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Team Murder on the Orient Express
How many books you need as recs? Here are some I really enjoyed this year
Maddy wrote: "How many books you need as recs? Here are some I really enjoyed this year
..."Many thanks Maddy, no specific numbers are required. :)
And sorry to hear about technology letting you down. :(
FYI - in the tasks tab of our planning spreadsheet, I've added a column for every team member so you can track which tasks you've already completed (and plan books that could fit) :) (The tasks are also filter-able by category cause the whole list is quite overwhelming!)
Greetings from The Wonderful World of Oz! We are preparing some book recommendations for you. We still have some people on our team to add theirs but you can check them out here. Happy Reading Y'all!
Question: can the same person do the same task twice or can one person only do a task once.
qe wrote: "Question: can the same person do the same task twice or can one person only do a task once."You can only do a task once
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Okay, that sounds bad . . . Hello Expressers? Hmm, your team name doesn't lend itself well these shenanigans. So I'll keep it simple.
Hello Team Murder on the Orient Express!
As we Hitchhike through the galaxy, my team is collecting recommendations. Ours can be found here. And you may want to check it periodically as some members appear to of gotten lost in their travels and we also plan to update it with good books read during Wheel.
Happy Reading!
Dear Team, the collection of books recommended by other Teams, is collected in this post ("beginning" of our thread): Book recommendations by other Teams
Also, the books you loved most in 2020 are listed for other Teams to browse:
Recommended by Team Orient Express
If you have any special favourites you'd like to recommend, please post them and I will add them.
FYI - Found "Five Feet Apart " as audiobook and will read it. Just in case someone is tracking it :)
Thank you, Jackie. I will add it to our recommendations.
Judy wrote: "Is anyone going to participate in the BOMs (and wants to do DQs)? They're worth quite a lot of extra points and the discussions are usually fun!"
I usually do the BOMs during wheel and TT if I can get ahold of them. I haven’t had a chance to see if any of them are available at my library KU or scribd yet.
Ora wrote: "I usually do the BOMs during wheel and TT if I can get ahold of them. I haven’t had a chance to see if any of them are available at my library KU or scribd yet."I found The Jetsetters on Scribd (even after my unlimited access got cut off!) :)
I will probably add more books recs. These are off the top of my head and hopefully a variety of genres since a lot of the time I’m mood oriented to what genre I read. 
Here are some more book recs from me! I tried to have a variety of genres but it's pretty obvious what my favourite genre is.
Ora wrote: "Judy wrote: "Is anyone going to participate in the BOMs (and wants to do DQs)? They're worth quite a lot of extra points and the discussions are usually fun!"
I usually do the BOMs during wheel ..."
Five Feet Apart is on Scribd at least as an audiobook. I plan on listening to it.
I didn’t realize that. The Jetsetters audiobook is available after Jun 12 on scribd. I checked and both at my library with wait lists. It looks like I will be listen8ng to both of them this month.
I was able to get Five Feet Apart from my library.
I just saw that scribd has both the ebook and audio for Five Feet Apart
Jackie wrote: "I was able to get Five Feet Apart from my library."I thought we might be part of the same online lending library being in NC, but maybe not since you were able to get it and I have to place holds. (holds I don't currently have)
Here are a few of my favorite recent-ish reads.
and not so recent reads
Annalisa wrote: "Jackie wrote: "I was able to get Five Feet Apart from my library."I thought we might be part of the same online lending library being in NC, but maybe not since you were able to get it and I have..."
It's part of NC Digital Library but I've found that the books available vary from individual libraries within the system.
It is the same online library system then. Maybe your library owns a copy and mine doesn't.
Hello Orient Express!I'm drifting over from Watership Down to wish you safe travels as we embark on this voyage of book exploration. My shipmates are tossing out recommendations for each other to use during our trip and I wanted to invite you to come aboard and have a look in this post , if you so desire. We promise not to let the bunnies attack!
BUT, in the spirit of team interaction, I would also like to invite each of you to drop by anytime to ask for specific recommendations for your favorite type of book or when you want something totally random to read!
