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Tower Teams VI
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Team Cedric Diggory
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errr... to be clear, I am talking about your health, not the book! ;-)
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P Marie Beautiful You
R Marie Red Clocks
I Marie The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
O Amy Catch of the Day
R Marie Thirteen
I Amy I'll Have What She's Having
I Marie I Wish I Knew This 20 Years Ago
N Marie After the Party
C Marie Ways of Going Home
A Marie Trust Me, I'm a Vet
N Katie A Court of Frost and Starlight
T Katie Twisted Fate
A Cat Weight
T Katie Too Much Information
E Cat Peach
M Marie Cider With Rosie
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Classes:
Completed: Transfiguration, Potions, History of Magic, Herbology
Still needed: some mucking about with divination tools, some DADA books - I'm kinda looking at Katie for those, with Iron & Magic..., water charm, some creature pieces as well as Astronomy & Arithmancy. but, we're pretty well under control!
Spells:
Letters required now are:
Letter Total Filled Remaining
O 18 13 5
U 14 11 3
F 3 1 2
N 7 5 2
P 9 7 2
S 12 10 2
T 12 10 2
C 9 8 1
D 7 6 1
E 15 14 1
G 2 1 1
K 2 1 1
L 8 7 1
M 11 10 1
R 16 15 1
Y 1 0 1
TOTAL 191 164 27
I'm so glad you're starting to feel better, Sarah!Amy, you're killing it with all those books. You're a quick one. :P
Cat, I'm on the DADA books as soon as I leave on Saturday!
We're doing a great job, guys! Way to go!
tarot cards for divination? I started a book a long time ago that had tarot cards in it. I now have it as an audio and am willing to restart it if you think it will help.
Tarot cards would absolutely work, Amy! :)
I have finished
this morning which may be used for DADA.
I will probably go on to reread HP3 at some point (finishing HP2 today), so that would work for Divination as well. There's definitely reading of tea leaves in Trelawney's class, at least.
Sarah, I am very glad you are feeling better!
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Spells left are STUPEFY & PROTEGO
Letters needed are:
2 off P & T
1 off E, F, G, O, R, S
That's just 10 books to finish the spells!
We are also very close to finishing Classes:
Astronomy: two books needed
Care of Magical Creatures: waiting for Karla's demon red eyes book & Melinda's one with feathers
Charms: that pesky water charm!
DADA: one book with a dark creature, that we can use a gun as defense against (pretty much any, I think, tbh)
Divination: two books with divination tools in them - Sarah's pencilled in for one, and Amy maybe for the other
Arithmancy: not a problem - I've pencilled in Dune for the 801 - 900p, Melinda's reading for the 501 - 600p which just leaves the easy 321 - 500p.
Which is a total of 12 books needed for the classes
Things are looking great! Of course I'm in the middle of a U title now that we don't need them anymore :)I'm nearly done with
, it has desert on the cover and in title, will it work for half of the water charm?
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Dune could be used as half the water charm - I'd be most comfortable with a full on water on cover, rather than the title pairing. Or it's long, and would fill in a gap for arithmancy.
Have you enjoyed it? I reread it recently, after prob 15yrs since my last read - I did enjoy it, but definitely saw more flaws in than during earlier reads. And I still have no interest in reading the later books.
I will finish feathers-book tomorrow! :)
Cat wrote: "Elena, I can always reshuffle books about to get them used!Dune could be used as half the water charm - I'd be most comfortable with a full on water on cover, rather than the title pairing. Or it..."
Just finished it and, boy, was it epic! I enjoyed it a lot but I did struggle with writing sometimes and I agree about flaws - had I read it 20 years ago I would have probably overlooked them but can't now! :) I'm not planning to continue as of now but might read the synopsis of the next book just to see where the story is going.
If you think there's enough desert on the cover for the charm, I can read
for water half. It's pretty short and available right away :)
currently listening to Jackaby, which has an "R" authorwill try to get to Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas this week for the divination (tarot cards)
also going to try for Killman Creek this week as a BR and maybe water if needed
have a couple others to get to in the next day or two because they are due back to the library
I'm still working on my book, it's a slow read.
