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[Lexi]

I had 13 5 stars, which is more than I expected (I have read 193 books so far this year). As noted Muderbot 2 and 3 are on there.

I would also suggest and .

[Suzanne]

Oooh thanks for the reminder about Will Trent. They are not for the squeamish, but so engrossing. I need to finish that series!

[Eunice]

Everybody seems to be more generous with their ratings this year. (Or maybe it's just that a lot of good books were read this year.)

Most of my 5-star ratings this year were the Kate Daniels series when I read books 1-8 in one go for Tower Teams.

I liked The Shadow of the Wind too and...Quickly Wear the Face of the Devil. The second one's...BL...

[Lauri]

Thanks so much for the recommendations, ladies!

For my best books of 2018 I'd say: The Poppy War, Ready Player One, Purple Hibiscus, Dark Matter & Children of Blood and Bone

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Nice! I love the mix of books we have here

[Chava]

I had to go through my list for the year to find some 5 star ones:
Snap (it just kept me hooked)
Cry, the Beloved Country (an oldie but a goodie)
The Butterfly Garden (again, it kept me hooked)
I Am Pilgrim (it's a tomb at over 800 pages, but it was probably my favourite book this year)
The Great Alone
The Perfect Mother

I read quite a few good books this year and I'm probably getting a bit more generous with my ratings. These were really good for me though.

[Suzanne]

I woke up this morning thinking about how I need to get all my current books finished before Wheel starts :) I guess I'm excited for the challenge!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

😁 yes not long now!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Less than three days until the challenge begins! (countdown is here)

Only books STARTED after the challenge begins can count. So...

What book(s) are you trying to finish before Wheel-a-thon starts?

I am trying to finish

and not because it is a bad book, but I could only get it as an ebook which means reading on my laptop and I don't do that often. I love the writer though!

Also, I'm going away tomorrow for the weekend and may not be around much, but will check in late Sunday (my time) after the challenge has kicked off

[— Massiel]

Karen ⊰✿ - Better trying asking which one I'm not trying to finish 😂 I'm currently reading night huntress #6 and monsters of men by patrick ness

[Suzanne]

I'm finishing The Social Lives of Dogs: The Grace of Canine Company and Grave Secret. Sadly, I finished my audio book today, so that is going to drive me crazy waiting two whole days to start another one! =)

[Lexi]

I have finished all my current ones. I will just have to behave in the next two days and not start one I cannot finish.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

I'll be finishing up this one sometime tomorrow . After a slow start it's very readable, running at about a 3.5 stars with a quarter to go.

Busy Saturday... so I'll be all ready to start a fresh book on Sunday morning. Really looking forward to starting.

[Lauri]

Ha! I finished Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen yesterday & English Tea Murder today. So now I just hope to finish It before Halloween or before I die. It's like the phone book!!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Suzanne wrote: "Sadly, I finished my audio book today, so that is going to drive me crazy waiting t..."

Podcasts? Middle grade books that aren't very long? ;)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Lauri wrote: "So now I just hope to finish It before Halloween or before ..."

Good motivation to get through It!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Copying and pasting the FAQ here from the captains group, just FYI

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FAQs

◈ Q: Do we need to write reviews for the book to count?
    A: No, you just need to have them marked as "read"

◈ Q: Do I post all of my books to a special shelf or just ones as I read?
    A: Your choice. Some captains may like just all "read" books on the special shelf, so just check with them once teams are assigned

◈ Q: What does it mean "Participating in a BOM" ? Answering a set or comment? Or do we need to answer all days to get the 20 points? Or is a 20 points per set of questions?
    A:Provided you add to the discussion at some stage through the book. It doesn't need to be answering a set of questions if that doesn't appeal to you. You may just pop over and give some thoughts at different stages. It is just one set of points per book. However you do need to interact with others in the BOM thread for it to be considered “participation”.

