If a team member has an emergency or has scheduled an absence, a DDBR can read 2 books that week so that the team will not lose points. There is no consequence for this absence.

A team member can have one unplanned absence without repercussions. When they miss a second week, they will eliminated from the team. A DDBR will NOT be used in this circumstance. A replacement will hopefully be found.

Week 1

Episode 1 - The Race Begins
(view spoiler)[
In Central Park in New York City, eleven teams begin the Amazing Race. The teams are: Rob and Brennan: lawyers and friends, Frank and Margarita: separated parents, Joe and Bill: a gay couple, Kevin and Drew: fraternity brothers and friends, Nancy and Emily: mother and daughter, Lenny and Karyn: dating, Paul and Amie: engaged couple, Dave and Margaretta: older, married couple, Pat and Brenda: working moms, Kim and Leslie: single teachers and friends, Matt and Ana: married.

Host Phil Keoghan gives the signal and the teams race to John F. Kennedy airport to take flights to Johannesburg, South Africa. Traveling by taxi and subway, all of the teams eventually make it to the airport and board flights.

Arriving in Johannesburg, teams must find a local airport and book charter flights to Zambia leaving the next morning. Once they are in Zambia, they can either hire a driver or drive themselves.

The first stop of the morning is Victoria Falls, to a place called the Knife's Edge. The teams receive a clue telling them to make their way to Batoka Gorge. (see below)
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Hiking down to Boiling Point, Rob and Brennan snag the fast-forward which allows them to skip ahead to the first pit stop of the race. The other teams face the detour named air or land, where they either zip line, and then bungee to the bottom of the gorge (air) or hike to the bottom of the gorge (land). All of the teams choose the air option.

After the task is complete, teams receive a clue sending them to Songwe Village. (hide spoiler)]

This week's tasks are:
Location: Central Park, NY - read a book set in New York State
Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
Mission: find the next clue on a path called the Knife's Edge - read a book where the MC uses a weapon
Roadblock: cook an ostrich egg (eggs are incubated by the females by day and by the males by night) - read a book where the MC hatches (comes up with) a plan


Completion
Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Date Read: 7/20
Rating: 5*
Pages: 531
Task: Mission - read a book where the MC uses a weapon
How It Fits: Frodo uses a sword to protect himself against the ring wraiths.

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Date Read: 7/19
Rating: 5*
Pages: 495
Task: Roadblock - Read a book where the MC hatches (comes up with) a plan
How It Fits: MC hatches a plan to break into a supposedly impregnable military stronghold and rescue a prisoner

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: The Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald
Date Read: 7/15
Rating: 3*
Pages: 241
Task: Roadblock - read a book where the MC hatches (comes up with) a plan
How It Fits: there are really 4 MCs and they each hatch a plan to stop the horrible human trafficking but I’ll say the most obvious is at the end where they all band together to hatch a plan to risk/sacrifice their lives and save the kidnapped girls. Some of them don’t make it….some do and live to fight another day…

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Date Read: 7/14
Rating: 3*
Pages: 498
Task: Location - Central Park, NY - read a book set in New York State
How It Fits: Set in New York

Team Member: Linda C
Book and Author: The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
Date Read:
Rating: 7/17
Pages: 331
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How It Fits: p. 300 MC takes a plane to India

Week 2
Episode 2 - Divide and Conquer

(view spoiler)[The teams start out in Songwe Village, Zambia. They must find the Songwe Museum in the village without any signs to indicate where it is located. They must use the help of the villagers.

The first to leave are Rob and Brennan but they decide to wait for the members of their newly formed alliance with Frank, Margarita, Joe and Bill.

Once locating the museum, the teams must decide to do one of two tasks involving photography. Then they have to bring the pictures to a chief in another village.

Pat and Brenda decide not to do the tasks after failing to find the museum and decide to go for the Fast Forward. They complete this with ease and head to the next pit stop, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Once in Paris, the teams must find a monument through a telescope. For some of the teams this is easy but for others, it proves extremely difficult.

