Team The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Lexi]

Melanie wrote: "Question, are we able to use the plural version of an MPG for one of the tasks? Not sure if the plural/singular rule only applies to tags or if it can work for tasks as well.

Task 138 - Read a boo..."

MPG are also tags so you are good using westerns

[Judith]

Melanie wrote: "Question, are we able to use the plural version of an MPG for one of the tasks? Not sure if the plural/singular rule only applies to tags or if it can work for tasks as well.

Task 138 - Read a boo..."

Yes, plurals are fine

[Melanie]

Just wanted to give an update since we're coming up on the deadline. I will have my last book for this round done around 3-3:30 pm EST, so an hour and a half or so before the deadline.

[Lexi]

Thank you

[Judith]

Lexi, I’ll be done mine ‘round the same time as Melanie.

[Lexi]

Great, all we have to move over is one full spelling and the incomplete one. I am not sure if I will finish mine or not in time but I got the Y done.

[Amanda]

Just finished Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. Hope that helps!

[Lexi]

Amanda wrote: "Just finished Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. Hope that helps!"

Added it to SS, thank you.

Did you like it? I own a copy but have not read it?

[Amanda]

Thank you- it was amazing honestly. Interesting twist on a few fairy tales, and very strong, intelligent women. I did not want it to end!

[Melanie]

Amanda wrote: "Thank you- it was amazing honestly. Interesting twist on a few fairy tales, and very strong, intelligent women. I did not want it to end!"

Oh, that sounds great. I have a copy of Spinning Silver, but haven't read it yet. I did read and love one of her other books though, Uprooted. I should make time before the challenge is over to read Spinning Silver.

[Judith]

I really enjoyed Spinning Silver. And went in some unexpected directions (in a good way).

[Sixty]

I finished You before the cutoff.

[Melanie]

Finished my book.

[Judith]

Woo-hoo!

We did great this round! Everything is logged and we are checked in for round 2.

No one finish a book for the next 55 minutes. hehe

[Jhmingos]

Amanda wrote: "Thank you- it was amazing honestly. Interesting twist on a few fairy tales, and very strong, intelligent women. I did not want it to end!"

This book sounds right up my alley, adding it to my list.

[Lexi]

Great job everyone, we finished Round 1 and are up to 4th place out of 15 teams so moving upwards. Overall, we read 110 books (2 more than last week but different people have different weeks).
Edited: 2 more books but much longer books, we read 4,000 more pages this round as a team.

We are 3rd for hard letters, and have more next week.

We are 7th on book of the month points. The Sun Down Motel seems to be enjoyed but everyone who reads it and thank you to the 4 people who already have read it.

[Jhmingos]

Lexi wrote: "

Great job everyone, we finished Round 1 and are up to 4th place out of 15 teams so moving upwards. Overall, we read 110 books (2 more than last week but different people have different weeks).
E..."

That's awesome. Only 2 more books than the last round but because we read 4000 more pages, our score was around 400 points higher. I'll see if I can add some more hefty reads

[Melanie]

Just an FYI, I don't know if it matters but the formulas for counting the number of books read in the Member Info tab were incorrect in the planning sheet so I fixed it (it wasn't counting all of the spellings we did).

They're incorrect in the actual sheet as well for all of the rounds if one of the captains want to correct it.

I noticed as I went to check to make sure I was actually making my target for each round and saw my count for round 2 was off.

[Lexi]

Melanie, good catch. I fixed it on the main SS as well. I had to add another word for us and fixed the page count for points formula and task formula but missed the members one. That was us reading 115 more books, which makes more sense. Still, great job on longer books.

[Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫]

Wow, nice catch! This is why I don't volunteer myself for playing around with spreadsheets! My husband does it for a living though--can't teach me a thing.

Anywho, I finished reading a book on 7/9/20...is that still last week's round? Or this new round? I forgot to put it on the spreadsheet right away and I can't find a list of exactly what day/time the new round started so I'm all confused. Sorry!

[Sanah]

I finished the Henna Artist!

Task 76-Read a book set in India

The main character's name is Lakshmi, so can that be used as part our points for the round?

[Lexi]

Thank you, Sanah and we need lots of Ls this round so that is great.

Lindsay, rounds end every other Friday and it was this Friday so we cannot use the book.

[Bee]

I just added my BOM to the spreadsheet The Sun Down Motel, I really enjoyed it and it surprised me, which is something that didn't happened often lately.
Off to my next book, I don't know which yet, but I'll keep you guys posted. I will definetly do the second BOM as planned and Our Souls at Night like I planned

[Lexi]

Wonderful, thank you

[Judith]

Sixty,

I was checking books and looked at your book, . You had it down for the task 'text only cover'. There are some things on the cover behind the text, so I switched the task to '115 circles on cover'.

