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Team Pewter Blue, for Task #3, your genre is Horror.I don't read horror. Has anyone read a book that qualifies for horror since 11/1 that we didn't already use for a task?
Figures. Brooke read a "horror" book but I used it for the FALL spell out. Still looking.Found one! Marianne read: Deliverance which has horror as one of the genres listed. So going to submit that.
I didn't know the Zuiker was horror. Just some murder mystery. I usually dont read horror, so glad you found one.
I don't read straight out "horror" either but I noticed that a lot of Urban Fantasy & Paranormal books get shelved as "horror".
Also The Orphan Master's Son should count, period. It is just as horrific as any horror story because it is based on scary realities that exist in North Korea.
Are you feeling lucky again?
Task #4 - Random Bookcover (Color or Item)
This task like the Random Genre in that I will randomly assigned numbers to all seventeen (17) Teams, as I did with the 12 genres. However, each Team has a corresponding predominant color or item to find on the cover, for what your Team needs to search.
• This is an either/or challenge. You only have to read one book that qualifies for either the ITEM - or the COLOR of the Team you are assigned.Go to:
• For predominant color book, it needs to be the edition the Team Member actually read.
• However, if it is an item on the cover, then you may post the actual bookcover and the alternate one (different edition) in which you found the item .
• If you get your own Team number, I will roll/reassign again.
If you can't see the picture chart, refer to list under this spoiler: (view spoiler)
http://www.random.org/dice/and roll two or three dice.
Come back to this thread and tell me the number you rolled and I'll tell you the Team Item/Color a member (any member) of your Team needs to read this month.
I will reassign the Team/Color/Item before each Team request.
Yes, if a member has already read a bookcover that works, you may count it.
You may NOT use books used in other November tasks.
Any books 160 pages or greater, finished between November 1 - 23, 2013.
You will be granted two (2) BAPs.
You have until the 23rd of November to earn this point. (Or the end of the TTRC, which looks like November 17th, according to the poll in the "sister" group.)
Until the next surprise.
Post finished task here.
(we rolled a 7). Pewter Blue, for Task #4, you need to do:
Purple Mt's Majesty =
ITEM: Mountains; bird.
COLOR: Purple.
I don't have time to check books right. I will look soon though to see if we've already done this.
that link to a poll just brings me to the top of this page.I guess the voting is done. I never saw a link for it until now and I looked before. It just occurred to me to check the polls section of the sister group. But I would have voted for the 17th anyway.
Does it work now, Mary: HDLS? I left out the = sign.
Nope still takes me to the top of the page. Also I found the poll and it's already closed.
Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "Nope still takes me to the top of the page. Also I found the poll and it's already closed."Post #1860? Works for me.
I used the one in post 1853. The one is 1860 works but the poll is closed anyway.
Just a reminder to everyone that books need to be finished and shelved by early 11/17 for them to count for our final ranking. I've been doing all the tasks from the book Ninja to give us some points but there haven't been many of those and all the other teams are doing them too. Not sure if we have any cupcakes left to redeem. I have been slacking on the November puzzles but can check that out today and see if I can get us anymore.
I should be finished with at least 1 book by the 17th.
I haven't finished anything since Saturday night. But I have one I am finishing up today. Just did the Parakeet word wheel but still need to email it.
More than one person can do the word wheel, btw.
Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "More than one person can do the word wheel, btw."Yes, more than one person can work on the same puzzle and send it as one (team work :D).
And yes, more than one person can do the puzzle and send me solutions (alone), but you'll get only one set of cupcakes per team.
Ok just emailed the Parakeet word wheel. Hoping they don't ding me for using too man "obscure" words but I had to in order to keep them all starting with a P. The all about us crossword is here: all about us. I printed it out to work on it but if anyone wants to take a look and message me answers, I will appreciate the help. I have not paid much attention to what's been going on in other teams.
Cupcake Update!We will only be able to redeem another 45 cupcakes before the end of the challenge. We have more than enough 450 page/112.5k word books to fill all of these spots with bouncing cupcakes for +1 BAP.
HOWEVER, we have 16 Triple Threats (800+ pages or 200k words) and 4 Cutthroats (1400+ pages or 350k words) that would be more profitable to turn-in than the regular chunksters.
