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D ×4
E ×12
I ×9
K ×1
N ×6
O ×8
P ×2
R ×6
U ×4
W ×2
X ×1
Y ×2
Z ×1
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Carrie
Jessa
Ashley
Ari
Heather
Lindsey
Hey guys, I made a spreadsheet for keeping track of everything but I'm not home from school yet so I will message you all with it later.
I have a The Queen of the Tearling buddy read set for the 1st so if you don't end up getting it I can count it for Q.
Hey Ashley :) I had planned on adding the book covers next to the letters as we read and post reviews in the second post, can also add any planned reads under those if needed.
Ashley wrote: "I have a The Queen of the Tearling buddy read set for the 1st so if you don't end up getting it I can count it for Q."If you've got a buddy read set up I can hold off on Queen Song anyway as you'll get the bonus for it. We may need another Q eventually anyway if we clear the board. I read 50 books on my own in January so highly likely we can get to a second set of letters. LOL
If anyone has any planned reads let me know and I think I'll edit the 3rd post to keep track of those. I'm looking at the letters and thinking I wonder if the hardest to get rid of will be like the E ×12.
Oh and Xoe: or Vampires, and Werewolves, and Demons, Oh My!
is a free book on Kindle if anyone would want to read that for X, I've already read it myself and it's not too bad a read for a freebie. :)
I'm going to read Under the Never Sky, Queen of the tearling, and Carry On for sure
Ashley has a buddy read for Queen of the Tearling on the first that I put her down for it and we only need one Q so we could put yours on a hold if you read before getting a new board. Guess I won't worry about Queen Song since I doubt we can clear it twice. LOL I'll put you down for Under and Carry On for now though on the planned reads. I'm a Netgalley reader myself so I pretty much read by the date they are published, not real sure what I'll be needing to read by next week.
If I don't start it tonight I can read Days of Blood and Starlight too!
Here is the spreadsheet I made last week to help with tracking: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...We can use The Queen of the Tearling for T if needed.
it's not needed believe me I will cover T for sure!
Last team challenge we basically did a first come first served type of thing. So I suppose whoever posts the Q review first can clear that then we could either use it as T or blank or hold for another board. I'm guessing we can rearrange them as needed too.
that's a good idea so we can complete boards! I'm reading War and Peace for the W!!
I have
for a blog tour on the 7th so I won't be able to post the review until that day but would be an H. Also,
on the 15th.And
on the 17th.
But....If anyone has those letters before I'm able to post reviews then go ahead and do it and mine could be used later.
We are going to slay at this challenge :)
Looking at my books I still think all those Es will be the hardest. I have A, B, C, D, F, G, H, lots of Ss and Ts... a couple Vs, Ws.... missing books with vowels, unless I found something that is A... such and such.
I will go look on my tbr right now for an E!
Any fans of Sue Grafton? She goes through the whole alphabet with her titles.
I have those 4 E's and I really need to get through those!
Oh good, we need 12 of them so that will help Heather :) We also need 9 I's... yuck. The Q, J, X, and Z looked tough right away but it's those vowels will have to worry about since there are so many.
These are my plans so far, all are BR's
I will update the planned reads later tonight for each of you. Wanting to finish the one I'm reading but I check off and on all the time so will try to keep us updated all month fairly quickly. :)
if not I will try to help as i'm almost on here all the time lol
Yay! I'm here! I'm here! I just need to catch up on reading all the messages here and I'll be good to go! Sorry for being late to the party! Lol
I can do
for "W". It's a biiiig book! But it will only take me a day or two to finish it. So we'll get that! :D
No worries Jessa, we're just excited obviously. Technically we have a week before we start anyway. LOL
いっI'll also start looking for some more to pile up on my table! :D
E, I and O are probably the worst of the board really. Need a lot of them and not too many come to mind to me. Heather found a few Es so that will help.
Ok. Here's what I can do. Just pulled these from my one bookshelf.
I do have plenty of other letters too, but I found these trying to find the E, I, O. XD
From "one" bookshelf Jessa? Maybe those letters aren't as hard as I thought if you have more shelves you haven't even checked yet. ;)
Lol yup. I have what people call a problem and I just buy books. XD. I read pretty fast, but I buy faster!
I have a click the request button on Netgalley addiction but at least it saves me money. LOL Added a few that I should have upcoming by their dates if I don't get them done this week. Don't want to get too far ahead of myself though so may need to tweak my order as I read.
Heading to bed now though but I think I got all the planned books updated. :)
I can do: V-
S-
J-
K-
L-
E-
T-
Guys I'm in the midst of my finals, so these were all I could search at this time. I'll add more with time. Is there any particular letter you want me to cover? And I'm just saying that I might disappear a few times in Feb, because of my exams so please don't worry. I'm not leaving the challenge.
Hi Ari, good to have you. :) I'll get those added to the planned reads and I believe Ashley has a spreadsheet she's going to keep to help track too. Really it's just going to be watch for open letters and work on what you can I think. I was noticing we need a lot of E, I and O to clear.
In March I plan to clear out my Netgalley shelf and I think I have a few U's, a B and an H but I will see later.
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✔Carrie
✔Jessa
✔Ashley
✔Ari
✔Heather
✔Lindsey
Points per letter:
(1 point)-A, E, I, O, U, L, N, S, T, R.
(2 points)-D, G.
(3 points)-B, C, M, P.
(4 points)-F, H, V, W, Y.
(5 points)-K.
(8 points)- J, X.
(10 points)-Q, Z.
Letter frequency = A×9, B ×2, C ×2, D ×4, E ×12, F ×2, G ×3, H ×2, I ×9, J ×1, K ×1, L ×4, M ×2, N ×6, O ×8, P ×2, Q ×1, R ×6, S ×4, T ×6, U ×4, V ×2, W ×2, X ×1, Y ×2, Z ×1, blank ×2
Rules:
* Each letter has its own points score (as above).
* Each letter can only be used as many times as it appears on a scrabble board (as above)
* Blanks are freebies, and can be used for any letter, they will be awarded 1 point each.
* If a team manages to complete all 100 tiles, they may start the board for a second time.
* Books must be read between the 1st of March to the 31st of March inclusive.
* Books must be over 100 pages long, without illustrations. (150 pages minimum for middle-grade books, 300 pages minimum for poetry or books written in verse.)
* Please check with us about re-reads before reading.
* Our regular challenge rules can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
* You can use other editions which have other titles, but only if the title is written using english letters, editions which are written in greek letters or arabic etc. won't count.
Points:
* Points will be awarded based on the letter used (as above)
* Buddy reads (which take place within our group) will gain the team 1 bonus point for books under 450 pages, and 2 bonus points for books 450 pages or longer.
* There will be no individual rankings in this game as not everyone will be able to use the higher value letters.