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[Victoria Grace]

Oh wow! This looks awesome!

So just a though, For the first round, it would make sense if we could find shorter books, right? Maybe it's time we all start checking our ebook lists. I know I have a ton of free books I've accumulated on my ereader, that are super short. But our strategy will ultimately be up to Kazen, Margaret and Rose. I think it's probably important to set up our strategy ASAP =]

Anyway, I'm not a leader, I just thought I'd say something

For the second task, I've put aside A Court of Mist and Fury By Sarah Maas because I need Maas in my life(get it, it's a Spanish pun!) . That's a 640pg book.

[prag ♻]

Oh wow! Olympics seem fun:)

So...when do we start planning? The books I can definitely read in the first event are Vicious (probably not helpful, I think there is a book called lovely Vicious if anyone's interested), half bad, half wild, it's kind of a funny story, the moon and more, hollow city and library of souls. If none of these fit, I can find something else no problem, I just want to finish these first because they're already on my kindle:)

[prag ♻]

Tori wrote: "Oh wow! This looks awesome!

So just a though, For the first round, it would make sense if we could find shorter books, right? Maybe it's time we all start checking our ebook lists. I know I have ..."

ACOMAF was really good, I read it baout a week ago. RHYS❤!!

[Lory]

I don't think Vicious would work because its only one word and we need it to be 2 words! It's going to take some serious planning. I'm geeking out about it a bit!

[Ray (user2637)]

Wow, Olympics! So many things! Excited. :) :)

Ideas for the Title Relay, maybe we should group up and work out our books in little groups? So we've got:

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

Maybe we should get a group of 3 people to talk amongst themselves and get 3 books that connect for leg 1. Then a group of 5 to do the same for leg 2, etc? It would probably be easier than jumbling it all up on this thread.

Another idea is some of us could poke around and find chains of books and then post them. Example using some books from my TBR shelf:
Shouldn't You Be in School? , School For Murder , Murder at the Vicarage

and then people can jump on the chain, saying "I'll read School for Murder", or whatever...?

I hope this makes sense. :D :D

[Ray (user2637)]

Question for Captains: Do subtitles count? E.g. The Killer Book of Cold Cases: Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Most Baffling True Crime Cases of All Time -- do we use "cases" or "time" for the last word? Or.. can we choose either?

ETA: Related question: What about series names at the beginning? E.g. Doctor Who: The Forgotten Army -- to me the title is The Forgotten Army, and the "Doctor Who" part is just there as the series name (often put in parens after the title, but not so much with British books, see Primeval: Fight for Survival). So what counts as the first word?

[Tammie]

Finished
Big Rock
Romance, Contemporary, Funny/Humor
244 Pages

I don't think I'm going to be able to finish anything else...sooooo behind at work. I'll catch up on the next sessions rules later this eve...looks like everyone is getting exciting for the next round!

[Margaret]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Question for Captains: Do subtitles count? E.g. The Killer Book of Cold Cases: Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Most Baffling True Crime Cases of All Time -- do we use..."

Hi Ray,

It is the full listed title we need to work off of.

So for The Killer Book of Cold Cases: Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Most Baffling True Crime Cases of All Time we would use "Time"

For Doctor Who: The Forgotten Army we would use "Army"

And for Primeval: Fight for Survival we would use "Survival"

Easy :)

[Rose]

Pragya wrote: "Oh wow! Olympics seem fun:)

So...when do we start planning? The books I can definitely read in the first event are Vicious (probably not helpful, I think there is a book called lovely Vicious if a..."

Vicious! I love that book. :)

[Ray (user2637)]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "So what counts as the first word?"

Margaret wrote: "It is the full listed title we need to work off of."

With the Doctor Who and Primeval books then, we count the series name at the beginning?


24 hours of Battleship left!!!!!!

[Margaret]

Good morning Red Pandas!!

I am sipping my morning coffee and digesting all the info about Olympics... but to give you all an idea of what us captains have been thinking strategy wise....

1. We need to complete Heat 1 as fast as possible!! We can't even start reading for any other events until Heat 1 is complete. Given that page numbers makes no difference points wise, we will want to read short books (minimum is 100 pages) as fast as we can.

2. We only need a minimum of 7 team members to read for Heat 1 as we can have 1 team member read for each leg.

Ideally, we would like to form two groups:

Group 1 (for Heat 1) - those who can commit to reading a book within the next 2 to 3 days can read for Heat 1.

Group 2 (for Heat 2) - those who need a little longer to finish their first book for Olympics can read for Heat 2.

So please let us know which Heat you would like to read for.

[Ray (user2637)]

Finished:
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
172 pgs
30Jun
Classics, historical, ya, probably others.

[Victoria Grace]

kazen, didn't the rules say everyone has to participate in heat 1 2 and 4?

[Kazen]

First things first - we're on our last day of Battleship!

Check out the Battleship Countdown Timer here.

Be sure to get your books in before that hits zero so they count. :)

There is a 12 hour gap between the end of Battleship and the start of Olympics. The Olympic start timer is here. Books started during this gap time will NOT count for the Olympics. The rule breaks down like this:

Any books started now, and not completed til Wheel (the event after Olympics) works for Wheel as well.
Any books started now, and completed in Olympics works for Wheel.
Any books started any time and completed anytime (through the end of Wheel-a-Thon) works for Wheel-a-Thon.

Maybe the best news - The Olympic Events and Rules are here!!

Give that a thorough look, and if you have a question look again - the mods have done a great job anticipating possible issues. We'll answer any remaining questions you have here, of course. :)

And now, on to the fun part... strategy! You may want to read the rules before continuing, it'll sound like Greek otherwise. ;)

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We're hoping to finish Event One, Heat One as quickly as possible to open up the other events. If you do not think you'll be able to finish your first book in three to five days, for any reason, please let us know. We will place you in Heat Two, which is not as time-sensitive as Heat One.

List your "on hand TBR" - books that you can start right away. Keep in mind that for this first event there is no page count bonus, so the shorter the better! The title needs to be at least two words so we can build a relay.

We'll look at everyone's replies and see what kind of chains we can make. Someone may be able to search down a book to finish a chain - we're not expecting pages for your TBR, your top choices will do. If you have titles with one word fear not, we will be able to use them in other events.

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Here's my list to start us off:

Who Will Catch Us As We Fall - 400 pages (ouch)
The Red Car - 224 pages
Hidden Figures - 384 pages

I also have a bunch of books on my e-library wishlist. Ones I feel fairly confident will stay available (more than one copy available, not a buzzy book):
Woman with a Blue Pencil - 191 pages
Somewhere in France - 373 pages
Urban Shaman - 410 pages
Bonds of Trust - 320 pages
Then We Came to the End - 387 pages

I am also open to reading random Harlequins to fill out chains. :)

(The page numbers are for me - you don't have to include them if you don't want to.)

[Kazen]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Maybe we should get a group of 3 people to talk amongst themselves and get 3 books that connect for leg 1. Then a group of 5 to do the same for leg 2, etc? It would probably be easier than jumbling it all up on this thread.

Another idea is some of us could poke around and find chains of books and then post them."

Yea ideas! A couple of things:

To start, at least, I'd like to get everyone's TBR out in the open - having a lot of people look at the data will help us find the best chains. :) If we split into small groups right away it kind of limits our options, I think.

Also, re: posting chains - we have a widely diverse group here, from literally all over the world. Books that are available and easy to get for one person may be next to impossible for others. So I'm thinking we can start with these lists, get some chains started, and then we can search our stacks/e-libraries/kindle unlimited/etc. for books to fill the gaps. :)

[Kazen]

Okay guys - I'm off to work this morning and it's a two hour commute. I think Margaret and Rose are around right now but they have to sleep/work too, so please understand if we suddenly go dark or don't answer questions right away. I'll do as well as I can from the train but it'll be maybe six hours before I can sit down at the computer again. Thanks for your understanding. :)

[Margaret]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "With the Doctor Who and Primeval books then, we count the series name at the beginning? "

Hi Ray, yes we do, as it is part of the full title.

Also, we can look at the cover of the book to confirm the exact title, but this is mainly if part of the title is in (parenthesis).

I hope this makes sense! Take a look at your TBRs and if we have books that you are unsure about, us captains will give you a definite Yes or No answer - we enjoy using our powers like that ;)

[Ella]

it's a quarter to four in the morning here. i just finished 'nothing personal'. ill update d book details in d morning and catch up on this thread. while u all enjoy ur morning coffee.. im off to bed!

[Kazen]

Margaret wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "we enjoy using our powers like that ;) ."

Bwahahahaha!

~rubs hands together~

[Ray (user2637)]

I'd like to join the first heat, but it starts at 3am for me and I'm a late sleeper (10 or 11am). I could get a book done that same day though, which is probably fast enough.

I have an "on shelf" shelf and can get a lot of books really quickly to read on my ipod, so that's not a worry for me.

Here's some short books I have on hand (tried to limit starting with "a" "an" "the"):
The Mayflower Project
The Lemonade War
Hope Was Here
School For Murder
Double Identity
Doll Bones
Who Could That Be at This Hour?
Nice Day to Die
Rough Rhythm
Magic of the Angels
Living Dead Girl
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall


A good source for short books is the Lazy Readers' Book Club, just be sure to check word count!

[Ray (user2637)]

Kazen wrote: "Woman with a Blue Pencil"

I have Automatic Woman that chains to this. Doesn't seem to be much out there that ends with 'automatic' or start with 'pencil' though.

[Kazen]

Countdown to end of Battleship

Bonus
We are in bonus land, huzzah! Each person can only read one book for each square, but other than that there are no restrictions. Well, other than reading for the right genre and having enough pages and stuff. ;)

These are the genres we have:

romance (x3)
mystery (x2)
horror
paranormal
young adult (x3)
non-fiction (x2)
science fiction (x4)
contemporary (x3)
chick lit
fantasy (x4)
historical (x2)
classics (x2)
humor

(view spoiler)[B1 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people
Primary: Kazen, Pragya
Bonus (5/8 complete): Ella, Brianna, Tammie, Tori, Lory

A1 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people
Primary: Tammie, Tori
Bonus (0/8): Ella

E7 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Tori
Bonus (1/8): Tammie

E5 - HIT! - BONUS- Read a book shelved as mystery by at least 10 people
Primary: Tammie, Rose
Bonus (1/8): Ray

H2 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as mystery by at least 10 people
Primary: Karin, Lory
Bonus (0/8):

H5 - HIT! - BONUS -Read a book shelved as horror by at least 10 people
Primary: Kate, Sam
Bonus (0/8):

I9 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as paranormal by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Annabeth
Bonus (0/8):

A3 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as young adult by at least 10 people
Primary: Sydney, Lori
Bonus (0/8):

D5 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as young adult by at least 10 people
Primary: Riah, Pragya
Bonus (0/8):

I8 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as young adult by at least 10 people
Primary: Rose, Pragya
Bonus (0/8):

F5 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as non fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Sam, Rose
Bonus (0/8):

C7 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as non fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Riah, Lory
Bonus (1/8): Rose

A5 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Brianna, Annabeth
Bonus (5/8): Kazen, Sam, Tammie, Ray, Kate

A4 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Tori, Rose
Bonus (0/8):

D9 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Annabeth
Bonus (0/8):

F10 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Riah, Ray
Bonus (0/8):

F3 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people
Primary: Rose, Tammie
Bonus (1/8): Ella

B7 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people
Primary: Kazen, Margaret
Bonus (1/8): Ella

A10 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people
Primary: Karin, Pragya
Bonus (1/8): Ella

A6 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as chick lit by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Lory
Bonus (0/8):

I10 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
Primary: Kate, Ella
Bonus (6/8): Sam, Margaret, Annabeth, Rose, Brianna, Ray

G5 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
Primary: Margaret, Lory
Bonus (0/8):

E3 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
Primary: Pragya, Ella
Bonus (0/8):

D7 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Rose
Bonus (0/8):

J2 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as historical by at least 10 people
Primary: Sydney, Sam
Bonus (0/8):

J4 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as historical by at least 10 people
Primary: Tammie, Karin
Bonus (0/8):

D3 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as classics by at least 10 people
Primary: Sam, Ray
Bonus (1/8): Brianna

H1 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as classics by at least 10 people
Primary: Sam, Rose
Bonus (1/8): Ray

B10 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as humor by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Ray
Bonus (0/8): (hide spoiler)]

