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[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title: Dark Days
Author: Derek Landy
Pages: 415
Date read: 6/22/20
Letters: D, L, S, C, T
Tag: Yes - Ireland
Task: Read a book with a two word title

BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Bookworm_gem]

Hope to finish at lease one more before end of the round!

If I start a book during round 1 but don't finish can it be used in round 2?

[Ora]

I am planning on starting What the Wind Knows tonight or tomorrow. it's tagged Ireland

[Melindam]

Hi Gemma,

For sure! Just please make sure you report it after the 1st round has closed officially.

Judy and I will let you all know when we are checking in for round 1.

Countdown Clock.

[Melindam]

Ora wrote: "I am planning on starting What the Wind Knows tonight or tomorrow. it's tagged Ireland"

Thanks, Ora.

With you and Jackie's just added book, we shall be fine for tags.

[Maddy]

Completion Post

Title: Crazy From the Heat
Author: Mercy Celeste
Pages: 258
Date read: 6/21
Letters: C- title, T - character Grey Talbot, S - character Sarah Hastings
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with a hot drink on the cover

BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Ora]

Completion Post

Title: You Should See Me in a Crown
Author: Leah Johnson
Pages: 328
Date read: Jun 22
Letters:
S character Stone
A character Amanda "Mack"
L character Elizabeth "Liz" Lighty
E character Emmie
Tag: None
Task: Read a book with MPG LGBT
Planning SS updated

[[deleted user]]

Completion Post (finally!)
Title: Dune Messiah
Author: Frank Herbert

Pages: 337
Date read: 22/06/2020
Letters:
S-Scytale
A-Alia
D-Title
C-Chani
E-Edric
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with MPG Science Fiction

[Ali]

I noticed that a couple books on the official team spreadsheet don't have points by them. Is that just a google sheets error?

[Ora]

For Read a book with MPG Food and Drink will See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy
It has MPG Food and Drink > Food

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title: The Escape Artist
Author: Brad Meltzer
Pages: 416
Date read: 6/22
Letters: E, N, D, C
Tag: No
Task: Read a book with a job word in the title (e.g. nurse / teacher / writer / etc)

Planning sheet updated

[Ali]

Title:
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Author: Ibram X. Kendi
Pages: 592
Date read: June 22
Letters: S (title) C (Cotton Mather) T (Thomas Jefferson) D (W.E.B. Dubois) A (Angela Davis)
Tag: No
Task: 175 Read a book set in the United States

Planning sheet updated

[Colleen]

Title: The Lost Wife
Author: Alyson Richman
Pages: 368 pages
Date read: 6/21/20
Letters: A -author, L - title
Tag: No - don't think so
Task: Read a book with a family relationship
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

I don't know where all my other fits went on the spreadsheet, so if you need me to remember/re-add these, let me know. Not sure why The Collector is in my column L. Offhand, it also fits MPG Romance, a three-word title and two people on the cover.

[Colleen]

Title: All the Bright Places
Author: Jennifer Niven
Pages: 416 pages
Date read: 6/22/20
Letters: N - author, A - title, T - character Theodore
Tag: No - don't think so
Task: Read a book with a four word title
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

[Annalisa]

Completion Post

Title: Dance of Seduction

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

I updated the SS

I’m on the app so couldn’t do the nice link. 😞

[Judy]

Alison wrote: "I noticed that a couple books on the official team spreadsheet don't have points by them. Is that just a google sheets error?"

Good spot! The formula was missing in those boxes.

[Judy]

Ora wrote: "For Read a book with MPG Food and Drink will See You in the Piazza: New Places to Discover in Italy
It has MPG Food and Drink > Food"

I think it should work :)

[Judy]

Colleen wrote: "I don't know where all my other fits went on the spreadsheet, so if you need me to remember/re-add these, let me know. Not sure why The Collector is in my column L. Offhand, it also fits MPG Romance, a three-word title and two people on the cover."

We move the books that have been finished to the top. The stuff in column L might've gotten lost/replaced in that process - apologies!

[Bookworm_gem]

Completion Post

After I Do - Taylor Jenkins Reid

read 23rd June

details on spreadsheet

this book was fantastic! 5*

[Judy]

The Wheel has been spun and our next word is out: EXERCISE!

Our genre tags will be sun, summer, beach, seashells, hammock.

[Melindam]

Ahh.... an X.... how nice...

