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[Daniela]

I've linked the BOTMs and Buddy Reads on the first page to have a better overview :) You can find it here

[Michelle's Empty Nest]

Ooooohhhh....I see some fun stuff on the SS and some challenging stuff! This is going to be tons of fun!!! I'll be interested to see what you do once you play around with it, Vicky.


Also, thanks for the links, Daniela!

[[deleted user]]

Wow, I didn't realise the classes were going to be a whole other thing separate from the spells! I'm going to have to take a closer look at some of those challenges!

[Laura]

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Book: Tempests and Slaughter
Author: Tamora Pierce
Pages: 465
Date Read: 5/13
Rating: 4 stars
Characters: Arram Draper, Ozorne, Varice,

Not sure if this works for magical creatures, but the feather on the cover is from a Sunbird.

[Rachel]

Okay. I have read over the rules for the spells game. Can someone please explain it to me?

[Vicky]

Rachel wrote: "Okay. I have read over the rules for the spells game. Can someone please explain it to me?"

Sure! It looks like spells are going to be the easy part of the challenge! ;)

We've been given a list of words and as a group we need to work together to read books with titles, authors (first or last name), series names (as written on Goodreads), or characters (first, last or commonly used nicknames) that fit the letters. I'll show you an example with ACCIO.

A - Arcturus (character from The Bone Season)
C - Cole, Kresley (author of Endless Knight)
C - Court of Frost and Starlight, A (title - A/An/The can be used or ignored)
I - Illuminae Files (series name for Gemina)
O - Orson Scott Card (author of Ender's Game)

Does that help clear things up a little?

[Rachel]

Vicky wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Okay. I have read over the rules for the spells game. Can someone please explain it to me?"

Sure! It looks like spells are going to be the easy part of the challenge! ;)

We've been..."

Yes that helps. Is the list of names on link you put in the theard earlier?

[Michelle's Empty Nest]

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The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
5-13-2018
291 pages
3*
Characters: Ashoke Ganguli, Ashima Ganguli, Gogol/Nikhil Ganguli, Sonia/Sonali Ganguli, Maxine, Moushumi Mazoomdar

[Brandy]

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Under Different Stars
Amy A. Bartol
5-14-18
297 pgs
4*

Let me know if you need characters. I figured we would use it for the “U”.

[Vicky]

Shelf Names Please!

If your name is on the following list I still need you to confirm the name of the shelf you are using for this challenge:

Daniela
Rachel
Wolf

[Lory]

I just looked at the spreadsheet and it does make more sense now! I think I am going to participate in one of the buddy reads. Grave Mercy

I am also going to try to read the BOM Lilac Girls, although I will be traveling, but I do believe we get points for discussion (even if we don't make questions!

The classes are the best! I love finding books that fit specific challenges. The book I am reading right now has 800 pages with a gryphon on the cover (which should work for the magical creatures, if needed).

I can't wait to get all these books I have in line read!

Also, Jen - I just noticed you said you read the Elemental Assassin books. I love them! How far along are you? I just finished up Black Widow (before this challenge started).

[Daniela]

sorry, completely forgot about the shelf. it is called TT_VI. I can link it later when I'm on my laptop

[Wolf (Alpha)]

Hi Rachel!
Shelf

[Jen]

Lory wrote: "Also, Jen - I just noticed you said you read the Elemental Assassin books. I love them! How far along are you? I just finished up Black Widow (before this challenge started)."

I've only read the first five. After I finished book five, when Gin (view spoiler)[finally defeated Mab Monroe (hide spoiler)], it just felt like such a series ender of a book that I still haven't been able to bring myself to continue that series. I know new Big Bads are introduced, but it's still a struggle. :-/

[Wolf (Alpha)]

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Book: Anne of Green Gables
Author: L.M. Montgomery
Characters: Anne, Gilbert, Marilla, Matthew, Diana, Rachel, Moody, Murie
Pages: 320
Date: 5/12/18
Rating: *****

[Wolf (Alpha)]

By the way, we have a Read Books thread for all of our Completion Posts. Here is the link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Jen]

How is everyone's week looking? Any fun plans coming up?

[Jen]

Hi all, sorry I've been incommunicado. I've read a few books since the challenge started, but only three can count (out of four read).

First: Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever., edited by Betsy Bird.
Read May 11th (started and finished it after Tower Teams IV began).
Pages: 205
Word Count: 26,277

Next: When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz
Read May 12th
Pages: 437 for story, 451 for book (I only read 437)

And finally (for now): Not a Girl Detective by Susan Kandel (audio performed by Dina Pearlman)
Read May 13th
Pages: 7h,58m (my paperback has 309 pages (for story; 324 pages total).

