ŷ������

Already slotted in for an 8 :-)

I'm reading The Trouble with Dukes by Grace Burrowes and that will fit a 2.

I threw that one into a 1 card slot for now, but can always switch around :-)

I finished Blind Faith which was an okay-ish story, cute but predictable.

Finished Wilt by Tom Sharpe. Absolutely hilarious ⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️. Now onto The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry.

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Player: Ginger



Wherever It Leads by Adriana Locke
Read: 02.15
Rating: ��
Possible Cards:
0 - stand-alone
4 - Character Fenton (Abbott)
Skip - P - Character Presley (Bradshaw)
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

Possible Valentine Tasks - Part Two
�� Read a book where two characters fall in love
�� Read a book with a 3 in the page count
�� Read a book where characters go on a date
�� Read a book where the character writes or receives a letter

When I was checking it on Amazon there was 14th February as published date, but now when I looked on ŷ������ I see that it was Kindle edition and paperback was published on 15th, so I guess that unfortunately doesn't count. But still have something else that should match.

I will check spreadsheet now and let you know. Probably I will change some to read something that will match more Valentine challenge.

Okay, so:
*I am reading now End of Seasons: Book One in the Series and should finish tommorow, then I will write which cards it suits.
* Illuminae - definitively reading next
* History Is All You Left Me
* Heir of Fire
* Vicious - I add this, cause Leslie from Team Ove read it in this month

These I will read for sure. I don't know if I manage to read rest, but if I do, I can choose the book that will suit the card we need.

Chris wrote: "Finished Wilt by Tom Sharpe. Absolutely hilarious ⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️⚜️. Now onto The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry."

Wow! You have a lucky hand in picking your books, it seems! Or just a very careful screening process ;-)

Hm, publish dates can be odd sometimes, Ginger. Annoying though when Amazon says one thing and GR another and you can't really be sure - well for this kind of thing that is annoying anyway ;-)

Shame though that the book only warranted 1 star. Hopefully your next book is better!

Removed the books you didn't mention from the spreadsheet to open up those slots and then we'll see where the others fit in :-) Thanks!

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Book:The Trouble with Dukes by Grace Burrowes
Rating: 4
Possible Cards:
1 - first in sereis The Windham Brides
2 - Title "The Trouble with Dukes"
3 - Character Hamish MacHugh
4 - Character Sir Fletcher
6 - Character Devlin St. Just
7- Character Valentine
Skip - Percival Windham

Valentine Cards:
�� Read a book where two characters fall in love
�� Read a book with a 3 in the page count
�� Read a book where the characters go to a dance
❤Read a book where the character writes or receives a letter

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Player: LaurLa


Book: Renegade - Lora Leigh
Read: 02.15
Rating: ★★★★
Possible Cards:
2 - T - character Teyha
3 - H - character (Reed) Holbrook
4 - F - character (Gina) Foreman
5 - Book 5
6 - S - character Scott Martin
8 - E - character Eleanor Longstrom
9 - N - character Nik Steele
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

Possible Valentine Tasks - Part Two
Read a book where a new friendship is made - h becomes friends with wife of another character

Eldarwen wrote: "Ginger and Lauri, could you please check the books on the spreadsheet that have been slotted in for you but have not been read yet. (I highlighted your name for those books.)

Since we're now half-..."

I will definitely finish all of mine, BUT if someone else finishes something first, I totally don't mind being bumped. Everything can be banked for next month, right?
Also my problem is that I start a whole bunch of books and jump back and forth. The good thing is that I finish a bunch at the same time -- sometimes even on the same day! Weird, I know.
Every Friday, Sunday & Monday I'm getting new "assignments" for other challenges so I keep adding new books because I only have one week to complete them. Such a vicious cycle! I'm driving myself crazy!!

There is no banking.

The only February books we can use in March are the ones started in February and finished in March.

Haha, yeah, challenge assignments can make it all a bit challenging ;-) That's why I try to lump as many together as possible and use one book for most of the challenges.

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Player: Ginger


End of Seasons: Book One in the Series by LL Curtis
Rating: ★★
Possible Cards:
1 - first in series
2 - Character Thelia Webb
3 - Character Jack Hickey
6 - Character Sylas
8 - Character Emilime
9 - Character Nessa
Skip - Character Pim
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

Valentine Cards:
�� Read a book first published in July of any year
�� Read a book where someone gives a gift
�� Read a book with a young woman as the main character

I wanted to start Illuminae today but I am so tired that I should go to bed.

Haha, yeah, reading in bed can be fatal ;-)
I wanted to make it an early night, too. And now it's 11.15pm again already... *rolls eyes at self* Fortunately tomorrow is Friday!! :-D

Though I will of course read a few pages before sleeping - Vision in Silver is rather good.

I read about 70 pages of llluminae. I was planning to go sleep before 11.30pm but well... About 5 minutes isn't enough so I will try go to sleep to before midnight. ;-)

Eldarwen wrote: "There is no banking.

The only February books we can use in March are the ones started in February and finished in March.

Haha, yeah, challenge assignments can make it all a bit challenging ;-) Th..."
NO BANKING!! **Gasp** I guess that's still ok... I must be confused with another challenge from last year....Like I said, I'm fine with being bumped out. I'll keep checking the spreadsheet as the 28th draws nearer.
Here's my update: I should finish Break in Case of Emergency by tomorrow. Auntie Mayhem by Sunday 2/19. First Grave on the Right by Mon 2/20 -- same with A Tale for the Time Being. Also working on Dying for a Cupcake... Im hoping to use Magic Bites & The Crystal Cave for other challenges, but will finish by the 28th....

Ginger wrote: "I read about 70 pages of llluminae. I was planning to go sleep before 11.30pm but well... About 5 minutes isn't enough so I will try go to sleep to before midnight. ;-)"

I can't read in bed at night -- I always fall asleep! I do my in-bed reading on weekend mornings instead. Let's hear it for a 3-day- weekend!! Yaaaayyyy!!

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Break in Case of Emergency by Jessica Winter
288 pages
Finished: 2/16/17
Hand 13, Card 5 - character Leora Infinitas
Rating: 2 stars


Valentine challenge: a group of 3 friends (Jen, Meg & Pam)

So jealous of your three-day weekend... ;-)
Then again, I had a four-day weekend last week so I reaaaaaally shouldn't be complaining or jealous hehe.

No worries, Lauri! I'm sure you'll get your books done one way or another and if not these, then others. Kate Daniels is a must though :-p

Reading in bed is fantastic though. Do you just stay in bed all day when you read in bed over the weekend or do you get up, do stuff and then go back to lie in/on the bed to read?

Ginger wrote: "I read about 70 pages of llluminae. I was planning to go sleep before 11.30pm but well... About 5 minutes isn't enough so I will try go to sleep to before midnight. ;-)"

Good compromise ;-)
It ended up being a little nearer to midnight for me again, too. Oooh well! The sacrifices we do for good books haha.

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Player: LaurLa


Book: Love To Love You Baby - Kasey Michaels
Read: 02.17
Rating: ★★��
Possible Cards:
1 - Book 1
2 - T - character (Jack) Trehan
6 - S - character Sadie Trehan
Skip - K - character Keely McBride
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

Possible Valentine Tasks - Part Two

Read a book where two characters fall in love - MCs fall in love

Read a book with a 3 in the page count - 379 pp

Read a book where the character writes or receives a letter - H receives a letter from cousin when she leaves her baby on his doorstep

@ginger - that picture is TOTALLY me!! Love it!

Wow, this was a long day! It's 10.30 pm now and I feel like I'm only able to sit back and relax now o.O

Good thing tomorrow is Saturday and I won't have to get up! :-D I might just stay in bed a little longer and read, or do what LaurLa and Ginger seem to be doing and read now until the sun's shining again hehe.