Kim and Leslie are the last to arrive at the pit stop and are the second team to be eliminated from the race. (hide spoiler)]

This week's tasks are:
Location: France - read a book set in France
Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
Mission: take part in a traditional welcome ceremony in Mukuni Village - read a book where the MC participates in or watches a type of ceremony
Roadblock: take the stairway up to the second level of the Eiffel Tower - read a book where a famous landmark or monument is mentioned

Completion
Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: 21st Birthday by James Patterson
Date Read: 7/27
Rating: 5*
Pages: 400
Task: Roadblock: read a book where a famous landmark or monument is mentioned
How It Fits: pg 217 “… it only took our caravan fifteen minutes to cross the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito…”

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Louis the Well Beloved by Jean Plaidy
Date Read: 7/23
Rating: 3*
Pages: 368
Task: Location: France - read a book set in France
How It Fits: Set at the court of Versailles, France

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: Save The Date by Monica Murphy
Date Read: 7/26
Rating: 4*
Pages: 315
Task: read a book where the MC participates in or watches a type of ceremony
How It Fits: MC Caroline is a wedding planner, especially doing wedding invitations. She participates in and at some points watches wedding ceremonies

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: The Poet by Michael Connelly
Date Read: 7/22
Rating: 4*
Pages: 510
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How It Fits: The MC James McAvoy flew on the plane a few times to get to locations he was investigating and reporting on.

Team Member: Linda C
Book and Author: Hot Zone by Catherine Mann
Date Read: 7/27
Rating: 4*
Pages: 316
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How It Fits: p.303 "Before she could breathe, the plane rumbled forward, faster, nose tipping upward... And they were airborne."

Week 3
Episode 3 - Home for Some

(view spoiler)[At the Arc de Triomphe, the teams are told to find La Grande Rue, a ferris wheel located somewhere in the city. They will have to get the route marker when the Ferris wheel opens.

This leg's Detour was a choice between Tough Climb or Easy Walk. In Tough Climb, teams traveled to Notre-Dame de Paris and had to climb up the cathedral's 297 steps to ring Quasimodo's bell and receive their next clue.

In Easy Walk, teams had to locate a statue of a cat sitting beside Foucault pendulum to find their next clue. However, there are two Foucault pendulums in Paris. (see below)
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Unfortunately for Pat and Brenda, they chose the wrong one which puts them far behind the others.

Kevin and Drew decide to go for the Fast Forward, where they have to retrieve it from a local coffee shop. Then they must head directly to the pit stop which is located in Chateau Les Baux.

In the Roadblock, one of the team members must travel through the Paris sewers. Pat and Brenda are the last to arrive and are eliminated. (hide spoiler)]

This week's tasks are:
Location: read a book set in Paris
Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by train
Mission: locate a statue of a cat - read a book with a cat on the cover (large or small, domestic or wild)
Roadblock: walk underground through the sewers of Paris - read a book where the MC goes underground (could be a tunnel, a cave, the subway)

Team Member: Linda C
Book and Author: Skyhunter by Marie Lu
Date Read: 7/30
Rating: 4*
Pages: 371
Task: transportation - read a book where the MC travels by train
How It Fits: p.245 "When he reaches to help me up, the train jerks forward... We readjust our footing as the train begins to pick up speed... The train station behind us vanishes as we speed into the enemy's land."

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Wenn die Götter dürsten by Tanith Lee
Date Read: 8/4
Rating: 5*
Pages: 764
Task: Location: read a book set in Paris
How It Fits: Set in Paris

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: The Black Swan of Paris by Karen Robards
Date Read: 7/31
Rating: 4*
Pages: 480
Task: Location: read a book set in Paris
How It Fits: Set in Paris

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: Spells and Spiced Latte by Jinty James
Date Read: 8/1
Rating: 3*
Pages: 162
Task: Mission ~ read a book with a cat on the cover (large or small, domestic or wild)
How It Fits:

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: The Wire In The Blood by Val McDermid
Date Read: 8/2
Rating: 4*
Pages: 547
Task: Roadblock: read a book where the MC goes underground (could be a tunnel, a cave, the subway)
How It Fits: Carol Jordan discovers the body of a missing girl in an underground bomb shelter.

