Team Booking it Around the World

[Lexi]

I prefer to go a stop at a time otherwise it become too automatic.

[Sam]

Here is a U.

Unbinding- Eileen Wilks- 11/14/16

[Melissa (ladybug)]

I agree with Sam.

[Susan A]

If we are not going to use books form baggage, then can I stop adding them to baggage? It is very time consuming. I do keep track of all my books in my own spreadsheet so if we were ever stuck, I could refer to that.

I am hesitant to sign on for this next round mostly because of the time I spend adding books to the spreadsheet.

[Lexi]

Susan, I add per challenge and only when they fit for the same reason. Others may do it differently, but I see no reason why you couldn't do the same for time reasons.

For Os:
Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Characters: George, Lennie
Letters: O, G, L

[Sam]

Susan, I don't add any books to baggage. I just put my books in the thread as I read them if they pertain to current challenge. Other books that I've read, I don't even mention here. I say, you can stop putting your books in baggage; we don't really use our baggage, it's just stuff we have to keep track of at the airports. Mine is lost; I think the airport monster ate it a long time ago.

[Irene]

I'm gonna stop my tour here, is that alright? :)

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Susan, it is alright to not list your books. I just added it to the spreadsheets from other groups had it and it helped me if a member didn't have a book to read that matched that stop. :)

Irene, that is fine with me. :) Sorry to see you go, and had a wonderful time with you as a travel mate. :) I will miss you!

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

I got a couple of books to add and agree with spell it out,

Defenseless by A.J. Rose
Main Characters: Kyle Decker, Jesse McGovern
Letters: D, A, R, K, J, M
Read 11/14 - 11/15

And
Rattlesnake by Kim Fielding
Main Characters: Jimmy Dorsett, Shane Little
Letters: R, K, F, J, D, S, L
Read 11/13

[Sam]

Here is a P.

Personal Demon- Kelley Armstrong- 11/17/16

[Lexi]

I started the sheet for Porto using only the books that have been commented on this thread since we started our most recent stop.
I only have books from Xelly (me), Roger, and Sam. Feel free to add to the sheet or fix any mistakes I made.

We still need:
P
T
O
T
G
A

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Read 11/2 - 11/9/16
Would work for A

[Melissa (ladybug)]

The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks
Read 11/9 - 11/13/16
Would work for a T

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Stories about My First Church by Elmer L. Towns
Read 11/13 - 11/14/16
Would work for T

[Susan A]

I haven't read anything that works with the letters we have left.

I am currently reading a book with MC Owen. Should be finished late Friday or early Saturday.

[Lexi]

Going with what I think I understand that this is a new challenge, I added the two completed after we started this stop. I put Susan down for O so that leaves G, A, P.

That also makes 5 team members so far.

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

I Have an A
Song of the Navigator by Astrid Amara
read 11/16 - 11/17

[Melissa (ladybug)]

I went ahead and hide the Economy class sheets. :) They are still there, though, just hidden. I also set up the sheet for overall tracking.

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Eunice and Gehna, are ya'll still playing?

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

Just in case Eunice and Gehna aren't I have a G that I will finish later today. which would leave us with needing a P only to finish.

[Susan A]

I did finish my o book. Will post it when I get home.

[Brandy]

Does your team need another reader?

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

Yes.

[Brandy]

Awesome!! What do you need covered?

[Susan A]

Hexmaker by Jordan L. Hawk
MC Owen Yates started 11/18 finished 11/19/16

[Eunice]

I'm still in. Sorry for not replying. I don't have anything at the moment that has a P.

[Eunice]

Ok. So I searched the baggage right now. There's Valley of The Templar by Paul Christopher for P.

[Lexi]

If we are going with that the book needs to be finished during the challenge then we still need a P.

[Sam]

Here is a P.

A Promise of Fire- Amanda Bouchet- 11/19/16

[Susan A]

Green but for a Season - finished 11/22/16

That finishes Porto Portugal, but I don't think everyone playing has a book finished for that word.

