Team Captivating Cryptic Conquerors - report your reads

[Gail]

I have Fairest down for time travel. Does it not contain time travel? It can only count in one category and it doesn't matter which for the purple categories - there are no bonus points for covering all of those those.

[Marie Claude]

Gail wrote: "Berit, the spreadsheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Books read have been highlighted in green. There are ten points for e..."

I don't see Morality Play in the spreadsheet... I read iand reported it yesterday for the historical fiction category... Just want to make sure we get all the points we deserve ;0)

[Gail]

Ah, thanks for letting me know, Marie Claude. Must have missed that. I've put it on.

Please can everyone check the spreadsheet, by the way, to make sure the books they've read are on it, because it can be easy to miss a reporting post, especially when people are also chatting.

[Berit]

Fairest, no time traveling :-( sorry, I can find a book to fit that though. Make sure if it needs to be in outerspace you can put it there otherwise it can be used for book in a series or maybe a royalty:-) Once again I'm causing trouble

[Berit]

And are chatting thread I offered to do the book that takes place in outer space, I don't know if you miss that Gail :-) what a tough task you have, let me know if there's anything I need to read to cover bonus points. Especially when it gets closer to Saturday :-)

[Ava Catherine]

Finished Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
for nonfiction

[Marie Claude]

Finished As She Climbed across the Table this morning.

It can be used for Science-fiction, Romance or for the "author new to me" task. Your choice Gail :)

[Gail]

Berit, so I'm to change Fairest to 'outer space'? It doesn't matter which category it's in, so long as it fits that category. I thought you'd said time travel to begin with, so that's why I put it there, but I'll change it.

[Gail]

There is no 'outer space' category. I am doing a search for 'outer space' and it's not there. Can you tell me the name of the category on the spreadsheet.

[Berit]

Gail there is no time traveling in Fairest, if I said so I apologize :-) do we need a time traveling book? Let me know. I will help wherever we need to be helped

[Gail]

Berit wrote: "Gail there is no time traveling in Fairest, if I said so I apologize :-) do we need a time traveling book? Let me know. I will help wherever we need to be helped"

We don't need a time travelling book. I need to know a category to put Fairest in - a category that is there in the spreadsheet. Please can you look at the spreadsheet and tell me the category you want to put it under. Please can you use the words that are in the spreadsheet, so I can find it. 'Outer space' isn't a category.

[Elsbeth]

Maybe she means the category I wanted to use Worse than Senseless Things for (which I probably won't read)- takes place on an alien world or space ship?

[Berit]

That is it an alien world :-) sorry for once again confusing you ;-) I must drive you crazy Gail

[Berit]

I read alien world or on a spaceship, and in my brain thought outerspace, sorry again ;-)

[Gail]

Elsbeth wrote: "Maybe she means the category I wanted to use Worse than Senseless Things for (which I probably won't read)- takes place on an alien world or space ship?"

Maybe. But I don't want to keep searching and guessing whenever a post is unclear, because that is a lot of extra unnecessary work for me, and I may be wrong. So I will just ask, and then the person can do the necessary searching themselves and tell me what they meant.

[Elsbeth]

Gail wrote: "Elsbeth wrote: "Maybe she means the category I wanted to use Worse than Senseless Things for (which I probably won't read)- takes place on an alien world or space ship?"

Maybe. But..."

Haha, Berit just did!

[Gail]

Berit wrote: "That is it an alien world :-) sorry for once again confusing you ;-) I must drive you crazy Gail"

Okay, thanks - I'll add it. And yes, you are driving me crazy a little bit - I think you should turn off your autocorrect! :-)

[Gail]

Elsbeth wrote: "Gail wrote: "Elsbeth wrote: "Maybe she means the category I wanted to use Worse than Senseless Things for (which I probably won't read)- takes place on an alien world or space ship?..."

Haha - I know. Lots of cross-posting!

[Ava Catherine]

Gail, thank you for all your work and your patience with us. You are AMAZING! No one does a spreadsheet like you! We truly appreciate you. : )

[Elsbeth]

Take a deep breath, Gail! Don't let us all drive you crazy... We wouldn't want that! Remember: it is just for fun...
(Well of course we want to win as well...) ;)

[Sandra, Moderator]

Yes, Gail. If we become a pain in the neck just turn of the computer, go read and drink some red wine. :)

[Berit]

I think I am the main cause of her stress :-) sorry Gail I will be better in the future, or at least try ;-)what an amazing group we have. Go Team C!!!

[Elsbeth]

Wow, we really have a lot of green on the spread sheet already! And it isn't even Wednesday, yet!

