BINGO R16 | Discussion Thread

[Sam]

Sorry for the delay in posting this. I had a migraine yesterday and couldn't function. Here is the weekly update, updated through today for completed shelves, but not including the new shelf call.

SOS BINGO Updates

Team 1: One and Done
2 away from bingo a lot of times
Needs: Magic Users and 2016 Reads OR Supernatural Thriller and Fae OR Series Complete and Vampires OR Assassin and Guilty Pleasures OR Spin-Off and Magic Users OR Fae and Vampires OR Supernatural Thriller and PNR
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 9

Team 2: Breakneck Bookworms
1 away from bingo
Needs: Kindle Freebie
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 10

Team 3: Third Time's the Charm
1 away from bingo
Needs: Vampires
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 10

Team 4: 4 Corners of the World
1 away from bingo thrice
Needs: Guilty Pleasures OR Vampires OR Magic Users
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 10

Team 5: The Flashy Five
2 away from bingo a lot of times
Needs: Kindle Freebie and Guilty Pleasures OR Dark Fantasy and Dragon OR Spin-Off and Dragon OR Spin-Off and Kindle Freebie OR Magic Users and Supernatural Thriller
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 8

Team 6: The Book Scouts
1 away from bingo
Needs: PNR
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 5

Team 7: MASK 7
1 away from bingo
Needs: 2016 Reads
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 10

Team 8: Chapter Chicks
2 away from bingo four times
Needs: Vampires and Spin-Off OR Kindle Freebie and Gargoyles OR Spin-Off and Dragon OR Kindle Freebie and 2016 Reads
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 10

Team 9: Dressed to the Nines
1 away from bingo
Needs: Assassin
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 11

Team 10: TENacious Readers
1 away from bingo twice
Needs: Gargoyles OR Magic Users
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 10

Team 11: Page Wanderers
2 away from bingo a lot of times
Needs: Vampires and Assassin OR PNR and Kindle Freebie OR Supernatural Thriller and Magic Users OR Vampires and Supernatural Thriller OR Spin-Off and Dark Fantasy OR Vampires and Guilty Pleasures OR Kindle Freebie and Series Complete
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 6

Team 12: Of Bards and Books
1 away from bingo
Needs: Dragon
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 10

Team 13: Rocking Readers
2 away from bingo a lot of times
Needs: Kindle Freebie and Series Complete OR 2016 Reads and Spin-Off OR Assassin and Vampires OR Series Complete and Gargoyles OR PNR and Guilty Pleasures OR Magic Users and 2016 Reads
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 10

Team 14: Victorious Secret
1 away from bingo twice
Needs: PNR OR Magic Users
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 11

Team 15: Ballycumber Busters
1 away from bingo
Needs: Kindle Freebies
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 9

Team 16: Seeing Double
1 away from bingo twice
Needs: Supernatural Thriller OR Fae
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 8

Team 17: Eat Prey Read
1 away from bingo
Needs: 2016 Reads
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 10

Team 18: Blue Moon Prowlers
1 away from bingo
Needs: Series Complete
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 7

Team 19: Vampire Queens
1 away from bingo twice
Needs: Spin-Off OR Guilty Pleasures
Shelves Called (plus free space): 11
Shelves Stamped: 9

[Lisa Kay]

Thanks, Sam. BTW, I know every-body is different, but I suffered from migraines for decades. And I mean LOTS of migraines.
I finally eliminated all dairy and I'm now all but migraine free. (I get a rare one, which is usually "clustered" - meaning for 2 or 3 days.)

[Lis]

Lisa Kay wrote: "Thanks, Sam. BTW, I know every-body is different, but I suffered from migraines for decades. And I mean LOTS of migraines.
I finally eliminated all dairy and I'm now all but migraine free. (I..."

Same... 3 day migraines multiple times a month... I added a Magnesium supplement to my diet a few years ago and I have very few headaches now. When I do get them, not as severe as before. It also helps to know your triggers. Mine is dark chocolate (which sucks big time), some aged cheeses, local PA wines and stress, of course.

[Lisa Kay]

Yes, Lis, aged cheeses were a killer for me, as well as chocolate. But I could eat cheeses like mozzarella - and surprisingly ice cream! - and I would NOT get a migraine. However, after decades of trying to find a solution - and every type of med and alternative therapy I could find - I read an article by a woman who said, she eliminated ALL dairy and was migraine free in six weeks. So, I tried it. Now, granted, I had to keep "resetting" my start date, as milk or cream or cheese or sour cream is in EVERYTHING! Anyway, after a lot of label reading I finally succeeded and was amazed that it worked. Before that, I would get the awful "commode-hugging" migraines, and had to take shots. Therefore, this was definitely worth it to me.

[Lisa Kay]

BTW, now I can eat chocolate, if it isn't cut with butter or cream. Yay!

[Thenia]

I've found a way to quickly check if a book was ever shelved in a specific shelf without having to go through pages and pages of shelves for each book. You guys might find it useful so I thought I'd share.

Copy the below url and replace the two parts with your criteria:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/users/[book's code and title]?shelf=[shelf name].

For example, if you want to see if Burn for Me belongs in the Warrior shelf for example, you'd use this:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/users/20705702-burn-for-me?shelf=warrior

You can find the book's code and title in its page - it's usually the last part of the url (and if it's not, it will be separated by the next part of the query that got you there by a "?", so you will only need to copy the part until just before it).

If the shelf names contain more than one word, the words are separated by a "-".

If no users have shelved the book in the shelf you're looking for, you get a "Sorry, no users found." message.

Hope that helps!

[Lis]

Lisa Kay wrote: "BTW, now I can eat chocolate, if it isn't cut with butter or cream. Yay!"

Yay!! and Thanks for the information.

[Valerie ~ Val Hall ~]

Thenia wrote: "I've found a way to quickly check if a book was ever shelved in a specific shelf without having to go through pages and pages of shelves for each book. You guys might find it useful so I thought I'..."

Neat trick! I dislike looking at every pages to find a shelf.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

That's how I had been checking since Natalie originally posted (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ) -- but, this round my team hit a weird one where Deadly Silence book's page lets you click shelf names and on page 8 of book's shelf names it shows "Hunter" but not using that coding trick (that is, https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/users... says it is not on "Hunter" shelf).

Moot point for that example because so long as shows either place, counts (moderators confirmed for us). Except, I did want to mention it in case someone else had that issue with another book.

[Thenia]

Debbie's Spurts (D.A.) wrote: "That's how I had been checking since Natalie originally posted (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ) -- but, this round my tea..."

Cool, someone had already suggested that!

One likely reason for Deadly Silence not showing up using that trick is that the one person who shelved it as such probably has a private profile, so they wouldn't come up unless the person looking had administrator privileges.

[Lisa Kay]

Ah. Didn't think of a "private profile" messing with it. Interesting.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Lisa Kay wrote: "Ah. Didn't think of a "private profile" messing with it. Interesting."

That makes sense; hadn't thought about that.

[Sam]

Thanks for the migraine advise. I know my trigger, which is when I really get stressed out, dreading something. Once the something is over and I can relax, I get a migraine. Unfortunately, these things aren't always something I can avoid. It usually only happens a couple of times a year and usually lasts less than a day as long as I get to lie down quickly. Unfortunately, this one hit me when I didn't have my medicine and was unable to lie down so it lasted longer than usual.

Besides, I could never give up chocolate and ice cream.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Glad they don't last long Sam. And I agree about the ice cream :D

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Just a reminder to all Captains to keep your Master List up-to-date please :)

[Ezi]

Congratulations Team 19!
Great game

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Well done and congratulations to Team 19 Vampire Queens or as I like to call them Regal Bloodsuckers :)

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Please post any reviews & request for stamps by Saturday US time so I can add them to the stats which hopefully will be out early next week.

[Valerie ~ Val Hall ~]

Well done Team 19!

[Sam]

WTG Team 19!

[Skandia]

Congrats Vampire Queens!

[Eldarwen]

Congrats on the win Vampire Queens! :-)

[Steph, Serious series addict]

WTG, Vamp Queens! :D

[Kaity]

Congrats Vampire Queens!! Good game :D

[Leah]

Good game everyone!! Congrats to the vampiric winners :)

[Melissa]

Congrats, Vampire Queens!

[Art (aka Whistler Reads)]

Way to go, Vamp Queens...

Hope to see you all (and maybe a few more teams, too) next round...

... By the way, where did those beautiful "Giant Ultimate Completion Stamps" we received last round evaporate to? I wanted to link to my "last-round" page to tease out our last few reviews, and couldn't find them...

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Found it Art. It was on the Discussion Thread :)

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

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Congrats, Vampire Queens!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Way to go, Dressed to the Nines (T#9)
Laura, Marisa, Sandra and (Captain) Natalie

You received a stamp for every shelf!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Way to go, Vampire Queens (T#19)
(Captain) Mary, Sally, Louise and Thenia

You received a stamp for every shelf!

[Moondance]

Whoo hoo for Vampire Queens!

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Well done, Dressed to the Nines & Vamp Queens!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Way to go, Chapter Chicks (T#8)
Ora, (Captain) Melissa, Krissy, and AliciaJ

You received a stamp for every shelf!

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Well done, Chapter Chicks!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Way to go, TENacious Readers (T#10)
Sam, (Captain) Ezinwanyi, Heather~Marceline and Linda C

You received a stamp for every shelf!

[Marisa]

Sandra wrote: "



Way to go, Dressed to the Nines (T#9)
Laura, Marisa, Sandra and (Captain) Natalie

You received a stamp for every shelf!"

Thank you!

[Moondance]

Great game! Thank you Steph, Sandra and Judithe for making this happen. I love Bingo!

[Thenia]

Moondance wrote: "Great game! Thank you Steph, Sandra and Judithe for making this happen. I love Bingo!"

I second that! Thanks for all your hard work ninjas!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Way to go, Breakneck Bookworms (T#2)
Stacey, Charlie, (Captain) Art and Victoria

You received a stamp for every shelf!

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Great job, TENacious Readers and Breakneck Bookworms!

[Steph, Serious series addict]

It's our pleasure! Thanks for playing! :D

[Art (aka Whistler Reads)]

... Shelf ... Shelf ... Shelf ... ... ...*whines*It's not too soon, is it? ...

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

LOL

[Steph, Serious series addict]

LOL!! Just a bit.

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Feelin' that, Art!!

What to read now....

[Art (aka Whistler Reads)]

... all the "series" that we began during this round ...

[Steph, Serious series addict]

That's a good plan! :)