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Book: Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
Date Read: 16th May
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 399

Tasks:
4 1st in a series
47 sword on cover
66 features a necromancer -> Chella is a necromancer
99 title has all the letters in C-O-H-E-N
155 MC uses horse(s) as a mode of transportation
164 Young Adult MPG
203 Features a murder -> so so many murders
223 black cover
224 Single person on the cover
225 1st person POV

DQ Day 3 Message 159
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Title: The Prison Healer
Author: Lynette Noni
Read: 18.05
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 421

Tasks:

#4 - 1st in The Prison Healer series
# 21 - Romance MPG
#29 - Title
#112 - Author's first name
#137 - MPG Fantasy
#145/148 - Title
#158 - MC Kiva
#164 - YA MPG
#169 - Author's first name
#191 - MC Kiva
#203 - there is a murder (or several)

First Comes Like by Alisha Rai
Date: 5/18
Rating: 2 stars
Pages: 432

Tasks:
#6: green, yellow and purple on cover
#20: Jia and Dev get married
#21: MPG Romance
#41: yellow cover
#57: Dev is an actor
#95: Shweta is Dev's grandmother
#108: Dev Dixit
#113: AFN
#141: First in title

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Book: The Prince and the Pauper
Author: Mark Twain
Pages: 240
Rating: 4 stars
Date read: 5/18/21

Tasks:
#29-T for ALN Twain
#53-MPG Classic
#65
#67
#97-MPG History (Historical)
#116
#118-title has all letters in DEATH
#145
#148
#164 MPG Young Adult
#187, 188, 189-hat on cover
#233-brown cover?? maybe?
BINGO- E7 Crown-The story is about royalty

hello everyone!
my exam is done so i’m finally able to read for the challenge. how are you enjoying your books?

Patrycja wrote: "hello everyone!
my exam is done so i’m finally able to read for the challenge. how are you enjoying your books?"

Hello hello!
Good to have you back here :-)
How did the exam go?


Definitely enjoying my books so far, yes!

Patrycja wrote: "hello everyone!
my exam is done so i’m finally able to read for the challenge. how are you enjoying your books?"

Good to see you! How did the exam go?

I have read some not great books but that's to be expected for me in a challenge like this one.

Patrycja wrote: "hello everyone!
my exam is done so i’m finally able to read for the challenge. how are you enjoying your books?"

So glad your exams are over. Hope you did well!
Mostly my books have been really good!

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Nameless Queen by Rebecca McLaughlin
Date: 5/19
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 344

Tasks:
#28: character Hat
#111: character Coin
#137: MPG Fantasy
#164: MPG YA
#199: chess piece in title: Queen

Day 2 DQ's Message #169

Day 3 DQ's Message #175

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Vanished in Cherry Hills by Paige Sleuth
Date Read: 5/19/21
Rating: 4★
Pages: 150
Tasks: 28 and 149 and 158 and 191 (Kat Harper), 73, 84 and 190 (author), 113 and 172 (Andrew), 187 (hat on cover), 229 (mystery)
Bingo: E8 (cat on cover), D4 (hat on cover)

For the policeman task (sorry, can't recall the #):

I'm reading a book where MC was a policeman (she has left the force), but she has flashbacks to her time as a police officer. Would that work?

Hmm, no, the task calls for someone who is a policeman. So I don't think the flashbacks are going to cut it. Sorry!

it'll have to fit somehwere else then LOL

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Book: Dumplin'
Author: Julie Murphy
Date Read: May 19
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 371

Tasks
#4 1st in series
#21 MPG Romance
#25 Spell out EIGHT E Character Ellen
#28 Spell out EIGHT H Character Hannah Perez
#29 Spell out EIGHT T Character Thomas, Patrick
#81 Spell out BEES B Character Bo Larson
#82 Spell out BEES E Character Ellen
#84 Spell out BEES S Character Sammy
#96 MPG Coming of Age
#107 Characters in costume
#111 Spell out CLAY C Character Cotter, Bekah
#112 Spell out CLAY L Character Loraine Larson
#113 Spell out CLAY A Character Amanda
#160 Spell out KIDBY D Character Dickson, Willowdean
#161 Spell out KIDBY B Character Bo
#164 MPG Young Adult
#169 Spell out LILAC L Character Larson, Bo
#171 Spell out LILAC L Character Loraine Larson
#172 Spell out LILAC A Character Amanda
#173 Spell out LILAC C Character Cotter, Bekah
#223 Black cover
#224 Single person on cover
#225 1st person POV

Tati wrote: "it'll have to fit somehwere else then LOL"

There'll always be something! :-)

Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher
Date: 5/19
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 304

Tasks:
#21: MPG Romance
#84: ALN
#113: Amelia Griffin
#164: MPG Young Adult
#180: blue whale, one woman
#229: MPG Mystery
Bingo: G3: Wally the dog plays a big role

thank you very much for asking about my exam! i’m yet to receive the results, but i’m very content about how i did. can focus on reading now!

