ROUND II: Team Achilles

[Sonia]

*crosses fingers for a good goal*

[Sonia]

Read a book which has the main location (setting) as South America

Of course.

[Sonia]

We're 7 defense (and attack) points from Alexander... of course goal has to be hard...

[Dragana]

Thank you. I will. :) It should be fun. This is the first time they are making it, so I don't know what to expect except for description: fencing lessons for kids, knight tournaments, medieval village replica etc.

[Claire]

finished Last Wolf Hunting for the werewolf challenge

[Sonia]

Angel ~ ✿ Claire ✿ wrote: "finished Last Wolf Hunting for the werewolf challenge"

Vicky and I almost ran over each other to update the spreadsheets. Yep, game is on fire!

[Vicky]

Gannicus
- Read a book with the phrase "Whole nine yards" in a book [Tentatively Vicky]
- Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with I
- Read a book which has the main location (setting) as South America

Crixus
- Read a book with the word hot, love or steam (plurals are acceptable) in the title [Tentatively Dragana]
- Read a book with a palindrome over 4 letters in the title [Sara]
- Read a book that contains the word parsley

[Vicky]

Sonia wrote: "Angel ~ ✿ Claire ✿ wrote: "finished Last Wolf Hunting for the werewolf challenge"

Vicky and I almost ran over each other to update the spreadsheets. Yep, game is on fire!"

:P I'm off to work now though, all yours! haha

[Sonia]

Vicky wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Angel ~ ✿ Claire ✿ wrote: "finished Last Wolf Hunting for the werewolf challenge"

Vicky and I almost ran over each other to update the spreadsheets. Yep, game is on fi..."

Have a nice working day!

[Dragana]

I've just run a search on my Kindle and there are 11 books containing word 'parsley' on it. In fact I've got book for each of the available goals, I just don't have time to read it. :/
I hope I will have time to finish at least one until the end of the round. Is the end on this Sunday evening or Saturday?

[Sonia]

Dragana wrote: "I've just run a search on my Kindle and there are 11 books containing word 'parsley' on it. In fact I've got book for each of the available goals, I just don't have time to read it. :/
I hope I wil..."

Well, It's sunday 1 AM for me, I think, so it will be your 2 AM, if I'm not mistaken. I think you're on the same timezone as Tea.

[Dragana]

Sonia wrote: "Dragana wrote: "I've just run a search on my Kindle and there are 11 books containing word 'parsley' on it. In fact I've got book for each of the available goals, I just don't have time to read it...."

I'm GMT+2 (CEST- Central European Summer Time)

[Sonia]

Dragana wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Dragana wrote: "I've just run a search on my Kindle and there are 11 books containing word 'parsley' on it. In fact I've got book for each of the available goals, I just don't have ti..."

Yep, it is as I thought. I'm currently GMT + 1 :D

[Sara]

Finished the book with a palindrome ( details here ).
I have books both for parsley and South America but I prefer to wait for our new goal first ;) -- Not really in the mood for the one set in South America and guess that I couldn't finish the parsley book before the end of this Round...

[Sonia]

Spreadsheet updated, waiting for goal

[Sonia]

Read a novel with a song in it

As Apoorv said "kill me now"

[Camilla]

Do you have any idea why the goal states "novel"? Doesn't a short story collection work for this task? I'm not 100% sure but the book I'm currently reading The Lottery and Other Stories might have had a song in it. I'm just about to go out for a walk, will check when I return.

[Apoorv]

The Sky is Everywhere, that I finished the other day, has poems/sonnets at the beginning and the end of literally every chapter.

You can turn poems into songs !
If not, then kill me ! :P

[Sonia]

Apoorv wrote: "The Sky is Everywhere, that I finished the other day, has poems/sonnets at the beginning and the end of literally every chapter.

You can turn poems into songs !
If not, then kill ..."

LOL

[Vicky]

We haven't used Wild Rover No More yet, have we? It has tons of folk songs/sea shantys!

[Sara]

*crosses fingers*

[Sonia]

Vicky wrote: "We haven't used Wild Rover No More yet, have we? It has tons of folk songs/sea shantys!"

Nope. It's still for use :D

[Sonia]

Vicky wrote: "We haven't used Wild Rover No More yet, have we? It has tons of folk songs/sea shantys!"

I updated the spreadsheet.

[Sonia]

Read a book that contains the word tomato


Aha! Angel read a book that has that :D

[Sonia]

Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female names in Spain according to nameberry (http://nameberry.com/popular_names/Spain)


What on earth?! Who thinks of that?!

[Sonia]

Yey, we have one!


*happy dances and bows to Reva*

[Sara]

[Apoorv]

LOL ! Good luck concentrating on work after that !
Awesome, Sara ! :D

[Sonia]

Mighty Achilles

*swoons*

[Sonia]

Okay, after knocking 6 goals in a row (Apoorv & I were almost squealing in glee) here's the current goals:

Gannicus
- Read a book with the phrase "Whole nine yards" in a book [Tentatively Vicky]
- Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with I
- Read a book which has the main location (setting) as South America

Crixus
- Read a book with the word hot, love or steam (plurals are acceptable) in the title
- Read a book that contains the word parsley
- Read a book that is in the Amazon 2011 bestsellers (http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/...)

[Kate S]

Whoo-hoo! Goal cascades are the best. Go Achilles!

I am almost finished listening to Cutting for Stone which is on the Amazon list.

I need to finish a couple of books I am currently reading. But I could probably fit in Love in Excess for the love task, Near to the Wild Heart set in Brazil, or The Nightingale which contains the word parsley.

I am going to the library this afternoon, so I could even do the 'I' goal if that is what we really need. I will finish Cutting for Stone soon. I have just two sections left and should get to them while making dinner.

[Sonia]

Cool.

I'm reading Reliquary at the moment.. but Kate Daniels keeps whispering that it is time for a re-read... that I goal doesn't help to my case :)

[Reva]

Not sure if I posted this already:


Series Book #5. Gator Bait by Jana Deleon 217 pages Read: 26/ 8 /2015 (Jan 1, 2010) Char: Carter & Fortune, Mystery, Humour, Sinful, Louisiana,
On cover: Gators, boat, grass, water, guns
Fortune dives into the bayou to save Carter (Deputy Sherrif)
Undercover CIA Assassin
2 ditsy elderly side kicks (former spies)
Boat sinks

LOL Funny

[Kate S]

So, I was mistaken, I do not have "parsley" in my possession. My plan is to read the following in order, but I can certainly move things around if others have books planned or get to a goal before I. No big deal.

Cutting for Stone-#23 on the 2011 Amazon list. <- I am almost finished with this one.

Near to the Wild Heart-Set in Brazil for South America goal

Fairway to Heaven by Roberta Isleib for author name beginning with an I

Love in Excess for book with the 'love', 'heat' or 'steam' in the title.

Will update as I finish.

Happy reading all!

[Deedee]

I think I finished this goal:

- Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with I
The Disappearance at Pere-Lachaise (Victor Legris #2) (2003) by Claude Izner
Finished: 8-18-15


Unless it is a new goal????


Currently reading:
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015) by Natasha Pulley
and
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey (2015) by Rinker Buck

[Vicky]

Deedee wrote: "I think I finished this goal:

- Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with I
The Disappearance at Pere-Lachaise (Victor Legris #2) (2003) by Claude Izner ..."

We got the I goal again, so this is a different one. :(

[Deedee]

Vicky wrote: "Deedee wrote: "I think I finished this goal:

- Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with I

We got the I goal again, so this is a different one. :(


ok I'll go looking through my TBR

[Reva]

GANNICUS

Finished


Series #6 Soldiers of Fortune by Jana Deleon 255 pages Read: 26 / 8 /2015 (March 15, 2015) Char:Carter & Fortune, Undercover CIA Assassin, Deputy Sherrif, 2 ditsy elderly sidekicks (former spies) investigates possible meth lab, airboat
Rating: 4.49

[Kate S]

Crixus

FINISHED



The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal

Pages: 532(!)
Goals: None at this time

[Kate S]

Crixus

FINISHED



Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Pages: 541
Goal: #23 on Amazon 2011 list (Crixus)

[Apoorv]

Here is the latest update of our goals.


Gannicus
- Read a book with the phrase "Whole nine yards" in a book [Tentatively Vicky]
- Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with I
- Read a book which has the main location (setting) as South America

Crixus
- Read a book with the word hot, love or steam (plurals are acceptable) in the title
- Read a book that contains the word parsley
- Read a book that is book 3 in a series

[Dragana]

Crixus


Magic Shifts (Kate Daniels #8) by Ilona Andrews
Read: 27.Aug. 2015.
Pages: 352
Goal: Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with I

I started 'Magic Shifts' last night. Just a few chapters before bed.... and stayed until 3am to finish it. You have been warned. ;)

[Sonia]

Dragana wrote: "Crixus


Magic Shifts (Kate Daniels #8) by Ilona Andrews
Read: 27.Aug. 2015.
Pages: 352
Goal: Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with I

I started 'Mag..."

Yep, that book is... I need new words to describe it

[Sonia]

Goals Update:


Gannicus
- Read a book with the phrase "Whole nine yards" in a book [Tentatively Vicky]
- Read a book which has the main location (setting) as South America
- Read a book where the first word of the text is As

Crixus
- Read a book with the word hot, love or steam (plurals are acceptable) in the title
- Read a book that contains the word parsley
- Read a book that is book 3 in a series

[Sonia]

I'm going to read Losing Control by Riley Hart, number #3 of the broken pieces trilogy

[Sara]

I think I can read the book with parsley but I'm about to go to the library to see if it's available or not to check out. So I'll give confirmation :)

[Claire]

I'm going to read Love, Rosie for "Read a book with the word hot, love or steam (plurals are acceptable) in the title"

[Sonia]

Okay, maybe I kinda get carried away and shouldn't start the book at work... I was a pitiful crying sobbing mess with book #1.... and I totally forgot about it... it is Riley Hart, after all...

Ahhhh, I don't care. It's Ben's story *grins*

[Sara]

I'm going to read 'Alias Grace' by Margaret Atwood for the word parsley, and 'The Metamorphosis' by Kafka for the book starting with the word 'As'.
I also checked out HP #3 just in case :)

[Claire]

Sara wrote: "I'm going to read 'Alias Grace' by Margaret Atwood for the word parsley, "

I had to read it for one of my classes this year :)