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I think for the primary spreadsheet, just request edit permissions, and the mods should grant them.

Anyway - if someone wants to take over as captain or be put in as co-captain or something - just speak up. I'm so sorry that happened!

BUT crap - you guys - I had a trip to the hospital at 3 a.m. - didn't get home til just now - and because of the stress I totally forgot about updating or messaging - walked in the door, remembered the update, but it was too late. I'm pretty sure there are no exceptions, but I am SOOOO sorry.
I'll try to read like a fiend these next two rounds - and maybe we can get yet another co-captain or if someone wants to captain - I'm such a fail!



The tricky part is finding the words in books that can be used for VUVUZELA.

It's time to explore the many varied musical forms from around the world.
Find these musical genres in your books! You need to find the exact word (see below and yodelling caveat), and you need to find ten different genres.
Each genre you find in the text will earn an additional 5 bonus points. Only one bonus word per book and a maximum of 10 bonus words.
Genres
[Baroque
Bhangra
Bluegrass
Calypso
Electronica
Fado
Folk
Grunge
K-Pop
Mambo
Mariachi
Merengue
Motown
Noh
Polka
Rautalanka
Reggae
Salsa
Shashmaqam
Ska
Spiritual
Sufi
Tango
Yodeling (or Jodeling) (Note: either English or US ll / l variant acceptable)
Zydeco
Note: you must find the words exactly (so you can't find "electronic" - it has to have the -a ending), but if you find an exact match that isn't talking about the music genre (e.g. "he was a spiritual person" you can still claim it). And yes, we mean you can't use plurals, possessives or verb ending changes (bad luck if you find "he yodels" but no yodelling!)

And - I updated the spreadsheet and we are tied for first place! That doesn't happen often with all the randomness of points. Anyway - well done readers!

Yes - four weeks left after Saturday! Given the time of year, I suspect it will zoom by!
And EEEK - our word for next round (Starting Saturday at the countdown timer) is VUVUZELA! I don't even know what that is, but I DO know it's a challenge. They'll be announcing the bonus task soon.

Looking at current top 3 teams - we are only separated by like 100 points from each other. Wow - what a lot of reading is going on with this challenge. Keep up the great work!

Yes we need one more person/book for instruments - looks like we are fine with red covers (given the planned ones).
And geez - I counted both incorrectly. My cold has come back with a vengeance this morning and I thought "well I can at least do an update" - but....you all see how well that went! I'm so glad you ladies can count and track better than I can!

2 more Red covers (We have 3 still planned on the spreadsheet - 2 of them are mine)
3 more Instrument on cover (we have 2 planned on the spreadsheet - one of them is mine)
Boy time sure goes by quickly!

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
I'll try to put it at the top of this thread too.