Team The Chipmunks of Creativity & Chaos

[Laura]

Finished the other SZ1 book , spreadsheet updated. Will mark my book as read later when I can gain access to a laptop

[Cat]

Yay! That means we've finished SZ1 and can move on to reading lots of Os, Ys and Us :-/

[Eldarwen]

Yaay, nice work, ladies! :-)

[Sonia]

Good morning...

So, since my life is all scattered at the moment, that means my troubles focusing are even more out of control.

That been said, on my list for SF3 are:

Night Walker (U series) - already started and a tiny creepier than my usual vampire books, but it is a surprisingly good book, specially since it's a KU.
To be read:
Outcast - a quick KU reading and all books start with O
Burnt Offerings (Y character) - Anita Blake for the rescue

And yes, Ghost of a Chance (Y author and O character) is officially a drop out. I gave it one hour, and it failed to grab me.

After that, I have a few more Os and Us I can read and I'm pretty sure I can find a few more Ys, if needed be,

[Cat]

well, if you read all those we've got ourselves one YOU spell-out at least.

I found a Y in my Player of Games, but Recursion is a bust for useful letters. Pretty much every character's surname starts with S. I ask you?!

[Sonia]

That sucks.

[Eldarwen]

That's odd... and sucks for spell-outs haha.

I'm moving along quite nicely in Mistborn, though it is a fairly slow read as there is just so much to take in, but I'm enjoying it so far. Finished part one of it. It has a Y character (and a U character).

This afternoon, I'm going to try and put a dent into my O title book, and will hopefully be done with that by Friday at the very latest.

[Cat]

It's OK for UNO though: Helena plus all those S surnames.

[Laura]

Current book I'm reading works for either y or o.

[Eldarwen]

Finished my O title and updated the spreadsheet.

I'm beginning to be a little doubtful that I'll finish Mistborn before the deadline. It's a big book! I'll see how it goes for the next couple of days, and if it's taking me too long to move along with it, I'll pick a shorter/quicker read to binge over the weekend.

[Laura]

I finished my book last night. I 'll update the s/s now ( as long as no one walks in!)

[Eldarwen]

For Round 3, I took a quick peak at the tasks and without going on the hunt, I could read for one of these Countdown tasks, maybe one or two more even:

10 tagged MPG Crime
8 that was published in the 1980s
6 set in Scandinavia
4 from an author who was NOT born in the USA, Canada or UK
3 that is #3 in a series
1 that is on the Foreign Lands list


I'm not sure what work will be like next week so not sure how much sneaky reading time I will have but some of my choices are fairly short and quick reads, so I'll definitely not take too long with those.

[Laura]

2, 3,4,5,9,10 interest me. I can start with 5. I've got a few that fit.

[Laura]

I finished a U book. Will add to the s/s

[Laura]

If we are doing SZ1 for round 3 I have a book for :
N- past BOM
I- past BOM


I 'll finish a book for this round to fill a "O" to finish off a spell out of YOU. I"ll likely be able to finish at least one more. Anything specific needed?

[Laura]

I finished a book that works for I or N. I 'll pick up a short one today and finish off the counterpart to work for a spell out of IN.

I may need someone to add the link for me if I don't get power later this evening.

[Eldarwen]

It hasn't been a good reading weekend for me so I'm not sure I'll be done with Mistborn before the deadline's up, sorry. I'll see how much more I can get read tonight and then there's still tomorrow morning for me, but no guarantee!

[Laura]

I have power again! Yeah. Finished a book which completed a spell out of IN. No more books for me this round.

I'll start the 500+ pages task tomorrow at work for round 3

[Cat]

Yay for hard-working infrastructure repair team & power :)

I've had a shocker of a reading weekend. I'll be finishing a book shortly, and will take a view on word tetris.

Sonia, will you be finishing a U? Anything?

[Sonia]

Sorry love. Work was burning when I got here. Finished it on my commute. Spreadsheet updated.

[Cat]

hurrah!

We're all done then :)

[Eldarwen]

Ace!

I don't have to rush through the final pages of Mistborn then. I am really, really enjoying the end of part 4 and part 5. What a rush :-D And the feels hahaha

[Eldarwen]

Now, that leaves the question of, who is going to read what for the next set of Countdown tasks? Just so I know which book to pick up.

[Cat]

I found a detective with initials in poison, so I can take that one, and probably the MPG Crime too.

[Sonia]

I'll tackle the non us, Canada or UK one.

I can either read Australian or Portuguese authors.

So pick away. I'm claiming one at a time this round

[Eldarwen]

Oops, haven't even looked at SZ1 and SZ2 yet. Will go do that right away.

[Cat]

re the poison logo on cover (SZ3.iii), I found Texas Troubles, which I need a librarian to add the cover for! (https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...)

[Eldarwen]

I have one for that task as well though my poison bottle is a little less visible haha.

[Eldarwen]

I'll claim task 3 for a book that is #3 in the series for the Countdown tasks.

[Eldarwen]

I can definitely also read for at least one of the SZ1 tasks, but apart from the 3rd task in SZ2, I'm having trouble finding something that fits. I'll keep searching but it isn't looking good..

[Eldarwen]

Score!!

Found something for SZ2 after all :-D

I can cover task iv with the yellow item and Poison in the author's name.

[Cat]

Eldarwen wrote: "Score!!

Found something for SZ2 after all :-D

I can cover task iv with the yellow item and Poison in the author's name."

yay! excellent combing of the TBR there :)

[Cat]

I just did a search of the Texas Troubles book, and would you believe it, with that cover? no mention of poison :( grrrrrr

[Eldarwen]

Really?? Well that sucks...

[Cat]

IKR?! I feel like complaining about false advertising!

[Eldarwen]

Hehehe

[Cat]

Iceland is Scandinavia, right? I can cover that one if it is :)

[Sonia]

Yep

Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland

[Sonia]

I'm looking at my yellow covers and see if any author spells dead

[Eldarwen]

I'll also take the 1st task with the Foreign Lands list. I found one on there that I've had on my TBR for a while and only recently finally got a copy of so I've been itching to read it :-)

[Cat]

Excellent! I skimmed a few pages, but all the books I wanted to read were long, which isn't a great call for avoiding spreading poison!

[Eldarwen]

Exactly! I chose two shorter ones this time and Chosen should be quite a quick read if it's anything like the two previous books in the series.

[Cat]

That series annoyed me. It started off with promise and then lost the plot big style (IMO) about 2/3 through. You know: too far in that I was able to stop reading it, but soon enough that I was quietly seething at having to finish!

but: quick reads, like you say :)

[Eldarwen]

Eh.. a lot of those series have that issue unfortunately. I'll just space them out more if they start being annoying. But at least now I'm prepared haha, thanks ;-)

[Laura]

I'll take the flower task and find something for that

[Sonia]

Hey Laura, how are things?

I saw the damage on the news today, and it looks scary.

[Laura]

Hi Sonia,
It was very scary, though the Bahamas was hit harder. Hoping we dont have to go through that anytime again too soon.
Lots of wind and tree damage to businesses and properties throughout our province. There are still many without power. School has been canceled for tomorrow as well as safe clean up measures are taken. I had minimal damage...I had to cut off a broken branch from my lilac.

[Sonia]

Finished my aussie author book. In one sitting. Will update ss and see what I can read tomorrow

[Sonia]

Will tackle the arsenic task. And no, is not Cat's finding

[Eldarwen]

D'aww, I'm sure that one would have been fascinating! ;-)