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[M]

Finished two books today. Both will fit for O, B, and D. I will have another finished by tomorrow.

I also dug through my shelves and found this one. I fill pick a few others tomorrow.

[Allison Ann]

Didn't get much read today - lots of cooking and baking. Same for tomorrow. I wish I didn't hate audiobooks with a fiery passion. :D

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Lauri wrote: "Completion Post!
Could someone add it to the spreadsheet for me, please..
"

done!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

M wrote: "Finished two books today. Both will fit for O, B, and D. I will have another finished by tomorrow.

I also dug through my shelves and found this one. I fill pick a few others tomorrow.
[bookcover:U..."

Great!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Allison Ann wrote: "Didn't get much read today - lots of cooking and baking. Same for tomorrow. I wish I didn't hate audiobooks with a fiery passion. :D"

My sister can't do audiobooks either. I would hardly read if I didn't listen to books as I just don't get many opportunities to sit down and read... and if I do then it usually has to be textbooks :(

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

I finished

which actually ended up as rather disappointing.

On the plus side it is 533 pages and an O so good for points

My husband flew to Cairns this morning (about 2500km away) for the weekend so I hope to knock out some reading! Although I've had an almost-migraine (I get these ones that want to hit me but don't quite) for two days so I may just end up watching some form of escapism TV instead tonight

[Allison Ann]

Can't sleep. Bad for health, good for reading. Added to the spreadsheet.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Karen, when I get the "aura" I take two panadols and lie down with a wet cloth over my forehead. It does stave off the migraine for me. Hope you're feeling better soon.


I've got one more to finish and it has O, L, D and B.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Thanks Lisa. Unfortunately it started yesterday and I was on site with a client so the best I could do was Panadol all day and go to bed last night at 8.30.
Today I was able to lie down after lunch (have my 3 year old the iPad!) and just that half an hour made a real difference.
I only got my first migraine about a year or so ago. Bloody awful. I thought at the time I was having a stroke as I get this electrical pulse down my spine followed by immediate nausea. Totally crap. If I get onto
Panadol straight away it doesn’t move to that level

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I am just about to crack (finally) open a book. I feel bad barely reading this past week. Just one more week to go then I can read more!

You ladies are doing great!!!!!!

[Lexi]

Allison Ann wrote: "Didn't get much read today - lots of cooking and baking. Same for tomorrow. I wish I didn't hate audiobooks with a fiery passion. :D"

I can't do audio books either. I keep trying and I keep get annoyed at them.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

STATUS
With 25.5 hours to go we only need one more O for our 7th read through. Awesome reading everyone!!

As we get closer I'll post what we need, because if you have a book which only works for one letter it may be best to not finish it until week 2 starts. Why? Well the points system works based on the previous word being completed.
So, for example, if we spell:
BLOOD x 7 times
BLO
B
Then we would only get points for BLOOD x 7 plus BLO.


In the meantime - keep reading! You're doing great! I'll be back in around 12 hours with an update

[Suzanne]

Fantastic reading all!

I'll for sure finish Origin before the deadline, and I hope to finish my other book, but if not, it'll be one of my first "Cauldron" books :) I haven't been sleeping well, so much depends on if reading it knocks me out!

[M]

I finished an O book today. Will post tonight when I get home.

[Lauri]

Completion Post!
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
Series: Odd Thomas #2
Finished 11/2/18
4 stars!
Love this series...
Works for O - character Odd Thomas. Odd is his legal 1st name! Also D - character Datura & Danny Makepeace



Could someone please add it to our spreadsheet for me? Thank you!

[Suzanne]

I'll add it right now.

Nice job Lauri. I keep thinking I should read that book.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Completion Post

by Bec McMaster
366 pages kindle
Letters: B, L, O and D
Noted on spreadsheet

[Tina ❣]

Completion Post

One & Only by Viv Daniels
Read: 3/11
Pages: 229
Letters: O and D


AND

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Read: 3/11
Pages: 387
Letters: B, L

[Lexi]

I logged one that is useful for all letters. I will potentially start one in the morning, do we need any specific letters at this point?

[Suzanne]

Awesome Lexi! Hmm...I think at the moment we're still pretty flexible since we have quite a few books that work for several letters. I think we have books for 2 more "blood"s at the moment, and we'll start working on the next. So maybe BLO are more important than D slightly?

[Suzanne]

Everyone has done such a fantastic job with this first week!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Update

13 hours to go for week 1 and we have 8 readthroughs done!

So if you have any books over the next 13 hours, we don't need anything specific, but any books that work for multiple letters are appreciated ;)
Remember there is a one hour period between 9pm and 10pm Lisbon time where Suzanne and I will be checking and logging books, so please don't finish anything during that point just in case we don't see it. It would be best to finish it after 10pm lisbon time and have it count to week 2. Thanks!

[Eunice]

Finishing One for the Money!

I ended up not reading any of the books I had planned.

