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[Ray (user2637)]

Kazen wrote: "...between laundry and studying."

What are you studying?

[Kazen]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "What are you studying?"

Japanese for work - so many words, so little time! :)

[Kazen]

We're coming down to crunch time - a little over a week left in the Olympics!

I've been looking through the spreadsheet and would like to check in with you guys to see how you're doing. We still have some holes to fill - some of them required books. It may be possible to shift things around, so if you don't think you'll be able to finish a book in the next week let us know. I'd especially like to hear from:

Kate - I have you down for Music for Wartime Stories in the Event 1 relay and The Winner's Curse in Event 5, Chariot. You also need a book to go towards Event 2, Page Jumping. You've already finished a book for Event 1 so we might be able to find someone to cover that Music book if you haven't started it yet. Almost any book can go towards Page Jumping, but Chariot needs to have a knife/dagger on the cover. Let us know where you're at.

Karin - I have you down for Angels Burning for Event 1 Relay... from your profile you were 60% done four days ago, so I hope it's nearly complete now! :) You're also down for Plain Truth for Event 5, Chariot (required book) and need something to go towards Page Jumping. Let us know what you've been up to.

Sam - Once you finish To Kill a Mockingbird you'll have your required books done, yea! I know you've been traveling... were you able to finish it on the plane by any chance?

Tori - Golden Son is your last required book, for Chariot. How's it going?

Riah - Finishing Tortilla Flat for Page Jumping will be your last required task. Do you think you'll finish soon?

There are also some tasks that have books that would be harder to switch out - many of you are currently reading them but I'd just like to mention them here so we're all on the same page. :)

Pragya, Caly, and Lory, you all have books in for Distance (Second Chance Summer, Bronze, and A Study in Silks, respectively). Read on!

Margaret, Rose, and Kazen (eep!), you are down for Fight Club Sprints. Read on, and quickly!

Finishing all the required tasks will open up bonus and/or supplemental books for us, so I'd like to wrap up these tasks as soon as possible. If you weren't named in this post keep doing what you're doing, and read like the wind, everyone!

[Karin]

Kazen wrote: "

We're coming down to crunch time - a little over a week left in the Olympics!

I've been looking through the spreadsheet and would like to check in with you guys to see how you're doing. We still..."

Hi Kazan-

I'm still at 60% on Angels Burning - I just updated that this morning. I should finish up by Friday. I can start Plain Truth next but it's a little lengthy - I don't know if I'll be able to fit in another one over the next week - should I look to swap something out?

[Kazen]

Karin - thanks for checking in so quickly! Keep going on Angels Burning and let us know when you're done. You can swap Plain Truth out with another (shorter?) book, but it would need to have a open landscape on the cover. Luckily any book at all over 100 pages works for Page Jumping so you could read something short for that.

I'll be able to give a more definite answer about other kinds of swaps once more people check in, so watch this space and read on!

[Ray (user2637)]

Kazen wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "What are you studying?"

Japanese for work - so many words, so little time! :)"

Ah, of course. :)

BTW - I did Omni-sack: D - Welcome 10 new members to the group, and sent it in. I think we're banking this one for future events..? There's still one left if anyone wants to join a buddy read, haha. Like we don't have enough reading planned, right? :D :D

[Kazen]

Ray - that's awesome, nice work! There must be a reward or two in there worth banking in case we can use it in the future (no guarantee, though).

[Ray (user2637)]

Tammie wrote: "Finished
Lace & Lead, M.A.Grant
7/13
Kindle version 186 pgs
Discs Round 3...for 'lead'"

Psst... @Kazen ^^ :D

[Brianna]

@Kazen I think you may have missed Tammie's post. She post about 5 hours ago that she had finished Lace & Lead

[Brianna]

Scratch that didnt see Ray's post haha

[Kazen]

And I missed all the posts! Fixing it now, thanks guys!

[Brianna]

No problem :D

[Ray (user2637)]

We got your back, Cap!

