Match One: Montrose Magpies v Team Who Must Not Be Named. Start 5 Jun @5pm PST

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

Cat wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Ow. Again. I need a really bog helmet and maybe one of those pet cones."

Jenny wrote: "Or, you know, a big helmet."

I'm tickled by the idea of you flying round with a toilets seat o..."

I would think that would make her stand out more as a target LOL.

Quick Beaters! aim for the toilet seat :-P

[Alysa]

Too bad Fred and George did not play quidditch with toilet seats that one time.

[Jenny]

Remember, magical game here. Aim for the toilet seat, and find out what blows back at you!!!!

[Maddy]

Maddy has valiantly soldiered through A Pie to Die for, grabbing pies and throwing them at the opponents, saving Jenny.

[Alysa]

Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater

Alysa is back, so reserve Maddy can go out for some butterbeer.
For real this time!

[Suzanne]

Maddy, you have great style

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

Montrose Magpie Beater Completion

Chris's determination has paid off and the bludger goes speeding towards Donna. This time there will be no mistake

Chris has finished reading Instinct: A Prehistoric Romance by Allison Blackwood

[Cat]

Superb timing from the Magpies, just as Maddy fished Jenny's head from out of the toilet seat, Chris puts the Chaser team into disarray, unseating Donna!
Knuckle biting stuff!

[Cat]

Wonder how the keeper is doing, will she be in position to foil the Nameless one's next goal attempt??

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

Quaffle repaired, Magpie Chasers Nicole and Anna (bamaace83 ) take to skies, the goal posts in their sights.

Magpies Quaffle #2

Q: Quantum by Patricia Cornwell - Nikk (Title Q)
U: Die Verratenen by Ursula Poznanski - Rina (Author First Initial U)
A: Thief of Cahraman: A Retelling of Aladdin by Lucy Tempest- Kim (MC Adeleaide - A)
F: Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson - Ambi (Title F)
F: Fallen Too Far by Abbi Glines- Nicole (Title F)
L: Looking to Score by Carrie Gray - bamaace83 (Title L)
E: Love Is Love by Mette Bach - Vicki (MC:Emmy E)

Magpies Chaser Chain #2

Slammed - Nicole
Slammed - Anna

[Judith]

Team Who Must Not Be Named Keeper

Judith spies the Montrose Magpies heading her way and while Love Is Love, it can still be squashed with delight. Judith aims for their Quaffle to defend her goal and takes off. (letter E, read by Vicki)

[Cat]

Go on Nicole & Anna! We want to see that quaffle slammed through the Nameless hoops for a Magpie score!

[Donna]

Hey! Shouldn't you be impartial? Considering you get to make all judgments and rulings on play...

[Maddy]

She is Dumbledore and loves all her students ;D

[Cat]

I'd rather be Professor McGonagall, tbh!

[Alysa]

Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater Defense

Jessi swoops in to finish Instinct: A Prehistoric Romance, and gets Donna back on her broom!

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

Magpie Keeper Completion

Keeper Nikk was so focused on protecting her goal posts that she only just avoided the safe that fell only inches away from her broom.

Instead she channelled the trapeze and flying skills of the MCs of her last two reads to swing across to the quaffle and then chucking the quaffle under the same safe, smashing the quaffle to pieces.

Nikk has finished reading Tightrope by Amanda Quick

[Suzanne]

Thank goodness - I mean - good job :) I've been rooting for the stupid heroine of that book to die. But she's too busy getting herself into danger and running into walls of male flesh.

[Jenny]

That's schlepping into walls of male flesh!

[Suzanne]

Crap you are right. She schlepps a lot. But no wonder, when the hot guy grew near her. I need to find out where hot guys grow, just to look, mind you.

[Cat]

All eyes in the arena now focused on the Montrose chasers and wondering where the Who Must beaters are... Are they going to perform one of their signature moves and barrel in from nowhere to stop that goal....?
The arena is a mass of tension!

[Cat]

Jenny and Suzanne trying to distract everyone's attention from their beaters, with that discussion of hot men and schlepping...

[Suzanne]

Team Who Must Not Be Named Quaffle Repair Scheduled

Chaser Suzanne schleps to the Quaffle and starts searching the ground. She's going to repair that thing...unless she spots a lot of hot guys growning. Oh that book!

[Suzanne]

Cat wrote: "Jenny and Suzanne trying to distract everyone's attention from their beaters, with that discussion of hot men and schlepping..."

Is it working?

[Judith]

Did you get far enough in the book for 🍆 to be described?

[Cat]

Judith wrote: "Did you get far enough in the book for 🍆 to be described?"

Judith employing classic dirty talk to put off the opposition, who looked sick to their stomachs at that comment! TWMNBN using all the gamesmanship tactics at their disposal to keep the Magpies off balance

[Ambi]

The Magpies shall not be distracted!

[Alysa]

Ambi wrote: "The Magpies shall not be distracted!"

Does your Seeker know that?
*evil laugh*

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

Montrose Magpie Keeper Substitution

Tired and hot from her keeper exertions and needing a nap, Keeper Nikk schleps off the field muttering something about hot men....

Hazel energetically jumps on her broom and flies out ready to take over keeper duties

[Suzanne]

AAAAAGH - just checking the thread before I isolate myself. I totally read that as "Hazel energetically HUMPS on her broom". Sigh. That book corrupted me.

[Kim]

Ambi wrote: "The Magpies shall not be distracted!"

yea. totally. not distracted...

just to clarify we are not distract by Tightroperight? *discreetly adds to TBR*

[Cat]

Kim wrote: "Ambi wrote: "The Magpies shall not be distracted!"

yea. totally. not distracted...

just to clarify we are not distract by Tightroperight? *discreetly adds to TBR*"

I think it was From the Ashes that Jenny & Suzanne were enjoying

[Maddy]

Team Who Must Not Be Named Keeper

Judith knows that Love Is Love, but has no problem breaking the hearts of the Montrose Magpies as she sends their Quaffle to the ground in pieces. (letter E, read by Vicki)

[Rina]

Montrose Magpies Quaffle Repair

Anna (bamaace83) retrieves the sad looking quaffle and sets about repairing it

[Rebecca]

Seeker Rebecca is sailing in on her broom Taking the Titanic to find that ever elusive golden snitch! This is one seeker who is very happy to set sail!

[Melissa]

Team Who Must Not Be Named Chaser

Reserve Minx is stepping in to cover for Chaser Jenny for the next six hours.

[Rina]

Montrose Magpies Beater

Rina is heading for Rebecca.

Rina will read Taking the Titanic by James Patterson

[Alysa]

Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater Defense

Aha! Beater Alysa is attempting to stop those Magpies from distracting Seeker Rebecca as she tries to spot the snitch.
We may all be Taking the Titanic, but Alysa won't let the Good Ship TWMNBN go down without a fight!

[Donna]

Team Who Must Not Be Named Chaser Suzanne has repaired the Quaffle

Q How to Marry a Marquis by Julia Quinnread by Suzanne
U The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos read by Jenny
A Criss Cross c:Alex Cross read by Rebecca
F Burley: Kentucky Tobacco in a New Century by Ann K. Ferrell read by Lexi
F The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us read by Jenny
L Lineage Most Lethal read by Minx
E Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World that Made Him by T.J. English read by Judith

[Kim]

TWMNBN, prepare your lifeboats!

[Lexi]

Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater

Reserve Jessi has completed her 6 hours and Beater Lexi is back and slightly concerned at where the chat has gone in her absence.

[Cat]

Rebecca wrote: "Seeker Rebecca is sailing in on her broom Taking the Titanic to find that ever elusive golden snitch! This is one seeker who is very happy to set sail!"

For transport on the cover task? Right?

[Cat]

Lexi wrote: "Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater

Reserve Jessi has completed her 6 hours and Beater Lexi is back and slightly concerned at where the chat has gone in her absence."

We all had to have a lie down after Jenny and Suzanne's man flesh book prompted Judith to start flinging large purple vegetables about!

[Lexi]

Cat wrote: "Rebecca wrote: "Seeker Rebecca is sailing in on her broom Taking the Titanic to find that ever elusive golden snitch! This is one seeker who is very happy to set sail!"

For transpo..."

Yes for Read a book with an item of transport (wizardly or Muggle) on the cover

[Cat]

Plus I was watching Tom Hiddleston in Coriolanus. Nice cheekbones, but I was slightly disappointed - I'd been hoping for more torso exposure :(

The acting was superb though!

[Lexi]

Cat wrote: "Lexi wrote: "Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater

Reserve Jessi has completed her 6 hours and Beater Lexi is back and slightly concerned at where the chat has gone in her absence."

We all had to hav..."

It was a two chaser chain so it is long enough that you could read it for WHEEL. Think of all the fun...

[Donna]

Team Who Must Not Be Named Chasers are tearing up the field again in the pursuit of more goals.

Chain # 7

A A Rake Never Changes His Spots Minx
B The Bennett Case Suzanne
C Catching a Vampire Donna

[Judith]

Cat wrote: "Lexi wrote: "Team Who Must Not Be Named Beater

Reserve Jessi has completed her 6 hours and Beater Lexi is back and slightly concerned at where the chat has gone in her absence."

We all had to hav..."

The Mistress of Lust apologizes for nothing. :P

[Kim]

Montrose Magpies Beater

Beater Chris will not be deterred by the coming Chasers and prepares to send the bludger careening towards Minx!

Chris reading A Rake Never Changes His Spots

[Lexi]

Beater Lexi rushes to save Minx!

Lexi reading A Rake Never Changes His Spots