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[Mary X]

Sent in puzzle 146

[Mary X]

I have not given up on the red/yellow covers one, I just haven't had a long block of time to do it w/o getting interrupted multiple times and messing it up. Maybe I can finish it this afternoon when I'm at work by myself. If the phone doesn't ring too much.

[Mary X]

Just an FYI: I am going out of town this weekend and will probably not be online. I will be able to read some and will just mark my finished books when I get back.

Vicky will be doing the update early this weekend, probably Saturday night.

[Vicky]

I just did puzzles 147, 148, and 149. My hand hurts from all the decoding. :{ lol

[Mary X]

I did 146 earlier.

[Karsyn]

Sorry I didn't see 149 earlier, I love the decoder ones!

How do you do them, that it hurts your hand Vicky? Do you individually change each letter?

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[Riya]

So we're in 4th place this week!!! :D Keep up the reading!!!! :)

[Mary X]

Yay way to go guys. OK so the rest of my schedule for September is wide open so far. Going to try getting some short books in to catch myself up.

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Duration, Time Zones and Timer Count Down UPDATED

[Mary X]

I will update our October Mod Challeng threads tonight. I was too tired to go through all the discussion posts to do it last night and I was gone all weekend.

[Mary X]

Hey guys. Where is everyone?

I just updated the Oct BAP threads with some info. Please post your questions, opinions etc..,

[Karsyn]

Playing! :) That's where I am at. :D

I'll go look.

[Riya]

I think I'll join too :)

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Read-a-Thon Duration: October 4th BST 4:00 PM to October 19th BST 4:00 PM

We decided to use the Greenwich hour for two reasons:

1.Is the "zero" hour. All time zones relate to it
2.Daylight saving time change will only occur on October 27th, so it won't interfere with read-a-thon timings.

[Mary X]

Can players let me know if they plan to do one or both of the October challenges in the team discussion thread. Also how you can contribute: how many pages you want to aim for if doing the read-a-thon and what themes you can do if doing the book hunt.

You can find the team threads for these challenges here: PewterBlue

[Karsyn]

I won't be reading this month, as much as I normally do. I'll aim for about 7-10 books.

I can try to do spell-it-out, or give a general idea of pages by the books I know I will read and just add a few more to it.

Dunno if it's good enough, so just LMK. Either way, I'll be reading, just not my usual 15-20.

[Mary X]

So Brooke you will only be doing the book hunt challenge? I need a page goal for people doing the read-a-thon part.

[Karsyn]

Whichever you think is best for me, since I'm not going to be doing much this time. I can figure out some pages, or just do a spell it out. It's really what you think is best. Page wise, let's say 2000 for me. I definitely won't be reading much, so that should be doable for me this month.

[Sarah]

I will do the read-a-thon too.

[Vicky]

Keep in mind that there is no requirement to meet or exceed your page goal - it's just fun to have a goal (or so Sonia says! ;P). The only page count that matters is the pages you actually read during the challenge.

I did some math for people to use as guidelines. I'm going to post it in our RAT discussion thread.

[Riya]

I'm doing the read-a-thon :D

[Imke]

Hi all,
Greatings from Turkey. I will be participating in both challenges and I will think about my page number goal. When will you need to know? I'll be home again on the 29th. :(

[Mary X]

Brooke the book hunt and the read-a-thon are only from the 4th to the 19th.

[Mary X]

Changes to events, themes and participants are allowed till October 14th. So if you join and find that you are just too busy, you can drop out up until the 14th. (except is completed tasks that have been submitted, once submitted they cannot be changed)

So Brooke, you can join the read-a-thon and book hunt. If by the 13th you feel like you cannot get close to your page goal you can drop out of the page tracking one. You could stay in the book hunt and just do what you can.