[Judy]

I've been saving up Xeni for two months for this moment... 😂

[Jackie]

There is an X author on Kindle Unlimited that I like. Her books are not great but not bad either. And there are a bunch of them.

Diana Xarissa

[Melindam]

Yusss, you go, Judy! ;)

[Melindam]

And You, Jackie! :)

[Melindam]

Unfortunately I cannot get KU as it's not available for Hungary. :(

But I have Z or Q books should the time come. :)

[Melindam]

Though I might read The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo if my library has it

[Judy]

Melindam wrote: "Though I might read The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo if my library has it"

I loved that book but I think it's not long enough (as it's written in verse)

[Judy]

I think my library has a couple of books by Xinran, I read Sky Burial a couple years ago (for an X, surprise surprise) and really liked it.

[[deleted user]]

Oh no. I don't think I have a single book that works for X.

[Judy]

qe wrote: "Oh no. I don't think I have a single book that works for X."

Plenty of other letters left in the word :)

[Jackie]

Need lots of E's.

[Ora]

I was just going to ask what letters we need. I will be finishing 2 of my 3 current books tonight and tomorrow morning. I will look for E books.

[Judy]

Ora wrote: "I was just going to ask what letters we need. I will be finishing 2 of my 3 current books tonight and tomorrow morning. I will look for E books."

We need all of those E's next round :) we haven't really been lacking any specific letters this round, so feel free to continue reading whatever you feel like

[Melindam]

There is character Xenophilius Lovegood in HP & the Deathly Hallows. I may re-read it if we are running short of Xes.

[[deleted user]]

OH! I'm planning on reading that soon! I forgot about him.

[Melindam]

Also, I got a book recommendation from Don Quixote: "Qualify" by Vera Nazarian. It has a character called "Xel" and the 1st book of the series is free on Kindle.

It's YA-dystopian. I haven't heard about this before, but some GR friends gave quite favourable reviews.

[Judy]

Downloaded that one, let's see whether I'll get to it among all the other X books I'm now committed to reading 😂

[Melindam]

:)

[Annalisa]

Would Malcom X work for X? I would think so but thought I would check. I have his autobiography and have been meaning to read it for years.

[Ali]

Completion post: Information on the planning spreadsheet.

The Selection




The Elite


Didn't end up being a huge fan but at least I am finally giving it a shot.

[Ali]

Annalisa wrote: "Would Malcom X work for X? I would think so but thought I would check. I have his autobiography and have been meaning to read it for years."

I think this is a great opportunity for that!

[Ora]

I didn’t see that. I was on my phone earlier and didn’t see our new word. I can read several Cynthia Eden books. I have a series of hers I need to catch up on and reread a few of JR Ward’s BDB. I think she has two X characters even though I can only remember one off the top of my head Xhex. Regardless I believe she is the majority of the series at least 10+ books

[Judy]

Annalisa wrote: "Would Malcom X work for X? I would think so but thought I would check. I have his autobiography and have been meaning to read it for years."

I think it does yes :) I read a few chapters of that for uni last year and it made me want to pick up the whole thing eventually!

[Annalisa]

I read some as an undergrad and it was very good. I always meant to go back and finish it. That was years ago so this might be the motivation I need to read it.

[Tawallah]

Sorry, I am on my phone. How much pages do you need for novels as verse. I have The Poet X and character is Xiomara. My version has 361. I do have the devotion of suspect X by Keigo Higashino though.

X by Sue Grafton works. I don’t have it though.

[Judy]

June wrote: "Sorry, I am on my phone. How much pages do you need for novels as verse. I have The Poet X and character is Xiomara. My version has 361."

The Poet X is poetry so it needs a word count higher than 40000 or a 5+ hour audiobook, and it unfortunately has neither - 33017 words on arbookfind, 3h 30min audiobook on Audible.

[Ora]

Ora wrote: "I didn’t see that. I was on my phone earlier and didn’t see our new word. I can read several Cynthia Eden books. I have a series of hers I need to catch up on and reread a few of JR Ward’s BDB. I t..."

Just remembered the other character is Xcor

[Tawallah]

Thanks.
I was able to find character in books with letter X
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Dark Lover by JR Ward
Persuader by Lee Child
Xanth series

[Jackie]

Completion Post

Title: Searching for Dragons
Author: Patricia C. Wrede
Pages: 242
Date read: 6/23/20
Letters: S, E, C, D, T
Tag: Forest
Task: Read a book with dragon in the the title
57,489 words

Planning sheet updated