Team The Chipmunks of Creativity & Chaos

[Eldarwen]

Ok, great, thanks!

I'll start reading that today then - along with the BOM, which I still haven't started yet haha.

I finished up The Last Watch, because I really wanted to know how it ends and it was bugging me to leave those last 100 pages unattended ;-)

[Cat]

Yeah, I took the opportunity to read a couple of graphics :)

Going to start my SZ2 book now.

And you'll be glad to hear that we didn't get singed feet: I carpet bombed young Son, and got her book onto our sheet in the nick of time! That lava was CLOSE! :)

[Eldarwen]

Woohh!!

That was lucky!

Wouldn't have been comfortable to continue with burned feet haha. And singed hair would totally have cramped our style ;-)

[Cat]

Eldarwen wrote: "Woohh!!

That was lucky!

Wouldn't have been comfortable to continue with burned feet haha. And singed hair would totally have cramped our style ;-)"

And how could we have held our heads up as Mods?! ;-p

(yeah, I could totally have found a way to spin any damage to our benefit...)

[Eldarwen]

Heheheh ;-))

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

I could smell the burnt hair in the air too....

[Eldarwen]

This is a very disturbing book I'm reading. Topic-wise. The writing and the story are well-done! But my skin is crawling a bit at times...

I've also ignored the BOM in favour of this one hehe. I want to know how it continues.

Need to get my hands on the movie once I'm done with the book. I can totally see Joseph Gordon Lewitt in Neil's role.

[Cat]

Finished my SZ2 book

Will start a longer book for zone 3 spell outs now
And probably the BOM too

[Laura]

I'm working on my SZ2 book

[Eldarwen]

I'm halfway through mine. I'm planning on doing a bit of cleaning and tidying today, so not sure how much reading I'll get done, but I'll hopefully be done with the SZ2 book by tomorrow! :-)

[Sonia]

Read about two pages on my sz2 book yesterday before crashing down. Will continue now

[Alysa]

Just out of curiosity --
I know you Chipmunks would never get burnt feet or singed hair... but if you did, would you post the injuries here to your own team thread, or would you just be like "Yeah, yeah, we know what we did."
:D

[Cat]

Alysa wrote: "Just out of curiosity --
I know you Chipmunks would never get burnt feet or singed hair... but if you did, would you post the injuries here to your own team thread, or would you just be like "Yeah,..."

We nearly got burnt, Alysa!

Karen would post here - only fair!

[Alysa]

LOL
That would be funny. But I am sure you will never get burnt! :D

[Cat]

Alysa wrote: "LOL
That would be funny. But I am sure you will never get burnt! :D"

We'll avoid some of the pitfalls, but life happens to us too, so we might get hit by countdown problems!

[Sonia]

Finished my book for sz2. I'll update spreadsheet tomorrow

[Eldarwen]

I was slacking a little yesterday with reading. On it today though!

[Laura]

I have about 100 pages left... I'll finish tonight after work.

[Cat]

hurrah! I've been reading a longer book and listening to another whilst I wait for you guys to finish holidaying ;-)

[Sonia]

I'm looking at what to read and drawing a blank. LOL

[Sonia]

I might re-start Jane. I barely read 5%.

[Sonia]

Yep, sounds like a nice plan. Cleaning slate.

[Cat]

Sonia wrote: "Yep, sounds like a nice plan. Cleaning slate."

nice: a Y or B (is Bruiser still in them at that point?) will be useful :)

[Sonia]

Yep. I think the whole gang will be in there. And the bad guy is the youngest Son of Darkness so... something Ioudas... I need to take notes about all the darn names, because Vampire relationships are quite the confusion.

[Eldarwen]

This seriously is a strange book but I can only recommend it at the same time. Odd...

30 odd pages left to read, so I should be done with it tonight. Need a bit of a breather now though and to stretch my legs. I've been sitting with my nose inside the book for the past 3 hours haha (okay, I've slept for at least half an hour of that but whatever :-p).

[Cat]

strange and weird and unsettling can often be highly recommendable! The Wasp Factory, for instance, is super creepy and upsetting but should be pressed into the hands of all teens, imo.

[Eldarwen]

That one that sound a little disturbing! And like a book you'll either love or hate.

[Eldarwen]

Done with my SZ2 book! :-)

[Eldarwen]

Technically, I'm supposed to be reading the BOM, but I'm honestly not sure I want to... I'm off to bed now and might read another page or two in The Sun Is Also a Star and if it doesn't pull me in, I'll switch to something else.

[Cat]

Whoop! Just need Laura’s & I can start finishing books. :-P

I started th BOM (the N is helpful, apart from anything else)

[Laura]

I'm done!!! Finish away Cat, I updated the spreadsheet from my phone but I'm just waiting for my laptop to load to mark as read.

[Eldarwen]

I'm finally starting to get into the BOM a little, so I'll try and get that done before the week is up :-)

[Cat]

hahahahaha! proof that this mod doesn't know what's going on with the tasks: I'm currently reading two books with titles starting with O, so both wasted for the ACID countdown!

[Sonia]

worry not, omegaverse has a ton of titles started with O in KU.

uhmmmm... maybe I should look into the ACID tasks too

[Cat]

Yeah, we might want to start plotting countdown tasks.

Are we going to do both SZ1 & 2 this time? SZ1 tasks are worth it now...

[Sonia]

Soooo, you'll do the C-A-T task ?

*giggles*

[Sonia]

Sure thing... the kitties are KU fans, so I'm pretty sure that one will be a breeze.... or at least complaint material worthy

[Cat]

Sonia wrote: "Soooo, you'll do the C-A-T task ?

*giggles*"

I'll do the CAT task....

I can do the state in title too - I found a series of ridiculously silly KU titles, ~100 pages, and the next in the series has Texas in the title

[Cat]

also: more than 400 pages?! why didn't we spot that and call it out as being too hard?!

We are total failures at skewing challenges to our strengths!
;-P

[Laura]

SZ1 tasks for round 2 are worth the same amount as round 1. ( on our spreadsheet anyway) if we didnt do them for this round it doesn't make sense to do them for round 2.

[Cat]

Laura wrote: "SZ1 tasks for round 2 are worth the same amount as round 1. ( on our spreadsheet anyway) if we didnt do them for this round it doesn't make sense to do them for round 2."

ah, that's where you are wrong! we get a bonus of 50 points if we complete them this time, which makes them more attractive (puts them over the 40 points/book line) :)

[Sonia]

Cat wrote: "also: more than 400 pages?! why didn't we spot that and call it out as being too hard?!

We are total failures at skewing challenges to our strengths!
;-P"

lemme look at my arcs...

[Sonia]

Have one that is waaaaaayyyy late.



I also have a few on my tbr withinh 402/404 pages

[Laura]

Cat wrote: "Laura wrote: "SZ1 tasks for round 2 are worth the same amount as round 1. ( on our spreadsheet anyway) if we didnt do them for this round it doesn't make sense to do them for round 2."

ah, that's ..."

Its good to be wrong... it makes you humble. Those bonus points aren't readily seen on the GR app.

[Laura]

Cat wrote: "also: more than 400 pages?! why didn't we spot that and call it out as being too hard?!

We are total failures at skewing challenges to our strengths!
;-P"

I should have made that task over 500 pages or 600 pages to at least make it a little more challenging :P

[Sonia]

Maybe is intentional? Karen is not the devious one, but she has spend the last 6 years listening to my crazy ideas....

[Eldarwen]

Cat wrote: "also: more than 400 pages?! why didn't we spot that and call it out as being too hard?!

We are total failures at skewing challenges to our strengths!
;-P"

Sorry *grin*

[Eldarwen]

I volunteer for the 400+ pages task if nobody else wants to reeeeally take that one. Gives me an excuse to read Hunting Evil, which has almost 500 pages.

[Cat]

Laura wrote: "Its good to be wrong... it makes you humble. Those bonus points aren't readily seen on the GR app..."

True, it was hidden; and the main reason I spotted them is 'cos I worked with Karen on finding a level for the bonus points ;)

[Cat]

SZ2: acid / neon green cover?! I might have to go check out some of those really bad doughnut cosy mysteries, see if one of those fits the bill