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[Karla]

That's too bad, Cat.

[Eldarwen]

Forced detox is actually not a bad idea!

Just imagine what you can do with your free time when you don't have a phone glued to your hand ;-)

You can do it, Cat!

[Cat]

completed another spell:

O	Katie	Speakeasy
B	Katie	Shadow's Seduction
L	Karla	Letters From the Inside
I	Cat	Ivy and Abe
V	Katie	Virgin in the City
I	Katie	Cocktales
A	Amy	The Man in the Brown Suit
T	Karla	The Blood on My Hands
E	Amy	Black Iris

happy days!

[Cat]

Eldarwen wrote: "Forced detox is actually not a bad idea!

Just imagine what you can do with your free time when you don't have a phone glued to your hand ;-)

You can do it, Cat!"

yeah, but what I can't do is compulsively monitor GR!

[Cat]

I am relieved to let you all know that I have ordered a replacement, which should be in my desperate hands Monday...

I can make it till then, right! I did read a whole book yesterday, so maybe there is some silver lining?

[Cat]

Progress Summary

We are doing SO well!
We've only got 55 letters needed for the spells (OUI remain high priority!)

Classes:
Arithmancy - we need books in the 351-500 & 800-900 page range. I'm not too worried about these - they can wait until spells are closer to finished I think. 800-900 I've also mentally planned to red HP&OotP, which should fit that one easily :)

Astronomy - we've got all the slots pencilled in, though we might want to look at some of them and if we can find longer books, subsitute, Again, not a major worry

Charms - we've completed most of them: we need a STITCH book (I think Amy said she had one in her pile to be read) for mending, and a pair for the water-making charm. We are probably going to change out the levitation books (gets me an I too!) for two being read by Melinda.

Care of Magical Creatures - we need two more body parts/descriptors, to join our bat winged, mammoth headed, red eyed creature. an actual body might not go amiss - maybe even a human body? and the last one could be a tail? or maybe feathers or scales to cover the body? anyway, next dude Katie reads, assuming it doesn't have an OUI, might get pitched in there! :)
We'll need to start thinking about a name, but I'll leave that till it's fully described!

DADA - we've completed 4 of the pairs (witch/house; fae/gun; witch/stabbing; zombies/fire). We've got two monsters in need of killing/defense: a vampire - Amy's reading a book with Buffy in the title :); and werewolves - I've got a silver title to read. Melinda's going to read a book with Fire in the title, so another dark art creature we can defend against with fire (witch / zombie / vamp are the obvious)

Divination - we need two books where diviniation tools are used (tarot / crystal ball / tea leaves / palm reading / casting of runes / fiddling in entrails). any volunteers?!

Transfiguration - we need a before and after pairing! any ideas welcome. We do have a book with a car on the cover, if that helps anyone with ideas, but we can just go for whatever we fancy! Volunteers?!

In summary, I need active thoughts on transfiguration pair; divination tools and water-making charm.

Amy, shout if you have changed your mind about reading the stitch in title / Buffy books, so we can replan :)

and...... keeeeeeeep reading!

[Sarah]

Progress report on Gardens of the Moon (768 pages). I'm a third of the way through and it's 'only' taken 6 hours. This is one dense and confusing book! I think it will be worth the effort in the end...

I should go faster once I finish up a couple of buddy reads that I'm reading at the same time.

[Melindam]

I started reading Royal Airs & will go on to Jewelled Fire & Unquiet Land. :)

[Katie]

Shirtless guy on the way, but an I title. I'll keep looking for other ones.

[Karla]

I am working on , it's just a slow read for me because it's based on the author's struggle with anorexia.

I am going to read that has a vampire and a witch in it. It might work for divination. If not, it'll work for DADA

[Amy the book-bat]

just finished the stitch book... will post it in a few minutes

also, nearly 45% finished with the Buffy book

[Melindam]

For Divination: Reaper Man has a character, Mrs Cake, who is a medium, can see into the future (can turn on / off her precognition at will) and I think she also has a chrystal ball. Is that good enough?

[Cat]

Melindam wrote: "For Divination: Reaper Man has a character, Mrs Cake, who is a medium, can see into the future (can turn on / off her precognition at will) and I think she also has a chrystal ball. I..."

I am sure we can use her! Either as an innate tool or switching my Circe out of prophecy into tools and putting Mrs Cake into "prophecy in book" task :)

And DEATH! I <3 DEATH

[Melindam]

Cat wrote: "Melindam wrote: "For Divination: Reaper Man has a character, Mrs Cake, who is a medium, can see into the future (can turn on / off her precognition at will) and I think she also has a..."

