Anne of Green Gables

[SandyL]

We're doing great! We've completed another spell out and we only need 2 more genre books. We've got several people reading for the genre, so we should be good even if someone can't finish. Awesome reading ladies!!

[Melindam]

SandyL wrote: "We're doing great! We've completed another spell out and we only need 2 more genre books. We've got several people reading for the genre, so we should be good even if someone can't finish. Awesome ..."

Only 1 more genre book needed, if you still can. I finished mine. :)

[Melindam]

Suzanne / Joanne,

I have already added your BOM participation points for Daisy Jones & The Six.

Suzanne, please post your link to your DQs once you kicked them off and then we can add the extra points for that. Thanks.

[Melindam]

We did very well again, Team Awesome!

Got all 10 genre books covered now.

Please let me and Sandy know whether you'll finish any books before the deadline or not so that we can do the check-in for Week 3 by the end.

We have some 9 hours to go.

COUNTDOWN

[Melindam]

I am done for Week 3.

I will now start reading for Thriller / Bloody Mary (+ there are plenty of 5-point words there as well)

[Megan]

I'll finish one more today before the deadline then my first book for next week is - Thriller but sadly none of the 10 point words. Plenty of the 5 pointers though :)

[Megan]

Also, it's bloody typical that the book I just finished (The Princess Bride) mentions Black Widow!

[Melindam]

Megan wrote: "I'll finish one more today before the deadline then my first book for next week is - Thriller but sadly none of the 10 point words. Plenty of the 5 pointers tho..."

No worries Megan, it will get us 20 points for the page count, 5 for the genre and 5 for a scavenger word. That's perfect! :)

[Dev]

i'm going to finish the haunting of hill house today and then i'll move onto book from next week. it works for classics genre so if anyone else wants to put off their genre book til after the deadline they can

[Suzanne]

Well done everyone! I finished Daisy Jones and the Six last night - I'll do the completion post shortly. Thanks for already linking the DQ answers, Melindam! I'll link my list of questions also - I'll do those before the deadline too so you don't have any spreadsheet lock issues.

I'm done with reading for the week. I'll start on something for next week.

Haha and Megan - totally typical Black Widow is mentioned in Princess Bride.

[Melindam]

Thank you Devann, Suzanne. :)

[SandyL]

Megan wrote: "Also, it's bloody typical that the book I just finished (The Princess Bride) mentions Black Widow!"

I know Megan! I read Helter Skelterk (about the Manson family) not long ago!

[Joanne]

I'm done for this week and will start next weeks books today.

[Dev]

unfortunately except for the how to survive a horror movie book i don't think i will be much help with genre this week. i've got two arcs i have to do and a non fiction that works for 3 letters so i want to get that in - it's so hard to read non fiction during wheel and tower teams - and then the other book i am doing for a tricky word also doesn't have it. i might be able to squeeze one in towards the end of the week if we need it but we'll see what happens

[SandyL]

No problem Devann!

[Dev]

i actually just rechecked and one of my ARCs does have it so that's good. i somehow thought our genre was suspense instead of thriller for a few days there, i must have been out of it lol

[SandyL]

Hey Suzanne
Did we ever figure out who is doing Charles Manson or Black Widow?

[SandyL]

I'm trying to get reading done, but I've been stuck to the TV too much watching earthquake coverage. There was another bigger one on Friday night - again, we're too far away for damage but could still feel it pretty strongly.

[Melindam]

I am sorry 2 hear about the earthquake, but glad you are well, Sandy.

[Megan]

Glad to hear you're safe Sandy!

Haven't done a lot of reading this weekend. Working all day Saturday then and all-day dance show rehearsal today, so now I'm knackered!

[Melindam]

I have read my 3 short books withthe special words, just don't have time to do the update. I will do that tomorrow.

[Suzanne]

SandyL wrote: "Hey Suzanne
Did we ever figure out who is doing Charles Manson or Black Widow?"

Nope - which book would you rather do? I don't have a preference either way there's a book I'd like. And I'd totally be stuck on the earthquake coverage too!! When we were biking in Kansas I was obsessed with tornadoes. It's amazing and humbling how powerful nature is.

[SandyL]

If it's okay, I'll take Charles Manson.

Yep, there's something about those disasters that glue you to TV to find out what's going on. Last year we had the terrible wildfires nearby and it was the same thing.

[Joanne]

Looks like we're in need of books that work for I, so I'm going to pick up a short one.

As we start deciding which book we will use for each word, can we get some crossed off or made clear that it's "covered"? It's a bit exhausting to search each book for all 71 words and it would be nice to search for a shorter list. Just an idea.

[Suzanne]

SandyL wrote: "If it's okay, I'll take Charles Manson.

Yep, there's something about those disasters that glue you to TV to find out what's going on. Last year we had the terrible wildfires nearby and it was the..."

That sounds perfect Sandy - thanks! I'll do Black Widow. And wow yes I remember those wildfires!

[Suzanne]

Captains - for black widow I have either:

Renegades "his entire body morphing into millions of black widow spiders"

or

Gift From the Comfort Food Cafe "you'd make a great Black Widow, but heroes come in different forms don't they?"