The next stop is
2. Malabo (GQ) - Thiruvananthapuram (IN)
or Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 22th of a month

I think the GQ is Equatorial Guinea and IN is India

[Lexi]

It would have been better score wise if we could have got a 6th person (either Eunice or Gehna) but we can move on.

Detour might be fun and random
Spell it out is Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.

[Susan A]

I don't mind waiting for the sixth person. We could move things around right? Since everyone currently listed has more than one book, we could be replaced. For example, if Eunice has any of the letters in Porto Portugal, we could put her put in whatever letter she has.

[Sam]

Oops, I read my Q book earlier in the week. Didn't know we'd need one for this challenge. I don't have another Q book on hand.

[Lexi]

We can wait if we hear from either that they have a book that might fit anywhere.

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

let see I have
More by Sloan Parker
Main Characters Luke Moore, Richard Marshall, Matthew Stewart

So M, S, P, L, R
Read 11/24 - 11/26

The Good Fight by Andrew Grey
MC Jerry Lincooln, John Black Raven
Read 11/23
T, G, A, J, L, B

[Eunice]

So all the books we read before our new trip started is not included anymore?

[Susan A]

I'm not really sure.

[Sam]

Here is what the travel agent said about this earlier.,.

My thought was that when you complete your economy trip you all go home, stretch, unpack, have a cuppa and a rest and then start again with brand new empty suitcases :)

But I see from above that Jen's team have decided to use the books from their economy round for their business class round... So I'm going to leave it to the teams to decide.
If you want more of a challenge I think you would start 'afresh'. If you just want to continue each trip like you never left the airport and keep using prior books then you can

[Lexi]

I vote afresh otherwise the baggage just piles up.

[Sam]

I like fresh too. Makes it more fun.

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

go fresh.

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Fresh :)

[Susan A]

We are currently on a set of 8 stops. Do you mean that any book read from the start of this new set is good to use, or now that we are starting stop 2, only the books from the start of stop 2?


Also, I don't know when and what to post. I usually read about 10 books per week. But since I am reading Christmas stories, I'm more likely to read about 15 as they are short. I know we don't need my 15 books and its a waste of time to post them all in baggage. Also, I don't want to take all of the spots. I just don't know how many spots you want me to read and what letters.

I don't like that we don't pre-claim the letters. If I make an effort to read a U book, it's rather annoying to find that someone else was also reading a U book and they finished first, making my read useless. If we preclaimed them, then I could read a book we actually needed.

[Sam]

I think its since we started this trip that we can use books. But, in my opinion, unless it's an unusual letter (like X, Z), we don't really need to save it because among the group of us, we can find one fairly easily.
I have no trouble with us claiming a letter at the beginning of each location, but we have to remember that some of us aren't online as often as others and should get a chance to claim letters too. We don't want to exclude anyone.

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Maybe if you want to claim a letter, claim one at the outset and see if any more are needed later?

[Lexi]

I made the new sheet for this next stop. I vote we move on. I think claiming a letter if you want one sounds great. Just put your name on the name line next to the letter (see first post for link). I'm not worried about people not getting letters since for this next one especially, there are lots of letters. Is everyone ok with this?

I'll go ahead and add my most recent book to a letter to start. (I'll also add Roger's one read after Nov. 25th.

[Roger - president of NBR United -]

Covered an A
Candy Man by Amy Lane
Read 12/1/16 started and finished.
Adam Macias And Finn Stewart
So Had C M F L S along with the A
Coming up will be A couple of books in the Minnesota Christmas Series by Heidi Cullinan

[Susan A]

I took an E --

started & finished Evan the Virgin Reindeer & His Sexy Buck by Candi Kay 12/2/16

[Eunice]

I'll be adding a book I read during the last week of November.
For E.
Everland by Wendy Spinale
Started 11/18 and finished 11/24

[Sam]

I can claim the Q if no one else has.

A Quick Bite- Lynsay Sands- 11/23/16