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Team Fourged Together
Scoring:1st 4 books in the chain = 5 points per book
books # 5-8 in chain = 10 points each
book # 9 and beyond in chain = 15 points each
Reporting: Fourged Together Books reported
Spreadsheet: Fourged Together tracking
Toppler rules: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Chain 1:
5 √ Winter's Wolf - J'mom
5 √ Wolf Found - J'mom
5 √ Wolf Reborn - J'mom
5 √ Wolf Lost - J'mom
10 √ Things We Lost in the Fire - Vicki
10 √ Lost - Lauri
10 √ The Valley of Lost Children - Sharon
10 √ The Lost Hero - Lauri
15 √ Accidental Hero - Christina
15 √ The Accidental Beauty Queen - Lauri
15 √ The Ice Queen - Katrisa
15 √ Holidays on Ice - Katrisa
15 √ The Ice Storm - Sharon
15 √ Rose in a Storm - TrudyAn
15 √ Concrete Rose - Katrisa
15 √ Black Dahlia & White Rose - Christina
15 √ Black No More - Katrisa
15 √ Policing the Black Man - Katrisa
15 √ The Black Tides of Heaven - Katrisa
15 √ Dead Is the New Black - Christina
15 √ The Dead - Katrisa
15 √ The Dead Mountaineer's Inn - Katrisa
15 √ The Dead House - Sharon
15 √ Oleander House - J'mom
15 √ In the House in the Dark of the Woods - Katrisa
15 √ The House in the Cerulean Sea - Kristie
15 √ Peril at End House - Christina
15 √ The Cabin at the End of the World - Sharon
15 √ News of the World - Katrisa
15 √ News of the World - Sharon
15 √ The Mirrored World - Vicki
15 √ The End of the World - Sharon
15 √ We Begin at the End - Kristie
15 √ The End of the Day - TrudyAn
15 √ Days Without End - TrudyAn
15 √ The Hitman's Guide to Tying the Knot Without Getting Shot - J'mom
15 √ The Hitman's Guide to Staying Alive Despite Past Mistakes - J'mom
15 √ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Vicki
15 √ The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Vicki
15 √ The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love - J'mom
15 √ Make Death Love Me - Christina
15 √ Love, Lucy - Katrisa
15 √ Love Bites - J'mom
15 √ Love Bleeds - J'mom
15 √ A Dragon's Love Song - J'mom
15 √ Under the Dragon's Spell - J'mom
15 √ Under the Streets of Nice - Katrisa
15 √ Under One Roof - TrudyAn
15 √ The New One - Katrisa
15 √ One Native Life - Katrisa
15 √ One Story, One Song - Katrisa
15 √ The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy - Sharon
Total points: 720
Connecting words: Rose, Black, Dead, House, End, Without, Hitman's, Guide, World, Storm, Ice, Queen, Love, News, Dragon's, Under, Lost, Hero, Accidental, One, Song, Wolf
Commitments:
Sharon:
The Ice Storm
The Dead House
The Cabin at the End if the World
News of the World
The End of the World
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
The Valley of Lost Children
TrudyAn:
Rose in a Storm
Days Without End
Under One Roof
The End of the Day
Katrisa:
Concrete Rose
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Dead Mountaineer's Inn
News of the World
The Dead
Holidays on Ice
The Ice Queen
Black No More
Love, Lucy
Policing the Black Man
One Story, One Song
The New One
Under the Streets of Nice
One Native Life
In the House in the Dark of the Woods
Kristie:
The House in the Cerulean Sea
We Begin at the End
Christina:
Black Dahlia & White Rose
Dead Is the New Black
Peril at End House
Make Death Love Me
Accidental Hero
Black Rose (maybe)
J'mom:
Oleander House
The Hitman's Guide to Tying the Knot Without Getting Shot
The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love
The Hitman's Guide to Staying Alive Despite Past Mistakes
Love Bites
Love Bleeds
A Dragon's Love Song
Under the Dragon's Spell
Wolf Lost
Winter's Wolf
Wolf Found
Wolf Reborn
Vicki:
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
The Mirrored World
Things We Lost in the Fire
Lauri:
The Accidental Beauty Queen
Lost
The Lost Hero
Hi everyone! Welcome to Team 4! I'm not sure if Katrisa has seen the posting yet, but I figured I'd start a thread for us so we can start planning. Any team name suggestions?
Chain Gang? LOL!Chain Links?
Also, I can always gopher for more options, but just as a starting point, I currently have the following books to read. If someone would like to start a chain with me with one of these that would be excellent! We begin at the End
The Rose Code
Hillbilly Elegy
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Ready Player Two
Or maybe one of these. I had these planned for a little later, but have access to all of them, so I can read one of these if it fits someone else's plan:
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
Mother May I
The Drowning Kind
The Queen’s Gambit
Let me know if any of them work for you!
(edit: Sorry, I'm not linking right now because Goodreads is messed up, but all we need are titles for now anyway.)
