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[Judy]

Jackie wrote: "When we post our books, do we use the edition we read or the default edition?"

The edition you read.

If you listen to the audiobook, you can use the default edition for page count.

[Jackie]

Thanks, Judy!

[Judy]

COUNTDOWN TO START

Just over 24 hours to go!

Is everyone ready or do you (like me) still have books left to finish?

[[deleted user]]

Lol I'm currently in the middle of three books that won't count towards the challenge. I'm not worrying too much about finishing them because I don't want to start anything else before it starts.

[Bookworm_gem]

not long to go!! just finishing up my current book and will add my planned reads to the spreadsheet tomorrow x

[Jackie]

For now, I'm only planning to read some short stories/novellas that I've been wanting to read. Got my first books for Wheel planned and ready to go when starting time arrives!

[Judy]

Gemma wrote: "not long to go!! just finishing up my current book and will add my planned reads to the spreadsheet tomorrow x"

Thanks :)

[Judy]

Jackie wrote: "For now, I'm only planning to read some short stories/novellas that I've been wanting to read. Got my first books for Wheel planned and ready to go when starting time arrives!"

Same here! I've still got a play and a poetry collection to finish.

[Melindam]

I just finished a book and will wait until after the deadline is up to start on a new book.

I am still listening to The Mirror & the Light to bide my time, but it is a slow boat to China. :)

I will also add your book recommendations to the beginning of the thread. I have not had time to do so in the last 2 days.

[Maddy]

I think I will just read what I have and log them in SS as I go and leave it up to someone else to figure out the logistics :D

[Ashleigh]

Hello hello from Team Around the World in Eighty Days!

Please feel free to come over to our thread and see our book recommendations! Happy reading everyone!

[Judy]

Less than an hour to go!!!

[Ali]

Judy wrote: "Less than an hour to go!!!"
Woohoo. I have way more time to read for these couple months than I usually do--super stoked!

[Judy]

Let's gooooooo - the Orient Express is taking off! 🚂

I'm going to start The Bromance Book Club first! (And probably fall asleep after like two pages... it's been a long day.)

[Dev]

hey guys sorry i've been mia for a couple days, finding it very hard to stay focused this week! i started elysium girls today as my first book though so hopefully i can build up some momentum!

[Colleen]

I still don't get how to find the obscure tags - so if someone can help me out on that I'd appreciate it!

5 hours to go for me here, can't wait to start reading again!

[Lexi]

Colleen, I am not on your team but I saw your comment go by and felt bad. Don't use the countdown anymore. It is counting up now so everyone can be reading for 5 hours now. ( I apologize if I misunderstood you and butted in).

[Judy]

Colleen wrote: "5 hours to go for me here, can't wait to start reading again!"

Colleen, you can already start reading! We all started at the same time & the "countdown timer" is counting up now since the start date has passed, like Lexi said :)

[Judy]

Colleen wrote: "I still don't get how to find the obscure tags - so if someone can help me out on that I'd appreciate it!"

If you think a book might have a specific tag, you can try this:



I've tried it a bunch of times and sometimes it worked, but I also got a lot of Goodreads time outs...

The easiest way for me is still to go to the tag and scroll through the pages (I linked them all here)

[Melindam]

Dear All,

once you have finished a book, please use the following formula to link the right edition of your book on the Planning Sheet.

=HYPERLINK("GR link to the edition you read";"Type here the title")

Example:

=HYPERLINK("https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... and Fate")

[Melindam]

COMPLETION POST
Title: Fortune and Fate
Author: Sharon Shinn
Pages: 428
Date read: 13 June
Letters: S, D, C, S, T, E
Tag: NO
Task: Read #5 of a series

BOM: NO

Planning sheet updated

[Ora]

My room in which my computer is in is empty right now. I am getting new carpet put in Monday, so Monday night to Tuesday afternoon I will have my computer back and will be able to do the hyperlinks and update the SS easier. I may wind up waiting to get things updated until then if I have too many problems doing it on my iPad. I only know how to do things on it after I have been shown. I really am not tech savvy.

[Melindam]

Ora, if you have the right edition on your wheelaton-shelf, you can post the completed books and we can add it to the planning sheet. :)

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title: Fast Money
Author: Colleen Helme
Pages: 275
Date read: 6/13
Letters: C,S,N
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with a single person on the cover

BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Colleen]

Judy wrote: "Colleen wrote: "5 hours to go for me here, can't wait to start reading again!"

Colleen, you can already start reading! We all started at the same time & the "countdown timer" is counting up now si..."

Duh! OMG - I'll be reading today, obviously.

Also, I'll try figuring out the tags again to fit books I'm already scheduled to read.

Go Team! Two of you are already super fast.

[Melindam]

My son is with my parents for the w/e, so I'm trying to use this precious opportunity & am reading like mad. :D
On weekdays I can make slower progress.

