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[Melanie]

Question. I have an ARC of the following anthology which I'll be reading during the next round. I can count this for the challenge, right? It's 7 new stories in the anthology, not a bind-up of ones otherwise available.



If yes, letters wise it would be just the title and authors that can be used, right?

[Lexi]

Melanie wrote: "Question. I have an ARC of the following anthology which I'll be reading during the next round. I can count this for the challenge, right? It's 7 new stories in the anthology, not a bind-up of ones..."

You can use it. I tend not to use chars but I do not think there is a rule aganist it.

[Judith]

Just consider the editor the author, not the authors of the individual stories.

[Melanie]

Judith wrote: "Just consider the editor the author, not the authors of the individual stories."

What if there is no editor that you can see? Nowhere in the ARC is an editor credited, it just lists each author and the name of their story. The cover doesn't specify one either, it just lists the author names in the order of the individual stories (which is alphabetical by author last name).

[Judith]

Since all the authors are listed on GR and there is no editor, any of the author names should be fine to use.

[Bee]

I finished the second BOM, and added it to the SS. Off to my last book for the this round

[Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫]

Just FYI: I just started reading the BOM

[Lexi]

Lindsay, I think most people have enjoyed it so I hope you do too

[Lexi]

Our Round Four word is "White Water Rafting"
Tags: Fire, Heat, China, Dragon, Autumn

Books need to be finished after 10 PM London time on Friday / 5 PM EST

Planning sheet for Round 4 is also up.

[Melanie]

I had to remove one of my books that I claimed as I won't get to it this week. It was the C in the 4th spelling.

I should have the 2 books I have left remaining on the sheet done by Friday (both Z's).

[Bee]

I finished my O book and last one for this round, I'll see what I can find for the next one

[Judith]

Melanie wrote: "I had to remove one of my books that I claimed as I won't get to it this week. It was the C in the 4th spelling.

I should have the 2 books I have left remaining on the sheet done by Friday (both Z..."

Okay, I shuffled some books and put something else there. Thank you for letting us know.

[Judith]

Abir wrote: "I finished my O book and last one for this round, I'll see what I can find for the next one"

Great! Thanks Abir!

[April]

So this house hunting and packing thing is busy work. I read just one of thy 2 I was supposed to finish. I'll move the other one to Round 4

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe was middle-grade. Good but didn't move past that genre like Percy Jackson.

I feel bad for this because I'll always compare them to Percy Jackson, like I'll always compare books about magic and magical school to Harry Potter.
Without them there are no others. With them, nothing lives up to them.

[Lexi]

Thank you, I moved books around so we are good.

[Foxy Grandma]

I put a Z on the spreadsheet but it also works for most of the other letters if you need it. I should finish it tonight maybe...but definitely by lunchtime tomorrow.

Now to find books for Round 4

[Judith]

We are headed for another great finish for this round!

Just finished my last one so I’m tapping out for round 3.

Happy reading everyone 🙂

[Foxy Grandma]

I am off today and could get one more book in for Round 3 if we need it. Or should I hold off till Round 4

[Amanda]

Just finished A Little Life and it was great, but im definitely going to read some fantasy books Jhmingos- nothing realistic for sure! Even dystopian, as long as its not like 1984 which really got to me for some reason. No true crime though lol:)

[Gem ~ZeroShelfControl~]

I have 140 pages left of mine and I’m hopeful I will get it done before 10pm tonight

[Jhmingos]

Updated the SS with my last book for this round. I'm having an issue with the Master Task List. It's not automating for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. I have it logged in my personal list though.

[Foxy Grandma]

Is there a combined spreadsheet somewhere of the books recommended by each team or do we need to just go to each list?

[Lexi]

Beth, we are good if you want to start your books for the next round or you can find a book. I will log books at 4 PM EST so whatever makes you happy. Also, no master list that I know of but Judith has linked them in the front of the thread.

Jhmingos, I will check on the master task list. Thank you

[Lexi]

Gem ~Zero Shelf Control~ wrote: "I have 140 pages left of mine and I’m hopeful I will get it done before 10pm tonight"

Gem, if you can't, no worries, but please tell us as it is part of a complete word and the next word won't get points if it is incomplete and I will need the time to move things around. Thank you

[Judith]

Jhmingos wrote: "Updated the SS with my last book for this round. I'm having an issue with the Master Task List. It's not automating for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. I have it logged in m..."

It's fixed our last word went one line longer than I had the formula go for Round 3 tasks.

[Judith]

Foxy Grandma wrote: "Is there a combined spreadsheet somewhere of the books recommended by each team or do we need to just go to each list?"

I will say that Team HP & the Deathly Hallows has a lot of recommendations up and organized by genre. It might be a good one to start with.

Sorry there isn't a master list, there is just too many and a lot of teams are adding throughout the challenge.

[Lexi]

I just looked at making a list but one person can only add 100 books so there are too many books to add. (You pass 100 by the 2nd team).

[Gem ~ZeroShelfControl~]

Yay, just finished. But I didn’t like it so hopefully I pick better next book. Please can someone add to the spreadsheet that I’m finished? Thank you and great round!

[Sixty]

I finished my last one before the cutoff!

[Lexi]

Great, Gem and Sixty

I just finished my last one and Judith and I have everything moved over but Melanie’s last one. I will check back in an hour for it.

[Melanie]

Sorry, I'm actually not going to get to my last one before the cutoff. I'll take it off the sheet.

[Lexi]

No worries, I will go check us in for the round. No one finish a book for the next 45 min please

[Lexi]

Great job everyone, we finished Round 3 and are still in 4th place out of 15 teams. Overall, we read 114 books (1 less than last week but different people have different weeks) and within 350 pages of the same number of pages. However, we are within 200 points of 3rd and 5th is less than 100 points behind us so the top five are very close.


If anyone still wants to read The Sun Down Motel, it needs to be read by Aug 2.

The next two BOMs are Pachinko - Aug 2 and Spin the Dawn - Aug 16. I'll get the links up for them closer to when they start. For any BOM, i.e. Spin the Dawn, you can read it before the start date (Aug 16) and just answer the questions then, esp since it is 5 days before the end of the game.

[Jhmingos]

Can we have more letters added to the SS? I just finished a book that needs to be logged in.

[Lexi]

Opened two more words, that filled up quickly.

[Jhmingos]

Thanks! Just added my book

[Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫]

Oh sweet, I own a copy of Spin the Dawn. Might be packed up somewhere because we had some flooding in my basement. I'll try to find it, but if not I can request from my library and I will still be happy to knock it off my TBR.

I'll be done with The Sun Down Motel before the end of this week. I'm really enjoying it. =]

[Sanah]

I have finished Ghosts of the Shadow Market! A great read btw for those who haven't already picked it up :)

[Judith]

Sanah wrote: "I have finished Ghosts of the Shadow Market! A great read btw for those who haven't already picked it up :)"

That does look like a fun collection of short stories

[Judith]

Just as an FYI - the mods set standard page numbers for BOM so everyone who reads it gets the same book points regardless of the edition read. Usually it's what most of us already have down on the spreadsheet.

But for Pachinko, it's 548. I've updated everyone's entry already, but didn't want people confused as to why the page number was now different.

[April]

Finished The Other Alcott

She was an interesting person. An artist in Europe while the Impressionists were getting started. She was friends with Mary Cassatt. And had 2 exhibits in The Salon in Paris.

But most people just think of her as Amy March

[Bee]

finished my first book for this round The Witch of Portobello by Paulo Coelho, it's on the spreadsheet, my second book Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date by Katie Heaney will be done by tomorrow, fingers crossed

[Lexi]

Abir, can you add your book to your wheel shelf please? Thank you

[April]

SO I have a question:

For the task, Read a book written in espistolary style (e.g. diary / letters / emails)

Does the whole book have to be this way? or can it be both diary/letters and regular

[Lexi]

Usually it is over 50%. There was an exception made for the BOM which the mods said was allowed to be used even if it was a bit under 50%.

[April]

Lexi wrote: "Usually it is over 50%. There was an exception made for the BOM which the mods said was allowed to be used even if it was a bit under 50%."

Ok, since I listened to it, I can't look at it to tell, but it didn't feel 50% so I won't change the task

[Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫]

Hi :) I just finished my BOM....please remind me...do I get BOM points and put it in the spell it out? Or just the BOM?

[Lexi]

Lindsay,

I fixed the links on your 3 day of questions and added it to the SS for the spell it out so you are good to go.

[Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫]

Lexi wrote: "Lindsay,

I fixed the links on your 3 day of questions and added it to the SS for the spell it out so you are good to go."

Oh gee thanks! You're a gem!!

[Bee]

Finished my second book, I think I'll start with the BOM next, but I'm not sure. I'll let yoou know what I'll decide