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Wheel-a-Thon III
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Oogie Boogie
I just finished our BOM (which I will post shortly) and just waiting for some discussion questions. It was dark for a YA but I guess Mary Shelley was only a teenager when she wrote it and in totally adult circumstances. I was thinking, "I'll have to go back and read the original" (it is 200 years ago this year since it was first published) and lo and behold in the kindle edition of Elizabeth Frankenstein it is included. I've also got one more to finish tonight. It's a guilty pleasure (nowhere in the same literary universe as Frankenstein!!) but a fun read.
COMPLETION POST 
kINDLE 304 pages.
Letters: T A E L V
BOM - First discussion questions answered below.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
On spreadsheet.
Double completion post!Scent to Her Grave
Author: India Ink
Finished 11/16/18
272 pages
4 stars!
Works for the following letters:
T - character Trevor
A - character Allison
V - character Persia Rose Vanderbilt
L - character Lydia
Killer Insight
Author: Victoria Laurie
Finished 11/16/18
Page count: 288
Works for the following letters:
R - character Dutch Rivers
A - character Abby Cooper
V - character Aunt Vivian
L- author Victoria Laurie
Could someone please add these to our spreadsheet for me?
This week has been exhausting and I have a conference all day Sat-Sun. I hope to finish my two by tomorrow. I will also most likely be down to 3-4 books a week until I get a better handle on my school work.
I finished the last two books I put on the spreadsheet. Hopefully I can finish one more tomorrow.
Completion:
Letters: V E A
On spreadsheet.
Lauri wrote: "Double completion post!Scent to Her Grave
Author: India Ink
Finished 11/16/18
272 pages
4 stars!
Works for the following letters:
T - character Trevor
A - character ..."
I'm adding those right now :)
I have put my last one of the spread sheet for planning purposes. I will finish it in the next two hours.
I tried to read longer books this week but it just didn't work out. So I finished two shorties yesterday and added them to the spreadsheet. And I have one more on the go that I will finish before the deadline today.
Thanks ladies! I'm driving home now and will check in then :)
Last book for the week posted to spreadsheet.
Thanks for coming through so beautifully ladies!
The countdown for the start of week 4 is here:https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
I have the spreadsheet all updated, but I'll keep an eye out here for any last minute stragglers.
We ended up spelling Travel 7 times with an extra "T" too!
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We've read 43 books as a team this week (last week was 60). But our page counts were higher as we have an average of 27 points per book (last 2 weeks was 21). So we are only 90 points lower for this week compared to last week
Please don't finish anything in the next 52 minutes as we are going to have week 3 locked.
I'll post again once week 4 is ready to roll for BROWN
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WEEK FOUR HAS BEGUN
November 17 - November 24, starts/ends 10pm Lisbon time.
Countdown to the start of week five is here
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Great work team!
Week 3 Award goes to M for smashing her estimated books per week so far this challenge and reading an 80-pointer this week (there has to be a plus side for being stuck at home!)
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I don't know why it took me so long. I just kept picking up other books. I guess because the Discworld series are books that you can just kind of read a chapter here and there
I think sometimes they work better (and are funnier) in smaller doses.
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Captains, do you have any idea where we are running in the competition? Just curious... I'm loving the Wheel.
We are middle of the pack, which is pretty great! We were like #2 in tough letters til this past week - TRAVEL didn't have any officially tough letters, which hurt that ranking temporarily.There is a link to the team comparison here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Thanks Suzanne. We're going great. It always amazes me in these challenges how much people can read. Just wow.
I agree (on both counts). I feel like I read a ton - well I do! But I don't hold a candle to some people!
Trying to decide if I should read another door stop for this round. A friend just gifted me with a copy of Outlander. While it counts for O and R only it is 850 pages.Has any one else here read it?
hi guys, I was wondering if
counts as brown cover, is it okay? on the cover the girl is light brown skin and also her leash(?) is brown too. does it counts?
Circe - you're right it has brown on it, but it isn't over 50% brown, so won't count as a brown cover. I think we have someone reading a brown cover book though, and I highly recommend Kate Daniels if you want to read it :)M - I really loved Outlander - I'd probably call it historical fiction/romance. However, I also know several people that had problems with it, especially with a couple of scenes, so it isn't a book I give a blanket recommendation for :)
Suzanne - thank you! I'm reading the series I'm currently in the seventh book.
Lol awesome! You are almost there - which is great and sad at the same time.
Suzanne wrote: "Lol awesome! You are almost there - which is great and sad at the same time."I know :(
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Has any one else here read it?"
I think it is worth reading. I'm one of the people that couldn't get past a few things to really invest in the romance, so I didn't continue past book 1 or watch the TV show. But I think you just need to read and decide for yourself. It is a doorstopper, but is actually not difficult to get through
Yep, I'm reading for the brown cover.
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M wrote: "Trying to decide if I should read another door stop for this round. A friend just gifted me with a copy of Outlander. While it counts for O and R only it is 850 pages.Has any one else here read it?"
I liked the first three books very much and I'm not a romance reader (although I love time travel). And the 850 pages goes fast. Not sure about the character names for BROWN though. Definitely an R, maybe a B, can't think of any Ws offhand and I don't think the N I am thinking of shows up until the 2nd book.
For our BROWN week I'll definitely be reading The Covenant B for author Beverly Lewis & I'm sure other letters will turn up. Also Precious and Grace for R - character Precious Ramotswe. I'll manage another book or two. I am working on Elizabeth Frankenstein for the BOM points, but I think I'll save it for next week....
M wrote: "Trying to decide if I should read another door stop for this round. A friend just gifted me with a copy of Outlander. While it counts for O and R only it is 850 pages.Has any one else here read it?"
I loved Outlander! I'm on
now. They are all doorstops! If you like historical fiction, you will love them. There's a great deal of historical fact. Her research is amazing. The first one has a lot of Scots & French history. I enjoy the attention to detail. There's a mystery element, romance, fantasy. If you like the idea of time travel & star crossed lovers, this is your series! On the down side, there's war & gore, graphic sex, some kink... I know all sorts of people who enjoy these from an elderly Roman Catholic nun, to a gay dude & of course, lots of middle aged women :)
Haha, Lauri guilty as charged, I'm definitely one of those middle aged women who have read and loved the Outlander books. (Although I was only a young woman when I started reading them. !) I liked the first four the best, the later books are very long and nearly filled with too much historical detail. Can't believe I'm saying that...
Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Haha, Lauri guilty as charged, I'm definitely one of those middle aged women who have read and loved the Outlander books. (Although I was only a young woman when I started reading them. !) I liked ..."No, Lisa, you're totally right! I devoured the early books. I even took The Fiery Cross in hardcover on a family trip to read on the plane in the early 2000s! I put a cover on it & told everyone I was reading the Bible! HA!
I am totally slogging through Echo. I did not like any of the Lord John books, although they do fill in some blank spots. I decided to finish the entire series & will stick with it.
Speaking of IT, I am stuck around page 620 of 1100+. Maybe by the end of the year. Sigh.
My method of reading is to keep stacks of library books on my upstairs landing with others in shopping bags. When I pass by them I grab a couple for the day. Sometimes I grab more than others... It all depends which titles 'speak' to me at a particular moment in time. Weird? Perhaps?..
I love that method Lauri! I kind of do that with my kindle and books. But challenges sometimes force me to focus read more than I would do on my own :)
Completion
by Catherine JohnsonKindle 378
Brown cover
Letters: N B R O
On spreadsheet
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Sounds good to me too ;)
I keep a fairly small stack of 3-4 library books and then kind of pick what suits me at the time
completion post Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally
402 pages
Works for:
R (character - Regina Perlman)
O (character Oskar Schindler),
N (character - Nussbaum family)
Another book on spreadsheet for BRWN. I promise to find an O book next. :D
Not a problem - we need ALL the letters =)
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On the plus side it had brown in the text ;)
Chava wrote: " completion post Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally
402 pages
Works for:
R (character - Regina Perlman)
O (character Oskar Schindler),
N (character - Nussbaum family)"
Sorry, it also has the word BROWN in several spots of the book:
p90, 91, 99, 183, 188, 230
I can use a play if I can verify it is over 40,000 words, right?
Finished
for BROW on spreadsheet.
Lexi - I'm not 100% sure about the play - logically it seems like yes if the word count is verified, but I think Karen knows for sure. I'm just on the app and I'm not finding where those rules are listed. Maybe because I'm squinting at my phone :)
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Yes, rules say:
Books must be 160 pages or more in length. Children's books, Graphic Novels, Scriptplays (movie and theater), Cookbooks and Poetry books cannot be used unless by word count they can be verified (by arbookfind.com) as more than 40,000 words. If not on arbookfind, check audible for an audio version of longer than 4 hours for the book to be valid.
You will all be glad to know I finally watched Nightmare Before Christmas last night. My husband thinks I'm insane! (well, he's thought that for a long time now. He isn't wrong!) I must say I did like it. Oogie Boogie is such a villain, though! How did we end up on this team? Too funny. At least I catch all the references now...
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It seems we do better with longer words. We've only read 32 books this week (we did 60 last week)!
We don't need any particular letters, as we have a number of books we can move around if required as they cover quite a few letters.
We have about 22 hours before this week ends and BROWN begins ;)