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

[Nancy]

Thanks Jillian!

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Finished a book! Highly recommend A House at the Bottom of a Lake

Going to submit N as my letter guess, I think the title might be The Sweeney Sisters

[Jillian]

There is no H but I think you are right with “sisters”

[Nancy]

Two S___ Sisters? or Ten instead of Two?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

There was an H... sorry about that. I always forget about the letters in the word THE. Y'all are eligible to guess your second puzzle.

[Jillian]

Do you want to guess The Sweeney Sisters

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Go for it Jillian

[Edie]

How does the title guessing work? I think I know the title of the second puzzle but haven't read enough to make a guess. Can I post my thoughts here?

[Jillian]

Edie what do you think it is? The last one I posted my idea and a few teammates agreed and luckily Nancy saw I forgot the “the” then I posted it on the guessing thread.

[Jillian]

If we post on the guessing thread and guess wrong we lose our next guess and if we are right we get a puzzle.

[Jillian]

I'm going to post The Sweeney Sisters for our guess if we are wrong we can try Edie's title next.

[Jillian]

We are moving on to puzzle 3!

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

You all are awesome. I have finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous so we can have another guess. Emily is done for the night but someone can guess a letter. Since it is something about a place, the 2-letter word might be of and the first word might be The

[Kendra]

I just finished The House in the Cerulean Sea. Robin, do you want to guess a T and I'll guess a F?

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Done! 2nd word might be Island

[Jillian]

Did Emily miss seeing our F guess?

Do you think the title is The Island of Sea Women?

[Jillian]

Emily, added our F I'm going to go ahead and guess W to see if my idea is correct.

[Jillian]

Both F and W were on the title so I'm going to guess The Island of Sea Women

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

PUZZLE 4: THINGS
These book titles will all start with the word "The".

[Jillian]

We are on to puzzle 4! I'm going to be offline most of day. So, I cannot wait to see what progress we make on the next puzzle.

[Nancy]

I finished The Thinnest Air, and since the titles start with The I'll go ahead and get that T on the board.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Jillian wrote: "Both F and W were on the title so I'm going to guess The Island of Sea Women"

Great job again! I even read that book not long ago but didn't think of immediately.

[Nancy]

Looking at the puzzle I never would have figured that out, so great job indeed!

So the T in puzzle 4 got us nowhere. Sigh.

[Edie]

Robin P wrote: "You all are awesome. I have finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous so we can have another guess. Emily is done for the night but someone can guess a letter. Since it is something ..."

How did you like this. I am getting ready to start this book, now that I have finished The Silent Patient

[Edie]

Finished The Silent Patient and will guess letter N.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Edie wrote: "Robin P wrote: "You all are awesome. I have finished On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous so we can have another guess. Emily is done for the night but someone can guess a letter. Since ..."

It was "poetic" (the author is primarily a poet) and it must be largely autobiographical even though it is fiction. I personally like longer, meatier books so I gave it 3 stars. I'm sure others would appreciate it more. It is fast, only took me 2-3 hours to read.

[Kendra]

So, I go away, finish a book an come back and someone has already solved the puzzle. Again. :P Go Team!

Anyways, I finished Things My Son Needs to Know about the World. I'm going to guess an R.

[Nancy]

Looks like we have another guess available too, I'm thinking S.

[SarahKat]

I finished On a Pale Horse. Should we wait for the R and S to be applied before guessing another at random?

[Jillian]

SarahKat, I'd recommend waiting until we know about the S & R. You will probably be able to make a better guess of what letter to pick next once we know those.

[Nancy]

S and R have been added. I'm thinking the two-letter word is of?

[Kendra]

It might be: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

[Jillian]

Kendra wrote: "It might be: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"

I think you have figured it out.

[Nancy]

Yes! I kept thinking Hundreds for Wondrous. You've got it though.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Kendra wrote: "It might be: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"

That fits! I really didn't like that book, unfortunately, it was so grim and it tells you right upfront that there is no happy ending. But it would have been a hard one to guess with the unusual name Wao.

[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.

[Jillian]

It looks like we are on to puzzle 5!

SarahKat gets the first letter guess.

[Kendra]

Go Team!

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

We rock!

[SarahKat]

I guessed T! Seems like a good place to start.

[Jillian]

I added the hour of my audio book that I have listened to so far today so we get another guess.

[Jillian]

I'm starting to think that maybe the words are going to have less of the popular letters to guess to make it harder.

[Jillian]

I looked back through the thread and I think everyone has had a chance to guess so the next guess is open for anyone to use.

Do we want to stick with the common ones "S", "R", or "N" or does someone have a different one to try?

[Nancy]

I finished The Grammarians, so I will guess S.

I'll let someone else decide on the group guess, and then we can post both at once.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

I finished the audiobook The Christmas Hirelings. I'm not sure what to guess, this is a weird title with 2 2-letter words

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

I finished Little House in the Big Woods (as my binary opposite to A House at the Bottom of a Lake.

I think we are going to need an F. "The *blanking* *blank* of *blank*" type title, possibly? N would be a good bet too.

[Kendra]

Can we guess a W - I think it might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Kendra wrote: "Can we guess a W - I think it might be The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"

Oh that's definitely it, skip all the normal letters, guess a W and a Z, just as a power move.

[Jillian]

Kendra, I think you solved it!

[Nancy]

Wow! That's impressive.