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ROUND II: Team Leonidas
Amanda wrote: "Margaret wrote: "oh, my.....that might be hard to find? I am not the romance reader type and I bet you'll be able to find something in your personal library."I think I'll be able to find it ok us..."
you snoop! ;)
We have really been racking up the defense points. I am going to try to raise the number of attack points for this round. I have been saving a couple of chunky ones just for the occasion.
M wrote: "We have really been racking up the defense points. I am going to try to raise the number of attack points for this round. I have been saving a couple of chunky ones just for the occasion."That's a great idea, M. :)
Margaret wrote: "you snoop! ;) "Who, me?
:D
I have finished:
Page count: 294
date read: 8/18/15
goal: Amazon 2010 bestseller list
4 stars
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Team: Agron
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Book:
Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonPage Count: 448
Date Read: 8/18/15
Attack Points: 0.5
Goal: N/A
Rating: 3 stars
Amanda wrote: "Saxa's new goal: Read a book with the phrase "In the heat of the moment""Amanda , my current book has this reference 5 times. I will finish it today, possibly this morning if you want to use it.
page 273..."Stuff happens in the heat of the moment, right Christina.."
Agron's Goals: Read a book where a character has an unusual sidekick
read a book which has the main location (setting ) as Canada
read a book where a character gives birth
Saxa's Goals:
read a book with the word darning in the text
Read a book first published on the 24th of a month
Read a book where the first word of the text is A or An
Wow.. Goodreads has only kicked me off once this morning. I'm probably jinxing myself by even writing this!!What is everyone reading?
I'm reading
which I will finish this morning and then going to work on the Canada setting goal. After that I'm looking forward to reading
Keep up the great work team!! Everyone is doing awesome
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by Tami Hoagpage count:499
date read: 8/19/2015
goal:yes
How: see above post #162
rating: 4 stars
Saxa's new goal: read a book first published on the 28 th of a month
Saxa's New Goal: read a book with the word darning in ithahah, I m pretty sure this is one of Amanda's goals!!
Saxa's books.. checked.. on to Agron's.
Laura wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Saxa's new goal: Read a book with the phrase "In the heat of the moment""Amanda , my current book has this reference 5 times. I will finish it today, possibly this morning if you w..."
Perfect! Thanks Laura. :)
Laura wrote: "I'm reading The 9th Girl (Kovac and Liska, #4) by Tami Hoag which I will finish this morning and then going to work on the Canada setting goal. After that I'm looking forward to reading Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1) by Sally GreenKeep up the great work team!! Everyone is doing awesome ."
Yesterday I went to the library and picked up
. I liked Half Bad so I'm looking forward to this one. Right now I'm going to go search for some books that were published on the 24th. Luckily Netgalley makes searching for publishing dates easy.
Laura wrote: "Saxa's New Goal: read a book with the word darning in ithahah, I m pretty sure this is one of Amanda's goals!!"
Believe it or not it isn't. :) It does sound like one I would do, though. I have yet to write any goals for the games.
Amanda wrote: "Laura wrote: "Saxa's New Goal: read a book with the word darning in ithahah, I m pretty sure this is one of Amanda's goals!!"
Believe it or not it isn't. :) It does sound like one I would do, ..."
I so would have pegged this goal as yours! I am really surprised.
Amanda wrote: "Laura wrote: "I'm reading The 9th Girl (Kovac and Liska, #4) by Tami Hoag which I will finish this morning and then going to work on the Canada setting goal. After that I'm looking forward to readi..."I am intrigued to finish
but I switched over to my goal book
I checked the Agron books no mention of the word "darning"Amazon would not let me check these books:
All the Dancing Birds
Scattered Life
The Shell Collector
Roman
The Last Song
Praetorian
Amanda wrote: "Margaret wrote: "I was hoping to stop at the library today to look for some books with the starting word A but you know that story! I didn't leave town until after 6 pm, too late for a stop at the ..."yep....sounds like my world as well! I just can't help myself to more books and I sign up for them all!
Laura wrote: "I checked the Agron books no mention of the word "darning"Amazon would not let me check these books:
All the Dancing Birds
Scattered Life
The Shell Collector
Roman
The Last Song
Praetorian"
Chris commented in the Saxa thread that she has a book with the word darning in it.
Thank goodness! I have no idea where I would have found a book with that word.
Laura wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Saxa's new goal: Read a book with the phrase "In the heat of the moment""Amanda , my current book has this reference 5 times. I will finish it today, possibly this morning if you w..."
5 times! lol....but be a "hot" novel! ;)
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Team: Agron
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Book:
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea HandlerPage Count: 264
Date Read: 8/19/15
Attack Points: 0.5
Goal: N/A
Rating: 3 stars
Yo! I am excited! that is if no one has claimed the goal word darning because the book that I keep holding off
has the word darning in it! I'm reading it anyway so if it is taken, tough! lol....I have been wanting to read this for weeks now and I need to get it over and done.
I am starting an audio
which won't take me long to read. I try to get the smaller books for the audio. I searched through the book and there a birth situation mentioned. I am hoping it is what we are needing hard to tell on the example Amazon gave me.
