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[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Viji wrote: "Does 'Historical' mean non-fiction or it could be fiction? "

Could be either as long as it was shelved as historical by at least 10 people.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

@Karishma: I highly recommend Mistborn! I loved it a lot more than Name of the Wind.

@Ange: Right? Dholes are at 300+ that they're leaving us all in the dust. lol. My competitive streak is being awakened ;)

[~~~N~~~]

Is there a scoreboard spreadsheet for WOBBLE (I thought there was but I cant find it)?

[Gillian]

Noa wrote: "Is there a scoreboard spreadsheet for WOBBLE (I thought there was but I cant find it)?"

It would be nice to see how we are doing.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Spreadsheeets:
WOBBLE STATUS
Team spreadsheet: link can be found at Page 1 Msge 1

I made a graph of our board...
Red boxes are sunk ships
X for Miss
O for HIT

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Ships sunk:
Battleships: 0
Cruisers: 0
Frigates: 0
Minesweepers:1
Subs:1

So I've gone over the rules and stuff a bit (yey free weekend!)
The ones in blue are just my guess. I placed Xs around D3, F5 and G5 because it has sunk and whole ships don't touch horizontally or vertically. We still have 4 submarines and 2 minesweepers included in the ships we need to sink so it's pretty challenging because they only occupy 1 or 2 boxes.

Maybe we can strategize? I suggest B7 and F7 because maybe they could turn out to be a battleship, cruiser or frigate? lol.

I'll update the photo as the discussion progresses. I meant strategic planning! haha

[Gillian]

Kathleen wrote: "Ships sunk:
Battleships: 0
Cruisers: 0
Frigates: 0
Minesweepers:1
Subs:1

So I've gone over the rules and stuff a bit (yey free weekend!)
The ones in blue are just my guess. I placed Xs around D3, ..."

E4,H4 i think they can still be hits from what i read?
A7&8,C8,D8,F8 could all have blue crosses correct me if I'm wrong :)

[~~~N~~~]

Damn, those Dholes are a lot ahead of us.

[Gillian]

Noa wrote: "Damn, those Dholes are a lot ahead of us."

Some of the teams have a lot more players than we do we don't have a hope of competing with them.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

E4 can be a submarine and H4 (+H3 can be a minesweeper) so yes they can be hits. But I thought maybe we shold go for the big guns first since we have one last round of guessing so I just crossed them. I can leave it open if majority says we do. We have 10 chips to place.

I'll blue cross A7, A8,C8,D8 :D

[Gillian]

Kathleen wrote: "E4 can be a submarine and H4 (+H3 can be a minesweeper) so yes they can be hits. But I thought maybe we shold go for the big guns first since we have one last round of guessing so I just crossed th..."

I agree H4 and E4 could be ships but the blue X make them look like don't pick them maybe they could be a different colour or shape ?

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Ok! Will change them into pink ;)

[~~~N~~~]

Gillian wrote: "Noa wrote: "Damn, those Dholes are a lot ahead of us."

Some of the teams have a lot more players than we do we don't have a hope of competing with them."

That's shitty. Oh well.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

The teams are set up based on books read per
Month, not number of players. So teams with more players had signed up as lower readers.
Unfortunately in every team challenge it happens that one team streaks ahead as people read a lot more than they usually do.
But remember this challenge is 18 weeks which is a very long time. Sprinting can't be sustained.

[Ange]

Nothing like a bit of tough competition to up our game. Im sure they will get complacent being at the top and we will sneak up behind them. The Hare and the Tortoise :-p.

Nice work on the table Kat have we only got one lot of guesses left? In that case we should not choose random spaces but put all our guesses into sinking the ships we have found. F7 will def be a hit but we should also choose F8 and F9 in case its a battleship for more points.

Noa and Gillian you may have found it already but the wobble spreadsheet is here. I have it saved as a fav on my google toolbar and constantly refresh it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[~~~N~~~]

Ange wrote: "Nothing like a bit of tough competition to up our game. Im sure they will get complacent being at the top and we will sneak up behind them. The Hare and the Tortoise :-p.

Nice wor..."

I'll save the link. Thank you

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Ange wrote: "You guys were chatty last night :)

Finished The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
Task: B9 - romance
Read by 241 people as romance

Yay its the weekend, I havent actual..."

I put you down for C1-Young Adult. So option to read another romance books for bonus is still open for you :)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

[Gillian]

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "The teams are set up based on books read per
Month, not number of players. So teams with more players had signed up as lower readers.
Unfortunately in every team challenge it happens that one team ..."
Thanks Karen for informing us much appreciated :)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Gillian wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "The teams are set up based on books read per
Month, not number of players. So teams with more players had signed up as lower readers.
Unfortunately in every team challenge it happe..."

Yup, we've got the same number of readers. They're just luckier (is this a word? lol) in picking their tiles.

Ange wrote: "Nothing like a bit of tough competition to up our game. Im sure they will get complacent being at the top and we will sneak up behind them. The Hare and the Tortoise :-p.

Nice wor..."

Hare and Tortoise indeed. Maybe you meant G8 and H9? Because F9 is a sure miss and had been guessed :)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I'm going out for a bit but will sneak back in from time to time today. Y'all enjoy your reads! and your weekend :D

[Ange]

Oops I meant G7 and H7.

