R10: Team Double the Pleasure ~ Double the Fun (2) **Winning Team**

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Team 2 - Double the Pleasure ~ Double the Fun

Captain: Sam
LaurLa
Steph Ann
~Melissa~
Ezi
Shan ~ A ~
Paula


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Bonus Points
Earned: 5
Used: 5

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

Helpful Links:

Dice Roll (2 dice on Fridays, US Central Time)
R10 SS Post Your Spot
R10 SS Discussion Thread
Time Zone Converter

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

ALTERNATES:
*Titles exclude leading articles like A, An, The)
❀Each number corresponds with the spot on the board.
❀ Colors: The cover has to be at least 50% Guidelines
❀ Locations: As long as the book takes part at all in the given location.
❀ Publication Years: Any edition so long as it is published in the given year according to GR.
❀ Authors' Names: The first, middle, or last name of the author is ok.
❀ Cover Items: Must have the given item on the cover
❀ Titles: Only the first word of the title. A, An, and The do not count.

LIST:
2. Cover Item: Lamp/Candle
3. Author O
4. Cover: White
5. Romance
6. Published 2013
7. Three Word Title excluding articles like A, An, The (i.e. Behind Closed Doors or Etched in Bone)
8. Cover Item: Sun/Moon
9. Title T
10. Book that one of your teammates read shelf rated a 5-star
11. Multi-Colored (3 or More Colors)
12. Title L
13. Cover Item: Plant
14. South America
15. Cover: Brown
16. Fantasy
17. Author H
18. Cover Item: Food/Drink
19. Character has a pet
20. Published 2012
21. Title K
22. Male Author
23. Two Word Title excluding articles like A, An, The (i.e. Deadly Silence or The Hunger Games)
24. Cover: Orange
25. Published between 2001 and 2011
26. Author S
27. Set in a Fictional Location/Universe
28. Cover: Blue
29. New to you author
30. Non-Fiction
31. Asia
32. Published between 1950 and 2000
33. Cover Item: One person
34. GR average rating <3.6
35. Cover: Red
36. Title G
37. Character has at least one child
38. Historical
39. One Word Title excluding articles like A, An, The (i.e. The Witness or Divergent)
40. Young Adult/New Adult
41. Cover: Purple
42. School/College/University
43. Title V
44. Cover Item: Mode of Transportation
45. Originally published in a language other than English
46. Four or more Words Title excluding articles like A, An, The (i.e. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
47. Author I
48. Africa
49. Cover: Grey/Silver
50. Seasonal Theme (i.e Christmas, Halloween etc)
51. Published 2014
52. Title E
53. Cover: Green
54. Sci-Fi
55. Published 2015
56. Cover Item: Furniture
57. Australia
58. Author W
59. Published before 1950
60. Cover: Yellow/Gold
61. Author uses their middle name/initial (e.g. Robert J. Sawyer, Rita Mae Brown)
62. Book to Movie (must state how book qualifies i.e. listopia or precis)
63. Title N
64. Cover Item: Instrument
65. Set in a place you've visited
66. Cover Item: Two or more people
67. Published 2016
68. Author R
69. Award winner (must state which/when)
70. Cover Item: Hat
71. GR average rating >4.0
72. Female Author
73. North America
74. Author A
75. Cover: Pink
76. Published 2017
77. Title C
78. Cover Item: Water
79. LGBTQ+
80. Cover Item: Hands/Arms/Feet/Legs (no other body parts visible)
81. Favorite Author
82. Title J
83. Number in the Title (i.e. Third Grave Dead Ahead or Every Fifteen Minutes)
84. Cover Item: Book
85. Author D
86. Mystery/Thriller
87. Cover Item: Dress
88. Europe
89. Cover Item: Weapon
90. Published 2018
91. Title F
92. Cover: Black
93. Book that one of your teammates read shelf rated a 5-star
94. Author M
95. Cover Item: Animal
96. Several authors
97. Cover Item: Jewellery
98. Title B
99. Debut Novel or Debut Author
100. Author P
101. Cover Item: Building
102. Cover: Green
103. Author N
104. Published 2013
105. Title R
106. Romance
107. Cover Item: Mode of Transportation
108. Author G
109. Two Word Title excluding articles like A, An, The (i.e. Deadly Silence or The Hunger Games)
110. Cover: Blue
111. Title I

[~Melissa~]

Hi everyone!! Looking forward to playing with you all. One of my favorite team challenges. I can never say no to, lol :)
I live an hour outside of Chicago Illinois. CST for me. Married with two children. Just dropped off our oldest (son) at College in Missouri a few weeks ago. What a mixed bag of emotions that day was. Have a daughter in High School. Two dogs - they are in my profile pic along with my daughter. I work full time as well in the healthcare field. I don't wish to captain.

Ezi ~ yeah, two team challenges together!!

[Shan ~A~]

Hello all!!

My time zone is also CST. I live in Louisiana.

Married (17 yrs) with kids (23, 18, 16. 12 ~ turns 13 next month). So that makes one in the military, one in college, one in high school and one in jr. high school.

I also work full time outside the home, so in essence two full time jobs.

I am an avid reader (audio, ebook, paper or hard cover) and a challenge addict with this challenge being one of my favs.

[Sam]

Hi team. My name is Sam. I live in eastern time zone (Ohio) but I am nocturnal so my postings are usually at weird times. I've only played this game once before but I really enjoyed it. Looking forward to playing it again. And playing with all of you.

[Steph Ann]

Hi, all! I'm excited to get started! I've played this a couple times in the past and really loved it!

I'm also in Illinois, so Central Time Zone for me too. I'm married with three kids, ages 4, 2 1/2, and 18 months. All three are boys, so it's very noisy in my house, lol. Reading gives me a chance to decompress after running around after them all day!

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Hi 👋🏾 Teammates.
I know all of you so I’m excited to be on your team. This should be fun.

I’m a wife (15yrs), mom of 3 young ones (11yr old daughter, 9&7 yr old boys). We have sports everyday between 21 hours Gymanstics, Basketball and Baseball for the boys.
Reading (and late night eating) have been my stress relief. I’m working on the eating thing to be healthier.

I’m also trying to read less and watch more tv. But when This is Us, Vikings, The Last Kingdom or Poldaek comes back, don’t call me or come over unless you are dying 😂

Right now I plan to try Cable Girls or Alias Grace on Netflix this week. Let me know if you have tried it.

I’m also enjoying KC Undercover, Bunk’d, Raven’s home with my kids 😂

Names: 2 Fast 2 Furious Readers
2 all the books I’ve loved before (saw the movie on Netflix

Hope you all come up with better names

[Sam]

I'm horrible at coming up with names. Sorry. Also who is going to be captain?

[Steph Ann]

I like 2 Fast 2 Furious Readers. I'll try and think of some other options too, but I am not creative at all, lol.

[LaurLa]

Hello!!! Glad to be here with you all... I see many names and peeps I know. And a couple new ones.


I'm married 25 yrs, have 18 and 22 y/o boys. One in college (but at home) and one a senior. I feel lots of changes coming in the next year. We also have a dog and a cat (21 y/o!!!)

I'm in Indiana which makes me Eastern time zone. Yeah, I know. We're that weird state. I'm in the middle of the state in a suburb of Indianapolis.

I like the 2 Fast 2 Furious Readers. I also like 2 All the Books I Loved.... not much help there, I guess...

Can't wait to get started!

[~Melissa~]

No good with names but...

Double the Pleasure ~ Double the Fun
Series Addiction
We Got Two
The Two that Won

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

~Melissa~ wrote: "No good with names but...

Double the Pleasure ~ Double the Fun"

I like 2x the Pleasure or 2x the Fun

~Melissa~, I am so excited to be with you again.

any volunteers for captain duties?

[Steph Ann]

I like Double the Pleasure Double the Fun.

I would prefer not to be captain, but could do it if no one else wants the job. :-)

[~Melissa~]

Due to work I'm unable to do captain duties. I am usually up early Friday am ( 6 am ish CST) ~ so could help with the roll if everyone has reviews in by night before or by the time I'm up.

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Steph Ann wrote: "I like Double the Pleasure Double the Fun.

I would prefer not to be captain, but could do it if no one else wants the job. :-)"

If you could do it that would be great, if not, I am available

[Sam]

Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun is fine with me.

If no one else really wants to be captain, I can be captain. I have a nocturnal schedule and am awake at 6am eastern time so as long as we all have our books read by Thursday night, it could work.

[Steph Ann]

You have my vote for captain, Sam! :-)

[Shan ~A~]

Double the Pleasure ~ Double the Fun

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Shan ~ A ~ wrote: "Double the Pleasure ~ Double the Fun"

Sounds like we have a name... and possibly a captain in Sam...
I also vote for you Sam

[~Melissa~]

Yeah Sam!

[LaurLa]

Sam for captain!!

[Sam]

Ok. I let Denise know so she can change our name.

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

So turns out the mod wasn't paying attention when writing up the bonus point requirements, so here's an update to the starting and finishing a series bonus. What it was meant to say is:

✸ One point can be earned for starting and finishing a series. There must be at least 4 books in that series. Series + spin-off totalling ≥4 books also counts. For series with >9 books, point will be awarded for reading books 1-9.

[Denise, Manufacturing Director]

With all players checked in and a sizeable list of back-ups, I'm making some last minute additions to the smaller teams.
Paula will be joining you.

[~Melissa~]

Hi Paula ~ welcome to the team :)

[Paula]

Hola/Hello!

