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peeps.. work and life is getting in the way atm. crazy work hours and other commitments in the afternoon. but I'll read through everything by friday and will definitely have more time to be online during the weekend :)
@Lory - Unfortunately, they aren't updating manually this time around so we have to enter by hand. I've been working both of my jobs the last few days and haven't had a chance to sit down - I'm going to update when I get home tonight though!
~Michelle~ wrote: "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/topi..."
I'm planning a reread of this series in preparation for the release of book 10. But since book 10 - the final book - won't be released until August 28th, I probably won't reread them during TTVI. (I'll reread them in August, probably.)
But I read your post in the discussion, Michelle! I'm glad you're enjoying it and I hope you'll agree that it only gets better from there! :-)
Just wanted to let you know I am still out here :) Doctor put me on muscle relaxers for my knee so I have kinda been out of it. I am almost finished with my first book. Just trying to figure out if it fits any of the classes.
Hey everyone! Just a few notes I wanted to get out there.
1) I put links to our spreadsheet and the overall status spreadsheet in my first post on the thread here for easy reference!
2) Books read are updated through here! I know I mentioned this in reply to Lori earlier but to reiterate in an "official" post - we do not have Kelly's magic spreadsheets for this Tower Teams round. We are inputting all books by hand, so don't be alarmed if they don't show up for a day or two. :)
3) There has already been some discussion in the captain's group about people assuming what works for classes, but we do not yet have an official set of rules for them. That said, feel free to mention if you think a book will work for them based on the little information that we have on the spreadsheet but don't be too worried about it until we have a meatier explanation about what they are going to be.
Hi guys! Things have been a little crazy this week with school. I probably won't be able to come on tomorrow, but I am hoping to finish a book in a couple days. I am also starting a buddy read and will finish in the next week. I hope everyone is having a great week!!
Completion PostBook: Love in Disguise
Author: Carol Cox
Pages: 355
Date Read: 5/16
Rating: 3 stars
Characters: Ellie Monroe, Steven Pierce
Letters: L, C, E, M, S, P
Additional: Detective, Actor - 1 person plays 2 roles, silver mines
I'm going to explore some buddy read possibilities tomorrow. I know a friend of mine on another Slytherin team is read through The Hidden Legacies, and I've been wanting to re-read the last one. And maybe I can get someone to join me reading In Death books! :)
Class Guidelines are out!
I'm asking a few clarification questions to the mods right now, but let me know if you all have any questions I may not have thought of! :D
BTW - Does anyone else read ARCs? We need three for Divination - I'll for sure read more than three during the course of the challenge, so we'll be good either way, but I figured I would ask. :)
Vicky wrote: "Class Guidelines are out!
I'm asking a few clarification questions to the mods right now, but let me know if you all have any questions I may not have thought of! :D"
Yikes with the negative points!!
~Michelle~ wrote: "Yikes with the negative points!!"I think the mods are feeling a little jumping coming off of Cutthroat. ;) haha
But, I think as long as we have a solid justification, we'll be in the clear!
Completion PostThe Undomestic Goddess
Sophie Kinsella
5-16-2018
404 pages
3*
Characters: Nathaniel, Melissa Blake, Samantha Sweeting, Maya, John Ketterman, Arnold Saville, Maggie Neely, Guy Ashby, Clive Sutherland, Daniel Sweeting, Ms. Tennyson, Freya, Mrs. Farley, Charles Conway, Trish Geiger, Eddie Geiger, Iris, Annabel, Eamonn, Lara, Melanie Stryder, Jan Martin, Hilary, Dominic Kitchen
Chick-lit, romance, cleaning items on cover, sunglasses on cover
Completion Post:Book: Firebrand
Author: Kristen Britain
Pages: 784
Characters: Karigan G'ladheon, Zachary Hillander, Estral Andovian, Alton D'yer, Fiori, Connly, Laren Mapstone, Trace, Slee, Vanlynn, Captain Immerez, Nyssa, Westrion
Letters: A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, S, T, V, W, Z]
Others: The cover has a horse with wings on it. She also has an eye called Mirare which lets other people glimpse their future. It was also a hard-cover book.
Completion post:Title: The Mountain Between Us
Author: Charles Martin
Date: May 17
Rating: 3 stars
Page: 338
Characters: Ashley Knox, Ben Payne, Grover, Vince
Letters: A B C G K M P V
Classes:
Care of Magical Creatures
Localization: Mountain
What they eat: Moose, mountain lion, rabbit
Completion post:Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi
Date: 5/17/18
Rating: 4 stars
pages: 525 pg
Characters: Zelie, Mama Agba, Bisi, Tzain, Amari, Samara, Kaea, Ebele, Inan, Lekan
Setting: Orisha
Classes:
Charms: Mending (blood and bone)
Herbology: This is a hardback book
For potions, can you get a list of the equipment we need? All I see mentioned are something to stir with and heat, but it mentions mortar and pestle. What else is not mentioned?
sorry for the dumb question, but what are ARCs again? 😅
Daniela wrote: "sorry for the dumb question, but what are ARCs again? 😅"ARCs are Advanced Reader Copies, books that a publisher or author or someone sends you before they're published so that you can review them and, if you enjoy them, hopefully help spread the hype. :-)
Completion PostYesterday I finished Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Date read: May 15-16, 2018 (Goodreads is still having troubles recording dates read. I have only read this book ONCE; I finished it May 16th.)
