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i found silver in my 2 books in the wheel reserve list... in case u need them- substitute bride- " Instead, it had looked like a spill of silver glitter."
an offer he cant refuse- "...all she could think about was pulling a napkin from the silver canister..."
Ella wrote: "i found silver in my 2 books in the wheel reserve list... in case u need them- substitute bride- " Instead, it had looked like a spill of silver glitter."
an offer he cant refuse- "...all she cou..."
Me too:
Half lost- 'Soul's eyes are on me, still full of silver shards.'
I got my nook working! Which means I now have over 20 books on hand and a severe case of novel indecision.
Finished!
Dazzled by Silver 7/28
158 pgs
Author: Lacey Silks
Characters:
Cindy
Gabriel Silver
Kendra
Noel Martinez
Reese
Samantha Conner
Tristan
Blue and silver crystallized rock glistened on the dark background reflecting the pendant lights above. Pg 1
Mod
Milon boasts that he once completed a wheelathon word by reading 4 books shelved as Fiction
Bethany wrote: "I got my nook working! Which means I now have over 20 books on hand and a severe case of novel indecision."I can roll a d20 for you! :D
Moderators of NBRC wrote: " Milon boasts that he once completed a wheelathon word by reading 4 books shelved as Fiction"
Kelly wrote: "Check over here"I poked around & found it but thanks.
Ella wrote: "Ray, love the expression! >.<"
:) She says, "Baroo?" :D
@Bethany - one of the Omni bonuses is 'use a book under 100 pgs'. You could make an argument Midsummer Night's Dream! :)
We'd need a word with 4 letters to do the bonus (boast thing...?), right?
Pragya wrote: "We'd need a word with 4 letters to do the bonus (boast thing...?), right?"It reads sort of like that, yeah, but since the shortest word on our wheel is 5 letters, I'd assume not. I think it just means the books we use must include 4 shelved as fiction.
Finished:
400 pgs
29Jul
ABC E G I LM RST W + silver
The Revolution of Ivy (t)
Amy Engel (a)
(view spoiler)
Pragya wrote: "We'd need a word with 4 letters to do the bonus (boast thing...?), right?"This is confusing to me.
We don't have any books shelved over 500 pages either.
I'm ready a 600+ on the side while I do other shorter books. I suppose one strategy might be for a couple faster readers to read a few longer books to get on the shelf.
A couple of the TA books that haven't been used are over 500 as well.
Hi guys!I'll be catching up with the thread in a minute but first I want to talk about this boost because yea boosts! Our boast from Milon is:
"Milon boasts that he once completed a wheelathon word by reading 4 books shelved as Fiction "
So if we meet or beat Milon's boast by completing a word with 4 or more books shelved as fiction we get an Omni-bonus. The full details are here, but it's basically like the Olympic bonuses with a couple more added in (lower color bonus level by one, request respin, etc.).
Matching/beating boasts is not required. But it's fun and we can get some omni-bonuses out of it, yea!
A note about this boast - "shelved as Fiction" means that Fiction shows up on the main book page without clicking through. I have a feeling we'll clear this one easily, and I'm really curious what we'll get next!
I know at least one person finished a silver titled book - huzzah! I'm going to go through the thread now and get the spreadsheet up to date, then hopefully enter our first round of NBRCBOM. :) If you have any questions fire away and I'll answer them when I get back to this spot in the thread.
Tammie wrote: "Finished!
Taming Natasha, Nora Roberts
Silver in text: She fastened long silver columns at her ears, gave her hair a quick toss, then hurried back..."
Nicely done! I've only read a few Nora Roberts books, I should really read more of them...
Tammie wrote: "When do we need to have 'silver' word books read by?"There's no particular hard end date, as we haven't decided when we'll spin for a new word yet, though I doubt it will be soon soon. ;) Even if you finish your book after we spin a new word it's totally fine - it will be full of letters, and you never know when we'll get another silver task!
Lory wrote: "Finished
Author: Sophia Bennett"
Our first silver book, huzzah!
"Let me know what we need!"
Boooooks. Feed the spreadsheet boooooooks. With letters. And maybe some colors. ;)
Bethany wrote: "
The Silver Dream by Neal Gaiman and Michael Reaves"
Two silver books back to back! This is the awesome :)
Ella wrote: "i found silver in my 2 books in the wheel reserve list... in case u need them- substitute bride- " Instead, it had looked like a spill of silver glitter."
an offer he cant refuse- "...all she cou..."
Excellent, thank you!
Pragya wrote: "Me too:Half lost- 'Soul's eyes are on me, still full of silver shards.' "
Got it! :)
Tammie wrote: "Finished!Dazzled by Silver 7/28"
Waitwaitwait, that's three silver books in a row?!
~ded~
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Finished:"Woo-hoo, baroo! :D
Mod
Your word is NBRCBOM!
Bonuses:
• silver - Color is in Title
• silver - Color found in Text
And we were able to use that spin to fill our Milon boast, huzzah! Bethany, Tammie, Margaret, and Rose had fiction books that went towards meeting the challenge. Way to go team! Boasts will be posted at random intervals so we'll just have to wait and see when the lovely Milon will visit us next. :)
I'll update the
Woooo, Red Pandas!
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Current word: NBRCBOM
Possible books for each letter (remembering that some overlap):
N - 6
B - 8 (need 2)
R - 10
C - 9
O - 7
M - 9
Color Bonus 1: Silver in title
Possible: 1
Color Bonus 2: Silver in text
Possible: 2
Most needed: Silver in title (remember, it must have a spell out letter we can use!)