Just wanted to let you know in case you wanted to switch it to something else/were planning to use circles on cover for a different book.

[Bee]

I added my currently reading book to the planning spreadsheet. Trouble is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly

[April]

SO I was thinking about re-reading Harry Potter and I was listing out the letters

Harry
J
Rowling
Harry
Hermione
Ron

She keeps the same letters! Never noticed until now

[Lexi]

April wrote: "SO I was thinking about re-reading Harry Potter and I was listing out the letters

Harry
J
Rowling
Harry
Hermione
Ron

She keeps the same letters! Never noticed until now"

That is interesting. You can also use minor characters so there are a bunch of letters if you want to reread them.

[Sixty]

Judith wrote: "Sixty,

I was checking books and looked at your book, . You had it down for the task 'text only cover'. There are some things on the cover behind the text, so I swit..."

That's fine, thanks! I put it as text only because there was nothing really definable in the background and you can't see the circles on my copy, but you can in the picture on the site.

[Melanie]

Just wanted to update that I'll have my first book done for the round either tonight or tomorrow.

I'm a bit behind as I received word from my work that work from home will be extended for the remainder of the year. That meant I needed to go into the office to grab stuff that's been left there since I started working from home 4 months ago. Plus I had to spend time reworking my home setup as now that's it's permanent, I needed to change some stuff around.

I still have a to-do list that's a million miles long, but I need a break after 4 non-stop days of working on this.

[Lexi]

Melanie wrote: "Just wanted to update that I'll have my first book done for the round either tonight or tomorrow.

I'm a bit behind as I received word from my work that work from home will be extended for the rema..."

I home for the rest of the year too. I hope you get a good set-up going.

[April]

Wow. I'm at work because we are a technical school. But we are in TN so we could be sent home again.
I'm behind on reading because we put our house on the market last week and had 20 viewings and 2 offers.
I should get my 3 books done but it will be close

[Judith]

Holy cow, good luck with the house selling/buying/moving!

[Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫]

I finally finished Faith: Taking Flight and have added it to the spreadsheet. We have one more week of Z's, is that correct?

[Lexi]

That is correct. We are halfway through this round.

[Jhmingos]

I just realized that a lot of my book recommendations will work for O's. They're all quick reads if we need to fill those letters.

[Judith]

Ohh, good to know. I’ll see where people are towards the middle of next week and grab some O’s if need be :)

[Bee]

I finished another book, Trouble Is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly, it's all in the spreadsheet, yay me, I'm off to my next target. Again, I'll let you know when I figure it out

[Lexi]

Thank you, Abir

[Lexi]

Abir, are you still planning on reading Our Souls at Night? I have it on the SS for this round.

[Bee]

Lexi wrote: "Abir, are you still planning on reading Our Souls at Night? I have it on the SS for this round."

yup it's planned, I have till friday, right?

[Lexi]

Yes, no rush. We have until Friday at 10 PM (London time, 5 PM EST)

[Amanda]

Hello- finished 2 more novels.
.

Thanks, hope everyone is doing well and is as safe as possible!
Btw are there any particular letters you guys need?

[Lexi]

We are doing good on most letters and opened up a new word so read whatever you feel like but Os, Ls, and Zs are always good.

[lucy]

I managed to get an audio book from the library so I was like ooh this works for this week I will listen. Didn't really know what it was about although knew there was a crime and it was one of the few available.
First 2 mins and she is talking about where it is set in the acknowledgement bit. Its the town I live in, this could go well or completely freak me out lol

[April]

Finished Chosen Ones

I can't decide if I want to read the others when they come out. I will if I see it and think, "Oh wonder what they are doing now?"

Updated SS

[Amanda]

Okay thanks- that’s perfect, I’m currently reading A Little Life which is also a chunker of a book! It’s great so far and I’m prepared as far as it being depressing!

[Judith]

Lala wrote: "I managed to get an audio book from the library so I was like ooh this works for this week I will listen. Didn't really know what it was about although knew there was a crime and it was one of the ..."

Just flip your deadbolt and don't answer your door. And hide under the bed while you listen to it.

You'll be fine. hehe

[Judith]

April wrote: "Finished Chosen Ones

I can't decide if I want to read the others when they come out. I will if I see it and think, "Oh wonder what they are doing now?"

Updated SS"

That's a good approach. I've done for some series or if I see it in the bargain bin for a dollar or two and think, sure, why not?

[Jhmingos]

Amanda wrote: "Okay thanks- that’s perfect, I’m currently reading A Little Life which is also a chunker of a book! It’s great so far and I’m prepared as far as it being depressing!"

A Little Life was good but it was definitely the most depressing book I've ever read. After finishing it, you'll probably want your next book to be something light and cheerful :). I made the silly mistake to make my next book a true crime novel haha