Team The Chipmunks of Creativity & Chaos

[Sonia]

Eldarwen wrote: "Hmm..... I have to admit that I'm curious now hehe."

Is a matter of strategics... Risk it all with a 11 letter word or split into a 6 and a 5 letters and win the same amount of points

[Laura]

20 hours to start time... who is ready?

[Cat]

I am! Just working out what books I'm reading first for the challenge and what to pick up before if starts....

[Laura]

Me too! I've got my books ready to go

[Eldarwen]

I will finish my current read first, or rather, I'll try to finish it by tomorrow evening. Since the start time is 1pm or me and I'm going to read on the bus in the morning and on my lunch break... :-)

Also, I have a couple of books lying on a pile here ready to go for this challenge. I have my eye on two other books that also fit my task so I'll spontaneously decide tomorrow evening which one I'm going to read for this. :-)

[Cat]

started my audio with 4+ narrators, and will start a kindle book for "published on 10th of month" on my way home

[Laura]

I've started my 1st book on my break and will continue on lunch!

[Sonia]

I also started shattered bonds during lunch hour. I need to read like a banshee on my poor spare time, because with me being the designated driver for our road trip... not sure how much time I'll have to read during my vacation.... We'll see.

[Laura]

When are you leaving, Sonia?

[Sonia]

Wednesday morning

I have a to-do-before-trip list a mile long!!!!

LOL

Our Portuguese heritage is showing big time as usual.

[Laura]

Nice, does the little one know or is it a surprise?
How long are you gone for?

[Sonia]

She knows we're going to do a road trip. She has no idea about the trip to Isla Magica. Her birthday is next saturday, so the plan is two days for the park, one to enjoy the water slides and explore the park. The other, her birthday, to let her choose the rides and shows and whatever.

The park theme is pirates... so we're making a heat wave friendly piraty dress up for her. She's going to love it!!!

[Eldarwen]

That sounds like so much fun! :-D

I have decided to dive into a shorter book for the Countdown task to make sure I will be done before my friend is coming to stay with me on Wednesday evening. She's leaving Friday afternoon again but I have plans with the ladies for Friday evening. So.... lots to do! And while Lisa Kleypas or Nalini Singh are quick reads for me despite 350+ pages, I do not want to push my luck and hold up the team.

After that long speech... ;-)
The book I'm going with will be One Word Kill. It's about a gang of friends playing D&D - amongst other things - so I'm pretty sure there'll be at least 9 characters in there hehe.

[Eldarwen]

Sonia wrote: "I have a to-do-before-trip list a mile long!!!!

LOL"

I have that same problem. Every single time. Even when I try to be organised. It just happens.

[Laura]

Finished my first book; will add to the spreadsheet.

[Sonia]

What!?

Well my darn fault because after arriving home at 11 pm, Justice League was starting, so of course I stayed watching it instead of reading.

[Laura]

Sonia wrote: "What!?

Well my darn fault because after arriving home at 11 pm, Justice League was starting, so of course I stayed watching it instead of reading."

I didn't read anything over the weekend; it was time to get back at it! It was a shortie ;-)
Hope you enjoyed Justice League!

[Eldarwen]

Laura wrote: "Finished my first book; will add to the spreadsheet."

Nice!

[Cat]

2hrs into my audio & 37% into my kindle :)

having to stop stalking other teams, who are depressing me with multiple finishes already, and remind myself that it's strategy, not a sprint, that'll keep us out of the hot rock!

[Sonia]

LOL

I am 10% on my Jane book (puma on cover) and decided to change from to ... that book has been nagging me at me for ages now... even if I'm not in the mood for the rest of the trilogy so far... I don't care is spoilerish... It's a beautiful book, and it's 2.5 on a planned trilogy.

And I'm in the mood for a strange and SHORT book.

[Sonia]

Hopefully I can read/finish/almost finish slow regard today. I'm leaving in the morning for my trip to Spain.

Hopefully, I'll be able to relax near the pool with my books.

[Cat]

@ with Kingkiller Chronicles, Rothfuss has recently said that there is more story beyond the intended trilogy too, so doubly not-a-trilogy-anymore :)

[Sonia]

Yeah... But, Steven is kinda ultraged with me at the moment... so I may skip that one... Will switch to How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea Instead. (Newsflesh #3.1)

[Eldarwen]

Slow Regard is apparently more about the love of language than actual story, but I really have no idea. I still haven't read book #2... oops ;-)

[Eldarwen]

If all goes well, I'll be half-way through my book by tonight.

[Cat]

I should finish my C#10 book today...

Which should I tackle next: set in 1950s (I'll prob snag an Agatha Christie as being quick and fun) or with two authors (will be a longer book)

[Sonia]

I'm still pondering... Since I can listen to Slow Regard on youtube whilst packing, pet sitting for my friend, prepare my own kitties auto-feeders and litterboxes, clean up my fridge, etc etc, it does have a few advantages.

[Cat]

stop pondering & start reading, woman! the lava is oozing!

[Laura]

Cat is it easier for you to do the debut author and I'll take the two authors? I can do a short one for it. Debuts I find harder to get from my library... it's small and I don't really want to buy one

[Cat]

I can do that, yes :) I just assumed that debut would be easier to fill!

[Laura]

I'll switch with you then and take the two authors task (C2) if both are equally easy for you to find something to fit.

Debut is a bit harder for me.

[Cat]

I've picked the debut book :)

[Laura]

I'll probably do a Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward(?) book!

[Cat]

Finished my first book!
Updating sheet now

[Laura]

Yeah Cat!

[Laura]

Finished another one! Updating sheet

[Eldarwen]

Keep them coming! :-D

Little over half-way through mine now. Probably won't manage to finish today but tomorrow should be it! And then I'll jump right into my safezone book.

[Cat]

Finished the debut book task :)
Just over an hour left in my 4+ narrators, so that'll be done lunchtime-ish today.

We've got the 1950s task still to do, so I can pick that up this evening, unless Laura beats me to it ;-P

Sonia, how are you getting on with your two? With hols would it be easier if someone else takes one off your hands?

[Laura]

I'll finish the two authors task today/ tonight then I'm packing for my camping weekend away. I'll take my lava book with me and check in to see when I can start it. I won't get to the 1950's task.

[Laura]

Finished the two authors task; adding to the spreadsheet

[Eldarwen]

Will finish my book today. Had less reading time in the evenings than I expected hehe. But I've got about 20 pages left to go, so will read those this afternoon when I get back home.

[Cat]

I'll finish the last two countdown books today too - I picked up the carnivorous animal to help Sonia out
A dragon is carnivorous, right?

[Cat]

Finished carnivorous animal:


The 1950s book I've about 2 hrs: so this evening it'll be done.

[Cat]

Finished the 1950s book: A Pocket Full of Rye

means we are just waiting for E & Sonia to finish their books for us to be out of the rising lava!

[Cat]

Sonia: how was the big park surprise?? You exhausted from running around to all the rides?!

Laura: ready for camping? got your anti-midge / mossie spray?!

[Eldarwen]

I'm done! :-)

Going to start the BOM for the rest of the day (won't get a lot of reading time as I have to be out of the house again in half an hour) and then tomorrow, I'll grab the safezone 2 book off the shelf.

[Laura]

I have my safe zone book packed, bug repellent and sun screen! I have a few others that will work for safe zone #3 but realistically I'm going to be too busy playing washer toss, playing badminton, swimming, caring for my dog and hanging out with our friends! I'll do my best ( the other books work for ---- letter I)

[Eldarwen]

Sooooo, I ran into a bit of an issue with my safe zone book.... (is typical haha).

I bought the book years and years ago and it has been sitting on my shelf untouched for almost all those years, and even when I rearranged the books on my shelf, I didn't actually register the cover. Turns out that the one I have isn't the standard cover (of course, it isn't..).

My cover dos not like this: Actually, I can't find my cover on GR, and I also can't fit it on Amazon anymore... The edition that fits the ISBN number has been changed and thus has a new cover. This one isn't particularly read and has the naked back of a very pale woman on it.

Anyway, I considered switching to this one: . Do you think it is red enough?

[Eldarwen]

If not, I also have but it'll take me a bit longer to read as it will take me ages to get back into the world and it's a 500 page book. But, a good option at least in case you don't think Mysterious Skin will work.

[Cat]

Mysterious Skin is red, imo!