Team Reading Between the Wines

[Melanie]

Ive added my current read (Flashback) into the spreadsheet. I added a comment in the last column that it fits the Detour #6 for Darwin (Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter C.)

That will be okay won't it.

[Rosina]

I ll read An Abundance of Katherines for the same name detour

I have to wait for it to come in from the library so hopefully it gets here soon.....
If I find another book I ll let you know

[Rosina]

I am going to be away for a family funeral till Monday and then on vacation starting the following Ssturday for 10 days so my posts will be sporadic.

[Melanie]

I am sorry for your loss Rosina, take all the time you need.

[Melanie]

I am sorry for your loss too Twist.

[Melindam]

Rosina and Twist, accept my sympathies.

[Cecily]

Sorry for your loss, from different circumstances Though I have lost, I have never been to a funeral before. I hope you have lots of friends and family to celebrate your loved one's life together and be there to lean on in your time of grief. Well wishes from my family up here in Canada

[Rosina]

Thank you all for your kind words.....Will be a celebration of a long life of 94 years. .....lots of time to read as its 9 hours one way...

[Melindam]

Finished and

[Cecily]

Still waiting for me Detour book from the library, hopefully it comes in soon!!

[Cecily]

Twist wrote: "I hate that. I have had to wait for BOTM, several times, and then I miss the discussion. I tried to get the one about the Russian man who had to stay under house arrest, and I was 100 something in ..."

Haha, yeah I didn't get that one either!! I am waiting for The Hate U Give and The Gunslinger as well!! definitely, frustrating. I put the hold on Gunslinger, like over a month ago too!!

[Rosina]

Cecily wrote: "Still waiting for me Detour book from the library, hopefully it comes in soon!!"

Same here....hope it gets here soon....

[Melindam]

Finished

[Melanie]

Completion post:

The Kingmaker's Daughter - Philippa Gregory
Date read: 6/21/2017
How it fits: Characters share the same name (Detour #5) - Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and Richard III also Elizabeth Woodville and Elizabeth of York.

The good thing about this time period is they recycle names so much. There is so many Edwards, Georges and Richards in this book.

[Cecily]

We can depart today, yes?

I got my detour book today!!! So Hopefully I will get to it soon! I am in the final leg of the Amazing Race so everything is intense right now lol

[Lucy]

Finished:
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
Start Date: June 15th
Finished Date: June 20th

[Cecily]

Twist wrote: "I am right there with you on the AR. We had a heck of a time with Israel.

We have the ability to leave, yes. But Julia, Rosina and Lucy haven't finished their books, that I am aware of."

I haven't read mine either!! I think I thought it was the next place! Sorry guys, it will be what is next for me!!

[Rosina]

Cecily wrote: "Twist wrote: "I am right there with you on the AR. We had a heck of a time with Israel.

We have the ability to leave, yes. But Julia, Rosina and Lucy haven't finished their books, that I am aware ..."

me too I thought it was for the next leg...got it yesterday from the library....im on it....

[Cecily]

Author: Wes Moore
233 Pages
Date Started: June 22, 2017
Date Finished: June 22, 2017
Detour #5 - Two characters with the name Wes Moore
Rating: 4 Stars

[Melindam]

Finished

[Rosina]

Finished An Abundance of Katherines
Author: John Green
229 Pages
Date Started: June 22, 2017
Date Finished: June 24, 2017
Detour #5 - 19 characters with the name Katherine
Rating: 3 Stars

[Melanie]

19 characters with the same name? Wow.

[Melindam]

Finished . There are 2 characters with the name Sean.

[Cecily]

Julia how are you doing with Will Grayson, Will Grayson??

[Cecily]

Do you think it would be okay for me to stop entering in my books until we use more of what we have done? (Unless for a specific Detour or something?)

[Cecily]

sounds good, I am just getting tired carrying my notebook around for character names lol

[Cecily]

oh awesome!! I have been doing a lot of audio so I have to write it down when I hear it, and then usually go on amazon to get the correct spelling lol

[Melanie]

I hope its okay but I added a banked book for Detour 6. I had indicated it on the spreadsheet so hope that is still okay.

[Melindam]

Twist wrote: "I was thinking the same thing. We have so many. I think it would be fine. Melinda and Rosina should be able to stop now as well.

I will probably continue because it helps when I have to enter all..."
OK. Fine with me. :) Just let me know if I should start again.

[Melindam]

Cecily wrote: "oh awesome!! I have been doing a lot of audio so I have to write it down when I hear it, and then usually go on amazon to get the correct spelling lol"

I am relieved to hear I am not the only one who has problems to guess about the spelling when listening to audiobooks. :)

[Rosina]

twist

Do use the kindle app? what else does xray do?

[Melanie]

:-) One less job for you to do now.

[Cecily]

:( I haven't seen any activity either

[Melindam]

Me neither :(

[Julia]

Hey everyone! I already replied to Twists PM but I'll post it again here. I'm so sorry I've been absent for the past weeks. I've been in the hospital the last 2 weeks, with no internet access so I haven't been able to check in with you guys. I'm up and running again though so I'll be available again. :)

I'll post my book info down below so Twist could you maybe put it into our itinerary sheet, I'm still very confused how to work that...

1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
by John Green and David Levithan
Date read: June 23rd
Pages: 310
Character names: Will Grayson, Tiny Cooper, ajne, Maura

2. Cut off
by Sebastian Fitzek
Date read: June 25th
Pages: 400
Charcter Names: Paul Herzfeld, Hannah Herzfeld, Ingo von appeln, Linda

3. A Clockwork Murder
by Steve Jackson
Date read: June 27th
Pages: 306
Charcter Names: George Woldt, Lucas Salmon

For the current detour (as far as I can tell we're still on the one where a character name start with C right?):

4. The Child
by Sebastian Fitzek
Currently reading
Pages: 384
Charcters: Carina, Robert Stern, Simon Sachs

If there's anything else missing, just go ahead and tell me, I'm so excited to be active with you guys again!

[Melindam]

Julia, hope it was nothing serious. Glad you are up and running. :)

[Michelle]

oh no Julia! I hope everything is ok now?

[Julia]

I had a tonsillectomy 2 weeks ago but had bad complications with it afterwards so I had to go back to the hospital and they put me on all sorts of medications, blegh. But I'm all better now, thanks! :)

[Cecily]

Glad to hear from you again Julia and that you are doing better now!

[Cecily]

Lucy do you have a book with a character with the first name starting with "C?"

[Lucy]

Twist wrote: "Julia, your books are all filled in.

Lucy, we need a book from you with a character's name that starts with C.

The new stop started today, and our earliest end date is on 7/7."

Sorry, I've been a bit M.I.A. Life is the biggest struggle right now with my work and summer school schedule so I haven't been using my computer for leisure lately. However, I have been reading! (during my short breaks)

Read:

Day 21 by Kass Morgan
Date Finished: June 26th
Detour: Character name starts with "C" : Clarke

[Lucy]

Julia wrote: "I had a tonsillectomy 2 weeks ago but had bad complications with it afterwards so I had to go back to the hospital and they put me on all sorts of medications, blegh. But I'm all better now, thanks..."

I had a tonsillectomy last summer, and a similar thing happened to me. It wasn't healing right, and they gave me the wrong medications. So it ended up being a nightmare come to life. I LOVE FOOD. I pretty much couldn't eat anything and it took a month to heal. Took me about a month instead of the usual two weeks. But on the upside, I no longer snore like a man. lol

[Michelle]

What are we waiting on for this one? it's been kind of quiet on here lately so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be reading something specific or waiting until the next stop. I'm getting a bit confused with all my challenges at the moment, haha!

[Cecily]

Everyone should check out BARC - Badass Reading Challenges! Awesome challenges, and they also have a "Kennel" where you can store all your challenge info in a thread even from other groups (they will set one up for you) if that is a direction you want to go :)

[Julia]

Hey there, thank you all for being so great! :) I'm all better now.

Ok so Will Grayson, Will Grayson I finished on June 23rd and I have 50 pages left on The Child so I will finish it today (July 5th).

[Melindam]

Cecily wrote: "Everyone should check out BARC - Badass Reading Challenges! Awesome challenges, and they also have a "Kennel" where you can store all your challenge info in a thread even from other groups (they wi..."

That sounds great, Cecily! I will check it out. :)

[Michelle]

Oh no, don't let me know about any more challenge groups, please. I'll need to give up my work and family if I want to read any more!

[Cecily]

Twist I agree, just wanted to put the option out there. I have my own private thing as well though right now I just have a lot of tabs open on my laptop haha

[Cecily]

I know right! My husband is always giving me a hard time. "Don't you start with your book stuff before ___________ (fill in the blank) We don't have enough time for that!"

My laptop is pretty good, I bought it so I could play Sims 4 when it came out but I haven't played it much after the initial hype

I have 5 Windows open, and anywhere between 3 - 10 tabs open on each... I hate when my computer wants to do updates!!

[Julia]

Yes, I did!