Team The Detectives

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Right now we have completed Spiritual twice & we almost have it completed for a 3rd time...missing 2 I's & 1 A so if someone gets those that will give us 90 more points.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Thanks, that explanation is fine, Sallie. In short, keep reading, LOL.

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Only if u have time. Lol.

[Erin]

Hey guys I have started another group of books, I can have them finished by Saturday

[Renee]

**Just to clarify** We do need to complete the read through for the third time before we can count any letters for the fourth time.

[Erin]

Ok what letters do we need

[Renee]

Updated post 4.
"I" would be handy as there are two of them and we still need an "A". If you're doing a big stack of books again, we can use any of the letters once the two I's and A are filled. They don't need to be read in order, as long as they are marked read by the deadline.

[Erin]

k, here are the I's and the A

A- Artemis Fowl/Eion Colfer
I-Incredible Journey(the)/Sheila Burnford
I-I'll Be There/Holly Goldberg Sloan

[Renee]

Sallie(Shuga) wrote: "Renee - If you dont mind, Im thinking I am going to change the spreadsheet to look something like yours since I think it definitely makes it much easier to see what we have finished & what we are c..."

That is easier to see what's going on. I kept some of the alternate letters in brackets incase we need to do a little last minute shuffling to use all our books. If you can put the books into the spreadsheet where you think they best fit then I can use that as a reference to put them in my post - staring at a page full of HTML can get confusing, it's great to have a reference point! If we have any leftover books at the end I'll help you juggle them around. When it's time to submit, you can post a link to message 4 in our thread.

[Renee]

Erin wrote: "k, here are the I's and the A

A- Artemis Fowl/Eion Colfer
I-Incredible Journey(the)/Sheila Burnford
I-I'll Be There/Holly Goldberg Sloan"

Erin - you're awesome!
I've put them in our list - Sallie you can pop them in the spreadsheet.

**We are on to round 4!!**

[Erin]

I have been speed reading like there is no tomorrow

Oh I have a question, how many weeks is this challenge)

[Renee]

Until the first team reached 2000 points. Karen is guessing 6 to 8 weeks.

How do you speed read? I was playing around with a speed reading app on my phone that I could put epub ebooks into and it would display one word at a time really fast. But I need some time without the kids interupting to use it. I have been listening to audiobooks as I can multitask and keep up with my house work, then sit down to a paperback or ebook to relax. I'll have to boot that app up again when I get some quiet time.

[Erin]

I have been reading for such a long time that I can read a whole page in under 30 secs., I also listen to audiobooks

[SthTx Dawn]

finished The Man from Stone Creek

author is (L)inda Leal Miller

Main Characters (S)am O'Ballivan

and Setting (A)rizona

[SthTx Dawn]

We are going out of town for the weekend so will be checking in by phone (le sigh)..Will try to squeeze one more book in, but not sure if I can finish in time..looking for a quick read now..

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Good grief - y'all are just amazing....you're keeping me busy with updating the spreadsheet with all of these finished books so Im off to update...wow amazing team y'all rock!!!!

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Ok spreadsheet is updated....

[Renee]

Dawn wrote: "We are going out of town for the weekend so will be checking in by phone (le sigh)..Will try to squeeze one more book in, but not sure if I can finish in time..looking for a quick read now.."

I know! How frustrating is being stuck on the phone! Hopefully your frustration will be balanced out by a fun weekend away :) Don't stress if you can't finish it in time. But if you don't think you will finish it, save the last bit until after we get next weeks genre and we might be able to use it for that.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Finished my last book for this week. by Robyn Carr.

Fits Letters: T -Title
R - Robyn Author
S - Sarah Dupre (Character)
L - Landon Dupre (Character)

Looking forward to our next word.

[Renee]

I finished Under Southern skies and Insatiable. I'll update the list when I manage to reclaim the computer from the kids.

[Renee]

Updated message 4

[Renee]

For some last minute motivation.......



Now stop gazing back at him and keep reading! LOL.

We are doing awesome, I had a flick through some of the other groups and we are up there with the number of books we have read.

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

That's because we are awesome!!!!

Btw. Who is that masked man? He looks better than the Lone Ranger!!!!

[Renee]

He's The Arrow - the same guy as in the picture at the start of our thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(T...

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Ok the arrow. What show or movie is he from? Becsuse honestly I've don't know of him.

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Ok I found him. Did not know about this show. I read the comics as a kid but wow. Off to Netflix to find the series

[Renee]

I watched the season 1 with my husband ages ago, will have to track down season 2.

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Season 2 is not in the states yet but should be soon I would think

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Season 2 is slated for sept 16 per netflix

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Im going to give pretty much the rest of the day for everyone to finish up whatever they may be reading...I will post for Week 1 sometime around 8:30pm CST that would be around 11:30am Aussie time so that way this will give us time to finish up any books....If there is something you want to start reading in the hopes it will fit a letter for the new word that is fine just remember not to mark it finished before the next word is called....I will be around pretty much of the day..have a few books to finish since they are due back to the library within the week so I will be on the PC updating for them as well...Renee posted us some eye candy earlier but honestly Im not sure Im able to get much reading finished as he is just too WOW!!!

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

PS the spreadsheet is updated with everything thru post #179..Dawn & Lisa please dont worry I will place your books in a spot just as soon as we know what other letters might be coming later...

Ok everybody can get back to reading now!!!

[Renee]

According to the coundown we have 11 hours to finish our books and post.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'm off to bed, but I'll be around in the morning to help sort out our books before we post, and maybe finish another book if I can squeeze it in.

[SthTx Dawn]

I don't think I will be able to finish before the deadline, but I have started some new books for next week :). Awesome job this week ladies!!

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

That's ok Dawn...hopefully we will have a spot for them to go when the wheel reveals our next challenge...awesome job

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

I finished Charms and Chocolate Chips, bailey cates...

fits letters: L (katie Lightfoot~character) & S (Savannah~setting)

[Renee]

I just finished Eleanor & Park

fits: R - Rainbow - author and P - Park - character

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

By my calculations we have earned 355 for Week 1!!!! Ready for week 2

[Renee]

Sallie, I've put all our books so far into message 4 ready to post. I used yours for L as we can't use the setting for the spell it out

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Renee wrote: "Sallie, I've put all our books so far into message 4 ready to post. I used yours for L as we can't use the setting for the spell it out"

I got it...everything has been updated including the spreadsheet...Im just waiting to post...guess if I wanted I could post now since everyone is pretty much finished for the week - what do you think?

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

ooops we only have another 43 mins before i have to post i was thinking I had til 9pm my time but I think we tweaked the deadline by an hour so I am posting now....

[Renee]

I'm just checking all our links and page numbers too.

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

thanks Renee - let me know if we have a problem & I will repost our results...karen is giving a little extra time to make sure everything is in order... so far we are doing very well with this weeks totals...

[Renee]

Because you posted the link, anything I change will be ok. I swaped a few of the editions as the first ones that came up that I had linked to had no page numbers listed. Looks ok now.

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Are we ok now?

[Renee]

Looks OK to me.

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Whew. Awesome job.

[NBRC Book Ninja]

Week 2

[SthTx Dawn]

Non-fiction? I have a book at home that I can read for it. I can't post a link but its on my currently reading shelf

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

Non-fiction? Yikes have to see what is on the genre shelf for that one...

[Renee]

I have The Vow: The Kim and Krickitt Carpenter Story that I got from the library on Friday, I walked around and randomly grabbed skinny books from the shelves LOL. It only has 183 pages, counts as non fiction and could be used for T ot C.