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Wheel o' Brown (WaT IV)
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Cat's challenge is accepted - brown here we come!! 🤣
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Signed up! I'm looking forward to seeing how the mods manage to center the entire challenge around brown.
i signed up too. hopefully it's more about spelling brown-related words than having all brown covers bc i don't think i've got enough of those to last lol ;)
Can we get a google form to make sure our sign-up went through?
Can't wait to get started! This group's team challenges are always so much fun.
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I'll sort it out tomorrow, unless super Karen / Laura beat me to it.
We've had a fun evening / morning wrestling with unexpected GR weirdness :-/
That said, Elen - you're on the sheet :)
Cat wrote: "That said, Elen - you're on the sheet :)"Thank you!!
Can't wait to start NBRC another fun challenge and it starts exactly when my exam session ends. What a better treat for passing all exams :))
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ah, it only took a minute! linked up in post two for you all to check to your heart's desire!
Yay! On my phone so I will sign up later.
I assume like other challenges that all books must be started after the challenge starts?
Already signed up and so excited for this!
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Yes. Thanks, have added to the rules
I signed up. Wheel is fun! I'm just hoping not too any brown covers lol
All signed up. I put my current monthly average in even though I often ramp up my reading during challenges like this. Hope that's not a problem.
Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "All signed up. I put my current monthly average in even though I often ramp up my reading during challenges like this. Hope that's not a problem."I was just talking about this elsewhere. I think a lot of us do that. But depending on what our team’s strategy (if any) ends up being re “long books have higher point values”, we can really only go by our honest current averages until we get our team assignments. That’s gotta be close enough! 🙂
Unless I go with only the shortest allowed books, I'm unlikely to go extreme and double my reading. So I should be good. I put in 20. But I might be able to get up to 25 unless real life interferes.
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It's just if someone puts down that they'll read 1 book a week and then gets sucked in to the competition and starts reading a gazillion that things go awry.
Also: Mary, Mary, JABC: you are the reader formerly known as Mary, HDLS?? What's happened?! Harry fallen out of your good books?
yeah i usually put in the number of books i think i read a month that will go towards the challenge because i do read a LOT of books under 160 pages and also graphic novels as well. then in the extra notes thing i put 'X is the number of books i read that count towards the challenge but XX is my actual number for every month' bc counting those usually like doubles it lol
Yes that's me. I put a note on my sign up that I had changed my name. Harry has been has gone AWOL and has not come out with a new book in years. I only started putting more after my name after being in challenges with multiple Mary's. (there's 4 of us in my real like book club too)
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Luckily I was the only C, and the only one who called herself Catherine - the others were Kate or Katy or we used their surnames. The names fallen way out of fashion since that heyday!
Are you Ok if I shorten to Mary MJABC? :)
That's fine. OMG. When I was in HS there were so many freaking Mary's that most of them had to go by full names. I'm Mary Ellen but there were a couple of those already. I got to be just Mary. But there were Mary Alice's, Mary Beth's, Mary Ellens, Mary Kates ...., etc.. It was sure one of the most popular names of 1969-1971.
I've always wish my German mother had given me a prettier German name. I have cousins named Sybillie, Sylvie, Gabrielli, and I'm just Mary Ellen.
Then of course I gave my daughter the insanely popular name of Sarah and she gives me grief about that.
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We will be having points for BOMs! Full details to follow, but keep an eye here!
volunteer for June's BOM here
deadline for volunteers will be Friday 7th sometime
My partner's father is the eldest of 8 siblings -- and the only male. All 7 of his sisters are Marie-something. Marie-Claire, Marie-Annick, Marie-Helene...
I guess their parents were super-Catholic!
They are French, and in France they don't shorten these names to Marie/Mary anyway. In the states I know plenty of Mary-somethings who don't shorten to Mary, but they're usually hyphenated, or mashed together into one word, like Marybeth. It also tends to be more of a Southern thing, in my experience.
My daughter is Eleonore. It seems like "Eleanor" has made a slight comeback, but at least we haven't seen the French version much here in the states except for one other slightly older kid in her (French) school, and one friend's 40something mom, whom I believe is Belgian.
My mother's family pronounces my name as Marie-elaina. Which sounds so much prettier than Mary Ellen. I named my daughter after the Fleetwood Mac and Hall and Oats songs. And I went with simple because our last name is complicated. (I am finally getting rid of that albatross in October).
