Team Captivating Cryptic Conquerors - report your reads

[Janice, Moderator]

Msg deleted. I don't like to have to step in like this, but any further messages regarding this situation will be deleted.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Love the duckings!
I finished my second book. I'll report it tomorrow from my computer. I'm now in the app and can't use links.
Great work team! We still have more than 2 days!

[Sandra, Moderator]

TJ, I finished my second book: Cheat River Three

Task in the spreed sheet: new author (K 20) - The spreed sheet says The Color of Magic, but I changed my book.

Note: There's another The Color of Magic very near in the spreed sheet (J 18) but this is Paakhi's.

[Esther]

I finished Lock In for Star Trek couple - Read Sci-fi. (This was originally supposed to be Dust but I changed my mind)

[Tejas Janet]

Hey Team, I was able to download a copy of the spreadsheet to Excel. I'm tracking our progress that way for now.

[Berit]

Thank you so much for stepping up TJ :-)

[Berit]

Just finished Top Secret 21 will fit categories 18 or 19

[Elsbeth]

Thanks, TJ, for making this Toppler easier for Gail and for the rest of team C!

I'm now reading my 5th book, which I will probably finish tomorrow. Too bad I have to work on Saturday, otherwise I might have read one more... Well, 5 is really not bad for me, so I'm good with that!

Happy reading these last 2 days, everyone!
And don't worry: if you can't finish a book on time, so be it. We did/are doing great, no matter what!

Love those ducklings! :)

[Tejas Janet]

I shared the spreadsheet so now anyone with access to this link should be able to view it...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Updated to here.

[Ava Catherine]

Finished We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 33, D: Mickey and Minnie Mouse: Read a book with an animal as a main character

Thanks a million, TJ! : )

[Elsbeth]

Tejas Janet wrote: "I shared the spreadsheet so now anyone with access to this link should be able to view it...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

U..."

I made a note of that in the first message.

[Tejas Janet]

Thanks, Elsbeth : )

[Ava Catherine]

29, D: Bonnie and Clyde: Crime Thriller: A Certain Justice by P.D. James
Finished

[Tejas Janet]

Completed:

30, N - John and Lorena Bobbit. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.

43, N - Lois Lane and Superman. Birds, Beasts, and Relatives.

[Tejas Janet]

Updated to here.

[Kerri]

Finished The Good Girl 29 H

[Paakhi]

I finished for the book in series. Will you please update TJ..its J18. Thanks

Wow!! What a read it was!! It is highly recommended from me :)

[Elsbeth]

I just finished my 5th book! Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead.
It can be used for:
18 - part of a series
19 - some kind of weapon (some sort of silver dagger is used)
20 - new author
28 - YA
34 - royal character (Lissa is a Moroi princess)
46 - vampires (I noticed we haven't got this one, yet - no bonus...)
49 - forbidden love
51 - human - vampire interaction (I noticed we haven't got this one, yet - no bonus...)

I've started part 2 of this series. I'm not sure if I will be able to finish it before the Toppler ends, but I'll try!

[Tan]

I am sorry, wasn't able to check in the whole week! I was super busy, but i finished The Lighthouse at the End of the World
Hopefully I'll finish my second book this night and start my third.
Everyone has read so much, thats great!

[Berit]

Finished The Good Husband on Zebra Drive, for Africa

[Elsbeth]

Berit wrote: "Finished The Good Husband on Zebra Drive, for Africa"

Ah, how did you like it? Have you read the others of the series?

[Berit]

I loved it, I was just thinking I had gotten away from the series and I'm so glad to be back :-)

[Berit]

Oh Em Gee! It's The Good Husband of zebra Drive,just noticed I said on instead of of :-)

[Tejas Janet]

Great job, everybody. I actually typed "y'all" then changed it to "everybody." I say y'all a lot, but feel self-conscious about it because it's so stereotypically Texan.

I've got the spreadsheet updated to here. I put Vampire Academy in the vampire slot, Elsbeth.

I'm impressed with all the reading that we've done this week!!

[Ava Catherine]

finished:

38, D: Will Arnett and Amy Poehler: a humorous book: But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!: Adventures in Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry by Julia Reed

45, D: Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark: a dystopian novel: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

43, D: Lois Lane and Superman: a biography: Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes

27, D: Royce or Hadrian and Janice: nonfiction: Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home by Susan Hill

18, D: Collecting comic books: book that is part of a series: Sidetracked by Henning Mankell

[Berit]

Finished The Truth About Alice,C 20 or 28

[Sandra, Moderator]

Finished I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban for the "head/face in the cover" task, K3

[Paakhi]

I finished my third book for the 'What does your date look like?' i.e Shoes J7

[Ava Catherine]

50,D: tearjerker: Ten Things I've Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler finished

[Berit]

Finished We Were Liars, C 20,28,49,or50

[Shanna_redwind]

I managed to finish How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff It's dystopian.

