Team Ron Weasley

[maria helena]

Sorry, I'm not posting as frequently as normal - it is finals week so I'm busy grading exams... But I will definitely finish my last 2 books by Sunday.

[Sarah]

Finished two books today.

The Cellist of Sarajevo

0 - Stand alone
2 - Title
4 - C: Nermin Filipovic
6 - A: Steven Galloway
9 - C: Nermin Filipovic
Skip - C: Kenan

For the mini - there is a fire when a building is blown up

Hand In Glove

3 - Title
4 - C: Inspector Fox
9 - A: Ngaio Marsh
Skip - C: Percival Pyke Period

For the mini - MPG Mystery > Crime

[Sarah]

I've started reading Paris in Love: A Memoir (obviously set in France), which means we can swap Avamuc's All the Light We Cannot See to GR Choice Award winner.

[Ashley]

I have finished reading

Card 0 (standalone)
Card 2 (Author - Tijan)
Card 3 (Character - Hank)
Card 6 (Character - Sia)
Skip (Character - Jake Bowman)

Mini challenge
-Spell-it-out
- C (Character - Cole)
- K (Character - Kenneth)
- A (Character - Addison)
- T (Author - Tijan)
- S (Character - Sia)

[maria helena]

Ashley wrote: "I have finished reading

Card 0 (standalone)
Card 2 (Author - Tijan)
Card 3 (Character - Hank)
Card 6 (Character - Sia)
Skip (Character - Jake Bowman)

Mini challenge
-Sp..."

Great!

[maria helena]

STATUS UPDATE

We only need 11 more books! We are so close!

There are only 3 days left of the challenge (countdown here)

Only books read prior to this time can be used (but Sarah and I have another 36 hours from this point to update and finalize the spreadsheet)

[Melindam]

Only 10! :)

Finished for the mini.

For regular UNO:

Card 2 - author Terry Pratchett
Card 3 - char Havelock Vetinari
Card 4 - char Fred Colon
Card 5 - char Carrot Ironfoundersson
Card 6- char Buggy Swires / 6th book in the City Watch series
Card 7 - char Sam Vimes
Card 9 - Ned Coates
Skip - char John Keel (alias Sam Vimes) / author Terry Pratchett

[Avamuc]

I finished Todesurteil

It should work for
2: Second in series
6: Character: Sabine Nemez
9: Character: Sabine Nemez

[Avamuc]

I have a long flight tomorrow and hopefully I will be able to finish All the Light We Cannot See. Unfortunatelly I had to work a lot this week and did not get to read as much as I wanted too :/

[Melindam]

Finished for mini with "main character dies".

Regular chards
Card 3 - char Hercule Poirot
Card 4 - place Fernley Park / char Flora Ackroyd
Card 6 - char Dr. James Shepard
Skip: char Ralph Patton, place King's Abbot / char Charles Kent
Reverse MH

[Eni]

Finished After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse.

I dont know where to fit this aside from card 3 - author Charlaine Harris. It's a index. The characters dont have any lines.

For bonus: Read a book where all the letters in Haux can be found in the title

[maria helena]

Eni wrote: "Finished After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse.

I dont know where to fit this aside from card 3 - author Charlaine Harris. It's a index. The characters dont ..."

An index? Is it complete text (paragraphs)? That the characters don't speak is no problem - we can always move books around and use if for a 3 (or one of the wild cards).

I couldn't quite figure it out from the preview feature on amazon. If it is just a few words per page and a lot of empty space per page, it might be categorized with the special cases like poetry, childrens lit etc and need a minimum of 25000 words to be used for Uno.

[Melindam]

Finished Brenna Morgan and The Iron Key.
It could fit into several categories for the mini challenge:
- both "trees" and "flowers" are mentioned in the text (I will put the quotes in a separate post.)
- 1st book in a series
- or it could be used for the spell it out
K - Kathleen / place Killarney
E- char Etain
T- char Treasach
S- char Saoirse
C- place Coillearnach

For the regular challenge:
Card 1 - 1st book in a series
Card 2 - char Turlough
Card 6 - char Saoirse
Card 8 - char Etain, place Eire (characters keep referring to Ireland as that)
Card 9 - char Nuala

[Eni]

Reading The Road for Read a book that is on the 'Best Books Ever' Listopia list. Hopefully can finish it before deadline.

Or should i read 7 red/7 blue book instead?

[Eni]

maria helena wrote: "Eni wrote: "Finished After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse.

I dont know where to fit this aside from card 3 - author Charlaine Harris. It's a index. The char..."

yeah i think so 2. i tried to find it on ARfinder but couldnt.
Some pages have one sentence. its the dumbest "book" i ever read

[maria helena]

Eni wrote: "Reading The Road for Read a book that is on the 'Best Books Ever' Listopia list. Hopefully can finish it before deadline.

Or should i read 7 red/7 blue book instead?"

If you have a 7 red that would be awesome! I was gonna read one for that card, but I'm stuck at work most of the weekend.

If you don't want to do that one, no problem - then I'll make sure I finish mine before the deadline.

(Kazen is reading one for 7 blue)

[maria helena]

Eni wrote: "yeah i think so 2. i tried to find it on ARfinder but couldnt.
Some pages have one sentence. its the dumbest "book" i ever read "

And the kindle version costs $10.99? That's insane. (I hope it at least was a good read)

[Eni]

maria helena wrote: "Eni wrote: "yeah i think so 2. i tried to find it on ARfinder but couldnt.
Some pages have one sentence. its the dumbest "book" i ever read "

And the kindle version costs $10.99? That's insane. (I..."

sadly not so much. I blame Sonia. She was the one who recommended it

[Eni]

Eni wrote: "maria helena wrote: "Eni wrote: "yeah i think so 2. i tried to find it on ARfinder but couldnt.
Some pages have one sentence. its the dumbest "book" i ever read "

And the kindle version costs $10...."

ok 7 red. Vampire Crush. Should have it done by deadline.

[maria helena]

Eni wrote: "ok 7 red. Vampire Crush. Should have it done by deadline. "


Perfect! Thanks Eni, you're a life saver!

My book was going extremely slow this morning and now I'm stuck at work for the rest of the day, so I was dreading trying to finish it.

[Sarah]

Finished Paris in Love for set in France.

0 - standalone
8 - Author Eloisa James
Skip - Title

[Sarah]

Only the Wild Draw 4s and two colour cards left now. Go Weasleys!

[Melindam]

Yay! :)

[Kazen]

I finally finished my color book, yea!



I have also finished and , so hopefully that will get us one step closer to our goals. Reader does not count for the mini, the other two do. I see you already found a spot for Shiver (yea!) and I don't see anything for The Night Mark besides spell outs.

[maria helena]

I've finished



mini challenge: MC is younger than 15 (Tory is 14)

[maria helena]

3 more books needed! We are totally getting this done!

Eni is reading for 7 Red, and the other two cards are Wild 4 so any books fitting the minimum requirements for Uno works.

[Melindam]

I have finished with "char goes swimming". For regulars cards there are chars Dorothy Fenner, Della Street, Paul Drake, Perry Mason.

[Melindam]

I may finish another short Mason The Case of the Stuttering Bishop . It might qualify for MC working in church (although he disappears at the beginning, is being desperately searched for and only emerges at the very end of the book again). If yes, the Sidney Chambers book also qualifies for "character is vegetarian" - with Sidney's daughter Anna becoming a vegetarian.

[Sarah]

Kazen wrote: "I finally finished my color book, yea!



I have also finished and , so hopefully that will ..."

I found Shiver on the Best Books Ever list! Yay! :)

[Sarah]

Finished Progressive Dinner Deadly for pots and pans.



I'm going to concentrate on reading rather than updating the spreadsheet now, in the hopes of finishing another book before the deadline.

[maria helena]

15 hours left!

[Sarah]

It was quicker than expected, so I finished Doppler as well this afternoon. It only works for E or L (author) in the spell-it-outs though.

[Eni]

I finished the red book. Currently not home so i'll post when I get home what it can fit for Easter thing. MH do you want me to read another book for Haux or should I read the road for the good reads list thing?

[maria helena]

Eni wrote: "I finished the red book. Currently not home so i'll post when I get home what it can fit for Easter thing. MH do you want me to read another book for Haux or should I read the road for the good rea..."

If you have another book for HAUX, that would be great because then we can finish that egg! (I haven't been able to find a word count for the other one, but I sadly think it was too short)

[Eni]

Yeah I know. It deceived me :(
I may be able to read 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover.

[Melindam]

Finished The Case of the Stuttering Bishop.
For wild card:
-author Erle Stanley Gardner, chars Stella Kenwood, Victor Stockton, Hamilton Burger

For mini
- maybe MC working in church?
- hat on cover
- spell it out: chars Julia Branner, Janice Seaton, Place Los Angeles

If it is used for hat on cover, there are alternative categories for Night Watch
-there is a fire (Vimes sets fire to a prison used by the "unmentionables")
- could be used for spell-it-out
- contains egg in text "I'd like a hard-boiled egg" page 344.
-contains flower "you wearing purple flowers, sarge" page26

[Rachyl]

I just finished A Storm of Swords.


It should work for:
2 - character Tyrion
3 Green - 3rd in series with green cover
4 - character nickname Florian
5 - character Irri
6 - title Storm of Swords
7 - set in Valyria
8 - character Edmure Tully
9 - Ned Stark (dead at this point but still referenced frequently)
Skip - Maester Pycelle

For easter eggs:
Main character dies [spoilers] Tywin Lannister
Characters dance (Sansa's wedding)
Character goes swimming (Brienne of Tarth)
There is a fire (Hound vs Dondarrion fight)
Onion (onion knight)
Tree (weirwood tree)
Flower (knight of flowers)
over 500, 000 ratings
over 10, 000 reviews
On the "Best Books Ever" list (though I have no idea where because there are so many books but it says it on the book's page)

Hope it helps with something

[Eni]

Eni wrote: "Yeah I know. It deceived me :(
I may be able to read 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover."

I just got home. I'm dead tired so I won't be able to read the book. Sorry :(

[Eni]

Book Vampire Crush.

Works for:

L - char Lindsay
C - char Caroline
S - char Sophie
A? - Author a. M. Robinson

[maria helena]

No worry Eni!

[maria helena]

WE'RE FINISHED!

We managed to finish all our uno cards this month too, and we also found a way of rearranging the easter hunt books so we completed 14 eggs!

Great job everyone! It has been a pleasure to be your captain and I had lot of fun playing with you. I hope I'll see you all around for future challenges :-)

[Melindam]

Dear MH / Sarah!

Thanks for managing the challenge for our team, you did a great job!

Dear All,

Reading with you for the challenge has been great fun, I will definitely sign up again next year. :)

[Sarah]

Thanks Melindam, but MH did the lion's share. She's a great captain. :)

Great job rearranging the Easter Hunt, MH. I was wondering if we had a U anywhere to finish LUCK, so funny that you found it in one of my books - it had completely passed me by. Lol!

It's been great playing with you all. I hope to see you in future challenges! Is everyone playing TTV?

And finally - if you don't follow it already, audiobooksync has started again, giving away two free audiobooks every week. I still have some from last year that I haven't listened to yet. They aren't all always available outside the US, but there's probably something for everyone.

[Melindam]

What is TTV? :)

[Sarah]

Melindam wrote: "What is TTV? :)"

Tower Teams V in the NBRC group. They are still taking sign ups for reserves. You can read all about it here.

[Kazen]

maria helena wrote: "WE'RE FINISHED!"

Huzzah - great job, team! :D

[Melindam]

Sarah wrote: "Melindam wrote: "What is TTV? :)"

Tower Teams V in the NBRC group. They are still taking sign ups for reserves. You can read all about it here."

Thank you Sarah. I may join the NBRC group.

[maria helena]

THE RESULTS ARE IN!

The winning team is Ty & Zane - they finished all of the mini challenges, and were also lucky with the draw of cards.

Thanks to everyone's amazing effort, we managed to hold on to our spot and ended at place 14.

Once again, great job everyone!