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Ray (user2637) wrote: "It's my first Zelazny, recommend by my partner, so if you like Zelazny (& I know you like fantasy) I'd definitely recommend it. :)"Thanks, Ray! No Zelanzny under my belt yet so this is another option for my first. :)
So our score from Wheel already exceeds our score from Olympics... I'm not sure why that seems disappointing to me, haha. Maybe because Olympics seemed like so much work and Wheel seems so easy? I like to think that we are beta-testing this challenge. Everyone is learning a lot to apply to future challenges. :)
Bethany wrote: "Finished:
Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire"
She has another series? Ooooooo :)
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Also, statistically, people who get married younger have higher rates of divorce. You could ask why they want you to get divorced and die early, haha! Put on a frown, a lip quiver, and a little hitch in your voice...then flee the room and slam a door. That oughta buy you some reading time. ;););)"Oh my gosh Ray - that seriously cracked me up... Love it :)
Sending you hugs Bethany x
We have lots of books so to the Wheel we go! I'm trying to use up books with fewer available letters first and avoiding using books with colors in the title. Just in case :)eta: This go round covers our fiction Milon boast, too! Six of the seven books had fiction on the main page.
Mod
Your word is KINGDOM!
Bonuses:
• black - Item on Cover is Color
Current word: KINGDOM
Possible books for each letter (remembering that some overlap):
K - 12
I - 8
N - 6
G - 14
D - 15
O - 10
M - 17
Color Bonus: Black item on cover
Possible: 4
Most needed: Books with I or N in the spell out
Mod
Your word is KINGDOM!
Bonuses:
• black - Item on Cover is Color
I (finally!) finished Golden Compass!I think I'm just gonna copy Bethany's completion post, haha. I'm too lazy.
Night by Elie Wiesel
109 pages
Aug 9 2016
Read for letter N, Bonus: black wire on cover
Finished:
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman
399 pages
Finished August 9
Ehh, I would probably have enjoyed this when I was about 10 :/ (Sorry Kazen!)
I- Iorek Byrnison
M- Marisa Coulter
Other characters:
Pantailmon
Roger
Farder Coram
Lord/John Faa
Angie
Lee Scoresboy
Tony Costa
Pragya wrote: "I (finally!) finished Golden Compass!I think I'm just gonna copy Bethany's completion post, haha. I'm too lazy."
No reason to repeat work!
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Marco."Polo?
...decided to read the series...liked this one better second time...Finished! 8/9
Fifty Shades Darker, E.L.James
373 pgs
Characters:
Ana Steel
Christian Grey
Claire
Detective Clark
Elizabeth
Franco
Hannah
Jose
Kate
Leila
Mia
Olga Kelly
Ray
Luke Sawyer
Theo
Welsh
The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
Date: 10/8/16
Color: Black body on cover
Characters spell out:
Alice
Elaine O'Dea
Kurt Miller
Josh Waverly
Brandom Fitzsimmons
Kelsie
Maggie
Finished:
K: Michelle Knight (author)
G: Gina DeJesus (person)
M: Michelle Knight (author)
People:
(view spoiler)
N: Title
G: Emily Gale aka Aunt Em (character)
D: Dorothy Gale (character)
M: Meadow Woodson (character)
(I'll add in all the characters once my phone charges because that were my notes on the characters are)
Caly wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "Marco."Polo?"
Heh. Trying to find the team! Thread seemed a little barren. But then of course I ended up in urgent care and the ER for 6 hours so wasn't here to chat either. Alas. And off to another 1 or 2 docs I go... Bfn.
I just finishedThe Third Door
By Emily Rodda
Question about characters, the main character losses his memory for a time in the book and they call him Keelin. Does that also count?
A, C, D, F, K?, J, L, R, S, T, W, Z
Characters:
Dirk
Crell
Rye
Annocki
The Warden
Lisbeth
Janne
Farr
Zac
Carryl
Sonia
Tallus
Finished
Italian Affair by Annie Seaton
208pages
11th august
Black item on cover- bikini
I-title
N-nick
M-maria
A-author
B-brianna
C- caranto
H-helena
L-lissy
P-phil
R- tom richards
S-author
T-tom
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Caly wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "Marco."Polo?"
Heh. Trying to find the team! Thread seemed a little barren. But then of course I ended up in urgant care and the ER for 6 hours so wasn't here ..."
Sorry to hear you ended up in the ER, hope everything is going to be okay. Seems we have so many different time zones in this group it is hard to be on at the same time. I am in the US on EST but work full time during the day.
Riah wrote: "Night by Elie Wiesel
Read for letter N, Bonus: black wire on cover"
And it turns out the narrator's name is George so we get a G too, yea! Nice work :)
Pragya wrote: "Finished:The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman
Ehh, I would probably have enjoyed this when I was about 10 :/ (Sorry Kazen!)"
Hehe, no worries. I'll keep pushing this on my nieces and nephews, then - I'm so scared to reread it myself now!
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Marco."Randomness incoming!
For a while my husband would call the cat by saying, "Neh----ko----" ("cat" in Japanese)
I would reply, "Po------lo-----".
No matter how much I explained he never quite got it, hehe.
Tammie wrote: "...decided to read the series...liked this one better second time...Finished! 8/9
Fifty Shades Darker, E.L.James"
Tammie, for some odd reason this isn't showing up on the spreadsheet. :/ Could you do me a favor and check that both the start and end dates are during wobble? I can see it's on the right shelf... trying to figure out what else could possibly keep the sheet from slurping it up. Thanks!
Finished 
By Katherine Wynter So so book, not as good as the first and I hate when a book ends suddenly to set up a sequel, I think a good series means each book is a complete work in itself.
That said the characters were - Rebekah , Gabe, Dylan, Nicholas, Mia, Collette
So lots of letters we can use and black items on the cover. 8-)
Now what to read next? Are we spinning for a new work anytime soon?
Bethany wrote: "Finished:
Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire"
This series has been a letter goldmine - so glad you're enjoying it! :)
Pragya wrote: "The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
Date: 10/8/16
Color: Black body on cover"
Well done! I'm afraid we can't count the black body on the cover - for the purposes of the challenge an item is defined as a thing and that's a person, not a thing. No worries, though, we have tons of black items so see us through. And your book has an O in the spell out, yea! :)
eta: And five narrators, and we can count them all! Bwahahahahaha... ahem.
Brianna wrote: "Finished:..."Three for one, huzzah!
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Caly wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "Marco."Polo?"
Heh. Trying to find the team! Thread seemed a little barren. But then of course I ended up in urgant care and the ER for 6 hours so wasn't here ..."
Eeep, ER! I hope you're at home and comfortable now, surrounded by your iPod and books :)
Lory wrote: "I just finishedThe Third DoorBy Emily Rodda
Question about characters, the main character losses his memory for a time in the book and they call ..."
Lory, did this book make it to your read and/or wobble shelves? It's not showing up on the spreadsheet for some reason (though the spreadsheet has been iffy lately...)
And we can use nicknames so I Keelin is fine :)
Ella wrote: "Finished Italian Affair by Annie Seaton
208pages
11th august
Black item on cover- bikini"
Yea romance!
Caly wrote: "Finished By Katherine Wynter So so book, not as good as the first and I hate when a book ends suddenly to set up a sequel, I think a good series..."
I agree - I hate it when I start a series and it feels like I only get half a book! "That thing they spent this entire novel preparing for? See how it turns out in the next book!" Booo.
Update with the fancy graphic coming soon for stuff re: spinning, etc :)
Hi all!
We're coming up on the end of the Wobble Week, woo! Let's plan on rolling for a new word in 24 hours or so. We have more than enough books to complete KINGDOM a few more times... I'm excited to see how many points we can rack up!
And some good news - we can use more books from the NBRC Travel Agent shelf, yea! We can use it to fill in tough letters, and there's even some titles with colors we can grab. So if we happen to land an icky word hopefully we can complete it one quickly and move on to something better. :)
Hard to say more without knowing what our next word is, and we have a day or so before that happens... so read and rock on! :D
Finished:
City at the End of Time by Greg Bear
476 pages
finished 8/10
Characters:
(view spoiler)
I wasn't a huge fan of this book. There were a LOT of characters that I had trouble keeping straight, some of them being very flat and similar to each other, without strong personal motivations or desires or personalities. I also felt like I was too dumb for it, and didn't really get what was going on most of the time. Some scenes were cool, but most of the time it was just like "weird stuff is happening and I don't know why."
Mod
Your word is KINGDOM!
Bonuses:
• black - Item on Cover is Color
I'm back from vacation and FINALLY cleared my 'reading' list so I'm back to a clean-ish slate reading-wise. We'll see how long I can actually keep my reading list down to 1 book at a time! *Is already tempted to start reading #2 of the Graceling series while reading October Daye books*
Kazen wrote: "Tammie wrote: "...decided to read the series...liked this one better second time...Finished! 8/9
Fifty Shades Darker, E.L.James"
Tammie, f..."
The start / end dates were messed up. Hopefully it's ok now
Thanks ladies. Still not sure what's wrong with me. Level 10 headache since the 19th ( finally down to the 6 range which is almost like not having a headache after a 10 for so long). 1 PCP visit, 2 urgent visits, 4 ER visits, 9 holes in my arms for IV, 2 shots, and oh many blood tests later and they still don't know what's wrong with me. Fun fun. Have a neurologist consult tomorrow. Then eye doc to rule out anything there. Maybe I'll need glasses? Anyway, lots of meds and sleeping going on over here, not a lot of reading. Gotta find a new book..."Caly wrote: "Sorry to hear you ended up in the ER, hope everything is going to be okay. "
Kazen wrote: "Eeep, ER! I hope you're at home and comfortable now, surrounded by your iPod and books :) "
Mod
Your word is KINGDOM!
Bonuses:
• black - Item on Cover is Color
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Thanks ladies. Still not sure what's wrong with me. Level 10 headache since the 19th ( finally down to the 6 range which is almost like not having a headache after a 10 for so long). 1 PCP visit, 2..."Take care Ray!
I hope it's something simple...
hi Ray, hope you're feeling better. everything will be fine just relax and laugh/smile :) .on Friday evening aftr work i returned home with a bad headache, slight fever and everything that i ate refused to stay down. Saturday-sunday still had a slight headache. Monday noon onwards the pain returned in full charge and kept increase till i couldn't lie down or eat or even drink water. 9.30 in the night i was rush to the doctor's whr they said it was a very bad migraine attack . they gave me medicines that wouldn't stay down until i finally fell asleep and woke up 12hrs later healthy and happy. :)
Thanks Tammie. Tammie wrote: "Take care Ray! "
I was vomiting yesterday, but mostly just the antinausea meds they gave me. My illness is ironic. *rolls eyes*. A lot of docs are thinking migraine but I've never had one. And I tried the "poor man's" migraine cure (ibuprofen, Benadryl, caffeine--which is what's in some of the rxs, they just add a barbiturate for sleeping) and it didn't touch my pain. :/ hopefully I'll know tomorrow. At least my CAT scan was clear! Feeling optimistic atm, as my headache has died down a bit and I can eat today. Ella wrote: "hi Ray, hope you're feeling better. everything will be fine just relax and laugh/smile :) .
on Friday evening aftr work i returned home with a bad headache, slight fever and everything that i ate r..."
Kazen wrote: "And some good news - we can use more books from the NBRC Travel Agent shelf, yea!"I'm assuming the 40 books we can use from the Travel Agent included the 22 books we've already used? Still that's a huge chunk of extra books! :)
Kazen wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "Marco."Randomness incoming!
For a while my husband would call the cat by saying, "Neh----ko----" ("cat" in Japanese)
I would reply, "Po------lo-----".
No matter how much..."
How did he not get this, it's hilarious! :D
Ray (user2637) wrote: "I'm assuming the 40 books we can use from the Travel Agent included the 22 books we've already used..."Yup, it does. :)
Ray (user2637) wrote: "How did he not get this, it's hilarious! :D"They don't play Marco Polo in Japan ;)
(Sorry I keep forgetting to mention that he's Japanese!)
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