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[Ashley]

Morning Ladies :)

Here's what we've used for the hit tasks;



Red is what's currently being worked on. Sorry that it's a bit blurry!

[Ashley]

Event 1: Title Relay

Work as a team to Relay books to each other as you race towards the finish. Titles of books must have no fewer than 2 words. Work with your team to relay titles along from player to player.

Last word of 1st book must match 1st word of 2nd book.
Last word of 2nd book must match 1st word of 3rd book.
Last word of 3rd book must match 1st word of 4th book....

Examples:
Another Day / Day After Night / Night Heat / Heat It Up / Up Up Up

To mark Title Relay as √ COMPLETE:
--- Team must finish Heats 1 & 2 per rules to mark this event √ COMPLETE
To move on to NEXT Olympic Event:
--- Team must finish Heat 1 prior to beginning books for Event 2: Page Jumping

Title Relay Heats:
Heat 1:
leg 1: Title Relay of THREE books
leg 2: Title Relay of FIVE books
leg 3: Title Relay of SEVEN books

Heat 2:
leg 1: Title Relay of THREE books
leg 2: Title Relay of FIVE books
leg 3: Title Relay of SEVEN books

Heat 3: (Bonus Round)
Title Relay of FIFTEEN books

Heat 4: (Bonus Round)
Title Relay of TWENTY books

Title Relay Points
Heat 1: 5 points per book, bonus 10 points upon completion (of full heat)
Heat 2: 5 points per book, bonus 15 points upon completion (of full heat)
Heat 3: 10 points per book, bonus 25 points upon completion
Heat 4: 10 points per book, bonus 50 points upon completion

Rules of Title Relay:

Follows General Rules of Wobble Event
▲ Heat 1 must be completed prior to moving on to Event 2: Page Jumping
No books may be STARTED for any other Olympic Event until Heat 1 of Title Relay is COMPLETED!
▲ Heat 2 must also be completed to consider Event 1: Title Relay √ COMPLETE
▲ If any Olympics game is not considered √ COMPLETE, then teams may not work on any BONUS Rounds
▲ Heats 3 & 4 are BONUS ROUNDS and may only be started after all other Olympic Events (1-5, all parts to "complete" tasks) are COMPLETE.
Heat 3 OR 4 OR both may be attempted. Points for bonus rounds only valid after 10 books
▲ Books for all 3 legs of Heats 1 & 2 may be started/read at the same times.
You should not wait for a leg to be completed before starting the next.
▲ ALL Members MUST read at least 1 book in Heat 1 OR 2.
Book 1 of required 3 books for Olympic 3 week event
▲ One member PER Leg maximum for Heat 1.
One member may read for each Leg of Heat 1, but only once per leg.
At minimum, 7 members may read for Heat 1
▲ Any number of members may read for Heat 2 (and Bonuses) as long as ALL members have read at least 1 book.
▲ Members, however, CANNOT relay back to back, at minimum they must read every other book.
▲ Can NOT exclude A, And, The. Titles starting with A, And, The can only be used if the previous book ended with A, And or The.
▲ Word MUST be exact (no adding of plurals, or be "part" of a different word).
▲ Each leg of the heat starts new and should begin with a NEW relay word.
Do not start the 2nd leg with the word that ends the 1st leg.
▲ Books do NOT need to be read in order, but you only get points for books in order.

For example, If you are trying to read a 5 book relay of: Another Day / Day After Night / Night Heat / Heat it Up / Up Up Up and you do not read "Night Heat" by the end of the Olympics round (July 21st) then your team will only receive 10 points for the first 2 books read, and no points for reading Heat it Up or Up Up Up, and nothing for the 7 book relay.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Do you need back up for Canada Ash? I can squeeze in 1 more book.

[Ashley]

Kathleen wrote: "Do you need back up for Canada Ash? I can squeeze in 1 more book."

