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DQ Volunteers

District 8 - Judith (nominator) (backup Lexi)
District 12 - Amanda (backup Beth, Jade aka MrsTosh)
District 13 - Erin PBH
District 7 - Melindam (back up Marty)
District 6 - Cass (backup Lisa AG)
District 1 - Sammy (backup Keli, Jenny)
District 2 - Alisha (backup Truitt_T)
District 9 - Melissa (back up Dawn)
District 3 - Rosina (backup Kaley)
District 7 - Melindam (extra entry)
District 11 - Fiona (backup Christina, Judy)
District 4 - Stacey (backup Tammie)
The Capitol - MelanieJoy (backup Yasmine, Preeti)
District 1 - Angie (extra entry)
District 1 - Sammy (extra entry)
District 10 - Cat
District 10 - Cat (extra entry)

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 	%age		MPDQs
2 Jun		1 - 7		19%		Judith
3 Jun		8 - 13		38%		Melindam
4 Jun		14 - 19		58%		Erin PBH
5 Jun		20 - 26		78%		Stacey
6 Jun		27 - epilogue	97%		MelanieJoy

Guidance for DQ setters
Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!
Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.
Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!
Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?

Want more information about how NBRC runs their Book of the Month discussions? Check out the information here

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all.

Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house―and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling―go to rot.

Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home.

As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares.

If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it

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nominator: Judith

Official Page Count: 312 pages

Abigail wrote: "Hello, I've seen mention of tokens. How do I go about tracking and earning these please?🌸"

Gems: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

BOM Tokens: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Christina wrote: "I'm confused, ain't I first on the randomized list? Or do y'all hate me now because I pointed things out I'm sorry 😭😭"

You are, and switched in

to be clear: Mel gets a guaranteed slot as nominator

Randomised and days assigned!

You (ought to) know the drill:
- if you can't do your day, for whatever reason, you can pass your day to someone else from your district who is listed as a volunteer
- if noone is available to cover you, or you are late, your day will be passed to the next district in the randomiser!
- don't forget to number your questions from the previous set

Enjoy!

Everyone needs a little help from a friend (or sponsor).

Supply drops consist of books read by the sending team to be used in a way chosen by the receiving team within specified criteria.

Teams have been paired up for the duration of Book Games and are allowed to send up to 3 supply drops each to their partner team per round. This is not required - your team could decide to not send any supply drops. But if that's your team's choice, your partner team could decide to do the same.

Paired teams are allowed to coordinate with requests for books which would be most helpful to the receiving team. However, the sending team ultimately gets to decide which books are sent as supply drops.

Sending Team

The sending team chooses up to 3 books to send to the recipient team each round. These can either be 3 random books or books that meet specific needs of the recipient team.

The books can be sent any time during the round and the books do not have to be sent at the same time. That being said, it would be most helpful to the receiving team if the supply drops were received early enough in the round to decide how best to use the books for their team.

The sending team logs the supply drop books on the respective round's book log, puts the books in an appropriate resource category, and receives page points for the books sent. However, the books sent for supply drops cannot be used for other tasks. The appropriate code for supply drops is added to the mini reference column.

Supply drop books cannot be sent until they have been read by the sending team.

Receiving Team

The receiving team can choose from a variety of options on how to use the supply drops. But once used, they are locked in and the supply drop books cannot be moved to a different spot.

Supply drops can be carried over into future rounds but can only be used for mini challenge tasks in the round they were sent.

- Mini Task: Supply drop books must work for the mini task they're being used for. This includes the read date being within the timeframe of the mini challenge.
How to log this on the spreadsheet: add the book to the appropriate round's book log, enter 0 for the page number, select "Supply Drop" as the resource category, then enter the appropriate mini reference code.

- Additions to resource piles: Supply drop books must meet a requirement of the resource pile.
How to log this on the spreadsheet: add the book to the appropriate round's book log the same way you enter any other book read by your team, select the appropriate supply drop code in the mini reference column.

