Team Jersey Devil (M) - Chat ✔

[Jammin Jenny]

Yes it's fine you can move them out...It was more for a planning exercise than for real assignment/tracking

[Jill]

we don't need anymore OU in OUT. Let's focus on other letters we need

[Jill]

are we just winging the letters lol the ss isn't accurate. I think we should use it, but I'll stop if no one else is

[Claire]

I'm using the spreadsheet. If there's anyone who doesn't want to use it I guess we can update the spreadsheet for the stuff they've posted?

[Jammin Jenny]

Yes we can do that.

[Jill]

I just fixed the spreadsheet. Everyone is posting whatever they want. Its no wonder we arent winning. How it should be done is complete a whole board before moving onto another one. Unless you have a letter that really doesn't fit. The fact that we have 5 "OU" for "out" and ZERO "U" for "truth" is really dumb.

Please use the spreadsheet and post your book on there when you're done. Let's finish board 1, and then move onto board 2, etc.

It's not that hard guys..

[Jill]

To clarify, we get a bonus for every tagline we complete. Which is why that is the goal. Max points

[Jammin Jenny]

Thanks Jill. I'll use the SS from now on.

[Jammin Jenny]

So, you can only use the first letter of any word in the title or author's initials. You can also use groups of letters in a word if you have two or more letters together. Or, you can use a whole word if the word you need matches a word in the puzzle.

Some of the books in our SS are using single letters within a word in the title. I don't think we can do that according to the rules. Can everyone please check the SS and update your books accordingly?

[Jammin Jenny]

I highlighted books that need to be moved or changed because we were using single letters in the middle of a word in the title or author's name and that's not allowed.

[Eesh]

I'm not using the SS right now because most of my reading is unplanned. But whenever I do post something, I try to fit it to the letters that haven't been completed. That doesn't work out for all the books though.

[Jill]

My reading is unplanned yet I can still adhere to the ss. Just sayin

[Jammin Jenny]

That's cool Quirks. I think I caught all the books posted in our SS now so I think everything is in both places at least for the read books.

[Jill]

I think I fixed the ss again. I will double check again later when I have more time. BELIEVE was misspelled, which is why we are lacking the E.

[Jammin Jenny]

Ah. Thanks Jill!

[Claire]

@Quirks I’m starting Neverwhere now! :D

[Eesh]

I started it today too!

[Eesh]

I wanted to ask, shouldn't we be getting as many points as we can out of every book (upto 10 of course)? Like, Dragonfly posted a review and she only claimed points for one letter when she could have gotten more.

I'm going to comment about the extra letters but I'll take it down if it's an issue.

[Jill]

Quirks wrote: "I wanted to ask, shouldn't we be getting as many points as we can out of every book (upto 10 of course)? Like, Dragonfly posted a review and she only claimed points for one letter when she could ha..."

I added mine to the spreadsheet.

But I did not see how the letters would work for Dragonflys post. Didn't add that one

[Claire]

Yeah Quirks, we should claim as many letters as possible. I mean obviously we should focus on getting the letters we need the most whenever possible, but there's no reason to leave points on the table just because we already have extras of the letters, it's only a loss if we're claiming extra unneeded letters instead of letters we need.

Jill is right though the letters you posted don't work with those books.

[Eesh]

Is it because of the illustrations? Or am I missing a rule? The book is Reflection by Elizabeth Lim, yes?

[Eesh]

Nevermind, I just didn't write them correctly. Edited the comment so it's more clear.

[Claire]

Ooooh I think I wasn't reading them correctly, oops 😂

[Jill]

Any U's in the pipeline? We can use some..

[Eesh]

Since we can move letters around I was looking for some U's we could get. There are two:

1. Jammin Jenny - Drawn and Buttered by Shari Randall (Truth)
2. Jill - An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks (Trust)

I didn't check other editions for books though, except for the ones I posted.

[Jill]

Any I's? We would get a completion bonus

[Eesh]

I'm over halfway through a book right now that has an I.

[Jill]

we need it in I want to believe

[Eesh]

I'll try to post it by tomorrow.

[Eesh]

Jill, I was wondering if you could move the T from your latest review to "ouT" or "There"? Since it'd take us closer to completing it for the third time.

[Jill]

When I get to my desktop, I’ll change it

[Eesh]

Okay :)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Hello Team Jersey Devil, I know we're late in the month but I have messaged Rebecca to ask if she is still taking part as she hasn't posted any reviews yet. Hopefully we'll hear back soon x

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Hello Team Jersey Devil, I haven't had a response from Rebecca, so I'm assuming she's not taking part. I will be looking for a new team member for you, so I think we just have to cross our fingers x

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Hello Team Jersey Devil , just to let you know that Carolyn will be joining you from the solo side of the challenge ☺ I need a few minutes to post the November/December teams, but then I'll sort it out for you. You can see what books she's already read on the solo thread here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... if anybody wants to look at letters ☺

[Claire]

Thank you for your help Sarah!

Welcome Carolyn :D

[Jammin Jenny]

I'm reading Iniquitous right now - it works for I, TO and US

[Jill]

I did Carolyn's post for us.

Welcome Carolyn! We have a spreadsheet going on. Unfortunately no one uses it but me so I have been updating everyone's books, but feel free to use it!!

[Claire]

Thanks for updating with Carolyn's books!

I have been updating all my books in the spreadsheet almost every day though, so it's not true that nobody else is using the spreadsheet, just FYI.

[Carolyn]

Hi. Put my letters anywhere. I hope it helps. I'm reading my last book for the month: Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson. This gives us the letters L, A, H. Thanks for letting me be in your group, even if only for a week. 🙂

[Jammin Jenny]

So I was trying to use the SS but it doesn't seem to match what people have been putting in the review thread. So, I looked at where we needed letters from the review thread and posted by letters there.

Feel free to move them around if you think you have a better plan.

[Jill]

yeah dont worry about it anymore. we lost anyway

[Jammin Jenny]

I think we should use our banked books to finish off this clue, and move the books we're still waiting to finish to banked books