Week 4
Episode 4 - Colossal Showdown

(view spoiler)[At the start of the leg, teams were told to travel to Marseille Ferry Port, where they had to travel by boat from Marseille to a smaller version of the Arc de Triomphe in the country represented by a small unidentified flag. Teams had to figure out that they had a Tunisian flag, and they had to travel to the capital city of Tunis.

Once in Tunis, they had to find the man depicted in a provided photograph near Bab el Bhar, which bears strong resemblance to Paris' Arc de Triomphe, and say a traditional greeting of As-salām (السلام) to receive their next clue.

Most teams take a plane, but some take a boat.

When they find the man, they are given a Detour. They must take a Full Body Massage or Full Body Brew. They must discover either of these two places using a given map. When these tasks are completed, they must get to the El Jem Coliseum. (see below)
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Once at the El Jem Coliseum, they must run around the coliseum and find a sword located in the 'Pit of Death'.

Dave and Margaretta are the last to arrive and are eliminated. All of the teams applaud and admit they are sad to see that team go. (hide spoiler)]

This week's tasks are:
Location: Tunisia - read a book set in any country that surrounds the Mediterranean Sea: Spain, Monaco, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, or Morocco (but not Italy or France)
Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or large boat/ship
Mission: this leg has a choice between Full Body Massage or Full Body Brew
a: Full Body Brew - read a book with one full body on the cover
or
b. Full Body Brew - read a book where the MC drinks a lot of coffee
Roadblock: navigate an ancient arena to find the 'Pit of Death' - read a book where a significant character dies

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: The Doctor of Aleppo by Dan Mayland
Date Read: 8/6
Rating: 4*
Pages: 450
Task: Location: read a book set in any country that surrounds the Mediterranean Sea: Spain, Monaco, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, or Morocco (but not Italy or France)
How It Fits: Set in Syria

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: 3rd Degree by James Patterson
Date Read: 8/6
Rating: 4*
Pages: 368
Task: Roadblock: navigate an ancient arena to find the 'Pit of Death' - read a book where a significant character dies
How It Fits: One of the MC’s died. A shock for me. Author’s sure know how to shock us.

Team Member: Linda C
Book and Author: The Lass Who Lost a Shoe by Caroline Lee
Date Read: 8/6
Rating: 4*
Pages: 169
Task: a: Full Body Brew - read a book with one full body on the cover
How It Fits:

Team Member: Patti - Free Choice
Book and Author: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Date Read: 8/4
Rating: 4*
Pages: 192
Task: Roadblock: navigate an ancient arena to find the 'Pit of Death' - read a book where a significant character dies
How It Fits: James Bond’s love interest, Vesper, commits suicide

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Enemies by Robert J. Crane
Date Read: 8/10
Rating: 3*
Pages: 310
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or large boat/ship
How It Fits: Sienna travels on an aeroplane to get to London

Week 5
Completion

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: One Lucky Vampire by Lynsay Sands
Date Read: 8/16
Rating: 4*
Pages: 353
Task:Mission: use a walkie talkie to locate the radio's counterpart - listen to an audio book
How It Fits Audiobook

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: Cottage by the Sea by Debbie Macomber
Date Read: 8/16
Rating: 4*
Pages: 429
Task:Transportation — read a book where the MC rides in a truck
How It Fits: 2 of the MCs drive trucks, so there are constant references to driving/riding in a truck. Here is one: pg 227 both MCs are in Keaton’s truck/ Annie riding and Keaton driving “Keaton turned down the road that would lead them to Teresa’s house. The truck slowed to a crawl.”

