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I know Trinia. I had posted it in the review thread and everything and I had to remove it. At least it’s the same rules for everyone but I just think that a poem such as that or Paradise Lost should be allowed but it’s part of their rules so I should’ve checked ahead of time.
Mary, that sucks! But at least you discovered that before you read the whole thing. Now you can decide whether or not to finish it. Lol I read The Odyssey thinking it’s written as a “poem” BUT it’s a novel and it is! But it still wasn’t allowed. I get it, but it was still frustrating especially because I read it due to its size for extra points. Instead it made me a book short AND LOST us points. Wasn’t a good feeling.
Book: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
Pages: 384
Read: 11/06
Sin: Pride
Criteria: Tagged Contemporary by 118 people on 1st page of tags
Mini-challenge - could be used for something someone says to another person
Book: Blood for Blood
Read: 11/05
Pages: 484
Sin: Wrath
Criteria: 51.4% Brown Cover
Per TinEye - 45.6 % Cowboy (Brown) 5.8 % Almond Frost (Brown)
Could be used for mini-challenge with the following:
What #One said to #Two
What #Two said to #One
What the world said
Book: Karina
Read: 11/04
Pages: 197
Sin: Envy
Criteria: Tagged Young-Adult on 1st page of tags by y people.
Can also be used for the mini-challenge for #One's name / role
Book: Love Unscripted
Read: 11/05
Pages: 668
Sin: Pride
Criteria: Tagged Contemporary on 1st page of tags by 305 people
Can also be used for mini challenge for "What they went there for" as possibly they went there to film a move titled Love Unscripted?
The mini-challenge for the next few weeks looks really fun!
When I read REALLY long books, I generally read them more slowly over time. Then I read other books in between. But it usually is really hard to stay interested.
Carmen, I already knew how to check for duplicates. My issue is that I have 79 books that show up on my duplicate list but whether I click on show me all editions or type the book in the search bar I cannot find/do not have duplicates for those books!! I can’t delete one because there are no duplicates in that group of 79. It has to be a glitch! I check my duplicate list about once every week or two & I had 3 on there that I knew were duplicates. It’s just frustrating because if I DID have 79 duplicates I could delete the extras but I don’t. Thanks for trying!Plethora, or whoever asked about The Odyssey, thanks for trying. I honestly thought that type of poetry was okay. Shakespeare’s plays are mostly poetry too. I do think for future reference there needs to be a better way to qualify/disqualify poetry. Paradise Lost is another great epic poem written in blank verse. It’s an incredible poem/book that has around 500 pages. A collection of short poems is different. I’m just sorry I lost those points for us because that’s why I read it at that time.
We’re dropping in points because some teams are reading HUGE books! Not just 500-600 pages. We might be “evenly matched” in number of books read but not in number of pages. There’s no way to completely be equal but we needed more larger in pages books to truly be competitive. It is what it is. Lol 😆
Carmen, I sent you a PM because I have no idea what's going on with my dates and duplicates! I double checked them one by one and the dates read are (and were) all there. The only one that had a duplicate was
. When you have a chance please read my PM and let me know what I can do to fix it. I also was going to add another book but thought we had until later today, so I'll just add it to next week's books. I will wait to finish it.
☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ wrote: "Vicki you need to remove The Odyssey off your shelf due to the fact that its tagged poetry and we can't use poetry, sorry and in your shelf you have a few books with no dates, the newes..."Oh, Carmen, it seems I always like to make you work harder...sorry! I'm bummed about The Odyssey because of the page count. And poetry books that are epic poems and have a good word/page count I didn't realize we couldn't use. I understand books of short poems. I thought if anything it would be a different count. Sorry about that. And I'm not sure why dates don't show but I'll go check them out and fix them.
Plethora wrote: "Vicki wrote: "My 7 books are posted. I am reading a book today that I'll add for 314 pages, and if we need them I have 3 more that are 196, 159, and 138 pages. Just let me know."Vicki - You forgo..."
Oh wow! I am SO sorry! Only one of my books was shelved and I don't know why I didn't put my read dates on the books I added today; however, all 7 of my books are now on my TT shelf AND all dates are added.
LOL Sorry, yes, I'll do that right now. Guess I was in a hurry.
My 7 books are posted. I am reading a book today that I'll add for 314 pages, and if we need them I have 3 more that are 196, 159, and 138 pages. Just let me know.
Book: Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina
Pages: 448
Finished: November 2
Sin: Pride
Criteria: Winner of Big Book Prize
Original Title: Зулейха открывает глаза. "Big Book Prize (Russian: премия «Большая книга»), annual Russian literary prize, established in 2006 by the Russian government and disbursed by a group of prominent Russian business leaders."
Большая книга Winners List, Book #2 on the list
Book: Jam Butties and a Pan of Scouse by Maggie Clarke
Pages: 256
Finished: November 1
Sin: Wrath
Criteria: This book is a true story and it enraged me (and always does) when a mother is a drunk and "has a rotten soul" and, in this case, the mother took off with a man and left Maggie at the age of 10 to care for her siblings, Tommy (8), Nellie (3) and her father. There's more to the story, such as abuse, but the above is sufficient for me!
No worries, plethora. I am posting my books right now
Book: Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs
Pages: 294
Finished: October 31
Sin: Envy
Criteria: Green cover 66.4%
Per TinEye:
37.3 % Cardin Green (Green)
13.8 % Light Sea Green (Green)
12.5 % Genoa (Green)
2.8 %Granny Smith (Green)
Book: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Pages: 292
Read: 10/29/19
Sin: Pride
Criteria: Tagged contemporary by 205 people
Ok cool, thanks!
When does this round end? I have books that I haven’t posted because I just haven’t had time this week.