◈ Q: For page counts, do we use the most popular edition on GR or the edition that we actually read?
    A: Edition you've read.
Default edition will be used for audiobooks and large print editions

◈ Q: If you read a BOM or a buddy read do you get points for the book size (say 5 if's 150 pages) plus additional as its a BOM or buddy read? (Say 30 if it's a buddy read) would equal 35 points? Do I have that right?
    A: You get points for page count with or without BR/BOM points. BR/BOM points are extra points.

◈ Q: Do characters in non-fiction books count?
    A: Typically no. For example, if it is a historical account of WWII and the story is about Winston Churchill, he is not considered a 'character'.
Exceptions would be something like a memoir, ( e.g. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness) where someone is recounting events and situations ; then it is possible there would be characters.

◈ Q: Where there are multiple authors, can they be used?
    A: If attributed on Goodreads, then yes. For example, Eternity's Wheel. Where it is a book with a collection of stories and Goodreads shows one author as the "editor", then you can only use the editor. (e.g. Dog is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship)

◈ Q:What does it mean "word as genre"?
    A: It needs to be on the first page. So when you go to a book - click "see top shelves" and that first page that shows is where you need to find the word as a shelf

◈ Q:How does the "word on cover" actually work? can it be in text or does it have to be an image?
    A:It has to be an image, but it can be singular/plural. Some examples:
BONES


TOMBSTONE


BLOOD


FAMILY


◈ Q: When does each week officially finish?
    A: Each week at Saturday 10PM, London Time

◈ Q: What does banked books mean?
    A: By banking we mean that you can’t read (finish) a book in week one, and choose to not use it that week and use it the second week instead. (Or subsequent weeks)

You can start a book in week one, finish in week two; and use in week two. (But you can only use it then in week two)
The read date determines what week you must use it.
All books must be started after the challenge begins.

◈ Q: When will the next week's word be given to each team?
    A: We don't have exact timing, but 1-2 days before the week finishes

◈ Q: Do books have to be STARTED after the challenge begins?
    A: Yes

◈ Q: Will the October BOMs count for BOM points?
    A: We have decided that October BOMs will NOT count for wheelathon seeing that wheelathon starts on 27 October and the last October BOM finishes the reading on the 22nd

◈ Q: What is the rule around what makes a character valid to use?
    A: Characters need to have some kind of dialogue and meaning to the story.
So, for example, someone having a cat called 'Meow' that is referred to ; or a character talking about "oh I had an ex-boyfriend called Eric" that we never meet, couldn't be used as characters.

[Lexi]

I have a question in response, is this challenge giving points for BR or not? I seem to have seen conflicting info on that.

[Suzanne]

I haven't seen anything about buddy reads counting, so I assume they don't. Just the books of the month. But I'm not 100% sure :)

[Lexi]

I hadn't until the above Q&A.

[Suzanne]

You get the prize for actually reading carefully! Good thing to do in a reading challenge. I'll ask in the captains group when I get home.

[Tina ❣]

Just wondering, is there a preference as to which book you guys want me to read that I've put down? I've put down 3

[Suzanne]

I think especially early in the week, order is totally up to you. I guess we can see how things look late in the week and what is most urgent. I don't know though - Karen may be more brilliant at strategy than me :)

[Tina ❣]

Suzanne wrote: "I think especially early in the week, order is totally up to you. I guess we can see how things look late in the week and what is most urgent. I don't know though - Karen may be more brilliant at s..."

Yeah that sounds good actually! I'll be getting most of my reading done Thursday to Saturday. So I can wait and see what's left

Thanks Suzanne

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

No points for BRs in this one 😉

Yes, just read what you like and Suzanne and I will check what is needed around halfway through the week

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Yay, so the first book I've got ready to go on my kindle coincidently has a B L O and a D. . 24 hours to go till we're Live..

[Lexi]

I now have two books to finish in the next 24 hours, my bad
Bruno, Chief of Police and The Haunting of Hill House

[Suzanne]

Wow Lisa - that is quite a flexible book! And Lexi - that totally sounds like me.

4 hours to go now :) I have the timer ticking on my computer =)

[Lexi]

Suzanne wrote: "Wow Lisa - that is quite a flexible book! And Lexi - that totally sounds like me.