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
Date Read: 8/16
Rating:5*
Pages:336
Task:Location: read a book NOT set on Earth
How It Fits: Set on a planet called Gora

Team Member: Linda C
Book and Author: Virals by Kathy Reichs
Date Read:8/17/21
Rating: 4*
Pages: 466
Task: Roadblock: ride a camel (a camel is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus) read a book published in a even numbered year (must be the version you read)
How It Fits: publ in 2010

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Date Read: 7/12
Rating:3*
Pages:435
Task:Mission: use a walkie talkie to locate the radio's counterpart - listen to an audio book
How It Fits: Listened to the audiobook

Week 6

Team Member:Namita
Book and Author:The Immortal Who Loved Me by Lynsay Sands
Date Read: 8/19
Rating:4*
Pages: 353
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
How It Fits:MC flew from New Yok to Canada to attend his daughter's wedding.

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author:A Sea of Troubles by Donna Leon
Date Read: 20 Aug 2021
Rating:4*
Pages: 319
Task: Location: read a book set in Italy
How It Fits:Set in Venice, Italy

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: The Girl in Seat 24B by Jennifer Peel
Date Read: 8/20
Rating: 3*
Pages: 225
Task: Free Choice/Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or train
How It Fits:MCs meet on an airplane — MC Carly is sitting in seat 24B

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman
Date Read: 8/20
Rating:4*
Pages: 602
Task: Roadblock: drive a Smart car to the town square of Sant'Agata Bolognese using a map written entirely in Italian - read a book that is published in more than one language
How It Fits:Published in English, French, Czech

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree by Nancy Atherton
Date Read: 8/23
Rating:3*
Pages: 229
Task: Mission: This leg's Detour was a choice between Foot or Hoof
How It Fits: this book is #16 in the series

Week 7
Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: One Minute Out by Mark Greaney
Date Read: 8/25
Rating:4*
Pages:529
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How It Fits: MC flies from Treviso, Italy to Washington D.C. on a CIA transport plane

Team Member: Namita - Free Choice
Book and Author: About a Vampire by Lynsay Sands
Date Read: 8/26
Rating: 3*
Pages:384
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How It Fits:MC travels on the plane to California


Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
Date Read: 8/29
Rating: 4*
Pages: 389
Task: read a book set in India
How It Fits: set in Bombay, India in the 1890’s

Team Member: Linda C
Book and Author: The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page
Date Read: 8/30
Rating:2*
Pages:290
Task: Roadblock: hire a rickshaw and find a shopkeeper in the Chandni Chowk market - read a book where the MC owns his/her own business
How It Fits: MC is a caterer

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine
Date Read: 8/30
Rating: 4*
Pages: 248
Task: Mission: The teams must chose between Glide and Ride.
b) read a book with all the letters of GLIDE in the title
How It Fits: thE Dead GIrLs dance

Week 8

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
Date Read: 9/5
Rating: 3*
Pages: 368
Task: Roadblock: - read a book that is tagged 'historical
How It Fits: MPG Historical

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Stained by Ella James
Date Read: 4/9
Rating: 2*
Pages: 254
Task: Location: Taj Mahal (India) - read a book with a mostly white cover
How It Fits: Cover is 92.7% white according to tineye

Team Member: Patti - Free Choice
Book and Author: Trophy by Steffen Jacobsen
Date Read: 9/2
Rating: 4*
Pages: 373
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
How It Fits: pg 456 talking about MC Michael “From Nørrevold, he took a taxi to a specialist shop

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: Warrior Fae Trapped (Warrior Fae, #1) by K.F. Breene
Date Read: 9/4
Rating: 3*
Pages: 438
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by taxi, bus, or boat
How It Fits: MC takes the bus to Campus - Pg. 6

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: The Body in the Kelp by Katherine Hall Page
Date Read: 9/6
Rating: 3*
Pages: 304
Task: Mission: find a holy man at the Palace of the Winds - read a book with a significant character who is religious
How It Fits: Faith's husband is a minister

Week 9

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: The Little Christmas Teashop of Second Chances by Donna Ashcroft
Date Read: 9/10
Rating: 4*
Pages: 310
Task: Roadblock: walk through a pit of tigers - read a book with two or more complete trees on the cover
How It Fits:

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Date Read: 9/11
Rating: 4*
Pages: 352
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by bus or train
How It Fits: MCs meet while travelling on the same train


Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: Thai Kiss by Matt Carrell
Date Read: 9/14
Rating: 3.5*
Pages: 220
Task: Location: read a book set in Thailand
How It Fits: set in Thailand

Team Member: Namita - Free Choice
Book and Author: Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
Date Read: 9/9
Rating: 4*
Pages: 320
Task: Mission: drop the exact amount of coins into 108 slots - read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count (examples: 261, 338, 420; must be the edition you read)
How It Fits: Page number ends in zero

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: The Obsession by Nora Roberts
Date Read: 9/14
Rating: 4*
Pages: 480
Task: drop the exact amount of coins into 108 slots - read a book with any number of 108 as the last number of the page count
How It Fits:0 is the last # of page count

Week 10

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
Date Read: 9/20
Rating: 4*
Pages: 388
Task: Roadblock: one team member had to paddle a kayak with their team member and all their luggage down the river - read a book where the MC uses luggage, a trunk, or a suitcase
How It Fits: luggage - “…he is going home to salvage as many belongings as he can fit into his luggage…”

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon
Date Read: 9/19
Rating: 3*
Pages: 245
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by boat
How It Fits: MC lives in Venice and uses the vaporetto (public transport by boat) to get around

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: Free Fire by C.J. Box
Date Read: 9/19
Rating: 4*
Pages: 352
Task: Location: (Ao Phang Nga National Park) - read a book where a National Park is mentioned
How It Fits: set in Yosemite National Park

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: Arrow's Fall by Mercedes Lackey
Date Read: 9/16
Rating: 4*
Pages: 319
Task: Mission: teams must find "the king" at Raile Beach - read a book where royalty is a significant character in the book (examples of royalty: king, queen, prince, princess, duke, duchess, emperor, empress, tsar, tsarina)
How It Fits: The Queen Selene is a very significant character in this book. Her daughter to be betrothed and she travels herself to meet the Prince.

Team Member: Linda - Free Choice
Book and Author: X Dames by J.J. Henderson
Date Read: 9/21
Rating: 2*
Pages: 159
Task: Location: (Ao Phang Nga National Park) - read a book where a National Park is mentioned
How It Fits: p. 1 ""...near the northern edge of the Everglades National Park."

Week 11

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Date Read: 9/27
Rating: 5*
Pages: 418
Task: Location: read a book set in China
How It Fits: Set in China

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: The Deceived by Brett Battles
Date Read: 9/25
Rating: 3*
Pages: 358
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC flies in an airplane
How It Fits: MC travels by plane repeatedly throughout the book, beginning with a flight from LA to Houston

Team Member: Patti - free choice
Book and Author: Peaches and Schemes by Anna Gerard
Date Read: 9/25
Rating: 4*
Pages: 305
Task: Roadblock: give food purchases to a chef at Donghuamen Night Market and eat what he prepares - read a book with a prepared food on the cover
How It Fits: Wedding cake on cover

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: Vanilla Vengeance by Molly Maple
Date Read: 9/27
Rating: 3*
Pages: 256
Task: Roadblock: Read a book with prepared food on the cover.
How It Fits: Cupcake on the cover

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: by Luanne Rice
Date Read: 9/25
Rating: 3*
Pages: 336
Task: Mission: This leg has a choice between Volley or Rally.
b) In Rally, teams had to take three common forms of local transportation. - read a book from the Best Traveling Vicariously list
How It Fits: #1112 on the Best Traveling Vicariously list

Week 12

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: A Streak of Bad Cluck by Ellen Riggs
Date Read: 10/2
Rating: 3*
Pages: 232
Task: Mission: use a marked map to find three kite flyers - read the third book of a trilogy or series
How It Fits: #3 Bought the Farm Mystery