Update: Commitments
We Begin at the End
The Rose Code
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Try for:
The Widow of Rose House to link chains 2 & 3
Sharon wrote: "Chain Gang? LOL!"Working on the Chain Game? lol
Or Winning on the Chain Game??
Kristie: The End of the World by Amy Matayo to start the chain with We Begin at the End?The Dead House by Billy O’Clannahan (I think)
Sharon wrote: "Kristie: The End of the World by Amy Matayo to start the chain with We Begin at the End?"Awesome!
For name immediately thought of 4chain cause it sounds like 4chan. Problem is that I don't really know what that is lol and I think it has a negative persona.
Sharon wrote: "The Dead House by Billy O’Clannahan (I think)"Do you want this one put as an optional for you?
Kristie wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Chain Gang? LOL!"Working on the Chain Game? lol
Or Winning on the Chain Game??"
I like Working on the Chain Gang but I’m game for anything.
Kristie wrote: "Sharon wrote: "The Dead House by Billy O’Clannahan (I think)"Do you want this one put as an optional for you?"
I'm not even sure if it is best to keep track of optional or jus to tack on to the chain. I guess we'll see how it goes.
Kristie wrote: "Sharon wrote: "The Dead House by Billy O’Clannahan (I think)"Do you want this one put as an optional for you?"
Yes, please.
Sharon wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Chain Gang? LOL!"Working on the Chain Game? lol
Or Winning on the Chain Game??"
I like Working on the Chain Gang but I’m game for anything."
Let's see what the rest of the team thinks when they get here.
Kristie wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Sharon wrote: "The Dead House by Billy O’Clannahan (I think)"Do you want this one put as an optional for you?"
I'm not even sure if it is best to keep track of optional or jus to..."
Kristie wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Sharon wrote: "Chain Gang? LOL!"
Working on the Chain Game? lol
I can see that it would get very confusing.
Or Winning on the Chain Game??"
I like Working on the Chain Gang but I’m game for anything."
Let's..."
We could link your The Dead House with my The House in the Cerulean Sea if you decide to read it and either start a second chain or maybe find a way to link those two to the first two later. Let's see what the rest of the team has in mind to read first. I'm hoping we can make a super long chain! lol I feel like it might be hard to get started, but once we have a chain or two going we will all be able to gopher for specific words if needed.
I could read two, possibly three, from these: Days without End
Tell
Some Great Thing
The Grass is Singing
Capacity for Murder
Sadness is a White Bird
The Cold Millions
The Plague
Lose your Mother
TrudyAn wrote: "I could read two, possibly three, from these: Days without End
Tell
Some Great Thing
The Grass is Singing
Capacity for Murder
Sadness is a White Bird
The Cold Millions
The Plague
Lose your Mother"
We could add Days without End to our list. Do you want to start with that one? I'll put the others as your options?
I'll also put you down as able to commit to 2 for now, since you said 3 is just a possibility. We can always add more, but removing one may be harder.
When people are gophering for books, please notice that we started a chain: We begin at the End
The End of the World
Days Without End
They all use the same word (end), so we can reorder them if needed. If someone wants to build off any of these books we can make it work.
Kristie: I can commit to at least three books. But I will wait to see what’s needed after I read The End of the World.
Kristie wrote:“We could add Days without End to our list. Do you want to start with that one? I'll put the others as your options.”Sure, I’ll start with that one.
I’m pretty well limited to books I own, as I doubt I’d be able to receive any library book quickly enough.
TrudyAn wrote: "Kristie wrote:“We could add Days without End to our list. Do you want to start with that one? I'll put the others as your options.”Sure, I’ll start with that one.
I’m pretty well limited to boo..."
I have this problem too. I can get something off overdrive if it's available but my library is taking a month to get books right now.
So far I haven't found anything to link yet. These are some potential books. I can read 2-3.
Swallows of kabul
In the time of the butterflies
Why kings confess
The truth teller
City of spies
Who buries the dead
Confirmed:
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue 🎧 10:47:25
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy 🎧 11:16:48
Hi everyone! I just got home from my crazy day in kindergarten! I am still wrapping my head around how to track this exactly! But I have all weekend to be not working :) Welcome team! :)
Kristie I can link to your The Rose Code with my Concrete Rose
Here are books on my upcoming:In Praise of Walking
Revenge
Doll Bones
We Were Brothers
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey
George
Born Standing Up
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Mouthful of Birds
Hi Team!I can link to Days without End (without)
The Hitman's Guide to Tying the Knot Without Getting Shot
The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love
The Hitman's Guide to Staying Alive Despite Past Mistakes
jaxnsmom wrote: "Hi Team!I can link to Days without End (without)
The Hitman's Guide to Tying the Knot Without Getting Shot
The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love
[b..."
I could link [book:The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue|29283884] and possibly The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
I have another idea for a team name I like better. Team Fourged Together
I can probably read at least 7 books. I don't plan ahead what I'm going to read, so I should be able to gopher as needed.I can link Oleander House to Sharon's The Dead House.
