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[Annalisa]

I'll check out the series and see if I like it. The description for the first book sounds like it could be something I would enjoy.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

The first book good but is the weakest among the three. I promise the next two books will play with your emotions. I wish Marchetta would write another fantasy

[Eldarwen]

Hmmm sounds like an interesting series, so I added the first Lumatere to my TBR :-)

[Annalisa]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix can be used for astronomy. There is a constellation named Phoenix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoen...

[Eldarwen]

Annalisa wrote: "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix can be used for astronomy. There is a constellation named Phoenix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoen..."

Fantastic!

[Eldarwen]

Kavitha,

sorry, same thing again for Parthiban Kanavu - Part 3 - could you add the read date please?

Thanks!

[Cathy M.]

Annalisa wrote: "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix can be used for astronomy. There is a constellation named Phoenix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoen..."

Great looking out for that Annalisa! & it has a lot of pages so more points YAY!

[Cathy M.]

Hey E, was just checking my BRs & noticed we're missing a couple:

Magic Bites Read 5/31
BR:
Thread
1st Post
Last Post

All Your Perfects Read 07/27

BR:
Thread
1st Post
Last Post (Updated today)

And I have just 160 pgs left of Gardens of the Moon so hoping to be done with it by tomorrow :) I've been reading it from Scribd which lists it at 836 pgs - that edition is not listed on GR. Which one should I use? (Here is the link)

[Eldarwen]

Aah, cool!

I was wondering about that KD book since you read all the others as a BR but forgot to ask you about it.

Adding both now :-)

[Eldarwen]

As for the Malazan book, let me check with mods and get back to you. Maybe a librarian can add the edition to GR or maybe there's a special procedure concerning Scribd books, not sure.

Will let you know!

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

All current BRs need to be read by July 31st for points, right? Just clarifying 😊

[Eldarwen]

Kathleen wrote: "All current BRs need to be read by July 31st for points, right? Just clarifying 😊"

Yes!

[Kavitha]

Eldarwen wrote: "Kavitha,

sorry, same thing again for Parthiban Kanavu - Part 3 - could you add the read date please?

Thanks!"

Done!

[Eldarwen]

Re: Gardens of the Moon

One of the captains who is a librarian explained that Scribd usually doesn't get its own edition on GR, but since Scribd uses the ebook ISBN, she suggested going with that edition, which is basically 300 pages less than the one you're reading and a little over 100 pages less than the default edition.

Makes me which I hadn't asked >.>

This is the edition mentioned on Scribd: Gardens of the Moon

[Cathy M.]

Thats bullshit. There is also an ebook edition with 768 pgs that would be more in line with my edition, or at least should be able to go with the MMPB or Kindle edition #s then. We ARE supposed to use page #s that our edition after all. ANd after reading this, its definitely longer than 500 pgs.

So I just wasted my time reading something and only getting credit for part of it...

[Eldarwen]

I agree.

But then, that was also a captain response, not a mod response, and a suggestion. In my experience, most ebook editions are rarely truly in line with the actual page number of a book.

I'll have a talk with LaurLa to see how we'll proceed. :-)

[Sunshine]

Eldarwen wrote: "Sunshine wrote: "I’ll let you know when my characters are updated.

...probably sometime this weekend."

Great, thanks Sunshine! :-)"

Books are updated.

i hope you can use all of the "V"s

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

...so many Vangers

:)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

It's nice to see BR request thread still going strong despite BR points being absent next month.

[Eldarwen]

There has been a surprising amount of Vs haha!

Thanks, Sunshine! :-)

[Eldarwen]

Kathleen wrote: "It's nice to see BR request thread still going strong despite BR points being absent next month."

True, that is quite nice to see :-)
And I have already signed up for one because I couldn't resist that one hehe.

[Eldarwen]

ATTENTION ATTENTION

Countdown to End of Spells, Classes and Buddy Reads

Spells and Classes are DONE. As in, we completed them all. Not just that their time in the challenge is up ;-)

Any Buddy Reads you still have going, please try and complete them before the Countdown goes to 0. No worries if you can't because the books will still count for pages, but for August, the BR points will unfortunately be gone.

And now for the next step in the game!



Read up on the Tournament HERE.

->You will find important notes, rules, how to play and links for the final Quidditch match.

Read up on the Tournament tasks HERE.

-> All you need to know about the tasks we're going to have to complete. I'll post them in more detail in a bit but please read it all carefully first.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask us! :-)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Which one did yoy sign up for E?

[Eldarwen]

Kathleen wrote: "Which one did yoy sign up for E?"



It's released tomorrow but I need to allow some time to have it delivered and to read the last Cassie book I haven't read yet so that I'm up to date and Ora was willing to wait :-) Always enjoying these series (they're tied together).

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Ah, I don't know of this series. Does this one have a Barrons or a Curran? Say yes and maybe ill try the series!

