Team The Detectives

[Renee]

Finished In conversations with strangers
I - title

[Renee]

So frustrating Sallie. Waiting for news is so hard.

[SthTx Dawn]

hang in there Sallie..hope you hear something soon!

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

All the best Sallie. Times are hard in employment these days. My sister is exactly in the same boat as you - waiting for an employment contract from her new bosses..

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

WooHoo. Is that our first read through? What is our genre book going to be ..

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Finished Nights of Steel by Nico Rosso.

N - Nights of steel (Title)
Nico Rosso (Author)
T - The Ether Chronicles (Series Name)
F - Dr Franklin Song (Character)
C - Guillaume Charron (Character)

[Skandia]

I think we have lost a team member.

[Renee]

Skandia wrote: "I think we have lost a team member."

I just sent Sakshi a pm to check in with her and see if she's still playing. She hasn't finished a book over the past 2 weeks and hasn't posted anything yet this week.

Thanks for the reminder Skandia.

[Renee]

Erin wrote: "Obsidian-O"

Can you add this one to your wheel a thon shelf too.
Thanks :)

[Renee]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "WooHoo. Is that our first read through? What is our genre book going to be .."

Yep - first read through done.

We have a few books we could count as fiction, so I picked one at random that has 73 tags.

I had to move week 5 tracking to post 7 as I ran out of characters in post 4, so, updated post 7.

[SthTx Dawn]

finished.. Shadow Game

Author - C, F

Characters - N, T - Nicolas Trevane

[Renee]

Sakshi got back to me and she is still around and keeping tabs on the thread but hasn't been feeling well.

[Renee]

Updated post 7.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Finished It Happened One Midnight by Julie Anne Long

I - It Happened one Midnight (Title)
T -Thomasina de Ballesteros (Character)

[Renee]

Finished Into the Mist
I - title
F - series - Falconer
T - Tyana - character

Updated post 7.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Good one. I've got a C in the book I'm reading, should be finished later tonight.

[Renee]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Good one. I've got a C in the book I'm reading, should be finished later tonight."

Me too.....I'll race you!
LOL

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Spreadsheet has been updated

finished

N~author
N~Nora, character

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Renee wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Good one. I've got a C in the book I'm reading, should be finished later tonight."

Me too.....I'll race you!
LOL"

Healthy competition... is good! Haha.

PS My book fits a few more letters too so no problems fitting it in.

[Renee]

finished my book for C, T or N. Will update later. (Beat you Lisa! :-D )

The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

You did! Still got 25% to read, will be done later.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Finished Our Little Secrets by Merry Farmer.

O - Our Little Secrets (Title)
F - Merry Farmer (Author)
C - Charlotte Baldwin (Character)
N - Nancy Deen (Character)
T - Franklin and Edsel Turner (Characters)

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Good morning & to my Aussie friends...good evening....Have some news to share...the company that I interviewed with has made me an offer of employment & I have accepted so I will be leaving my current job on Fri Aug 29 to return on Sept 8 as an employee with a different company...very confusing for me...but Im excited....the company is flying me from here on Sept 2 to Mobile, Alabama for a few days. I will back home on Fri Sept 5 then I will go to work on Mon Sept 8 thru Thurs Sept 11 & then I leave for Atlanta, Georgia on Fri Sept 12 in time for my Daddy's 80th Birthday on Sat Sept 13 & then Im leaving on Sun Sept 14th for Gettysburg & Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland/Washington, DC & returning back home on Wednesday Sept 25th....wow Im exhausted just thinking about all of this travel...but its all good because this will be an Adventure as most of my life has been so I think I am up to the task...but at any rate I am excited....

Ok Im going back to my reading lol

[Renee]

Sallie(GeorgiaGirl) wrote: "Good morning & to my Aussie friends...good evening....Have some news to share...the company that I interviewed with has made me an offer of employment & I have accepted so I will be leaving my curr..."

Yay! Glad you get to keep your job / get re-employed by a different company.

Wow....lots of travel ahead......lots of time to read on the plane :)

Updated post 7 - 17 books read so far.....a 10 hours left til deadline.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Congratulation Sallie. Yep, you've just got to roll with it in this life, that's for sure.

Good job team, especially as we are a couple of team members down due to unexpected stuff. Again, real life..ha.

I will be without my laptop this week ( it's gotta go to the Accountants for a software upgrade)so I will be posting from my phone. Apologies in advance.. I'm not very good on my phone.

[Renee]

I've posted our week 5 results link to the weekly submissions thread.

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Thanks Renee...I was in the process of updating our spreadsheet when I saw your post...Whew~~ I didnt mean to cut that so close...

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Ok...our new genre for Week 6: HISTORY...I know Im groaning here too...

[Renee]

I've got a book I can do for genre if no one else has any.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Does this mean history - fiction or non-fiction?

[Renee]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Does this mean history - fiction or non-fiction?"

History I think is meant to be non fiction - but as long as it is shelves 10 times I don't think it really matters.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

I've got one! Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy by Alison Weir. It's shelved as History - 96 times...

I use it as my guide when I'm reading historicals sometimes but I've never shelved it... till now..

[NBRC Book Ninja]

Week 6

[Renee]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "I've got one! Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy by Alison Weir. It's shelved as History - 96 times...

I use it as my guide when I'm reading historicals sometimes but ..."

Can you use it for any of the letters?

I have a copy of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks which will also work for H, I, S, T, R

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Yours is better, Renee... I guess if I use the English Monarchy as "characters" you've got Henrys, Richards, Stuarts, Yorks???

How about we do both books so it gives us flexibility?

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Actually, flicking through there is a Royal Family member starting with every letter although the I and O are obscure members.

[Renee]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Yours is better, Renee... I guess if I use the English Monarchy as "characters" you've got Henrys, Richards, Stuarts, Yorks???

How about we do both books so it gives us flexibility?"

Sounds like a good idea. I might check in with Karen to see if we can use them as characters as it is more of a reference book. I think the characters need to have dialogue, so I'm not sure if they will count.

[Skandia]

I have no non-fiction history books to read right now, so can't help with genre read. But I have at least H and Y covered with my next weeks books.

[Skandia]

Yay, Sallie! I knew you'll be all right. Good luck with the new employer!

[Renee]

Finished Our Husband
O - title
S - author
R - Ruby - character

[Renee]

Here's an Arrow for Sallie, to celebrate her good news.

[Renee]

Erin, There are 3 books on your wheelathon shelf that dont have read dates set. Can you mark them read now, as we can use them all this week. Thanks.

Eleanor & Park
R - author

Don't Stop Now
H - author

Eragon
T/I - (The Inheritance Cycle, #1) - series

[Skandia]

Finished reading Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart by Sarah MacLean

S - author - Sarah

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Renee wrote: "Here's an Arrow for Sallie, to celebrate her good news.
"

oooo I love a man with arms..wow...he is definitely eye candy...I need to have good news everyday if I get presents like this...yes baby...yummy

[SthTx Dawn]

finished ..Endgame

Characters - H - Madison Harper; R - Gabriel Roarke; T - Tracy Braxton; S - Kingston Sinclair

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Finished Nikolai by Roxie Rivera

H. Her Russian protector - series name
I - Ivan (character)
Y - Yuri and yelena. (Characters)
S - Eric santos. (Character)
R - Romero Valero. (Character)

[Renee]

Finished The Island of Adventure
T/I - title

Updated post 7.

[Renee]

Renee wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Yours is better, Renee... I guess if I use the English Monarchy as "characters" you've got Henrys, Richards, Stuarts, Yorks???

How about we do both books so it gives u..."

I asked in the Captains group -
Hey Karen. We have a team member who was planning to read Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy for History this week. Are we able to use the names of the members of the Royal family discussed in the book as characters for the spell it out?

Reply was -
Sorry Renee, we're not accepting people spoken about in non-fiction books as characters, just the author or title

So Lisa, I don't think we can use Britains Royal Families as one of the letters.

[Skandia]

Finished Never Too Far by Abbi Glines.

R - character Rush Finley
T - series name - Too far #2

[SthTx Dawn]

finished Neverwhere

characters: R - Richard Mayhew; H - Hunter; I - Islington