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Official page count for this has been confirmed as 528 pages.

Elinor wrote: "I would like to use an extra credit token with the following:

Malibu Rising (2022) - not in the sheet:
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4

Verified participations (in the sheet):
11.22.63 - June 2023
The Dau..."

Extra entry made!

Tammie wrote: "I did attempt to use Malibu and Cat for 11/22/63 but understood those were credited back??."

ah. no, I had a (post-holiday fuzzy brain) moment.

All good - extra entry made.

Sorry!

Tammie wrote: "I would like to volunteer for DQs - Ti

Also, another entry please...links
Master/Margarita - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...-..."

Tammie, you've already used Travelling Cat and Malibu Rising entries.
I've added credit for Master & Margarita now, so the shet now has credits for your participation in these from 2022: Malibu, Travelling Cat, Cold Cases, Book Lovers, Needless St, Master and Margarita, plus the 2023 ones

Yasmine wrote: "I would also like to enter an extra entry:

I have two participation tokens left on the BOM sheet plus this one that's not added yet:
11/22/63"

added, and used :)

Keely wrote: "Volunteering for Team Ti.

I would also like to use an extra credit token. Links below

The Master and Margarita - June 2022
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

The Four Winds - September 2022
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

Th..."

verified and used

Participation Verified

Ashley
Eunice
Michael
Karen (mod)
Lexi
Cat
Yasmine
Judith
Tammie
Audrey Jane
Angie
Elinor
Jenny
Preeti
Cordelia

Participation Verified

Lindsay SingerofSongs
Ashley
Melindam
Christina
Tammie
Judith
Michael
Elinor
Lexi
Catsalive
Marie
Yasmine
Angie
Sammy

Randomised list

doesn't include guaranteed nominator

There were 17 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Alisha (Zeng)
Tammie (Ti)
Melindam (Dez)
Keely (Ti) (extra entry)
Kerri (Ashara)
Yasmine (Jeih)
Tammie (Ti) extra entry
Angie (Deset) extra entry
Elinor (Ashara) extra entry
Louise (Sip)
Judith (Neez)
Keely (Ti)
Cordelia (Qulit)
Lexi (Neez) (later day due to travel)
Angie (Deset)
Judith (Neez) extra entry
Elinor (Ashara)

Timestamp: 2023-06-28 13:15:00 UTC

Volunteers

Christina (Deka) - nominator

Melindam (Dez)
Keely (Ti)
Keely (Ti) (extra entry)
Yasmine (Jeih)
Alisha (Zeng)
Tammie (Ti)
Tammie (Ti) extra entry
Judith (Neez)
Lexi (Neez) (later day due to travel)
Elinor (Ashara)
Angie (Deset)
Angie (Deset) extra entry
Kerri (Ashara)
Cordelia (Qulit)
Louise (Sip)
Elinor (Ashara) extra entry
Judith (Neez) extra entry

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 		Pages		MPDQs
2 Jul	Chan v Cortez & 
		The First Time Around 	26%	Christina (Deka)
3 Jul	The Comeback			40%	Alisha (Zeng)
4 Jul	The 1995 Australian Open	58%	Tammie (Ti)
5 Jul	The 1995 French Open		76%	Melindam (Dez)
6 Jul	Wimbledon 1995	&
		The 1995 US Open	100%	Kerri (Ashara)

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

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.

By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.

But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.

At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.

In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.

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nominator: Christina
official page count: 384

Randomised List

excludes nominator Jenny

There were 30 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Lexi (Neez) extra entry 1
Karen (Sip)
Fallyn Nicole (Kumi)
Cat (Jeih)
Ashley (Dez)
Keely (Ti) extra entry
Judy (Deka)
Judith (Neez)
Elinor (Ashara)
Nanci (Ashara) extra entry
Vi (Ashara) extra entry
Vi (Ashara)
Kerri (Ashara)
Stacey (Ti)
Keely (Ti)
Aoefe (Neez)
Stacey (Qulit)
Kaley (Zeng)
Melissa (Sip)
Yasmine (Jeih)
Judy (Deka) extra entry
Angie (Deset)
Teddie (Damara)
Briana (Damara)
Yasmine (Jeih) (extra entry)
Kexi (Neez)
Megan (Deka)
Karen (Sip) extra entry
Nanci (Ashara)
Lexi (Neez) extra entry 2

Timestamp: 2023-07-14 07:47:49 UTC

Volunteers

Jenny (nom) (Deset)
Cat (Jeih)
Kaley (Zeng)
Yasmine (Jeih)
Yasmine (Jeih) (extra entry)
Judith (Neez)
Aoefe (Neez)
Kexi (Neez)
Ashley (Dez)
Judy (Deka)
Teddie (Damara)
Angie (Deset)
Briana (Damara)
Vi (Ashara)
Kerri (Ashara)
Stacey (Ti)
Melissa (Sip)
Keely (Ti)
Stacey (Qulit)
Keely (Ti) extra entry
Judy (Deka) extra entry
Vi (Ashara) extra entry
Lexi (Neez) extra entry 1
Lexi (Neez) extra entry 2
Nanci (Ashara)
Nanci (Ashara) extra entry
Megan (Deka)
Fallyn Nicole (Kumi)
Karen (Sip)
Karen (Sip) extra entry
Elinor (Ashara)

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 	%age		MPDQs
16 Jul		1 - 6		16%		Jenny (Deset)
17 Jul		7 - 13		33%		Lexi (Neez)
18 Jul		14 - 20		49%		Karen (Sip)
19 Jul		BREAK DAY
20 Jul		21 - 25		64%		Fallyn Nicole (Kumi)
21 Jul		26 - 31		81%		Cat (Jeih)
22 Jul		32 - end	100%		Ashley (Dez)

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

Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders from USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

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nominator: Jenny
official page count: 528

Team Tower Name Spell-outs

As the teams build taller and taller towers, we noticed some additional spell outs might be warranted. A selection of team names from TT's gone by were selected, excluding year of letters.

Books used for either the page towers or Free Choice can be used for these spell-outs. However, only books finished after 9am UTC June 15th are eligible. Teams have until the end of the challenge to complete the spellings. Only one incomplete spelling is allowed for points.

Points: 10 points per letter and 20 points per completed word

Teams are allowed one incomplete spelling each for the Team Tower and the Crayola Tower spell-outs.

SPELL-IT-OUT RULES
Spell out the word(s) using the first letter in the book's title, the first letter in the author's first or last name, or the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter of the series name.
As always, if the first letter of a title starts with an indefinite or definite article ('A', 'An', 'The', etc.), you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.
If the first letter of a title is a numerical digit, then you use the first letter of that digit for your spell out (i.e. 1984 is N; 2046 is T; 1Q84 is O)
If you are listening to an audiobook, the first letter in the narrator's first or last name also can be used.
We're also allowing for Translators names, as long as the edition you are reading is a translation version.

I was about to message you to say to check in - remarkable response time, lucky Zeng!

Please welcome:

• Kim
• Christene Paula ✨

Any books they have read starting after 1st May and finishing after 1st June can be used.

Please welcome
• stacey

Any books they have read starting after 1st May and finishing after 1st June can be used.