4 hours to go now :) I have the timer ticking on my computer =)"

I had a family emergency last night (everyone is fine now) so did not get to start Bruno. Now, I just need to not read for three hours as I finished Hill House.

[Suzanne]

MOST people would not have an issue with not reading for 3 hours - but yeah, I'd hate that :)

More importantly, I'm glad everyone is fine Lexi!

[Lexi]

That weather is awful here today or I would go for a walk and look at leaves.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Guess what everyone? The challenge has started! You can now start reading for wheelathon 😁

(About 55 minutes ago but I’m away at the moment and couldn’t post right on the dot 😉)

[Chava]

Tnx everyone

[Lauri]

I am so excited! AND I finished Down a Dark Hall and Undead and Unappreciated just this morning. Yaaayyyy!

[Suzanne]

Very nice - you got yourself in the perfect position to start Wheel!

[Lexi]

Do we have a completion post page or just add to spread sheet?

[Suzanne]

As far as I know, we don't have a completion post page. So two options:
1. Just add to the spreadsheet. Or:
2. Put in this thread and we can add it to the spreadsheet.

Either way, be sure to put your books on your Wheel shelf as well. That will let us double check and be sure we didn't miss anything.

[Chava]

Can I just ask for someone to add it to the spreadsheet? I have a bad track record with spreadsheets (I deleted a whole section at work once...it wasn't pretty). Thanks.

completion post
Blood Sport
Dick Francis
288 pages
Works for:
Author (D)
Title word
word in text

[Suzanne]

That's no problem - posting here is great! And yay for reading! I haven't read Dick Francis in a long time - I should re-read some of those.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Hi everyone!

I'm now back from Dubbo. We went there for the weekend mainly to go to the large open plain zoo that is there. It is a 5 hour drive (6 with kids!) so it has been a long day today in the car. Kids had a great time - and so did we - I haven't been there in over 20 years!

I did get to listen to 5 hours of an audio book ; so that is the plus side :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Suzanne wrote: "As far as I know, we don't have a completion post page. So two options:
1. Just add to the spreadsheet. Or:
2. Put in this thread and we can add it to the spreadsheet.

Either way, be sure to put ..."


exactly :)
I didn't ask for a "read books" thread as sometimes I find it just is more confusing. Let's see how we go using the spreadsheet / this thread!

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

That's a great family activity, Karen. I've never been there... but maybe I should put it on my "Things to do with the grand kids" list. They love Taronga Zoo.

[Suzanne]

That sounds so fun, Karen. A great family thing to celebrate having taken that last exam recently!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

I've had my first wheelathon bump in the road ;)
I had thought I had an O book on audio from audiobooksync... it was on that shelf... but I can't find it!! I mustn't have actually downloaded it and just added it to goodreads and got distracted. lol

Oh well. I've found another O book which is a bit interesting. It is basically a set of 16 fake biographies. Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers.
The author has made up 16 authors and then goes through biographies of those authors. So it is rather tongue-in-cheek. I have no idea why I added it to my tbr - maybe a review in the newspaper.?! Anyhow, it is an easy book to listen to while I busily clean and get ready for a furniture delivery today

[Nicole]

hey guys, i'm going to have to drop out of wheel-a-thon this time. i have challenges in other groups that are taking priority right now. so sorry about that!

[Suzanne]

Thanks for letting us know Astrid - and good luck to you!

Karen, that sounds like an unusual book! I hope it's enjoyable all the way through.

[Lexi]

Bye, Astrid.

Do we get a new person?

[Suzanne]

Karen is on top of things and has told Sonia, so hopefully we'll get someone from reserves :)

[— Massiel]

hi guys! I'm super busy lately so I won't be able to read as much as I'm used to but I will read still!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Circe wrote: "hi guys! I'm super busy lately so I won't be able to read as much as I'm used to but I will read still!"

Hi Circe - We had you down as 11 books per month. If you could let us know what you think your numbers will be instead? As we need to replace Astrid, if we know how much your numbers are down by that will help with working out replacements