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I will finish the two I have left before the deadline. I will be done with The Princess Plan in about a half an hour or so and I have probably 2 hours left of The Last Oracle.
Completion Post:
Book: One Christmas Eve
Author: Shannon Stacey
Date Read: 11/16/2019
Page Count: 118
Sin: Greed Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: Woman - MC Zoe is a woman; Man - MC Preston is a man; Steak - Z&P go to a fancy steak place for their first real date; Food - Thanksgiving is celebrated with many discussions/scenes about food; Diamond - Preston proposes with a diamond ring
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes
Completion Post:
Book: A Lady's Past
Author: A.S. Fenichel
Date Read: 11/16/2019
Page Count: 223
Sin: Greed Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: Woman - MC Diana is a woman; Man - MC Jacques is a man; Gown - Woman on cover is wearing a gown; Aristocracy - Several characters are titled including Preston Knowles (a duke); Rich & Wealthy - Character Lady Honoria Chervil, Diana's chaperone, is a thrice widowed woman who has gotten richer after each husband; Horse - Horses and horse drawn carriages are the primary mode of transportation and there are several scenes of characters traveling; Map - Diana draws a map of French plans which help the English in the war
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes
Completion Post:
Book: Safety Breach
Author: Delores Fossen
Date Read: 11/16/2019
Page Count: 248
Sin: Greed Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: Woman - MC Gemma is a woman; Man - Gemma is being chased by serial killer Eric who is a man
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes
My thought for sticking to one card was if you do that and read the max of 45 books then you can get 12 line bonuses if you strategically black out 4 boxes on the one card. If you use multiple cards, I don't think you'd be able to achieve the same number of line bonuses. But sticking to the one card does mean reading for some harder words, so using other cards might make placing books easier.
I really like both of the stories. Thank you Ora and Judy for putting those together. I don't have a creative bone in my body, so I'm glad you two were able to string the stories together.
Ok, just finished my last book. So both of our completed stories are done now, yes?
Completion Post:
Book: It Takes a Scandal
Author: Caroline Linden
Date Read: 11/10/2019
Page Count: 372
Sin: Lust Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: What the world says
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes
For my last two week 5 books, I have about 100 pages left of It Takes a Scandal, so I should finish in just over an hour. I have finished my Elizabeth book, I switched the one I was planning on reading for Elizabeth Bennet in Disguise as I liked that it had the full name of the P&P character as I thought that would be better for the story.
Completion Post:
Book: Elizabeth Bennet in Disguise
Author: Lilian Swift
Date Read: 11/10/2019
Page Count: 192
Sin: Lust Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: Person's name
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes
I finally finished the Mr. Darcy book. I added it to the spreadsheet as a bad book "recommendation" as you already completed it Ora and I wasn't sure if it was going in the story twice.
Completion Post:
Book: Fifty Shades of Mr. Darcy
Author: William Codpiece Thwackery
Date Read: 11/9/2019
Page Count: 200
Sin: Lust Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: Bad Book "recommended" by Dragana
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes
Back Room BR:
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For next week's mini challenge, I added a tab in the planning sheet where I recreated our 3 bingo cards. I figured that will make things easier visually to see when we have a bingo. My suggestion would be once a square has been taken/completed to fill it in a color to show what's open and what's done. If it helps, we could also add our name to the square.Also, if we as a team decide to focus on 1 card (which may be best in terms of bonus points for the completed lines), I can always remove the others. If we go this route, my preference is card # 1.
Completion Post:
Book: Down and Dirty
Author: Various
Date Read: 11/6/2019
Page Count: 1,756
Sin: Lust Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: What they went there for
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes
I have It Takes a Scandal which seems like it would work well in the Darcy/Elizabeth story. Could work for what one of them or the world says.
I found Finding Elizabeth on Scribd, so I can read it to make our Darcy and Elizabeth story work if no one has a book already with Elizabeth in the title.
Ora wrote: "Since Melanie and I (as far as I know) are reading the BR, I was thinking maybe we could do a sentence with Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth if someone has a book with Elizabeth in the title. How does that ..."I really like this idea.
Ora wrote: "This is new for me to. While I am thinking about it. When you post that you are reading the book in thread, use that one to link all of your additional post to that one to make it easier for the mo..."That makes sense, will do. I'll likely read the book after work today or tomorrow.
Ora wrote: "Melanie wrote: "Ora wrote: "There is an informal buddy read in NRBC Backroom that will give an extra 7 points Fifty Shades of Mr Darcy: A Parody
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/sho..."
Great, thanks for explaining. I haven't done BRs in this group as part of a challenge, so I wasn't 100% sure how it worked.
Ora wrote: "There is an informal buddy read in NRBC Backroom that will give an extra 7 points Fifty Shades of Mr Darcy: A Parody
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...-..."
I think I'll join in on that. Just sent a request to join the backroom.
Nice, it's published by an imprint of Simon & Schuster which means I can get a copy of the eBook edition for free from work (Fifty Shades of Mr. Darcy). For anyone who has Scribd, the eBook edition is on there.
