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Finished a second book today and participated in the discussion for BOM. So that should be some extra points. Can someone let me know how DQ works? Do you have to volunteer early and get selected? Do the mods decide on the section you'll be covering or can you give a preference?
You are doing great. You have to answer three sets of discussion questions to get the points. I will be starting the book soon too.To write DQs, one person per a team volunteers. Right now, Judith has volunteered for June and July BOMs, but if there is a July book where you want to write them, you can volunteer and I am sure Judith would not mind being backup. The selection is by random generator so some teams will get it more than others but that is random for you. You can give a preference on which day but others may also give the same preference so flexibility helps. Does that answer your questions?
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But if you aren’t on the volunteer list, you can’t write DQs in my place. So even if you see my name, or someone else from the team, don’t let that stop you from tossing your hat into the ring.
Also, for fairness, the mods don’t let a team have than one DQ day unless there isn’t enough volunteers. Which never happens because it’s a lot of points.
Judith is right. I meant over the three months and not per a book.
Hello friends! If you would like to come tilt at windmills with Team Don Quixote and read some great books, you can browse our recommendations here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hey hitchhikers!We've taken a short stop from riding our motorbikes to send you some recommendations from our team. Take a look to see what books we recommend to you guys!
If you do happen to read one of the books, we'd love you to drop by and share your thoughts with the team.
Recommendations from Motorcycle Diaries!
Happy travelling!
Also, I personally loved this book and do recommend it ;)
Lexi wrote: "You are doing great. You have to answer three sets of discussion questions to get the points. I will be starting the book soon too.To write DQs, one person per a team volunteers. Right now, Judit..."
Great thanks for clarifying. I don't think I want to do DQ for Jul. I'll just look into participating, but I was curious for August.
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FYI - August is going to be a themed month, so mods are asking nominations be for books by minority authors. Details about the BOM nomination requirements are in the top posts of the below threads
Adult Fiction/Non-fiction nomination thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Young Adult nomination thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hi all, Got into a series and read first three books this weekend. Made myself put it down and started another book which I am almost finished with today.
Hope everyone is enjoying all the books you guys are reading.
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Got into a series and read first three books this weekend. Made myself put it down and started another book which I am almost finished with today.
Hope everyone is enjoying all the book..."
What was the series? Always looking to make my TBR list longer, LOL
Judith wrote: "Foxy Grandma wrote: "Hi all, Got into a series and read first three books this weekend. Made myself put it down and started another book which I am almost finished with today.
Hope everyone is ..."
Series is Wild Hunt by Yasmine Galenorn.
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It is a slow going read so some might find it boring, but I really enjoyed reading it.
I started Call Down the Hawk, but this version has no pages. Is anybody here a GR librarian and can add the page number to the ebook version? Here is a link to the book on kobo website with a page number (431 pages): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/call...Thanks in advance!
For ebooks, the page count comes from the publisher which has 480, so I've added that.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Melanie wrote: "For ebooks, the page count comes from the publisher which has 480, so I've added that.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4..."
480 is better for this challenge than 431 so I'm definitely not going to complain😀- Thanks!
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And thanks Melanie! We are spoiled to have our own GR librarian on the team :)
Judith wrote: "Kristel, let me know what you think of that book. It's been on my TBR for awhile I feel like.And thanks Melanie! We are spoiled to have our own GR librarian on the team :)"
will do :)
Hi, I'm April and I just got assigned this group.I live in Southaven, MS which is just outside of Memphis, TN.
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I see you've found your way to the tracking spreadsheet already, which is great.
Please let Lexi or I know if you have any questions.
And if you have a book recommendations you'd like to share I can add them to the team list.
The Handmaid's Tale (Audible with Claire Danes). Just finished it and it still scares me to this day.
April, Welcome and I'm sorry but you cannot use The Gilded Wolves as you have a start date marked as May 28. All books must be started after the challenge starts. Any book you started since June 12th is good.
Hello there Hitchhikers!Having just finished The Art of Fielding (a book I can heartily recommend!), I am left in the mood for more sports-themed books, so have come to see if any of you have any recommendations in the genre.
Just to be clear, I'm not looking for a trashy romance that happens to have a sports backdrop (you know the kind I mean...), but the kind that has a sport at its heart. (any sport, I'm open to learning about new ones! lol)
Thanks in advance!
Sammy - Team HP
Greetings from Team Pants! I've come to request recommendations from you all 😊 Lately, I’ve been in the mood for some great nonfiction. Any favourites? I don’t have a genre preference – biography, memoir, history, science are all fine! Thanks in advance!