[Brianna]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Red Pandas! The COOLEST thing happened to me today, OMG! I was navigating downtown Santa Cruz, looking for a certain place when we drove right by a Little Free Library! I squealed and my partner pu..."

That is so awesome. I live in a small town, so we have one of those outside of a church. Its mainly filled with children's books though :(

[Ray (user2637)]

Brianna wrote: "That is so awesome. I live in a small town, so we have one of those outside of a church. Its mainly filled with children's books though :( "

Aw. Hit up a thrift store and grab some adult books to put in! Then wait a couple weeks and see if other people have taken some adult books and added others. :) Or maybe the caretakers will edit them out... did the sign say anything about it being just for kids books?

[Tammie]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Red Pandas! The COOLEST thing happened to me today, OMG! I was navigating downtown Santa Cruz, looking for a certain place when we drove right by a Little Free Library! I squealed and my partner pu..."

Love this!

[Kazen]

Tammie wrote: "Finished
Lace & Lead, M.A.Grant
Discs Round 3...for 'lead'"

Sorry I missed this the first time through - great work! I never thought we would find "lead" as a noun so easily, hehe.

[Brianna]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Brianna wrote: "That is so awesome. I live in a small town, so we have one of those outside of a church. Its mainly filled with children's books though :( "

Aw. Hit up a thrift store and grab some..."

No it doesn't say that, but maybe I'll take a few children's books and give them to my nephew and put a few young adult books in there just in case.

[Tammie]

im currently reading another 'coaching' book. I should finished Sat night. Let me know what you want me to read next please...I'm open to just about anything...point...ill get it done!

[Kazen]

Tammie - thanks so much, we really appreciate it! Once we hear back from more people I'll be able to give you a more definite answer... so maybe put another bug in my ear in 24-48 hours? :D

[Kate]

Will post soon! Sorry if I don't post much. It's been a long week, hauling and sorting through stuff. Eeeep, I hate moving! :(

Don't worry though because I'm reading both books I have previously listed.

Hope you have a fabulous week!

[Kazen]

Kate - moving is awful! Thanks for checking in, I feel a lot better knowing you're reading... and that a rogue piece of furniture didn't squish you to death. But that last part may just be me. ;)

[Margaret]

Well, it was tough but I got my 4 hour Sprint done ;)

[Kazen]

Margaret wrote: "Well, it was tough but I got my 4 hour Sprint done ;)"

Way to go Margaret! Was the book enjoyable, at least?

[Margaret]

Yes, it was quite good Kazen - romantic suspense with more suspense than romance which was good - and surprising seeing it is a Harlequin Romantic Suspense novel !!

[Ray (user2637)]

Finished:

Z. Rex by Steve Cole
256 pgs
14Jul
For PJ

ETA: we're down to 20 books needed to mark all events complete!! Go Team! Woohoo!

[Ray (user2637)]

Margaret wrote: "Well, it was tough but I got my 4 hour Sprint done ;)"

Good job! :D

[Kazen]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Finished:

Z. Rex by Steve Cole
For PJ

ETA: we're down to 20 books needed to mark all events complete!! Go Team! Woohoo!"

Huzzah! :D

[Ella]

Kazen wrote: "Ella wrote: "Actually could you put me down for Make-Believe Wedding first (pj 160pages) after the other book i cant seem to get into visibly broken. I'll do that aftr 'make-be..."

Thanks Kazen! I didn't want to DNF Jagger since I've never DNF-ed a book till date (I'm waiting to see what finally breaks that chain LOL). I'll do visibly broken (since I got it from Netgalley) but I want to do by Becca Jameson first. (hero's a MMA fighter but I'm not sure if it'll qualify for coaching; if not it could go towards PJ or Wheel).

[Ella]

I also finished
Make-Believe Wedding by Sarah Mayberry
14th July
160 pages
Page Jumping

[Kazen]

Ella - It will be really interesting to see what breaks that chain! Hehe. I have you down for the Mayberry and will hold off on slotting in Come for now because it could fit in several places. Read on, read on! :D

[Ella]

Margaret wrote: "Well, it was tough but I got my 4 hour Sprint done ;)"

One captain down...Two more to go! **dancing**Go captains- Go captains- we're cheering- we're cheering :P :D

[Kazen]

Complete!