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

I should be done with first grave later today and am happy to take one of the shelved as young adult tasks next as that's literally the majority of my bookshelf :-)

[Viji]

COMPLETION:

B-9 - read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people

Book: by Julie Klassen
Date Read: 06/24/2016
Rating: ★★★
Pages: 422
How it fits: Shelved as Romance by 101 users

E-10 - read a book shelved as humor by at least 10 people

Book: by Jasper Fforde
Date Read: 06/24/2016
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 375
How it fits: Shelved as Humor by 698 users

[Viji]

Kathleen wrote: "Viji wrote: "Does 'Historical' mean non-fiction or it could be fiction? "

Could be either as long as it was shelved as historical by at least 10 people."

Thanks, Kathleen. I will take this up.

[Viji]

I will take up the task:

B-8 - read a book shelved as historical by at least 10 people

[~~~N~~~]

Book: Dolphin Dreams by Jules Jones
Date Read: 25/06/2016
Pages: 232
Fits Task: C-9 - read a book with a title between 7 and 16 characters
How It Fits: 13 characters in the title

[Ashley]

Gillian wrote: "Noa wrote: "Is there a scoreboard spreadsheet for WOBBLE (I thought there was but I cant find it)?"

It would be nice to see how we are doing."

Link is on Page 1 :)

[Ashley]

Gillian wrote: "Noa wrote: "Damn, those Dholes are a lot ahead of us."

Some of the teams have a lot more players than we do we don't have a hope of competing with them."

Yup! I think their team members really underestimated how much they read!! Mods made all the teams even based on how much we said we read per week.

Hopefully another challenge will suit us more and we can gain ground :)

[Ange]

Finished Wanderlust
F5 narrated by a female
Date read 25/06/2016
Pages 232

[Rebecca]

Ash... Do you think American Sniper will fit for any tasks?

[Gillian]

My copy of Poison Study is missing the last hour and a half :(

[~~~N~~~]

Gillian wrote: "My copy of Poison Study is missing the last hour and a half :("

Oh no! Maybe you can get a text copy and find the part you left off on?

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Gillian wrote: "My copy of Poison Study is missing the last hour and a half :("

Oh boy. Cliffhanger! I hope you find a copy so you can finish it.
Did you like it, so far? I enjoyed this series very much.

[Gillian]

Kathleen wrote: "Gillian wrote: "My copy of Poison Study is missing the last hour and a half :("

Oh boy. Cliffhanger! I hope you find a copy so you can finish it.
Did you like it, so far? I enjoyed this series ver..."

I'm looking for a copy online if not the library in the city has a copy i can get one of my daughters to pick it up for me. I'm enjoying the story though it feels like it is just setting up for the rest of the series.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Completion post:
Book: The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
Date read: 25 June
Pages: 484
Fit Tasks: C1- shelves as young adult by at least 10 people
How It Fits: shelved by 619 users as YA



Updated spreadsheets til here :)

[Ange]

Hey Kat my last book isnt showing up - Wanderlust. I checked and have it shelved with right dates.

[~~~N~~~]

Kathleen wrote: "Completion post:
Book: The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
Date read: 25 June
Pages: 484
Fit Tasks: C1- shelves as young adult by at least 10 people
How It Fits: sh..."

Is it a good ending to the series? I haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Gillian]

Noa wrote: "Kathleen wrote: "Completion post:
Book: The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
Date read: 25 June
Pages: 484
Fit Tasks: C1- shelves as young adult by at least 10 peopl..."

I have that one left to do also so would love to know what you thought of it.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Ange wrote: "Hey Kat my last book isnt showing up - Wanderlust. I checked and have it shelved with right dates."

Will check again tonight if it hasn't picked it up yet. :)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

It was a good ending to the series. I thought the first half to be more focused on the romance with the action happening on the latter parts of the book. The 'war' tactics were good and the political maneuvering bit suave so all good.

The more I think of the whole series though, it was more romance than fantasy really. It wasn't overtly fantasylite and romance pretending to be fantasy like Mary Pearson's Kiss of Deception though. Haha that one in my opinion was romance pretending to be fantasy. I guessed who the prince was vs the assassin a few chpaters after so I wasn't surprised at the reveal.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Gillian wrote: "Kathleen wrote: "Gillian wrote: "My copy of Poison Study is missing the last hour and a half :("

Oh boy. Cliffhanger! I hope you find a copy so you can finish it.
Did you like it, so far? I enjoye..."

It's a really good series! It has just the right mix of romance, action and fantasy! And there be great supporting characters too!

[Rebecca]

I think I can read American Sniper for B8... It's been shelved as "history" by 72 people. But the task says "historical". Can someone please confirm if this will work?

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Rebecca wrote: "I think I can read American Sniper for B8... It's been shelved as "history" by 72 people. But the task says "historical". Can someone please confirm if this will work?"

It cannot work for historical. What edition are you reading? Can you please check if they can be used for B-10 - read a book where sum of pages is odd number (use read edition)?

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Completion post
Book: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Date read: 25 June
Pages: 349
Fit Tasks: J-8 - read a book which has the main location (setting) as Asia
How It Fits: set in Pakistan

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Gillian, I finished my Asian book, we can use Soundless for YA or fantasy :)

[Ashley]

Noa wrote: "Book: Dolphin Dreams by Jules Jones
Date Read: 25/06/2016
Pages: 232
Fits Task: C-9 - read a book with a title between 7 and 16 characters
How It Fits: 13 characters in the title"

Hi Noa - this one has disappeared from your wobble shelf...can you re-add it?

[Rebecca]

It's got even numbers. Booooo.

[Ashley]

I've finished The Stranger for B-10 - read a book where sum of pages is odd number (use read edition) and Forged for G-2 - read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people.

I'm reading The Crown for E-7 - read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people

[Ashley]

Rebecca wrote: "Ash... Do you think American Sniper will fit for any tasks?"

Page number goal could work - can you check the edition you are reading?