I think either would work but wanted to double check with you. "Gift" is maybe the purist way to go, since its the actual character, but Renegades is worth 10 more points (longer book). Apparently decisions are hard! :)

[SandyL]

It doesn't matter @Suzanne, so read the one you think you'll enjoy most.

[Suzanne]

Thanks! I'll see which I'm in the mood for after my current book. I soooo love that there are so many enjoyable books out there. I'll never finish them all, but I'm sure trying :)

[SandyL]

Joanne wrote: "Looks like we're in need of books that work for I, so I'm going to pick up a short one.

As we start deciding which book we will use for each word, can we get some crossed off or made clear that i..."

Thanks for looking for I's @Joanne!
So far there are only a couple of books posted that are using the Standard Words - we'll mark them off as we use them on the Wk4Mini tab on the spreadsheet.

[SandyL]

@Joanne - did you/are you doing the DQ's for Daisy Jones? If so, can you please add a link to your first post? Thanks!!

[Joanne]

SandyL wrote: "@Joanne - did you/are you doing the DQ's for Daisy Jones? If so, can you please add a link to your first post? Thanks!!"

Sure. I didn't post earlier because I thought it was mentioned earlier in the thread that my comments were entered in the spreadsheet last week.

Here is day one: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Melindam]

We are off to a great start again, Lovely Greenies!

We have already covered 6 genre books out of 10.

We spelled out BEIGE once + already have 2 incomplete ones.

It seems that we are in need of some "I"s.

[Melindam]

I am going to read a book with an "I" and that won't work for the genre, but will also work for some MINI-words

[Dev]

i'm doing an audiobook now that has an I in it and am going to do another one after that. if anyone else needs some I recommendations the incryptid series by seanan mcguire is good and the mage tales and dark fae decree series by ilana waters are interesting and also fairly short as well.

[SandyL]

Joanne wrote: "SandyL wrote: "@Joanne - did you/are you doing the DQ's for Daisy Jones? If so, can you please add a link to your first post? Thanks!!"

Sure. I didn't post earlier because I thought it was mention..."

Sorry Joanne, you're right!

[SandyL]

We're doing great chicas!!! We only need 1 more genre book and 10 more mini words!!!

We're still short on "I's" but it looks like there are several in the works so we should be good. I hope everyone is enjoying their books!!!

[Suzanne]

Wow that is great!

Is anyone reading "white woman"? I'm not sure what the captain's group decided about that one - I know at least on of my books has "white woman" as a phrase - like "she was an older white woman". Or I could pick up something like if that would work.

[Dev]

i'm going to finish my first i book today and then i should be able to fit 2 more in this week i hope - 1 audio and 1 arc. i's are weirdly hard to find, like you wouldn't think they were so scarce but they are

[SandyL]

Suzanne wrote: "Wow that is great!

Is anyone reading "white woman"? I'm not sure what the captain's group decided about that one - I know at least on of my books has "white woman" as a phrase - like "she was an o..."

That phrase would work Suzanne!

[SandyL]

Devann wrote: "i'm going to finish my first i book today and then i should be able to fit 2 more in this week i hope - 1 audio and 1 arc. i's are weirdly hard to find, like you wouldn't think they were so scarce ..."

Thanks Devann!

[Suzanne]

SandyL wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "Wow that is great!

Is anyone reading "white woman"? I'm not sure what the captain's group decided about that one - I know at least on of my books has "white woman" as a phrase - li..."

Oh good - I'm glad the phrase will work - it is in an 800 page book that I'd love to finish this week. If only it were 801 pages....boo!

[SandyL]

Sigh - that pesky 1 page!!! Still lots of points Suzanne - thanks!

[Melindam]

Hi Devann,

could you give us page numbers/sentences for cliff-hanger / gore / jason?

Thanks

[Melindam]

Ladies, we need 1 more I + 1 more G to have 4 completed BEIGE words.

1 more genre book would come in handy as well. :)

+ 8 more words for the mini.

[Dev]

cliff-hanger - pg 198 - A street band called Pookiesnackenburger and a comedy sketch group called Cliffhanger performed huge and highly popular street shows at the Edinburgh Fringe every day at one p.m.

gore - pg 199 - Together we went on to set up the Official Touring Company of Alpha Centauri, performing comedy shows with two other students: Helen Caldwell and Neil Gore—including a very low-budget version of Ben-Hur,

jason - pg 364 - Jason Booher mentioned in acknowledgements

[Melindam]

Devann, I can check these with the Mods.Chances are, the won't be accepted in their current form.

[Melindam]

Maybe we'll need to use another word from your book.

[Dev]

ok that's fine. is it because they are like a name of a group and then someone's name? because i thought that as long as it was in the book it was fair to use.

[Melindam]

with Jason, it's the acknowledgements part I am not sure about. And also Gore used as a name may be tricky.

[SandyL]

Good morning/afternoon everyone!!!


Our next word and genre are out - UMBER and SHIFTERS