These are the Triple Threats and Cutthroats that we've already turned-in:
Cutthroats - 1,400 Pages or 350,000 Words
Holly(QC) Shantaram Roberts, Gregory David 944
Mary Atlas Shrugged Rand, Ayn 1,168
Mary 1Q84 Murakami, Haruki 925
Vicky A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 980
Vicky The Wise Man's Fear Rothfuss, Patrick 994
Triple Threats - 800 Pages or 200,000 Words
Imke The Host Meyer, Stephenie 619
Imke Discovery of Witches Harkness, Deborah 579
Imke 22-11-1963 King, Stephen 729
Imke Shadow of Night Harkness, Deborah 592
Marianne The Host Meyere, Stephenie 619
Michael Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Chabon, Michael 636
Riya The Once and Future King White, T.H. 639
Sarah A Fine Balance Mistry, Rohinton 603
Vicky The Name of the Wind Rothfuss, Patrick 662
Vicky Blood Song Ryan, Anthony 575
If you've read any of these and aren't on the list, let me know! If you read something that you think should qualify as one of these, also let me know so I can do some looking into it. Note that none of the books listed have a page count that qualifies it, but it does have the word count. If you think something looks big, it probably is! I'll do all the research to try and get it verified, but it will be a huge help if you give me a heads up.
Long Story Short
-We do not need anymore books for bouncing cupcakes (450+ pages/112.5k words).
-We could use books that are 800+ pages or 200,000 words for Triple Threats.
-We could use books that are 1,400+ pages or 350,000 words for Cutthroats.
-Books shorter than the page requirement are likely to work, if you think it's bigger than it seems, let me know and I will look into it!
-This is a no-pressure recap, feel free to continue reading whatever you like.
Vicky, would you like me to help you post some cupcake redemption? I know you had something come up last week. I would be glad to help, if you tell me with which member I should start.
Hmm. I've been wanting to reread A Discovery of Witches and my library has the ebook and audio available. Unfortunately I am also in another team challenge and will have to read a book for that by Sunday but I don't know what the theme will be yet (it's picked tomorrow morning). Maybe I'll pick it up at the library on my lunch break and cross my fingers that I can fit it into that other challenge.
I messed up the Parakeet word wheel puzzle and since we have more cupcakes than we can turn in anyway, I am not going to worry about it anymore and just try to get in either a triple threat or maybe I'll just focus on some short books. Not sure if I could get the triple threat done in time for Vicky to redeem it for us. I think I'm out of short audiobooks at the moment. I will take care of any chances for points from the Ninja though as soon as I see them.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Vicky, would you like me to help you post some cupcake redemption? I know you had something come up last week. I would be glad to help, if you tell me with which member I should start."Thanks for the offer, LK. I've been through everyone's books and have a pretty extensive list of books that count for chunksters, so I think we'll be good. My issue last week was that I really didn't have the computer time to turn that list into posts. I'm good for this week though!
Well Moonstone has two books to completion
So how do I figure out how many words are in a book? I can't use Discovery of Witches for this other team challenge I am doing. But I can use The Black Prism which has more pages than DOW. I have it on audio but if it's printed like a print version of another books of his I own in print, then it's a lot of words on each page. I know there was a list of books approved for different levels somewhere.
Mary: HDLS, using Script Timer, I would guess-ta-mate The Black Prism to be about 238,700 words, which is about 954.8 pages, if you go by TTRC standard of 250 words per page. However, narration speeds vary, so you might want to listen to a sample, first.Our list of approved books is here, although, Countess Paige has not be able to update it this week... I don't believe.
I'm not worried about narration speed. I can finish it in time and it's one where I can even change the speed. I already own the audiobooks. I just would read something shorter if doesn't count for a triple threat and save this one for later. But it sounds like it does count. I tried a couple of the sites linked in the page count thread but I don't want to sign up for an account somewhere just to check 1 book. Amazon has nothing.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Our list of approved books is here, although, Countess Paige has not be able to update it this week... I don't believe."It was updated as of 4:30 PST this morning :)
LK approved it for a triple threat on the official page count thread. I already started it so hopefully I can get it done early enough for us to submit it. I expect to have a very clean house by Sunday.
CountessPaige wrote: "It was updated as of 4:30 PST this morning :)"I should have known you were on top of it, CP! Thanks!
Task #5 - Novella/Short Story
There are less than seventy-four hours until the last Sunday Update!
