Fall '20 Read-a-Thon: The Finch Family

[Johanne]

You want to choose the next one Aimee?

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Ellie wrote: "I think it's The Poisonwood Bible"

That sounds plausible - shall we do something like B or W for our next guess?

[Johanne]

Alright I'll choose B.

[Fee]

I added my pages read and finished a book for another guess. Shall we go with W now or can we already guess. I haven't been online all day and now I'm confused ;)

[Johanne]

We have to make our fourth guess (which is now available) and then we can make a title guess. I'll post W

[Johanne]

The W is where we thought it would, so I'll make our title guess.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

PUZZLE 5: RHYME TIME
The puzzle is a phrase with rhyming words in it or a list of thematically similar things whose names rhyme. In this case, the book title will have a rhyme or alliteration within the title.

[Johanne]

Yeah!

[Johanne]

We don't have any guesses available, but anyone want to pick the starting letter(s) of this puzzle?

[Sarah]

It could be "and the" in the middle so I'd give one of those letters a guess first

[Dori]

Guys, you are doing so great! Sorry I haven't contributed much to the guesses or the reading, work has been a lot busier than anticipated :(

[Aimee]

Go Team Finch!

I think this one could be "The (x) and the (y)" with x and y rhyming. No titles spring to mind straight away though. Maybe a T as the first guess to see if the two 'thes' are there?

[Johanne]

No worries Dori :)

[Johanne]

Yes let's go with T

[Johanne]

I just finished another prerelease review-book, and updated my pages, so we now have two guesses. I'll go with T and N.
Goodnight everyone!

[Sarah]

I actually have a guess! I think it might be The Prince and the Pauper. What do you guys think?

[Johanne]

Good morning
Good guess Sarah! I think we should choose P as our next letter :)

[Johanne]

...when we have that guess available, that is.

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Morning all. Sorry I didn't generate a guess yesterday, but you're doing great!

I agree Sarah is onto something, so I'll second P for our next letter.

[Aimee]

Sarah wrote: "I actually have a guess! I think it might be The Prince and the Pauper. What do you guys think?"

Good thinking!

[Trish, Annular Mod]

I've just finished Murder on Mulberry Bend, for another 196pg and a completion guess. I've gone ahead and asked for P and R.

Then if they fit Sarah's suggestion, I'll go ahead and submit it.

[Johanne]

P for perfect!
I've finished another light romance at 150 pages, so we have another letter guess ready.

[Trish, Annular Mod]

That might end up being the first for the new title, if we're right.

[Aimee]

Looks like Sarah's guess is correct!

[Johanne]

Yup, I'll submit it.

[Johanne]

I can't get it to add up that we have another guess, so I asked Emily to check for us.

[Trish, Annular Mod]

You were right - we have 21 and we've guessed 21. The formula for "total guesses" was wrong

[Johanne]

Trish wrote: "You were right - we have 21 and we've guessed 21. The formula for "total guesses" was wrong"

:)

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

PUZZLE 6: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
The book title will (sort of) answer this question.

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Thanks, Emily.

[Trish, Annular Mod]

So I've managed to read and finish The Age of Doubt for 320pg. We've now ticked over 5,000 pages.

I reckon we're now on:

Pages - 5,000+ = 5 guesses
Audio - currently 4.5 guesses
Books finished - 15 guesses
For a total of 24

We've had 21 now, so I think we have 3 spare.

Going back to my beloved scrabble list, T and N have served us well before - on the other hand, have the mods figured out our strategy :-)

I've popped in a request for T - I think that leaves two.

[Johanne]

Good thinking Trish.
Well that T didn't give much, probably a 'the' there. Should we try another of the most-used consonants?

[Aimee]

Hmm, I was expecting 'the' to be the first word not the second! Makes me wonder what the first word could be... For the? And the?

[Johanne]

What letter should we pick?

[Johanne]

@Aimee that seems plausible.

[Ellie]

Maybe go for F, as it might help with the two letter word as well as the first one.

[Johanne]

Let's do that.

[Aimee]

I've finished my second book (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) so that's another guess available.

[Johanne]

There was no F. Should we go back to our trusted strategy and choose N?

[Johanne]

Going for the N

[Dori]

Great work team! Unbelievable as it is I actually managed to finish a book! Spreadsheet updated :) again, sorry I can't contribute more, work is hectic! I listen to an audiobook in the car on my way to work and back home though and I try to get some reading done in the evenings!

[Johanne]

no N either...

[Johanne]

We have three guesses atm, so I'll go ahead and choose an R before going to sleep, and then we'll have more guesses tomorrow, or later if anyone is another time zone or is awake at night.
Sleep tight!

[Trish, Annular Mod]

I'm thinking L, H and S next. I've submitted L, to see what that gives us, if anything.

H might be worth it to confirm (or not) that the second word is The.

On the two-letter, S might be the next one try try (is, as) as a lot of the common two-letters are now ruled out.

[Sarah]

Aimee wrote: "I've finished my second book (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) so that's another guess available."

I've just finished the same book :) I'll update it on the spreadsheet

[Johanne]

Well, not a lot of luck with the guesses on this one. But then again that's also a help to know what's not there.

[Aimee]

Dori wrote: "Great work team! Unbelievable as it is I actually managed to finish a book! Spreadsheet updated :) again, sorry I can't contribute more, work is hectic! I listen to an audiobook in the car on my wa..."

Dori don't feel bad! We don't all have the same schedules or ability to read all the time. You're definitely contributing :)

[Aimee]

Sarah wrote: "Aimee wrote: "I've finished my second book (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) so that's another guess available."

I've just finished the same book :) I'll update it on the spread..."

Oh are you doing the Popsugar challenge? I used it for 'book with 20 in the title'.

[Aimee]

Sorry for commenting three times in a row, but do you think it's worth guessing L to see if the first word is 'all' (as in 'all the')?

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Aimee wrote: "Oh are you doing the Popsugar challenge? I used it for 'book with 20 in the title'.

I was thinking of the same book for Popsugar, although I ended up using On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century