If you happen to read a book our team recommended, please come back and let us know what you thought of it - good or bad!
Happy Travels and Happier Reading!
Hi, I'm Kirsty from the UK. Nice to meet you all :)
Greeting Orient Express travelers!We've begun packing book recommendations in preparation for our Odyssey and will continue updating the list throughout the challenge.
Book Recommendations from Team Odyssey
Happy reading!
The BOMs for July have been announced! The Sun Down Motel - starts 2 July
Dear Martin - starts 16 July
I will see if my library, KU and scribd have them available.
I’ve checked and the July BOMs also are available only with hold at my library. Once I have a hold come in I’ll place the one I find most interesting on hold.
I can get Dear Martin but it looks like I can't get The Sun Down Motel.
I'll definitely be doing Dear Martin (really liked it the first time I read it & always wanted to reread), but not sure yet about Sun Down Motel - I'm not really one for mysteries/thrillers.
Does anyone have a good way to search tags? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind has over 200 pages of tags and I don't want to do it page by page unless I have too.
Annalisa wrote: "Does anyone have a good way to search tags? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind has over 200 pages of tags and I don't want to do it page by page unless I have too."Here you go. This will save you a lot time.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Ora wrote: "Annalisa wrote: "Does anyone have a good way to search tags? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind has over 200 pages of tags and I don't want to do it page by page unless I have to..."Thank you.
I am so happy. I was checking for letters for Alpha Night and so excited it works for every letter for the first round. I have been looking forward to reading this books for so long and so bummed I have to wait until next when my husband goes back to work in his office. I am not sure I could be held responsible for what happens to him if he interrupts me, so now just impatiently waiting. Tuesday cannot come fast enough
Hello Team Orient,I'm flying around from Harry Potter to wish you all a safe, fun voyage through reading land. My witches and wizards are sharing recommendations for everyone to use during our voyage wanted to invite you all to take a look here and we would love it if you would come over and share your thoughts with us. No matter what if its good or bad we would like to hear your thoughts on the book you picked.
Happy Travels!
Ora wrote: "Here you go. This will save you a lot time.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
Ohhhh I love this, thanks for sharing Ora!
Ora wrote: "I am so happy. I was checking for letters for Alpha Night and so excited it works for every letter for the first round. I have been looking forward to reading this books for so long..."Yay! Some books just have to be read with no interruptions 😉 I hope you enjoy it!
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I've ventured out from Middle Earth to invite you all round whenever you would like. It's never more than 5 minutes from a meal (speaking of which is it time for lunch yet...).
We've got a lovely selection of recommendations here to tempt you all and would love it if you stick around to tell us what you thought.
Will we decide together in the next few days our first book so we can complete the word?
You can read whatever you want! From what I've seen on the planning spreadsheet, we're in pretty good shape when it comes to fitting them into our word :) if it looks like we're a bit short on something, we'll give a shout. So when you finish a book, make sure to:
1) add it to your wheelathon shelf
2) post a completion post here in this thread (template here)
3) add the book + read date to the planning spreadsheet
Melinda & I will then fit it into our spell-it-out :)
If there's a finished book for one of the letters that isn't planned and there's a letter planned for that letter but that book isn't finished yet do we ignore the planned book and use the book that's definitely finished?
qe wrote: "If there's a finished book for one of the letters that isn't planned and there's a letter planned for that letter but that book isn't finished yet do we ignore the planned book and use the book that's definitely finished?"We will definitely use the finished books first.
The planned books are really helpful to see for what's still to come so we can place the finished books in the best spot.
Judy wrote: "You can read whatever you want! From what I've seen on the planning spreadsheet, we're in pretty good shape when it comes to fitting them into our word :) if it looks like we're a bit short on some..."Thanks for the clarification!
Riding in on my motorcycle to give you some recommendations from me!:Romance and young adult:
Mystery/thriller/horror:
Nonfiction:
When we post our books, do we use the edition we read or the default edition?
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Yeah, I can find books no problem. No promises they will be with huge page counts though ;D
My preferred genre is MM rom so those books are usually between 200-300