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Eldarwen wrote: "Nanci wrote: "I was out in Denver the past 5 days helping our youngest daughter plan for her wedding and didn't have my laptop, so just now catching up on all these posts. Phew! I am so glad I'm no..."August 6 is the wedding date. Planning a wedding during Covid has been a true challenge. Their venue is gorgeous, atop the mountain of Crested Butte! The problem is that in Colorado Covid mandates are based on the county and Crested Butte couty is extremely conservative. The numbers allowed in attendance keep changing even though it's an outside wedding. First they told her 150, then 100 and now only 50 people allowed. We have had to disinvite family members and now we have to narrow it down even further. I keep telling her there are worse things, but at 34 years old and finally finding her true love after being in tons of weddings (and dating a few toads over the years), it's a harsh reality and very stressful for a normally laid back daughter. It will all work out, of course, and she has found such a terrific, kind man! That's all that matters and we are very excited for them!
I checked on the BOM thread and sadly our team wasn't chosen to write DQs for the first book. I am reading it and will answer the first set of questions and link them back here when I'm done.DQ link for chapters 1-5 of The Lost Orphan. Message 42:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hi Team! Finished a book that I will post shortly but am also working on another now with a Motorbike on the cover (Task 94) - wanted to get that claim in ;-)
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Book: Falling for Her Husband
Page count: 172 pp
Date/Rating: 05.01 ★★★
Works for:
Task 21: romance mpg
Task 25/82/83/158/191: author Karen Erickson
Task 35: husband in title
Task 39: oval and circles on cover
Task 73: 172 pp
Task 87: faLlInG for her hUsbanD (GUILD letters in title)
Task 88: set in NYC
Task 89: cityscape on cover
Task 241: final in The Renaldis Series
Bingo square: camera - MC Amber is a model
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Book: Falling for Her Husband
Page count: 172 p"
Can you put it on your TT shelf, please? Thanks! :-)
Eldarwen wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "Completion PostBook: Falling for Her Husband
Page count: 172 p"
Can you put it on your TT shelf, please? Thanks! :-)"
Oops!!!
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Date: May 2, 2021
Rating: 2 stars
Pages: 345
Works for:
Task #13/183: MPG Feminism
Task #76: Absalom is a religious zealot and wants to burn all the witches in the name of God. Several characters agree.
Task #135: MPG Paranormal
Task #136: MPG Witches
Task #147: Character: Ursa Cornet
Task #153: MPG Historical Fiction
Task #160: Character: Diinna
Task #172: Absalom Cornet
Task #203: They burn a prominent character for being a witch (see spoiler tag below for more).
Task #244: Under spoiler tag (view spoiler)
Bingo: B5 Snowflake
How: set in Norway during winter
F7: Three witches
Book is focused on women being witches
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Demon's Wish by Xenia Melzer
Date Read: 5/2/21
Rating: 3★
Tasks: 50 (MC is a demon), 73 (148pgs) 133 (MPG Vampires), 135 (MPG Paranormal), 137 (MPG Fantasy), 157 (MC is +800 years old)
Bingo: B4 (MC has fangs), B7 (MC makes coffee at shop)
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Book: Special Delivery
Page count: 109 pp
Date/Rating: 05.02 ★★★
Works for:
Task 4: #1 Boyfriend Material
Task 21: romance mpg
Task 70: mpg holiday
Task 73: 109 pp
Task 84: title S
Task 88: set in NYC
Task 112/161/169/171: author Lauren Blakely
Task 115: set at christmas
Task 167: 'special' is an adjective
Task 205: snow on cover
Task 210: there is a christmas/holiday party
Task 225: single male
Task 225: 1st POV
Bingo square: snowflake - snow on cover
hello, everyone! i hope you’ve been enjoying your readings so far. i just wanted to let you know that i have an important exam next monday so unfortunately i can’t read as much as i would like, but right after that, i’ll read as many books as i possibly can!
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Good luck on your exam :-)
Completion Post task I requested to claim is in bold :-)
Book: Nauti Angel
Page count: 349 pp
Date/Rating: 05.02 ★★★★
Works for:
Task 10: MC is a mercenary
Task 15: 5 letters each
Task 21: romance mpg
Task 23: female MC is Angel Calloway
Task 39: headlight is a circle
Task 86: river in background
Task 94: motorbike on cover
Task 112/169/171: author Lora Leigh
Task 211: chrome on bike is silver colored
Task 229: mpg mystery
Task 236: motorcycle is engine powered
Task 241: last in Nauti series
Bingo square: blue warrior in tartan - female MC is a warrior by choice and circumstance as part of a mercenary team and personal protection guard
Book: Fire in His Blood
Author: Ruby Dixon
Page count: 328 pgs
Date/Rating: 5/3/2021
Works for:
Task 21: Romance MPG
Task 46: Flames on Cover
Task 101: Title has anagram (FIRE--> RIFE)
Task 119: H and h meet and go from enemies to friends
Task 137: Fantasy
Bingo square: C3 (dragon). MC is a dragon shifter
Question for Vicki...how did you make your link go directly to your message? I'd love to be able to do that! I only know to copy the page link. TIA!
Nanci, you would do it like this. Copy your page link and then you would type this. I've put * in so you can see what to type but you would remove those.<*a href="paste your link here"<*/a>type what you want the link to say, like Vicki did with message 78<*/a>
Hey Stacie,Thanks for your help. I've tried a bunch of times, but still not working. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong with your great directions.
Here's what I did:
I put in the less than sign and then typed a href=. I then pasted my link and typed the less than sign along with forward slash a and greater than sign. I then put the less than sign typed in Message 48 and typed in forward slash a and then greater than sign.
I hope that makes sense! Learning these things are so much easier to actually have a live conversation! Anyway, if you've patience enough to let me know what I did wrong that would be great!
Did you put the quotation marks in?I'm happy to help! If you show me what you are seeing, I can certainly try to help you get it right!
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<*a href="paste your link here"*>type what you want the link to say, like Vicki did with message 78<*/a>
The <*/a> only comes at the end. It's a simply > before you type what you want the link to say.
Oops!! Thanks E! Sorry about the wrong info, Nanci! I even went to look at my post to see what I did when I did it and didn't catch that. This is why I'm co-captain and not captain hahahahahah.
The above comment is just a trial. I'm still working on it, E and Stacie! As you can see, clicking on the link takes me to the first page, but not my particular message. I'll keep trying!
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Right-click on the time stamp of your message. Then choose "copy link" and that is the link you're going to insert between the a href and all the <> signs. Not forgetting the ".
Eta: the time stamp is on the top right of your comment.
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Haha no worries!
Took me a while as well. I just kept looking at it and thinking, something is odd... but when you're used to adding links this way, it becomes automatic :-)
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Grrr. I've tried for about 30 minutes to get this correct. I'm out of patience. Thanks for your directions, but I'll just go with the old way for now.DQ Day 2 Chapters 6-10
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Message 89
What???? Well it worked! I didn't do any of the other letters and symbols you told me to use, I just right clicked on the time stamp and copied it. Although Message 89 is not a hyperlink, it still took me exactly to my message 89 when I clicked on the above link, so I'm good with that! Thanks for telling me about the timestamp, E! That is very helpful! Now, if I can just remember it when I need it again down the road! :)
I've linked all the recommendations hereYou'll see some of them are specific to outside certain countries because that was a specific request from me so I included the info in case that matters to you :)
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Much Ado About You by Samantha Young
Date Read: 5/4/21
Rating: 4★
Tasks: 21, 49 (also titled All You Wish For), 61 (MC changes jobs), 68 (MC travels from the US to UK), 84 (author), 101 (much=chum), 119 (MC makes friends in the UK), 162 and 190 (author), 214 (dog on cover)
Bingo: G3 (dog on cover), D1 or H2 (MC is a farmer)
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Book: Love's Wild Desire
Page count: 351 pp
Date/Rating: 05.03 ★★★
Works for:
Task 14: there is slave revolt/riot in the story
Task 20: MCs marry in the story
Task 21: romance mpg
Task 77: Catherine's nurse, Dede, is superstitious and practices voodoo
Task 81/161: author Jennifer Blake
Task 106: MC attends quadroon ball that gets her into trouble
Task 107: above mentioned ball is a fancy dress or masquerade ball
Task 112/169/171: title L
Task 119: Rafe's neighbors befriend Catherine
Task 153: mpg historical fiction
Task 155: MCs escape slave revolt on horseback
Task 167: Wild is an adjective
Task 218: While MC is lost, she learns to fish and shoot, hunt small game
Task 219: gown on cover
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Book:Redemption
Page Count: 416
Date/Rating: 5/03/21 ★★★★★
Works for: #21
Task 21: MPG Romance
Task 52: MC has to obey someone else's commands
Task 88: Set in a large city
Task 126: MC is an artist/engineer
Task 146: Spell out truth (letter R)
Task 165: MPG Young Adult
Task 203: Features a murder
Task 229: MPG Mystery
Task 230: MPG Crime
BINGO :
C2 the mob organization does money laundering
E3 Flowers on cover (red roses)
Mod
Book:Redemption
Page Count: 416
Date/Rating: 5/03/21 ★★★★★"
Can you add this to your TT shelf, please?