Navi wrote: "Greetings from Team Pants! I've come to request recommendations from you all 😊 Lately, I’ve been in the mood for some great nonfiction. Any favourites? I don’t have a genre preference – biography, ..."Happy to give you some nonfiction recommendations. Pick your poison:
Once weve completed the 5 spell outs do we just start preparing for the next round or have I missed a step?
Once we completed the five, I will add a sixth and seventh as needed. I started us with five as we won't get points for partial words so these need to be full, but it looks like I should add the 6th later today.
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We can do more than 5 spellings. But we can only have 1 incomplete spelling, so Lexi only put up 5 spellings for claiming letters to avoid getting to far ahead of ourselves.
If people keep clipping along with books like they have been, we will likely need to make more available. If/when that happens one of us will let the team know more are open.
But if you are looking for a home right now for a specific book, I can likely shift some things around if a letter it works for isn't currently available.
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What the captain said :)
Ahhh perfect. Ill be finished with my read tonight and my planned next read is a short one so i was hoping I could get another in before this round is over. Thank you both :)
I've opened up spelling number 6 after moving a few books around.
Lexi wrote: "April, Welcome and I'm sorry but you cannot use The Gilded Wolves as you have a start date marked as May 28. All books must be started after the challenge starts. Any book you start..."I'll change it. I moved it to weeks before I actually started it. I really began it on the 16th
April wrote: "Lexi wrote: "April, Welcome and I'm sorry but you cannot use The Gilded Wolves as you have a start date marked as May 28. All books must be started after the challenge starts. Any b..."Wonderful, glad you can use it.
I just finished my first book - The Upside of Unrequited. It wasn't the book I originally put on the planning sheet so I might have to switch things up a little bit when I put in the tracker. Sounds like we're doing fine though!And welcome to the team, April and Alex! =]
I finished The Gilded Wolves.Not sure if I'll read the next in the series. The world building was well done. I just couldn't get into it.
April wrote: "I finished The Gilded Wolves.Not sure if I'll read the next in the series. The world building was well done. I just couldn't get into it."
I'm on the fence with the second one too. I usually do not continue a series that I gave only 3 stars to the first one.
April wrote: "I finished The Gilded Wolves.Not sure if I'll read the next in the series. The world building was well done. I just couldn't get into it."
I have that one sitting on my shelves. I heard the world building was great and its worth picking up. Obviously I haven't been in a huge rush to get to it though. (lol)
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Not sure if I'll read the next in the series. The world building was well done. I just couldn't get into it."
I have that one sitting o..."
Same here, it's just sitting there in judgement of me with all the other books I have waiting to be read. haha
I am half way through ‘The Girl on the Train’ and my word it’s a slog. I really hope it gets better in the second half!
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It does pick up towards the end as she starts figuring things out for real. If I read this book today, I'm not sure I would of rated it the same as I did.
Though that's partly due to the slew of books that followed a very similar format and used almost the same plot devices published after this one was so successful.
Lala wrote: "I am half way through ‘The Girl on the Train’ and my word it’s a slog. I really hope it gets better in the second half!"That book is so polarizing haha. I wasn't a fan but I think it's because I read a lot of mystery/thrillers. I know a couple of friends who enjoyed it.
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I really like a good unreliable narrator but DNF'd that book anyways
Lala wrote: "I am half way through ‘The Girl on the Train’ and my word it’s a slog. I really hope it gets better in the second half!"I finished it eventually but put it down multiple times. Not a fan, especially after all the hype
If anybody is Kitty Norville or Carrie Vaughn fans or just enjoy good vampire stories without the romance, The Immortal Conquistador is a good book. Lots of details....
I have 5 grandbabies the rest of the weekend so probably no more books for me till Monday or Tuesday. Have a great weekend everyone.
Foxy Grandma wrote: "I have 5 grandbabies the rest of the weekend so probably no more books for me till Monday or Tuesday. Have a great weekend everyone."
Enjoy your weekend and I hope the weather is nice.
Because I'm an enabler of others buying books, Amazon has a sale on a lot of titles where you buy 3 and the cheapest one is free. (The sale includes more than books, but hey books are what the common interest is here.) The deal stacks too. For example, I just bought 9 books and 3 of them were free. And it includes a lot of newer books too as I got 3 2019 releases and 6 2020 releases.Here is the link if anyone is interested. I definitely recommend playing with the genre filters on the left side as you'll be able to see more books that way since it's limited to 20 pages of items even though there's more than that many items.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/promotion/A...
I saw that and am considering buying Becky Chamber's three books but I have a rule against buying new books but it may be more of a guideline…
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