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[SandyL]

Thanks again Danielle - this looks great!!!

[Emma (M)]

I only had a couple but I’ve gone back and added character names to my completion posts since we stopped adding them.

[SandyL]

Thanks Emma!

[SandyL]

OK, I'm kinda freaking out........ there was a spider on my desk and I tried to kill it. It ran under my laptop and disappeared! So now I'm wondering if it's inside my laptop somewhere? I keep looking for long, creepy legs to poke out between the keys! Eeekkkkk!

[Laura]

Hey Nox
Your last book was a buddy read if you want to join the thead and get an extra 20 points!

[Laura]

Lol... maybe he scurried away?

[SandyL]

I keep seeing acromantulas!

[Laura]

SandyL wrote: "I keep seeing acromantulas!

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Your picture is freaky!

[SandyL]

Does anyone have any fun plans for the weekend? I can't believe it's already Friday!

[Erika]

Participating in Dewey’s reverse readathon and a little work to finish up

[✿~Danielle~✿]

SandyL wrote: "Does anyone have any fun plans for the weekend? I can't believe it's already Friday!"

No plans. It’s been pouring down with rain today.

[Sassafrass]

Hi all, so for being MIA but my laptop died and I am having to use my desk top which is not very convenient. I will go back later today and tomorrow to add characters and stuff to my books. I've got a lot that I didn't add because I thought that part was over.

I also added my two BRs to the read books thread.

[Laura]

Friday night we hung out with my brother and his family. We played some mini golf and then went back to their house for games. Today we are heading out for a mini visit to my parents. Hoping to get some kayaking in this weekend.

Trying to make some progress on a few of these buddy reads!

[Heli]

I updated my completion posts with letters for names.

There has been no interaction at all in the Scythe BR-thread after I posted there. So I guess it does not count for the points.

It's been unusually hot here in Finland for weeks now. Maybe later I'll go for a swim.

[SandyL]

Thanks Heli. And thanks for trying to get the BR points for Scythe!

Enjoy your swim and stay cool!

[Erika]

Does it have to another team chatting to count for the buddy read points because I can chat about scythe if that will help?

I’m hoping to complete some of my buddy reads before the deadline and working on my arc too.

I’ve been a bouncy reader as of late but i’m enjoying it. :)

[Laura]

Teammates don't count or I could also go back and chat. I'll check out the thread and see if there is anyone I can recognize to see if they'll come back and chat.

[SandyL]

Hi Erika - yes, it has to be someone from another team. 🙁

But thanks for offering! Hopefully Karly can start The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr right away.

[Laura]

Heli wrote: "I updated my completion posts with letters for names.

There has been no interaction at all in the Scythe BR-thread after I posted there. So I guess it does not count for the points.

It's been unu..."

Hi Heli,

Some of the other Hufflepuffs read that book so I asked in the House thread if they would come chat with you.

[Laura]

Sassafrass wrote: "Hi all, so for being MIA but my laptop died and I am having to use my desk top which is not very convenient. I will go back later today and tomorrow to add characters and stuff to my books. I've go..."

Welcome back Sassafrass!

[Linda C]

The Tri-Wizard tasks are up we should start planning

[SandyL]

Thanks Linda!!

Here are links to the info for the Tri-wizard tournament info and tasks:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'll post more info tomorrow - it's been a long day (a friend of mine has 11 golden retriever puppies which I spent the day playing with!)

In the meantime, take a look at the tasks and also think about whether any of you would be interested/willing to play in the last quidditch match.

Also, our classes, spells and any Buddy Reads you're doing have to be completed by the 31st. @Erika - how is your ARC coming along?

[Nox]

Laura wrote: "Hey Nox
Your last book was a buddy read if you want to join the thead and get an extra 20 points!"

Hi Laura! Which book did you mean?

[Erika]

OMG so much cute!!!! Goldens are so fluffy when they’re pups!

I am living in it today! Determined to get it done did-id.

[Emma (M)]

Do only books we’ve started after Tri-Wizard tournament start date count for the tasks?