[Judy]

@Colleen - don’t worry too much about finding books for the tags. We’ve already got a lot in the spreadsheet & we can only use 10 anyway :)

[Ali]

If a single book we are reading happens to fit multiple tags do we just pick one?

[Judy]

Alison wrote: "If a single book we are reading happens to fit multiple tags do we just pick one?"

Yep - same for tasks, please :)

[Sunshine]

Hi, so if we do not need to look for tags, is there something else that we need to look out for?

[Judy]

Sunshine wrote: "Hi, so if we do not need to look for tags, is there something else that we need to look out for?"

The main thing is that you fit your books to tasks so we get maximum bonus points from that. The full task list is in one of the pinned comments as well as the "Tasks" tab on the planning spreadsheet, which you can also use to plan out and track the books you use for tasks.

[Ali]

Completion Post
Title: Daughter of the Forest
Author: Juliet Marillier
Pages: 554
Date read: June 13
Letters: D (title) S (Sorcha) A (Anne) C (Cadrick)
Tag: Forest
Task: 85- Read a book with a family relation word in the title

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title: Twilight
Author: Meg Cabot
Pages: 312
Date read: 6/13
Letters: T,C,S,D,A
Tag: No
Task: Read #6 in a series

BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Melindam]

COMPLETION POST
Title: Troubled Waters
Author: Sharon Shinn
Pages: 416
Date read: 14 June
Letters: S, A, N, D, C, T, L, E
Tag: NO
Task: Read mpg Young Adult

BOM: NO

Planning sheet updated

[Judy]

Maddy wrote: "I think I will just read what I have and log them in SS as I go and leave it up to someone else to figure out the logistics :D"

Can you please also do a completion post in this thread when you finish a book? :)

[Maddy]

For all of them? I thought only for those that actually get used?

[Maddy]

Completion Post

Title: To the Far Blue Mountains
Author: Louis L'Amour
Pages: 287
Date read: 6/13
Letters: T- title, L - author, S - character Barnabus Sackett, A - character Abigail Tempany, N - Nick Bardle,
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with MPG Western

BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Maddy]

Completion Post

Title: Sea Swept
Author: Nora Roberts
Pages: 356
Date read: 6/13
Letters: S - title, N - author, C - series, A - character Anna, E- character Ethan
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with someone doing a hobby activity on the cover

BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Maddy]

Completion Post

Title: A Scot's Surrender
Author: Lily Maxton
Pages: 261
Date read: 6/13
Letters: S- title, L- author, C- character Ian Cameron, T - character Robert Townsend
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with MPG Historical Fiction

BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Judy]

Maddy wrote: "For all of them? I thought only for those that actually get used?"

Yes please, ideally we'll be able to use all of them!

[Maddy]

Completion Post

Title: The Collector
Author: John Fowles
Pages: 322
Date read: 6/14
Letters: C - title
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with an insect on the cover

BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Sunshine]

Why do we need to put a completion post on the thread, if it is listed on the spreadsheet? I don't have time to do double work.

Can we do one posting?

[Melindam]

Hi Sunshine & All :)

when you finished a book, please post its title to the thread, so that Judy and I are alerted that some action is needed from our side.

It's enough, if the rest of the info is contained on the planning sheet.

Please do a full post, if for some reason you cannot access the sheet.

Thank you.

[Sunshine]

Melindam wrote: "Hi Sunshine & All :)

when you finished a book, please post its title to the thread, so that Judy and I are alerted that some action is needed from our side. ..."

AWESOME!!!!
Thanks

[Annalisa]

I've got Jetsetters on hold and Five Feet Apart came in earlier than I expected. I now have three audiobooks and the commute I would listen to them on has turned into me being driven to work, since I was rear ended on my way home and my car is totaled. (There as been a lot of drama with cars here. After I was hit, someone stole the catalytic converter from my car and my partners car. He got a rental car and until his car is repaired I'm being driven to work.) This is why I've not been around on the thread.

[Melindam]

Annalisa, thanks for letting us know and so sorry to hear about the troubles.
Hope things & cars get sorted out for you soon.

[Judy]

Annalisa wrote: "I've got Jetsetters on hold and Five Feet Apart came in earlier than I expected. I now have three audiobooks and the commute I would listen to them on has turned into me being driven to work, since..."

Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that. I hope everything gets sorted out soon!

[Judy]

Completion Post
Title: The Bromance Book Club
Author: Lyssa Kay Adams
Pages: 352
Date read: 14 June
Letters: S, A, N, T, L
Tag: no
Task: #20 - recommended by Beth from Motorcycle Diaries

[Sammy]

Just calling in to inform Melinda (and anyone else who's interested) that the Hogwarts Express is just passing through Leicestershire, and may be open for a stowaway or three ;)

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title:
Author: Molly Harper
Pages: 352
Date read: 6/14/20
Letters: N, A, C
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with a Winter scene on the cover

BOM: No

Planning sheet updated