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[Melindam]

I will read "Mort" by Terry Pratchett for Y.
I might follow Ora's example and re-read "Cinder" & Co. for Is.

And I downloaded a kindle freebie someone from another team recommended for X though I can't remember the title. :)

[Ora]

I am going to adjust what books I am going to finish this week. I will definitely have two Q books done this week and hold off reading any BDB books for X characters.

[Judy]

I've added a new tab to the planning spreadsheet :)

now that I'm on my laptop anyway I'm going to check what the tags are & add links to those at the beginning of the thread

[Judy]

We've got the same tags as in the first round - grass, tree, forest, hiking, Ireland

[Annalisa]

I remembered that I read the first book in a series earlier this year Doomed To Be Cannon Fodder: Book 1 and the author is Xiao Xiao Ye Yu which would be good for X or Y.

I’ve also got Malcom X I’ve been working on.

[Dev]

i can probably get a Y done, need one to finish off my author alphabet for the year anyway.

should finish one more book for this round today and then tomorrow ten arrows of iron comes out which is like 700 pages long so will be good for points but will also probably take me awhile to read lol, it will be good for T and S at the very least though.

[[deleted user]]

Wow that's quite the word to end off on...

[Dev]

yeah, i think it seems harder bc of the repeating letters and stuff but also if it was a shorter word we would be spelling it out more times and have to do probably as many of those letters anyway. but two Ys and an X is still a lot lol

[Judy]

Thanks for the update, Devann :)

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title:
Author: Lilian Jackson Braun
Pages: 293
Date read: 8/3
Letters: B, Q, A, R
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with a mouse / rat on the cover

Planning sheet updated

[Ora]

Completion Post

Title: Pachinko
Author: Min Jin Lee
Pages: 496
Date read: Aug 3
Letters:
B character Sunja Baek
A character Ayame
E character Etsuko
Tag: Freedom
Task: Read a book set in Asia

Day 1
Day 2

I will post other dates as DQ's are posted

[Ora]

When we had Ireland as a tag in round 1 I read What the Wind Knows. It's a wonderful time travel story with a few tear jerker moments. It takes place in the present and I think it's 1918 or there about. It's about a year after the last big uprising in Ireland for independence.

[Maddy]

Completion Post

Title: Fish Out of Water
Author: Amy Lane
Pages: 270
Date read: Aug 3
Letters: A - author, R - character Jackson Rivers, E - character Ellery Cramer, B - character Scott Bridger
Tag: No
Task: 15 Read a book with a fish on the cover
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Maddy]

Completion Post

Title: Unmarriageable
Author: Soniah Kamal
Pages: 352
Date read: Aug 3
Letters: U - title, A - character Alys Binat, B - character Fahad “Bungles” Bingla
Tag: No
Task: 154 Read a book set in Asia
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title:
Author: Jeanne Birdsall
Pages: 274
Date read: 8/3
Letters: B, R
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with four people on the cover - 54,550 words

Planning sheet updated

[Dev]

COMPLETION POST

The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf
date read: 8/3
pages: 288
audio length is 6hr 30min via audible

tags: no
bom: no
task: read a book with a five word title

letters:
A: alkaf [author LN]

and as i said that will probably be my last one for this round since i am starting a huuuuge book tomorrow

[Annalisa]

Completion Post
by Julia Quin
Date: August 3rd
Pages: 383

Works for Q or A

task: Read a book with a body of water (e.g. sea / lake / pond / etc) on the cover
There is a cliff with the ocean below on the cover.

On the planning sheet.

[Ali]

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Details on spreadsheet

[Ora]

Pachinko Day 3 DQ answers

[Ora]

I will be finishing 3 more books for this round. Two of which should be today and the last one Thursday night to Friday morning.
Devil in Winter tagged winter and Queen’s Gambit today, and House of Earth and Blood (Q character) by Friday morning at the latest.

[Melindam]

Thanks for lettingvus know, Ora.

