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[Kazen]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "RE: Bonus Labor #5 -- I plugged all the books listed so far into Excel and programmed it to look for first/last word duplicates. Bethany has a few matches with herself (which I think is allowed act..."

:D

I'll get you my list when I'm home from work... I can search my elibrary to try and fill in holes then, too :)

[Kazen]

Bethany wrote: "So, I've got a library hold on Sisters Red, Better Off Red and Called Again. Would appreciate if someone else could grab either a red book or a called book, as right now I'm pretty sure I've commit..."

Hehehehe, get reading! ;)

[Bety]

Tammie wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "Found it! It was Never Never and it looks like the Kindle version is free to download right now. I'm fine reading this.

There's also [bookco..."

I'm in. Much easier to read that than both Called Again and Better Off Red.

[Tammie]

I accidentally erased my post trying to edit...arg!

Ok...we've got for BONUS LABOR FIVE:
Never, Never Ray
Never, Never Bethany
Never Never Pragya
Never Never Tammie
Never........anyone else?

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Please welcome new team member Raven!

[Zuri]

Hi, I finished 11 birthdays today, it has ballons on the cover

11 Birthdays

[Kazen]

Bold goals are unclaimed goals.

I'm removing finished goals - it's so fun to watch the number of tasks dwindle! Bwahaha. If you're not sure if you've finished two books have a look at the spreadsheet or ask :)

Labor 2E ◈ Read a book with a gold object on the cover
Labor 9E ◈ Read a book with a medal or trophy on the cover

Labor 1B ◈ Read a book that's main setting is on the water - Caly
Labor 2B ◈ Read a book from a quartet (4 book series) - Ella
Labor 4E ◈ Read a mystery book - Caly
Labor 8A ◈ Read a book with a skeleton on the cover - Ray
Labor 8B ◈ Read a book that's cover is at least 3/4ths yellow - Bethany
Labor 9A ◈ Read a book where someone works at a non-profit - Tammie
Labor 9B ◈ Read a book with a party decoration on the cover - Margaret

Labor 3 - COMPLETE!
Labor 5-7 - COMPLETE!
Labors 10-12 - COMPLETE! Yeaaaaa!

Bonus Labors

If your currently have NO Main Labor books claimed (and are having difficulty filling a bold task) you may claim one of the bonus tasks. Forum/puzzle type tasks can be done by anyone.

Bonus Labor One - 60 points

Capture and bring back cerebus!

Bonus 1A ◈ Read a book with a door on the cover.
Bonus 1B ◈ Read a book with a shadow on the cover or in the title - Rose (read but not yet entered)
Bonus 1C ◈ Read a book with a weapon, other than a shield or sword, on the cover.
Bonus 1D ◈ Read a book with a large vehicle on the cover.
Bonus 1E ◈ Read a book with a hole on the cover.

Points: 60

Bonus Labor Two - 40 points

Dionysus has agreed to host the celebration festival in your honor for completing all your Labors. He does insist on a few tasks completed in his name first.

Bonus 2A ◈ Read a book with a Purple cover.
Bonus 2B ◈ Read a book with grapes or vines on the cover.
Bonus 2C ◈ Read a book with a centaur.
Bonus 2D ◈ Read a book the characters dance - Pragya

Bonus Labor Five - 60 points

Athena, ever the champion of heroes, wishes to offer you a boon. But alas, nothing can be given for free. You must complete this task fit for the Goddess of Wisdom. Here's her caveat, it's tricky be warned: the first book must be Main Page genre Romance

Read 5 linked books (i.e. Title Relay).

Never Never - Ray
Never Never - Bethany
Never Never - Pragya
Never Never - Tammie
Never Never - Lory

Points: 60

[Kazen]

Raven/Zuri wrote: "Hi, I finished 11 birthdays today, it has ballons on the cover

11 Birthdays"

Raven, it's wonderful to have you! I along with Margaret and Rose are your captains. There's no need to go back and read old posts, just jump right in! And do introduce yourself, we'd love to know more about you :)

We just filled the party decoration task, but if you see a bolded task in the goal post that it works for let us know! I'm on my way to work and can't update much on my phone... but welcome to the Red Pandas!

[Zuri]

Kazen wrote: "Raven/Zuri wrote: "Hi, I finished 11 birthdays today, it has ballons on the cover

11 Birthdays"

Raven, it's wonderful to have you! I along with Margaret and Rose are your captains...."
Thank you so much, I feel welcomed all ready!!

[Caly ☯ Crazy Book Lady]

Hi Raven!

Welcome to an awesome team! Glad to have you with us. 8-)

[Kazen]

Raven - yeaaa! :)

Go ahead and flip back to the previous page of this thread - the top post has a list of tasks (be sure to click on the spoiler tag to see more!). Take a look at the bolded tasks and tell us which one you'd like to read for, and what book you'll use. For this competition everyone is expected to read at least one book a week, but more is fine, too ;) And if you have any questions let us know - we have captains literally all over the world who can answer them. :D Read on!

eta: you may also want to turn on notifications for this thread - the option is at the bottom right of the posts. You can chose whether you want emails or other options, too.

[Bety]

Raven/Zuri wrote: "Hi, I finished 11 birthdays today, it has ballons on the cover

11 Birthdays"
Welcome to the team!

[Rose]

Ditto on the welcomes :)


Finished

9.18.16
Spot- Books with 3 parts

[Bety]

Finished:

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
288 Pages
9/19

Discussion looks like we will be using this for 10A

[Kazen]

Bethany wrote: "Finished:

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
288 Pages
9/19

Discussion looks like we will be using this for 10A"

I'll enter this when I get home but I have to know - what did you think whatdidyouthink? :D

[Bety]

Kazen wrote: "Bethany wrote: "Finished:

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
288 Pages
9/19

Discussion looks like we will be using this for 10A"

I'll enter this when I get home but I ha..."

I really liked it! Though... I definitely need to do an urban fantasy break, because I think I would like many of these MORE if I didn't have so much urban fantasy going on lately, BUT THEY JUST FIT THE GOALS SO EASILY!

[Ray (user2637)]

Welcome Raven!

[Tammie]

Welcome Raven!!

[Ray (user2637)]

These two are for the same Labor (10a / 10e) so that's SIX labors done!!! And 40 bonus points! GO TEAM!

Bethany wrote: "Finished:
"

Rose wrote: "Finished
"

[Bety]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "These two are for the same Labor (10a / 10e) so that's SIX labors done!!! And 40 bonus points! GO TEAM!

Bethany wrote: "Finished:
"

Rose wrote: "Finished
[bookcover:T..."

WOOOOOOO

[Kazen]

I am typing on a tiny screen while riding the bus in a typhoon and reading everyone's posts makes me so happy :)

Don't worry about the typhoon - it's the rainy sort, not windy sort. And it means my bus home will be empty because what tourist would brave downpours to watch a river fill with rain? And ooo, it'll be perfect reading weather when I get home! Bwahaha :)

[Kazen]

Bethany - go ahead and take that break from urban fantasy, your brain will thank you for it! I purposefully leave at least a month between Mercy Thompson books, so when I pick up the next one it's like visiting old friends :)

[Kazen]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "These two are for the same Labor (10a / 10e) so that's SIX labors done!!! And 40 bonus points! GO TEAM!

Bethany wrote: "Finished:
"

Rose wrote: "Finished
[bookcover:T..."

Go us! Yeaaa!

[Ray (user2637)]

Hey Kazen, if I read Never Never: Part Two for the relay, does the "part two" count as part of the title?

[Kazen]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Hey Kazen, if I read Never Never: Part Two for the relay, does the "part two" count as part of the title?"

If it pops up when you link the title (like above), yes :/

[prag ♻]

I'll do it! I've always wanted to read this.

Tammie wrote: "I accidentally erased my post trying to edit...arg!

Ok...we've got:
Never, Never Ray
Never, Never Bethany
Never Never Tammie
Never........anyone else?"

[prag ♻]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Hey Kazen, if I read Never Never: Part Two for the relay, does the "part two" count as part of the title?"

You can read part 2 as the 5th book in the chain

[prag ♻]

Hey, Raven! Welcome to the Red Pandas:) Glad to have another member.

[Ray (user2637)]

True! Well any of us can really. I'm reading slow atm, however, I do have #2 already. :)

Pragya wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "Hey Kazen, if I read Never Never: Part Two for the relay, does the "part two" count as part of the title?"

You can read part 2 as the 5th book in the chain"

[Kazen]

Rose wrote: "Ditto on the welcomes :)

Finished

9.18.16
Spot- Books with 3 parts"

Yea!

[Kazen]

Bethany wrote: "Finished:

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
288 Pages
9/19

Discussion looks like we will be using this for 10A"

Way to go! :)

[Kazen]

For everyone who is looking at the title relay bonus task:

"the first book must be Main Page genre Romance"

Not all the books, just the first one. Not sure how clear that was so throwing it out there. :)

[Karin]

Kazen wrote: "Karin wrote: "Since I have only completed one book for the Labors I didn't think I could go to bonuses."

You're right - we can't pop that book in for a bonus until you finish two labors.

