1. Yes, this year I started placing bets on horse races. I actually won a little bit on a race yesterday. 🙂
2. Bright, Broken Things is a prequel to a series that centers around horse racing. A series I haven‘t read yet but want to check out.
#Two4Tuesday
1) No. I'm very unlucky so I think placing bets would be cursing whoever I wanted to win. I don't gamble in any way.
2) This book is so good. I hate baseball and NYC and I don't usually like historicals set this recently, but Sebastian is just that good.
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
1) Nope. 20 years ago, my spouse once had to wear a pair of my underwear on top of his clothes when he lost a sports-related bet with a friend. That's as close as I've gotten.
2) The MC plays squash in this one. I suppose many of Irving's novels would work for this prompt.
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
Thank you @Eggs & @TheSpineView for the #Two4Tuesday tag. 🤗
1️⃣ No. I‘m not really into sports or gambling. 🤷🏻♀️
2️⃣ I was having a hard time thinking of one (see answer above) but then I remembered this Austen retelling of Persuasion where the MC (a chef) is paired with a celebrity ⚽️ star (the love interest) for a television cooking contest.
If you want to play along, consider yourself tagged!
#Two4Tuesday
1. Nope
2. The tagged book is phenomenal and one of my favorite YA books ever. Yes it‘s about a rugby team at a private school but it also so much more with twists and turns and unexpected depths. It also has one of the greatest covers ever (something I randomly had a conversation with Dan Santat about at a book event 🤷♀️). Love it.
@TheSpineView
1- routinely with the husband for non monetary items. My biggest flex was one year on the NFL draft and I got to spend a fleet farm gift card we had. I got some chocolate and a new loaf pan out of it 😂
2- love the tagged series
#two4tuesday
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
1. Yup. My friends and I would bet on our March Madness brackets. Winner takes the pot. That is the limit of my gambling...minus some friendly betting on the Bachelor/Bachelorette contestants back in the day (we made teams before the first night).
2. Tagged book was the only one I could think of. I'm not really drawn to sports related books.
1. No. I‘ve never been much for sports and the only one I actually enjoy isn‘t played in my country. So no one else really knows about it. 😅
2. The Only Good Indians- basketball plays a surprisingly significant role.
#Two4Tuesday
🏎️ Towards the end of our second semester, some of my cohort started making sports bets (stress? Depression?) They would ask me for my opinion on where drivers would place in F1. I never bet personally, but my friends made some money lol.
🏁 Redline by Barlowe or Pole Position by Caffrey!
#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
1. Very minor bets with friends. I bet $20 on DraftKings way back when it first came around, didn't enjoy it at all, and never bothered again. (Thank God I didn't inherit the gambling-addict gene in the age of legalized sports betting on your smartphone. 😌)
2. Never read this one, but it sounds fun!
Tag @RaeLovesToRead @CBee @BarbaraBB @Yuki_Onna @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm