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Read-a-Thon
◈ Duration: October 4th BST 4:00 PM to October 19th BST 4:00 PM

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[Karsyn]

Edited ~ that was 157, she had two 155. I did the encrypted one. :)

Sent 157 and didn't even need to decrypt that one, I knew what it was right away. :)

[Mary X]

Thank you Brooke

[Karsyn]

NP Mary, I like those ones. :)

[Mary X]

Hey team we are just a couple of books away from 750. I'm sure we'll hit it before the update tomorrow. I know I'm aiming to finish another audiobook today.

Oh and we're only behind 1st place Moonstone by 177 books. We can catch up with them easy peasy.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Finished a couple of books this week!

[Riya]

About to finsih another book right now, and I"ll probably finish 2 more by tomorrow!!!

[Sarah]

I am not sure if I will finish The Book Thief by tomorrow or not. It might be tomorrow night. But I really adore the book so far.

[Mary X]

Just turned in puzzles 152, 154, 155, 156.

I like the spot the difference & jigsaw ones.

[Sarah]

Sorry - gonna start on other books for now and hold off on the second half of the book theif for the challenge.

[Riya]

Sarah wrote: "I am not sure if I will finish The Book Thief by tomorrow or not. It might be tomorrow night. But I really adore the book so far."

That's my all time favorite book Sarah!!! Glad you're enjoying it :)

[Sarah]

Yeah I thought Death would count as a supernatural creature or having special abilities so I am saving it for our challenge. I have read about 200 pages and I love it. The movie comes out in November:)

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

The Book Thief is one of my favorites, too. I cried for about the final 50 pages. I had my tissue on stand-by. The stuff with Max just tore me up.

[Riya]

I definitely cried for the last 50 pages. Everything with Rudy just killed me. I was bawling for ages during the end.

[Mary X]

I submitted the update at we are at 757. Which means we added 11 books since yesterday. Way to go team.

Also we earned 9 BAPS for the September challenge.

I am actually ahead 3 books. I decided to pick up some books I had put down and get them finished. Not much reading done for me today so far but I will start a new audiobook today.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Riya wrote: "I definitely cried for the last 50 pages. Everything with Rudy just killed me. I was bawling for ages during the end."

Yes, the Rudy stuff killed me, too. I think I need to re-read this because I'm forgetting little things.

[Riya]

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Riya wrote: "I definitely cried for the last 50 pages. Everything with Rudy just killed me. I was bawling for ages during the end."

Yes, the Rudy stuff killed me, too. I think I need to re-read th..."

Yeah, it was such a powerful book that i really feel I should reread- it seems to be one which you would get even more out of the second time.

[Riya]

Seems like we're pretty solid in 4th place now, so hopefully we can keep reading more and start gaining on the top 3. They're quite a bit ahead of us, but they're not too far from each other, so if we gain a foothold up there we'll definitely have a chance :D

[Sarah]

If we one the October book hunt challenge it may help.

[Riya]

Definitely! WE should try to really work towards that then.

[Mary X]

I'm just hoping no one gets offended if a task they had planned to read for gets submitted before they finish their books. This one is time sensitive and I can't hold tasks up if their finished because someone else is also reading for that.

I didn't get to fill in many spots in the spreadsheet because they were all taken. But there might be teams that finish in a just a couple of days and I don't see people reading several books each in 2 or 3 days. I plan on reading books that fit multiple themes and then using them to finish tasks as others read.

[Mary X]

Ok we have 8 players actively participating in the Book Hunt. If we can all read 2 books in the first couple of days of the challenge, we can knock it out quick. So it may not be the time to plan door stoppers if we can help it, unless we have time to knock them out quick.

[Sarah]

Yes but I was under the impression that we could start reading prior? I asked the question several times and was told yes. Since 160 pages count as a book read I thought as long as you had at least that many pages left it would be fair enough. Am I wrong?

[Sarah]

Also don't we get clues? How do they make it so the other teams can't see your clues?

[Mary X]

Yes you can start reading ahead of time. I don't think they expect everyone to have a couple of books halfway finished though.

I plan on starting my Neil Gaiman book ahead of time. It's not long but he's hit or miss for me. I don't want to waste valuable read-a-thon time deciding I don't like it enough to finish.