Also could use: books with N and/or O in the spell out (Bs are nice, too)
Ray (user2637) wrote: "@Bethany - one of the Omni bonuses is 'use a book under 100 pgs'. You could make an argument Midsummer Night's Dream! :)"What is the shortest that this can be? Because I've actually read several things that might (?) be considered novellas under 100 pages, but I never added them to my wobble thing because I assumed they didn't count.
Bethany wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "@Bethany - one of the Omni bonuses is 'use a book under 100 pgs'. You could make an argument Midsummer Night's Dream! :)"What is the shortest that this can be? Because I've..."
No idea! That's something for the Cap'ns to answer. I've read a few shorties during wobble time too... We should have a(nother) look at the prizes, see what the "best" are. :)
Kazen wrote: "Most needed: Silver in title (remember, it must have a spell out letter we can use!)Also could use: books with N and/or O in the spell out "
We need Bs too right? It takes 2 per submission so we only have 7.5-submissions-worth currently.
Finished:
How Green this Land, How Blue this Sea by Mira Grant
132 pages
Finished July 29th
A handful of characters that I have written down somewhere. We may want to hang on to this one for a "blue" or "green" challenge though.
Bethany wrote: "Finished:How Green this Land, How Blue this Sea by Mira Grant
132 pages
Finished July 29th
A handful of characters that I have written ..."
Characters :
Mahir Gowda
Jack Ward
Olivia Mebberson
Hotaru
Zane
George Maxwell
Julie Seghers-Ward
Rachel
Reynaldo Fajardo
Kazen wrote: "Tammie wrote: "When do we need to have 'silver' word books read by?"There's no particular hard end date, as we haven't decided when we'll spin for a new word yet, though I doubt it will be soon s..."
I thought we had a spin at the start of a new week...ill go read the rules again. Thanks for putting up with my questions...and I must have read the 'boast' incorrectly...I thought it said 4 over 500 pgs. I'm losing it!
Finished The Inner Circle
By: Brad Metzler
Characters:
Benjamin "Beecher" White
Nico Hadrian
Rupert Baird
Orson Wallace
Clementine Kaye
Dallas Gentry
Tot
Rina Alba
Venkat Khazei
Steven Palmiotti
Laurent
Currently going to read
which has a sequel
Should be quicker reads so hopefully this weekend finish them up.
Tammie wrote: "I thought we had a spin at the start of a new week...ill go read the rules again. Thanks for putting up with my questions...and I must have read the 'boast' incorrectly...I thought it said 4 over 500 pgs. I'm losing it! "Nah, you're not losing it! The 500+pgs was the example in the Milon thread. :) Interestingly, I clicked through the 'read more about milon' link in that thread and it seems his name was Milo.... Hmm...
Completion post:
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Date: 30/7/16
I don't know if a book can work for both silver in text and title, but the protagonist talks about silver linings all the time- If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying, because I know that while things might seem dark now, my wife is coming back to me soon.
Characters:
Pat Peoples
Jeanie
Veronica
Ronnie
Emily
Scott
Cliff
Danny
Aunt Jasmine
Ashwini
Nikki
Tiffany
Ella wrote: "when does our week end?"Apparently on Friday around 11 am London time, it looks like. It looks like reducing the color bonuses may be done manually by the mods, so it may not always be at that exact time though. A little wishy-washy, but it's safe to say we're in week two right now.
Bethany wrote: "What is the shortest that this can be? Because I've actually read several things that might (?) be considered novellas under 100 pages, but I never added them to my wobble thing because I assumed they didn't count."I'm not sure and similar to Ray's question, I'd rather not bug the mods until we have a particular book we'd like to use. The good news is that we're okay on sheer numbers, so there's no push to use them at the moment. We can rethink if one of those short books has a rare color or item on the cover. :) Sound good?
Ray (user2637) wrote: "We need Bs too right? It takes 2 per submission so we only have 7.5-submissions-worth currently."This is true... but the Bs are easier to come by. Not sure how it evens out mathematically. ;)
Finished
Splintered Oak by T.L. Gray
407 pages
Read 30/7/16
For Current Spin:
M: Jake Matthews (Character)
N: Naomi Bennett (Character)
B: Bruce (Character)
R: Robbie Marsh (Character)
"In the corner, a small silver frame stood out against the wood." p.287
For future spins:
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Bethany wrote: "Finished:A handful of characters that I have written ..."
Two colors in one title, yea! This is really nice to have in our back pocket, just in case. :)
Lory wrote: "Finished The Inner CircleBy: Brad Metzler "
Nice work! We'll be glad for your books whenever they're finished. :)
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Also, I still have The City of Gold and Lead to read, should we ever spin a gold in title task. :)"We're prepared for nearly everything! ...I think.
~knocks on wood~
Pragya wrote: "Completion post:The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
Date: 30/7/16
I don't know if a book can work for bo..."
Yea silver titles - well done! We do need separate books for title and text tasks, but it's nice to know we have this as a back up. :)
Margaret wrote: "FinishedSplintered Oak by T.L. Gray"
Aha! Sneaking in while I'm entering other people into the spreadsheet, huh? Well, I saw you!
...and you did a wonderful job reading, so I'll let you go this time. ;) Great work!
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