Elena, I first read Dune when in my teens and was totally impressed, read it again when at Uni and still loved it enough to go on with books 2-3, but it git more and more convoluted and decided not to go on with the series. I wonder whether it would still hold any appeal if I read it now.
I am currently reading Scythe it is my real life book club read so I am trying to read slowly and enjoy it so i can talk about it with confidencei think this is my first schusterman book and so far it is looking good lots to think about
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We don't - until Tri-Wizards, at least! - need to obsessively record character names anymore! :)
Go team!
Omg, that's so awesome!Sorry for my lack of activity in here. Returned from vacation a few days ago. Had a bad first day at home. Good know but on top of that my luggage is on adventure somewhere and my laptop charger is in there. Since I don't want to go and buy a new one until I really know if I get it back or not I'm not on the computer and the new phone I got doesn't give me notifications as my old one did when you post in the thread 😒 gotta see if it's a setting or something...
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I hope you get reunited soon
Am i the only American in this group? If not, happy 4th of July! I'm having a lovely vacation with the family. Getting a little reading in, but not a ton. Looking forward to the Tri-Wizard Tournament!
Happy 4th to you as well, Katie! I'm in the states too :) Enjoy your time with family, hope all of you are staying cool!
Happy 4th! I'm also in the US. :-)Listening to my book for divination today
Fifteen Dogs 04/July/2018
159 pages
2 stars
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 04/July/2018
127 pages
3 stars
A belated Happy 4th of July to Everyone, but especially to Katie, Elena, Amy & Karla! :)
Cat, I saw an upcoming buddy-read for Smoke and Iron starting from July 8. I have just bought the book and already checked-in at the thread as Team Cedric.I have also updated our team tracker accordingly.
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Tri-Wizard info is going to be out soon! :)
but that means they've cancelled the last Quidditch match :(
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Katie: Cocktales & Uncovering You 2
Marie: Defending Jacob
Elena: Uprooted
Thanks!
I have finally finished my book! I'm sorry for taking so long, just haven't had too much time to read.
Karla wrote: "I have finally finished my book! I'm sorry for taking so long, just haven't had too much time to read."every book helps :-)
Waiting for the tri wizard to come out is reminding me of waiting for the mini challenges each month in uno - I keep checking to see if it's out and trying not to start too many books in case they don't fit anywhere. #challengeaddictproblems. 😂
Cat wrote: "Hi guys, a spot of shelving admin, please! Can yu pop the following books on your Tower Teams shelf :)Katie: Cocktales & Uncovering You 2
Marie: Defending Jacob
Elena: Uprooted
Thanks!"
Done.
Starting the BR for A Court of Thorns and Roses. If you want to read, please come join us. :-)Also working on the BR for Killman Creek.
I'm back from vacation and I'm ready to get back into the swing of things. :) I didn't get any reading done on vacation, really...just one book. Errands are awaiting me today, but tomorrow will be a normal reading day, I hope!
finished Killman Creek... will it work for the water charm?
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Anyway, we're discussing things in the background, and since what we have in store is so good, we're thinking about adding a couple weeks more to the challenge.
So... we need to know if you're on board with that idea.
Also, the resident little hobbit had this awesome idea to create a Durmstrang Institute and Beauxbatons Academy of Magic teams, just for TriWizards in order to allow for reserves to experience a bit of the magic.
Thoughts?
I'm good with it, what about you guys?
I will stick to Team Cedric through thick & thin. ;)From 16 July to 8 August I will be on hols, meaning I can read (hopefully more) but internet connection will be an issue.
It all sounds good to me. I was already wondering what to do with myself in August, so that postpones the problem. 😆
Amy -- There was a lot of discussion about Killman Creek and it's suitability for the water charm. I think most were against it, so we might want to go with a book that has more water showing on the cover?
Cat wrote: "Sonia's canvassing thoughts on whether we should extend the challenge for a couple of weeks; (see Leaky Cauldron)Anyway, we're discussing things in the background, and since what we have in store..."
I am OK with it
I'm up for it and I love the idea of two more schools!
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I've got just well enough to be able to read more at my normal level, so that's good.
@Emelie - your vacation sounds fantastic! So glad you're having/had a great time.