Thanks!
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Date: 5/4
Rating: 3.5 stars
Pages: 848
Works for:
Task #10: Tane is a fighter and dragon rider
Task #21: MPG Romance
Task #25: E: MC Ead Durayn
Task #41: Yellow cover
Task #112: L: Loth
Task #137: MPG Fantasy
Task #143: Letters FAT in title
Task #163: The dragons talk and there's another set of animals that talks
Task #190: AFN
Task #203: So many murders
C3: Dragons play a key role
C8: They think a character is dead who is not
E1: They ride camels through the desert
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I liked it! In a weird twist, I liked it better when the stories were apart. once they meshed, it felt a little clunky but she also wrote a whole standalone high fantasy which isn't easy.
Stacie wrote: "The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Date: 5/4
Rating: 3.5 stars
Pages: 848
Works for:
Task #10: ..."
Hey, Stacie, I JUST bought this book for my grandson who is almost 15. He requested it so I was wondering how you liked it.
I enjoyed it. People kept saying it was a sapphic romance but I think that aspect of it was mediocre. I liked Ead's story line and ofc talking dragons and a made up animal.
Stacie wrote: "I enjoyed it. People kept saying it was a sapphic romance but I think that aspect of it was mediocre. I liked Ead's story line and ofc talking dragons and a made up animal."What is a sapphic romance?
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The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Date: 5/4
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 337
Tasks it works for:
#29- T in title
#52- Rowan has to obey the mother of the children
#61-MC nanny changes job from daycare employee to nanny
#81-(CFN: Bill Elincourt)
#82- (CFN: Ellie Elincourt)
#84- (CFN: Sandra Elincourt)
#138 (MPG: Horror)
#145 and #148 (T: The) Letter T
#146 -(AFN Ruth Ware) Letter R
#161 (CFN: Bill) Letter B
#190 (CFN: Sandra)
#202- (Rowan reads to children)
#203- (child murders sibling)
#225- (MC tells story)
#229-(MPG Mystery)
Bingo- works for H1 the camera. The house in the novel was a smart house with cameras all over, which the parents used to constantly check up on the nanny, who was the MC
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Well I learnt something new today.
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Launch the Hunt by Mia West
Date Read: 5/5/21
Rating: 4★
Tasks: 4,8,48 (Military MPG), 108 (Maddox), 112 and 210 (title), 134 (MPG Shapeshifter), 234 (Logan has a son)
Bingo: B2 (MC is an eagle shifter)
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Talking dragons and in general dragons is what got my attention with this. I read the first couple of chapters last year and enjoyed those.
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Book: Peace Talks by Jim Butcher
Date Read: 4th May
Rating: 4 stars
Tasks:
10 Features a female fighter (sword woman, fighter pilot, etc): lots of female fights in this, especially Valkyries
15 Book where all the words in the title are the same length
50 features demons / devils
67 focused on siblings : Harry and Thomas
79 features elves
88 set in a large city : Chicago
95 features a grandparent
120 with a character of legend (e.g. Father Christmas, Jack Frost, Sandman, Tooth Fairy, etcetc)
133 MPG Vampires
135 MPG Paranormal
137 MPG Fantasy
187/188/189 hat on cover
224 Single person on the cover
229 MPG Mystery
Spell-Out Tasks:
25/82/83 Spell out - E : character: Ebenezer McCoy
27 Spell out - G : character: Freydis Gard
28/149 Spell out - H : character: Harry Dresden
29/145/148 Spell out - T : character: Thomas Raith
81/161 Spell out - B : character: Waldo Butters
111/173 Spell out - C : character: Molly Carpenter
112/169/171 Spell out - L : character: Lara Raith
146 spell out - R : character: Thomas Raith
158/191 Spell out - K : character: Karrin Murphy
160 Spell out - D : character: Harry Dresden
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Some recommendations for books set outside US/UK/NZ/AUS. trying to base them on your preferred genres, but I have to admit they're not ones I read much of!