Anne of Green Gables

[Melindam]

Megan, I adore the City Watch series, love Death books and like the Witches books, but no fan of the wizards either :)

[Melindam]

Megan, I adore the City Watch series, love Death books and like the Witches books, but no fan of the wizards either :)

[Melindam]

Megan, I adore the City Watch series (Sam Vimes is my literary husband!!!!), love Death books and like the Witches books, but no fan of the wizards either :)

[Melindam]

ooops, seems my phone went wild, sorry for the repeating messages

[Megan]

Oh gosh yes, Sam Vimes must be one of the greatest characters in all of literature. I love him!

[Melindam]

:)

[Dev]

yeah i have heard a lot of good things about the city watch series as well so i'll probably do that after the witches.

[SandyL]

Good afternoon beautiful green girls!

We're checked in for Week 1. Our next round starts in about 20 minutes or so, so make sure not to finish any new books before then! Happy reading!

[Melindam]

I will try and read longer books this week. Plus, I will start on The Wayward Children series for the LGBT genre points. Let's see how this week works out for me/us.

I have a promisingly peaceful w/e without kid & hubbie, so I am planning to finish a 704-pager by Sunday evening. :)

[Melindam]

Megan wrote: "Oh gosh yes, Sam Vimes must be one of the greatest characters in all of literature. I love him!"

You know, I always pictured the divine Alan Rickman (R.I.P) playing him to perfection. :) Maybe Clint Eastwood would have done nicely as well. :)

[SandyL]

Enjoy your quiet weekend @Melinda!

Does anyone else have any fun plans? Alas, mine is again a quiet one with my pups. I have been dog and cat sitting for my sister the last few days, so I've had a puggle and a cat who need meds several times a day visiting. My cat is not happy! My pups are okay with it, though. My brother is going to paint my bedroom next week, so I'll need to get all the stuff out of the closet this weekend. Other than that, just reading!

[Joanne]

No plans, which I'm very excited about. Just get to read and catch up on Netflix all weekend.

[Melindam]

just reading......perfect! ;)

[Megan]

Melindam wrote: "Megan wrote: "Oh gosh yes, Sam Vimes must be one of the greatest characters in all of literature. I love him!"

You know, I always pictured the divine Alan Rickman (R.I.P) playing him to perfection..."

Ooh you know I never would have thought of Alan Rickman to play Sam Vimes but I can totally see that!
I think someone like Jerome Flynn (Bronn in Game of Thrones) could make a good Sam.

[Megan]

I had a stall today at a local fun day/festival so now totally knackered! Going to lunch tomorrow for my Grandad's 80th birthday but I'm hoping to squeeze in some decent reading time in between!

[Dev]

i'm going to try to pull myself out of my weird reading slump but also i have the strongest urge to rewatch old [relatively speaking] doctor who episodes ...although not tonight i guess since i found out earlier this week that my roommate hates david tennant [howw???] but he works tomorrow so maybe i will watch some doctor who then lol

[Suzanne]

I'm back - got some reading done and will report it - was just finishing the daily questions - since I didn't have computer access.

So question about Perfect Formation: I read the book, answered the daily questions, etc. BUT I'd really rather not put it on my Goodreads shelves since people like my dad and sister are some of my goodreads friends. They already think I read extreme stuff, but this one is kind of embarassing.

However, I'll add it to my shelves/Wheel shelf if I need to in order to get the points - so just let me know!

[Melindam]

Suzanne, your concern is totally understandable. :)

Here's a thought: maybe GR should introduce backroom/private shelves. :)

Personally, I don't think this should be a problem, however, I will run this by the Mods.

[Suzanne]

Thanks! I'll certainly add it if I have to. Your idea of backroom/private shelves is brilliant!

[Melindam]

Suzanne wrote: "Thanks! I'll certainly add it if I have to. Your idea of backroom/private shelves is brilliant!"

I put your question to the Mods. Will get back with their answer.

[Melindam]

FANTASTIC READING JOB OVER THE WEEKEND, LADIES!

We have already completed CINNAMON once and only need 3 more books to complete it a second time. + we already read 5 books for the genre. Still 5 to go for maximum bonus points.

[Melindam]

I am going to read another 700+ pager Circle of Friends. This is a favourite book and comfort-read for me. i read it every year.

I have also just downloaded Red, White & Royal Blue for the genre bonus.
I am really curious about this book as it got very positive reviews from my GR friends and it will be my first LGBT romance. :)

[Suzanne]

I've never heard of Circle of Friends - I just looked it up. It looks interesting! I love comfort reads :)

[Melindam]

I guess it's not everbody's cup of tea/mug of chocolate, but I just love it. :) There's a film adaptation as well, but I admit that I hated that.

[SandyL]

Was Minnie Driver in that movie? I seem to remember it vaguely!

BTW - great job everyone. And thanks for the doorstoppers, Melinda!!

I've got Red, White & Royal Blue on hold through Overdrive (online library system) and I'm hoping it comes in quickly! I forgot that it would work for this week's genre!

[Melindam]

Yes, it was with Minnie Driver.
I am reading Red, white .. right now and laughing my head off. I am loving it!!! :)

[Melindam]

Suzanne wrote: "I'm back - got some reading done and will report it - was just finishing the daily questions - since I didn't have computer access.

