A Million More Pages - Summer Games Finished

Summer Games hosted by A Million More Pages on Goodreads.

This has now finished and I read my 3 books for the challenge.

1 month team challenge (5 person teams)
*Each team member will read 3 books to complete the challenge, with all 15 categories read to lead your team to victory.Choose your Color:
1. The five rings (circles) on the Olympic flag are interlocking on a white background.
The white background symbolizes peace.
The colors of red, blue, green, yellow, and black were chosen because each nation has at least one of these colors in its national flag.
Challenge: Each team completes the colors of the flag, with one team member reading a book with a cover matching one of the rings: red, blue, green, yellow, and black. *Color of cover must be at least 50% to qualify - must post cover in completion post.
Fire at Twilight by Lila Ashe (Blue cover)

Choose your Location:
2. The 5 rings represent the five major land areas of the world. The five interlocking rings represent the continents of Africa, Australia, Europe, The Americas, and Asia.
The rings are interlocked to show friendship among the nations.
Challenge: Each team travels the globe, with one team member reading a book set in each of the five major land areas: Africa, Australia, Europe, The Americas, and Asia. *Must post each location read in completion post.
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa (set in Japan)

Choose your Event:
The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport that comprises five events: fencing, 200 m. freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a final combined event of pistol shooting and a 3200 m. cross-country run. The sport has been a core sport of the Olympic Games since 1912, and since 1949 an annual World Championship has been held.
Challenge: Each team member completes one of the events of the pentathlon to lead their team to victory!
Fencing: Read a book with a main page genre of "Medieval" or "Epic Fantasy"
Swimming: Read a book featuring a body of water on the cover
Equestrian: Reading a book tagged "horse racing" or "horses" or features a horse on the cover
Shooting: Read a book with a main page genre of "military" or "war"
Running: Read a book with a main page genre of "adventure" or "travel"
*Must post how it fits in completion post.
Rasmus - Tales of a Utah Cowboy by Jay Anderson and Beth M. Stephenson (horse on cover)

Books read:

1. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa
2. Rasmus - Tales of a Utah Cowboy by Jay Anderson and Beth M. Stephenson
3. Fire at Twilight by Lila Ashe

Fire at Twilight by Lila Ashe

Grace is a fixer. She's good at it, too. In her acupuncture practice, she fixes the community of Darling Bay, and in her personal life, she's rescued her sister too many times to count. Her love life, though . . . Grace doesn't think she needs help, especially not from a man whose very nickname is unhealthy.
Tox Ellis is the hazmat expert at the Darling Bay Fire Department, and he knows about harmful substances. He knows what gases to keep apart to prevent explosions. Why, then, can't he seem to stay away from Grace, the woman who seems to think he needs fixing?
Is Darling Bay ready for the chemical reaction Grace and Tox generate whenever they're in the same place at the same time? And who will be standing by to put out the flames?
From Goodreads.





This was okay and also funny in places. I wasn't wild about Grace who seem to think she needs to fix everybody that includes telling them what is healthy or not all the time. She pushed both her sister and Tox away before she finally realised she had to let them live their own way.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015
Romance Readers Reading Challenges: Word Hunt 2015
The Challenge Factory: Scavenger Hunt Part XV
Wacky Reading Challenges: Word Search 2015
Rawk-A-Tiers: Words With ... Myself!
Rawk-A-Tiers: I Spy
Rawk-A-Tiers: Troupe Theme Challenges
Rawk-A-Tiers: Scavenger Hunt
Rawk-A-Tiers: House Games
A Million More Pages: Campfire Cookout
A Million More Pages: Reading Under The Stars
A Million More Pages: Summer Games
A Million More Pages: Summer Song Shuffle
Wacky Reading Challenges: Favorite Album - Away From the Sun 
Wacky Reading Challenges: Autumn Fun
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Backpacking Around The Globe
Wacky Reading Challenges: Animal House
Crazy Challenge Connection: Scrabble, anyone?

Rasmus - Tales of a Utah Cowboy by Jay Anderson and Beth M. Stephenson

Enjoy the true and less true adventures of a real wild west cowboy, Rasmus Anderson. As a Mormon boy forced into manhood before his whiskers sprouted, he lived at the end of his rope. Whether herding wild mustangs or defending life and limb, his lasso was his lifeline. So curl your bedroll around the campfire and settle in for some yarn spinning like you never had the sense to hope for. From Goodreads.

I wasn't that taken with these cowboy adventures and it was also a bit too religious for my taste. In the epilogue it states that these stories are fiction but they are written around a real person, Rasmus who was a second-generation pioneer. The most interesting for me was that the family originated from Denmark.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015
Crazy Challenge Connection A-Z Locations - 2014
Romance Readers Reading Challenges: Word Hunt 2015
The Challenge Factory: Scavenger Hunt Part XV
Wacky Reading Challenges: Word Search 2015
Wacky Reading Challenges: Mini Challenge 2015
Rawk-A-Tiers: Words With ... Myself!
Rawk-A-Tiers: I Spy
Rawk-A-Tiers: Get Ready for Autumn!
Rawk-A-Tiers: Troupe Theme Challenges
A Million More Pages: Summer Games
Wacky Reading Challenges: Autumn Fun 
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Backpacking Around The Globe
Wacky Reading Challenges: Animal House
Wacky Reading Challenges: Character Names, A-Z

The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa

The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors. 
From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.

A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool--a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life.
A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination--but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's?
A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.
Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities. From Goodreads

 

Unfortunately I found these three novellas boring and uninteresting. I only finished them because they were so short. They stories are twisted but neither beautiful nor darkly humorous as described in the blurb. 

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2015
I love Library books 2015
Crazy Challenge Connection A-Z Locations - 2014
Romance Readers Reading Challenges: Word Hunt 2015
The Challenge Factory: Scavenger Hunt Part XV
Wacky Reading Challenges: Word Search 2015
Rawk-A-Tiers: Words With ... Myself!
Rawk-A-Tiers: Rhyme Time
Rawk-A-Tiers: I Spy
Rawk-A-Tiers: Troupe Theme Challenges
Rawk-A-Tiers: Getting Acquainted
Rawk-A-Tiers: Scavenger Hunt
Rawk-A-Tiers: House Games
A Million More Pages: Summer Games
Wacky Reading Challenges: Favorite Album - Away From the Sun
Wacky Reading Challenges: Book Tag Challenge #7
A Million More Pages Hogwarts: Backpacking Around The Globe
Wacky Reading Challenges: Animal House
Crazy Challenge Connection: Read your age

A Million More Pages - Summer Games

Summer Games hosted by A Million More Pages on Goodreads.

I have joined this challenge with 4 others from the Rawk group. As I am not in a cabin for A Million More Pages cAMMP, I have been added to the Gypsy Caravan.
I have to read 3 books for this challenge.

1 month team challenge (5 person teams)
*Each team member will read 3 books to complete the challenge, with all 15 categories read to lead your team to victory.Choose your Color:
1. The five rings (circles) on the Olympic flag are interlocking on a white background.
The white background symbolizes peace.
The colors of red, blue, green, yellow, and black were chosen because each nation has at least one of these colors in its national flag.
Challenge: Each team completes the colors of the flag, with one team member reading a book with a cover matching one of the rings: red, blue, green, yellow, and black. *Color of cover must be at least 50% to qualify - must post cover in completion post.
Fire at Twilight by Lila Ashe (Blue cover)

Choose your Location:
2. The 5 rings represent the five major land areas of the world. The five interlocking rings represent the continents of Africa, Australia, Europe, The Americas, and Asia.
The rings are interlocked to show friendship among the nations.
Challenge: Each team travels the globe, with one team member reading a book set in each of the five major land areas: Africa, Australia, Europe, The Americas, and Asia. *Must post each location read in completion post.
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa (set in Japan)

Choose your Event:
The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport that comprises five events: fencing, 200 m. freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a final combined event of pistol shooting and a 3200 m. cross-country run. The sport has been a core sport of the Olympic Games since 1912, and since 1949 an annual World Championship has been held.
Challenge: Each team member completes one of the events of the pentathlon to lead their team to victory!
Fencing: Read a book with a main page genre of "Medieval" or "Epic Fantasy"
Swimming: Read a book featuring a body of water on the cover
Equestrian: Reading a book tagged "horse racing" or "horses" or features a horse on the cover
Shooting: Read a book with a main page genre of "military" or "war"
Running: Read a book with a main page genre of "adventure" or "travel"
*Must post how it fits in completion post.
Rasmus - Tales of a Utah Cowboy by Jay Anderson and Beth M. Stephenson (horse on cover)

Books read:

1. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas by Yoko Ogawa
2. Rasmus - Tales of a Utah Cowboy by Jay Anderson and Beth M. Stephenson
3. Fire at Twilight by Lila Ashe