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Team Agron
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Book:
Seveneves by Neal StephensonPage Count: 867
Date Read: 19 August
Attack Points: 1
Rating: 5
Goal: none
If you are in the mood for a good post apocalypse sci-fi piece of amazing pick this one up. It is a bit chunky but worth it
Margaret wrote: "Yo! I am excited! that is if no one has claimed the goal word darning because the book that I keep holding off has the word darning in it! I'm reading i..."I'm almost finished with
it has "darning"
Chris wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Yo! I am excited! that is if no one has claimed the goal word darning because the book that I keep holding off has the word darning in ..."I am almost finished with mine too Chris!!
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by Lesley Choycepage count:311
date : august 19
rating: 4stars
goal: yes
how : setting =Canada
Agron's new goal:
Agron's new goal: read a book which has the main location (setting ) as Canada.....hahaha I just finished this one and we get it again!!!
I'm reading the iron witch now, I hope to be finished by tomorrow
Laura wrote: "Nadia *I'm full of awesomesauce*~♥Love yourself♥~☼Live Life to the Fullest☼~♫Don't Stress♫~♠To Thy own self be true♠~ wrote: "I AM SO SORRY EVRYBODY FIVE DAYS WITHOUT WIFI I FEEL AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!..."But I kinda feel like I abandoned y'all, I was freakin out try yo figure out how to get on....:(
Finished 
by Kendare Blake 316 pages
8/19/15
Goal: N/A
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This was a fun book. I just checked out the second book so I can know what happens next. :)
What's it about?
Laura wrote: "Agron's new goal: Read a book with an average goodreads rating of between 4 and 5"
Death Without Company fits this goal.
Edit: Nevermind! I just saw that you found a book to fit the goal.
Laura wrote: "Agron's new goal: read a book where the kindle version is less than 300 pages
read a book that contains the word tomato used Jurassic park
Read a book with an average goodreads rating of betwe..."
I just finished
Completed
Big Bad Bear
It's 177pp
I needed it for another challenge...
Nadia *I'm full of awesomesauce*~♥Love yourself♥~☼Live Life to the Fullest☼~♫Don't Stress♫~♠To Thy own self be true♠~ wrote: "I'm reading the iron witch now, I hope to be finished by tomorrow"I liked the Iron Witch!! I need to finish this series.
Amanda wrote: "Laura wrote: "Agron's new goal: Read a book with an average goodreads rating of between 4 and 5"
Death Without Company fits this goal."
hehe, Thanks Amanda I knew we would have a few!
I actually thought the Jurassic Park book would work for this goal but when I checked the rating.. nope it didn't but lo and behold worked for tomato.!!
Nadia *I'm full of awesomesauce*~♥Love yourself♥~☼Live Life to the Fullest☼~♫Don't Stress♫~♠To Thy own self be true♠~ wrote: "What's it about?"It's a YA novel about a boy who grows up hunting ghosts. He and his mom move to a new town so that he can hunt Anna, a ghost he heard about from an acquaintance.
There's a lot of action and creepy scenes. I thought it was pretty good.
Laura wrote: "Nadia *I'm full of awesomesauce*~♥Love yourself♥~☼Live Life to the Fullest☼~♫Don't Stress♫~♠To Thy own self be true♠~ wrote: "I'm reading the iron witch now, I hope to be finished by tomorrow"I l..."
Really? I haven't gotten into it yet...
Laura wrote: "Agron's new goal: read a book which has the main location (setting ) as Canada.....hahaha I just finished this one and we get it again!!!
read a book where the kindle version is less than 300 pa..."
hehehe!
Amanda wrote: "Nadia *I'm full of awesomesauce*~♥Love yourself♥~☼Live Life to the Fullest☼~♫Don't Stress♫~♠To Thy own self be true♠~ wrote: "What's it about?"It's a YA novel about a boy who grows up hunting gho..."
So like, necromancer stuff? Or are they just ghost hunter?
I will continue looking tomorrow for a book that fits the Canada setting goal good night everyone:-)
Shannon wrote: "Completed
"How did you like it, Shannon?
Laura wrote: "I will continue looking tomorrow for a book that fits the Canada setting goal good night everyone:-)"
Here is a really useful website Sonia posted in either the captain's group or the mod's group (I don't remember which).
Books Set In
I liked it a lot actually. Sets you up perfectly to instantly want to read the next one just to see where they go from there...It just flows so well. Their relationship isn't rushed, it's messy, it's complicated, but at the same time there's something so sweet and endearing about it.
Shannon wrote: "I liked it a lot actually. Sets you up perfectly to instantly want to read the next one just to see where they go from there...It just flows so well. Their relationship isn't rushed, it's messy, ..."
I think Sticks & Stones is one of my favorites just for that reason.
Seeing them work out their relationship while they are deep in the woods and fighting for their lives made me love the characters even more.
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I think I'll be able to find it ok using the Amazon search. And if not I might just snoop and see which other teams have had this goal and what they read for it.