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Ellie wrote: "I think we only earn half a guess per book finished now?"Oh you're right sorry! It's Friday, my head is all over the place.
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So, that's most definitely Nineteen Minutes. We have to make one more letter guess before we can submit the title. We can choose any letter including vowels. What say yee?
I've just finished the last five hours of my audiobook (Fire) so that's another 0.5 guess for the hours and 0.5 for a completed book. Shall we go for an E to triple-check Nineteen Minutes as our guess?
Yes, and then we can guess the title! I'll submit it.
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For the record, I probably won't be able to read much tomorrow, as I'm out for most of it.
I postef E. Since all available letters ran out in the title we're now allowed all. Should I maybe just put our title guess right away, so Emily can unlock the next puzzle? I mean, aren't we pretty certain?
The E's are in their place and if it isn't 'Nineteen Minutes' I'll be surprised.Posting it now.
Good night!
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Titles will contain a word relating to food or drink.
Hello all! We seem to have earned another guess, and we have a new puzzle.We're back to no vowels, R, S or T
So I'll take the initiative to post N and hope it will be as useful as last time :)
We've got two three letter words which could be 'the' - if N doesn't pan out, maybe we could try H next?
Yes, that's a good idea. We can see what happens with N and then H next, depending on what we get.
Alright, we have a couple of N's there, and another guess. I'll submit H
So I didn't get much chance to read yesterday but I finished Afterland today. I'll go have a look at our latest puzzle.
Great Ellie. The first word is probably 'the' and the third word in, on, an. And it's food related
Ha! I just scrolled through a goodreads list of titles with food and 'The face on the milk carton' (that I have never heard of) is a fit. Should we try to establish/ disprove that in our next guess?
Johanne wrote: "Ha! I just scrolled through a goodreads list of titles with food and 'The face on the milk carton' (that I have never heard of) is a fit. Should we try to establish/ disprove that in our next guess?"I did the same thing! M or L might be good picks as fairly common if it's not that title.
That's what I was thinking as well. C is not as common.
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I've never head of the milk carton one, either, but if you want to do M and L, I have no problems with that. Maybe followed by K?
In two letter guesses we can make a title guess, so I think we should do that then if possible. I think M is a good idea as the next letter, but if that's in the proper place, should we do a C to be sure before guessing, or would you still do L?
We could go with C. I'm reading a short book now so hopefully will finish it quickly.
I think that's a plan. M first and if it's where we think it will be then C. If M is not we'll obviously revise the strategy.
I finished my book, so we have another guess (M) I'll put in before sleep. Good night!
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We didn't really get exposed to many American children's books in Scotland.
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Ellie wrote: "We didn't really get exposed to many American children's books in Scotland."
Exactly. I know that when I was growing up (60s/70s - yes, I'm that old!) about the only US kids mysteries I saw were Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and not many of them. That space was filled by Enid Blyton over here. Its only now, in the days of Amazon and Ereaders that more US kids books are becoming available.
Plus, faces on milk cartons is a US thing. We don't do it in the UK, at least, and I'm not sure they do in Europe, either.
I am, of course, going to have to read it now!
I don't think it's translated to Danish, and when I started reading English-language books in my teens I was mainly looking for fantasy and sci-fi. Enid Blyton was big here as well. I grew up in the 80's. We don't have faces on milk cartons either :)
I'm posting C, and then we have a title guess.
We didn't even have milk cartons to put faces on! We got our milk in glass bottles, I always though it was weird on TV when Americans would pour milk out of a juice carton. 😄
I lived in the US for a short period (in the 2000s) and I don't remember seeing any milk cartons with missing people on. I don't remember seeing milk cartons at all. It just came in the plastic bottles. I must've been buying the wrong milk!
We have milk cartons :)When I lived in Zimbabwe for a couple of years, it came in plastic bags and glass bottles.
... and that was Zimbabwe in the late 80's
Ellie wrote: "We didn't even have milk cartons to put faces on! We got our milk in glass bottles, I always though it was weird on TV when Americans would pour milk out of a juice carton. 😄"Yes! I always thought they were putting some strange juice on their cereal. I'm from the UK (half Scottish, half English) but grew up in France, and in both countries we either had milk in plastic bottles or glass ones.
We have our C's in place so I'm going to make the title guess. You think we can solve one last puzzle?
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@Emily, and it started an interesting discussion ;)
Today has gotten away from me a bit but I should finish Finna soon.
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I'm adding another book later, I'm 100 pages from finishing 'The Colour of Magic'. Will you believe I have never read Discworld before?
Johanne wrote: "I'm adding another book later, I'm 100 pages from finishing 'The Colour of Magic'. Will you believe I have never read Discworld before?"How did you like it? I love Discworld but not a fan of Rincewind. I always suggest people start with a later book.
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Not that I think we're going to get there, but I'm guessing Anna Karenina for puzzle 9. Easily proven or not if we get a guess and use N
Trish wrote: "Having also reread it this readathon, I enjoyed it more this time around - I think I understood more of the references.Not that I think we're going to get there, but I'm guessing Anna Karenina fo..."
Ooh that's a good guess. We might not make it in time but at least if it turns out to be correct you'll have the satisfaction of being right!
Ellie wrote: "Johanne wrote: "I'm adding another book later, I'm 100 pages from finishing 'The Colour of Magic'. Will you believe I have never read Discworld before?"How did you like it? I love Discworld but n..."
Same Ellie - I think Guards! Guards! is a better test of whether someone will get on with Discworld or not. If they don't like it, they won't like the others.
The Watch sub-series is by far my favourite, with the Moist von Lipwig and Witches books vying for second place.
Good guess Trish, if we do get another one before the end we should guess N, however I am nearly done for the day.
Good guess Trish!I finished Colour of Magic and put today's pages, which gives us two letter guesses. Should we guess N and K, and quickly determine if Trish is right?
I enjoyed the Colour of Magic, a lot of fun and cool concepts, but it did seemed a bit fragmented, as if the concepts were thrown in haphazardly, which is also part of the fun, but it sort of took over the ability to immerse in the story. I was 'warned' beforehand that it might not be the best of the books, but I took over the first five books from my dad and stepmum's private library when they moved to a smaller house. So it felt right to start with those.
All in all i really liked it and I'm looking forward to reading on and watch all the stories unfold :)
I just went ahead and posted N and K since we are a wee bit short on time.
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