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Wheel of Bookshelves (2018)
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Sorry, it's taken me so long to confirm. It's been a crazy week at work :)
Mod
Round 1Goal: 6,864 pages
COMPLETED, 20 April 2018
+438 pgs ✔ Spin 1: geek - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, read 12 Jan 2018, 16x
+534 pgs ✔ Spin 2: multiverse - Inkheart, Cornelia Funke, read 20 Jan 2018, 2x
972 pgs TOTAL
-97 pgs ✔ Spin 3: Bankrupt: lose 10%
875 pgs TOTAL
+293 pgs ✔ Spin 4: necromancer - Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris, read 4 Jan 2018, 1x
+344 pgs. ✔ Spin 5: traveling-road-trips - Mischling by Affinity Konar, read 16 Jan 2018, 1x
1,512 pgs TOTAL
-151 pgs. ✔ Spin 6: Bankrupt: lose 10%
1,361 pgs TOTAL
+300 pgs ✔ Spin 7: colonialism - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, read 7 Jan 2018, 20x
+904 pgs ✔ Spin 8: doorstoppers - Middlemarch, by George Eliot, read 4 Jan 2018, 4x
+282 pgs ✔ Spin 9: elderly - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, read 11 Feb 2018, 5x
----- ✔ Spin 10: Lose a turn: 350+ page choice, don't count - Red Bones by Ann Cleeves, read 9 Jan 2018, 392 pgs.
2,847 TOTAL
-285 pgs. ✔ Spin 11: Bankrupt: lose 10%
2,562 pgs. TOTAL
+352 pgs ✔ Spin 12: traveling-road-trips - Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate, read 11 Jan 2018, 1x
+827 pgs ✔ Spin 13: kick-ass-heroines - Winter by Marissa Meyer, read 10 Mar 2018, 29x
+352 pgs ✔ Spin 14: who-dun-it - A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths, read 8 Feb 2018, 2x
+418 pgs ✔ Spin 15: other-countries - Beartown, Fredrik Backman, 418 pgs., read 6 Jan 2018 2x
+513 pgs✔ Spin 16: traveling-road-trips - Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan, read 26 Jan 2018, 1x
------ ✔ Spin 17: Lose a turn: 350+ page choice, don't count - A Darker Domain by Val McDermid, read 22 Jan 2018, 368 pgs.
+240 pgs✔ Spin 18: elderly - The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg, read 18 Jan 2018
+359 pgs✔ Spin 19: lady detective - Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear, read 2 Feb 2018, 2x
------ ✔ Spin 20: Lose a turn: 350+ page choice, don't count - Garnethill by Denise Mina, read 29 Jan 2018, 402 pgs.
+308 pgs ✔ Spin 21: traveling-road-trips - Summer Secrets by Jane Green, read 5 Feb 2018, 1x
-----✔ Spin 22: Lose a turn: 350+ page choice, don't count - House of Shadows by Nicola Cornick, read 12 Feb 2018, 464 pages
+608 pgs ✔ Spin 23: one-hit-wonders - The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow, read 13 Apr 2018, 1x
+373 pgs ✔ Spin 24: who-dun-it - The Sixth Idea, P.J. Tracy, read 18 Apr 2018, 1x
+368 pgs ✔ Spin 25:
GRAND TOTAL PAGES: 6,944
Mod
Although I've got a total of 7,280? Nevertheless, that's way beyond your goal so CONGRATS!!
Tien wrote: "Amazing reading, LynnB!Although I've got a total of 7,280? Nevertheless, that's way beyond your goal so CONGRATS!!"
Thanks! And I probably did go over, calculators and I do not get along :)
Round 1 completed!2017 - 102,987 pages read
goal (11%) - 11,329
5/1/18 - 11,366/11,329
✔spin 1 - kick ass heroines - The Young Elites - 355 pages. 1/24/18. P.1, 30 users.
✔spin 2 -lady detective - Queen Of The Flowers - 249 pages. 1/22/18. 1 user, googledoc line 69.
✔ spin 3. who-dun-it - Something from the Nightside - 240 pages. 2/3/18. 2 users page 1.
✔spin 4. -lady detective - The Castlemaine Murders - 245 pages. 1/19/18. 1 user, googledoc line 70.
✔spin 5. love-from-afar - Rebecca - 441 pages. 1/21/18. 1 user, googledoc line 141.
✔spin 6. kick ass heroines- Rebel of the Sands - 320 pages. 1/16/18. p.4 12X.
✔spin 7. multiverse - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. 222 pages. 1/23/18. p.5 multiverse 1 user. googledoc line 161.
✔ spin 8. hot-guys - Dead Until Dark - 341 p. 1/30/18. page 17 2 users.
✔spin 9. love-from-afar- substitute Gilmore Girls. I listened to the audio book - top non=audio edition is The Virgin Suicides - 250 pages. 1/14/18. p.4, 46X
spin 10. bankrupt - lose 10%
total spins 1-9 = 2667. less 10% (267) = 2400
✔spin 11. other countries - What is the What - 560 pages. 4/4/18. p. 2 2 users.
✔spin 12. I wanna know what love is substitute technology - Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future - 368 pages. 1/29/18. p.1 147X.
✔spin 13. kick ass heroines- The Darkest Minds- 499 pages. 1/7/18.-P.2 26X.
✔spin 14. one hit wonders - Dunbar - 256 pages. 1/2/18. 1 user, googledoc line 72.
✔spin 15. traveling road trips - The Opposite of Everyone - 352 pages. 1/12/18. 1 user, googledoc line 75.
✔ spin 16. who-dun-it - Girl Waits with Gun - 416 pages. 2/6/18. 1 user, googledoc line 77.
✔spin 17. kick ass heroines-The Scorpio Races - 409 pages. 1/10/18. p.4, 14X
✔ spin 18. every written word - Watership Down - 478 pages. 2/14/18. 1 user, googledoc line 67.
✔ spin 19. traveling road trips - The Little Paris Bookshop - 416 pages. 2/3/18. 1 user, googledoc line 153.
✔ spin 20. elderly - Cold Sassy Tree - 391 pages. 2/4/18. 1 user, googledoc line 165.
✔spin 21. hot-guys- In the Afterlight - 544 pages. 1/13/18. 1 user, googledoc line 152.
✔spin 22. who-dun-it - The Crime at Black Dudley - 224 pages. 5/1/18. page 15 1 user.
✔spin 23. traveling road trips - The Truth According to Us - 512 pages. 4/26/18. p.5, 1 user. confirmed in googledoc line 76.
✔spin 24. pastiche - Meddling Kids - 338 pages. 1/5/18. 1 user, googledoc line 74.
✔spin 25. kick ass heroines- Never Fade - 512 pages. 1/11/18. p.3, 17X.
✔spin 26. one hit wonders - The Agony and the Ecstasy - 776 pages. 3/23/18. 1 user, googledoc line 73.
✔spin 27 - fabulist - Little, Big - 538 pages. 1/7/18. 1 user, googledoc line 68.
✔spin 28 - doorstoppers - World Without End. 1088 pages. 1/24/18. p.3, 2 users. p.3 doorstoppers
✔ spin 29 - hot-guys - Living Dead in Dallas. 289 pages. 2/14/18. 1 user, googledoc line 169.
Sandy wrote: "Round 1 completed!2017 - 102,987 pages read
goal (11%) - 11,329
5/1/18 - 11,366/11,329"
Way to go, Sandy! Congrats.
Lusie wrote: "Yay Sandy! Congrats!"Bea wrote: "Yay! Impressive!"
Kristina Simon wrote: "Way to go, Sandy! Congrats."
Thanks!!
Woo hoo!Goal for Round 1: 11% of 27,411 = 3,015 pages
Spin 1: One-pov: Replace with Bea's Just-plain-awful:
Spin 2: Love-from-afar:
Spin 3: Interesting-magic-system:
+554 pgs ✔23/1/18 Spin 4: Door-stoppers: The Book Thief 554pp 3x
+480 pgs ✔12/1/18 Spin 5: Colonialism: Pachinko 480pp 3x
+296 pgs ✔3/2/18 Spin 6: Fabulist: Norwegian Wood 296pp 1x
-133 pgs Spin 7: Bankrupt: lose 10% of read pages
+0 pgs ✔6/2/18 Spin 8: Lose-a-turn: read a book of 350+ pages (of your choice) but you cannot count this towards your goal: The Ventriloquist's Tale 357pp
+270 pgs ✔7/1/18 Spin 9: Elderly: Olive Kitteridge 270pp 1x
+335 pgs ✔19/1/18 Spin 10: Geek: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 335 pp 11x
+212 pgs ✔11/2/18 Spin 11: Interesting-magic-system/Replace with Lyn's Gilmore-girls: Property 212pp 38x
+336 pgs ✔23/1/18 Spin 12: One-hit-wonders: The Handmaid's Tale 336pp 1x - approved in help thread
+801 pgs ✔9/5/18 Spin 13: Doorstoppers: The Pickwick Papers 801pp 3x
Spin 14: Lose-a-turn:
Spin 15: One-hit-wonders:
Spin 16: Bankrupt
Pages Read 3,151/3,015
Lagullande wrote: "Woo hoo!Goal for Round 1: 11% of 27,411 = 3,015 pages
Spin 1: One-pov: Replace with Bea's Just-plain-awful:
Spin 2: Love-from-afar:
Spin 3: Interesting-magic-system:
+554 pgs ✔23/1/18 Spin 4..."
Congrats!
Yay, Lagullande! Congratulations!!
That's awesome, Lagullande! Congrats!
Mod
Round 2 Completed!Sandy - 2017 - 102,987
12% = 12,358
12,376/12,358
spin 1. Stacie
spin 2. lose a turn
spin 3. Amy
spin 4. Stacie
spin 5. bankrupt
spin 6. Sassafrass
spin 7. Sassafrass
spin 8. Lusie
spin 9. Stacey
spin 10. Lagullande
spin 11. Bankrupt
spin 12. Michelle
spin 13. Joyce
spin 14. Karen
spin 15. Lauren
spin 16. Stacey
spin 17. Kristina Simon
✔spin 18. Amy - The Great Alone. 5/14/18. 435 pages.
✔ spin 19. Sassafrass - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House 3/8/18. 322 pages.
✔spin 20. lose a turn - The Wind in His Heart. 1/25/18 (558)
✔spin 21. Joyce - Pocket Apocalypse. 2/7/18. 368 pages.
✔ spin 22. Lusie - A Man Called Ove - I listened to the audiobook, linked to the top edition. 3/13/18. 337 pages.
spin 23. bankrupt
spins 18-19, 21-22 = 1462, less 10% = 1316
✔ spin 24. Stacie - Beneath the Sugar Sky. 1/31/18. 157 pages
✔spin 25. Lusie - The Girl in the Tower. 2/9/18. 363 pages (listened to audiobook, linked to top edition).
✔ spin 26. Stacey - Fortune's Pawn. 2/1/18. 340 pages.
✔ spin 27. Stacey - Honor's Knight. 2/17/18. 375 pages
✔ spin 28.Lacy - The Woman in the Water - 1/28/18. 320 pages.
✔spin 29. JessieBee - Pachinko - 1/19/18. 490 pages.
✔ spin 30. JessieBee - The Golden Compass - 2/12/18. Listened to audiobook, linked to top edition - 399 pages.
✔spin 31. Lusie- Royal Assassin - 2/23/18. 675 pages
✔spin 32. Amanda A - Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - 4/29/18. 257 pages.
✔ spin 33. Sassafrass Written in Red. Listened to audiobook, linked to top other edition. 433 pages. 3/9/18.
✔spin 34. Lusie - Assassin's Quest - 757 pages. 3/24/18.
✔ spin 35. Kristina Simon - The Invisible Bridge. 786 pages. 3/3/18.
✔spin 36. LynnB - To Dwell in Darkness. 384 pages. 5/9/18
✔ spin 37. Karen - A Question of Belief. I listened to audiobook, linked to top edition. 262 pages. 2/6/18.
✔spin 38. Lagullande - The Invisible Library. 337 pages. 2/13/18.
✔ spin 39. Jayme(the ghost reader) - The Marriage Pact - 433 pages. 2/8/18.
✔ spin 40. JessieBee - The Princess Diarist - 267 pages. 2/13/18.
✔spin 41. Kristina Simon - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - 434 pages. 5/6/18.
Spins 24-41 = 7469
✔spin 42. lose a turn - Half-Off Ragnarok. 1/22/18. (368 pages)
✔ spin 43. Lagullande - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I listened to the audiobook, linked to top edition. 3/1/18. 652 pages.
✔ spin 44. Amanda A - Miller's Valley. 3/10/18. 257 pages.
✔ spin 45. Joyce - Ashes of Honor. 1/30/18. 353 pages.
✔ spin 46. JessieBee - Assassin's Apprentice. 2/20/18. 464 pages.
✔spin 47. Lusie - The Sparrow. 4/30/18. 450 pages.
✔spin 48. CluckingBell - Preludes & Nocturnes. 1/30/18. 240 pages
✔spin 49. Lusie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I listened to the audiobook, but linked to the top edition listed. 5/10/18. 759 pages.
✔spin 50. Coralie - The Power. 5/3/18. 416 pages.
spins 43-50 = 3591
1316 + 7469 +3591 = 12, 376
Well done, Sandy. I hope you liked The Invisible Library and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (from my shelves). I am finding this the hardest of all the rounds.
Lusie wrote: "Way to go Sandy!"Stacey wrote: "Nice work, Sandy!"
Kristina Simon wrote: "Awesome, Sandy. Congrats!!"
Thanks!
Lagullande wrote: "Well done, Sandy. I hope you liked The Invisible Library and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (from my shelves). I am finding this the hardest of all the rounds."
I did enjoy them both, very much! Thanks for having them on your shelves!!
Mod
Round 2 Completed! Goal: 5329 pages
Completed: 5486 p
Spin 1 - Kristina Simon
Spin 2 - Bankrupt (subtract 10%)
*Spin 3 - CluckingBell - The Monstrumologist 419p. 5/17/18
*Spin 4 - Sassafrass - Year One 419p. 1/30/18
*Spin 5 - Jayme (ghost reader) - The Lightning Thief 375p. 3/14/18
*Spin 6 - Mell - Poison Study 431p. 5/12/18
*Spin 7 - Sandy -- Magic Bites 260p. 4/1/18
*Spin 8 - Karen -- Summer Knight 446 p. 3/7/18
*Spin 9 - Lacy -- The Wife Between Us 346 p. 2/16/18
*Spin 10 - Lose a turn (350 p) -- Wicked Intentions 401 p. 2/25/18
*Spin 11 - Lose a turn (350 p) -- Devoted in Death 375 p. 3/15/18
*Spin 12 - Lacy -- Omens 512 p. 2/23/18
*Spin 13 - Coralie -- The Aeronaut's Windlass 630p. 5/16/18
*Spin 14 - Karen -- Hammered 312 p. 3/25/18
*Spin 15 - Lagullande - And Then There Were None 250p. 4/3/18
*Spin 16 - Sassafrass - One Fell Sweep 340p. 2/6/18
*Spin 17 - Charity - Frostbite 327p. 5/8/18
*Spin 18 - Karen - The Lincoln Lawyer 404 p. 4/14/18
Stacey wrote: " Round 2 Completed! Goal: 5329 pages
Completed: 5486 p"
Great job, Stacey! Congratulations! 🎉
Round 2: 12% 4934 pages COMPLETE!!! 5/24/185032/4934 pages
✔️Spin 1: Clucking Bell- An Unattractive Vampire - 312 pages 5/24/18
✔️Spin 2: Charity- The Woman in White- 672 pages finished 3/30/18
✔️Spin 3: Lacy-The Iron Hunt 305 pages Finished 2/22/2018
✔️Spin 4: Coralie-A Wind in the Door- 203 pages Finished 2/1/18
✔️Spin 5: Lagullande-The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism- 135 pages read 2/5/18
✔️Spin 6: Dee- Heat Stroke-335 pages Finished 1/29/2018
✔️Spin 7: Lose a turn(350p book) does not count We Are Legion (We Are Bob) 383 pages 3/7/18
✔️Spin 8: Lusie- Dark Witch-342 pages 4/12/18
✔️Spin 9: JessieBee-Steelheart-386 pages Read 2/6/18
✔️Spin 10: Jayme-Better Homes and Hauntings-318 pages Finished 1/31/2018
✔️Spin 11: Charity- Guards! Guards!- 376 pages read 2/4/18
✔️Spin 12: Amanda A- The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death - 441 pages Finished 2/23/2018
Spin 13: Bankrupt -Lose 10% -383 PAGES
✔️Spin14: Dee- Portrait in Death- 347 pages 3/15/18
✔️Spin 15: Michelle- A Local Habitation- 377 pages Finished 1/26/2018
✔️Spin 16: Amanda A- The Darkest Minds- 448 pages 4/2/18
✔️Spin 17: Joyce -Substitute Tien's Book- Onyx -366 pages Read 2/8/18
total: 5032
Joyce wrote: "Round 2: 12% 4934 pages COMPLETE!!! 5/24/185032/4934 pages"
Way to go, Joyce! Congratulations!
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Goal: 11% - 6188 pages
19/19
✓ Spin #1 - Colonialism
The Duke of Shadows by Meredith Duran (371)
Shelved: x2
Read: January 27th, 5✶
✓ Spin #2 - Kick-Ass Heroines
Memory in Death by J. D. Robb (375)
Shelved: x5
Read: January 4th, 4✶
✓ Spin #3 - Hot-Guys
From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris (359)
Shelved: x1
Read: January 14th, 4✶
✓ Spin #4 - Lose a Turn
The Night Stalker by Robert Bryndza
Read: January 30th, 4✶
✓ Spin #5 - Geek
Dangerous by Amanda Quick (352)
Shelved: x1
Read: January 23rd, 4✶
✓ Spin #6 - Lose a Turn
Faithless by Karin Slaughter
Read: January 19th, 4✶
✓ Spin #7 - Geek
Desire by Amanda Quick (373)
Shelved: x1
Read: February 6th, 3.5✶
✓ Spin #8 - Doorstoppers (Bea's Just Plain Awful)
Rock Chick Revolution by Kristen Ashley (530)
Shelved: x1
Read: January 30th, 3✶
Spin #9 - Bankrupt [lose 10% of 2242: (-236)]
✓ Spin #10 - Elderly
Slightly Married by Mary Balogh (342)
Shelved: x1
Read: January 18th, 3✶
✓ Spin #11 - Colonialism
Flawless by Carrie Lofty (416)
Shelved: x1
Read: March 13th, 3.5✶
✓ Spin #12 - Traveling Road Trips
Origin by Dan Brown (461)
Shelved: x1
Read: February 2nd, 1✶
✓ Spin #13 - One-POV
On Dublin Street by Samantha Young (414)
Shelved: x1
Read: February 3rd, 4.5✶
✓ Spin #14 - Interesting-magic-system
Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop (493)
Shelved: x1
Read: February 19th, 4✶
✓ Spin #15 - Love-from-afar
Rock Chick Rescue by Kristen Ashley (498)
Shelved: x1
Read: March 5th, 4✶
✓ Spin #16 - Lady-Detective
A Poisoned Season by Tasha Alexander (308)
Shelved: x1
Read: January 7th, 4✶
✓ Spin #17 - Other-Countries
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco (326)
Shelved: x1
Read: March 26th, 3.5✶
✓ Spin #18 - One-POV
Shards of Hope by Nalini Singh (500)
Shelved: x1
Read: March 24th, 3.5✶
✓ Spin #19 - Interesting-magic-system
Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews (301)
Shelved: x1
Read: March 10th, 4✶
✓ Spin #20 - Necromancer
Into the Fire by Jeaniene Frost (340)
Shelved: x2
Read: March 1st, 3✶
Total pages: 6532