Misses
In case of book emergency break glass click spoiler
(view spoiler)[B9 - miss - Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female/male names in Australia

C6 - miss - Read a book which has the main location (setting) as Canada

D2 - miss - Read a book written by two or more people under same name (example: Illona Andrews)

G7 - miss - Read a book which has the main location (setting) as the UK

J1 - miss - Read a book where author's first and last names have same initials
Book 1: Margaret
Book 2: Rose

E4 - miss- Read a book where the first word of the title is An

J9 - miss - Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female/male names in USA according to nameberry

C8 - miss - Read a book where all word in title have same number of letters (example: Gone Girl)

I2 - miss - Read a book that is book 5 in a series

E10 - miss - Read a book where sum of pages is even number (use read edition)

C3 - miss - Read a book which has the main location (setting) as Australia or New Zealand

C10 - miss - Read a book that is book 2 in a series

E8 - miss - Read a book whose author uses initials only (example: J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien)

F1 - miss - Read a book by an author who died in 2015-2016

G9 - miss - Read a book that is book 4 in a series

I3 - miss - Read a book with double letter in title (example Harry Potter and...)

J6 - miss - Read a book where sum of pages is odd number (use read edition)

F2 - miss - Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female/male names in Germany according to nameberry

G3 - miss - Read a book with a title with 6 or less letters

A8 - miss - Read a book where the first word of the title is The

A9 - miss - Read a book that is book 1 in a series

G1 - miss - Read a book where the first word of the title is A
(hide spoiler)]

Read like the wind! :)

[Rose]

My starting list/books I'm staring at on my shelf

The Horse and His Boy
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
The Player of Games
Promise of Blood
The Court of the Air
A Wild Sheep Chase
The Constant Princess
I Can't Tell You-really short
The Hero and the Crown
The Dain Curse

[Ray (user2637)]

Rose wrote: "My starting list/books I'm staring at on my shelf

The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
The Player of Games
"

I plugged them into my excel formulas & no matches with the books Kazen or I posted. Alas! Others will post books though! :)

ETA: Oof, the only one I have to match you atm is Blood: The Stuff of Life, which is a tad longer and denser than I wanted for this round. Hm.

[Rose]

We should all just read cozy mysteries. They always end/begin in death, mystery, or murder. lol

[Kazen]

Rose wrote: "We should all just read cozy mysteries. They always end/begin in death, mystery, or murder. lol"

I didn't even think of that! I'll have to recheck my list when I get home... gotta try and stay away from the ones that start with The/A, though, 'cause that won't link with much, hehe.

[Kazen]

Ray - go Excel go! :)

[Ray (user2637)]

Kazen wrote: "Ray - go Excel go! :)"

:) So much easier than checking manually. That and the "search and add books" (which only searches through ones own shelves) will be a great help to us in this!

[Ray (user2637)]

Rose wrote: "We should all just read cozy mysteries. They always end/begin in death, mystery, or murder. lol"

Hahaha, I have 7 that end with "murder" and 1 that starts with it.

[Karin]

My husband and I are going away for the long weekend so I will only have access to (most) of the books on this list >> Help Me Decide-ARC

Based on what Rose, Kazan and Ray posted - I could do one of these (the ones with a * would be my preference)

Rose
Bloodlines
You Own Me*

Kazan
Trust Your Eyes (this one is almost 500 p so I'd have to do heat 2)
Trust No One

Ray
Here Comes the Sun
Angels Burning*
Murder In Missoula
Girl on the Run*

I'm also hoping to read
Broken Promise
First Comes Love*

And then if I look at the shortest books I have access to, I come up with
The Replacement Wife*
A London Affair
The Lies We Tell*
When Dreams Come True*

[Rose]

I forgot about the article rule. So mean! lol

[Rose]

We can use them to start of each leg though, so I would still list them.

[Ray (user2637)]

I don't mind reading Me Talk Pretty One Day again.

Rose.................. / Karin ............. / Ray
I can't tell you / You own me / Me talk pretty one day

Anyone have a book starting with "day"?

[Rose]

Finished


6.30.16

[Kazen]

Rose wrote: "We can use them to start of each leg though, so I would still list them."

True! :D

[Margaret]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "I don't mind reading Me Talk Pretty One Day again.