[Chava]

Any letters we are in great need for? I can try to find an audiobook for tonight

[Suzanne]

Chava I think any of the letters in BLOOD would be ok if you end up finding a book :)

And Eunice - great job. I do that a lot too with planned/unplanned books -especially if I plan way in advance. Challenges and life make that initial planning change pretty often :)

[Allison Ann]

I should have two books done before the deadline. One works for all letters and one doesn't yet work for O (but a random character could show up).

[Suzanne]

Thanks - that's great!

[Lexi]

I will probably not have any more done before the deadline. I went to the Farmer's Market this morning and now have to work on a paper.

Chava, unless there is another Chava, you are in my Gift Exchange challenge group and have not checked in yet.

[Suzanne]

Thanks for checking in, Lexi. The Farmer's Market sound wonderful (although working on a paper does not). Good luck on it!

[Chava]

Tnx Lexi, I've now checked in

[Allison Ann]

Added my last book to the spreadsheet. I should probably do some work now, but I'll get started on a CAULDRON book or two this evening. Good first week team!

[Suzanne]

Thanks Allison Ann - and great reading everyone! We are off to a great start!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

I finished my last book for week 1

It is the 10th book in the series and really was the poorest. But it worked for all of our BLOOD letters so at least is nice and flexible for wheelathon. teehee

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Just a reminder to not finish any books for the next 48 minutes :)
If you do, can you post in this thread immediately and PM me so we can make sure we pick it up for the spreadsheet.
I will post again when week 2 starts and you are free to finish books for CAULDRON :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Circe wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ - I'm a little confused, we can still reading and finishing books and it will counts for the next word?"

That's right. In 9 minutes it can count for week 2. The problem is that if you finish it in the next 9 minutes and we don't have it on the spreadsheet, it wouldn't count for either week.
As soon as week 2 begins, week 1 is locked

[— Massiel]

I can't believe we finished BLOOD 9 times, OMG!

I'm so sorry for not reading too much :( I feel like shit to be honest. This team is awesome, you are awesome guys!

[— Massiel]

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Circe wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ - I'm a little confused, we can still reading and finishing books and it will counts for the next word?"

That's right. In 9 minutes it can count for week 2. The problem is t..."

thank you! I deleted the message because I read the spread and understand a little more but thank you for answering.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

No problems :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Circe wrote: "I can't believe we finished BLOOD 9 times, OMG!

I'm so sorry for not reading too much :( I feel like shit to be honest. This team is awesome, you are awesome guys!"

Yes, I agree. Amazing~!!
Don't feel bad. We all have different reading levels and everyone has been so great and friendly and motivated. Couldn't ask for more!

[Suzanne]

I think one of the best things about team challenges is to get readers of all different speeds/lives/interests together! I love how everyone has been working together!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

WEEK TWO HAS BEGUN

Time to read for CAULDRON :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

FYI - If you have any BOMs you'd like to nominate for December, you have about 24 hours:

HOLIDAY Themed Reads!
Young Adult
Adult Fiction / Non-Fiction

[Lexi]

I just nominated two since I will try to read at least one of them.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Week 1 results

We are right in the middle for points in 8th place and 2nd for "toughest letters" thanks to all those Os. well done team!

Team		Rank	Points	Toughest Letters 
				Rank	#	
Sandy Claws	1	1630	4	10
Barrel		2	1520	6	9
Zombie Band	3	1510	10	7
Igor		4	1350	11	7
Harlequin Demon	5	1320	7	9
Lock		6	1315	3	12
Mayor of HT	7	1185	12	7
Oogie Boogie	8	1130	2	19
Doctor Fink.	9	1035	8	8
Zero		10	1015	14	4
Jack-in-the-box	11	990	5	10
Jack		12	955	13	7
Scary Teddy	13	930	1	21
Giant Snake	14	895	16	0
Sally		15	810	9	8
Shock		16	685	15	4

[— Massiel]

thanks guys!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Week 1 Oogie Boogie Awards

For being such a great team I thought we should have some team awards! My son had his footabll presentation day yesterday and is so in love with his trophy, I thought I'd give you all a virtual trophie ;)



Special shout out to...
Suzanne! For being a great co-captain, but also for struggling through that word as genre book :)

[Lauri]

Suzanne wrote: "I'll add it right now.

Nice job Lauri. I keep thinking I should read that book."

It was weird -- totally freakier than the first book. Lots of arcane references to voodoo & other black magic. And all pretty accurate! (I went through an occult fascination when I was young...)
I don't know why it took me so long to read Koontz, but now that I've found Odd, I just love him!

[Lauri]

Eunice wrote: "Finishing One for the Money!

I ended up not reading any of the books I had planned."

My absolute favorite series!! Did you enjoy it? Now that I am caught up to #24, I only read the newest when I go on vacation -- like a special treat!

[Chava]

I tried, but didn't finish before the deadline.
completion
Alone
Loren D. Estleman
272 pages
Works for:
L E O R A

[Chava]

James Patterson has a new book out and he's publishing it fully through Facebook messenger. It has interactive bits (videos, recipes, pictures) but it's actually quite fun.