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Wheel-a-Thon III
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Welcome, Allison Ann! Great to have you aboard....Ladies, Sookie Stackhouse is one of my very most favorite series! Guilty pleasures run deep -- I also love Stephanie Plum! I enjoy all Charlaine Harris' books & have read them all -- except Aurora Teagarden & Lily Bard. I'm working on them, too. I just got my hands on the first in her new series, An Easy Death! I'm going to start as soon as I finish this week's books. So excited!
Suzanne wrote: "I looked up The Ballad of Cauldron Bay on arbookfind and it is 63242 words - so it is over the 40,000 word requirement - so...it works!"The book isn't available anymore. Sorry. I will look for something else
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I think next year I need to focus on finishing series’ that I have begun
Finished my second book for an 'O' and will have #3 done by tonight
Chava wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "I looked up The Ballad of Cauldron Bay on arbookfind and it is 63242 words - so it is over the 40,000 word requirement - so...it works!"The book isn't available anymore. Sorry. I ..."
I do have
if you can't find anything else. It is super short but more than 160 pages.
The Black Cauldron works too - it meets the minimum word count required for children's books.Wow I read that one so many times as a kid.
Added
to the tracking sheet. Only works for B and D I'm afraid.
I just found that Unholy Ghosts is a U book and has the word cauldron in it. Also, I have a witches genre book that I added for next week.
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to the tracking sheet. Only works for B and D I'm afraid."That's ok. It is tough when we only have 4 letters to play for. I'm glad the round is only a week. xD
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Great - I'll add it to week 2 of our tracking sheet. Then we have something planned for all the bonuses next week :)
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What's the last TV show you watched?
For me, that was last night and we are just getting around to finishing Episodes. We only have one episode left and that is the end of the series :( It has been a lot of fun and I've gained a lot of respect for LeBlanc through this show and how he can poke fun at himself
We also watched an episode of Trust which is interesting, but gees louise that John Paul Getty was a miserly piece of work!!
I found Martha Mayhem and the Witch from the DitchIt's 192 pages, but it's a kids' book. I can't find it on AR book find. Is it a go or not?
News Breakfast on the ABC. I have it on in the background to get the day's news whilst getting my adult son with Autism ready for his day.
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It's 192 pages, but it's a kids' book. I can't find it on AR book find. Is it a go or not?"
The audio is less than 4 hours on audio, so it wouldn't count for the challenge (160 pages is generally 4+ hours)
Allison Ann found a book with Cauldron in the title, and Lexi has one with the MPG covered so we are all ok for the bonus books now for week 2.
So really I think for week 2 it is just about making sure we have U and O books as they are the more difficult letters
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Is this where I say... well it is halloween... oooooooooo
teehee
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Oh that's a nice way to start the day. We don't watch news here as my husband finds it too depressing. I tend to read the news online now
I’ll be getting some reading done today for this week. Sorry about the delay! Any preference as to which book I should read?
From what is on the spread sheet now, we need Os, then Ls then Ds and have lots of Bs.
Question for the dayWhat's the last TV show you watched?
We don't own a TV, haven't owned one for 7 years. We found that our kids don't do so well with a TV in the house. They get moody and irritable. We have also banned iPads and computers for videos (still can be used for educational purposes of course).
I watch what I can find online. I'm currently in season 5 of Scandal and I enjoy How to get away with murder as well.
Lexi wrote: "From what is on the spread sheet now, we need Os, then Ls then Ds and have lots of Bs."Sweet, that gives me something to work with :)
I've found some. Can I just start with one and make my way through or do you want to know them beforehand?
We've had a medical emergency that I have to deal with. I might not be able to get more than 1-2 books done a week because of it, sorry.
completion post Promises of Blood
David Thorne
Completed: 10/31/2018
Works for:
Word in title
D in author
Chava wrote: "Lexi wrote: "From what is on the spread sheet now, we need Os, then Ls then Ds and have lots of Bs."Sweet, that gives me something to work with :)
I've found some. Can I just start with one and m..."
I'm sorry to hear that. My family had one last week that thankfully is getting better. I hope you all are ok. I just add mine as I go but probably latter in the week, a heads up would help with planning.
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Question for the dayWhat's the last TV show you watched?
For me, that was last night and we are just getting around to finishing Episodes. We only have one episode left and that is the end of th..."
I'm watching The Gifted right now. Concept is the X-Men have gone underground & all these mutants are coming forward. It's almost like the civil rights movement in the 60s with the mutants trying to get equal rights with humans....
I'm midway through my 2 blood books! I have another possibility... Is our deadline Friday or Saturday? I started a whole bunch more on Saturday that I can use/finish whenever we need them. I got a book for every letter in cauldron! Woo-hoo! I just need to settle down & read like a good little girl now. Still slogging through IT, too. I am determined to finish this year, but it won't be by Halloween...
Lexi wrote: "From what is on the spread sheet now, we need Os, then Ls then Ds and have lots of Bs."Thanks Lexi!
Happy Halloween everyone. I finished a 'blood' book last night and hope to get another one today. Most of the books I picked are for letter'O'.
Wonderful - it's good to get lots of "o" books! We need so many.I'm slogging through my "blood" as genre book. I hate it. I HOPE I can finish it today just so I don't have to dread it anymore :)
I finished
while eating Halloween Candy.Lol I hated it (the book not the candy) so much - but a lot of that is that I've done a lot of research on diet/exercise things that work for me, and....according to that book I'm all wrong! They really all are healthy diets he advocates - I just don't like the strong claims of the only way to do things. Well and all of the ending chapters on how it can basically prevent or cure everything that ails you - from gastric upset (which my son has bad gastritis and his dr basically has him eating the opposite of what the book recommends) to cancer, aids, chrones, infertility, etc. I'm sure I wouldn't be nearly so cranky though if I had read it as a dieter looking for some structure to what I eat :)
Well, rant over! :) And now I'm feeling slightly guilty about the Halloween candy, but....I'm on maintenance, and it was good :)
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What's the last TV show you watched?
We don't own a TV, haven't owned one for 7 years. We found that our kids don't do so well with a TV in the house. They get moody and irrit..."
Streaming TV is great. Glad you can still get some TV in ;)
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I've found some. Can I just start with one and make my way through or do you want to know them beforehand?
We've had a medical emergency that I have to deal with. I might not be able to get more than 1-2 books done a week because of it, sorry...."
We don't need to know before hand, but if you get to Saturday and think you will finish it before the week's deadline, plus give us the heads up so that we know to expect it is coming
Sorry to hear about the emergency. Don't worry about us, that is much more important :)
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Sounds good!
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The week ends on Saturday at 10pm Lisbon time, but we will need everyone's books entered onto the spreadsheet before then. I'll have a chat with Suzanne and post soon about when we need week 1 books read, and then when week 2 begins
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while eating Halloween Candy.Lol I hated it (the book not the candy) so much - but a lot of that is th..."
Yikes! Thanks for taking one for the team! At least now we have our week 2 word we know for sure we won't get BLOOD again this game!
I'm feeling so grateful to have such responsible teammates - thanks everyone!
Thanks Suzanne... you are now pardoned from having to read for a genre word again this challenge, LOL. Completion Post -
by Mary Balogh433 pages
Letters: B, L and O
Added to spreadsheet
Haha I may be up for one again later - depending on the word :) And it's making all my other books seem so good!
Thanks for reading a crappy book Suzanne. At least it is over and there was candy to make it more palatable. I'm having trouble finishing any books today, just keep starting them and quitting after a few pages. Nothing grabbing my attention. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
Some days are just like that - not great reading days. I hope you find something really awesome tomorrow!
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haha. That's a silver lining!
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If anyone is interested in the Charley Davidson series (starts with
) the first 12 books in the series are available as "read now" to download on NetGalley.https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/rea...
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IMPORTANT
About the end of week 1
When week two begins, the spreadsheets for week 1 will be locked. That means that Suzanne and I need to get everything in order on our spreadsheets PRIOR to the deadline. So... for our team.. your deadline for posting read books for week 1 is 9pm Lisbon time, Saturday.
That gives Suzanne and I an hour to double check everything. PLEASE DO NOT FINISH ANY BOOKS BETWEEN 9PM AND 10PM LISBON TIME SATURDAY. If you do, we may not see them in time, and they then may not be able to be used for the challenge and that would be sad.!
You CAN read books and FINISH them in week 2 (from 10.01pm Lisbon time Saturday) for them to count for CAULDRON.
Here are the times in some major cities:
OOGIE BOOGIE WEEK 1 POSTING DEADLINE
San Francisco Saturday 3 November 2pm
Chicago Saturday 3 November 4pm
New York Saturday 3 November 5pm
Lisbon Saturday 3 November 9pm
London Saturday 3 November 9pm
Paris Saturday 3 November 10pm
New Delhi Sunday 4 November 2.30am
Manila Sunday 4 November 5am
Tokyo Sunday 4 November 6am
Brisbane Sunday 4 November 6am
Sydney Sunday 4 November 8am
Auckland Sunday 4 November 10am
NOTE: Times are different to the start of the challenge due to the start/end of daylight savings
Thanks for the heads up Karen - I will plan my reading AND my being around to work on the spreadsheet accordingly :)
for CAULDRON or WEEK 2 I will have Alone by Loren D. Estleman
For L A E (possibly other letters with some characters, which I don't know yet)
Go-Between by Lisa Brackmann
For L (possibly other letters with some characters which I don't know yet)
Great Chava! I put them in the spreadsheet. I hope you enjoy them!
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for B, L and D. Next book will definitely have an O. :)
Completion Post!The Best Man to Die by Ruth Rendell
Finished 11/1/18
208 pages
3 stars for perversity & twistiness
Works for B -title / L - character Lilian Hatton
Could someone add it to the spreadsheet for me, please...
I'm almost done with my O book!! For Cauldron week I will read Oolong Dead for an O & An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris for a C (author). That's it for now....
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And - that is another read through done. Excellent work, team!