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title: The Real Boy
Author: Anne Ursu
Pages: 348
Date read: 8/4
Letters: R, A, U
Tag: No
Task: Read a book that you got for free - Got from library; 69,390 words

Planning sheet updated

[Maddy]

Completion Post

Title: Authority
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Pages: 353
Date read: Aug 4
Letters: A - title, R - character John Rodriguez,
Tag: No
Task: 113 Read a book with a phone (landline or mobile) on the cover
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Annalisa]

Completion Post
Book:
Author: Kate Atkinson
Pages: 468 (I listened to the audiobook)
Date: August 4th
Letters: U, A, E - Ursula Todd, Edward Todd (Teddy) Characters/ Kate Atkinson(author)
Task: a bird on the cover.

updated planning sheet

[Colleen]

Completion Post

Book: Sing, Unburied, Sing
Author: Jesmyn Ward
Pages: 285
Date: 8/4
Letters: R - Rutina Wesley (Narrator)
Task: 163 Read #2 in a series

Updated planning sheet

[Maddy]

Completion Post

Title: The Alice Network
Author: Kate Quinn
Pages: 528
Date read: Aug 5
Letters: A - title, R - character John Rodriguez,
Tag: No
Task: A - title, Q - author, E - charcter Evelyn
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Ali]

Completion Post:


The Bromance Book Club

Spreadsheet updated

[Melindam]

COMPLETION POST:

Phineas Finn

on spreadsheet

[Ora]

Completion Post

Title: Devil in Winter
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Pages: 368
Date read: Aug 4
Letters:
B character Josh Bullard
A character Annabelle
R character Cam Rohan
E character Evie
Tag: Winter
Task: Read a book with a Winter scene on the cover

Title: Queen’s Gambit
Author: Karen Chance
Pages: 457
Date read: Aug 5
Letters:
B character Dory/Dorina Basarab
R character Raymond
Q title
Tag: None
Task: Read a book with a cityscape on the cover

[Ora]

I was just looking at our official SS, If there are any letters that will be needed I can squeeze in a short audio or two since my final book this week will be finished tomorrow afternoon. With the speed I am listening to the audio it will take me ~15 hours and have already started it and will be able to listen to the majority of today.

[Judy]

Ora, if you can do an E or two, that'd be great! That's the letter we're most short of at the moment

[Melindam]

By Friday I will also finish a book that will work for E (and B, A) :)

[Ora]

Judy wrote: "Ora, if you can do an E or two, that'd be great! That's the letter we're most short of at the moment"

Ok. I will look later today to see what I have or can find on audible escape

[Judy]

INTERNAL COUNTDOWN TO END OF ROUND 4

We're creeping closer to the end - round 4 ends on Friday!

Can you please let us know which books you'll be finishing by the end of the round so we can get a better overview (and so I know whether to request another couple of rounds of our word from the mods again ;) )?

[Melindam]

I will finish 2 more books. Will add them to the planning sheet later today.

[[deleted user]]

I should finish at least two b books.

[Annalisa]

I'm not sure if I will finish The Lost Queen before the deadline or not.

[Ora]

I will be able to finish two more books
Love Bites A, E, R
Undead and Unemployed B, E, U

[Judy]

Thanks ladies :)

[Ali]

Akata Witch (A and E)
and I would like to read one more based off what letter is most needed

[Annalisa]

I think earlier it was said that E was the letter we most need. That might have changed though.

[Ali]

Yeah it looks like there are a lot of e books we are about to finish

[Jackie]

I will at least finish the ones that I have on the spreadsheet. One of them works for E.

[Ali]

Completion Post:


Akata Witch

Details on spreadsheet

[Judy]

In the end it’s always best to have books that work for several letters so we can mix & match & move things around when there’s a lack of anything!

We’re good on Qs and Us to fill three more words (in addition to the one we’re currently in the middle of) should we get that far and the rest of the letters are luckily fairly easy to find :)

[Maddy]

Completion Post

Title: Eliza and Her Monsters
Author: Francesca Zappia
Pages: 405
Date read: Aug 5
Letters: E - title
Tag: No
Task: 29 Read a book with MPG Health
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Melindam]

COMPLETION POST:

Evening Class

Planning sheet updated

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title: Winterkill
Author: C.J. Box
Pages: 352
Date read: 8/6
Letters: B, A, R
Tag: Winter
Task: Read a book recommended by someone in a different team - Don Quixote

Planning sheet updated

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title: Up from the Grave
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Pages: 372
Date read: 8/6
Letters: U, B, I
Tag: No
Task: Read #7 in a series

Planning sheet updated

[Ora]

Day 4 Pachinko