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Randomised List

There were 15 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

District 1 - Angie (weekend day pref) (backup Jenny, Sammy)
District 12 - Beth (extra entry)
District 11 - Fiona (backup Christina)
District 1 - Angie (extra entry)
District 8 - Lexi (extra entry)
District 5 - Annalisa
The Capitol - Preeti (backup Yasmine)
District 4 - Tammie (extra entry)
District 9 - Melissa
District 9 - Melissa (extra entry)
District 12 - Beth
District 8 - Logan (backup Lexi)
District 7 - Teddie (backup Melindam, Cat)
District 4 - Stacey (backup Tammie)
District 2 - Alisha (backup Tara)

Timestamp: 2024-07-14 11:33:03 UTC

Volunteers

District 6 - Lisa (Aussie Girl) - NOMINATOR (back up E)
District 12 - Beth
District 12 - Beth (extra entry)
District 7 - Teddie (backup Melindam, Cat)
District 1 - Angie (weekend day pref) (backup Jenny, Sammy)
District 11 - Fiona (backup Christina)
District 2 - Alisha (backup Tara)
The Capitol - Preeti (backup Yasmine)
District 9 - Melissa
District 4 - Stacey (backup Tammie)
District 8 - Logan (backup Lexi)
District 5 - Annalisa
District 1 - Angie (extra entry)
District 9 - Melissa (extra entry)
District 8 - Lexi (extra entry)
District 4 - Tammie (extra entry)

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 		MPDQs
16 Jul 		Prologue - Chapter 7	Lisa (Aussie Girl) 
17 Jul 		Chapters 8 - 16 	Beth
18 Jul 		Chapters 17 - 25 	Fiona
19 Jul 		Chapters 26 - 34 	Lexi
20 Jul			Break Day
21 Jul 		Chapters 35 - 41 	Angie
22 Jul 		Chapters 42 - 49 	Annalisa
23 Jul 		Chapters 50 - 58 	Preeti
24 Jul 		Chapters 59 - End 	Tammie

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 boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities.

A girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes.

The world has never even noticed them. That's about to change.

Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty, and on which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned.

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nominator: Lisa (Aussie Girl)


Official page count: 576

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Participation Verified

Angie
Beth
Lisa (Aussie Girl)
Audrey
Karen (mod)
Judith
Tammie
Judy
Keli
Melindam
Preeti
Christina
MelanieJoy
Melissa

D7 Melindam (back up Catherine) auto entry

There were 10 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

D12 Beth extra entry
D8 Judith (last day please)
D9 Trisha (back up Melissa)
D6 Ashley (back up Lisa, Karen)
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D4 Tammie (back up Stacey)
D12 Beth (back up Amanda)
D1 CB (back up Jenny, Angie)
The Capitol Carrie
D4 Tammie (extra entry)
D11 Christina (back up Fiona)

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 			MPDQs
2 July 	Chapter 1 -12 (20%)		D7 Melindam	
3 July 	Chapter 13 - 23 (41%)		D12 Beth 
4 July	Chapter 24 - 33 (60%)		D9 Trisha
**Break / Catch up Day**
6 July	Chapter 34 -44(80%)		D6 Ashley
7 July	Chapter 45 - end		D8 Judith 

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

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position.

What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor.

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.

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nominator: Melindam

Official page count: 387

Posts beyond this point do not count for points for Book Games.

Please continue to chat to your heart's desire about The Hunger Games though!

Buddy Read thread for Catching Fire is up and live

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

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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 June 15th and July 15th.

This thread is open to discuss Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins



Sparks are igniting.
Flames are spreading.
And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.


Official Page Count 439

The struggle for survival in the arena is a never ending cycle. Sometimes a tribute will luck into a boon but they are just as likely to be a victim of sabotage.

The Randomizer was let loose on all of the teams' resource supply piles. The Arena Masters are not heartless, the news isn't all bad. At least this time.

In Round 1, 1 pile receives a boon (15% page point increase), 2 are left alone, and 1 is the subject of sabotage (15% page point decrease). Impacts to resource supply piles are team specific.

Your team's randomizer results

Weapons: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Shelter: 15% increase (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Food: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Defense: 15% decrease

The struggle for survival in the arena is a never ending cycle. Sometimes a tribute will luck into a boon but they are just as likely to be a victim of sabotage.

The Randomizer was let loose on all of the teams' resource supply piles. The Arena Masters are not heartless, the news isn't all bad. At least this time.

In Round 1, 1 pile receives a boon (15% page point increase), 2 are left alone, and 1 is the subject of sabotage (15% page point decrease). Impacts to resource supply piles are team specific.

Your team's randomizer results

Weapons: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Shelter: 15% decrease
Food: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Defense: 15% increase (protected by supply drop so left alone)

The struggle for survival in the arena is a never ending cycle. Sometimes a tribute will luck into a boon but they are just as likely to be a victim of sabotage.

The Randomizer was let loose on all of the teams' resource supply piles. The Arena Masters are not heartless, the news isn't all bad. At least this time.

In Round 1, 1 pile receives a boon (15% page point increase), 2 are left alone, and 1 is the subject of sabotage (15% page point decrease). Impacts to resource supply piles are team specific.

Your team's randomizer results

Weapons: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Shelter: 15% decrease (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Food: 15% increase
Defense: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)

The struggle for survival in the arena is a never ending cycle. Sometimes a tribute will luck into a boon but they are just as likely to be a victim of sabotage.

The Randomizer was let loose on all of the teams' resource supply piles. The Arena Masters are not heartless, the news isn't all bad. At least this time.

In Round 1, 1 pile receives a boon (15% page point increase), 2 are left alone, and 1 is the subject of sabotage (15% page point decrease). Impacts to resource supply piles are team specific.

Your team's randomizer results

Weapons: 15% decrease
Shelter: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Food: 15% increase
Defense: Left alone

The struggle for survival in the arena is a never ending cycle. Sometimes a tribute will luck into a boon but they are just as likely to be a victim of sabotage.

The Randomizer was let loose on all of the teams' resource supply piles. The Arena Masters are not heartless, the news isn't all bad. At least this time.

In Round 1, 1 pile receives a boon (15% page point increase), 2 are left alone, and 1 is the subject of sabotage (15% page point decrease). Impacts to resource supply piles are team specific.

Your team's randomizer results

Weapons: 15% decrease (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Shelter: Left alone
Food: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Defense: 15% increase (protected by supply drop so left alone)