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Completion Post:
Title: 11 Birthdays
Author: Wendy Mass
Pages: 267
Finished: 9/24
Rating: 3.5 stars
Task: Labor 9 - Party Decorations on the Cover
How it fits: Balloons on the cover
Archangel's Kiss by Nalini Singh
Finished: 9/23
Rating: 2.5 stars
Pages: 323
Task: None open
If we get them again, will work for:
Labor 1- Someone is under someone's spell
2- Someone throws a party
Someone survives an attack
3- Headstrong character
5- Something catches on fire
Five different covers (if ones in different languages count)
6- Someone is murdered
Someone is mentally unbalanced
9- Murder happens during timeline
10- Paranormal romance
11- Strong female lead
12- 300-400 pgs
Someone showers
Someone is injured severely
Completed BookBookcover:
Title: The Cat Came Back
Author:Louise Clark
Date Read: 9/25/16
Pages:304
Labor:None at this time
Task:None at this time
Completion Post:
Title: Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel
Author: Megan Morrison
Pages: 389
Finished: 9/25
Rating: 4 stars
Task: N/A
How it fits: N/A
Completion PostBook:
Ready Player OneAuthor: Ernest Cline
Read: 9-24-2016
Rating: 4*
Pages: 374
Tasks: 300 - 400 pages
Bookcover:
Title: Mazie Baby
Author: Julie Frayn
Finished: 9/25/16
Rating: 5 stars
Pages: 270
Task: Read an inspirational book
Completed BookBookcover:
Title: Sword of Deaths
Author:Christopher Mannino
Date Read: 9/26/16
Pages:325
Labor:None at this time
Task:None at this time
My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
Finished: 9/25
Pages: 491
Rating: 3.75 stars
Labor: 3
Task: Title (lady) in title
Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamiltonpages 644
Finished 9/24/16
Task - Nervous Breakdown??? - Damian (a vampire) looses his mind / falls apart because Anita did not know she was his Master.
A Shared Range by Andrew Grey
pages 208
Finished 9/25/16
Task - ??
Betrayal by Maggie Walsh
pages 152
Finished 9/25/16
Task - ??
For Bonus 6, Don't Panic:I just finished
Blindsighted. At the end, a character that had been kidnapped and brutally raped goes to a mental hospital until she gets 'back to normal', starts speaking to people again, etc. Will that work?>>Then I'll still finish the medal on the cover book later today.
Ignore that ^^^^^.Completion Post
Book:
BlindsightedAuthor: Karin Slaughter
Read: 9-26-2016
Rating: 5*
Pages: 418
Tasks: Someone is murdered, Someone has a nervous breakdown
Completed BookBookcover:
Title: Watcher's Web
Author:Patty Jansen
Date read:9/27/16
Pages:283
Labor: bonus#6
Task:Speak to Aliens - Read a book set in outer space.
Completion PostBook:
By Honor Bound: Two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a Story of Extraordinary CourageAuthor: Tom Norris
Read: 9-26-2016
Rating: 3*
Pages: 288
Tasks: Labor 9 - Medal on the cover
Completion PostBook:
The Prince and the PauperAuthor: Mark Twain
Read: 9-27-2016
Rating: 3*
Pages: 240
Tasks: ???
Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs
Pages: 352
Finished: 9/27
Rating: 4.5 stars
Labor: Bonus #2
Task: Fire in title
Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
Finished: 9/28
Pages: 602
Rating: 1.5 stars
Labor: 1
Task: MC is a musician
Completed BookBookcover:
Title: The Scorch Trials
Author:James Dashner
Date Read:9/28/16
Pages:368
Labor:?
Task:?
The Two Gentlemen of Altona by Lisa HenryPages 228
Finished 9/28/16
Task - Mystery, Someone Hurt, Someone Killed, ?