Just messaged Rebecca as I can see she has Anne of Green Gables read but not shelved for WOBBLE - will let you know

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Completion Post

Book: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Date Read: 30 June
Pages: 460
Task: Shelves as fantasy, classics, contemporary, young adult

Take your pick :)

[Ashley]

Olympic Games


Follows overall Wobble Rules
▲ All of the overall WOBBLE rules must be followed

Books
▲ Because of the nature of Olympic Games ABSOLUTELY NO unfinished books from during Battleship will be accepted.
▲ All books for Olympic Games must be STARTED after July 2nd at 11am London time
▲ A book may only be used in once across all Wobble, books may not be used across Events

Participation
▲ All members must participate in Event 1, 2 and 5.
▲ Members bust be able to read at least 1 book per week for 3 weeks

Events
▲ Individual Events have their own rules and points system, please review carefully
▲ Heat 1 of Event 1: Title Relay must be completed prior to starting Event 2!
No books may be STARTED for any other Olympic Event until Heat 1 of Title Relay is COMPLETED and is entered into the spreadsheet!
▲ No bonus rounds may be STARTED until all events have been marked √ COMPLETE.

Questions
▲ All Questions go to Captains/Co-Captains who have majority in decision making
▲ Any questions Captains/Co-Captains cannot answer may be taken to mods BY Captain/Co-Captain only

[Ashley]

Lots of planning to be done for the relay! If you have a shelf with what you can read next can you please post it.

My shelf is; Next

These are all the books that I have available and can pick up at immediately and read - am I dying to read them all right now? No...the point is that I can read them. (No waiting on the library etc.).

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I suggest we use the READ BOOKS thread starting Olympics. We are getting chattier and it would be more organized.

[~~~N~~~]

I'm going to try and finish And I Darken on my computer and I'll put together a Next list later (which will be pretty much whatever I own in paperback).

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

We put up a spreadsheet for Olympics to keep track of stuff (reason to just chat lol) and everybody has access/can edit. Just PM me your emails :) Nikk and I have chatted up a storm already ;) There's chat there! lol of course we talked about real priorities in life aka checking Goodreads first thing in the morning.

I feel like when I'm awake everybody else is asleep.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Karishma, my bookstagram account is @wanderful.books

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Oh boy. Putting up a next list would take me ages (sheepishly hides face). I have a tendency of buying books faster than I read them. Then there's the matter of living right next to a cousin who's worse than I am. Buys from Book Outlet every freaking month. So yes, I prolly have that book. But I will try to put up one. *readies self*

[~~~N~~~]

My shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

[~~~N~~~]

Kathleen wrote: "We put up a spreadsheet for Olympics (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...) to keep track of stuff (reason to just chat lol) and e..."

I requested access

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

refresh Noa :) access sent.

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

I have made a July TBR list here of books I plan on reading July for challenges, review etc however as some of those won't be available till later in the month I will almost make a next shelf shortly moving those currently avialble across pus other stuff on my shelves at home or in my kindle/ibooks

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

made a shelf with available books I can read here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

I will go through my shelf when I get home tonight and throughout the afternoon as I think of them adding books to it :-)

Also gonna try and finish Sharp Objects before the battleship timer runs out and if I do then I will try squeeze in Cruel Crown as it is a short read but has the minimum page requirement :-)

actually does anyone have a book ending with the word cruel as it would make a perfect relay leg book :-P

[Ashley]

My email is; ashley.butters1@gmail.com.

Just a reminder for the relay that you cannot read books back to back and you cannot read more than one book per leg in Heat 1. Ie. 3 books maximum in Heat 1.

I would suggest that our quicker readers focus on multiple books in Heat 1. Noa, Gillian, Kathleen & Karishma I'm looking at you! It may be beneficial for you ladies to sort out Leg 1 and/or Leg 2 solely between you?

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

i could only think of books starting with cruel. crown seems to be a common word too.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Ashley i read somewhere that one member has a maximum of reading one leg straight? but i think this can be done only after we have unlocked all events.

yup, we can do that. lemme scour my shelf tonight after i settle in. this app should let us do more!

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

i think rules say we need minimum of 7 members to read for leg 1 and 2 of event 1 heat 1?

[Ashley]

Kathleen wrote: "Ashley i read somewhere that one member has a maximum of reading one leg straight? but i think this can be done only after we have unlocked all events.

yup, we can do that. lemme scour my shelf t..."