So question about Perfect Formation: I read the book, answered t..."

Suzanne, this was the MODs' reply:

So.... we discussed this, and whilst we feel your teamie's pain, we do need them to shelve it - as soon as we make one exception we'll have a million others to consider, and that makes doing the spot checks difficult.

It is possible to make the shelving pretty discreet - untick the "show on feed" and it won't pop up on home page or newsfeeds. Plus writing a note in the review that it was for a challenge and the lolz should minimise the impact.

And of course, they can unshelve it once the challenge is over :)

[Melindam]

Green Ladies, we managed to spell out CINNAMON twice already.

Let's rally and spell-it-out one more time! :)

Plus we now only need 3 LGBT books to get all the bonus points.

[Megan]

Amazing job ladies!
I started yesterday (very late to the party on this one, I know) and I'm absolutely loving it so far so I should definitely finish it before this week's deadline. It's also very much LGBT :D

[Melindam]

Megan wrote: "Amazing job ladies!
I started yesterday (very late to the party on this one, I know) and I'm absolutely loving it so far so I should definitely finish it b..."

Awesome, Megan. Actually, I also intend to read it some time, but not this week. :)

[Melindam]

I will definitely finish

+ I will try to finish as it's also LGBT, but it's a bit uncertain.

[Dev]

just checked out the planning sheet and you all are doing amazing this week! i feel like i'm slacking more than a bit lol but i am going to try to finish lost souls today and i also started the audio of the prey of gods this morning which is pretty interesting so far. both of those have lgbt genre but we seem to be doing okay on that front anyway :)

[SandyL]

Hi everyone! It always feels weird that it's early for me and you've all been up for hours!!!

I finished an LGBT book yesterday and I'm working on another one right now, so between all of us it sounds like we're in good shape. And great reading everyone!! Thanks for updating the spreadsheets @Melinda!

[SandyL]

Devann wrote: "just checked out the planning sheet and you all are doing amazing this week! i feel like i'm slacking more than a bit lol but i am going to try to finish lost souls today and i also started the aud..."

It's always frustrating to be in a book slump Devann! I feel lost when that happens to me. Glad you found something that interests you!

[Melindam]

Gladly, Sandy! :)

[Melindam]

LADIES

3 books to go for another CINNAMON spell-out (incl. 2 LGBT for the genre points.) and maybe another incomplete spell-it-out, if we manage.

AND

THE WHEEL HAS BEEN SPUN AGAIN!

We got the word CHOCOLATE for the genre CLASSICS.

Question is: are U happy to go with it or would you like to ask for a ReSpin? Please let us know as we need to notify Mods by Thursday 5.00 pm UK time.

On my side, I have nothing to complain about, I have plenty of classics to read if the GREEN TEAM is OK with it.

COUNTDOWN to end of Round 2 is Friday, 28 June, 10.00 PM UK time.

[Megan]

I don't mind either way, doesn't seem too bad of a word/genre. I've always got plenty of classics glaring at me accusingly from my shelf waiting to be read!

[Dev]

i'm okay with it. i was going to try to actually read some classics next month anyway [i agree megan, they are very accusing] so maybe i can get a few in with the genre tag and it's got a nice mix of letters. i do wish that one week would actually work for the two non-fiction books i've been wanting to read buuuuut maybe next week lol

[SandyL]

Great job everyone!!! I've got several books I need to post and I'll get that done today, including genre books. Maybe we'll get a 4th spell-out of our word?

I'm okay with Chocolate and Classics - the O's might be a bit tough, but you guys are doing great finding letters!!!

[SandyL]

Also, awesome job with the doorstoppers @Melinda!!! You rock!

[Melindam]

You rule! ;)

[Joanne]

I'll have an O book ready to go for next week.

[Joanne]

Not sure if I'll have any classics.

[Dev]

i promise i am actually going to finish the 3 books i'm reading right now before the deadline lol and they've got a good spread of letters so i think we can definitely do another spell it out. also yeah you guys who are reading long books are awesome! i had a few that were close to 500 pages but unfortunately didn't quite make it over that hump.

[Melindam]

These long books are my comfort-reads, I know them like good friends. :) Even tho' they are long, they are very easy reads. It would take me longer to read non-fiction books of the same length...obvs. :)

[Melindam]

Joanne, don't worry. I think we can manage classics, just try to find some Os for us. ;)

[SandyL]

Great reading Green Goddesses!

We've spelled out our word another time and I think we'll be able to get a 4th in! Also, we've maxed out our genre books!!!

[Suzanne]

Awesome!
I just finished my two books left on the spreadsheet. I'm not sure at this point if it would be good to finish another by the cutoff Friday or start on some longer ones for next week (I need one kindle and one audio). Let me know what you think :)

[Melindam]

WOW, GREEN TEAM! Actually we are 3 books short of spelling out CINNAMON for the 4th time! :)

I think we can manage that without problems.

Suzanne, if you are more comfortable with & also for strategic reasons, I suggest you go with your longer books for higher points that will already count toward our next word for Week 3.

[Suzanne]

Thanks - I'd rather go with the longer books - so that fits just fine for me :). Sigh - I have one I should read for review that is 800 pages. Why oh why can't it be 801!? /cry