[Elsbeth]

It is not entirely your fault, Berit! I've planned to read 4 books and so far I have read 3, among which is only 1 I had planned. Sorry about that, Gail!

[Gail]

Thanks, all - I do enjoy doing the spreadsheet, but I find it difficult to understand posts when autocorrect has changed them into something else. Then I can't add books to the spreadsheet. Berit, did you ever figure out how to add a book using the link? Then autocorrect won't be able to change it, and I won't have to do a search for it.

[Berit]

No, not going to lie, I've had a lot of problems with figuring out the website. My accounts don't seem to match sent an email to support but haven't heard back yet.

[Berit]

My goal will be to have figured out the website by the next team Toppler. Unfortunately for you Gail, this will not help you. I am having such a good time and I am so sorry if I am making them less of a good experience for you.:-) I am feeling really bad right now ;-) sorry again.

[Gail]

Ah, hopefully support will be able to help you fix it. Don't worry - it's hard to figure out the site at first. I'm glad you're enjoying the Toppler. :-) I'm enjoying it too.

[Berit]

Thanks Gail! I was just on the site and I have to admit I'm a little technically challenged ;-) the app is so easy. I think they just need to change the app so I can add links :-)

[Ava Catherine]

I see that I have been given credit for reading Notorious Nineteen, but I did not read this book. I think Berit did. It is so easy to get off by a column, and I think that is probably what happened.

[Berit]

Yes I did read that. Does it matter who read what?

[Gail]

It's okay - I've changed it. I must have got the column confused.

[Gail]

I wish there was a way we could all share a spreadsheet and everyone could put their own books in. Or everyone could just do a spreadsheet for themselves and we could add them all together at the end. This spreadsheet is very big and needs lots of scrolling!

[Gail]

I know a good way to do it. When people are telling me a category, say what number row it's in, and what letter your name is under. So I have the coordinates and can easily find the square to put the books in.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Yeah, that would be a good way, Gail.

[Berit]

Gail, if you could message me the link I can get to the link that way, otherwise I can't get to the link via the app. This app has become problematic ;-)

[Gail]

What link do you mean, Berit? To the spreadsheet?

[Berit]

Yes

[Gail]

It might be easier if it's just put in the initial post of this thread - then you don't have to keep switching to messages. Elsbeth, could you put a link to the spreadsheet in your opening post, please?

[Berit]

It won't matter Gail, I can only get a link through a message. Don't worry about it I'll just report how I am and drive you crazy ;-)

[Ava Catherine]

Gail wrote: "I know a good way to do it. When people are telling me a category, say what number row it's in, and what letter your name is under. So I have the coordinates and can easily find the square to put t..."

That's a great idea.

[Kerri]

Just finished What We Keep

[Paakhi]

I completed The Color Purple..what a tragic story and what a wonderful portrayal of emotions..
I started reading the Bell Jar

[Marie Claude]

Just finished Chercher Sam for the "set in Canada" task (cell i-11 on the spreadsheet).

Something happened yesterday and will not be able to read as many books as I would have liked for the rest of the week since I need to take care of my son for the next few days. I will try to read a couple more, but no promess... Please send some positive thoughts his way, he really need them.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Hope everything gets better soon, Marie Claude. Don't worry about your readings, just take care of you son. Keep yo both in my prayers.

[Berit]

You're in my thoughts as well :-) there is nothing more important than family!

[Gail]

I hope your son is okay, Marie Claude - I am thinking positive thoughts for you both.

[Elsbeth]

Marie Claude, I hope he is/will be all right! I'm sending lots of positive thoughts your and his way! And don't worry about the Toppler - it is supposed to be for fun! And I can imagine your head is not in it right now!

[Elsbeth]

I just finished my fourth book! Sorry, Gail, another one who I didn't plan to read. Somehow all the ones I planned seemed like a good idea at the time. And now I just don't feel like reading them...

I read: Forest - Love, Loss, Legend by Rod Raglin. It can be used for:
- Canada
- job I don't want my date to have (a journalist in a war zones...)
- shooting (there is a hostage situation which is solved this way)
- Crafting (one of the characters draws animals and plants)
- Brokeback Mountain’s Jack and Ennis; forbidden love (the main character has a secret love during his teenage years, with a girl from India; her father mustn’t know about it)

I am under E in the spreadsheet.
By the way: how do I post a link?

[Gail]

Elsbeth, click on '(some html is okay)' on the top right of the comment box, and it will give you the code to post a link. I would post the code here, but then it would just change into a link rather than show you the code!

ETA: Or did you mean a link to the book? You already did that, by clicking on 'add book/author'. :-)