Pages: 205
Word count: 40,084
Characters: Danny, William, Victor Hazell, Enoch Samways, Doc Spencer, others with initials L, S, M, G, C, K, R
I read a second book yesterday, but George's Marvelous Medicine, also by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake, is just 89 pages long (it also only has 11,963 words in it), so it can't count.
Completion Post
Gone Missing by Linda Castillo
Read: 5/17/18
Rating: ♥♥♥♥
Pages: 304
Characters: Kate Burkholder, John Tomasetti, Bud Goddard
Letters: G, L, C, K, B, J, T, G
Classes: Potions (Salamander Blood)
Brandy wrote: "For potions, can you get a list of the equipment we need? All I see mentioned are something to stir with and heat, but it mentions mortar and pestle. What else is not mentioned?"I'm not sure why it's not listed in the class guidelines, but it is on the spreadsheet.
1. Cauldron
2. Knife
3. Mortar and Pestle
4. Scale
Updated to here! :)
I have one more day of back to back jobs (ughhhhh XD) and then I have a much deserved day off on Saturday and I'm going to set aside some time to play with the spreadsheet some more and see what kinds of things we can complete already.
I also think I'm going to pile a few different lists of tasks. There are a ton of things that we'll find throughout the challenge just by reading, but there are also some specific tasks (500+ page brown book, I'm looking at you!) and some tasks that will need a little bit of planning (history of magic, defense against the dark arts, etc) so I'd like to highlight them so the people who want to task hunt can start working on those!
Also - I asked the mods for some clarification on Charms. I gave a few examples I thought of and Sonia confirmed they would work. Here's what I gave combined with some other examples from the captain's chat, just to add a little brain fuel. :)
levitation: perched bird cover -> flying bird cover
summoning:->
summoning: empty hand -> hand holding something
summoning: barefoot -> foot w/ shoe on it
banishing: a cover with a bowl sitting on a table -> a cover with an empty table
banishing: the inverse of anything that could work for summoning
firemaking: a cover where someone has a flame in their hand -> a cover where something is on fire
firemaking: a cover with a tree -> a cover with a burning tree
watermaking: a desert scene -> an ocean scene.
watermaking: empty glass -> filled water glass
watermaking: house -> house by a lake
Completion PostBook: An Elegant Façade
Author: Kristi Ann Hunter
Series: Hawthorne House
Pages: 368
Date Read: 5/17
Rating: 4 stars
Characters: Georgiana, Trent, Miranda, Harriette, Colin
Letters: A, E, K, H, G, T, M, C
Additional: Banishing/Summoning - hand holding flower; disability (dyslexic in a society that had never heard of such a thing)
Brown, 500+ pages:
- tineye calls it brown, but I probably can't get to it this month.
That's all I've got on my TBR that works. I probably can't get to either until next month, though.
And I'm not much help with the ARCs.
How did I not notice that Kristel is on our team? We just got done captaining an Uno team together!Hi Kristel! :)
Completion PostIn Her Way
Eryn Scott
5-18-2018
243 pages
3*
Characters: Julep Maddox, Andrew, Emily, Kaylee
Letters: I, E, S, J, M, A, K
Dentist, mob, single long-haired female on cover
For brown book with 500+ pages, I already have this one as my next one up and it happens to fit!!
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 531 pages, 86.3% brownIt's the second cover option, but it's the hardback that I'm reading...if that makes a difference.
@Michelle - it doesn't matter which cover it is on Goodreads as long as it's the exact edition that you are reading and you shelve that edition. :)
Vicky wrote: "@Michelle - it doesn't matter which cover it is on Goodreads as long as it's the exact edition that you are reading and you shelve that edition. :)"That's what I thought. Just wanted to be sure.
Vicky wrote: "Class Guidelines are out!
I'm asking a few clarification questions to the mods right now, but let me know if you all have any questions I may not have thought of! :D"
Vicky, could you link this on your main post, please? I have a feeling I'll be referring to it often. ;-)
It's in Message 160.
Thanks!
~Michelle~ wrote: "Vicky, could you link this on your main post, please? I have a feeling I'll be referring to it often. ;-) "Done!
My hoarder client let me leave early today so I had an hour and a half to play between jobs. WHEEEE. So, I've added two more tabs to the spreadsheet to help us get organized.
Tasks to Plan is a list of tasks I pulled out that will need some coordination (Care of Magical Creatures, History of Magic, and the classes that require things to be done in pairs).
Tasks to Find is a list of tasks that are more specific and may need to hunting to find. Some will be difficult to find, but some are just books that I felt in a general three months or reading you may or may not stumble upon (for instance, there are tons of books out there with celestial objects in the title, but you may or may not just happen upon them).
There are about 160 other tasks that aren't on these lists - the common letters, the lower ranges of specific page numbers, etc - I think we're likely to stumble upon these in our reading.
All that said, if anyone wants to start trying to hone in on some of the "Tasks to Find" that would be awesome. Also, I think it might be useful to maybe post some of the books we're planning on reading in the near future so we can start looking for things that might match for the planning tasks.
I'm off to work but I'll be back with more tomorrow (and I promise I won't be so wordy once things get underway, I'm an organizer by nature. XD)
Vicky wrote: "~Michelle~ wrote: "Vicky, could you link this on your main post, please? I have a feeling I'll be referring to it often. ;-) "Done!"
Thank you!
I have a question: I'm confused, sorry. Do we have any tasks that we should sign up for? I'm not sure if I should be reading a targeted book or if I should just continue to read and hope that my books will fit somewhere?And a Completion Post:
Yesterday I read The Castle in the Mist by Amy Ephron.
Read: May 17, 2018
Pages: 169
Word Count (middle-grade book): 31,395
Characters: Tess Barnes, her brother Max Barnes, William Bramsfield III, Aunt Evie, Marie, Barnaby, Clarissa and Clara (mother and daughter)
Vicky wrote: "My hoarder client let me leave early today so I had an hour and a half to play between jobs. WHEEEE. So, I've added two more tabs to the spreadsheet to help us get organized.
Tasks to Plan is a ..."
For some reason, I can't seem to find these tabs? Where should I be looking?
I have an idea. We should have a tracking spreadsheet. Where we can keep track of every book that we've read.
There’s a tab in our spreadsheet for books read, with a column to show whether they’ve been used anywhere or not. :)
Jen wrote: "Vicky wrote: "My hoarder client let me leave early today so I had an hour and a half to play between jobs. WHEEEE. So, I've added two more tabs to the spreadsheet to help us get organized.
Tasks..."
I don't have any new tabs either.
Do we count graphic novels in this challenge?
So... I somehow managed to revert the spreadsheet on myself, which explains why no one could see the new tabs. You should be able to see them now. ;)
Jen wrote: "I have a question: I'm confused, sorry. Do we have any tasks that we should sign up for? I'm not sure if I should be reading a targeted book or if I should just continue to read and hope that my books will fit somewhere?"Now that classes are in session, we do have specific tasks to be signed up for. Those are the things listed on Tasks to Plan and Tasks to Find tabs in the spreadsheet I mentioned in Message 184.
Wolf (Alpha) wrote: "I have an idea. We should have a tracking spreadsheet. Where we can keep track of every book that we've read."This is all in the books tab of our Team Spreadsheet - is there any specific information you feel it's missing?
Rachel wrote: "Do we count graphic novels in this challenge?"Unfortunately, no.
My current book is 699 pages. The next will be 1007. I will probably have these both finished in 10-12 days
Hi All, So I am in Ireland on vacation until the 29th, but still plan on reading some. However, I may not be able to add all the character letters in there, but I will try to add them, if needed, when I'm back at acomputer. Completion Post
Book:
Witchstruck
Author:Victoria Lamb
320pages
Completed 5/19/18
Letters:W, V, L, E(Elizabeth],
Book: As Husbands Go
Author:Susan Isaacs
344 pages
Completed 5/17/18
Letters:A, S, I,
Lory wrote: "Hi All, So I am in Ireland on vacation until the 29th, but still plan on reading some. However, I may not be able to add all the character letters in there, but I will try to add them, if needed, w..."Jealous!! Enjoy! :-)
Daniela wrote: "How is everyone's weekend going? :)"Rainy so far...How about you?
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Book: The Anatomist's Wife
Author: Anna Lee Huber
Pages: 357 pages
Characters: Kiera Darby, Alana Cromarty, Philip Cromarty, Mr. Gage, Lord & Lady Stratford, Marsdale, Faye, Westlock, Lucy
Letters: A, C, D, F, G, H, K, L, M, P, S, W
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Author: Ian Fleming
Pages: 229 pages
Characters: James Bond, Felix Lieter, Quarrel, Buonaparte Ignace Gallia, Solitair, Grady, Halloran, Dexter
Letters: B, D, F, G, H, I J, L, Q, S
Additional information: Divination - mentions Solitaire using second sight and voodoo is a large portion of the book.
Book: Pants on Fire
Author: Meg Cabot
Pages: 264 pagse
Characters: Kate Ellison, Morgan Castle, Sidney Van Der Hoff, Seth, Jill, Shaniqua, Dave, Liam, Tommy Sullivan, Eric Fluetely
Letters: C, D, E, F, H, J, K, L, M, S, T, V
Additional information: Earmuffs - Fluffy Chick-lit definitely