- Protecting supply piles: Supply drop books must fit into that category AND have some type of shield/defense. These would need to be separate. So if you want to use a supply drop book to protect your defense supply pile, the book needs to fit into the defense category in 2 different ways.
How to log this on the spreadsheet: add the book to the appropriate round's book log, enter 0 for the page number, select the resource category you'd like the book to protect in column F and provide the reason why the book meets that pile's requirements in column G. Then add the appropriate supply drop code in the mini reference column in column H and provide the reason why the book meets the defense resource criteria in column I. Protection (column G) and defense (column I) must be two different reasons.


Team Pairings

District 1 & The Capitol
District 2 & District 13
District 3 & District 12
District 4 & District 11
District 5 & District 10
District 6 & District 9
District 7 & District 8

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 			MPDQs
16 May: 	pages 1-71 - Chapters 1-8	Melindam
17 May: 	pages 72-141 - Chapters 9-18	Judith
18 May: 	pages 142-212 - Chapters 19-27	Alisha
** Break DAY **
20 May: 	pages 213-285 - Chapters 28-39	Jenny
21 May: 	pages 286-365 - Chapters 40-56	Rosina

If you can longer do you day, please shout out and we will go to the next tribute in the randomised list (if you don't have a back up for your district)

DQ Tributes have been randomised!


There were 14 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

District 7 Melindam (back up Sophie, Suzanne)
District 8 Judith (back up Lexi)
District 2 Alisha
District 3 Rosina (DQs after 20th)
District 1 Jenny (back up Angie, CB, Alison)
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District 6 Karen (back up E)
District 11 Christina (back up Fiona, Judy)
District 7 Melindam (extra entry)
Abigail
District 5 Annalisa (back up LavenderLane)
The Capitol Preeti (back up Keely, MelanieJoy)
District 12 Insiyah (back up Beth)
District 9 Melissa (back up Louise)
District 4 Tammie (back up Rina)

Timestamp: 2024-05-14 09:50:23 UTC

Please welcome:

• Saar the Book Owl
• Sree

Please welcome Kim
• Kim

Please welcome Ariel

• Ariel

Buddy Read Thread for Book #2

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This thread is open to discuss Empire of the Damned by Jay Kristoff.





Synopsis:

From holy cup comes holy light;
The faithful hands sets world aright.
And in the Seven Martyrs’ sight,
Mere man shall end this endless night.

Gabriel de León has saved the Holy Grail from death, but his chance to end the endless night is lost. Drawn into an uneasy alliance with the mysterious vampire Liathe, Gabriel must now deliver the Grail to ancients of the Blood Esani, and learn the truth of how Daysdeath might be finally undone.

But the Last Silversaint faces peril, within and without. Pursued by terrors of the Blood Voss, drawn into warfare between the Blood Dyvok and duskdancers of the frozen Highlands, and ravaged by his own rising bloodlust, Gabriel may not survive to see the Grail learn her truth.

And that truth may be too awful for any to imagine.

Hunger Game Buddy Reads

Informal buddy reads will be held for the original trilogy of the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. One informal buddy read for each month of the challenge.

Informal buddy reads means there will not be formal discussion questions as with our groups BOMs.

However, in order to earn the 20 points for participation, players need to post at least 3 posts that provide a reasonable contribution to the discussion of the book. You do not need to provide a school worthy book report, but the posts need to be more than "Katniss is awesome" or "I love this book" to count for participation points.

The Buddy Reads for each book will run as follows:
The Hunger Games: May 15th to June 15th
Catching Fire: June 15th to July 15th
Mockingjay: July 15th to August 15th

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Reminder to those participating in Book Games.

In order to collect points for participating in this informal buddy read, you must make at least 3 posts that contribute to the overall discussion of the book.

Just posting something like "this book is great" does not count.

To collect the 20 points for participation the book and discussion posts must be completed between May 15th and June 15th.