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[Laura]

I think someone recently posted a baby book. But if you’ve got Dragon covered that’s great! :)

[Ora]

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Book The Dancing Master
Author Julie Klassen
Page Count 422
Date Read Aug 17
Characters Julia Midwinter, Alec Valcourt, Joe Wilcox, Benjamin, Patience, John Desmond
Letters A B D J K M P T V

Task
Goblet of Fire
Yule Ball
Read a book with couple dancing on the cover

[Ora]

I will be reading later today for Silver in title

[Kristel]

Vicky, I'm currently reading Beauty Queens (main character with S.S initials) and The Burning Maze ( Maze in the title)

[Lory]

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Book: Love, Rosie
Author: Cecelia Ahern
Pages: 512
Characters: Greg Malone, Brian Robere, Bethany, Rosie Dunne, Alex Stewart, Katie Dunne, Stephanie Dunne, Kevin Dunne, Dennis Dunne, Alice Dunne, Josh Stewart
Letters: L, C, A, G, M, B, R, D, S, K

Half Blood Prince
Task 4 - Love Postion
Read a book with "Love" in the title

Also works for:
Deathly Hallows: Task 3 Shell Cottage
Read a book where someone has a baby

[Laura]

Vicky wrote: "@Laura - I'm dumb and I forgot to mention I'm reading a book with Dragon in the title. It's been a long few days. XD But I think it might also work for having a baby - not sure yet. The MC is pregn..."

If we use your book for Dragon, and Lory's book above for Love in title, we can use Magic Rises for the baby book. I finished Magic Slays, but had to break and listen to Gunmetal Magic first, since I know I'm going to get mad at Curran again when I listen to Magic Rises. But it will be my next audio. :)

[Laura]

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Book:
Pages: 305
Date Read: 8/16
Rating: 1 star (can I give it less?)
Task: Half-Blood - Task 4 - Heart on cover

Book: Magic Slays
Author: Ilona Andrews
Series: Kate Daniels
Pages: 308
Date Read: 8/17
Rating: 4 stars
Characters: Kate Daniels, Curran Lennart, Aunt B, Derek Gaunt, Jim Shrapshire, Saiman, Doolittle, Andrea Nash, Raphael Medrano, Roman Semionovich, Mahon Delany, Ghastek, Rowena, Julie Olsen, Ascanio Ferara, Barabas Gilliam, Evdokia Ivanovna
Letters: M, I, A, K, D, C, L, B, G, J, S, N, R , O, F, E
Tasks:

[Laura]

Vicky, I know you mentioned before that you thought it would be a stretch to get all characters done. What is the priority on letters, as far as letters that we'll need to hunt for, like Q, U, X. I can see how many we have still need, but which are more likely to be words that we spell out?

Does that make any sense? It did in my head. :)

[Ora]

Good question. I was thinking about reading a few Xavier Neal books.

[Laura]

Ora wrote: "Good question. I was thinking about reading a few Xavier Neal books."

I read a few books earlier that work for X that I think were used elsewhere in the spell-out, so they could be moved around if necessary. I know at first Vicky was trying to maximize points in case we couldn't get it all.

Vicky, I wondered at the time if your books/week calculations were thrown off because Ora wasn't on the team at the time. :)

[Laura]

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Book: Emily Climbs
Date Read: 8/17
Pages: 325
Tasks: Used for maze

[Ora]

Completion Post

Book Silver Mine
Author Vivian Arend
Series Takini Wolves
Page Count 255
Date Read Aug 17
Characters Chase Johnson, Shelly Bradley, Evan, Caroline, Taylor, Jones, Frank, Dalton
Letters A B C D E F J S T V

Task
Half Blood Prince
Silver and Opals
Silver in title

Book I Will Never Leave You
Author S.M. Thayer
Page 338
Date Read Aug 17
Characters Tricia Wainsborough, Laurel Bloom, James Wainsborough, Larry Simpkins, Tully, Lois, Belinda
Letters B I J L S T W

Tasks
Half Blood Prince
The Unbreakable Vow

[Ora]

Books I will be starting or finishing tomorrow

Water for Elephants - don't think it works for any tasks
One Second - 7th in series
Dividing Eden - I think it works for characters under siege (can't remember)
Eden Conquered - mirror on cover

I found The Mirror I will listen to by the end of the weekend

[Vicky]

You know, I thought I accounted for Ora not being here the whole time but I went back and I only partially did. So we're looking closer to 60 books per week that we're reading as a team, but we need to read 68 books per week for the next two weeks to finish everything (maybe a little less since this is based on the last big update I did this morning). Definitely doable!