Team Member: Denise
Book and Author: Blood of Empire by Brian McClellan
Date Read: 10/5
Rating: 4*
Pages: 672
Task: Mission: use a marked map to find three kite flyers - read the third book of a trilogy or series
How It Fits: #3 in Gods of Blood and Powder trilogy

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: The Christmas Fair Killer by Amy Patricia Meade
Date Read: 10/5
Rating: 3*
Pages: 224
Task: Roadblock: climb an ice wall - read a book set in the wintertime
How It Fits: set in winter/Christmas

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: The Black Gryphon by Mercedes Lackey
Date Read: 10/2
Rating: 4*
Pages: 460
Task: Location: The Great Wall of China - read a book with 400+ pages
How It Fits: Over 400 pages

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
Date Read: 9/29
Rating: 5*
Pages: 226
Task: Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by airplane or snowmobile
How It Fits: p. 177 Bruce takes an air-taxi to Dawson Island

Week 13

Team Member: Louise
Book and Author: Something Blue bybEmily Giffin
Date Read: 10/12
Rating: 3*
Pages: 419
Task: Transportation: - read a book where the MC travels on an airplane or by subway
How It Fits: Darcy flies from New York to London

Team Member: Namita
Book and Author: Unforgivable by Laura Griffin
Date Read: 10/7
Rating: 3*
Pages: 387
Task: Mission: don snowshoes and follow the flags 1 mile (1.6 km) to Takosha Lodge - read a book with a one-word title
How It Fits:One word title

Team Member: Patti
Book and Author: The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Date Read: 10/11
Rating: 5*
Pages: 445
Task: Location: Alaska (USA) -read a book set in Alaska
How It Fits: Set in Alaska

Team Member: Denise - Free Choice
Book and Author: Protector
Date Read: 10/10
Rating: 4*
Pages: 416
Task: Mission: don snowshoes and follow the flags 1 mile (1.6 km) to Takosha Lodge - read a book with a one-word title
How It Fits: One word title

Team Member: Linda
Book and Author: In Too Deep by Tracey Alvarez
Date Read: 10/7
Rating: 3*
Pages: 332
Task: Roadblock: Read a book where the MC goes swimming
How It Fits: MC is a diver and swims many times

Hi All, although I have heard of the program Amazing Race, I’ve never actually watched. May have to remedy that. I live in South Wales and am a bit of a challenge addict. I have access to a ridiculous number of books so can generally find something to fit.

Any ideas for team names.

First task is posted. Looking at it initially I definitely have books on hand for Location and Mission

Hi team!

I think I may have once seen an episode or two of some adaptation of this Amazing Race thing or other, but I couldn't swear to it...
Definitely a challenge addict, too, and waving hello to you from Finland :)

No spontaneous middle of the night team name ideas, but I'll see if I can come up with a suggestion or two when I'm not half asleep!

I should be able to find a book for any of the first set of tasks, so I'll let everyone else go ahead and pick first.

Hi everyone!! Happy to be part of another team challenge. Louise, I have the same addiction... lol

Suggestions for Group Names:

Shelf Indulgence
Readers Dozen
Between the Covers
Better Read Than Dead
Overbooked
The Literary Coven

I'll take ... off to look for a book.

read a book set in New York State -

Hi all! Looking forward to this Challenge.

Some race/travel related names:

World Travelers
Winner's Circle
Reading Racers
Booked for Travel

I can do Transportation by reading
MC flies from London to Paris to India and home

We don't start reading these until Wed 7/14, right?

Hi Team! I’m Patti

Cute suggestions for Team names! I like Booked for Travel, shelf Indulgence & Overbooked!

I can do any of the tasks left — Mission or Roadblock

So the important days for this are:

Monday - Weekly tasks posted
Tuesday - midnight PST - books to be completed
Wednesday - books can be started.

Start of Week 1

My preferences for team names are:

Overbooked
Booked for Travel

So we get 5 points for each of these, one task is worth an extra 5 points which will be randomly selected.

Location - Namita
Transportation - Linda
Mission - Louise
Roadblock - Patti

Denise - take your pick, for the extra task

So many team name ideas already! My favourites out of those are Booked for Travel and Overbooked.