Also, when does it start? I can’t see the start date anywhere.

[Laura]

Hey Nox
Shadow and Bone. Sorry on the app both times so couldn't link it.

Edit--added link
Below is the link to the buddy read thread
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...--

[Laura]

Emma (M) wrote: "Do only books we’ve started after Tri-Wizard tournament start date count for the tasks?

Also, when does it start? I can’t see the start date anywhere."

Here is the count down clock to the end of buddy reads, classes and spells. ( It was in the owl mail)

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

[Heli]

Laura wrote: "Heli wrote: "I updated my completion posts with letters for names.

There has been no interaction at all in the Scythe BR-thread after I posted there. So I guess it does not count for the points.

..."


Thank you Laura! It worked! Now we can claim BR-points for Scythe.

[Linda C]

I am leaving tomorrow for a 2 week vacation and will only have my kindle to read from - I am trying to plan accordingly

I took a look at the tasks and what I have scheduled to read for other challenges and found a task with 4 sub-tasks that fit. So I would like to suggest that we select Book 1-Sorcerer's Stone as one of our 3 books and I could do Task 4 - 4 books

Task 4 - Escape Devil’s Snare

Read a book with a predominately green cover -
Read a book with “Devil” in the title -
Read a book where the title starts with S -
Read a book tagged at least 10 times as “relax” or “calm” (variations are allowed) - when you look for these 2 words neither shelf list has a book with 10 times, so I found a book that uses variations to reach the total - has comfort reads - 2 times; comfort read - 5 times; gentle reads - 3 times; gentle - 4 times

SandyL - Can you check out the last option - seems unusual that they would pick 2 words where no books match the criteria and if my option is acceptable?

[SandyL]

Linda C wrote: "I am leaving tomorrow for a 2 week vacation and will only have my kindle to read from - I am trying to plan accordingly

I took a look at the tasks and what I have scheduled to read for other chall..."

Hi Linda
When they say "variations are allowed" it usually means relaxed or relaxing instead of just relax, or calming instead of calm. Not a completely different term. I will double check to make sure, but you may want to start looking for a different book.

I know there is a way to search for shelves - if anyone knows how to do that please post. In the meantime I'll search around - I think I have notes somewhere.

[Linda C]

This is the problem I see. None of the terms has even one book that is shelved 10 times. Can they explain what they were using.

shelves>relax - 1st book is only 8 times
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

shelves>relaxing - 1st book is only 3 times
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

shelves>calm - 1st book is only 1 times
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

shelves>calming - 1st book is only 2 times
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

[SandyL]

Hi Linda - good news.
Here's the response I got:
Hey Sandy. Variations that have similar meanings would work. Pleasure. Leisure. Comfort. Etc. We aren’t being overly particular with tasks this Tower.

Here’s a place to try:
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/relax

I'm still waiting for an answer if we can combine shelves to get to that 10 number. I think it's still going to be a tough task to find something that fits that you actually want to read, though. :-)

If you find another term just ask - they said to use our judgement, so we can discuss it here and if no one is sure I can ask in the captain's thread.

[SandyL]

Hi Linda - good news:
Total shelves work for me. So like if you have tagged 6 times as pleasure and 4 times as calm, that works.

[SandyL]

First of all, I just want to let you know that I think all of you are AWESOME!!!! Thanks for all the hard work you've put into this challenge so far.

I know there is a lot of info - I've tried to condense, but please read it all and feel free to ask any questions. Thanks!

TRI-WIZARD ANNOUNCEMENT

Tri-Wizard will have 3 parts:

**Individual Team Tasks
**House Maze
**Final Quidditch Match

Individual Team Tasks
See next post

House Maze - Starts 31 Jul - more info to come
Each House will go through the Maze together as a House. Each move through the maze will require one book, with its own requirements.

Be prepared for surprises, portals, moving floors. There really is no telling what all a House may find within their maze.

Quidditch Round #3
Hufflepuff v Slytherin - 10 August - 15 August
Quidditch Link
Badgers Burrow
Our readers get extra points for the team when participating in Quidditch - it can be intense but a lot of fun, so please consider volunteering, even as a reserve.

