Anne of Green Gables

[Suzanne]

I have 3 genre books I'll finish for sure. I guess then we can see where we are at because I could probably switch one of my other books to a genre too - I have so much space opera :)

[SandyL]

Thanks Suzanne !

[Dev]

i think i will probably do another one, and i think we have 8 on the sheet right now so as long as everyone gets done we should probably be good

[SandyL]

Thanks Devann!

[Melindam]

I will definitely finish The Hitchhikers Guide, but as it is over 800 pages, I don't think I will manage before Friday.
@Sandy - thanks. We are having a lovely time.

[Dev]

[stands around nervously after reading the chipmunk announcement] what's our wooooooooooooord lol

[Megan]

According to the spreadsheet our word is QUERCUS with a genre of SPORTS
Absolutely terrible all round!!

[Dev]

hahaha what the actual hell

[Suzanne]

Oh wow - lol that is quite awful!

[Suzanne]

Briefly checking - I have 3 Sports books that I could do - one C, one E and one U.

After that ?? I have lots of U and Q titles and could read for those letters. Or I can look for more sports. Its just not a genre I like.
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[SandyL]

Good morning ladies! Well, I'm not a fan of our word (although it's nice to get a S for a change!), that's for sure. But I do like sports romances, so I can definitely help out there! Unfortunately, there are no re-spins for this last week. I'll get the planning sheet set up a bit later today.

[Megan]

- Sports on the first page of tags and a U title - Sir Terry saves us again!

[Joanne]

Oh no. No respins? I was going to suggest that we do a respin nexxt round no matter what word we got, just for the fun of it. Well I guess I'll have to look for U books now.

[Joanne]

AND I'm currently reading a long book that works for O and I, which I thought would be useful. Now I guess I will have to try to finish this week.

[SandyL]

Joanne wrote: "Oh no. No respins? I was going to suggest that we do a respin nexxt round no matter what word we got, just for the fun of it. Well I guess I'll have to look for U books now."

I was thinking the same thing, Joanne. Oh well......

[Suzanne]

I'm glad you like sports romances! Then I can focus on my horse racing sports books and switch over to whatever letters we need :) Phew.

And nice find Megan - that's awesome - I bow to Terry Pratchett.

[Dev]

i can glance at my tbr but i genuinely don't think i have anything that would have sports as a top genre. i know i have a few Q books and probably a few U ones as well so i don't forsee the letters really being a problem, but i am just bored to death by anything mildly sports related lol

[Suzanne]

I haven't read Dick Francis for awhile, so I'll read his "U" book. Then I want to read Seabiscuit, and it works for another challenge, so I will read that. Lol so all my sports are basically mysteries or animal books :)

[Melindam]

I have a Q book , though it's not genre. Can someone check if Jilly Cooper's book, POLO or RIDERS would do for sports? (cannot do it from my phone). I could do both. If not, I can also follow Megan's example & read Unseen Academicals.

[Melindam]

I wasn't chosen for DQs for GOOD OMENS, but I will answer them for BOM points.

[Megan]

Melindam wrote: "I have a Q book , though it's not genre. Can someone check if Jilly Cooper's book, POLO or RIDERS would do for sports? (cannot do it from my phone). I could do both. If not, I can also follow Megan..."

You're good for both Polo and Riders for sports :D

[Megan]

I'm so annoyed that I only read Good Omens a couple of weeks ago!

[Melindam]

Was it before the start of the challenge or after? If after, you can participate!

[Dev]

i remember seeing it on the sheet one week for the challenge so she should be good for answering the questions. i'm planning on reading it as well, even though i literally just read it again last year lol

[Megan]

Oh amazing! I will definitely answer the questions then for the BOM :D

[Melindam]

Both and work for sports and both are easy reads+doorstoppers (over 750/900 pages) so I will read them for the next round. I will also try & squeeze in Unseen Academicals

[Melindam]

Thanks Megan for checking!!!

[SandyL]

Sigh.....my copy of Daisy Jones & the Six finally came in from Overdrive and I don't have time to read it before tomorrow. I was really hoping I'd get it in time to use for BOM points!

The Jilly Cooper books look fun, @Melinda - I'll have to see if any are available on Overdrive.

[Dev]

hey i was just looking at the team status spreadsheet and none of our points for week 7 are showing up, might want to check with the mods and see if it's a glitch.

[SandyL]

No glitch - I haven't added our books to the official spreadsheet yet - I'll do it later today.

[Suzanne]

Aw thats too bad about the timing Sandy - kind of Murphy's law!

I finished 2 genre books that I will check in right now. I'll have the 3rd I put on the spreadsheet done tomorrow morning. I may have other books done too, but all my space opera books are 400 or 500 pages so we'll see :)

[SandyL]

I did find This is How it Always Is at the library when I picked up Illuminae, so I'll at least get that BOM done.

I'll get everything updated in a bit - I'm trying to finish my other space opera book right now, and then we can see what we still need.

[Dev]

@Sandy good to know! i haven't been paying the most attention to the challenge status sheet so i thought it just automatically updated as you added them to the finished books on our own person sheet and i was like nooo where are our points??? lol

[Melindam]

Sandy, could you add my Hitchhiker's book to the completed ones? I have just finished. Many thanks.

[Suzanne]

Wow nice job - that was a long book!

[SandyL]

Got it @Melinda - great job!!!!

[Melindam]

It was a bit of a chore, but I did it finally. :D

[Suzanne]

I will finish Beholder's Eye (genre) and Nevermore: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (not genre) before the deadline. I don't have Nevermore on the spreadsheet yet, but i'll get it there.

My other two on the spreadsheet will either wait til next week or til after the challenge :)

[Melindam]

I'm checking in for this week.

[Megan]

I'm going to check in too and save this one for next week as it has a handy Q character in it

[Dev]

i just posted my last one so i'm done for this week

[SandyL]

Thanks for the updates everyone!! I have one more book I"m working on.

Sadly, Melinda and I belatedly realized her Hitchhiker book was actually a bundle, so we have to use the individual books and their lower points rather than the book as a whole. I still give huge kudos to Melinda for taking this on - she's my hero for the week (and maybe the month!)

[Suzanne]

I agree - Melinda you are a hero!

[Melindam]

You know the saying about the good intentions and the road to hell.... *SIGH*
Anyway, I started reading POLO, which IS a single book.

[Joanne]

I'm going to finish Hexed but I'll have to move A Prayer for Owen Meant to next week.

[SandyL]

I just realized the book I'm trying to finish starts with U, so I'm going to put off finishing that until after this round ends since we'll need them.

Countdown Clock

[Suzanne]

I finished and checked in my last two books for this week.

[Dev]

looking through my tbr and this week is gonna be rough lol. i have one Q book and no U ones. weirdly enough i seem to have several Z books, the only time i would ever say this but why couldn't we have gotten a Z word ;)

[Joanne]

Done my last book

[SandyL]

Got it - thanks Joanne! I'm checking us in now.