BOO! or TRUE! Octoppler Reporting Thread

[Beth]

Sam wrote: "Finished my first book with Atlantic at 512 pages so cashing in for a treat to get another orange book in with Fallen Dragon so I'm on the massive total of 12...thats right 12 pages... ;-)"

I don't think you lose the 500, just don't get another treat til you accumulate another 488....

[Sam]

Ooooooooo even better!!! Oh look at me with my pages :-D

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished my first Topper book! Yabba-dabba-doobie!

I finished First Grave on the Right for Witches Brew.

310 pages
500 WB

810 pages. I'll have to think about my treat... maybe he'll come visit me in my dreams tonight.

[Sam]

Well done Janice...and that reminds me I didn't include my Witch's Brew pages for my first one which takes me to 1,012 so I can have another treat, this time I'll have the extra 250 pages so I've got 1,262 pages in total...I think...

[Beth]

Ok, you guys can tell me if this is right....

I read the book The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Prev Pages: 777
This book pages: 503
This is a read Witches Brew book so: 500
That gives me: 1780 and that should earn me 2 treats
I will choose a fiction book and 250 more pages which puts me at 2030 and then gets me another treat (choosing 250 MORE pages...): so I am now at 2280 and going to get reading my free fiction...

[Beverly]

@Beth did you like Casual Vacancy? I've seen mixed reviews.

[Ava Catherine]

Janice wrote: "I finished my first Topper book! Yabba-dabba-doobie!

I finished First Grave on the Right for Witches Brew.

310 pages
500 WBG

810 pages. I'll have to think about my treat... maybe he'll come vis..."

lol Let us know if he shows up tonight. ; )

[jaxnsmom]

Did you hear a really loud scream of anguish around 3:30 this afternoon? That was me, as the battery in my mp3 player gave out. I lost the cable Sunday, but really hoped I'd get through the book. That meant I had almost five hours of work with nothing good to listen to! Tomorrow I will give up some reading time to go try and find a usb cable. As a precaution I checked the book out from the library this week, so I can at least read it, but I loved the narrator. The book is , and it's really good.

[Almeta]

I am reading a book that was due back at the library today. If I return it in the morning before they open, they will never know.:P Looks as though I'm staying up late!

[Debra]

jaxnsmom wrote: "Did you hear a really loud scream of anguish around 3:30 this afternoon? That was me, as the battery in my mp3 player gave out. I lost the cable Sunday, but really hoped I'd get through the book...."

That just sux!

[Debra]

Almeta wrote: "I am reading a book that was due back at the library today. If I return it in the morning before they open, they will never know.:P Looks as though I'm staying up late!"

Up to your old tricks, I see! lol

[Kat]

Oh, we are into the last day! Sorry I've been a little MIA the past few days, someone decided to share their lovely flu virus with me :( and reading went right out the window. That's how crappy I felt!

[Debra]

Kat, sorry to hear about that darned flu bug. Glad you are back in action.

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Ok, I know it's not finished, but I'm not going to get through another book, so I'm totaling up.

The Railway Man 288 pages
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom 278 pages
Forgotten Voices of the Great War 322 pages.

= 888 pages.
Plus 100 pages for being a topper newbie.
=988
So I earn 250 pages for the first 500, making 1238.
that then gives me another complete 500 pages, so earning another 250 pages.
Grand total = 1488.

I have no idea if that's right or wrong, but hey ho!

[Janice, Moderator]

Poor Kat - packing, battling a flu bug! Have a hot toddy and feel better quickly!!

Almeta - do fines start the day the book is due? If I returned a book on the day it was due, I'd be okay. Fines would start the next day. Which reminds me, I had better check my due dates on the books I have out.

I finished, finally, , Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs

Officially I have finished two books for the toppler but my scoring seems to be caught in an endless loop with pages earned in tricks. Someone had better go check out my toppler thread and help me off that squirrel cage. Please.

[Janice, Moderator]

ANNOUNCEMENT!

Any orange book started during the toppler, but not completed in time to count it for the toppler, may still be counted towards your orange rainbow requirement!

The wicked witch from the North west is feeling benevolent today.

Also, check out the Rainbow challenge for another announcement.

[Roz]

Awsome!!!! Thank you O Benevolent One. We bow to your kindness and wisdom.

[Deedee]

Janice wrote: "ANNOUNCEMENT!

Any orange book started during the toppler, but not completed in time to count it for the toppler, may still be counted towards your orange rainbow requirement!

The wicked witch fro..."

Awesome!!!! I'm halfway through my orange book

and I wasn't sure that I could finish before the end of today. Now it will still count if I finish tomorrow or Monday! Yeah!

[jaxnsmom]

Poor Kat! You should have made Mr. read to you :)

Yay Deedee! Now you can breathe and eat and still finish your book :D

[Janice, Moderator]

Yes, Deedee - relax and enjoy the remainder of the book instead of rushing through it.

[Beth]

Trying to get through Indulgence in Death for the end of the day. It's my free fiction, but it will also help with the Rainbow half year...

[Sam]

Woohoo, so glad I don't have to rush my orange book. Was wondering about that but was afraid to ask ;-)

[Pragya]

@ Kat - Uh oh, get well soon.
@ Janice - Thank you, my lady.

Is good for an Orange book?

The panic has set in, I'm in the middle of 5 books, crap!

[Debra]

I might just take you guys up on one more orange. That would make my total 31 oranges, one for each day in the month of August (and October)!

[Debra]

Pragya! What a delimma. Hope you've figured out what you are going to do. Hugs!

[Beth]

Prev pages 2280
Free fiction from prior treat: Indulgence in Death which is 373 pages = 2653 pages
Which gets me another treat of 250 pages, so my final total (unless I read something else before midnight.... Hmmmmm) is 2903. Hmmm. Really might need to find a quick DIY book so I can have a tricks selection....

[April]

31????? o...m...g. Debra, you've got "mad skillz"!

[April]

Pragya wrote: "@ Kat - Uh oh, get well soon.
@ Janice - Thank you, my lady.

Is good for an Orange book?

The panic has set in, I'm in the middle of 5 book..."

What's your status? Did you finish your 5 books?

[Debra]

Night all, from Almeta and Debra. Will catch up with posts tomorrow. We are sleeeeppppyyyyy!

[Beth]

Ok, just totally crammed a book on writing in my basement (best I could do for a trick read) and wrote a poem about it because writing an essay would have taken more than the 2 minutes left before midnight!!!!

[Ava Catherine]

Goodnight all!

[Snoozie Suzie]

I completely missed this as I haven't had t'interweb :'o[. But I reckon you all had fun and read a mammoth number of books/pages between you.

[Sam]

Well I didn't manage much of a dent in Fallen Dragon so my final page tally is 1,480 pages.

Awesome toppler though :-D

[Thing Two]

What I did this week:

Read 10 books/1825 pages/3475 toppler creds!

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus
The Case for Israel
Delights & Shadows
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (for 21st Century book club)
My Secret Boat: A Notebook Of Prose And Poems
Telex from Cuba
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Winter's Bone (for Southern Lit book club)
The Writing Life

and wrote two poems! - www.kjsthings.com

What I didn't do this week:

clean
cook
feed the dogs
go to work (my son was sick, honest!)
laundry
pay bills
pull weeds
volunteer
watch TV
worry about any of it!

Thanks for the challenge!

[Beth]

Thing Two wrote: "What I did this week:

Read 10 books/1825 pages/3475 toppler creds!

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
[bookcover:The Case for Ch..."

I'm impressed!!!

[April]

Congrats on completing a successful first toppler!

[Beth]

Thing Two wrote: "What I did this week:

Read 10 books/1825 pages/3475 toppler creds!

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
[bookcover:The Case for Ch..."

I liked your poems!

[jaxnsmom]

OMG, I can't believe I missed the end of the Toppler! I get my cable, phone and internet through my cable company. I lost phone and internet service somewhere between 8-9pm, but still had cable tv. I was so upset! Just got service back about 30 minutes ago. It sounds like most people made it til midnight. I'm sorry I missed out on the final countdown!

[Kat]

Sounds like you had an awesome week ThingTwo ;-) well done on your first Toppler successes!

JMom, I hate when I loose internet - I feel so cut off from the world!

[[deleted user]]

Can't wait to see what badges these are going to be. After some of the discussion & pictures posted, I'm almost too embarrassed to look >;-)

[[deleted user]]

Thing Two wrote: "What I didn't do this week:

clean
cook
feed the dogs
go to work (my son was sick, honest!)
laundry
pay bills
pull weeds
volunteer
watch TV
worry about any of it!

Must be where I'm going wrong. I managed 4 books as well as:

Digging the last carrot & spuds from the vege patch
Weeding said vege patch, as well as the front garden
laundry
cleaned kitchen
made a mess of kitchen making carrot & coriander soup
Cleaned kitchen
made a mess of kitchen making root vegetable soup
cleaned kitchen
go to work (and have the week from hell, but that's a different story)

I obviously have my priorities wrong somewhere! Mind you, it's been a nice way to lift the gloom, diving into some good books & reading what you've all been getting up to. Count me in for the next one. >:-)

[Janice, Moderator]

So glad to see everyone (with the exception of Thing Two's dogs) enjoyed the Toppler. I had to feed my cat because she bites me if I don't. LOL!

[Pragya]

April wrote: "Pragya wrote: "@

The panic has set in, I'm in the ..."

Nope only 1, I made progress on another but couldn't finish it.

[Pragya]

Thing Two wrote: "What I did this week:

Read 10 books/1825 pages/3475 toppler creds!

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
[bookcover:The Case for Ch..."

ROFL! 10 books, wow!

[Pragya]

Janice wrote: "So glad to see everyone (with the exception of Thing Two's dogs) enjoyed the Toppler. I had to feed my cat because she bites me if I don't. LOL!"

LOL, Janice.

[Lara]

Judy wrote: "Haha Helen. Topplers are death to non-reading tasks. Its good to hear that you will be one of the Toppler faithful."

I agree. I had intended to listen to more audiobooks, but that didn't work out well this week. Plus, audiobooks typically take longer to finish and I wanted to use the challenge as an excuse to read a LOT. ;-)

[Thing Two]

Don't worry too much about my dogs; my hubby took care of feeding us all, and the dogs spent the week reclining on my lap.

When's the next toppler? I don't want to go back to my to-be-done list!

[April]

Does anyone know where that broccoli salad recipe was posted? My hubby is home and I want him to make it for me, but I can't remember what thread it was posted in.

Thing Two.....I think there is a Toppler every other month.

[Thing Two]

Not every week? :'(

[jaxnsmom]

Helen wrote: "Can't wait to see what badges these are going to be. After some of the discussion & pictures posted, I'm almost too embarrassed to look >;-)"

Sorry, but I made the badges before the hot and hunky pics started. But maybe in a Toppler next year...make note to self...