[Jen]

Also, if Not a Girl Detective doesn't show up as having been read on May 13 (or even in May 2018), please note that I have contacted Goodreads support for help in getting the date I read this book corrected/updated.

[Laura]

Wolf (Alpha) wrote: "By the way, we have a Read Books thread for all of our Completion Posts. Here is the link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Vicky said we should just post in here. :)

[Laura]

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Book: A Daring Sacrifice
Author: Jody Hedlund
Series: An Uncertain Choice
Characters: Juliana Wessex, Collin Goodrich
Letters: A, D, J, H, U, W, C, G
Pages: 223
Additional: Reverse Robin Hood re-telling

[Vicky]

Lory wrote: "I am also going to try to read the BOM Lilac Girls, although I will be traveling, but I do believe we get points for discussion (even if we don't make questions!"

Yes, we do get points just for discussion! We also get a month from the time the buddy read starts to get discussion points for it - since Lilac Girls starts on the 16th, you have until June 16th to pop into the discussion - so there is a little wiggle room! :D

[Vicky]

Daniela wrote: "sorry, completely forgot about the shelf. it is called TT_VI. I can link it later when I'm on my laptop"

No worries! Thanks :D

[Vicky]

Wolf (Alpha) wrote: "By the way, we have a Read Books thread for all of our Completion Posts. Here is the link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

We're not going to use that thread, it's easy enough for me to keep things all in one place. :)

[Vicky]

Jen wrote: "How is everyone's week looking? Any fun plans coming up?"

Ugh, I wish I had something fun happening! I just got home from my hoarding clients, I have a pack/unpack on Tuesday/Wednesday, and then I'm back with my hoarders Thursday and Friday. Plus three closing shifts at my store. I feel like I need 10 showers everyday when I get home. ;_;

I do have Saturday off though, so... looking foward to that. XD

[Rachel]

Here is the link for my shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

[Vicky]

Jen wrote: "Also, if Not a Girl Detective doesn't show up as having been read on May 13 (or even in May 2018), please note that I have contacted Goodreads support for help in getting the date I read this book ..."

No worries, Jen! We all know Goodreads has been weird with read dates recently. :)

[Vicky]

Rachel wrote: "Here is the link for my shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."

Thanks, Rachel!

[Rachel]

Book: Fairest Levana's Story
Author: Marissa Meyer
Series: Lunar Chronicles #3.5
Characters: Levana, Winter, Evret, Channary, Selen
Letters: F,M,L,W,E,C,S
Pages: 222

[Brandy]

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Sea of Stars
Amy A. Bartol
Series: Kricket #2
Characters: Kricket, Trey, Jax, Gibon, Wayra, Kyon, Drex, Hollis, Fenton, Charisma, Victus
Pages: 320

[Laura]

Lory wrote: "I just looked at the spreadsheet and it does make more sense now! I think I am going to participate in one of the buddy reads. Grave Mercy

Also, Jen - I just noticed you said you read the Elemental Assassin books. I love them! How far along are you? I just finished up Black Widow (before this challenge started). "

Grave Mercy is great. I love that whole series!

I'm up through Poison Promise in Elemental Assassin. But if Assassins is called for SOS Bookshelf Bingo I'll be reading Black Widow this week.

[Laura]

Jen wrote: "Lory wrote: "Also, Jen - I just noticed you said you read the Elemental Assassin books. I love them! How far along are you? I just finished up Black Widow (before this challenge started)."

I've on..."

It did seem like a good place to end, but then we wouldn't get more Owen! :)

[Vicky]

Brandy wrote: "Completion post

Sea of Stars
Amy A. Bartol
Series: Kricket #2
Characters: Kricket, Trey, Jax, Gibon, Wayra, Kyon, Drex, Hollis, Fenton, Charisma, Victus
Pages: 320"

Ohhh this one has some great letters!

[Vicky]

Just so you all know, Sonia has told us she's getting the rule post together for Classes so we'll have some clarification. I've been inputting books reported into the spreadsheet but I'm not going to do much with placing them until we see what she has in store! :)

[Jen]

Vicky wrote: "No worries, Jen! We all know Goodreads has been weird with read dates recently. :)
"

I got a rather quick reply to my request for help. Here is what I was told:

Hi Jennifer,

Thank you for taking the time to write in about this!  Our developers are aware of extra reading sessions being erroneously created and are working on fixing it.  While I don’t have a firm date for the fix, this bug is prioritized in our development team’s backlog - we know how important it is to save your book activity appropriately and hope to fix this soon.

I’ve added your report to the developer ticket and I’ll let you know once it’s been resolved.  If there’s anything else I can help you with, in the meantime, please feel free to reach out!

Hopefully they'll get this bug fixed soon!

[Rachel]

Can I have a link to the spreadsheet?

[Lory]

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Book: Casino Royale
Author: Ian Fleming
Series: James Bond #1
Characters: James Bond, Vespa Lynd, Le Chiffre, M, S, Felix Leiter, Rene Mathis.
Letters: B, C, F, I, J, L, M, R, S, V

Book:The Sleepwalker
Author:Chris Bohjalian
Characters: Annalee Ahlberg, Lianna Ahlberg, Gavin Rikert, Warren Ahlberg, Paige Ahlberg, Marilyn, Ellen Cooper, Erica
Letters: A, B, C, E, G, L, M, P, R, S, W

[Jen]

Rachel wrote: "Can I have a link to the spreadsheet?"

The spreadsheet link is in message 99.

Or, you can find the spreadsheet directly here

[Brandy]

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Darken the Stars
Amy A. Bartol
Read: 5/15/18
Pages: 303
Characters: Trey, Jax, Gibbon, Wayra, Kyon, Fenton, Excelsior, Kricket, Chandrum, Fulton, Phlix, Gannon, Ryker, Ainsley

[Wolf (Alpha)]

Book: Hex Hall
Author: Rachel Hawkins
Read: 5/15/18
Pages 323
Characters:
Jenna, Sophia Mercer, Archer Cross, Elodie, Mrs. Casnoff

[Laura]

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Book: Vengeance in Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Series: In Death
Pages: 356
Date Read: 5/15
Rating: 4 stars
Characters: Eve Dallas, Roarke, Charles Summerset, Peabody, McNab
Letters: V, J, R, I, E, D, R, C, S, P, M

[Rachel]

Jen wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Can I have a link to the spreadsheet?"

The spreadsheet link is in message 99.

Or, you can find the spreadsheet directly here"

Thank you, Jen! :)

[Jen]

Hi all, If we ever get a word that we have to spell out, I just checked and all four books in The Tapper Twins series by Geoff Rodkey would be acceptable for this challenge: They all have over 25,000 words. :-)

Each of the four books in this series has a major secondary character named Xander in it for X:


Or, I can recommend by Julia Karr. This is a YA dystopian story. It was good, I gave it 3.5 stars, but there's always the chance you'll enjoy it more than I did. (My friends who read it gave it four and even five stars.) :-)

[Brandy]

I am doing Children of Blood and Bone as a BOM. My discussion questions for 1-5 are linked. They are message #124.

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

Question set #2 message #132

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

Questions #3 message #135

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

Questions #4 Message #136

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

I read Lilac Girls last year, and don't really want to read it again so soon. Can I still do discussion questions for points even if I don't read the book again?

[Laura]

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Book: Mail Order Match Maker
Author: Kirsten Osbourne
Series: Brides of Beckham
Date Read: 5/15
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 129
Characters: Harriet Long, Max Farmer, John Higgins
Letters: M, K, O, B, H, L, F, J

Additional Data: Abuse, Disability, Mail Order marriage, Move across country, baby

[Vicky]

@Brandy - Unfortunately a book has to be read during the challenge to get points for discussions. Don't feel obligated to reread it if you don't want to though! ;)

[Michelle's Empty Nest]

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Magic Strikes
Ilona Andrews
Series: Kate Daniels
5-16-2018
310 pages
4*
Characters: Kate Daniels, Curran Lennart, Beatrice "Aunt B", Derek Gaunt, Jim Shrapshire, Saiman, Dr. George Doolittle, Andrea Nash, Dali Harimau, Raphael Medrano, Mahon Delany, Julie Olsen, Hugh d'Ambray
Letters: M. I, A, K, D, C, L, B, G, J, S, N, H, R, O

Lion on cover, sword on cover, female on cover, magic, arena fighting, character disfigured, does not like father, Dali does spells

[Michelle's Empty Nest]

Here is a link to my BR discussion post for Magic Strikes. I'm the only one discussing as of right now though....hopefully that will change soon. ;-)


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

[Jen]

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Title: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Author: Michelle McNamara
Pages: 352
Rating: 4 stars
Letters: I, M

Classes:
Divination: Uses a hypnosis, uses a psychic
History of Magic: Might be good for the writing an essay because of all the words in the title

[Jammin Jenny]

Hey Jammin Jenny here from Team Draco Malfoy (fellow Slitherin). You should definitely jump on the buddy reads and BOM books if you like the books they are reading You'll get more points and our house standings will increase! You can also ask in the Buddy Reads thread if people want to read books you're reading and if you can get someone not on your team to join you'll get points.