[Esther]

Finished Never Let Me Go for Book with eyes (not sure if Gail is checking in her initial choice so just in case she isn't well enough)

[Ava Catherine]

Finished 42, D, horror; The Haunting of Hill House

[Tejas Janet]

Finished

Blue Shoes and Happiness - 7, N, shoes.

A Wind in the Door - 39, N, sci fi.

[Elsbeth]

Yoohoo, I have a new Toppler-record! I finished my 6th book, last night! It is: Frostbite by Richelle Mead, which is part 2 of the Vampire Academic series. So it can be used by about the same things as my former book:

18 - part of a series
19 - some kind of weapon (some sort of silver dagger is used)
28 - YA
34 - royal character (Lissa is a Moroi princess)(I noticed we haven't got this one, yet - no bonus...)
46 - vampires
49 - forbidden love
51 - human - vampire interaction (I noticed we haven't got this one, yet - no bonus...)

[Tejas Janet]

Updated spreadsheet from msg 175 to 185.

Elsbeth and Berit, I entered yours in the first open option that worked:
Frostbite - 34, E, royal character
Truth About Alice - 28, C, YA
We Were Liars - 50, C, tearjerker

[Tan]

Finished The Maze Runner a few hours ago. Sorry, I wasn't really able to read much during the week and was to busy looking into the thread. But everyone else really did great!

[Berit]

Great job team, look at us reading until the very bitter end :-) thanks again for being such a great team, it was a fun week :-)

[Paakhi]

I agree Berit. We did a good job. It was great week, i did a lot of serious reading and will now read a dystopia or YA to relax!

[Elsbeth]

Don't worry about that, Tanita! Sometimes you read a lot and sometimes it just is not to be. ;)

I agree, Berit, we are a wonderful team! I loved chatting with you all!
And thank you, Gail and Tejas Janet for keeping track of our reads! You both did a wonderful job!

[Elsbeth]

Paakhi wrote: "I agree Berit. We did a good job. It was great week, i did a lot of serious reading and will now read a dystopia or YA to relax!"

Lol, that is what I read during this week, Paakhi! I'm now of to some more serious books (2 of them I was already reading the week before the Toppler: The Crimson Petal and the White and Pride and Prejudice). ;)

[Paakhi]

Elsbeth wrote: "Paakhi wrote: "I agree Berit. We did a good job. It was great week, i did a lot of serious reading and will now read a dystopia or YA to relax!"

Lol, that is what I read during this week, Paakhi! ..."

Hey Elsbeth..I can feel the after effects of toppler..its rather confusing I don't want to pick up any book and yet I feel really empty like I need a book..LOL

I have read Pride and Prejudice and liked it much! Did you enjoy it? I have never heard about Crimson Petal and the White..hope it was great too. I shall add it to my tbr right away..

[Tejas Janet]

Tanita wrote: "Finished The Maze Runner a few hours ago. Sorry, I wasn't really able to read much during the week and was to busy looking into the thread. But everyone else really did great!"

Cool - I'll go update table : )

[Berit]

I feel the same way, to read or not to read that is the question :-) I have a lot of pod casts to catch up on, so I'll be doing that today I think. They all say need attention!

[Elsbeth]

Paakhi wrote: "Elsbeth wrote: "Paakhi wrote: "I agree Berit. We did a good job. It was great week, i did a lot of serious reading and will now read a dystopia or YA to relax!"

Lol, that is what I read during thi..."

I know the feeling, Paakhi! I had that very much after our October Toppler. This morning I also didn't feel like picking up a book. The 2 books I mentioned (P & P and CP & the W), I'm still reading. I like them both, a lot! I had bought The Crimson Petal and the White a few years ago from the library, for just 1 euro, but never got around to reading it (it has 955 pages). I'm glad I picked it up, now! Totally different from P & P!

[Tejas Janet]

Elsbeth wrote: "Yoohoo, I have a new Toppler-record! I finished my 6th book..."

I seem to be missing one for you. I have 5 highlighted as completed. Need to find what's missing.

Everyone please check that your books are correct.

[Paakhi]

Elsbeth wrote: "Paakhi wrote: "Elsbeth wrote: "Paakhi wrote: "I agree Berit. We did a good job. It was great week, i did a lot of serious reading and will now read a dystopia or YA to relax!"

Lol, that is what I ..."

955 pages!!! OMG that's intimidating.. :P I read its blurb though, it sounds very interesting. And you got it just for 1 euro! Now, that's what I call a good haul :). In India, the international book fair has started today, I am planning to go, hopefully I will buy some great books at cheap rates :)

[Tejas Janet]

Tejas Janet wrote: "Elsbeth wrote: "Yoohoo, I have a new Toppler-record! I finished my 6th book..."

I seem to be missing one for you. I have 5 highlighted as completed. Need to find what's missing..."

Ah ha, it was Frostbite. It wasn't highlighted. Fixing that and adding 10 more pts.

[Berit]

I know I wrote this in the other thread, but yes I read 10 books. Not sure which one I was leaving out in my head but really doesn't matter :-)

[Tejas Janet]

Okay, thought that was probably the case ;)