[Eldarwen]

Sending out Friend Requests to our newest members - please accept them so I can invite you to THE DUNGEON (dun dun dun) where all the teams of House Slytherin are planning Quidditch matches and will get together to organise the House part of the Tri-Wizard Tournament.


If any of you are NOT in the Dungeon, please give a shout so we can invite you there. Since the third Quidditch match was initially cancelled, I may have neglected to invite one or two of you to the group.

Thanks!

[Eldarwen]

Kathleen wrote: "Ah, I don't know of this series. Does this one have a Barrons or a Curran? Say yes and maybe ill try the series!"

There is a Mircea and a Pritkin :-)
And a Louis-Cesare :-)

Not Barrons style but more Curran style, though not quite.

Touch the Dark is the first one.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Have you read Anne Bishops' The Others series (Written in Red is the first book)?

I really liked that one but I was pissed with the last book. It felt like having a candy snatched just at the moment you grab it.

[Eldarwen]

Haha, I heard that a lot about the last one in the series.

I've only read the first three so far. Still need to read #4 and #5. In the meantime, I'm dreading the ending after all the comments I've heard ;-)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

What's the plan for the TriWizard tasks? Read as you go or claim a task and read for it?

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

For BOMs, we have til August 2nd and 12th to finish this month's BOM, right?

[Eldarwen]

Kathleen wrote: "For BOMs, we have til August 2nd and 12th to finish this month's BOM, right?"

Yes!

I was very happy about the extra two days to finish Rosemary and Rue haha.

[Eldarwen]

Kathleen wrote: "What's the plan for the TriWizard tasks? Read as you go or claim a task and read for it?"

That's a question I was going to put to the team later today or tomorrow, but since you've brought it up.. :-)

How would you guys prefer to do it?

I'm sure we're going to get a whole lot of books read in August so we'll be able to fill in more than the required 9 tasks (from 3 different books) but a little bit of planning would probably be a good idea to see which tasks would be the easiest.

It would be a total of 36 books that have to be read for us to be rewarded points for this first part of the Tri-Wizard Tournament.

[Eldarwen]

Kathleen, wasn't Unbound a BR?

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Ah, yes, sorry about that. I'll update with a link to thread tomorrow. I turned off my PC and in bed with a book already.

I have joined other BRs too late Im not sure if someone will go back and chat. At least we'll still get page points 😅

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I think you missed adding The Archived, the first book to Unbound.

[Stacie]

I've got my next 11 books planned out so I can go see what they cover in the tasks if you want.

[Eldarwen]

Stacie wrote: "I've got my next 11 books planned out so I can go see what they cover in the tasks if you want."

Yes, that sounds like it could be a good start.

Others might be able to go off of that and we can see which tasks would be the best/easiest to fill.

Personally, anything fantasy/paranormal usually works well for me ;-)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I prefer claiming a task, just so I'd know when picking for my next read which tasks are open.

[Annalisa]

Are tasks up? I also have most of my books for the next month. I read over the tri-wizard announcement page but didn't see anything saying what tasks were yet.

[Eldarwen]

Kathleen wrote: "I think you missed adding The Archived, the first book to Unbound."

I did! Bad refresh on my part.

Thanks!

Eta: That was also a BR, right?

[LaurLa]

I also prefer to claim tasks and read for them. I think that usually works well. Maybe we could/should cap the number of tasks we each claim - like maybe 2 open at a time. That way we're not holding back tasks that would allow other members to participate.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Annalisa wrote: "Are tasks up? I also have most of my books for the next month. I read over the tri-wizard announcement page but didn't see anything saying what tasks were yet."

Yes, tasks are up. I think we just need to decide which "Book" and set of tasks.to complete first.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I think I like "BOOKS" 1, 3 and 4 esp Book 4 Task 2 #dragon

[Eldarwen]

LaurLa wrote: "I also prefer to claim tasks and read for them. I think that usually works well. Maybe we could/should cap the number of tasks we each claim - like maybe 2 open at a time. That way we're not holdin..."

Mmhh, I like that idea!

[Eldarwen]

Kathleen wrote: "I think I like "BOOKS" 1, 3 and 4 esp Book 4 Task 2 #dragon"

I knew it :-p

[Eldarwen]

Annalisa wrote: "Are tasks up? I also have most of my books for the next month. I read over the tri-wizard announcement page but didn't see anything saying what tasks were yet."

Tasks are all listed in the "Tri-Wizard Tournament Tasks" thread.

Linked in my post earlier on this page :-)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

E, Archived was not a BR. Or was there a BR and I didn't know? I should go check and hope someone will come baack and talk about it.

[Eldarwen]

Kathleen wrote: "E, Archived was not a BR. Or was there a BR and I didn't know? I should go check and hope someone will come baack and talk about it."

If it was, then Karen was probably in on it and then she'll be back to talk to you about it.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I like LaurLa's suggestion.

[Stacie]

I can do:

Troll task 1: double LL with The Whispering Hollows

Task 5: I think this works for hand in the pocket but a ruling from the team would be good: