Team Scooby Doo

[Greta]

There is a Yuna character mentioned in my current book! She is not a main character but that's not required, right?

[kierra]

I have just finished a book "Yes, please", that could work for Y.

[kierra]

Also, I'm finishing rereading Me Before You (it has a pretty red cover, if that is still needed)

[kierra]

And again, Nanci, good work keeping the spreadsheets up to date!

[Nanci]

Kierra wrote: "I have just finished a book "Yes, please", that could work for Y."

Kierra, I looked at your UNO shelf, but there's no date for Yes Please! What date did you finish it? Thanks. I will add it for the "Y" for Norway too.

[Nanci]

Kierra wrote: "Also, I'm finishing rereading Me Before You (it has a pretty red cover, if that is still needed)"

Yes, yes, yes!! Does it have something in it that will work for an "I" for card 8? I read it a few years back, but can't remember all the characters.

[Nanci]

Greta wrote: "There is a Yuna character mentioned in my current book! She is not a main character but that's not required, right?"

That's right, Greta. I'm using Kierra's book at this point, but thanks!

[kierra]

Nanci, Date for Yes Please is May 26th (I added it)
As for Me Before You, it's not the "I" letter for card 8, it's "E" :)

PS Can England go for E?

[Raine]

Nanci wrote: "For Eurovision we just have to find a "Y" for Norway and then a "U" for Istanbul and we'll finish two more words. I'm guessing that's all we'll get before the challenge is over, but that would be 7..."

For the Eurovision I have the U from my book Until June or Until Death Do We Part

[Nanci]

Kierra wrote: "Nanci, Date for Yes Please is May 26th (I added it)
As for Me Before You, it's not the "I" letter for card 8, it's "E" :)

PS Can England go for E?"

Silly me, yes "E" for 8. England works for sure! I've got it on the spreadsheet. Just let me know the date you finish it. That helps a lot, Kierra!

[Nanci]

Thanks to Raine, we finished our 7th Eurovision word! Keep posting on here for how your books work for Eurovision. Even if we can't finish another complete word, we'll still get points and every point counts!

Thanks for coming on strong for the end, team!

[kierra]

Nanci, do you somehow track the books that were used for Eurovision in our personal spreadsheet?

[Teasha]

Greta wrote: "Did you like it a lot Leticia? I do like YA most times but sometimes a book just doesn't click for me."


I read it when it first came out and it enjoyed it. I wasn't overly enthused but I liked it.

[Arlene]

Title: Sister of Mine
Author: Sabra Waldfogel
Characters: Rachel, Adelaide, Henry, Charlie, Octavian, Susie, Mordacai, Endicott,
Location: Georgia

[Nanci]

Kierra wrote: "Nanci, do you somehow track the books that were used for Eurovision in our personal spreadsheet?"

No, I didn't track them there. I've actually been doing it old school in a notebook. It seemed easier for me to keep up with them that way. Do I need to have them on the personal spreadsheet for the Mods? (Just a slight panic in my voice.)

[Nanci]

Here's the latest update.
With Arlene's post we now have only 4 letters left in the word BROADCAST for our 8th Eurovision word. Things are looking up for finishing this word in the next few days! The letters that are left are: O, A, D, A.

We are doing great on our hands! I know some of you are reading like crazy to get the last few done on time...keep burning through those pages! :D

[Greta]

Wow, we are doing great!! Thanks for keeping track, Nanci!

[Nanci]

Greta wrote: "Wow, we are doing great!! Thanks for keeping track, Nanci!"

Thanks, Greta. I know...I am so excited! Our team may be small, but we really pull together!

[Teasha]

Something Beautiful
Jamie Mcguire
Character:Olive, Travis, Falyn, Shepley, Reyes, Taylor, Tyler, and Pidge
3 in series Beautiful
Place: Kansas

[Teasha]

Nanci wrote: "Here's the latest update.
With Arlene's post we now have only 4 letters left in the word BROADCAST for our 8th Eurovision word. Things are looking up for finishing this word in the next few days! T..."

Something Beautiful one of the characters had the name Olive.

:)

[Greta]

Finished

I will do a full update when I get home :-)

[kierra]

Nanci, finished Me Before You.
Is there another Red Cover book we need to handle?
Also, what's Player X? Was it a minichallenge I missed?

[Nanci]

Kierra wrote: "Nanci, finished Me Before You.
Is there another Red Cover book we need to handle?
Also, what's Player X? Was it a minichallenge I missed?"

I hope we haven't had a breakdown in communication, Kierra. In post 578 I asked you how you were doing for your red book that you said early on you would read and your response in post 590 led me to believe you were reading it and would post later. Then when you offered to read Me Before You, we were talking about for Hand Twelve. So if you haven't another 8Red book, then no, we don't have a book for that yet. Please let me know if you've got another 8Red you're reading. I'm thinking I misunderstood you. :)

[Nanci]

Kierra wrote: "Nanci, finished Me Before You.
Is there another Red Cover book we need to handle?
Also, what's Player X? Was it a minichallenge I missed?"

Player X we gained when the Mods gave us a break bc we'd had so many people drop off our team. It's way back in an earlier post if you want to search. I can't use Player X for the 8Red because we didn't have and 8Red in April hand. We do get 10 books read by Player X, if needed, so now we will definitely finish all our hands, just the 8Red would hold us back...but hopefully not. Sorry so wordy!

[Teasha]

Nanci wrote: "Kierra wrote: "Nanci, finished Me Before You.
Is there another Red Cover book we need to handle?
Also, what's Player X? Was it a minichallenge I missed?"