Completion PostBook:
The Front Porch ProphetAuthor: Raymond L. Atkins
Read: 9-28-2016
Rating: 4*
Pages: 308
Task: Someone dies, Cancer, 300 - 400 pages
Completion Post:
Title: Gilded Ashes
Author: Rosamund Hodge
Pages: 111
Finished: 9/28
Rating: 3 stars
Task: Bonus labor 11 - mentally unstable character
How it fits: step mother goes crazy from a deal with a demon
Completed BookBookcover:
Title: Miss Match
Author:Lindzee Armstrong
Date read: 9/29/16
Pages:389
Labor:?
Task:?
Completion PostBook:
Chopping SpreeAuthor: Diane Mott Davidson
Read: 9-29-2016
Rating: 3*
Pages: 304
Task: Bonus Labor 7 - 10+ in series
Monsters and Mayhem by Gabrielle Evans
#14 in Midnight Matings series
Pages 124
Finished 9/29/16
Task house on cover bonus, 10+ in series
Completed BookBookcover:
Title: Darkness Rising
Author:Isabella Fontaine
Date read: 9/30/16
Pages:135
Bookcover:
Title: Malevolence
Author:Isabella Fontaine
Date read: 9/30/16
Pages:123
Bookcover:
Title: The Black Towers
Author:Isabella Fontaine
Date read:9/30/16
Pages:117
Spits and Bellows by Joyee Flynn
#19 in Midnight Mating Series
pages 111
Finished 9/30/16
Task - House on cover?, 10+ in series
Completion Post:
Title: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Author: Milan Kundera
Pages: 263
Finished: 9/30
Rating: 2.5 stars
Task: Bonus labor 6 - read a book that was originally written in a language other than your own or Labor 12 read a book with over 100 chapters
How it fits: book originally written in Czech (then transplated to french then to English) or book has 125 chapters
Title: Mr. BleakerBookcover:
Author: Jeremy Peterson
Finished: 9/29/16
Pages: 141
Task: Has Mr., Ms, Mrs. in the title
Completion Post:
Title: Summer Crossing
Author: Truman Capote
Pages: 142
Finished: 9/30
Rating: 4 stars
Task: Bonus labor 14
How it fits: author Truman Capote died in 1984
Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs
Pages:324
Finished 10/1
Rating: 4.5 stars
Labor/task: ?
Might work really well for a title relay
Will also work for the following if we get them again:
Labor 1- someone is under someone's spell
MC is a musician
2- someone survives an attack
gold object on cover (earring)
3- handsome man on cover
headstrong character
6- someone is murdered
someone is mentally unbalanced
10- main character is a werewolf
paranormal romance
ghost
11- main character is a musician
strong female lead
12- 300-400 pgs.
someone showers
someone injured severely
Completion Post:
The God of Small Things by:Arundhati Roy
Completed: 9/30/16
Pages: 333
6- someone is mentally unbalanced
someone is murdered
7- someone has a nervous breakdown
starts with T
12- 300-400 pages
Completion PostBook:
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive EditionAuthor: Betty Edwards
Read: 9-30-2016
Rating: 3*
Pages: 284
Task: ???
Completion PostBook:
Her Picture-Perfect FamilyAuthor: Linda Barrett
Read: 10-1-2016
Rating: 4*
Pages: 176
Task: ??? Romance, Adoption, Military Veteran, Foster Child, Pets
Completion Post:
Title: The Summoning
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Pages: 404
Finished: 10/1
Rating: 2.5 stars
Task: Bonus labor 15 - on the TBR for over a year
How it fits: Date added: November 20th, 2013
Completed BooksBookcover:
Title: Zombie Nation
Author:Samantha Warren
Date read: 10/2/16
Pages:140
Task:?
Bookcover:
Title: Wolf Moon
Author:C.D. Gorri
Date Read: 10/2/16
Pages:126
Task: Bonus labor 14
Completion PostBook:
A Game of ThronesAuthor: George R.R. Martin
Read: 10-2-2016
Rating: 3*
Pages: 835
Task: Main Labor 2 - Over 800 pages
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Book:
Author: Rhonda Adkins
Read: 9-23-2-16
Rating: 2*
Pages: 212
Tasks: Someone was murdered