For Task #5, I will give you a different kind of mission. One that could create quite a quandary, but will bring a large reward: Five (5) BAPs!◆ Reading novellas or short stories, spell out:Decisions, decisions.N.• The twist is you may NOT apply a book larger than 160 pages, and thus they may NOT be “tagged” towards your TTRC.
B.
R.
C.
N.
I.
N.
J.
A.
• EXCEPTION: They may be in an anthology; this is the only way you may “tag” the completed book, if you do finish the whole book. However, you are NOT required to read the whole book if you use an anthology. Nevertheless, you must use the titles, etc., of the stories within the anthology to do the spelling.
• Short stories must be greater than 10 pages. (view spoiler)
• The same rules as prior Spell-It-Outs apply. (view spoiler)
• They may all be done by one Team Member, or all nine read by different Team Members, it matters not to me.
• Yes, if a short story or novella has been read/finished on November 1st or after, you may apply it.
• You have until Sunday, November 17th, 9:00 a.m. - or your time zone to finish/post Task #5.
WHATEVER will you do?!!
Until the next surprise.
Post finished task here.
For this challenge I just read a short story
by Neil Gaiman so N can be used - How To Talk To Girls At Parties
I happen to have read 2 super short books this month. Let me see if I can work them into this. I have a whole bunch of novellas on my Kindle and could probably knock some out by Saturday. If anyone else wants to claim a letter, let me know what you plan to read and I will go for different letters.
I've started
by Lexi Blake which is 67 pages and we can use the B or R (male mc's name is Ryan) or J (female mc's name is Jill).Will probably finish tonight.
Pewter Blue Task 5N.Neil Gaiman:How To Talk To Girls At Parties (Sarah 11/14/13)
B.Blake, Lexi: Sanctum (Imke 11/14/13)
R.Rutter, Michael: Wild Bunch Women 144 pgs (Mary finished 11/4/13)
C.Chris Enss: Outlaw Tales of California: True Stories of the Golden State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats 128pgs (Mary finished 11/2/2013)
N.Ness,Patrick: The New World (Sarah-11/14/13)
I. Ivie, Jackie: Be Still My Heart 66 pages(Mary 11/16/13)
N.Nora Roberts: Winter Rose 92 pgs (Mary 11/16/13)
J.Jewel, Carolyn: DX: A Crimson City Novella 65pgs (Mary-11/14/13)
A.As They Slip Away-Beth Revis (Andrea-11/16/13)
I can get the "I" with one of the Iron Seas Novellas. I'll check a few of my anthologies for the other open letters.
Mod
I've finished
by Lexi Blake which is 67 pages and we can use the B or R (male mc's name is Ryan) or J (female mc's name is Jill).
I can read As They Slip Away for A. Also I did puzzle 190 the word search (I like word searches!). Do you want me to send it in for the cupcakes or should I not bother?
Go ahead and send it. I'll update our spell out in the morning. I'm tired and going to bed.
FYI,
, as read by Imke, is a "chunkster." 120,770 words
I think at this point we have enough chunksters and cupcakes, except for triple threats and cutthroats, it's just a matter of only being able to submit 5 a day. I got through a huge chunk of The Black Prism yesterday and this morning so far. Hoping I can finish up late tonight or early tomorrow so Vicky can submit it for a triple thread.
Just a reminder that for Task 5, the shorts that were read need to have a finished date and be on your all or read shelf.
Vicky, depending upon how many requests I get by tonight, you may do another 15... we'll see. If it is like it was last night, it shouldn't be a problem.EDIT: I'm talking Cupcake Redemption.
Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "Just a reminder that for Task 5, the shorts that were read need to have a finished date and be on your all or read shelf."I will go by the honor system, if it is only on-line. You'll need to provide a hyperlink that clearly goes to the story... not have me search the website.
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Task #3 - Random Genre
I will randomly assigned the following twelve (12) genres to a corresponding number. Go to:and roll one or two dice.
Come back to this thread and tell me the number you rolled and I'll tell you the genre a member (any member) of your Team needs to read this month.
I will reassign the genre before each Team request.
Yes, if a member has already read that genre, you may count it.
You may NOT use books used in other November tasks.
Any books 160 pages or greater, finished between November 1 - 23, 2013.
Classification will be by the top five most popular 'tags' - according to GRs members.
You will be granted one (1) BAP.
You have until the 23rd of November to earn this point. (Or the end of the TTRC, which looks like November 17th, according to the poll in the "sister" group.)
Until the next surprise.