We still have our Character spell-outs for any books that don't work for Tri-Wizard. I will get our banked books logged in today and tomorrow. Letters that we need a lot of: E, I, L, N, O, R, S, U and Y (we need 11 Y's!!!) So if you don't want to do tasks, no worries - we still need your books!

Buddy Reads end tomorrow - get any BR's finished up asap!

BOM's - we can still get points for Books of the Month participation. You can participate up to 1 month after the start of the BOM, and we get an extra 20 points. I'll list the current BOM's after the TWT tasks.

Page points
Don't forget we earn points for pages:

100 to 160 pages ........................ 5 points
161 to 350 pages..........................20 points
351 to 500 pages..........................40 points
501 to 650 pages..........................60 points
651 to 800 pages..........................80 points
801 to 900 pages..........................100 points
901+ pages.....................................130 points

So keep in mind - if you read a book that is 350 pages we get 20 points but if its 351 pages we get 40 points. I know most of us are also participating in other challenges and there are books we need to read for those. But when you're looking for books to read, keep in mind the point system above.

[SandyL]

TEAM TASKS

Each team will be performing their own set of tasks for the Tri-Wizard Tournament. These tasks are broken down by Harry Potter book.

Each book has 5 separate tasks, comprised of 4 book requirements per task.

In order to receive the points available for completing the tasks:

Choose 3 books
Choose 3 tasks within each of those books to complete

After you've completed those 9 tasks, you may go back and complete any and all additional tasks for more points should you choose to do so. (Note: We have to finish the inital tasks before reading for extra tasks/points)

You must complete the total of 9 tasks in the 3 different books before you will be awarded any points.

They may need some planning, so read instructions careful. Once in a while the Class Masters may go and check if your book applies or not. Points are at stake here.

**We need to pick three books from the list below**
We're going to use Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as one of our picks, so we need two more. Look over the tasks under each book and please post your choices/input. Then we need to determine which three tasks we want to tackle for the books we choose.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Task 1 - Defeat the Troll
Read a book with a double L in the title
Read a book with a baseball bat on the cover
Read a book with “troll” in the title or text
Read a book with a only 5 word title

Task 2 - Get past Fluffy
Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover
Read a book MPG Music
Read a book where the main character is a musician
Read a book with “Song” in the title

Task 3 - Play Wizard’s Chess
Working together as a team do a Title Relay of 4 books.
(The first word of the second book must match the last word of the first book, the first word of the third book must match the last word of the second book, the first word of the fourth book must match the last word of the third book)
You may not ignore articles (a, an, the, etc).
Each book must be read by different team member

Task 4 - Escape Devil’s Snare ** Linda will read all books in this task***
Read a book with a predominately green cover
Read a book with “Devil” in the title
Read a book where the title starts with S
Read a book tagged at least 10 times as “relax” or “calm” (variations are allowed)

Task 5 - Mirror of Erised
Read a book which the authors initials are E.D.
Read a book with a mirror on the cover
Read a book tagged at least 50 times as “wish”
Read a book with a person on the cover with their hand in their pocket

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Task 1 - Escape the Dursleys
Read a book with Iron in the title
Read a book with a gate on the cover
Read a book with a car on the cover
Read a book where a character escapes prison

Task 2 - Wizard’s duel
Read a book with “Witch” or “Wizard” in the title
Read 2 books with similar covers
Read a book with a deadly weapon on the cover

Task 3 - Take Polyjuice Potion
Read a book with a cat on the cover
Read a book something to drink on the cover
Read a book with a cauldron on the cover
Read a book with a P and a J in the title

Task 4 - Attend a ghost party
Read a book where the characters attend a party
Read a book with Ghost in the title
Read a book with Death in the title
Read a book where they celebrate Halloween

Task 5 - Fight a Basilisk
Read a book with a snake on the cover or Snake in the title
Read a book with a blind character
Read a book with the word “Phoenix” in title or text
Read a book with a sword on the cover

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Task 1 - Ride the Knight Bus
Read a book with a bus on the cover
Read a book with "Night" in the title
Read a book with a predominately purple cover
Read a book with the main character's initials are S.S.

Task 2 - Learn to fight Boggarts
Read a book with a shapeshifter character
Read a book MPG Humour
Read a book with a balloon on the cover
Read a book with a hat on the cover

Task 3 - Write a report on Werewolves
Read a book with a moon on the cover
Read a book MPG Paranormal
Read a book with a wolf on the cover
Read a book with 'Wolf" in the title

Task 4 - Go back in time
Read a book with time travel
Read a book with a clock on the cover
Read a book with "Time" in the title
Read a book a form of transportation on the cover

Task 5 - Defeat Dementors
Read a book a wand on the cover
Read a book with woods on the cover
Read a book with "Death" in the title
Read a book with eerie/scary cover

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Task 1 - Four Champions are competing
- Read a Square of Young Adult books -
How to read a square:
- Read four books
- Match first & last letters of the title in order to form a square/rectangle.

Example:

Wink Poppy Midnight
Waterfall
The Infinite Sea
Looking for Alaska

WINK POPPY MIDNIGHT
W T
A H
T E
E
R I
F N
A F
L I
L N
E

S
E
A
LOOKING FOR ALASKA


Task 2 - Retrieve a golden egg guarded by a dragon
Read a book with "Dragon" in the title
Read a book with "Dragon" in the series name
Read a book with a Dragon on the cover
Read a book with a Dragon in the book

Task 3 - Yule Ball
Read a book with your favorite romance hero(es)/heroine(s) or your favorite pair (Pair has to be a romantic couple in the book, not just a love interest)
Read a book with couple dancing on the cover
Read a book with a feast or dinner item on the cover
Read a book with a single shoe on the cover

Task 4 - Retrieve Treasure
Read a book with mermaids
Read a book with "Treasure" in the title
Read a book with someone swimming on the cover
Read a book with water on the cover

Task 5 - The Maze
Read a book with "Maze" in the title or series name
Read a book with a riddle in the text
Read a book with 'Spider" in the title
Read a book with a key on the cover

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Task 1 - Clean up the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix
Read a book with pixies or fairies
Read a book with "Order" in the title
Read a book a bird on the cover
Read a book with picture on the cover

Task 2 - Go on Trial
Read a book where the main character is a lawyer
Read a book MPG Crime
Read a book where someone goes on trial
Read a book with "Trial" in the title

Task 3 - Get a New Professor
Read a book with a predominately pink cover
Read a book where the title is pink
Read a book with a teacher character
Read a book with a cat on the cover

Task 4 - Department of Mysteries
Read a book MPG Mystery
Read a book where someone dies
Read a book with a large battle
Read a book where there is a "rescue"

Task 5 - The Lost Prophecy
Read a book with a seer/fortune teller character
Read a book with a prophecy as an integral part of the story
Read a book with "Lost" in the title
Read a book with 'Prophecy" in the title or series name

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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Task 1 - The Slug Club
Read a book with "Club" in the title
Read a book where there is an exclusive club
Read a book with a teacher main character
Read a book with a club like object on the cover

Task 2 - Silver and Opals
Read a book with a necklace on the cover
Read a book with 'Silver" in the title
Read a book "Curse" in the title
Read a book "opal" in the text

Task 3 - The Unbreakable Vow
Read a book with something broken on the cover
Read a book that starts with U
Read a book with "Vow" in the title or series name
Read a book where someone tries to protect someone

Task 4 - Love Potion
Read a book with "Love" in the title
Read a book with chocolate on the cover
Read a book with a bottle on the cover
Read a book with a heart on the cover

Task 5 - The White Tomb
Read a book with a white cover
Read a book with "White" in the title
Read a book with a graveyard on the cover
Read a book where one of the main characters dies

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Task 1 - The Seven Potters
Read a book with 'Seven" in the title
Read a book that is #7 in a series
Read a book 'Seven" in the series name
Read a book with a number in the title

Task 2 - Tale of the Three Brothers
Read a book that is #3 in a series
Read a book with "Three" in the title
Read a book with brothers
Read a book that has a story/tale within the novel

Task 3 - Shell Cottage
Read a book with a funeral
Read a book a cottage on the cover
Read a book with lots of people staying in one home
Read a book where someone has a baby

Task 4 - The Missing Mirror
Read a book where the main character "goes home again"
Read a book where a long lost sibling is discivered
Read a book where the characters are under siege
Read a book with "Mirror" in the title

Task 5 - The Battle of Hogwarts
Read a book MPG War
Read a book with a sword on the cover
Read a book with a snake on the cover
Read a book multiple people die

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**Note - the same person does not need to read all four sub-tasks**

[SandyL]

Here are the current BOM's for July and August:

Rosemary and Rue - must be completed by 2 August

I Hunt Killers - must be completed by 12 August

The Tattooist of Auschwitz - must be completed by 22 August

Into the Water - Starts 2 August
**Thank you Erika for volunteering to do DQ's!**

Everland - Starts 16 August
**You can still sign up to write DQ's**

Magic Triumphs - Starts 28 August
**Mod Takeover, but DQ's end on the 31st so there is time to finish for TT**

[Erika]

I vote for Chamber of Secrets and Deathly Hallows being the other two books.

[Linda C]

SandyL wrote: "Hi Linda - good news.
Here's the response I got:
Hey Sandy. Variations that have similar meanings would work. Pleasure. Leisure. Comfort. Etc. We aren’t being overly particular with tasks this Tower..."

I used Pleasure and it worked great. I will read for the 4th task. It has Pleasure 11 times.

[Claire]

I can start reading
For Harry Potter and the deathly hollows
Task 1 - The Seven Potters
Read a book with 'Seven" in the title
Read a book that is #7 in a series
Read a book 'Seven" in the series name
Read a book with a number in the title

[Claire]

I think the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Is also a good poswibility, but I’m ok with chamber of secrets too. I would prefer to have anyway the deathly hallows

[Emma (M)]

I agree with Order of the Phoenix, especially Go on Trial and Department of Mysteries seem like tasks that would be fairly easy to read for.

[Emma (M)]

Can we use books started before the Tri-Wizard Tournament started? I’ve got a book that would work for a number of tasks but I’m a couple of chapters in.

[SandyL]

Emma (M) wrote: "Can we use books started before the Tri-Wizard Tournament started? I’ve got a book that would work for a number of tasks but I’m a couple of chapters in."

Books that are started before the TWT starts (but not finished) can be counted.

[SandyL]

Claire wrote: "I can start reading
For Harry Potter and the deathly hollows
Task 1 - The Seven Potters
Read a book with 'Seven" in the title
Read a book that is #7 in a series
Read a book 'Seven" in the series ..."

Just so everyone knows - you can read all the sub-tasks in a task, but the same person doesn't have to

[SandyL]

Linda C wrote: "SandyL wrote: "Hi Linda - good news.
Here's the response I got:
Hey Sandy. Variations that have similar meanings would work. Pleasure. Leisure. Comfort. Etc. We aren’t being overly particular with ..."

Yay Linda! Where are you going on vacation?

[SandyL]

Here's where we're at:

Chamber of Secrets - 1
Deathly Hallows - 3
Order of the Phoenix - 2

Anybody else want to give their input?

[✿~Danielle~✿]

SandyL wrote: "Here's where we're at:

Chamber of Secrets - 1
Deathly Hallows - 3
Order of the Phoenix - 2

Anybody else want to give their input?"

Deathly Hallows and keep going back and forth for the other.

[Laura]

Whatever you all decide is great with me:-)

[Nox]

The Quidditch link didn’t work but I’ll participate!

[SandyL]

nox_reads wrote: "The Quidditch link didn’t work but I’ll participate!"

Yay Nox!! Laura sent you an invite to the group - you'll need to accept for access.