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Finished
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
416 pages
Read 23/9/16
Main Labor 9B ◈ Read a book with a party decoration on the cover
Margaret wrote: "FinishedThe Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
416 pages
Read 23/9/16
Main Labor 9B ◈ Read a book with a party decoration..."
Woo! High five Margaret! That's another bonus task opening up once the new books get spreadsheeted!
We have 2 more Labors finished! Sweet! Nice work Margaret and Bethany!
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
454 pages
Read a book with a color in the title
Nice job Raven!!Raven/Zuri wrote: "
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
454 pages
Read a book with a color in the title"
Bold goals are unclaimed goals.
Bonus ONE - 60 points:
Bonus 1E ◈ Read a book with a hole on the cover - Tammie
Bonus TWO - 40 points:
Bonus 2A ◈ Read a book with a Purple cover - Lory
Bonus 2B ◈ Read a book with grapes or vines on the cover - Caly
Bonus 2C ◈ Read a book with a centaur - Bethany
Bonus NINE - 60 points:
Bonus 9B ◈ Read a book with a color in the title - Raven - finished but not on spreadsheet
Bonus 9C ◈ Read a book with food on the cover - Caly
Bonus 9D ◈ Read a book where the main character is a musician - Kazen
Bonus 9E ◈ Read a book with a strong female lead - Raven
Bonus TEN - 20 points:
Bonus 10A ◈ Read a book with a constellation on the cover - Bethany
Bonus ELEVEN - 60 points:
Bonus 11C ◈ Read a book where the main character is an orphan - Margaret
Bonus 11D ◈ Read a book with a "gang of thieves" in the text - Rose
Pragya wrote: "Completed:
Date: 23/9/16
Read for: ...Bank?
Kmn. It was so bad, guys. So bad."
Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear that. :( At least you could warn the rest of us?
Both books into the bank for the moment.
Tammie wrote: "Finished! 9/23
Playing the Odds
312 pgs
Bonus 1D...big vehicle on cover
Reading for 1E next"
Yeaaa! :)
Caly wrote: "What is the Novel RPG?"Oh! It's a single-player role playing game here on NBRC. Here's the link. The next Wobble event is a multiplayer version. But in the single player game, you just read what you want and do what you want -- there are monsters to fight, weapons to upgrade, and a variety of quests. You can do a quest to build a house, get a horse, get a pet, or many pets! Magic spells just got added so there's a lot of new things to do. :)
Lory wrote: "We have 2 more Labors finished! Sweet! Nice work Margaret and Bethany!"Go team!!!!
Kazen wrote: "Pragya wrote: "Completed:Date: 23/9/16
Read for: ...Bank?
Kmn. It was so bad, guys. So bad."
Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear that. :( At least you could ..."
I liked it!
Lory wrote: "Hmm, I was looking at the goals on my phone. Weird."The line was super thin on my phone... yup, weird.
Bethany wrote: "Finished:
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey
9/23
460 pages
8B- COVER IS SO YELLOW"
~puts on her sunglasses to enter the book into the spreadsheet~
Bethany wrote: "Oh no, there's nothing left to claim until we get another bonus labor!"If you have a book for Bonus 9A - Read a book set in England, you're more than welcome to it!
...this goes for anyone without a claimed book right now, too! My musician book is going quickly but not that quickly. ;)
Pragya wrote: "I finished 
also, I'll mark it/post tomorrow morning, I'm off to sleep now. There are no goals anyway so it doesn't matter :D"No problem - let us know when you enter it and I'll get it into the bank proper :)
Bethany wrote: "So I realized that the end of WOBBLE is fast approaching, which made me super sad. Anyone know if NBRC tends to host these kinds of things regularly, or is this sort of a one-time thing? I don't kn..."Don't forget about the last event, Emerge the Victor - it's scheduled to run four weeks and is a team version of the Novel RPG! :)
NBRC does run events like this regularly though, as Ray said, this is the largest and most intricate challenge to date. Normally a group challenge runs for a couple of months, there's a break for everyone to regroup, then another (different) challenge gets underway. But even in the breaks there's a lot to do - Novel RPG, monthly challenges, Books of the Month, and last break they kicked off the Around the World Team Challenge, which is still ongoing. So fear not, another group challenge will follow this one! (I'm sure the mods will want a little break, though ;)
Caly wrote: "What is the Novel RPG?"Just in case no one has linked it yet, the rules are thisaway. :)
Margaret wrote: "FinishedThe Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
416 pages
Read 23/9/16
Main Labor 9B ◈ Read a book with a party decoration..."
Yeaaaaaaa! I'm going to finish catching up then... new bonus! :D
Raven/Zuri wrote: " Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
454 pages
Read a book with a color in the title"
Excellent work!
I'm afraid the book isn't showing up on the spreadsheet... could you make sure that it has the correct "read" date and is on your challenge shelf? Thanks so much :)
Alright, I think that's pretty much everything so... bonus incoming!~ducks~
Mod
Hera was so upset with Hercules because he killed the Lernaean Hydra you must try to appease her.
◈ Read a book with a constellation on the cover.
◈ Read a book with a blue cover.
Points: 20
FYI - a night sky is not a constellation. We're looking for a little more.
I might have a book with a costellation on the cover
Can I read
for bonus labor 10 constellation?
... though if raven wants that one I do have a blue book I can read instead.
You can read the one with constellation, I also have a blue book
Raven/Zuri wrote: "You can read the one with constellation, I also have a blue book"Raven - could you put Scarlet on your challenge shelf an make sure the read date is correct? It won't show up on the spreadsheet until you do. Thanks!
Bethany wrote: "Can I read for bonus labor 10 constellation?"This is lovely for constellation. :)
Raven/Zuri wrote: "You can read the one with constellation, I also have a blue book"Could you tell us which book you plan to read, just to make sure it's blue enough? Thanks!
Just my opinion here, but I think we should always try to check the bank before grabbing new tasks. For Bonus 10, there are 3 very blue books in the bank!! And since Raven already has a book to read for a task, using a banked book might get rid of the Bonus 10 faster. From bank:
Once Upon a Time, There Was You = 53.1% blue
Never Never: Part Two (Never Never, #2) = 70.1%
Never Never: Part Three (Never Never, #3) = 98.8% !!!!
Finished:
I'm the Vampire, That's Why by Michele Bardsley
352 pgs
23Sep
Bonus 7A
ANOTHER bonus done!! We are on a roll today. Wooo!
Ray - excellent point about checking the bank! I put one of the Never Never books towards blue :)And yeaaaaaa bonus 7 done! Let's see what the next one is....
Mod
Hermes has informed Bookules that Classics is having trouble locating one of its most popular editions. Bookules balks because Hermes showed up while he was finally sitting down to a nice little bowl of gruel, as he hadn't eaten in days while he'd been fixing the mess in the library, but the "Please, sir, I want some more" did not go over very well .... Hurry up and help Bookules find his lost pages. Nobody likes cold gruel!
◈ Read a book where there is a housekeeper/maid
◈ Read a book with a character who is an undertaker or works in a funeral home
◈ Read a book where the main character is an orphan
◈ Read a book with a "gang of thieves" in the text
◈ Read a book with a character or author's name is Charles
Points: 60
There's a maid in Never, Never -- Pragya, is Ezra in the other two books? That could cover 11A!
The mentor in Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner is one Charles Hirsch, huzzah!
Ray (user2637) wrote: "There's a maid in Never, Never -- Pragya, is Ezra in the other two books? That could cover 11A!"A text search shows that she's in book three :) Yea!
Kazen wrote: "The mentor in Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner is one Charles Hirsch, huzzah!"Kazen wrote: "A text search shows that she's in book three :) Yea!"
Nice! Double nice! :D
Hmm.. are there any undertakers or funeral home people in this? That seems the harder task and the book sounds like there might be...Kazen wrote: "The mentor in Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner is one Charles Hirsch, huzzah!"
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Hmm.. are there any undertakers or funeral home people in this? That seems the harder task and the book sounds like there might be..."Sadly, no. It's all full of detectives and forensic pathologists. The closest they get to an undertaker is an anthropologist. :/
Dang. I searched the 5 next books I want to read (need for Novel RPG) and none of them fit any of these new tasks. :/ These are hard...Kazen wrote: "Sadly, no. It's all full of detectives and forensic pathologists. The closest they get to an undertaker is an anthropologist. :/ "
For "gang of thieves" google books has these (among others), but these looked okay... not that I want to read any of them...The Grace of Kings
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie
Red Parrot, Wooden Leg
Kazen wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "Hmm.. are there any undertakers or funeral home people in this? That seems the harder task and the book sounds like there might be..."Sadly, no. It's all full of detectives..."
I'm guessing morgue workers aren't quite right either? I read My Life as a White Trash Zombie, which has a side character undertaker, but I'm not sure if the second book has one.
I have started reading
which meets the requirements for:Bonus 9A ◈ Read a book set in England, or
Bonus 11A ◈ Read a book where the main character is an orphan.
So I can claim either of those - whichever you think is the harder task to meet.
I don't have anything with undertakers or funeral directors though :(
I'm finishing up
which works for Bonus 11D ◈ Read a book with a "gang of thieves" in the text"Dear Bridget, I have locked and bolted the doors There is a gang of thieves-"
Bethany wrote: "I'm guessing morgue workers aren't quite right either? I read My Life as a White Trash Zombie, which has a side character undertaker, but I'm not sure if the second book has one"I think an undertaker would work, as long as they're about preparing the dead for burial/cremation/what-have-you. The book I read was only about autopsies and never said what happened after the body was released to the families.
Rose wrote: "I'm finishing up which works for Bonus 11D ◈ Read a book with a "gang of thieves" in the text"Dear Bridget, I have locked and bolted the doors There is a gang..."
Rose, you rock!! Wow, I thought that would would be so hard! Woot~
Margaret wrote: "I have started reading which meets the requirements for:Bonus 9A ◈ Read a book set in England, or
Bonus 11A ◈ Read a book where the main character is an orphan.
..."
Oprhan it is, then! I can cover England no problem, but I can't do orphan ;)
Finished
The Mogul’s Reluctant Bride by Ana E. Ross
24th sept
288pgs
Gold object on cover-wedding bands
Ella wrote: "Finished The Mogul’s Reluctant Bride by Ana E. Ross
24th sept
288pgs
Gold object on cover-wedding bands"
And we have finished all the main labors, huzzah! :D Way to go!!
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