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Okay update. Beth you can take book published on 4th as i was not liking the book.
Finished mine. Can someone update, not on computer
Hi Arele I will be off-line for the next two days but will be reading
I hope you are doing something fun, Chava. Keep track of when you start books since anything you start after me and Wolf finish our books can be used in the Safezone! I will finish tomorrow, but I have a game party to go to so it might not be until the evening.
Beth i will try to finish book. Lets see how it goes.
I'm finished. I'll update tomorrow.
The countdown timer ends in a bit over three days:ZERO for round 4 is Thursday 3rd October, 9pm AEST for ALL teams. Countdown is here
I'm assuming Thursday is a typo for Tuesday. I'm almost done with the 4th book, so I'll shout out here and on spreadsheet when it's finsihed.
I'm finished!Wolf, since that was the last book in our countdown, I went ahead and updated yours as well. We have jumped out of the Echidna Danger and into the SAFE ZONE!
I'm still hoping we come up with something for Group 1. In the meantime, we can start new books and try to fit them into Group 3, but we can't FINISH those until we have spelled out BROWN for Group 1.
Sounds good. I have a book that will work for N and R. I'll add them tomorrow. And thanks Beth for updating my book for me.
Never mind, I went ahead and added them to the spreadsheet.
I will look for an "N" book and Maritza you can have the W.Short words for Group 3:
A
I
Is
Of
Finished and updated ss.Current books fits - P, B, H, A, C, M
Chava, shall we grab Maritza's book for BROWN? We can't use any books that we finish for Group 3 if we also want to do Group 1, but Maritza's book would work for the letter B.That leaves R and O, and Wolf was going to do One Grave At a Time for O. She's also signed up for an R, but we could move your Executioner book there.
Does that sound like a plan?
Also, does this book look OK? Taking Cover: One Girl's Story of Growing Up During the Iranian Revolution. It's published by the chlidren's arm of National Geographic, but I think it's YA. No age limits are on the MPG, although it is tagged YA much more than children's on the next page.
Hmm, even if it is ruled a kids book it has >40,000 words, so I think that means it's OK. I'm using it for my N as I'm not liking that one much.
Wolf, are you OK with this plan? *Maritza's President Daddy goes in for B.
* Chava's The Executioner goes in for R
* Your's One Grave at a time is for you.
When Chava and Wolf finish we can see if we can get anything for Stage 2. We only want five letters there so we don't go over our level. So no big rush.
Woot! We have finished Safe Zone Group 1! Now we can see if we can make words out of anything else we finish. We've already read 15 books this month, so really we only can have 5 more to fit in our category.Some high value words:
I
A (we can do this several times, although only worth 30 points)
Is
In
On
Of
Finished - Can someone update (cannot access ss from work)Protected By Red: A Bad Boy Protector Romance by Melissa Davenport
Read - 10/04/19****
Characters - Red, Alyssa, Van, Joe
finished Title: Cut Me Free
Author: J.R. Johansson
Pages: 295
date: 10/05/2019
Letters:
A - Alvin (character)
B - Steve Brothers (character)
C - title; Charlotte (character)
D - Douglas Nelson
F - Father (character)
J - Jim (character); Janice (character)
L - Lily (character)
M - Mark (character)
N - Nelson couple (characters, aka Parents)
O - Oscar (character)
P - Piper (character)
R - Rachel (character)
S - Sanda (character)
I also read Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse. T
R
S (series)
M H (character Maggie Hoskie)
K A (character Kai Arviso)
OK, I managed to build the giant words"OR" and "A" from our reading this week. Clearly I am no scrabble wiz!
Thanks for being a great team! (And thanks for coming on board for the last round, Wolf!) We ended up in 4th place in the Molten category, which seems good to me! I mean, I never really looked at the scores until it was over, but we did really well!
Great job guys. I really loved this challenge. Beth, Chava, Wolf was nice working with you guys. Hooe things are good with Chafic.Beth at one point we were 9th so I say we picked it up nicely.
Hooe to see you guys in future challenges.
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