Rose.................. / Karin ............. / Ray
I can't tell you / You own me / Me talk pretty one day..."

Nice work team - there's leg 1 of heat 1 done :)

I've just put together my list here. There are 57 books on there that I think could be used to match up with another title.

[Ray (user2637)]

Margaret wrote: "Nice work team - there's leg 1 of heat 1 done :)"

Or we can try to add to it for leg 2 or 3; "day" seems like a somewhat easy one to match. :)

[Ray (user2637)]

Got another triple!

Kazen................./ Karin.............. / Margaret
Bonds of Trust / Trust No One / One to Keep

[Lory]

This is my list of books easy to find. It's my "on nook" shelf.https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Short list here! Some are a bit longer (300 pages), but chick lits are pretty quick reads for me, typically
Leave It to Cleavage
Faking It
Snow & Ash: Endless Winter
Hostile Makeover
Brave New World
Dead Wrong
Storm Siren
50 Ways to Hex Your Lover

On a separate note, are we allowed to read when the first leg is going on? For example can heat 1 and 2 go on at the same time?

[Rose]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Got another triple!

Kazen................./ Rose.............. / Margaret
Bonds of Trust / Trust No One / One to Keep

Though Rose is in both, so I think they can't be in the same heat?
ETA: Nope,..."

I wouldn't mind that. But Trust no One isn't mine.

[Ray (user2637)]

Rose wrote: "I wouldn't mind that. But Trust no One isn't mine."

Eep, sorry! The spreadsheet ate one of my headings. It's Karin's book. Changed in the post above. :) Thanks for letting me know.

[Ray (user2637)]

Lory wrote: "On a separate note, are we allowed to read when the first leg is going on? For example can heat 1 and 2 go on at the same time? "

Rule says "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." :D

Lory, you've got one match so far from your short list. I will import your longer list now.

I've come up with 2 triples and 7 pairs so far... though 4 of those pairs are just me and Karin, hehe.

[Rose]

Broken Promise(Karin)/Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it))/Blood: The stuff of Life (Ray) also works

[Karin]

I'm up for reading any of the three that I've been listed for so far - I'll make sure to download them before I leave tomorrow so I have them once everything is decided on

[Ray (user2637)]

Rose wrote: "Broken Promise(Karin)/Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it))/Blood: The stuff of Life (Ray) also works"

Good one! Not for Heat 1 though; I expect my Blood book will go slowly since is academic. But we can definitely get this set in there somewhere.

To add on; ending with "Broken" or starting with "Life".

[Victoria Grace]

Firefly Hollow
The Substitute
Anywhere But Here
Darkness Reigns
Loyalty and Lies
Kill Switch: A Vigilante Serial Killer Action Thriller
The Legend of the Blue Eyes
Crying Wolf 101pgs
The Deepest Red
Hollow Gods over 1000 pages (please don't pick this one)
Night After Night
Sweet Girl
Lost & Found
Rescue Me
Moonlight Eyes
A Beautiful Mess
Promised (On the cover it says one night promised so we would have to get mods approval on this one)
Lessons in Love
Blood's Fury
This Beautiful Stranger
Slave To The Billionaire
A Demon's Promise


Thank you Wobble for reminding me how many free books I've downloaded...... can anyone match these?...I can apparently make a chain by myself with some of these....I'm going to go back and make sure all of them are over 100 pages. I'll delete the ones that are not.

[Kazen]

Guys! I just realized something - one if the books deep in my library wish list is There but for the! It would be the perfect way to sneak a the into the middle of a chain, bwahaha.

eta: Maybe Heat 2, though, I don't think it'll be a quick read

[Rose]

Tori wrote: "Firefly Hollow
The Substitute
Anywhere But Here
Darkness Reigns
Loyalty and Lies
[book:Kill Switch: A Vigilante Seria..."

"Hollow Gods over 1000 pages (please don't pick this one)" hehe.

Maybe for the page jumping event. lol

[Rose]

Finished, Whew. Time for bed.

[Ray (user2637)]

Kazen wrote: "Guys! I just realized something - one if the books deep in my library wish list is There but for the! It would be the perfect way to sneak a the into the middle of a chain, bwahaha...."

<3 Awesome.