"Also - ..."

Thanks Kazan - I appreciate it!!

[Karin]

I've completed Once Upon a Time, There Was You by Elizabeth Berg, not looking like it fits anywhere just yet.

[Tammie]

awesome...we need one more and book just needs to start with Never...!...this is for BONUS LABOR FIVE...

Pragya wrote: "I'll do it! I've always wanted to read this.

Tammie wrote: "I accidentally erased my post trying to edit...arg!

Ok...we've got:
Never, Never Ray
Never, Never Bethany
Never Never T..."

[Kazen]

Karin wrote: "I've completed Once Upon a Time, There Was You by Elizabeth Berg, not looking like it fits anywhere just yet."

Thanks for the heads up! We'll see if it fits in any future bonuses :)

[Kazen]

Tammie wrote: "awesome...we need one more and book just needs to start with Never...!"

I'm having a look through my elibrary right now :)

eta: Hmmm, there's nothing I'm really excited about... I'll keep my eyes open but if someone else has a book starting with Never that wants to jump in go ahead :)

[Tammie]

Kazen wrote: "For everyone who is looking at the title relay bonus task:

"the first book must be Main Page genre Romance"
Not all the books, just the first one. Not sure how clear that was so throwing it out th..."

I think we're assuming Never Never works since top genre is romance...?

[Tammie]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "True! Well any of us can really. I'm reading slow atm, however, I do have #2 already. :)

Pragya wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "Hey Kazen, if I read Never Never: Part Two for the re..."

That would be awesome Ray...unless someone else wants to join!

[Kazen]

Tammie wrote: "I think we're assuming Never Never works since top genre is romance...?"

Yup! I just wanted to make sure everyone knows that books further down the chain don't have to be romance... but a lot of us like romance, so it isn't exactly a burden, hehe.

[Kazen]

Tammie wrote: "That would be awesome Ray...unless someone else wants to join!"

My search is pretty much a bust (so many romantic suspense books with never in the title, not my thing...) so it's fair game :)

[prag ♻]

Will a knife count for Bonus 1C ◈ Read a book with a weapon, other than a shield or sword, on the cover?

^This is the cover, those are two knives (not swords), because the character always uses two knives

[Rose]

confirmed. Those are knives, so I don't see why not. I love that book!

[prag ♻]

Thank you :D And ohmygod yes, I'm loving this series so much. Lila Bard is my new favorite character!

Rose wrote: "confirmed. Those are knives, so I don't see why not. I love that book!"

[Lory]

Question, do we need to save the two final unclaimed labor tasks for anyone? I know we need to read two labors before reading any bonus labors, so I wanted to make sure. I was going to look for books to finish those labors up, so we can get MORE bonus :)

I should finish my book by tomorrow and it's a travel day, so I want to have extra books on hand. I can read a Never book if that is preferable. Let me know!

[Ray (user2637)]

D&D night tonight so I'll be MIA. Slogging through my skeleton book... it's written as though the reader knows nothing about crimes / crime scenes / etc. Seems odd to me that someone would know nothing about this stuff and then jump into a book about cold cases. *shrug* Probably will finish tomorrow...

Lory wrote: "Question, do we need to save the two final unclaimed labor tasks for anyone? "

I was wondering this too!

[Kazen]

Lory wrote: "Question, do we need to save the two final unclaimed labor tasks for anyone? I know we need to read two labors before reading any bonus labors, so I wanted to make sure. I was going to look for boo..."

Everyone who's here has two main tasks done, so no need to save them! :D

[Kazen]

A message from the mods!

Red Pandas

We have a deal for you!

There are 2 spots open for DQ writing for our next BOM (a href="https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...). If you have a team member who would like to volunteer for one day of DQ writing (or if you have a team member who has already volunteered, and would be happy to take two days) then we will give you 3 free books from the Travel Agent's "olympics" shelf that you can use.

To accept this offer, please PM the mod account over the next 24 21-ish hours. Cheers!

This is not a requirement in any way shape or form, I'm just posting it in case someone already signed up or was planning to sign up :)

[Lory]

Completion Post!The Thirteenth Tale
Task: Labor 6D read a book with a topiary in it.

Still trying to decide what's next. Anyone fine a hook with a trohy/medal or gold object on it?

[Tammie]

Lory wrote: "Question, do we need to save the two final unclaimed labor tasks for anyone? I know we need to read two labors before reading any bonus labors, so I wanted to make sure. I was going to look for boo..."

Lory....feel free to take a never spot if you have the time...I think ray was going to read two and I have plenty...we'll figure it out. Please confirm either way though. Thanks!