On the characters, now that we're pretty close to being able to push through everything it may be moot. I'll double check over the weekend when I have a little more time, but I think we're good on X, Q and V - like Laura said some of them are just placeholding to have complete characters with the intent to shuffle them later. However, we don't have any extra Y, I, O or U books - all the books we have that fit those letters are already occupying spaces for those letters, so that's definitely someplace to start.

I've been filling them in by length, starting with the shortest ones because they give us slightly more points per book. I'm currently working through the 6 letter names and they all need Y, I, O or U (as do the 7s now that I'm looking at it).

6-Letters: Sybill, Lucius, Dudley
7-Letters: Dolores, Petunia, Alastor

[Ora]

I am working through the Jane Yellowrock series, so I will so a couple next week.

[Laura]

I’ll have all the rest of the Kate Daniels books done by the end of the month, so there’s some Is.

I’ll also be reading 5 more In Death books. So those are good for I or E.

[Vicky]

Laura wrote: "If we use your book for Dragon, and Lory's book above for Love in title, we can use Magic Rises for the baby book. I finished Magic Slays, but had to break and listen to Gunmetal Magic first, since I know I'm going to get mad at Curran again when I listen to Magic Rises. But it will be my next audio. :) "

I like this. Brandy read Circe which also has a baby - but it has an O which we need for the characters, so I think I'll save it for that!

[Vicky]

@Ora - The captains agree that the book you posted earlier for a picture on the cover will work!

[Vicky]

Okay everything should be up to date with the thread. I started filling in what I could on the 6 letter characters and here's the letters we need to finish them:

1x I
3x L
2x S
3x U
2x Y

[Vicky]

Also the tasks we still need to have claimed:

Book w/ Pixies or Fairies
Chocolate on the Cover
Bottle on the Cover
Book w/ a Funeral
Cottage on the Cover
Characters Under Seige(?)

[Laura]

Did my heart book not work, Vicky?

[Ora]

Vicky wrote: "@Ora - The captains agree that the book you posted earlier for a picture on the cover will work!"

Yay! I will have it finished by Monday

[Ora]

Cat on cover


I checked this book out on hoopla. I will read it the first part of the week.

Shoe on cover

I was debating on which book to read if someone else doesn't read for this task first.

[Vicky]

Laura wrote: "Did my heart book not work, Vicky?"

It did. I looked right at it on the spreadsheet and added it to the list anyway. This is why I shouldn't update at 3am. XD

[Laura]

I’m about 95% certain that one of my upcoming Kate Daniels books has the Keep under siege.

[Kristel]

Completion Post

Book: Beauty Queens
Author: Libba Bray
Pages: 396
Date Read: 08.18.18
Rating: 4 stars
Characters: Adina Greenberg, Taylor Hawkins, Mary Lou Novak, Nicole Ade, Shanti Singh, Sosie Simmons, Petra West, Tiara Swan
Letters: N L B A G T H M S P W

Task:
Book 3, Task 1 - Read a book with the main character's initials are S.S. (Shanti Singh)

[Ora]

Completion Post

Book Water for Elephants
Author Sara Gruen
Page Count 335
Date Read Aug 18
Characters Jacob, Marlena, August, Camel, Walter, Rosemary
Letters A C G J M R S W

Book The Mirror
Author John A. Heldt
Series Northwest Passage
Page Count 387
Date Read Aug 18
Characters Ginny Smith, Katie, Marta, Steve Carrington, Mike Hayes, James
Letters C G H J K M N S T

Task
Deathly Hollows
Read a book with "Mirror" in the title

Book Dividing Eden
Author Joelle Charbonneau
Series Dividing Eden
Page Count 432
Date Read Aug 18
Characters Andreus, Carys, Larkin, Garret, Erikk, Imogan, Max, Barne
Letters A B C D E G I J L M


TriWizard Maze
Book Last Call
Author Alice Clayton
Page Count 135
Date Read Aug 18
MPG Humor odd number pages

[Laura]

I was glancing at Ora’s post and my mind saw Diddling instead of Dividing. I thought Ora read a book called Diddling Eden. :)

[Ora]

Lol! That’s too funn

[Laura]

Ora wrote: "Lol! That’s too funn"

I took a late nap this afternoon, so my eyes were a still a little sleepy when I saw it. :)

[Lory]

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Book: Let's Get Lost
Author: Adi Alsaid
Pages: 338
Read: 8/19/2018

Tasks: Order of the Phoenix
Task 5 - The lost prophecy
Read a book with "Lost" in the title

[Lory]

I was also going to read Once Upon Stilettos which has fairies in the books for Order of the Phoenix - Task 1 Clean up the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix - Read a book with pixies or fairies. I was planning on reading it anyway and it's great now because it works for a task!

We are soo close to doing all the tasks, that is very exciting. I am traveling for the next 2 weeks, so I expect I'll get to read a lot of books!

[Kristel]

I'm planning on reading Passenger which works for the Bottle on the Cover task:)

[Kristel]

Completion Post

Book: Lifel1k3
Author: Jay Kristoff
Pages: 416
Date Read: 08.19.18
Rating: 5 stars
Characters: Ezekiel a.k.a. Zeke, Evie Carpenter, Silas Carpenter, Ana Monrova, Lemon Fresh, Gabriel, Faith,
Letters: L J K E Z C S A M F G



Book: The Burning Maze
Author: Rick Riordan
Series:The Trials of Apollo
Pages: 431
Date Read: 08.20.18
Rating: 4 stars
Characters: Apollo, Caligula, Gleeson Hedge, Jason Grace, Medea, Meg McCaffrey, Piper McLean,
Letters: T B R A C G H J M P

Task:
Book 4, Task 5 - Read a book with "Maze" in the title or series name

[Laura]

Completion Post

Book: Defy the Worlds
Pages: 469
Date Read: 8/18
Rating: 4.5 stars
Task: Goblet - Task 1 - Top of the square


Book: Obsession in Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Series: In Death
Pages: 404
Date Read: 8/19
Rating: 4 stars
Characters: Eve Dallas, Roarke, Peabody, McNab, Feeney, Charlotte Mira, Nadine, Laurence Summerset
Letters: O, J, R, I, E, D, P, M, F, C, N, L, S
Tasks: No open tasks


Book: Gunmetal Magic
Author: Ilona Andrews
Series: Kate Daniels
Pages: 448
Date Read: 8/19
Rating: 4 stars
Characters: Kate Daniels, Curran Lennart, Aunt B, Jim Shrapshire, Doolittle, Andrea Nash, Raphael Medrano, Roman Semionovich, Julie Olsen, Ascanio Ferara, Barabas Gilliam
Letters: G, I, A, K, D, C, L, B, J, S, D, N, R, M, O, F


Book: Curran POV Collection
Author: Gordon Andrews
Pages: 157
Date Read: 8/19
Rating: 4 stars
Characters: Curran Lennart, Kate Daniels, Jim Shrapshire
Letters: C, G, A, L, K, D, J, S

[Laura]

Vicky wrote: "Also the tasks we still need to have claimed:

Book w/ Pixies or Fairies
Chocolate on the Cover
Bottle on the Cover
Book w/ a Funeral
Cottage on the Cover
Characters Under Seige(?)"

Now we just need Chocolate, Funeral & Cottage, right?