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Book: Equal Rites BOM
Author: Terry Pratchett
Rating: 2 stars
Pages: 240
Date read: 5/20/21
Tasks:
#12-Humor MPG
#25-spellout E- Title "Equal"
#29-spellout T- AFN "Terry"
#42-author has initials TP- Terry Pratchett
#65
#82 and #83 spellout E- Title "Equal"
#132-a book whose title initials make a well-known acronym (like TLC - Tender Loving Care) Define your acronym, with a reference link. min three letters in your acronym, use all the letters in the title, in unchanged order
Equal Rites=ER (emergency room)
#137-MPG Fantasy
#145 and #148 spellout T - AFN Terry
#157-guessing Granny is over 65
#164-MPG Young Adult
#168- Margaret A. Edwards award
#237-epic journey
BINGO
D4- Terry Pratchett book

Eldarwen and Stacie,
I signed up to write DQs for Equal Rites, but this book just didn't resonate with me the way the other BOMs did, so if I'd feel a bit uncomfortable writing the questions. If my name is chosen is it possible to defer to Kari, Lexi or you, E? I will happily still answer the DQs.

I believe those were chosen and we were not picked so you're off the hook.

Free to Dance by Tracey Jerald
Date: 5/20
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 141

Tasks:
#29: AFN
#73: 141 pages
#81: Bradbury, Lynne
#111: Corinna Freeman-Hunt
#204: #7 in a series
#223: black cover

E3: Series is called Amaryllis after the flower, lilac is a flower.
F1: Series is called Amaryllis after the flower, bees like flowers.

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Book: Already Freakn' Mated
Page count: 310 pp
Date/Rating: 05.19 ★★★
Works for:
Task 12: mpg humor
Task 21: mpg romance
Task 25/82/83/112/169/171: author Eve Langlais
Task 27/111/173: character Chris Grayson
Task 69: Jaio is a leopard shifter
Task 84/190: character Sheng Smith
Task 113/172: title A
Task 134: mpg shapeshifters
Task 135: mpg paranormal
Task 137: mpg fantasy
Task 144: Chris is a wolf shifter
Task 191: character Kaleb Chua

Bingo:
D3 - waterfall - female MC and brother jump into a raging river/falls to escape captivity
E6 - wolf - male MC is a wolf shifter

Wish we would have been chosen, but glad I’m off the hook!

Dumplin' Day 3 DQs: Message 237

Nanci wrote: "Wish we would have been chosen, but glad I’m off the hook!"

Can't win 'em all!
Especially with this many people jumping on the BOMs.

But it's nice to see them get a little more action :-)

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Chaos by Hilary Storm
Date Read: 5/20/21
Rating: 3★
Pages: 141
Tasks: 4 (1st in Kings of Carnage series), 21, 28 (author Hilary), 36 (focused on a group of biker friends), 73, 81 (Bash), 84 (author’s surname Storm), 111 (MC named Cambri), 224, 242 (crown on cover), 243 (skull on cover)
Bingo: D7 (crown on cover)

Happy that Equal Rites worked for cover green, yellow, purple. I wasn't sure if we could use the writing on the book, so I didn't list it. :)

The Princess Knight by G.A. Aiken
Date: 5/20
Rating: 3.5 stars
Pages: 352

Tasks:
#12: MPG Humor
#27: Gemma Smythe
#84: Smythe, Gemma
#134: MPG Shapeshifters
#137: MPG Fantasy
#155: Gemma rides two horses throughout the story, they all ride horses
#161: Beatrix
#172: Ainsley Smythe

B6: MPG Humor
C3: MPG Dragons
C6: they ride horses
D1: a sheep gets eaten
D6: Knight in title which is a chess piece
D8: they eat meat pies
F7: there are three witches in the story


Also has a necromancer, a sword on the cover and a chess piece in title but we have those so I didn't list them.

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Book: Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
Date Read: 20th May
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 400


Tasks:

I'll be lazy and not copy the whole thing again that all you guys have already posted ;-)
Thanks for that!

While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
Date: 5/21
Rating: 2 stars
Pages: 384

Tasks:
#28: Howard Wynn
#113: ALN
#172: Avery Keene
#186: Stacey Abrams is black.
#203: so many murders
#229: MPG Mystery
#238: MPG Politics

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Grave War by Kaylana Price
Date 5/21
Rating: 5 Stars
Pages: 401

Tasks:
108 Character name is Alex
111 Character Last Name Craft
113 Character 1st name Alex
137 MPG Fantasy
204 7 in series
224 Single person on cover
241 last book in series

Shy The WidowMaker wrote: "Completion Post:


Grave War by Kaylana Price
Date 5/21
Rating: 5 Stars
Pages: 401 "



Oh 5 stars, wow! I'm going to have to move it up my list because I've left it too long already. Maybe I just don't want the series to end hehe.