My fathers parents had 11 kids and gave them mostly French names with Americanized spellings. Kind of surprising that there isn't a single John, Michael or Edward among them and not a single Mary or Marie either. They were French and Native American. So there's an Armond, a Lawrence, Gene instead of Jean, Morris instead of Maurice. At some point the Saint was dropped from the last name and became just Martin.
Sorry to have gotten us off on a tangent.
Does it have to be the YA bom? Not a YA fan. But I am participating in the June read for Death of Achilles and I volunteered to write questions but wasn't chosen.
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Eleonore is a lovely name :)
my sister & her husband went for slightly old-fashioned names. I feel sorry for my nephew, Aaron, who is doomed to constantly correcting people's pronunciation (note the two As and one R. that makes it Air-un (emphasis on the first syllable) and not Arron. even members of the extended family get it wrong)
Ada is much easier :)
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sorry, yes: because the books have to be started after the start of the challenge, June's adult one won't count :(
check out the July one, though :)
(when I get around to sorting it out!)
FYI: it'll be Daisy Jones & The Six (very good!) and Dry
I'm glad some forgotten, old fashioned names are making a comeback. My friend's daughter named her baby Eleanor. Love it. My cousin named her baby Vera. I was hoping she's choose Vivienne after her late grandmother, my Aunt. But I love Vera. Betty seems to be making a comeback as a nickname for Elizabeth and I love that too.
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pfffttttppp! this is the coffee shop for freeform chatting & getting to know each other, with a side of getting excited for BROWN!
I too have a very popular name. In a graduating class of 130 6 of us were Jessica. I usually go by Jess but even on here there's been a few Jess's so for now it's Jessi until I change it again
Cat wrote: "Alysa, I'd laugh so much if his dad was Jean-Marie!"Haha, well it's Jean-Claude. And I think one of the sisters is Marie-Claude. So they sort of closed the loop!
My step father is named Claude. I know a lot of Lisa Marie's. Actually Lisa's in general. I have a collection of them and Carol's in my life. Makes it kind of easy to remember names.
I had multiple female cousins marry men named David and then produce David jrs so that now if you go to a family reunion on my dad's side and yell out David-you will get many replies.
If it makes you guys feel better, my full name is Caitlyn. And I have a sister named Katelyn. We both go by Cait/Kate. The ultimate over-used late 80s-early 90s girl name. I think there were at least 5 of us in my classes.
haha no offense to anyone's parents but i cannot imagine basically naming two children the same name. i mean i know it's spelled different or they would give different middle names but still ...basically the same name. that's like even worse than cutesy rhyming twin names.i rarely encounter people with my name [and definitely never my spelling] but when i do they're usually guys and people generally assume i'm a guy if they just see my name on a list with no other info attached lol
Cait S wrote: "If it makes you guys feel better, my full name is Caitlyn. And I have a sister named Katelyn. We both go by Cait/Kate. The ultimate over-used late 80s-early 90s girl name. I think there were at lea..."Did your parents really name the both of you the same name just different spelling?? They must have loved that name!!
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I'm gonna guess half-sisters....
LOL Sorry, she's my step-sister. I have 15 siblings between half, step, and adopted so I've stopped classifying them by how I acquired them when I talk about them, just by habit now.
My mother has a rare Romanian first name that she hates. (her parents immigrated from Romania to Germany between the 2 wars). She went by Christa. So then she names my sister Christa-Anne. Mom goes by Christa and my sister goes by Anna. I'm wondering why mother didn't just name her Anna.
Ok that makes much more sense!! Still can be pretty confusing at family gatherings though
I've been participating in a popular baby name reading challenge in a different group for years and it is interesting to see the changes. Lately girl's names starting with A and E are very popular and in general girl's name popularity changes more quickly than boy's.
Devann wrote: "haha no offense to anyone's parents but i cannot imagine basically naming two children the same name. i mean i know it's spelled different or they would give different middle names but still ...bas..."I guess when you are Rhaegar Targaryen, you can name both of your sons Aegon. But only if one of them is called Jon Snow.
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Eldarwen wrote: "I was hoping for a different YA book for BOM, shame! Then I would've participated. Ah well, maybe next month something will speak to me :-)"Same here.
For next month, the YA book was my vote, but not the Adult one, so at least there's that!
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