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[Rose]

This might be worth using number 2--->Re-get Bonus - Lets you remove one of your current bonuses and get a new one

[Kazen]

Rose wrote: "This might be worth using number 2--->Re-get Bonus - Lets you remove one of your current bonuses and get a new one"

Ooo, maybe! But what if it's replaced with a title relay? Which would you rather?

[Bety]

Finished:

Zodiac by Romina Russell
325 pages
9/25
10A

if only this book was as good as its cover was pretty. *sigh*

[Ray (user2637)]

We could "Re-get bonus" on #16. I think we've used 1/3 of our "free" bonuses (we really need another word for something -- everything can't be a bonus!). *shrug*

I'll check the TA books but we already know there's nothing for 16D or 16E (unless more new books were added).

Kazen wrote: "Each Wobble team has been granted the right to choose 3 from the following list of bonuses:

1. Free book - Lets you insert a "free book" into any spot in a bonus challenge
2. Re-get Bonus - Lets you remove one of your current bonuses and get a new one
3. Add a Bonus - Temporarily lets you add one bonus to your list
4. Title Twist - Rearrange the words in a title to fit into a title chain
5. Ignore an Article - Allows you to ignore A, An, or The in a title when linking it to a chain
6. Ignore the Caveat - Lets you ignore the requirement for the first book in a title chain
7. Rearrange Page Numbers - Allows you to rearrange the page numbers of one book"


ETA: Could've sworn I refreshed... Great minds think alike? :) Last time I checked, there was nothing that chained on the TA bookshelf, fyi. I know we can do 16A and probably 16B from TA.

[Ray (user2637)]

This closes out another labor, nice! Sorry it wasn't good.

Bethany wrote: "Finished:
Zodiac by Romina Russell
if only this book was as good as its cover was pretty. *sigh*"

[Bety]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "This closes out another labor, nice! Sorry it wasn't good.

Bethany wrote: "Finished:
Zodiac by Romina Russell
if only this book was as good as its cover was pretty. *sigh*""

It wasn't terrible, I just got kind of bored for some reason. *shrug*

[Kazen]

Bold goals are unclaimed goals.

TWO - 40 points:

2A ◈ Read a book with a Purple cover - Lory
2B ◈ Read a book with grapes or vines on the cover - Caly
2C ◈ Read a book with a centaur - Bethany
2D ◈ Read a book the characters dance - Lory

NINE - 60 points:

9A ◈ Read a book set in England - Travel Agent (bank)
9B ◈ Read a book with a color in the title - Raven - finished but not on spreadsheet
9C ◈ Read a book with food on the cover - Caly
9D ◈ Read a book where the main character is a musician - Kazen
9E ◈ Read a book with a strong female lead - Raven

FIFTEEN - 60 points: (we need these bolded goals)

15A ◈ Read a book with a handsome man on the cover - TA - Shattered
15B ◈ Read a book with a headstrong character - TA - The Pursuit
15C ◈ Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover - TA - Play Your Heart Out
15D ◈ Read a book where the series and title combined contain all letters in Pemberley
15E ◈ Read a book with a title (Mr., Ms, Lord, etc.) in the title

SIXTEEN - 60 points: (we need these bolded goals)

16A ◈ Read a book with a handsome man on the cover - TA - Cider House Rules
16B ◈ Read a book with a headstrong character - TA - The Bad Beginning
16C ◈ Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover
16D ◈ Read a book where the series and title combined contain all letters in Pemberley - Lory
16E ◈ Read a book with a title (Mr., Ms, Lord, etc.) in the title

SEVENTEEN - 65 points: (we need these bolded goals)

17A ◈ Read a book with Wolf in the title - Bethany
17B ◈ Read a book with Ghost(s) in the title
17C ◈ Read a book with Me in the title - Pragya
17D ◈ Read a book with Iron in the title - Bethany (also 16E)
17E ◈ Read a book with Lead in the title - Ray

[Ray (user2637)]

Ideas:
16a = Cider House Rules (Tobey McGuire is on the cover, haha)
16b = The Bad Beginning (all the Baudelaire kids are headstrong)

16c = The Muse; it has a typewriter on the cover and I know of 2 different musicians who use typewriters as instruments. I could dig up some audio (maybe video) links....

[Kazen]

Ray, I'm going to have to say no to the typewriter - instrument vs. things that can be used as instruments. Any two year old can use pots and pans as instruments but we wouldn't take those either ;)

[Bety]

Play Your Heart Out from the TA DEFINITELY has a guitar on it.

[Ray (user2637)]

Worth a try! ;)
Kazen wrote: "Ray, I'm going to have to say no to the typewriter"

It's slotted into #15. :/ I didn't find any other instruments.