I'm Paula, I'm 28 y-o and a chemical engineer working in mining consultancy. I'm not married xD I don't have kids, I have a boyfriend and I have a dog named Buffon, but I still live with my parents, I know that must seem weird, but it's common where I'm from. I'm from Chile (South America) my time zone is GMT - 3 (1 more hour than EST time)

This is my first time playing this challenge, I hope to advance in my series while I'm at it hahaha.

I'm sorry if my english isn't perfect =P, but my native language is spanish

I love the name of the team btw

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

Hola Paula :D

[Steph Ann]

Welcome, Paula! :-)

[Sam]

Hi Paula! Welcome to the team.

[Sam]

So I can't find that there is a scheduled time on Fridays to roll the dice (it just says US Central Time). So I was thinking of rolling in the early hours of the morning, say 1-2 AM eastern? That would be Midnight to 1 AM central (if my time converter is working properly). How does that work for everyone? Then when you get up to start your day, your roll will be done and waiting for you.

[~Melissa~]

Sam wrote: "So I can't find that there is a scheduled time on Fridays to roll the dice (it just says US Central Time). So I was thinking of rolling in the early hours of the morning, say 1-2 AM eastern? That w..."

wow! you sure are a night owl :)
sounds good to me ~ I'll check when I wake up for our spot

[Sam]

Melissa, my usual schedule is that I wake up around 5pm and go to bed around 8-9am. I work nights and keep the same schedule even on the nights I don't work. It's easier than trying to flip back and forth.

[Sam]

Do we want to discuss bonus points? I know that I'll be able to earn the use no alternatives list because I like reading my series for this challenge. Book greater than 500 pages is fairly easy too. Not sure about read multiple books in the same series or start and finish a series during the game.

If we earn any bonus points, when do we want to use them? Last team I was on ended up not using the bonus points at all, but I like the idea of using them to give us extra choices (moving up one or two spots to get off a repeat double digit number, like 66 for example.)

[LaurLa]

I don't really remember how the bonus points work - I don't think our team paid them much attention last round.

When it says each bonus point can be earned once per team, does that mean if I start a series and Sam finishes a series, as a team we only get 1 point and we wouldn't be eligible to earn that bonus again?

[Sam]

That one means that the same person needs to both start and finish a series (the same series). And only one person per team can earn that bonus.

[Shan ~A~]

Sam wrote: "So I can't find that there is a scheduled time on Fridays to roll the dice (it just says US Central Time). So I was thinking of rolling in the early hours of the morning, say 1-2 AM eastern? That w..."

Sounds great

[Shan ~A~]

As far as the bonus points I say use them when we earn them unless there is a way to keep up with the other teams at all times. I played a game somewhat like this as it was game board style and we earned bonuses to use in different ways, and we were so busy trying to wait that before we knew it the game was over.

How long is too long and how early is too early???

[Ezi, Factory Superintendent]

I like to use bonus points to get off spots that are hard like read a book set in South America or a number that’s rough like Sam said.

I’m trying to get rid of series using FWYS so I’m in for that or books over 500 Pages etc

[Paula]

I usually wake up at 6 CST time, so if you roll at midnight, it'be ok by me, I can check our spot when I wake up.

Midnight CST is 2am for me =P, so goodnight =)

[Sam]

Week 1
Roll 5+3
Spot: 8
Read for series #8
Alternate: Cover Item: Sun/Moon

[LaurLa]

Sam wrote: "That one means that the same person needs to both start and finish a series (the same series). And only one person per team can earn that bonus."

I figured I was reading that wrong! Seemed to easy... Anyway, I think ultimately my question was that even if more than one person does something that qualifies as a bonus, we only earn it once. And I think you answered that part too ;-)

[~Melissa~]

Sam wrote: "Melissa, my usual schedule is that I wake up around 5pm and go to bed around 8-9am. I work nights and keep the same schedule even on the nights I don't work. It's easier than trying to flip back an..."

Ah, that makes sense. Do you work in the healthcare field?

[~Melissa~]

Nice roll ~ I'll see what I want read later. Happy Friday everyone!

[Paula]

I'll read the alternate (moon on cover), because from the long series I have, I've already read #8 :/

[Steph Ann]

I'll have to go alternate as well. I'm going with . It's hard to see on the thumbnail image, but if you go to the book's page, you can see the sun on the cover.

[LaurLa]

Paula wrote: "I'll read the alternate (moon on cover), because from the long series I have, I've already read #8 :/"

That's a tough one for me too - it seems I've already passed #8 or I'm not quite there on every series.

I did find one that is labeled and numbered as a series but the books aren't inter-related, so skipping to #8 won't be a problem.

[Sam]

~Melissa~ wrote: "Ah, that makes sense. Do you work in the healthcare field? ..."

Yes, I am a pediatric hospital nocturnist; meaning I am the hospital doctor that stays up all night to take care of the patients.

[Sam]

I am going to read Grim Tempest by Amanda M. Lee, which is Aisling Grimlock #8.