The Lost Challenges discussion

❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥ wrote: "I won't have a computer til tomorrow so will the bonus item count"

If you've finished your book and can post a "starter" post to claim the book done then go back and update the quotes from a computer tomorrow I'll take it. I know it is horrid trying to do it on a phone.

Current Points as of 5/10 8:27am MST


4-The Fightin' Canaries
3-Bibliophile Anonymous
3-Orange Crush
3-Team Silver
3-Team Sienna
3-Green-eyed Monsters
1-Vicious Violet
1-Hot Pink Ladies
1-Crazy Cat Ladies
0-Zealous Literary Hot Mamas

Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: "❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥ wrote: "I won't have a computer til tomorrow so will the bonus item count"

If you've finished your book and can post a "starter" post to claim the book done then go back and update..."

couldn't get to it in time

I gave the book i did to Dylan is that enough? I have AT&T Uverse and the ;whole caboddle was down most of hte week.

Lindy wrote: "I gave the book i did to Dylan is that enough? I have AT&T Uverse and the ;whole caboddle was down most of hte week."

Yup, Dylan posted for you. Your all good for week 1.

week 1
Title/Author Stanford, John Stolen Prey
Link:
Date REad: May 10, 2013
Rating: 4
coffee: pg 58 He drinks a lot of coffee.
ghost: pg 83 So he talked to ghosts?
Chair: pg 5 She was kneading his shoulders, as he sat in a kitchen chair, eating an Oreo, tasting a little blood with the creme filling.
dooor: pg 23 Even in a neighborhood like this with the doors closed, and the air condioner going, and boats...that is a lot of shots.
dog: pg 14 If it wasnt' the kids. It was the dogs. the dogs coulfn't tell us anything.
garage: pg 207 They got the garage door opener out of the mailbox and drove into the garage.


In the small Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed—husband, wife, two daughters, dogs.
Heavily tortured and no reason for it. Could this be a Mexican drug case? He finally
finds it is, by the name of Los Criminales del Norte. It wasnt' one of my favorites.

Lindy wrote: "week 1
Title/Author Stanford, John Stolen Prey
Link:
Date REad: May 10, 2013
Rating: 4
coffee: pg 58 He drinks a lot of coffee.
ghost: pg 83 So he talked to ghosts?
Chair: pg 5 ..."

Dylan got it posted for you Lindy. It is up in your team thread.

Is there a way that you can search a book for words if you don't have it on Kindle/NOOK? Like, online or something? I'm sure I'll want to use paperbacks eventually, but I wouldn't know how to search them for the words.

You can search most books on Amazon. All you do is click on the book cover and if you can search the book there will be a search bar in the pop-up window.

Thanks! That will come in handy.

You can also search a lot of books on Google Books - books.Google.com

Amazon doesn't have a lot of the new books that you can search so for the new books try Google books

Thanks :)

I am reading NOra Roberts newest Whiskey Beach...cna't put it down.

Lindy wrote: "I am reading NOra Roberts newest Whiskey Beach...cna't put it down."

I just finished it, I loved it!!

Current Points as of 5/17 6:32am MST

9-The Fightin' Canaries
9-Green-eyed Monsters
8-Team Sienna
7-Team Silver
6-Bibliophile Anonymous
6-Vicious Violet
5-Hot Pink Ladies
4-Orange Crush
3-Crazy Cat Ladies
1-Zealous Literary Hot Mamas

Will this work for lightning?
...eyes suddenly flew open and shot a bolt of pale blue lightning...

~Melissa~ wrote: "Will this work for lightning?
...eyes suddenly flew open and shot a bolt of pale blue lightning..."

yup

Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: "~Melissa~ wrote: "Will this work for lightning?
...eyes suddenly flew open and shot a bolt of pale blue lightning..."

yup"

Sweet ~ Thanks!!

How come we dont' have 9?

Lindy, we only claim points when the whole team have read a certain item. For example, to claim the point for window, all of us have to read a book and claim window.

can i do 2 books then? Get to it teem members

No, you can only read one book per week.

Sorry Lindy, Dyllan is right on both questions. If you want to maximize your points early on try to coordinate with your team to read the same items each week.

We agreed beforehand reading which items we wanted. This game is always one part luck, since we can't predict which item will be called next. What if we are getting the same items, and the one we need last isn't called on time? It's pretty much luck.

Dyllan, The Brazuca Ekaterina wrote: "We agreed beforehand reading which items we wanted. This game is always one part luck, since we can't predict which item will be called next. What if we are getting the same items, and the one we n..."

Yup in the end it does come down to the luck of the draw.

Maybe then on Friday afternoon we should post the words int he book we are going to read. I have lots of choices ont he one i am readng has:

desk, table, bed

tea

wolf,

cat, wolf, horse

Lindy, this is the Rules Thread.
Here is the link to our team thread. Post any idea you have in there and we will talk about it okay?

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http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
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Oooooooh It is such a nail bitter this round. Who is going to get bonus points? 14 out of 40 people still haven't posted a book for the week and there are about 8 hours to go. I keep waiting for the rush of posts to come in and their not coming. Hopefully they'll be there in the morning.

Dawn, until when do we have available to post? Is it 6am?

Dyllan, The Brazuca Ekaterina wrote: "Dawn, until when do we have available to post? Is it 6am?"

I try to post between 7 & 8 am MST.

I will state that today was the last day of school for my kids and they are looking forward to sleeping in so it may be on the late side... however my luck I will plan to sleep in and be awake at 5am and not be able to go back to sleep.

Beginning of week 4 update as of 5/24/13 8:35 am MST

14- Green-eyed Monsters
14- The Fightin' Canaries
11- Team Silver
10- Team Sienna
9- Bibliophile Anonymous
7- Hot Pink Ladies
7- Vicious Violet
6- Zealous Literary Hot Mamas
5- Orange Crush
5- Crazy Cat Ladies

* The optimal points this week would be 9.

Ok, preemptive question aswering becasue I know it'll be asked.

If you have already claimed the word "Dog" you must still read a book with Dog this week. You won't get another point for the word dog, but you will still get bonus points and can claim other items.

will this work for meat? (macho meatheads)

Amber wrote: "will this work for meat? (macho meatheads)"

I am going to go with no, since it isn't actual food.

Ok, pimping out another groups team challenge here.

SOS is getting ready to do their bookshelf bingo and needs 1 more person to even out teams.

Book shelf bingo sign up

So anyone who wants to take on another team challenge head over and sign up.

Just joined the group and signed up :) my other bookshelf bingo is almost done, so this is good timing!

Thanks for the invite Dawn! Sam got there first. Next time tho!

I can't believe I missed the SOS bingo sign-ups! I've played like every time. :-(

Alyssa wrote: "I can't believe I missed the SOS bingo sign-ups! I've played like every time. :-("

That's a bummer Alyssa, I had the same thing happen with Fantasyland.

Alyssa wrote: "I can't believe I missed the SOS bingo sign-ups! I've played like every time. :-("

I know, it was kind of a bummer there was no announcement. I caught it only by seeing someone elses post when I signed up.

Maybe you all will get lucky and she'll have enough to add one more team. There were quite a few people who said they'd be back ups.

You're right Dawn, With one more person, I think they could form one more team, which would make 11 members per team.

We got in, Dyllan! *high-five*

Team Sienna also has finished Table with Melanie's post 148 on 5/30. It is on your spreadsheet but you didn't list it in the post with our items claimed.

Turtlecollector wrote: "Team Sienna also has finished Table with Melanie's post 148 on 5/30. It is on your spreadsheet but you didn't list it in the post with our items claimed."

I'll go fix it now. Thanks for the catch.

Beginning of week 5 update as of 5/31/13 8:06 am MST

20 The Fightin' Canaries
18 Green-eyed Monsters
16 Team Silver
16 Team Sienna
15 Hot Pink Ladies
13 Bibliophile Anonymous
11 Orange Crush
11 Crazy Cat Ladies
10 Zealous Literary Hot Mamas
8 Vicious Violet

* The optimal points for this week would be 12

Ok, so after posting the scores the spreadsheet had a hiccup and I accidentally deleted all the 6's.

I think I have it all put back together, but captains can you please double check to make sure your team has all the right items claimed.

Team Sienna looks good.

Bibliophile anonymous looks good.

For celebrity, would this work: "Southern University's soccer teams superstar and resident man whore..."