I hope we haven't had a breakdown in commu..."

Kierra, if not and its too much, let me know and I will read one for you.

[Teasha]

If we need a red8, I can read this book.
(I checked this time beforehand the letter needed and one of the characters is Elena). Its on my to be read shelf.


:)

[Nanci]

Letitia, You will save the day if you can read that for us! If Kierra comes back and has another red8, then I'll just use that for a wild card. Thank you sooo much!

[Nanci]

Greta wrote: "Finished

I will do a full update when I get home :-)"

Added it with a finish date of 5/29. Thanks so much!
When you finish The Girl You Left Behind just let me know. :)

[Nanci]

Here's the post from May 6 about Player X.

Great news team! The mods were able to help us out concerning our lack of team members. Here's the message I received from Karen:

So the actual books read by your remaining team members last month was 81 and their books p/m on sign ups would have been 72.
The average for team sizes based on sign up numbers is 82. So if we were to get a new player, I would look for someone at 10 books per month.

As we won't get a new player, I've spoken to pixie and we suggest that for May, Scooby Doo can chose any 10 books you read in April and use them again in May as a "psuedo player". In the player name on the spreadsheet just call it 'Player X' ;)


I will add the 10 books from 'Player X' after we are part way through the month and see what we really need. This is really going to help us be on par with the other teams and so nice of them to help us out this way!

I am going to use 'Player X' now to help with the cards we still need to fill. I am going to be out of town starting tomorrow until late evening on the 31st, so I want to get all the cards done that I can. I'll add the color books and finish Eurovision on the evening of the 31st.

[Nanci]

For Eurovision to finish our current word, Broadcast, here are letters we need:
D, A

[Arlene]

Title: Pulse
Author: Kailin Gow
Characters: Kalina, Aaron, Jaeger, Maeve, Justin, Stuart and Octavius

[kierra]

Letitia, yes!
Namco, oh, I misunderstood you then. I was talking about hand 8. Thanks for Player X explanation, somehow I missed it :)

[kierra]

I have finished another book, by the way. It can give us D.

Blood on snow by Jo Nesbe. Character David Hoffman. Date finished 5/30. I'll put it in our personal spreadsheet.

Hope it helps, Nanci!

[Nanci]

Kierra wrote: "I have finished another book, by the way. It can give us D.

Blood on snow by Jo Nesbe. Character David Hoffman. Date finished 5/30. I'll put it in our personal spreadsheet.

Hope it helps, Nanci!"

No worries, Kierra. I'll update when I get home. We took our 5 year old grandson on a trip this weekend and will be back late on the 31st.

[Nanci]

Kierra wrote: "I have finished another book, by the way. It can give us D.

Blood on snow by Jo Nesbe. Character David Hoffman. Date finished 5/30. I'll put it in our personal spreadsheet.

Hope it helps, Nanci!"

No worries, Kierra. I'll update when I get home. We took our 5 year old grandson on a trip this weekend and will be back late on the 31st.

[Greta]

Last day of the challenge!!

How are we doing? I have about 1/3 of my book left & will push to finish :-)

[Teasha]

I will be finished this book for the red 8 soon. :)
Do we need any other letters?

[Nanci]

I was able to move around some of our books and we finished our 8th Eurovision word! Also, I changed out Player X for some of our recently read books. We did really well for being a team that's about half the size of some of the other teams! :)

[Nanci]

All we have left to finish all our hands are:
Greta's book for the Reverse in Hand 2, The Girl You Left Behind and
Letitia's 8red book, Bitten, for Hand 9.

We're almost there! Post as soon as you're done! Thanks!

[Greta]

Only 30 pages left :-)

[Teasha]

I finished bitten :)

[Nanci]

Letitia wrote: "I finished bitten :)"

Hooray, Letitia! Thank you so, so much!

[Nanci]

Greta wrote: "Only 30 pages left :-)"

Go girl, go! But don't look at this...just read! Ha!

[Greta]

Well, I had dinner to make & now the kids are in bed so I can read again :-)

[Greta]

Completed:

Author: Jojo Moyes

Location: St. Peronne, France and England

Characters: Edouard, Sophie LeFevre, the Kommandant, Aurelien, Helene, Jean, Mimi, Louisa, Liliane Bethune, Liv Worthing, Paul

[Greta]

Nanci wrote: "I was able to move around some of our books and we finished our 8th Eurovision word! Also, I changed out Player X for some of our recently read books. We did really well for being a team that's abo..."

You are awesome :D

[Greta]

Completion on 5/28:

Author: Karen Russell

Location: Athertown, United States, Sorrento, Italy, Japan,

Characters: Clyde, Magreb, Brandolino, Fila, Etsuyo, Tooka, Dai, Kitsune, Hoshi, Yuna, Nal, Samson, Vanessa Grigalunas, Johannes Zegner, Miles, Peter, Vera

[Greta]

Well, that's it for me!

[Nanci]

Greta wrote: "Completion on 5/28:

Author: Karen Russell

Location: Athertown, United States, Sorrento, Italy, Japan,

Characters: Clyde, Magreb, ..."

Used it for letter N in Eurovision word "Lausanne"

[Nanci]

Greta wrote: "Completed:

Author: Jojo Moyes

Location: St. Peronne, France and England

Characters: Edouard, Sophie LeFevre, the Kommandant, Aurelie..."

Used it for letter E in Eurovision word, "Lausanne".