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Team Avarice
Thanks Cyndee! And thanks to all of you who have confirmed your books. We only have 2 days left so want to make sure we place the books in the best spots to get us the most points!Deadline is 12pm PST, 3pm EST here in the US.
Cathy M. wrote: "Thanks Cyndee! And thanks to all of you who have confirmed your books. We only have 2 days left so want to make sure we place the books in the best spots to get us the most points!Deadline is 12p..."
On Sunday?
Cathy M. wrote: "Yep, Sunday."Thank you!!
ENVY MINI-CHALLENGEEnvy is a feeling of discontent or covetousness with regard to another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.
Make other teams envious by seeing how many words of at least four letters you can find and spell-out in our letter grid.
Words must be made up by connecting letter-squares. Letter-squares can be connected vertically, diagonally and horizontally, in any direction (so it can be a wriggly word, not necessarily a straight line). Letter-squares can only be used once in each word.
◈ Only books finished between 18th and 25th November will count for the Envy mini challenge (i.e. books finished in week 7).
◈ Books will either count towards the main part of the challenge (the Seven Deadly Sins) or towards this mini challenge.
◈ You will gain 5 points per letter.
◈ You will gain an additional 7 points for each completed word of 7 letters or more.
◈ Words must be in English (sorry). You can use foreign language books for your spell-out letters though.
◈ Only one incomplete word will be allowed (note that bonus points for 7 letter words are only awarded on completion of the word).
◈ Standard NBRC spell-out rules apply.
The next mini-challenge has been posted & you will find the planning sheet updated with the information. Ashleigh & I received the details yesterday so have already gone thru & found a ton of 7-letter words (I think I stopped at 23?). We narrowed it down to 6 7-letter words (42 books) but in order to keep our words to ourselves, we will not be posting the words here or on our sheet. If you want to know which words we are reading for (or the words that we found), please let us know & we can PM them to you. Or if you find words that you'd like to share, please PM them to me or Ashleigh.
On our planning sheet, you will find slots for the letters that we will need. Please also make sure to note if it works for other letters so we can move things around if need be.
As always, please let us know if you have any questions!
Never mind, I found the words on the SS.
COMPLETION POST
Book: Mord.net
Read: 11/16/19
Pages: audiobook, default 527 pages
Rating: 3 stars
Bingo: Horse - series and main character's name is Jacob Colt, colt is a male horse
I’ll have The Sense of an Ending done in about an hour but I’m not sure if I can fit it in on the bingo card. It would fit for man (but that is already completed). This book is really “philosophical” and about the meaning of life and how memory can change with time. He speaks often of pretty girls as well if that would count for pretty? I had to read this one for college and needed it done :(
@Amanda I'll see if I can get a copy of that book from scribd or the library and see if there's any words we can use it forEDIT: I'll switch it for my 'power' book and move my books around.
Cathy M. wrote: "Thanks Cyndee! And thanks to all of you who have confirmed your books. We only have 2 days left so want to make sure we place the books in the best spots to get us the most points!Deadline is 12p..."
Hi Cathy, I saw your PM. I’ll be able to finish my books.
Fifty Shades of Grey is on the hate list. We get more points, correct?
Cathy or Ashleigh, when you have a chance would you mind messaging the words to me? I only had a little time to look it over and came up with one that was 7 letters.
I'm going to plan the rest of my reading for that week later tonight so I want to try to keep it from being all over the map and actually work on completing words. :)
I'm going to plan the rest of my reading for that week later tonight so I want to try to keep it from being all over the map and actually work on completing words. :)
@Sunshine, no it's more points for this Avarice Mini.You can find all the letters we need on the planning sheet (Envy Mini-Challenge) but I'll PM both you & & Cyndee the words.
I’ll have my book for this week finished tomorrow
For
would you consider her dress shiny on the cover?
Cathy M. wrote: "For would you consider her dress shiny on the cover?"I do! Her dress definitely has a shine.
Great job Kristin! I’m about to move some of the books around so we can use that one. And I changed my sheikh book to something shorter so might be able to fit in 1 More to complete another line.
I don’t think I’m going to be able to get any other books done this week. Can I have the list of words as well for next week? Thank you for getting my book to fit :)
No problem Amanda, we didn't slot in your other book for Bingo so it's fine. And we should have enough books done for the week.I'll PM you the words now.
Cyndee - for Max I changed it to painting. For the description, I wrote "Jules' hobby is painting & Max helped her get started in selling them". That sound about right? I haven't read it but skimmed thru part of it once I saw that she painted.
Cathy M. wrote: "Cyndee - for Max I changed it to painting. For the description, I wrote "Jules' hobby is painting & Max helped her get started in selling them". That sound about right? I haven't read it but skimme..."
That is exactly what happens!
That is exactly what happens!
Awesome, I moved around 5 books so everything fit a little better.
Finished my book for silverCan someone PM me the words for the next mini-challenge?
All my books have been posted for the week. Thanks 😀
@Vikki I'll pm you now@Sunshine can you add 50 shades of grey to your tt shelf please?
What are the normal spell out rules? I can’t remember them 🤦🏻♀️
Spell-it-out rules: Use the first letter in its title OR the first letter of an author's first or last name OR the first letter in a character's first, last, or nick-name to spell out that word. As always, if the first letter of a title starts with 'A', 'An', 'The', etc you may use the first letter of the second word in the title.
I'm finishing up my book now~ If someone could PM me the words for the next challenge, that'd be great.
For spell-it-out can also use Series name, Narrator first or last name if listening to an audio, or Translator first or last name if reading a translated book.
Completion postBook: Pretty Girls
Pages: 535
Date Read: 11/17
Sin: Avarice
Mini-Challenge: Shiny - A shiny gold locket on the cover
20 minutes left! Are there any I can help do searches in to see if they'll fill a better spot?
I don't think we need to move anything else around now but thanks Cyndee! We're just waiting to see if Jill is able to finish/post her books.14 minutes till deadline! BUT we need a couple minutes to check & post everything to our main sheet so....
Jill?
Week 6 is officially over and we are now in Envy week, happy reading!
Oh damn, just realized that we could've moved Aristocracy book to Jewels to get one more line. Oh well :(
Cathy M. wrote: "Oh damn, just realized that we could've moved Aristocracy book to Jewels to get one more line. Oh well :("
That's okay! You've worked really hard and are doing amazing at getting us the best we can get! Thank you!
That's okay! You've worked really hard and are doing amazing at getting us the best we can get! Thank you!
Awww thanks Cyndee! Much appreciated :)As much as I loved that Bingo round, it was exhausting. Pulling up books, seeing if we could move things around. I feel like I spent hours doing it! At least this week is a lot easier.
Though I will be out of town from Thursday-Saturday so will try to read as much as possible before then. Going to visit my parents in Vegas so will have time to read, just not as much as usual. Also luckily most of my books were started last week so I got a head start :) And have 2 anthologies I've been working slowly thru for a ton of more points when they are done. One is 1k and one is over 3k pages (a lot of teams have been reading this one - Once Upon a Christmas Wedding) so I've been trying to read at least 1 story a day. I'll be glad when it's done!
Cathy, let me know if you want me to pick up another book
Thanks Sunshine! If you could read an extra one, that would definitely help.
For Week 6:38 completed books
1529 Book Points
190 Mini-Challenge Points (+56 bonus points for lines completed)
0 BOM points
Finished 11th of 16 Teams
Ugh sorry guys. I lost internet yesterday and couldnt do any of my updating. I'm at my office so I'll do it now. Will it still count for last week? I'm starting new books today
Jill wrote: "Ugh sorry guys. I lost internet yesterday and couldnt do any of my updating. I'm at my office so I'll do it now. Will it still count for last week? I'm starting new books today"So you've got them finished as 18th November, so we can use them for this week's books We can't add anything to last week's as it's past the deadline now.
I'll put your books down for the Envy mini-challenge Jill
Ashleigh wrote: "Jill wrote: "Ugh sorry guys. I lost internet yesterday and couldnt do any of my updating. I'm at my office so I'll do it now. Will it still count for last week? I'm starting new books today"So yo..."
Ugh I'm sorry. I actually finished them yesterday but did it in a rush just now. I am reading an additional 2 books this week, which would bring my total up to 4. Let me know if that's too much
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Should I place in mini? I'm kinda confused with how to place in the ss
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Btw, when is the deadline? Daylight savings screwed me up last week and now I'm not sure when it is"
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