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Aug 22, 2019 07:07AM
Erin, if you can't cover the ones that are left: science fiction and NPR, let me know if you want to trade out for 6,7 or 10.
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SZ2:i Read a book with green writing on the cover where the title contains the letters A-C-I-D (doesn't need to be in that order)
I sorted my TBR by length and looked through everything up to 350 pages long, and found nothing. So hopefully someone else can cover this!
ii Read a book with a bright/neon green cover (>50%) where the author contains the letters B-U-R-N (doesn't need to be in that order)
I browsed my ENTIRE TBR (over 3k items) and found nothing. One book I thought was possible was nixed over in the the "Does this work?" thread due to it not having enough bright green.
iii Read a book with something nasty on the cover (open to interpretation) and that contains the word LEMON in the text or title
I have something for this, but haven't put it in the spreadsheet yet, because...
iv Read a book with a green item on the cover and that contains the letters A-C-I-D in the author's name (doesn't need to be in that order)
I have something for this (put in spreadsheet as maybe) but it's got an "X" character that I would prefer to save for difficult letters in a future round. So if someone else wants to read for this task, I will just do #iii instead.
SZ1:
I am picking up Recursion from the library on Saturday! I just cannot start it until the BOM discussion in early-Sept (else it might not be considered a "current or prior BOM" lol) so we will need to do SZ2 before SZ1.
If anyone else wants to read this book, I think it can be used for the Sci-Fi countdown task and you'd still get discussion points but I'm not sure, due to the timing (i.e., Is it okay to read a book before the BOM discussion starts, and then still participate?)
And it can certainly be used in Spell-Outs if it fits, in this round or the next. :)
I also very much want to read Breakaway.
FYI, I went ahead and put one finished word in the main spreadsheet :DETA: FYI, the current #1 crater team (Pompeii or Bust) will top out at 40 books/1240 points. They have completed 39/1210 so far.
But I still think Molten Magma Mambas are the team to beat. They will top out higher than that if they finish their 40.
I haven't checked all the others. I need to actually get some RL work done today. ;D
Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "I only read a page or 2 of House of Pomegranates. If someone has a book for that spot, you will not offend me if you remove it."Are you saying you don't want to read it? Like, you might DNF?
Oh no I can read it. But if someone happened to finish one that works for it and there's place else to put it, I won't be mad. I'll probably read it tonight. The green writing, acid on cover one has me stumped so far too. I thought I found one. The lettering looked very green on my library website but very blue on goodreads.
Then I thought I found another one but one of the letters comes from the sub title and I believe they vetoed that.
I found one! And I own it on Kindle. It's 400 pages but I'll do my best to read it quickly. eta: score, it's on audible escape.
Thanks to the Volconologist thread: These work for the other 2:
bright green cover with BURN in author's name.
something nasty on cover with lemon in title or test
( I think bats are cute but then I also like spiders and snakes so...,)
I'm interested in both books and have the cat one checked out. But I can't read 3 for this zone. So we'll see who wants/can read which task when we get closer.
something nasty on cover with lemon in title or testI put "Alysa/Mary/?" on the spreadsheet just as a reminder that we both found something. But we'll see what happens.
Esp with my "maybe" on the "green item on cover/ACID in name" book.
Alysa wrote: "something nasty on cover with lemon in title or testI put "Alysa/Mary/?" on the spreadsheet just as a reminder that we both found something. But we'll see what happens.
Esp with my "maybe" on th..."
I'll find something nasty on a cover to read
Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "Erin, if you can't cover the ones that are left: science fiction and NPR, let me know if you want to trade out for 6,7 or 10."Okay, will do. I haven't looked for books yet for next week.
I borrowed Vampires in the Lemon Grove but I can always read it for something else. I have it for 21 days.
This is my "something nasty". Isn't it disgusting? :D
I'd say yes. It kind of reminds of a painting a fellow student of my daughter's did. It really caught me off guard. I walked into her classroom to help her clear some of her artwork out. Right by the door is this giant painting of a woman's spread legs and vagina with an eyeball right there. Not a baby coming out but a giant eyeball.
Alysa wrote: "This is my "something nasty". Isn't it disgusting? :D"Yes!
Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "I'd say yes. It kind of reminds of a painting a fellow student of my daughter's did. It really caught me off guard. I walked into her classroom to help her clear some of her artwork out. Right by t..."OMG, that is worse. So gross.
My friend did a photography art showing reflecting women. One person did a large photo of a woman naked on a heavy period cycle. She said it wasn't anything she'd want to see again.
Okay, finished another, only one book left to go.
This is the nastiness I found. Some kind of moldy fruit.
You both saw that part about it having to have lemon in the text or title right?
I swapped a finished N for an unfinished N (between words) and posted another completion to the official spreadsheet.We have 24 books logged in there now.
I'll probably have both my outstanding books finished tomorrow. This was one of those weeks at work where I wasn't left alone much. I saw one of the teams requesting to move up to Crater.
Yeah, and they are currently right behind us in points! Hopefully they won't have as many in the end because they weren't originally planning to read that much. Or they will get dinged on something. Although they won't matter if we move to Magma. Heheheh.
What time do we have to have everything finished?
Assuming R1 ends when R2 begins, we have until early Monday morning. Since we are all in EST, that probably means we'll be wrapping whenever the last one of us goes to bed the night before!This is the R2 start countdown the mods posted:
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Thanks I was confused on that, worried I'd run out of time.
Yeah we are still super ahead of ourselves, hence the question of whether we should move to Magma.
Do we know how long audiobooks have to be? I know with Wheel it was at least 4 hours but the books also had to be at least 160 pages. Here they can be 100 pages, so wasn't sure. I have an audiobook that fits a task that's a little over 2 hours, but I can't find a count anywhere on audiobook length. Am I missing it somewhere? If it's not mentioned I will ask in the mod threadIt's an Audible Original Production, so there isn't a page count equivalent from another version.
In the rules re Childrens, it says "you can check if audible has the unabridged version as more than 3 hours"
So I would assume that goes for the length of a non-childrens book/audiobook too, if that's the edition you are shelving. You may want to check w/the Mods though.
FYI about spell-outs for Round 2, I realized I made one (hopefully just one!) math error on one of the words having a higher value than it actually had, so I swapped something else in. We should be good to go. :D
Lastly, has anyone else checked for stuff for Safe Zone Group 2 Task IV (green item on the cover/ A-C-I-D in author name)?
Just in case my book should be saved for a future "X" in spell-outs. I will look for more stuff for that task too, but it's be good just to have a back-up.
It probably won't work then. I will ask to make sure. It's a little over 2 hours audio. However, since book count is so short (to 100), that could easily be read in under 2 hours so would be nice/fair if it counted IMO.Right now I'm looking to find a book for my task of bright green color with burn in the author name.
I may have found my own back-up for the Green Item on Cover/ACID in name task actually...Need to see if I can pick it up from library tomorrow.
I'm just rushing around a bit because I fly out of town next Thurs, and come back the following Tues.
So, anything that I don't have in E or can't easily get in E, I need to get print before I leave!
I accidentally found one for green item on cover and ACID in author name. I noticed the discs for one of the books I checked out for task 4 and then didn't use. There are green leaves on the cover and the letters ACID are in the author's name.
Awesome. So that can be our back-up.It might make sense for you to read 2 books in that group anyway, since I am reading 2 books in SZGroup 1.
I just finished a book. Our third word for Round 1 is added to the main spreadsheet now :D
I completely forgot to even look for a zone 1 book. So that would work. I just won't finish the 2 books I read for zone 2 until zone 1 is done.
I found one that works well for my zone with bright green cover and burn in the author's name. Her last name is Washburn :p
Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "I completely forgot to even look for a zone 1 book. So that would work. I just won't finish the 2 books I read for zone 2 until zone 1 is done."
We have to do Zone 2 first, actually, because Recursion won't count as a "Current or Prior NBRC BOM" until 2 Sept. (I will try to plan to finish it that same day, 2 Sept, if that helps, and depending on when Zone 2 is done.)
So if I'm no longer reading for Zone 1, then after the Countdown tasks are complete, I will start reading for Zones 2 and 3 and just not finish anything. Which will actually work out great for me because I won't get as much reading done as usual while I'm out of town over that holiday weekend.
Looks like Alien III is too short (mods answered), so I may go with Flowertown. It's a 10 hour audiobook that is long, but I've been doing a lot of audio-reading over the weekends so can start tomorrow at the latest, tonight at the earliest, while getting stuff done. I needed something that fit Sci-Fi MPG, and was looking specifically for an audio for this because of my weekend plans meaning less physical reading; this way I'll get more done earlier.
@Erin - DON'T START YET!You can't start Round 2 books until Monday morning 7am EST!
Don’t we only need 2 books to be Books of the Month? Right now all count.
We only need 2 (or 3 for Magma), but it doesn't hurt anything if we have 4. Unless of course someone doesn't actually want to read the book they put in there.
Okay. Works for me, unless we think we will run out of BotM to read for the next rounds. But I don’t think that will be a problem.
I forgot about doing zone 2 first. But it's no issue.
Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "I accidentally found one for green item on cover and ACID in author name. I noticed the discs for one of the books I checked out for task 4 and then didn't use. There are green leaves on the cove..."
Is it another Cynthia Eden book? I was just looking at our Round 1 books, and I noticed that her name has ACID. :D
No it's not. I can put the title on the sheet. Link added. Leaves look much greener on the actual cover.
Hopefully TinEye says the grass is green, LOL.
FYII will be offline for the next 4 hours or so. Just in case anyone wonders why Obsessive Alysa is not around ;D
But now that you mention Cynthia Eden I might peruse her books. I think I have a couple Kindle Freebies of hers.That didn't seem like a task that had to be run through tin eye.
eta: I found a couple of Cynthia Eden books with green on them. So I might switch that book out. I'll see what mood I am in on Monday.
We’ll see what we feel like reading once we actually hit the Safe Zones, too. Who knows, we might end up swapping all kinds of stuff.
It’s very odd reading a book during a challenge that isn’t for the challenge. It’s like I’m betraying the NBRC squirrel gods.
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