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[Jill]

Vikki wrote: "I've finally decided which book to start with for this challenge. I didn't want to choose too soon as my choice of book usually depends what I'm in the mood for."

Whatcha reading?

[Namita]

I am so excited!! Looking forward to reading. I have the first few books lined up.

[Vikki]

Jill wrote: "Vikki wrote: "I've finally decided which book to start with for this challenge. I didn't want to choose too soon as my choice of book usually depends what I'm in the mood for."

Whatcha reading?"

Jane Seymour - The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir. I read the previous books in this serious on Katharine Of Aragon & Anne Boleyn last autumn and this has been waiting to read since then. It works perfectly for a red cover

[Sunshine]

I’ve couldn’t find this

Does the cover need to be a certain percentage?

[Cathy M.]

Sunshine wrote: "I’ve couldn’t find this

Does the cover need to be a certain percentage?"

It has to be at least 50%.

[Cathy M.]

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Only 6 more days to go yay!!

So a little bit of admin to complete before we start -

Amanda - can you please link your TT shelf?

Maria Helena - can you please link your TT shelf?

Sunshine - can you please remove The Spellman Files from your TT shelf?

[Cathy M.]

Vikki wrote: "Jill wrote: "Vikki wrote: "I've finally decided which book to start with for this challenge. I didn't want to choose too soon as my choice of book usually depends what I'm in the mood for."

Whatch..."

See a lot of good reviews for this - hope you enjoy!

[Ashleigh]

Sounds interesting Vikki!

[Vikki]

I'm looking forward to it, Haven't read much about Jane Seymour so it'll will hopefully be a nice change.

[Stephanie]

What color would this be?
tint eye says brown but since we are doing by eyeball is that ok?

[maria helena]

Here is my shelf

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

[Cathy M.]

Stephanie wrote: "What color would this be?
tint eye says brown but since we are doing by eyeball is that ok?"

Hmmm, that doesn't look brown to me. It looks more mauve which technically is a shade of purple, but not sure if it's 50%.

Ashleigh - what do you think? We can also go to the other captains for another opinion.

[Cathy M.]

maria helena wrote: "Here is my shelf

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."

Thank you!

[Ashleigh]

Hmm, at first glance I would have said purple/maeve, but yeah I can kinda see the brown. But it's more maeve than brown to me.

I think we could take it to the captains group and see what they say.

[Ashleigh]

I've posted in the captains group, so just awaiting their answer :)

[Namita]

Can it be the 7th already??

[Jill]

Ik I keep thinking it’s time to start since it’s the 1st lol

[Ashleigh]

@Stephanie the captains have ruled that its not 50% of one colour so it can't be used for matching to a colour

[Sunshine]

Would you agree that these are purple covers?

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Jill wrote: "Ik I keep thinking it’s time to start since it’s the 1st lol"

Meeee tooooo! I feel like a kid excited for Christmas or something.

[Ashleigh]

Sunshine wrote: "

Would you agree that these are purple covers?"

It needs to be 50% purple to count, and I think those covers are less than that. Cathy, what do you think?

[Cathy M.]

Ashleigh wrote: "Sunshine wrote: "

Would you agree that these are purple covers?"

It needs to be 50% pu..."

Sorry, I would agree with Ashleigh that none look predominately purple.

[Sunshine]

No worries
I rather get it right the first time 😲

purple?
red?
green... I don’t think so

[Sunshine]

purple?

[Ashleigh]

I would say no 2 is definitely red, but the other ones are tricky. Cathy, thoughts? We could take it to the captains group if you think that will help?

[Sunshine]

tin eyehttps://labs.tineye.com/color/1062c2d...

37.8 %Violent Violet (Violet)
25.5 %Studio (Violet)
12.6 %Dark Magenta (Violet)
10.2 %Thistle (Violet)

[Cathy M.]

I'd say yes to both purples and the red,no to the green one.

[Sunshine]

tin eye https://labs.tineye.com/color/559ab55...

about 65% purple
I think between the suit and the lettering may cover it

[Cathy M.]

Sunshine wrote: "
tin eye https://labs.tineye.com/color/559ab55......"

We are not using tineye and aren't even supposed to mention it. Some of the mods really hate that site! So. If it doesn't look purple by glance, we can't use it for purple cover.

[Stephanie]

For brown the background looks to be a light brown color.

[Ash]

Cathy M. wrote: We are not using tineye and aren't even supposed to mention it. Some of the mods really hate that site!"

Out of curiosity, may I ask why they dislike tineye?

[Cathy M.]

Ash wrote: "Cathy M. wrote: We are not using tineye and aren't even supposed to mention it. Some of the mods really hate that site!"

Out of curiosity, may I ask why they dislike tineye?"

Mostly due to inconsistencies. Some were questioning results and another wanted to lower amount so one of the Mods put a stop to it and "banned" all tools from being used. So we are down to eyeballing it and having the captains decide.

[Cathy M.]

Stephanie wrote: " For brown the background looks to be a light brown color."

I thought I saw something on this (light tan) but can't find it. Will let Asheigh pipe in and if needed, post in Captain's threads. Will let you know!

[Ashleigh]

I would say this looks creamy to me, but I'll post in the Captain's thread, just to double-check

[Ashleigh]

Stephanie wrote: " For brown the background looks to be a light brown color."

The captains have ruled that it's more cream/off-white than brown.

[Cathy M.]

If you haven't seen this yet, there is a new thread for Bad Books - Terrible Reads - Recommendations?!

Stop by and post some of your worst reads! Who knows, it may come up again as some sort of mini-challenge. (Or not, we'll see!)

And there is also a thread for the Favourite Book Recommendations (probably from the sign-up forms).

[Cathy M.]

There isn't a Countdown timer yet so I went ahead & created one. Always helps (due to the time differences) to see it counting down :)

Countdown to Start of TT7!

Just 2 1/2 days to go. Time to wind down (finish) current reads & hunker down to start my big books come Sunday (LA Time). Hope everyone's ready!

[Kelly]

This has been a crazy week. Sick husband, minor (super minor) surgery for kid. Phew.

How has everyone else been doing?

[Cathy M.]

Wow that is a lot Kelly. Sending healing thoughts & hope for speedy recoveries for your hubby and kid!

I've been super slammed at work the last 2 days because we had our monthly Partners Meeting today. It's done for this month, now just need to start working on Invoicing but at least that's not as stressful.

[Cathy M.]

Oh yay Ashleigh, just saw that you were picked for DQs! Sweet!

[Ashleigh]

Sorry to hear that Kelly, sending love your way!

Yessss Cathy! I'm planning on reading it as my first book for TT so I can plan my questions out, instead of trying to come up with them the day of, which I normally do..

Also, thank you for the countdown timer. I was looking for one yesterday because I was sure I saw one somewhere, but yours is very helpful!

[Ashleigh]

I'm loving reading the 'recommendations' on the Bad Books thread. The shade haha! Will be adding some books of my own today :)

[Jill]

Contributed to the bad books thread. I hope we don't have to read any of those lol!!

Wrapping up my books. I have my challenge books all ready to go!!

[Vikki]

Wishing your husband & kid speedy recoveries Kelly.

It hasn't been a great week here... sometimes dealing with people voluntarily isn't always fun. On a more positive note, I finally got to meet my friend's baby yesterday. He was born over the summer but due to being awake, having a sore throat, then a cold, and not much free time, yesterday was the first chance we got to catch up & meet her little boy.

I'm itching to get started on my first book for the challenge. I feel in the mood for it. And I just bought a new book today which I'm going to have to include in the challenge as I've been waiting on it being released - Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris.

[Ashleigh]

Oh I've been wanting to read Normal People Jill. Is it that bad? Haha.

[Jill]

Ashleigh wrote: "Oh I've been wanting to read Normal People Jill. Is it that bad? Haha."

I really didn't like it!! Have you read ? It's basically the premise of that but not done as well

[Cathy M.]

There is an official Countdown Timer now (it's pretty much the same one I posted earlier) but see below!

From the Mods:
Start of Tower Teams VII
The Seven Deadly Sins shall commence at 7am on the 7th October, Sydney Australia (AEDST) !

To see the countdown, CLICK HERE.

NOTE: Daylight Savings starting/ending in different areas may make this a different time to what you expect. PLEASE CHECK THE COUNTDOWN! You can also convert your timezone HERE.

REMEMBER: Books MUST be started after the challenge begins to count for Tower Teams!

[Vikki]

9pm on Sunday (for the UK)... feels ages away. What am I going to do between now & then?! I've decided to just wait and start the Jane Seymour book for the challenge, but I don't think I've any books short enough to read between now & then. It's very unusual for me to not have any book on the go. LOL. Hurry up Sunday!

[Cathy M.]

For me it’s 1pm and it’s football day so hubs will be busy. That leaves me lots of reading time that day :D And a couple short stories in the meantime.

[Jill]

I guess that means 4PM for me. And yes football Sunday will have hubs occupied, but I still have so much to do with the house. I will def get some solid reading in though!!