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Thanks Maria Helena! I'm glad you were able to read books you love :) and good luck to you too!
Teddie wrote: "Glad you made it back safely! How was Mardi Gras in NO?"I LOVED it! I wasn't sure what to expect, but it was fun and crazy and I definitely plan on going back. And NO is a fun city in itself so I'd like to go back outside of Marci Gras to experience it without out all the insanity.
maria helena wrote: "Hey Team Bones! MH from team Ron Weasley here. I just wanted to say that we very much enjoyed looking through your shelves for the Valentine mini-challenge. I personally am very happy that it gave ..."Glad you and your team found some books you wanted to read! It was a fun challenge :)
I did it....I read Never Never: Part Three. Overall I'd say 3 out of 5 stars. At least they were quick reads.
Thanks Shamber! What are you reading next? I hope you're looking forward to it :)
Thanks Teddie! I've started another time piece - In the Shadow of Lakecrest. I hope I enjoy it. Happy reading everyone!
Billy "D" wrote: "I just added a Blue book to the schedule.Go Set a Watchman"Billy, I'm interested to hear what you think of this. I've actually avoided reading it, as I've heard mixed responses, and I loved To Kill A Mockingbird ... I'm hesitant.
Teddie wrote: "Billy "D" wrote: "I just added a Blue book to the schedule.Go Set a Watchman"Billy, I'm interested to hear what you think of this. I've actually avoided reading it, as I've heard ..."
Yea, I've heard the same. It's one that's on my 2017 challenge and it's blue. So I figured, it's a good time to knock it out.
Elizabeth wrote: "After a crazy week, I just finished my first March book - The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher. I really enjoyed it! It seems to have been targeted towards a younger audience than..."It sounds like a really fun read. But I still haven't finished the Dresden Files! Perhaps when I'm caught up with that series I'll move on to this one.
Victoria wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "After a crazy week, I just finished my first March book - The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher. I really enjoyed it! It seems to have been targeted towards a you..."The Areonaut's Windlass was one of my favorites from last year. I read about 90% of my books digitally from the library, but I let myself buy hard copies of my 5-star books (and some 4 star) - lol. I also wanted my kids to read this one.
I hate to do this because it fits so well into our second hand, but A Discovery of Witches is going to be a DNF for me. I got about halfway through, but I just can't spend another 300 pages with these people, and what they eat, and how they do yoga, and row, and run and how the drink wine and how they read their books and how they ride their horses and what they wear to do all these things........I'm hoping its early enough in the month that we can find something else for those spots? If not, I can try to skim the rest.
Ok.... where has everyone been this weekend? Veeeeeeery quiet here....... all weekend. As the self proclaimed "Water Boy" of this team, I expect a little more entertainment from everyone. Now let's bring it in. Ready? 1....2.....3.....TEAM BONES !!!!!!!!!Now that's better!!!! Carry on.
HELLO! Sorry for my quiet this weekend :)Have you all had a chance to look at the March Mini Challenge? Verry interesting...
I added a couple sheets to our planning sheet this morning.
Part 1 seems straightforward, but will require us to read books associated with the UNO teams.
Basically, we'll need:
- 5 books read that were written by UNO team authors
- 10 books read with character names that can be found in the team books.
To help with Part 1, I added a March Mini Resources sheet that list all the team names & authors, as well as a compilation of character names from the team books. (Please feel free to add to the characters if you know of / find more.)
Part 2 is a Spell-It-Out challenge, for words that we decide on based on the letters from team names. If you look on the March Mini sheet, you can see the 48 letters we have to make our scrabble words. I played around a little with the math, and here's what I'm thinking:
EDIT: I think we should go for a 7+7+7+5+5 combo.
What do you guys think?
Thanks Teddie! I just added Stardust by Neil Gaiman to read. That will cover a mini challenge author and a few options for the regular challenge. I saw we need a few 6's. Let me know if I am incorrect about the mini challenge. Happy Monday Team Bones! :)
Shamber wrote: "Thanks Teddie! I just added Stardust by Neil Gaiman to read. That will cover a mini challenge author and a few options for the regular challenge. I saw we need a few 6..."Awesome! We might use that for a 9 too. We do need 6's but they seem pretty common, so I've been filling some of the other numbers first.
