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Keli,that's a great link.
We will ask Sophie to add it to her Message 9, where country website links are collected.
Concerning the novels set in a country, actually I just realised that we MUST have 3 mid-level countries in one itinerary, so your Sri Lanka book would be a great-to-have. 😊
Here is our tracking sheet link where you can add your books on the books tab. (everything else should autofill if you add your book code task).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Also yes to books 1 & 2 from me.
Hey Andy,great to have you on our team. And you have a cute reading companion. 😊
I also loved that particular Paul Newman memoir, so now I bought a biography about him, which is patiently sitting on my TBR shelf. 😊
Hey Lori,There are still quite a few Dickens novels I haven't read yet (I may or may not read at least 1 during TT ;), so you are welcome to our Not-So-Deserted-Island Book Club. 😊
And Our Not-So-Deserted-Island Book Club aka Team Three Pagodas is complete. 🏯🏯🏯
That's great, thank you. 😊
Yes, you just need to add the info on the books tab. You did it correctly. :)
Fiona "🤭 🪄🧙♀️🧹
Claire wrote: "I have this book on my tbr shelf for a hard to read country Stilte is mijn moedertaal. It is set in Sudan. I’ll add it to the books."
Awesome, thank you.
Another note I'll add to the update for Mini 1. Countries can only be duplicated once and Fiona has set up a 🪄🔮magic and very useful colour-highlight system with which we can all check if a country may be used (again) or not. 😊
On the Mini 1-Novels tab, in column H, a country is highlighted with yellow if it has been claimed once and red if it has been claimed a 2nd time and cannot be used any more.
Mini 2
For this Mini books may be banked. Meaning that if you already read a book that has not been used for any other tasks and a new task gets revealed where it's a good fit, then we can use it.
BTW, if someone would like to read this: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax is set 50% at Albania, if I remember correctly. (it used to be included in the Audible plus catalogue) It's short on page points, but the hard country points make up for it. :)
POST UPDATED 🌍 Mini 1 - Novels Around the World 📗
This is how a first round of Travel Itinerary for Mini 1 Currently looks like. Thank you for taking on so many already.
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1. 🟢Switzerland - Claire
2. 🟢Japan - Claire
3. 🟢China - Lauri
4. 🟢Mexico - Lauri
5. 🟢Ireland - Lauri
6. 🟢Sweden - Maria Helena
7. 🟡Panama - Fiona
8. 🔴Democratic Republic of Congo - Mel
9. 🔴Holy See - Mel
10. 🔴Sudan - Claire
11. 🟡Jamaica - Fiona
🟡 Midlevel Countries
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🔴 Hard
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Claire wrote: "Not sure, but if more people read the BOM does that gives us more points?"Yes. :)
20 points for each member who reads the BOM and answers 3 sets of questions.
Sammy wrote: "Who are you, and what have you done with E?"😂
😂Very fitting gif!!
But also, no hurry.
Some of us are planners, others are mood readers.
I may be a combination of both, which makes for a hectic reading sometime, but I've learned to manage myself fairly well by now. 🤭
Hope you had a happy Mothers' Day, Denise & congratulations on your son's graduation. 😊
The usual rule for TT BOMs are that you can start/finish the book earlier, but it has to be after the challenge has startedHowever, questions must be answered during BOM time, otherwise we don't get the points. 😊
Just a question, are you logged in to an email account when you try to access the tracking sheet?
Lauri wrote: "Nope. It’s definitely on the tracking sheet. It’s still the same story for me. Other people have entered their books. When I try, it says ‘PARSE ERROR.’Sorry to be a pain this early on…"
No worries, Lauri, we will add your books.
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later.
Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an artist herself, knows otherwise and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures.
Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their difficult home lives by spending their days laughing and telling stories out on a pier. There’s Joar, who never backs down from a fight; quiet and bookish Ted who is mourning his father; Ali, the daughter of a man who never stays in one place for long; and finally, there’s the artist, a boy who hoards sleeping pills and shuns attention, but who possesses an extraordinary gift that might be his ticket to a better life. These four lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream.
Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work of art, a painting that will unexpectedly be put into eighteen-year-old Louisa’s care. As she struggles to decide what to do with this bequest, she embarks on a surprise-filled cross-country journey to learn the story of how the painting came to be. The closer she gets to the painting’s birthplace, the more she feels compelled to unleash her own artistic spirit, but happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this fresh testament to the transformative power of friendship and art.
Sophie wrote: "The weather here is much warm than it often is so we took my to a country pub with a playground for the first time yesterday. They did really well until Mr. 7 spilt a drink all down. Luckily we'd f..."And I just wanted to ask how did you fare in the water fight? 😆
