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Sep 16, 2020 06:37PM
Blue Moon certainly looks possible. It’s much harder to get guesses in the lightning round! We only have enough left to guess this puzzle.
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Blue Moon isn't it. Maybe Dear John? It topped the list in 2006. Shall we guess D? We only have one guess left!
Finally finished the second book in the Dragon Riders of Pern trilogy. My daughter has decided that naps can only be had if I'm carrying her in both arms now, which is severely limiting my reading time
D sounds good. I just finished another book so we will get another guess!
Thanks Perri, Devin, and Steven!! Hope all of you are staying safe as well! Perri, your comment made me laugh out loud because with a year like 2020, zombies doesn't sound that far off!And darn, I thought Gone Girl was a great guess!! I'm reading my book right now (or as soon as I post this comment) so by tomorrow morning we should have another book completed, so halfway to another guess.
I just finished one book, which earns half a guess. I'll post D on the guessing thread.
We're ready to guess the title, aren't we? We've guessed 4 letters.
Maggie- We can guess more than 4 letters. Are we sure we know what it is?
Hmm we suspect Dear John, unless we think it could be something else? We can’t guess R, S or T in the lightning rounds, so we’ll have to choose another letter if we want to guess one more.
Oh, I didn’t see the new rules for the Lightning Round!! I was wondering why 2 of you were saying that 1 book only counted for a .5 guess. Whatever you guys think! I think we are safe to guess Dear John. I’ve never heard of it but it was a NY Times Bestseller.
If we guess and it's wrong do we lose? Steven thinking about your with both arms wrapped around your newborn daughter makes me smile :)
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Do we want to be on the safe side and guess an R?
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I forgot already Emily! 🙄 Thanks. We could go with J or H. Do any of you have a preference- guess the title or 1 more letter? I’ve got to take a phone break and get some work done for the next few hours. My preference is to guess an H but I’m ok if others want to guess the title.
Is it cheating to look through lists of #1 books on the NYT bestsellers lists? Haha. I looked through all the lists back to 1990 (the lists are on Wikipedia), and Dear John is the only one that fits. Of course the book in the puzzle could be older than that.
Heck no, that’s not cheating! That’s how I found Gone Girl. I guess go for it. I don’t know what else it could be. I’m really taking a GR break now! My husband just took our grandson to the dentist so I have ~1.5 hrs to get something done!
I think I’m going to start a new book, Terra by Mitch Benn, today, which I just realized works for a Pop Sugar prompt that I was struggling with (made up language). Sag Harbor is not doing it for me. Too much cursing.
Let's go ahead and guess Dear John, what do we have to lose?
Woo hoo! We got it! Good job guys! Next letter for the new puzzle??
Well done on the Dear John guess. I just realized it was Thursday, and now am sad that the week is almost over.
There’s no N but we have 5 more guesses. There’s a 2 letter word. Maybe an F for OF? We could try H. First word might be THE. Thoughts?
Looks like the first word is The. That’s all we got! Any ideas? I went through a list of books with food in the title and couldn’t find anything. The category is On The Menu.
Yup, we’ve tried N, H and F, and only have one letter in the puzzle out of all of those! I’ve been looking at lists of food and drinks in titles too and I can’t find anything. This is tough. Maybe L? Or M?
L and M We'll work our way through the alphabet :)
Good idea. If we get one it might alter the next choice
L isn't on it either. I really don't know what it could be. I've looked through several lists and the only book I've found that could fit was The Mistress of Spices, but that's not it because there's no F in the title.
M it is. Why not?! Then we can all get back to reading and other stuff! This is a tough one. I don't like the new rule with the excluded letters!
I think the two letter word is at, which we can’t confirm because we can’t guess t
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Emily we're drumming you out of the Weasley family ;)
Do we want to guess The Mistress of Spices??
Finished another book (third in dragon riders of perm series). That's another 203 pages
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PUZZLE 9: PERSON
Book titles in this category contain someone's first and/or last name.
I think it’s Robinson Crusoe. I suggest going w C.
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