Bethany wrote: "Play Your Heart Out from the TA DEFINITELY has a guitar on it."

[Bety]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Worth a try! ;)
Kazen wrote: "Ray, I'm going to have to say no to the typewriter"

It's slotted into #15. :/ I didn't find any other instruments.

Bethany wrote: "Play Your Heart Out from the TA DE..."
Oh. Nevermind. Just didn't notice because it didn't say it was used on the spreadsheet.

[Rose]

Karin wrote: "I don't think this works for anything right now -

Completed I, Michael Bennett by James Patterson, 25-Sep-2016"

Banked :)

[Rose]

Bethany wrote: "Finished:

Zodiac by Romina Russell
325 pages
9/25
10A

if only this book was as good as its cover was pretty. *sigh*"

I hate it when that happens. It least it wasn't 5 million pages.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

BONUS LABOR 17

Somehow you've managed to anger Artemis...I mean how were you supposed to know that bow belonged to someone am I right? She'll call off the hunt if you complete the following, very specific, some might say nearly impossible, tasks.

◈ Read a book with Wolf in the title
◈ Read a book with Ghost(s) in the title
◈ Read a book with Me in the title
◈ Read a book with Iron in the title
◈ Read a book with Lead in the title

Points: 65

[Rose]

Boy, they really love wolves.

[Ray (user2637)]

No TA books for any of these. At least they were easy to search

I'd like to take 17e -- I need to read The City of Gold and Lead for the Novel RPG. :)

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "
BONUS LABOR 17
◈ Read a book with Wolf in the title
◈ Read a book with Ghost(s) in the title
◈ Read a book with Me in the title
◈ Read a book with Iron in the title
◈ Read a book with Lead in the title"

[Bety]

I think I'll either claim the instrument one or the wolf one... going to read the first few pages of each and see what I'm more into.

[Lory]

I'm still working in my purple cover book! Didn't forget, just crazy busy this weekend. I travel this week which means, lots of reading time :-).

[Bety]

Claiming wolf from bonus 17 with:

[prag ♻]

Ooh, I'm done with The Start of Me and You, this can be used for me in title.

[prag ♻]

Has anyone claimed 16b? I'm almost done with a reread of and there are plenty of headstrong characters in there.

[prag ♻]

Completion post

Pages: 456
Read for: 16b, headstrong character
Reason: Even when everyone around him said he couldn't do it because he was just a kid, the protagonist assembled a crew and robbed the safest prison in the world.


Read for: 17c, me in title

[prag ♻]

Hahaha, yep.

Rose wrote: "Boy, they really love wolves."

[Caly ☯ Crazy Book Lady]

Finished

306 pages
for Bonus 2B a book with Vines on the cover

My first 1 star book. Oh well, it wasn't terrible just depressing I thought. Of course like any "good" book it at least made me want to finish it to find out what the heck was going on LOL
so that was okay, now on to the next. 8-)

[Kazen]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Finished:

Lucky Day by Barry Lyga
100 pgs
25Sep
Bank"

Banked! :)

[Kazen]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "ETA: Could've sworn I refreshed... Great minds think alike? :) Last time I checked, there was nothing that chained on the TA bookshelf, fyi. I know we can do 16A and probably 16B from TA"

Two is better than none! ;)

[Kazen]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Ideas:
16a = Cider House Rules (Tobey McGuire is on the cover, haha)
16b = The Bad Beginning (all the Baudelaire kids are headstrong)"

I'm putting in these first two suggestions - thanks for your help with TA books! It's nice to find them when we can :)

[Kazen]

Ray (user2637) wrote: "No TA books for any of these. At least they were easy to search

I'd like to take 17e -- I need to read The City of Gold and Lead for the Novel RPG. :)

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "
BO..."

17E is all yours :)

[Kazen]

Bethany wrote: "Claiming wolf from bonus 17 with: "

Oooo, I haven't read this series by Briggs yet, I can't wait to see what you think!

[Kazen]

Pragya wrote: "Ooh, I'm done with The Start of Me and You, this can be used for me in title."

Excellent timing! ~high five~

[Kazen]

Pragya wrote: "Has anyone claimed 16b? I'm almost done with a reread of and there are plenty of headstrong characters in there."

I went ahead and put this in 16B - we had a travel agent book there but it's safer to use up banked books as much as we can, as we don't know how they'll count in the next round. :) Nice work!

[Kazen]

Caly wrote: "Finished

306 pages
for Bonus 2B a book with Vines on the cover

My first 1 star book. Oh well, it wasn't terrible just depressing I thought. Of cours..."

Oh no, one star books stink! At least you got a task out of it? ;) Here's hoping your next read is better.