The Red Car by Marcy Dermansky
224 pages
PJ

I really loved this book - it flew by. Kind of wishing I saved it for the sprint! ;)

[prag ♻]

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Date read: 10/07/14
Read for: Page Jumping, heat 2 leg 3
Pages: 336


Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson
Pages: 482
Date read: 13/07/16
Read for: OE3, round 3, long distance page count

[Kazen]

Yeaaaaaa Pragya! ~high five~

[prag ♻]

Kazen wrote: "Yeaaaaaa Pragya! ~high five~"

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[Kazen]

Oh! I forgot to mention - we're good to go with the Page Jumping bonus round, which we got with one of our Omni-sack bonuses. The spreadsheet has been updated with the new rounds.

[Tammie]

The coaching spots...do we need those for points? Do we have to finish those?

[Kazen]

The coaching spots are not required but supplemental. Reading them gets us nice points, though. :)

To finish the "main" part of the challenge we need to:

- Finish the last two Event One relay books
- Finish Event Two Page Jumping (Heats 1 and 2) with at least one book from every team member
- Finish the last two Event Three Distance books
- Finish the Event Four sprints
- Finish the last four Event Five Chariot books

We have opened up the bonus rounds of PJ early so they can be worked on, too. Once Chariot is done the supplemental books for that open, which are a hefty 15 points each. Look at the spreadsheet for a more through book by book breakdown. :)

[Caly ☯ Crazy Book Lady]

Finished Bronze for the distance event!

Heading home to better internet so let me know what i can read next to help us finish the Olympics.

[Lory]

Completion Post!A Study in Silks

Event 3 round 4. If Caly is done with her book, that is our first event finished!

This book took a little to get into, but about halfway through I was really enthralled.

The next book I would like to read is 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover which has 244 pages for the ebook, which should work for page jumping normal or bonus.

[Brianna]

Finished


Cristal: Seeking the truth by Anne-Rae Vasquez
163 pages
Read July 14, 2016
Task: Page Jumping

[Lory]

I am also willing to read whatever needs to be filled! I travel again next week, so I can take a longer book as well if needed as I usually have a lot of time to read. I travel by myself so I do a bit of exploring, but also a lot of reading and TV.

I'm heading to Knoxville!

[Ella]

hey , just stopping by to say that my book "come" works for MMA coaching. :)

[Ray (user2637)]

Kazen wrote: " Once Chariot is done the supplemental books for that open, which are a hefty 15 points each."

And, if we get all 10 of them, that 15 pts goes up to (an average of) 20 pts each when the 50 bonus pts kick it!!! Definitely the biggest bang for our books, haha. :)

[Ray (user2637)]

Lory wrote: "Event 3 round 4. If Caly is done with her book, that is our first event finished!"

YAY, event finished, woooo hoooooo!!!!!!!! Go team!!

[Ray (user2637)]

Kazen wrote: "Oh! I forgot to mention - we're good to go with the Page Jumping bonus round, which we got with one of our Omni-sack bonuses. The spreadsheet has been updated with the new rounds."

NICE! We should try to get some 501 - 700 page books for this, dontcha think? They get more points and the bonus for finishing Heat 4 is more than for Heat 3!

Heat 4:
➜ 25 points per book 501 pages - 651+ pages
➜ Bonus 60 points upon completion

[Ray (user2637)]

Brianna wrote: "Finished


Cristal: Seeking the truth by Anne-Rae Vasquez
163 pages
Read July 14, 2016
Task: Page Jumping"

Counting this one, we seem to have a measley DOZEN books left to until the event is √complete. YEEESSSSS!!

[Lory]

Can Sprinters read for coaching other sprinters?

[Ray (user2637)]

Lory wrote: "Can Sprinters read for coaching other sprinters?"

I think maybe...? From rules:

▲ A fighter may become a coach at any time, but may not coach themselves. :)