Okay, if I'm #5 for this round I'll take my time reviewing my options for the first week and just pick the one I'm most in the mood for on Wednesday. :)

Denise wrote: "So many team name ideas already! My favourites out of those is Booked for Travel and Overbooked.

Okay, if I'm #5 for this round I'll take my time reviewing my options for the first week and just p..."

Love you’re thinking 😄

Overbooked sounds great and cool.

Three of us like Overbooked so I'll go along with that.

Linda C wrote: "Three of us like Overbooked so I'll go along with that."

Awesome!

Janine (Janeylou) and I had a short discussion about start and ending times.
To avoid confusion and stress, I'm changing a rule.

All times refer to your local time.

*The game begins on Wednesday, July 14 at 12:01 a.m. (your local time)
*The game concludes Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 12:59 p.m. (your local time)

Do not start reading your book before Wednesday morning (12:01 a.m. your time)
and
you must finish reading your book by Tuesday night (11:59 p.m. your time).

Thanks Lanelle!! 7 more hours before I can start reading my book.

Namita wrote: "Thanks Lanelle!! 7 more hours before I can start reading my book."

I'm counting the hours, too :)

Completion Post

Book and Author: The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Date Read: 7/14
Rating: 3 Stars
Pages: 498
Task: Location - read a book set in New York State
How It Fits: Set in New York

Completion Post

Book and Author: The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper - Phaedra Patrick
Date Read: 7/17/21
Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 331
Task: Transportation - read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
How It Fits: p. 300 MC takes a plane to India

Completion Post

Book and Author: The Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald
Date Read: 7/15
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 241
Task: Roadblock: read a book where the MC hatches (comes up with) a plan
How It Fits: there are really 4 MCs and they each hatch a plan to stop the horrible human trafficking but I’ll say the most obvious is at the end where they all band together to hatch a plan to risk/sacrifice their lives and save the kidnapped girls. Some of them don’t make it….some do and live to fight another day….

Tasks for the new week are up:

Location: France - read a book set in France
Transportation: read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
Mission: take part in a traditional welcome ceremony in Mukuni Village - read a book where the MC participates in or watches a type of ceremony
Roadblock: take the stairway up to the second level of the Eiffel Tower - read a book where a famous landmark or monument is mentioned

I'd love to take the Location task on this one, though I can probably find books for the other tasks too if needed.

Completion Post - Week 1
Book and Author: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Date Read: 19 Jul 2021
Rating: *****
Pages: 495
Task: Roadblock: Read a book where the MC hatches (comes up with) a plan
How It Fits: MC hatches a plan to break into a supposedly impregnable military stronghold and rescue a prisoner

I can take either Location or Roadblock

I'm not sure. Everyone pick and I'll be the 5th player this week. I have to actually go look for books that might fit.

I can take Transportation again. I have another book where the MC flies on an airplane.

I can take Mission!

Location - Denise
Transportation- Linda
Mission - Patti
Roadblock - Louise

Namita - take your pick

Completion Post
Book and Author: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Date Read: 7/20
Rating: 5*
Pages: 531
Task: Mission - read a book where the MC uses a weapon
How It Fits: Frodo uses a sword to protect himself against the ring wraiths.

We are checked in for Week 1 :)

Completion Post - Week 2
Book and Author: Louis the Well Beloved by Jean Plaidy
Date Read: 23 Jul 2021
Rating: ***
Pages: 368
Task: Location: France - read a book set in France
How It Fits: Set at the court of Versailles, France

New set of tasks has been posted:

Location: read a book set in Paris
Transportation: read a book where the MC travels by train
Mission: locate a statue of a cat - read a book with a cat on the cover (large or small, domestic or wild)
Roadblock: walk underground through the sewers of Paris - read a book where the MC goes underground (could be a tunnel, a cave, the subway)

I can do Location, Transportation or Mission.

I can do Transportation again - I have this one needing to be read for another challenge - Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World-from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief