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[Stacie]

Thanks E, this is what I assumed.

[Eldarwen]

Sorry, you might have to get away from your comfy spot ;-)

[Stacie]

Eldarwen wrote: "Sorry, you might have to get away from your comfy spot ;-)"

But mooooooooooooooooooooooom

[Eldarwen]

Behave!

[Eldarwen]

Also, we have our countdown!

Countdown to End of Challenge

Midnight European time on the 31st.

[Eldarwen]

Good thing I have all of tomorrow to finish my book because I've been a lazy reader today. Having one more entire day should be enough to finish up the BOM - Everland.

For those of you reading Magic Triumphs, don't forget that it's a BOM. Be good and go answer the discussion questions please as they'll bring us some extra points :-) Thanks!

[Stacie]

Will do! I'm starting it today

[Cathy M.]

Eldarwen wrote: "Also, we have our countdown!

Countdown to End of Challenge

Midnight European time on the 31st."

Oh finally!

Do we know if we get any points for our house completing the maze first?

[Eldarwen]

Ah yes, I think there will be extra points for the house that finished first but I have no idea how or when they're awarded. They're probably going to be manually added to the points ranking.

[Eldarwen]

Stacie wrote: "Will do! I'm starting it today"

<3

[Eldarwen]

Oh, and... because you'd probably like to know....

Tasks are officially DONE!! :-D

Fantastic work everyone!!

[Cathy M.]

Yay, great job everyone!

[LaurLa]

Eldarwen wrote: "Oh, and... because you'd probably like to know....

Tasks are officially DONE!! :-D

Fantastic work everyone!!"

AND... so are Characters!!!

[Em]

fantastic! and still time to spare for some more reading :))

[Natasha]

That’s so wonderful to hear!

[Annalisa]

Glad we are finished with all the tasks. I've got two books I should finish up tomorrow. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself now TT is ending. I think I might need a break from challenges though. I know I'm going to miss discovering new books through it though. I've read a few books I wouldn't have without the challenge and really enjoyed reading outside my zone.

[Eldarwen]

Professor Snape has trained us well, it seems ;-)

Well done, team!! That was amazing reading!! :-D

Now, for the remaining 16 hours: try to finish as many of your books as possible so we can count them for page points. Please remember that completion posts must be in before the countdown timer runs out.

Thanks, guys!!

[Eldarwen]

Annalisa wrote: "Glad we are finished with all the tasks. I've got two books I should finish up tomorrow. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself now TT is ending. I think I might need a break from challenges..."

Mmhh, sometimes challenges can make you discover some really interesting books that you might not have picked up otherwise! (Also sometimes the contrary haha.)

I can understand the need for a little challenge break. It does wonders sometimes! I didn't hold out for that long when I had a break but I only did 1 or 2 challenges that were comfort challenges so to speak.

[Kavitha]

Even though my travel with this group is for a short period, totally enjoyed it!! I learned a lot too and read a lot because of the challenge :) same experience as many commented here about the choice of books that I read for the tasks!

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

As usual, life happened. Will try to finish Magic Triumphs, joim discussion and post completion tomorrow. *fingers crossed I will get time to do so*

[Eldarwen]

You have not quite 8 hours left, Kathleen!

Anything posted after that time won't count - unless they're making an exception for Magic Triumphs BOM as it started very late in the month.

[Cat]

they're making an exception.

as I understand it, if it's posted, with DQs completed, and on the sheet, before the Captain's Deadline (i.e. midnight Sunday London time) it'll be counted

[Eldarwen]

So it's official?

[Cat]

it was in the owl mail, yes.

assuming I've interpreted correctly! but Sonia said basically that in her team thread, so I'm nearly 100% confident I'm right ;-P

[Cat]

oh, I've assumed that the extended deadline only counts if you are participating in the DQs. i.e. you can't use the extension to just read it in a solitary fashion, only to take the added time needed to answer etc

but that is very much my assumption & not been tested anywhere. Tea might have views, unless she's still on a bus somewhere?

[Eldarwen]

Hahaha, bloody hell, I blanked that paragraph out completely!!

So Kathleen at least has a little longer for Kate and Curran :-)

Thanks for still having my back, Cat! <3

[Stacie]

E, I added my fourth BOM question post to my last book completion. Not sure if I will finish anymore today. I'm going shopping for a bit now.

[Eldarwen]

Yay, thanks, Stacie!

Happy shopping :-)

[Sunshine]

Posted my last book...

Maybe, I can get 100 pages in. Probably not

[LaurLa]

Time is winding down :-(

Thanks for being such an awesome team. I think we did great. Maybe we struggled a little in quidditch, but I honestly think that is because we read for real and not just to slam down a book We took some time, at least, to actually absorb what we were reading! Still, no matter what, I think all of the quidditch particpants rocked ass!! But we totally dominated in the maze! Way to go everyone there!!!

I'm not as talkative as many of you, but I enjoyed all of the conversation! It was nice to get know some names I've seen around!

Hope to see you in more challenges around GR!!!

[LaurLa]

And let's not forget our fearless leader!!! She's the rockin'-est captain ever!!! What do you think... is this our queen??

[Eldarwen]

Bahahahaha :-)))

And because I'm giving up on trying to finish one last book before midnight - not going to happen haha but I am enjoying the book - I'm going over to party mode...



Thank you so much for an insane challenge, guys! Everything done with time to spare, crazy reading in Quidditch and absolutely amazing team work on the Maze! You rocked!!

And LaurLa, my fellow snake, always good to have you at my back!! <3

[Cathy M.]

Won't be able to finish any others so just posted my last books. I've been staying up until 3am reading this whole week (& just reading at work the last 2 days without doing much else) so I am just going to SLEEP tonight! No reading for me! Then on with Empire of Storms... these last 2 books have been insane. After getting over my anger on how poorly Celaena treated Chaol in Crown of Midnight (though it was hard again when Celaena returned to Rifthold in Queen of Shadows), I found myself totally hooked on this series. Let's hope that there aren't any more love interests for Celaena/Aelin now because that was a little irritating...

Thanks everyone, and especially our amazing Captains, for another fun challenge :)

[Cathy M.]

LaurLa wrote: "And let's not forget our fearless leader!!! She's the rockin'-est captain ever!!! What do you think... is this our queen??



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That picture is super cute :)

[Sanah]

This was my first Tower challenge and I really enjoyed myself. Everyone was super motivating and even though I joined late in the game, I was welcomed by everyone, especially by our captains. Thanks for making my first challenge a great one!

[Eldarwen]

Cathy M. wrote: "Won't be able to finish any others so just posted my last books. I've been staying up until 3am reading this whole week (& just reading at work the last 2 days without doing much else) so I am just..."

If you liked Queen of Shadows, you're going to love Empire of Storms :-)

True, her treatment of Chaol wasn't the greatest, but he was a bit of a dick as well.

[Eldarwen]

Sanah wrote: "This was my first Tower challenge and I really enjoyed myself. Everyone was super motivating and even though I joined late in the game, I was welcomed by everyone, especially by our captains. Thank..."

Yay! Hooked on challenges now, are you? ;-)
Glad to hear you enjoyed your first Tower Teams challenge! Many more to come, I'm sure hehe.

[LaurLa]

Sanah wrote: "This was my first Tower challenge and I really enjoyed myself. Everyone was super motivating and even though I joined late in the game, I was welcomed by everyone, especially by our captains. Thank..."

Welcome to the darkside of challenges, Sanah! We have you now!!
Glad you enjoyed yourself :-)

[Cathy M.]

Eldarwen wrote: "Cathy M. wrote: "Won't be able to finish any others so just posted my last books. I've been staying up until 3am reading this whole week (& just reading at work the last 2 days without doing much e..."

True, more so in Queen of Shadows, but I keep thinking of that scene where Celaena was so cold to him & he was so heartbroken that he went in the closet & cried. Talk about sad!! I so love him :)

[Cathy M.]

Sanah wrote: "This was my first Tower challenge and I really enjoyed myself. Everyone was super motivating and even though I joined late in the game, I was welcomed by everyone, especially by our captains. Thank..."

Thats so great Sanah! Some games are more fun then others but I'm sure you'll be as hooked on them as the rest of us :P

[Eldarwen]

Cathy M. wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Cathy M. wrote: "Won't be able to finish any others so just posted my last books. I've been staying up until 3am reading this whole week (& just reading at work the last 2 days wit..."

I forgot about that scene actually! I only remember him being very quick to judge and then drop her like a hot potato. But he is a cool character. Lots of development there, and a lot of room for more of the same!

I absolutely love Marion though!

[Eldarwen]

Oooh, and our fantastic reading on the Maze earned House Slytherin 600 points! :-)

[Eldarwen]

Kathleeeeeeeeen, did you manage to finish the last Kate Daniels?

We have a another 7 hours (and a few minutes) to finalise the spreadsheet and for you to post a completion post but figured I'd poke you anyway :-)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

E, will my book still count???

[Eldarwen]

If you post now, then yes!

Under the condition that you've participated in the BOM questions.

[Eldarwen]

Time's officially up now, even for the extension for the last BOM.

Sonia allowed a couple more hours for captains to update the spreadsheets but it's 1am for me so I'm heading to bed. Besides, we were good with keeping our spreadsheet up to date all the time, so nothing to worry over :-)

Thanks again for a very fun challenge! You did some amazing reading and I hope you all had a good time (despite the numerous 1 or 2 star books).

[Sanah]

Where/when are result gonna be posted for how each team did?

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Drat, didn't make it!


But it was really fun reading with you all. Such a great team!

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Mrs. Fix It and the Brides were my most "interesting" read for this TT round ;)

[Eldarwen]

Sanah wrote: "Where/when are result gonna be posted for how each team did?"

It'll probably a day or two before mods will do that. Usually there's either a thread for those kinds of announcements or they'll had it to the scoring thread they already have.

But you can already have a look at this spreadsheet to give you an idea.