Woohoo! Our first chain is looking awesome! Vicki do you want me to put you down for The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy or wait?
Really cool thing about our list is that since all of the books below are linked by the same word, We can reorder them and still have a link. So if anyone has a book that can link to any of the eligible words below we can use it! We'll just add it to the end.
The Hitman's Guide to Making Friends and Finding Love
The Hitman's Guide to Staying Alive Despite Past Mistakes
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
We can also link to the beginning using the words "begin" or "end" from We Begin at the End.
Vicki wrote: "I have another idea for a team name I like better. Team Fourged Together"
I like this. Or how about Team Fourging Links?
Anyone else? Thoughts on a team name?
Kristie wrote: "Vicki wrote: "I have another idea for a team name I like better. Team Fourged Together"
I like this. Or how about Team Fourging Links?
Anyone else? Thoughts on a team name?"
Ooo I like Team Fourging Links that's good
And yes I can read both those, they are both audio so I can also do one short non audio.
I will adjust my list above
Katrisa wrote: "Kristie I can link to your The Rose Code with my Concrete Rose"I added it to the list as chain two for now. Let's see if anyone else can connect to it.
If someone had a book with one of these words: Hitman's, Guide, Making, Friends, Finding, Love, Staying, Alive, Despite, Past, Mistakes, Vice, Virtue Lady's, Guide, Petticoats, Piracy
AND one of these words:
Rose, Code, Concrete
That would be amazing and we could attach both chains. Anyone up for a challenge??? lol
jaxnsmom wrote: "I can probably read at least 7 books. I don't plan ahead what I'm going to read, so I should be able to gopher as needed.I can link Oleander House to Sharon's The Dead House."
That's excellent! Thank you for being flexible.
I don't think Sharon is 100% on The Dead House, but I can add The House in the Cerulean Sea as my third read. That's probably all I can commit to. That will be our third chain and if Sharon wants to read The Dead House, it will definitely link.
Okay... I am lost anyone want to point me in a direction
Vicki wrote: "Ooo I like Team Fourging Links that's goodAnd yes I can read both those, they are both audio so I can also do one short non audio.
I will adjust my list above "
Great! Thanks. :) I'll update.
Christina wrote: "Okay... I am lost anyone want to point me in a direction"Welcome Christina! Have you done a toppler with us yet? Basically, just get ready to read!
We get points for every book our team reads and the titles have to connect with a matching word.
So we're just throwing out titles we can possibly read during the week to see if any words match up. We not really gonna read all of the ones we've listed, just trying to plan as a team
Christina wrote: "Okay... I am lost anyone want to point me in a direction"No worries, Christina! We'll help you out. :)
If you look in the second post there are 3 chains. You need to find a book that has one of the the same words as the beginning or ending book in the chain.
Do you have access to a variety of books? This is a hard toppler if you're very limited, which can be an issue right now.
The other question is how many books do you think you can read in one week?
I found a book that my local library has called The Widow of Rose House. It will link the second two chains together if I can manage it. I'm really not sure I can. I think I'm pretty maxed out with the three I have, but I requested it anyway just in case. When I get it I'll determine how quick of a read it is.
Please tell me if I miss anything. I keep going back to check comments to make sure nothing gets lost, but it is easy to pass a comment by unintentionally. So if you notice that I didn't answer a question or update something or there's an inaccuracy, just let me know. Thanks!
Kristie wrote: "Please tell me if I miss anything. I keep going back to check comments to make sure nothing gets lost, but it is easy to pass a comment by unintentionally. So if you notice that I didn't answer a q..."I have such a wide variety, I said I would read Black Rose, but I also have Sea Wife. Which would be more helpful? I only want to commit to one at a time.
Christina wrote: "I have such a wide variety, I said I would read Black Rose, but I also have Sea Wife. Which would be more helpful? I only want to commit to one at a time."Thanks, Christina. Either one of those would be great. I'll put you down for Black Rose, since that's the first one you wanted to do.
(Sea Wife would be great too because "wife" is a popular word in book titles. So, if "sea" is still available to link when you're ready to add a second book that would be an excellent choice.)
Kristie wrote: "Christina wrote: "I have such a wide variety, I said I would read Black Rose, but I also have Sea Wife. Which would be more helpful? I only want to commit to one at a time."Thanks, Christina. Eit..."
Yep, Sign me up for that one... I will figure out where we are at after I finish it.
Christina wrote: "Yep, Sign me up for that one... I will figure out where we are at after I finish it. "Sorry... I edited the comment again. I just realized it's not on the long thread. *facepalm* So, if it's ok, I'll still put you down for Black Rose.
Kristie wrote: "Christina wrote: "Yep, Sign me up for that one... I will figure out where we are at after I finish it. "Sorry... I edited the comment again. I just realized it's not on the long thread. *facepalm..."
Okay... Thank you. I know I am a pain.
Vicki wrote: "I have another idea for a team name I like better. Team Fourged Together"
I LOVE this one!!!! I vote this
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