Yes, Death is awesome! :) I MEAN, AWESOME!!! ;)

[Melindam]

For care of Magical Creatures / feathers

would do with the wild-flying hens or the feathers need to be more pronounced? It could also work for Arithmancy with 423 pages.

[Cat]

Spell Letters Left:

Letter	Total	Filled	Remaining
O	18	12	6
U	14	8	6
L	8	4	4
N	7	3	4
T	12	8	4
D	7	4	3
R	16	13	3
S	12	9	3
A	18	16	2
F	3	1	2
M	11	9	2
P	9	7	2
C	9	8	1
E	15	14	1
G	2	1	1
H	1	0	1
I	17	16	1
K	2	1	1
Y	1	0	1
TOTAL	191	143	48

yup! that's just 48 left! and we've basically conquered the Is, OU still being pesky blighters though!

I'd love a U and L soon, to finish Wingardium Leviosa, and/or 2 Ns and 2 Ts for Priori Incantatem. But I'll be patient, as everyone bar Marie is reading for Classes or Quidditch, and Marie is churning out lots of books as it is! :)

We're in a super good spot right now - thanks team, for being so awesome!

[Cat]

Melindam wrote: "For care of Magical Creatures / feathers

would do with the wild-flying hens or the feathers need to be more pronounced? It could also work for Arithmancy with 423 pages."

I think the feather there would be splendid!

[Melindam]

OK, then you can pencil me in for it! :)

[Melindam]

Cat wrote: "Spell Letters Left:

Letter Total Filled Remaining
O 18 12 6
U 14 8 6
L 8 4 4
N 7 3 4
T 12 8 4
D 7 4 3
R 16 13 3
S 12 9 3
A 18 16 2
F 3 1 2
M 11 9 2
P 9 7 2
C 9 8 1
E 15 14 1
G 2 1 1
H 1 0 1
I 17 1..."

Talking of Os, in case you decide not to use Royal Airs / Unquiet Land for the levitation, both books have an O character. :)

[Cat]

You keep throwing me for a loop, Melinda!

I shall decide later :)

[Melindam]

Cat wrote: "You keep throwing me for a loop, Melinda!

I shall decide later :)"

Sorry. :)

[Sarah]

I'll have an 'L' later on today. :)

[Amy the book-bat]

finished a book today that works for "I" (title) or "L" (author)

[Emelie]

Cat wrote: "Spell Letters Left:

Letter Total Filled Remaining
O 18 12 6
U 14 8 6
L 8 4 4
N 7 3 4
T 12 8 4
D 7 4 3
R 16 13 3
S 12 9 3
A 18 16 2
F 3 1 2
M 11 9 2
P 9 7 2
C 9 8 1
E 15 14 1
G 2 1 1
H 1 0 1
I 17 1..."

And thank YOU for being an awesome captain, Cat! And what a coincidence - my phone died on the same day as yours! I'm on holiday however for another week so can't replace it for at least 1 1/2 weeks. Doing some research now on what phone to pick... But they all are so expensive, here in Sweden at least. XO

[Amy the book-bat]

will be listening to a "U" title today (Monday)
on the final novel of the Buffy 3-in-1, so it will be finished this week

I hope to conquer a few buddy reads after I get these out of the way

[Cat]

Sorry for going a bit AWOL over the weekend - but I am sure you'll forgive me when I say: Quidditch!

Katie's doing some sterling Beater work, attacking and defending like a demond, and Marie's keeping everything going with the team - thanks both! Melinda's Hungarian book is also doing the trick of keeping their Keeper at bay from that book! :) We're strategising to see if we can get Melinda to read two next time! or even all 7 ;-P

Everyone else's been reading up a storm for our spells and classes - and I have just submitted another spell:

A	Amy	Pop Goes the Weasel
L	Amy	The Brown Fairy Book
O	Marie	A Curious Beginning
H	Katie	Crazy Good
O	Sarah	Harry Potter & Ecole de Sorciers
M	Katie	Maiden Flight
O	Marie	The Glittering Prizes
R	Marie	The Lido
A	Amy	Nemesis

We just need 36 more letters:

U	14	8	6
O	18	13	5
N	7	4	3
S	12	9	3
T	12	9	3
D	7	5	2
F	3	1	2
M	11	9	2
P	9	7	2
R	16	14	2
C	9	8	1
E	15	14	1
G	2	1	1
K	2	1	1
L	8	7	1
Y	1	0	1

[Melindam]

Cat wrote: "Sorry for going a bit AWOL over the weekend - but I am sure you'll forgive me when I say: Quidditch!

Katie's doing some sterling Beater work, attacking and defending like a demond, and Marie's kee..."

Cat, if it's allowed, I'd be happy to read at least 2 HU books for the next round. :) 2 short ones I can totally do (I have already some books lined up for the purpose), but unfortunately not all 7. :D

[Cat]

@Emelie yeah, phones are pricey! I get mine outright, rather than on a pay-monthly contract, as it works out better for me, but it does mean I feel the need to get a relatively new model, which doesn't help with the cost either.

Hope you are having a fab holiday!

[Katie]

We're allowed 3 books that are inaccessible for the other team. So, 2 would be great!

[Katie]

What would be even more amazing would be if they covered Q, U and E...but that may just be wishful thinking. :P

[Marie (UK)]

COMPLETION
Snow White Must Die
25/06/2018
400 pages
Nele Neuhaus

SPELLS

T = Tobias
Nadia von Bredae
Pia Kirkhoff
Henning
Amelie Frolich
Oliver Von Bodenstein
Udo Pietsch

[Cat]

It's a U! which means I could post:

W	Amy	The End of Your Life Book Club
I	Amy	In 27 Days
N	Sarah	The Mummifier's Daughter
G	Sarah	The Great War
A	Marie	The Count of Monte Cristo
R	Katie	My Brother's Five Friends
D	Marie	Dark Matter
I	Marie	The Spy of Venice
U	Marie	Snow White Must Die
M	Katie	My Friend's Dirty Uncle
L	Sarah	P.S. I Still Love You
E	Cat	Killman Creek
V	Cat	Traitor's Blade
I	Marie	The Assassin of Verona
O	Sarah	Lilac Girls
S	Katie	Single Malt
A	Amy	The Violet Fairy Book

[Melindam]

@ Katie. I can do U/E/A but q unfortunately is rarely used in Hungarian. :)

[Sarah]

You quidditch players are amazing. I'm actually managing to follow this match and you are all so impressive.

Go Huffs, go!

[Katie]

Melindam wrote: "@ Katie. I can do U/E/A but q unfortunately is rarely used in Hungarian. :)"

Lol! Well, it was wishful thinking. :P Maybe we can find an ARC or something.

[Melindam]

I will submit some requests via Netgalley, then. :)

[Cat]

What we really want are books that have untranslatable titles!

the new ruling for Keepers is that when the Quaffle has at least three unreadable books, they can read an alternative book that has a link word with the original book AND is 150p longer.

So books with single rare word titles would be perfect!

[Melindam]

I'll be on the lookout, then. :)

[Emelie]

I'm having a fabulous holiday! I'm in Montenegro for the very first time, and it's really awesome! Stunning views and scenery and nature, lovely water, nice locals, really good food but still so cheap, and the weather is not too hot, so you melt away (yet, anyway, they say it gets much much worse from July on). It's our new favourite place; we're all gobsmacked and so happy that we decided to give this country and place a try!

And same for me with the phone, Cat. I'm gonna buy it outright too so I want a good, new phone, which is so very costly... But I know, being a tech nerd as I am, that I will regret going for some older models just to save money, when they cost quite a bit of money as well, anyway.

[Katie]

That sounds so amazing, Emelie! I really envy you guys in the UK. The ability to travel to so many new places with a fairly short flight is so incredible.

I just bought the Samsung S9 the other day and so far am really pleased with it.

ETA: And by UK I meant Europe as a whole...you don't all live in the UK, do you... :P

[Cat]

no, some of us live in London! ;P

sorry, couldn't resist a tease at those American's who have a poor grasp of Europe, and think that London is a country, or something! I had a friend who did a summer in America during university, and she met people who genuinely asked "England, is that near London?" !


And that's totally blissful sounding, Emelie :) I've never been to any of the Balkans, but would love to one day.

[Katie]

Lol! OMG...well, don't judge us all by that. It's like thinking we all like Trump or something.

I'm so used to talking to you, Danielle, Sarah and Marie. :P

[Cat]

are you telling me that you don't sleep with an assault rifle under your pillow?!

Whaaaaaaaaat?!

:P

[Katie]

I know...it's astounding. :P

Hey, I know you've been keeping track of my books for me during quidditch (thank you, thank you, thank you!). Do you need any additional info on any of them? I'm trying to go through and update my challenges.

[Cat]

As they're for quidditch, I don't need anything else :)

[Cat]

I've put in our last transfiguration:

->
puppet -> person

Shout out if you think it's suspect!

[Cat]

also, going to use one of Katie's nekkid dudes for a body for our mammoth-headed critter!

This one:

[Katie]

Cat wrote: "As they're for quidditch, I don't need anything else :)"

Oh yeah, forgot that they're marked for quidditch. Don't know what I was thinking... :P

[Amy the book-bat]

Buffy book finished... another dark creature bites the dust!

[Amy the book-bat]

Just finished another "U" book :-)