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Title: Here with Me
Author: Samantha Young
Read: 21.05
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 506

TASKS:

#4 - 1st in the Adair Family series
#21 - MPG Romance
#112 - MC Lachlan
#113 - MC last name Adair/ series name
#146 - MC Robyn
#162 - Author last name
#190 - Author first name
#192 - Author last name
#203 - a murder (or two) happen in the book
#229 - MPG Mystery

Eldarwen wrote: "Shy The WidowMaker wrote: "Completion Post:


Grave War by Kaylana Price
Date 5/21
Rating: 5 Stars
Pages: 401 "



Oh 5 stars, wow! I'm going to have t..."

It was definitely a great ending to the series. I loved it.

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Book: The Mummy Case
Page count: 384 pp
Date/Rating: 05.22 ★★★★
Works for:
Task 25/82/83: author Elizabeth Peters
Task 28/149: character Hamid
Task 37: set in Egypt
Task 77: Abdullah (and many of the workers) are very superstitious
Task 81/161: character Baehler
Task 84/190: character Reverend Sayce
Task 111/173: character Charity
Task 113/172: character Amelia Peabody
Task 146: character Radcliffe Emerson
Task 166: Emerson is also a professor
Task 203: Abd el Atti and Hamid are murdered
Task 229: mpg mystery
Task 230: mpg crime

Here are some books I've found/plan to read this month and next month. You can slot them in (or not), I'll read regardless :-)

NOW
Silver Storm - task 124 set on a water-based transport (ship / sub etc)

NEXT WEEK/THIS MONTH
Alice in Zombieland - task 63 mpg Zombie, task 31 mpg retellings
Changeless - task 152 Timepiece on cover; task 168 award winning; task 235 mpg steampunk
It Happened One Autumn - task 207 - season in title

NEXT MONTH
Cold Feet, Warm Heart - task 128 - set in Antarctica
Ain't She a Peach - task 62 MC is a funeral director/undertaker
Lover at Last - task 130 Last in title
Just One Taste - task 212 spoon / cooking utensil on cover
The Corinthian - task 53 mpg classics


I also have book that works for Nigeria - task 58 but since that task also includes Los Angeles which is pretty easy, I'll wait to see if we need it.

I've just picked up The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II, which works for MPG War

That's great! Most of these are on the spreadsheet now :-)

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Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall
Date: 5/22
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 448

Tasks:
#4: #1 in a series
#21: MPG Romance
#22: ROsaline palMer Takes the cake
#28: ALN
#99: rOsaliNE palmer takes tHe Cake
#212: spoon on cover
#221: set at a baking competition

A6: set at a baking competition, also there's a scene where they cook fish fingers in a frying pan
D8: one week they bake pies, there's a discussion about meat pies
E7: people get "booted" from the baking competition

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A Dragon Speaks Her Name by Kira Nyte
Date Read: 5/23/21
Rating: 4★
Pages: 158
Tasks: 7 (moon), 21, 44 (dragon), 73, 112 (MC Lutherone), 137 (fantasy mpg), 157 (MC is over 600 years old), 158 and 160 (MC Kaylae Drayce), 233 (author)
Bingo: C3 (dragon shifter MC)

Dumplin' Day 5 DQs: Message 273

Dumplin' Day 6 Final DQs: Message 274

Equal Rites Day 1 DQs: Message 91

I must say, I really like this book so far! Thoroughly enjoying myself! :)

On the Spectrum by Jennifer Gold
Date: 5/22
Rating: 2 stars
Pages: 336

Tasks:
#3: MPG Travel
#21: MPG Romance
#67: Focused on Clara and Alastair (Alastair is Clara's half-brother)
#68: Clara travels from NYC to Paris
#111: Clara
#113: Alastair
#164: MPG Young Adult
#181: MPG Mental Health
#185: Alastair is autistic

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Book: Silver Storm
Page count: 341 pp
Date/Rating: 05.22 ★★★1/2
Works for:
Task 4: #1 Rakes & Rebels
Task 21: mpg romance
Task 22: all letters MORT in title
Task 25/82/83/191: character Elsa Kass
Task 27: character Morgan Gadwin
Task 28/149: character Halsey Minter
Task 29/145/148: character Treasel
Task 81/84/161/190: character Bernard Souchet
Task 111/173: author Cynthia Wright
Task 113/172: character Azalea Minter
Task 124: 50%+ set on the pirate ship Black Eagle
Task 160/169/171: character Devon Lindsay

Equal Rites Day 1 DQs: message 95

Iana wrote: "Equal Rites Day 1 DQs: Message 91

I must say, I really like this book so far! Thoroughly enjoying myself! :)"

Happy to hear that! :-)

Oh and LaurLa, I forgot to say this yesterday when I was adding books, but MASSIVE kudos for finding a book set in Antarctica!! :-D

Book: Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Date Read: 5/21/2021
Pages: 256

Tasks:
# 27 Spell Out-- Character: G.H. Washington
#113 Spell Out -- Character: Amanda
#146 Spell Out -- Character: Ruth Washington
#186 Author is a POC -- I mean, I think he is from his picture? But that feels like an icky way to determine if someone is POC.