Elizabeth wrote: "I can read Ghost Story by Jim Butcher. I will have Changes finished up tomorrow and it is next in the series :)"Great!
Countdown to March Mini startI came up with a scrabble words combo (on Resources sheet) but PLEASE - if any of you have a better / preferred combination, please add it to the sheet. If there are a few choices of combo's that work, we can always decide as a team which to use. (I just wanted to make sure we had at least one.)
I updated my thoughts on the Scrabble portion - I think we should go for a 7+7+7+5+5 combo. (as many as we can of course.)What do you guys think?
I'm going to start Blood Bound in the next few days (or after 3/15 now) so I can add that to part one, but can also be used for the scavenger hunt if we still need. The scrabble part makes my head hurt. We can use each letter only as often as it appears, correct? So I guess we are limited on how many long words we can make and spell more than how many books we can read? Or a bit of both, I suppose. Is that right?
Teddie, I agree, it makes sense to get as many 7 letter words as we can without leaving us with a bunch of letters we can't use.
Oh, I forgot...Do you know if we can use all the author's names to count? I'm not going to be reading any more JD Robb before the end of the month, but I might read a Nora Roberts. Could we use that?
Stacey wrote: "Oh, I forgot...Do you know if we can use all the author's names to count? I'm not going to be reading any more JD Robb before the end of the month, but I might read a Nora Roberts. Could we use that?"We can, yes.
Stacey wrote: "I'm going to start Blood Bound in the next few days (or after 3/15 now) so I can add that to part one, but can also be used for the scavenger hunt if we still need. The scrabble par..."
I found 3 7-letter words and 3 5-letter words, using letters once just from the available letters. I'm wondering whether I should just post the words on the Mini sheet so we can start planning what to read...
Teddie wrote: "Stacey wrote: "I'm going to start Blood Bound in the next few days (or after 3/15 now) so I can add that to part one, but can also be used for the scavenger hunt if we still need. T..."
That would be great. I noticed we have limited vowels, so if you have the words that work, I would say let's run with those.
Ok, our words are on the March Mini sheet.I would look for books to hit the Mini challenge in this order:
- books by UNO author
- books with UNO character name
- 7 letter (blue) books
Let's hold off for a week on starting any 5 letter (orange) books, so we really focus on the Part 1 books and 7 letter books.
Let me know if you have any questions / suggestions!!
Go Team Bones!
Hey all! Just dropping by to say Hi! We just arrived in Dallas and are driving home from the airport. I finished another book today and have got to learn about our new mini challenge and strategies!I didn't get as much reading done as I would like to. This trip was Fast and Furious! Up early and to bed late. We switched hotels and countries at least every other night. It was an amazing trip! But I cannot wait to get home to my bed, my house and my books!
I'll get back with everyone tomorrow :D
Ciao!
Trinia wrote: "Hey all! Just dropping by to say Hi! We just arrived in Dallas and are driving home from the airport. I finished another book today and have got to learn about our new mini challenge and strategies..."Welcome back!! Glad you are home safely and that you had a wonderful trip!
Wow, I've been really anti-social for this challenge. Anyways, the books by an UNO author will be very easy for me since I've been reading a lot of them already. For the mini I plan on reading:Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs and
Changes by Jim Butcher (that way I can keep up with Elizabeth, lol)
Welcome back Trinia! Hope you had a great trip!
O.k. for the mini, I will read The Martian by Andy Weir. I'm guessing that works. I'll have to add it to the sheet later, since I'm on a Kindle at the moment.
Billy "D" wrote: "O.k. for the mini, I will read The Martian by Andy Weir. I'm guessing that works. I'll have to add it to the sheet later, since I'm on a Kindle at the moment."I'm on right now, so I can add it.
I hope you like The Martian - I found it to be really fun, Watney is so inherently upbeat. I shed a few layers of defensive pessimism while reading it - lol.
How are you finding Go Set a Watchman?
Elizabeth wrote: "Victoria wrote: "Wow, I've been really anti-social for this challenge. Anyways, the books by an UNO author will be very easy for me since I've been reading a lot of them already. For the mini I pla..."I've got to get back to that series - I really liked it ... can't remember why I stopped reading it.
Teddie wrote: "Billy "D" wrote: "O.k. for the mini, I will read The Martian by Andy Weir. I'm guessing that works. I'll have to add it to the sheet later, since I'm on a Kindle at the moment."I'..." Thank you for adding to the sheet for me.
As for "Go Set a Watchman"......I'm nearly finished and I already agree with Trinia. Definitely a 2 star book.
I finished
last night. I would give it a 3.5 out of 5. It was a little longer than I cared for with its story/plot. Sometimes I felt that some pages weren't needed. I will start
today. I was also thinking about reading
for a P on scrabble / character name on the scavenger hunt (Anne).
Elizabeth wrote: "Okay, guys. I had a day off yesterday and a snow day today, soooooo I have gotten some reading done! The Last of August was a very good sequel, with lots of allusions to the origi..."
I had a snow day yesterday too - woohoo! I finished The Vegetarian - a deeply unsettling but entirely interesting short book.
I'm going to try to read a Harry Dresden this month. :)
Billy "D" wrote: "Teddie wrote: "Billy "D" wrote: "O.k. for the mini, I will read The Martian by Andy Weir. I'm guessing that works. I'll have to add it to the sheet later, since I'm on a Kindle at t..."Hmm, I think I'll keep putting off reading it.
Shamber wrote: "I finished last night. I would give it a 3.5 out of 5. It was a little longer than I cared for with its story/plot. Sometimes I felt that some pages ..."Rock that March Mini challenge! :)
Finished Go Set a Watchman gave it 3 stars in the end. I feel as though it may be worth a re-read. The ending really brought the entire story to a more pointed and understandable finish.@ Teddie, I added a few more characters to the sheet for this one. So you may want to revisit it for the March hands.
Billy "D" wrote: "Finished Go Set a Watchman gave it 3 stars in the end. I feel as though it may be worth a re-read. The ending really brought the entire story to a more pointed and understandable fi..."Will do - thanks for the heads up!
The following Public Service Announcement is brought to you by the Team Bones Waterboy:Green Beer and Books don't mix.
So drink today and read tomorrow!
Billy "D" wrote: "The following Public Service Announcement is brought to you by the Team Bones Waterboy:Green Beer and Books don't mix.
So drink today and read tomorrow!"
Ooh! have fun Billy! They never have green beer here in little ole Texas :( Not like back in Buffalo. ENJOY!
So, I'm home and catching up on my books... whew!
Today I finished
and
Both very cute YA books, both about young romance <3
I've been trying to get through
for the longest time and it's so boring.... Anyone read it??? Does it get better after they arrive at Manderley?I may have to splurge and get the audiobook, I'm #7 on the waitlist at the library :/
Happy St. Patty's Day y'all!!!!
Sooo, I'm changing one of my books that's already been slotted to a hand. I was going to read Boomerang but the challenge I was going to read it for changed, and I don't need it anymore. BUT -- I am going to read Ego Maniac and the author's first name is Vi, so I will replace my V. :) Just wanted to let you know before it disappears from my list.
I finished
and loved it!!! I'd say it's one of my favorites of the series, but I'd really have to reread the books to say for certain. But, it is great regardless. And I put it in for the Mini under character names.Now I'm off to read changes since I hear it's so good =)
Billy "D" wrote: "The following Public Service Announcement is brought to you by the Team Bones Waterboy:Green Beer and Books don't mix.
So drink today and read tomorrow!"
I really wanted to go crazy on St Patty's, but had to work instead :( I guess I'll just have to get drunk next friday...
Strategy question on the Spell it out part of the March challenge.... Should we try to fill in and finish 7 letter words first? Or just fill them in and let you Captains move them around at the end?
@StaceyFirst off - thanks for the heads up about the book swap!
Re: strategy -- I'll go through our books tomorrow morning and post an update of where we are wrt numbers. We are looking good tho :)
I'm thinking let's start just on the seven letter word books for now. I think we should be able to get through all 3 7-letter words, and then even maybe get to a few more words, but to your point: let's focus on the blue 7 letter words books to start. What do you guys think?
We have a little over a week to go with our March books - a good time to evaluate what you think you can read in the last week :)
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Good luck this month! :-)