[Kazen]

Lory wrote: "I'm still working in my purple cover book! Didn't forget, just crazy busy this weekend. I travel this week which means, lots of reading time :-)."

No worries - enjoy that traveling and reading as much as you can! :)

[Kazen]

I think I'm caught up - poke me if I missed something! But only after I wake up, please. ;) Night!

[Bety]

Finished:

Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs
9/26
294 pages
17A

[Bety]

I'm going to read The Iron Duke, which has both Iron and a title, so can I claim one of those?

[Ray (user2637)]

Okay, 5 of the date-less books on the TA shelf have had dates added... but not the one we want for Pemberley. :( It's still on the TA 'currently reading' shelf so.. maybe.. the it'll be finished soon and we can use it? Not sure how the TA shelf works exactly.

Updated my TA spreadsheet with the books and current holds.

Ray (user2637) wrote: "[The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials #3 is] on the "olympics" shelf, but the date read isn't filled it. If you can get a mod to fill it in, I'm sure it'll count. :)

ETA: There are actually 7 books on the olympics shelf without read dates. :("

[Lory]

If wanted, I could read

It seems really interesting and fun. I love retellings of Jane Austen, so I could do that book as well this week. Let me know and I can get it from the library tonight!

I am 30% through my purple book, which is a collection of short stories. 3 down 7 to go!

[Ray (user2637)]

The Pemberley tasks are still bold, so anyone can claim!

If you're not feeling the purple book, just fyi, there are at least 2 TA purple books we could swap in. :)

Lory wrote: "If wanted, I could read

It seems really interesting and fun. I love retellings of Jane Austen, so I could do that book as well this week. Let me know and I can ..."

[Lory]

Sweet, then I will claim the Pemberley book 15D. I will get started on that right away!

I will keep trudging through the purple book. But once Bethany finishes the centaur book, I will see how far I got. That way we can close the bonus as soon as possible. (Hope that makes sense)!

How many bonuses do we have left?

[Bety]

Lory wrote: "Sweet, then I will claim the Pemberley book 15D. I will get started on that right away!

I will keep trudging through the purple book. But once Bethany finishes the centaur book, I will see how far..."

I'm roughly 20 pages from the end of centaurs, so it won't be long. ;)

[Ray (user2637)]

Not sure what you mean by this... "bonus" gets used a lot, haha. We have 5 bonus labors we can have open at any time. I'm not sure, but I don't think there's an upper limit on total bonus labors -- they'll just keep generating until the event is over.

TA books allowed we have 66 left but 5 of those are on hold for tasks above.

For the "bonus" that mods posted a couple pages back, I think we have used "Add a bonus" twice?? If I'm remembering right, then we have 2 of those bonuses left plus 5 omni-sack/whatever bonuses we earned previously. Kazen can verify. :)

Lory wrote: "How many bonuses do we have left?"

[Ray (user2637)]

Sounds like a great plan! :) I'm going to wander off now, so I've marked the purple TA books in the notes column on the TA spreadsheet. No sense making someone search for them again. :)

Lory wrote: "I will keep trudging through the purple book. But once Bethany finishes the centaur book, I will see how far I got. That way we can close the bonus as soon as possible. (Hope that makes sense)!"

[Lory]

Gotcha, I wasn't sure if we had a set number of bonuses. If Bethany is almost done, I would recommend using the TA book for purple. It will take me at least a few days to read it and I'm not loving it. This way we can open up another bonus!

[Bety]

Finished:

The Magicians by Lev Grossman
402 Pages
9/26
Bonus 2C - Centaurs nurse main character back to health after injuries.

I have very mixed feelings about this book. There were parts I loved, parts I hated, and parts I was bored by. I rated it 4 stars, but finishing it, I'm not sure how to feel, and that rating might change after it sinks in a bit.

[Lory]

Lol, Bethany. That's pretty much exactly how I felt when I read that book. It's very odd.

[Bety]

Lory wrote: "Lol, Bethany. That's pretty much exactly how I felt when I read that book. It's very odd."

There was so much whiplash! Like, some of it was like a less happy Harry Potter book, some of it felt like Catcher in the Rye, and for obvious reasons some of it felt like The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

So weird...

[Bety]

Bethany wrote: "I'm going to read The Iron Duke, which has both Iron and a title, so can I claim one of those?"

Scratch this... Tried to start the book. Not my cup of tea.

Back to the drawing board... Not sure I've got ANYTHING satisfying the current spots though...

[Ray (user2637)]

I had The Magicians on my TBR list awhile ago but I think I removed it when someone else I know read it and didn't like it. Adding it to my "nope" list now. :]