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Team #9
Captain: Marisa

Members:
Marisa
Delitealex
Lisa P

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Captain's Log ~ Share team's card after you've stamped it
Ok to Stamp? ~ Request ok to stamp your bingo card
Discussions ~ Throughout the game, head here to chat with other players & shelf chant til your heart's content
Bingo Rules ~ Rules of the game
Free Space Rules ~ Where to look when pickin' your free space book
Bingo FAQ ~ Don't hesitate! If you have a question, let us know.

Hiya, Team Caps! Thanks for volunteering to guide your team through a round of BookShelf Bingo!
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Your job, should you choose to accept it, will require a few things:
1 ~ Be our go-to person should we have any questions about your team
2 ~ Organize your teammate's weekly reads for each shelf/category so that the BSB Ninjas can quickly and easily verify and approve your stamp request(s)
2a ~ Create a master list in a post (preferably on the first page of your team's thread) and update it weekly or as often as necessary
2b ~ Post your team's stats on the Captain's Log prior to requesting a stamp
3 ~ Encourage and motivate your team (you may also ask to borrow Judithe's whip whenever necessary)
4 ~ Post regularly to ensure your team is communicating and on track each week
4a ~ Send them a PM and friendly poke if they haven't posted at least once a week, noted their book choice, and/or appear to have dropped out of webspace
5 ~ Send us a PM (Steph, Sandra or Judithe) should you need us for any reason throughout the game

Link to print a copy of your bingo card: https://bingobaker.com/#672009ef4a54c8d3

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Hi teammates! I'm excited for another round of bingo. I don't really want to be captain, so hoping one of you would like to. I'm not great at names but will try to come up with a couple if I can. I'm from North Carolina.

Hi team

Hi team! My name is Marisa and I live in Madrid (Spain), so expect strange hours :D I don't mind to be captain if nobody else wants. And I'm really bad with names (and selecting books in advance), but "Booked to the nines"?

Marisa, how's it going in Spain. The pictures of the floods look really bad.

Hope Madrid escaped the mess & loss of life.

Yes, there is no issue at Madrid, not a lot of rain either, thank you very much. But Valencia mainly (east of Spain) is a very terrible state, a lot of destruction, I think more than 100 hundred dead people, a ver big number of people who have disappeared, no phone, no light... So yes, it's very bad there.

Very glad to hear you're ok Marisa. And very sorry for the loss of life in Valencia.

Yes, so glad you are ok Marisa. Nice to see you again, I think we were teammates together once before.
I like Booked to the Nines too.

Thank you, Lisa. And yes, nice to see you, I think we were teammates (and my calibre library confirms it, I keep there all the rounds of bingo I've played 😉).

Free Space (Stamped)

Dealitex: Archangel's Legion by Nalini Singh (18/11/2024 - 📚📚📚) Review
Lisa P: Rajmund by D.B. Reynolds (11/11/2024 - 📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Selkies Are a Girl's Best Friend by Molly Harper (07/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review



Shelf 1: D - "Drizzle" or dragon(s) (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Dealitex: Fire Me Up by Katie Macalister (10/11/2024 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Lisa P: Walks Through Mist by Kim Murphy (06/11/2024 - 📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper (04/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review

Shelf 2: S - "September" or shifter(s) (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Dealitex: The Awakening by Caroline Peckham (18/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Lisa P: Heart of Malice by Lisa Edmonds (17/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Sound's Familiar by Dana Marie Bell (15/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 3: J - "Jack-o-lantern" or jacket (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Dealitex: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (20/11/2024 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Lisa P: The Ghost and the Graveyard by Genevieve Jack (21/11/2024 - 📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Dead Eye by Alyssa Day (25/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 4: F - "Fall" or fae (Stamped) (Week Summary)

Dealitex: A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair (01/12/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Lisa P: Evernight by Kristen Callihan (30/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Con & Conjure by Lisa Shearin (02/12/2024 - 📚📚📚½) Review

Shelf 5: M - "Moon" or magic (Week Summary)

Dealitex:
Lisa P: Heart of Fire by Lisa Edmonds (07/12/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: All Spell Breaks Loose by Lisa Shearin (06/12/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 6: R - "Roadtrip" or reaper(s) (Week Summary)

Dealitex:
Lisa P: A Ripple in Time by Victor Zugg (10/12/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Steel Wolf by Eve Langlais (14/12/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review

Shelf 7: P - "Plaid" or paranormal romance (Week Summary)

Dealitex:
Lisa P: Awaken the Highland Warrior by Anita Clenney (397 pag.) (18/12/2024 - 📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Once Bitten, Twice Dead by Bianca D'Arc (320 pag.) (18/12/2024 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review

Reserved just in case

Shelf #1 ~ 1 Nov: D - "Drizzle" or dragon(s)
Requirement: Choose a book using one of the following options ...

* For "drizzle", read a book with rain on the cover, 'rain' or 'mist' in the title, series or author's name or a wet character on the cover

* For dragon(s), read a book found on one of these shelves: GR dragon, GR dragons or SOS dragon

Shelf 1: D - "Drizzle" or dragon(s)

Dealitex: Fire Me Up by Katie Macalister (10/11/2024 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Lisa P: Walks Through Mist by Kim Murphy (06/11/2024 - 📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper (04/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚½) Review



Summary Post

booked to the nines sounds good to me

Delitealex wrote: "booked to the nines sounds good to me"

Do you want to be captain? If not, I will put it in the proper thread.

Just posting here is sufficient :)

Added team name.

Also, everyone should tick the Notify me box, otherwise you might miss posts, cause of GRs change to the system.

Selection Post
Shelf 1: D
Book: How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper
Pages: 248
How it fits: Shelved 173 times as Dragons

Great name, y'all 😊

Thank you, Sandra! And thank you, Steph.

Selection Post
Week 1: "D"

Book: Walks Through Mist by Kim Murphy
Pages: 330
How it fits: 'mist' in title

Selection Post
Week 1: "D"

Book: Fire Me Up by Katie Macalister
Pages: 372
How it fits: 'shelved 283

Selection Post
Free Space
Book: Selkies Are a Girl's Best Friend by Molly Harper
Pages: 218
Option: 2 (A book within a series found on one of SOS' member-generated BEST OF lists: PNR series: Mystic Bayou)

Completion Post
Shelf 1: D - "Drizzle" or dragon(s)
Book: How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper
Pages: 248
How it fits: Shelved 173 times as Dragons
Read: 04/11/2024
Rating: ★★★★½



Review

I had forgotten how funny this series is (at least for me, who found boring most of the "funny" series). It has a lot of bantering and quirky characters (what do you expect when you go to a nest of supernatural characters?). There is no angst or big misunderstandings, only some small breakup but not extended a lot. I'm going to read the remaining books in the series for sure.

Completion Post
Walks Through Mist by Kim Murphy

Shelf: "D"
Finished: 11/6/2024
Rate: 3 Stars
Review: I love a good time travel book and this one was no exception. This one was a little different in that the time travel was from the past (1600s) to current time. The heroine has amnesia upon arrival to present time, so the story continually switched back and forth between past and present revealing more and more each time. The ending was a bit predictable, yet still enjoyable. I enjoyed the spirit and courageousness of the heroine, and the romance just worked. A perfect couple. This was not a 5 star read, but enjoyable to pass the time.

Selection Post
Free Space

Book: Rajmund by D.B. Reynolds

Pages: 260

How it fits: Option 2 (Any book within a series found on one of SOS' member-generated BEST OF lists)
PNR series: Vampires in America

Selection Post
Free Space

Book: Archangel's Legion by Nalini Singh

Pages: 384

How it fits: Option 2 (Any book within a series found on one of SOS' member-generated BEST OF lists)
PNR series

Shelf #2 ~ 8 Nov: S - "September" or shifter(s)
Requirement: Choose a book using one of the following options ...

* For "September", read a book published in the month of September within the last 4 years (2021-24); a book with an academia trope; or 'harvest' in the title or series name

* For shifter(s), read a book found on one of these shelves: GR shifter, GR shifters, SOS shifter or SOS were-shifter

Shelf 2: S - "September" or shifter(s)

Dealitex: The Awakening by Caroline Peckham (18/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Lisa P: Heart of Malice by Lisa Edmonds (17/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Sound's Familiar by Dana Marie Bell (15/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚📚) Review



Summary Post

I will be done with my shelf 1 book tomorrow

Free Space
Book: Selkies Are a Girl's Best Friend by Molly Harper
Pages: 218
Read: 07/11/2024
Rating: ★★★★



Review

I began this book with a lot of expectations, as I wanted to read Sofie's history. In the end, although I've enjoyed it, it has been less than expected. I think mainle because of the broading hero (I don't like them). And I've felt Sofie flatter than I expected. So, it's a good read (that's the reason of the rating), but not as much as Jillian's story.

completion Post
Week 1: "D"

Book: Fire Me Up by Katie Macalister
Pages: 372
Read: 11/10/24
rating: 3.5 stars


review

It's been so long since I've read this series. I still love Aisling she gets herself into so much trouble and its fun seeing how she fixes things. I definitely will continue with this series to see what else happens in Aisling's journey to learn how to be a Guardian and better relations to the dragons

Selection Post
Week 2: S - "September" or shifter(s)

Book: Zodiac Academy 1: The Awakening by Caroline Peckham
Pages: 480
How it fits: 'shelved 144 as shifters

Requested our first stamp, let's see how I handle the card ;)

WTG! Your request to stamp D/drizzle has been approved; if you have any issues stamping your card, let me know. Once you’ve stamped your card, go to the Captain’s Log and share a link with us. Thx!

Steph wrote: "WTG! Your request to stamp D/drizzle has been approved; if you have any issues stamping your card, let me know. Once you’ve stamped your card, go to the Captain’s Log and share a link with us. Thx!"

I've got a question, is the shared link the same you've put in the message with the card? Because I only see how to get that link, that allows to modify the card.

Hi Marisa, yes, that’s the link. Click on it & stamp your card by clicking in the appropriate box. Once that’s done, share the req’d info on the captain’s log page. Let me know if you run into any problems.

Completion Post
Rajmund by D.B. Reynolds

Shelf: "Free Space"
Finished: 11/11/2024
Rate: 3 Stars
Review: Not my favorite of the series but still enjoyable. The heroine, Sarah, was just too bland for me, no personality. It was difficult to understand the almost immediate attraction to her from Raj. As far as hero vampires go though, he checked all my boxes and is what kept me interested in the story. The storyline was good but not great. It definitely felt unfinished and needed more blocks filled in to understand more about what happened and why. It was nice to have the previous main characters make a quick appearance in this book as well. I do enjoy getting to check in on the lives of past characters throughout a series. Overall I enjoy the series quite a bit, this book was just a a slight miss for me. I will still continue on and hope it was just a fluke and the rest of the books are better again.

Selection Post
Week 2: "S"
Book: Heart of Malice by Lisa Edmonds

Pages: 338
How it fits: Shelved 43 times as "Shifters"

Heart of Malice by Lisa Edmonds

Selection Post
Shelf 2: S - "September" or shifter(s)
Book: Sound's Familiar by Dana Marie Bell
Pages: 306
How it fits: Shelved 8 times as Shifters

Halfway done with my free space book hope to be done tomorrow

Glad to hear that, Delitealex. A new book will fall over us tomorrow ;)

Shelf #3 ~ 15 Nov: J - "Jack-o-lantern" or jacket
Requirement: Choose a book using one of the following options ...

* For "Jack-o-lantern", read a book with a cover featuring a pumpkin, a halloween-themed read, or a character or author named 'Jack' or 'Jackie' (other spellings allowed: Jacky, Jacki, etc)

* For jacket shelf, read a book found on one of these shelves: GR cover love or SOS cover-leather-lace

Shelf 3: J - "Jack-o-lantern" or jacket

Dealitex: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (20/11/2024 - 📚📚📚½) Review
Lisa P: The Ghost and the Graveyard by Genevieve Jack (21/11/2024 - 📚📚📚) Review
Marisa: Dead Eye by Alyssa Day (25/11/2024 - 📚📚📚📚) Review



Summary Post

Completion Post
Shelf 2: S - "September" or shifter(s)
Book: Sound's Familiar by Dana Marie Bell
Pages: 306
How it fits: Shelved 8 times as shifters
Read: 15/11/2024
Rating: ★★★★★



Review

It has been a lot of time I've not read a book as tender as this. I love there are not misunderstandings, not posturing, not silly conflicts, only a relationship, it's an instant-relationship, because of the "world", but I've loved it. It's a pity the author has not written more books in this world, I would have like the stories of some of her friends and their partner.

Completion Post
Heart of Malice by Lisa Edmonds

Shelf: "S"
Finished: 11/17/2024
Rate: 4 Stars
Review: When I first started reading this book I thought "Oh No, I'm not going to like this one". There were so many paranormal beings introduced (vampires, shifters, mages, ghosts, etc.) and I thought it would be a bit "overkill". Well I was wrong and I ended up loving this book. Everything just worked! The heroine Alice was right up my alley as a tough, independent kick-ass mage PI. Her sidekick ghost Malcolm was very endearing, and her love interest shifter Sean was perfectly concerned, caring yet as "alpha" as they come. It was an interesting mystery/investigation and I will definitely read the next book in the series. Each character still has so much more backstory to tell and I look forward to hearing it all.