Yeah, join us Eldarwen! Today I also promised myself that I will go to sleep earlier and again I failed.

Sleep? Early??

Not happening ;-)

Yay! Our Valentine team read a book I have on my pile of to read books. I'm also currently reading a book they read that was published in February.

I'm getting ready to start (this weekend sometime) a book on our valentines' read this month list...

Eldarwen wrote: "So jealous of your three-day weekend... ;-)
Then again, I had a four-day weekend last week so I reaaaaaally shouldn't be complaining or jealous hehe.

No worries, Lauri! I'm sure you'll get your bo..."

I stay down till either a) my back hurts OR b) I'm starving then I get up and stay up for the rest of the day. This is usually between noon & 1pm. Then I read quietly throughout the day unless my family is home & watching TV. I can't read while the TV is on unless it's (ugh!) sports. Then I hide in the bathroom or bedroom & read during the rinse cycles of my never ending laundry pile. :)

Annalisa and LaurLa, that's awesome! At least we'll get some of those tasks read, too :-)

As for the second part of our Valentine's mini challenge, we have already read for 13 out of the 15 tasks we can read for. Well done!! :-D

Depending on what has been selected to watch on TV, I can read but not as much as I would without the TV on as I keep getting distracted by whatever is on.

The light on my nightstand decided to die last night >.> So I'll go see my dad today, see if he can fix it or if it's completely dead. Because then I'll have to quickly go buy a new one today. Not having a lamp on my nightstand just won't do! It's too much of a nuisance to read with the torch from my phone ;-)

I have multiple book lights. Sometimes the hubs is sleeping & I need to use the book light! And on planes -- he hates the overhead light. He can read on his iPad, text or play on his phone in bed, but I can't have a light on to read. Go figure!

Eldarwen wrote: "Annalisa and LaurLa, that's awesome! At least we'll get some of those tasks read, too :-)

As for the second part of our Valentine's mini challenge, we have already read for 12 out of the 15 tasks ..."

For the Young Woman and Man tasks - do we know what age they actually are looking for? The book I just finished, the heroine is 23.

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Player: LaurLa


Book: The Player and the Pixie - L.H. Cosway
Read: 02.17
Rating: ★★★★
Possible Cards:
2 - Book 2
4 - F - character (Lucy) Fitzpatrick
6 - S - character Sean Cassidy
8 - E - character Eilish Cassidy
Skip - P - Title
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

Possible Valentine Tasks - Part Two
Read a book with a young woman as the main character - heroine is 23 - not sure if this is young enough

Characters in college have been accepted for the "young" task, so 23 is fine :-)

And that completes task #14 for the second part of our Valentine's mini challenge!

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Book:Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Rating:3.5
Possible Cards:
1 - first in series
2 - Character King Tiberias
7 - Author Victoria Aveyard
8 - Character Queen Elara
9 - Setting Norta
Skip- Character Kilorn

Valentine Challenge
�� Read a book your valentine team has read that was first published in Feb. (published Feb. 10, 2015, read by Judith)

Second part of Valentine Challenge:
�� Read a book where a character is in jail MC ends up in jail
�� Read a book where two characters fall in love
�� Read a book with a 3 in the page count
�� Read a book where someone gives a gift
�� Read a book where the characters go to a dance
�� Read a book with a young woman as the main character (MC is 17)

My next read is going to be A Rogue by Any Other Name, which Kelsi read on the 16th of this month. I it was also published in February. It fits any of the first part of the Valentine challenge.

Before the end of the month I will also be reading Carve the Mark. I don't think I saw this on our Valentine's teams lists, but I'd like to read it before I need to return it to the library March 1.

I finished reading Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand.