[Laura]

Vicky wrote: "Okay everything should be up to date with the thread. I started filling in what I could on the 6 letter characters and here's the letters we need to finish them:

1x I
3x L
2x S
3x U
2x Y"

I can commit to one U, which I will read after I finish all my books for the tasks.

[Vicky]

Laura wrote: "Now we just need Chocolate, Funeral & Cottage, right?"

Yep that sounds right. I'll do another big update in the morning.

[Ora]

Kristel wrote: "I'm planning on reading Passenger which works for the Bottle on the Cover task:)"

I love that series

[Ora]

Completion Post

Book One Second
Author Dannika Dark
Series Seven
Page Count 390
Date Read Aug 19
Characters Austin, Lexi, Maizy, Denver, Charlie, Edward, Naya, Ivy, Larenzo, Prince
Letters A C D E I L O P S
Task
Deathly Hollows
Read a book that is #7 in a series

Book Eden Conquered
Author Joelle Charbonneau
Series Dividing Eden
Page Count 320
Date Read Aug 20
Characters Carys, Errik, Larkin, Andreus, Jacob, Max, Graylem, Betrice, Ulrich
Letters A B C D E G J L M U

Tasks
The Sorcerer's Stone
Mirror on cover

[Ora]

Would work for cottage on cover

[Kristel]

Ora wrote: "Kristel wrote: "I'm planning on reading Passenger which works for the Bottle on the Cover task:)"

I love that series"

I've heard great things about it, so I have quite high expectations.

[Lory]

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Book:
Author: Alec Wilkinson
Pages: 256

Prisoner of Azkaban - Task 2 - Learn to fight Boggarts
Read a book with a balloon on the cover - this book has a hot-air balloon on the cover.

[Lory]

I can read the book which has chocolate on the cover. Unless someone else has a book for that. I should finish the Prophecy book today (at least). I have a good 5 hours flying, so I expect lots of reading time :)

[Ora]

Just want to make sure Cat Fight will work for spellout.
It's only available on audio. Goodreads has the audio at 3 hr 48 min, audible has it at 4 hr 15 min.

You can only see the time on goodreads when you are looking at the whole series. If you just go to the page it doesn't have a time

[Ora]

While searching for a book for another challenge, I found Kiss of Snow that works for that and also siege. I will be reading this book tomorrow or Wednesday.

The Snow Dancer Pack are under siege from the a branch of the Psy in order to get Sienna back because of her psy gifts.

[Ora]

Completion Post

Book
Author Jenn McKinlay
Page Count 304
Date Read Aug 20
Task
Order of the Phoenix
Read a book with picture on the cover

TriWizard Maze
MPG Adventure

220 pages
Aug 20

Book
Author Ellery Adams
Page Count 232
Date Read Aug 20
Task
Order of the Phoenix
Read a book with a cat on the cover

Book
Author Rachel Griffiths
Series The Cosy Cottage Cafe
Page Count 165
Date Read Aug 20
Characters Camilla Dix, Tom Stone, Dawn, Allie Jones, Laurence, Rick
Letters A C D G J L R S T W

Task
Deathly Hollows
Shell Cottage
Cottage on cover

[Erica]

Completion Post:

Book: The Virgin Suicides
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Pages: 250
Date Completed: 8/19/18
Characters: Cecilia Lisbon, Lux Lisbon, Mary Lisbon, Therese Lisbon, Bonnie Lisbon, Mr. Lisbon, Mrs. Lisbon, Trip Fontaine, Peter Sissen, Paul Baldino, Joe Hill Conley, Chase Buell, Parkie Denton, Kevin Head, Tim Winer, Tom Faheem, Joe Larson, Valentine Stamarowski, Dominic Palazzolo
Letters: V J E C L M T B F P S H D K W
Tasks: The Deathly Hallows
Task #3: Read a book with a funeral.

[Vicky]

Ora wrote: "Just want to make sure Cat Fight will work for spellout.
It's only available on audio. Goodreads has the audio at 3 hr 48 min, audible has it at 4 hr 15 min."

Audible is the right one, I'm going to update the listing. We should be good!

[Ora]

Thank you!