Nope: "▲ Members, however, CANNOT relay back to back, at minimum they must read every other book."

[Ashley]

Kathleen wrote: "i think rules say we need minimum of 7 members to read for leg 1 and 2 of event 1 heat 1?"

The whole of Heat 1 is 7 people minimum (Leg 1, 2 and 3)

"▲ One member PER Leg maximum for Heat 1.
One member may read for each Leg of Heat 1, but only once per leg.
At minimum, 7 members may read for Heat 1"

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I think for Event 1, it's strategically sound to read books with lesser pages as page count don't have bearing on points (unlike in Event 3 where we will need to consider page count). Also it will be faster for readers to complete the legs. Maybe just for the 1st round so we can unlock the other events and start working on them.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I dont get this.

One member PER Leg maximum for Heat 1.
One member may read for each Leg of Heat 1, but only once per leg.
At minimum, 7 members may read for Heat 1

I havent read the Q and As will prolly go red it tonight.
Olympics is a bloodbath.

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

I will check through my shorter books and some of my free e-books cos they will probably be shorter and pop them in either the spread sheet or my anext folder if I think they might work

[Rebecca]

Heyyyy girls! Sorry I've been MIA... It's taken me a good 30 minutes to catch up on all the chat!

I've finished Anne of Green Gables
date: 1/07/2016
Fits task: B2
How it fits: main location as Canada

I'm about 80 pages off An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination for task A9 (Read a book where the first word of the title is An.) I will be finished that tonight but will confirm when I'm done :) :)


I've got to say this next task is SUPER confusing. I have a USB with over 10,000 books on it that I acquired through my real-life book club. I also have access to 3 different cities libraries digital catalogue (plus it's the weekend and I can go in person too) And I have an audible membership with at least 6 credits. And I have a Scribd membership.

What I'm trying to say is: If you have a word you're stuck on, I'm happy to fill it because I have a lot of books on hand. Rather than list all of what I can read, if you give me the word I can present a few options.

Hope that makes sense!!!

[Skandia]

I have a very large kindle book collection, too. I think I can pick up a word if needed to fill some title chain.

For the first legs - shorter books would be great, that way we could unlock next rounds. BTW - is the min page requirement still 100?

[Viji]

Nikk wrote: "made a shelf with available books I can read here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

I will go through my shelf when I get home tonight and throughout the afternoon as..."

I do not have any book for the word 'Cruel' but have a book for 'Crown' - Crown in Candlelight . But someone has to find a book for Candlelight to work the sequence.

[Elspeth]

Ooh, combining my love of organisation and spreadsheets with reading! I might not get any actual work done this month :)

I'm in the same boat as Rebecca and Skandia. I'll start putting together a shelf of available books but could stretch outside of it if needed.

I'm working on The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, shelved as fantasy and young adult and the audio is narrated by a female. Should have it done today!

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Please remember:


▲ Members, however, CANNOT relay back to back, at minimum they must read every other book.
▲ Can NOT exclude A, And, The. Titles starting with A, And, The can only be used if the previous book ended with A, And or The.
▲ Word MUST be exact (no adding of plurals, or be "part" of a different word).
▲ Each leg of the heat starts new and should begin with a NEW relay word.

[Ashley]

Kathleen - I think you're interpreting this differently.

It's not "One member PER Leg maximum for Heat 1"

Each member can only read once PER Leg for Heat 1

[Ashley]

Rebecca wrote: "Heyyyy girls! Sorry I've been MIA... It's taken me a good 30 minutes to catch up on all the chat!

I've finished Anne of Green Gables
date: 1/07/2016
Fits task: B2
How it fits: main lo..."

Can you please add Anne to your wobble shelf?

My gosh, 10,000 books!?! Sheesh. Feel free to have a look through my shelf and see if you want to link anything up :)

[Rebecca]

I've just had Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children come off hold for me at the library.

I have to read Hold Still and Tell No One for my IRL bookclub.

I don't know if that helps or confuses things. Haha.

[Rebecca]

Ashley wrote: "Rebecca wrote: "Heyyyy girls! Sorry I've been MIA... It's taken me a good 30 minutes to catch up on all the chat!

I've finished Anne of Green Gables
date: 1/07/2016
Fits task: B2
How ..."

Ah yes. Oops. I will add it ASAP.

I'm having a look at your shelf now

[Rebecca]

argh, this requires some serious juggling!

Okay Ash, trying to pick books of mine with common words

You: Dear John
Me: John Dies at the End

Me: The Heiress of Water: A Novel
You: Water for Elephants
Me: Elephants Can Remember

Either "End" or "Remember" should be easy-ish to find matching words?

[Ange]

Sigh *shoulders relax*, kids are fed, Ive changed outta my heels and work clothes and have my jammies on, I have a wine and its the weekeend yay.

I also have a gazillion books that I own so can try and fit in with other people. Yes I too am a book hoarder.

My own shelf is here books I own

I dont have a book ending in Cruel though.

Strategy wise I think the suggestions to post our books read on the other thread would help Ashley and Kat organise a bit better and also reading shorter books rather than big tomes for this first challenge.

Im happy to start in whatever heat suits.

[Ashley]

Ange wrote: "Sigh *shoulders relax*, kids are fed, Ive changed outta my heels and work clothes and have my jammies on, I have a wine and its the weekeend yay.

I also have a gazillion books that I own so can t..."

WOW!!! 2894!? You've made me realise that I'm not a book hoarder at all hehe.

Actually my preference is for books to be posted on this thread too and to not use the other one. There are a lot of background threads for captains so one less thread that I have to keep an eye on is good for me :)

[Viji]

Rebecca wrote: "argh, this requires some serious juggling!

Okay Ash, trying to pick books of mine with common words

You: Dear John
Me: John Dies at the End

Me: The Heiress of W..."</i>



I would like to read

[book:Remember When by Nora Roberts


A few more for 'Remember' are:

by Lesley Pearse

by Sabine Durrant

Remember Me This Way by Sabine Durrant

Remember to Forget Deborah Raney

Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston

Remember Our Song: A Billionaire Romance by Emma South

I am sorry. There is some problem. I am not able to post the Nora Roberts book link properly.

[Ange]

lol its actually much higher than that as I only list the first book in the series. A mixture of paperback and kindle books.

I hear ya about too many threads.

Ive just requested access to the spreadsheet and eagerly awaiting ...

[Ashley]

What's your email? I think I might be able to invite you

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

I am currently on the train with my 4 year old. Still an hour and another train till we get home :-/ hoping I might be able to read some of sharp objects on the next train

[Gillian]

Book: Foal's Breadby Gillian Mears
Date: 1/7/16
Pages: 361
Fits tasks:F-6 - read a book where all word in title have same number of letters

[Ashley]

Just a note:

- There is a 12 hour gap between Battleships and Olympics. Any books that you finish/start during this time will not be used for Olympics BUT they can be used in Wheelathon. No "wasted" books.

[Gillian]

Ashley wrote: "Just a note:

- There is a 12 hour gap between Battleships and Olympics. Any books that you finish/start during this time will not be used for Olympics BUT they can be used in Wheelathon. No "waste..."
Oh thats handy to know as i have started a new one but it won't be finished in time for this one

[Gillian]

I'm way behind on whats going on in the next challenge but work was very busy and i needed to get that last book finished. I will try to read back now and catch up if there is anything you need from asap please let me know.

[Gillian]

Access denied can some one just let me know what word my book needs to start with so i can have a look for one i can't post my books as they are on my work computer. I have plenty of credits on Audible so i will just buy what ever is needed.

[Gillian]

Karishma wrote: "Gillian wrote: "Access denied can some one just let me know what word my book needs to start with so i can have a look for one i can't post my books as they are on my work computer. I have plenty o..."
I already did that a while ago and i applied also but can't get in still

[~~~N~~~]

I had 5000 books on my kindle last I checked, but atm, I only have access to like 50 books (those which I own in real life/can borrow from a friend). I also can reread a few books. I have many complete series. All the books I have and haven't read are on my shelf. I'll go look at the spreadsheet.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Gillian, sorry just logged in! Access ok now.

Have we decided on which books to read? *off to check spreadsheet*