S-6 Character Scarlett
H-3 title Here's to Us
0- stand alone book
N-9 set in Nantucket

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Player Ginger


Illuminae by Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff
Rating: Read: 02.18
Rating: ★★★★
Possible Cards:
0 - Character Byron Zhang
1 - first in series
2 - Character David Torrence
5 - Title Illuminae
6 - Character Stephanie LeFerre
8 - Character Ezra Mason
Skip- Charter Kady Grant
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

Possible Valentine Tasks - Part Two
�� Read a book with a young man as the main character - Ezra is high school student
�� Read a book with a young woman as the main character - Kady is high school student

Christine wrote: "I finished reading Here's to Us by Elin Hilderbrand.

S-6 Character Scarlett
H-3 title Here's to Us
0- stand alone book
N-9 set in Nantucket"

Did you check if this works for the February mini challenge? Preferably for the first part, since all tasks for the second part have been completed.
Thanks!

Annalisa wrote: "My next read is going to be A Rogue by Any Other Name, which Kelsi read on the 16th of this month. I it was also published in February. It fits any of the first part of the Valentin..."

Sounds good!
Don't worry about Carve the Mark not working for the Valentine's challenge. We already got quite a bit more completed than initially anticipated, so we're definitely doing good on that front! :-)

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First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones
310 pages
Finished 2/18/17
Hand 13 - Card 6 - character Garrett Swopes & Reverse - previously read by Eldarwen & Annika
Rating: 5 glorious stars!
Review: Charlet Davidson is an unlikely Grim Reaper. She's a sassy wiseass who just happens to be able to see and talk to the dead. This is all invaluable to the Arizona Police Dept., but it wreaks havoc on relationships! Laugh out loud funny & a bit disturbing. I want MORE!

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Player: LaurLa


Book: Lost Souls - Delilah Devlin
Read: 02.18
Rating: ★★��
Possible Cards:
1 - O - character (Cait) O'Connell
2 - Book 2
3 - H - character (Leland) Hughes
6 - S - character Sam Pierce
8 - E - character Eddie Bradley
Skip - P - character (Sam) Pierce
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

Keep them coming!! :-)

Sorry for being MIA this past week, but the flu has been really kicking my ass.. :(
Now I just need another week to recover and catch up ;)

Do we have a book lined up for published 14 of feb?
If we don't, I have several I can read.

I don't think we do. Annalisa thought she'd found one but then publish dates on GR and Amazon weren't the same, so that was a no in the end unfortunately.

If I forgot someone mentioning another one, sorry ^-^

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Player: LaurLa


Book: The Edge Of Trust - K.T. Bryan
Read: 02.19
Rating: ★★★★
Possible Cards:
1 -Book 1
3 - H - character (Bobby) Hutchins
6 - S - character (Rafael) Sanchez
7 - V - character (Manny) Vega
8 - E - Title
9 - N - character Nick Farrel
Draw 2 - Same book for 2 cards

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Book:A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
Rating:4.5
Possible Cards:
1 - Book 1
2 - Character Tommy Alles
6 - Author Sarah MacLean
9 - Character Lady Needham
Skip - Penelope Bourne

Valentine's Day Challenge Part 1:
�� Read a book your valentine team has read this month (Read by Kelsi)
�� Read a book your valentine team has read in Feb or added in Feb (Read by Kelsi this February)
�� Read a book your valentine team has read that was first published in Feb (Published February 28, 2012)

This book was funny and the characters were a little dangerous. I'm looking forward reading the rest of this series.

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Player: LaurLa


Book: Dirty Royal: A Bad Boy Royal Billionaire Romance - Amelia Wilde
Read: 02.19
Rating: ★★��1/2
Possible Cards:
6 - S - character (Cate) Schaffer
Skip - P - character (Christian) Pierce

Valentine's Day Task - Part 1:
Read a book your valentine team has read this month (Read by Judith - Feb 7)

Read a book your valentine team has read in Feb or added in Feb (Added and read by Judith this February)

Initially I just wanted to post a picture about reading in bed, but somehow I ended up stuck on this gif and it is sort of true, isn't it? he may be writing in his precious journal but journal or book, the end result is the same, right? Interruptions are not tolerated ;-)



And now I really want to watch that movie again.

@Eldarwen is it from Cruel Intentions?