Team Sherlock

[Kimberly]

A Handful Of PebblesFriends: I love, love, love, love this book. Here are my reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
andhttp://ksnapier.blogspot.com/2015/04/...

[Andrea]

Sounds like a good one, Rita. Enjoy!

[Andrea]

Team Watson is getting really close to solving their code. What do you say, ladies? Can we pick up the pace a bit and surge ahead?

[Kimberly]

let me know when the next book needs to be chosen.

[Rita]

Finished my book for the sixth guess:

Read ★★★★★
Title: Black
Date Finished: 4/7/15

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

I'm still reading From the Start, which I'm really enjoying, but I started a different book that would work for yellow and it turned out to be very quick read so I'm switching my book. Will post it next. :)

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Team Sherlock: Guess #6

The Avery Shaw Experiment by Kelly Oram
How it works: Cover
Rating: ★★★★★
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Andrea wrote: "Team Watson is getting really close to solving their code. What do you say, ladies? Can we pick up the pace a bit and surge ahead?"

I think we can! We are down to one book and then we can post! :D

[Andrea]

And I just finished! Five stars. Fun book that has great depth and quirky characters.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Great job, Andrea! I'm so glad that you loved your book! I'm 5% from finishing it and am loving it too. :)

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Just posted our complete guess. Hoping we get something good :)

[Andrea]

Oh, I'm glad you're reading Melissa's book too. And I'm even happier that you're loving it! She's got such a fun style of storytelling, doesn't she?

And I agree: Hope we get something really good this time!

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Yes she does! I'm planning on reading her previous books sometime, hopefully this spring, since I've never read them.

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Okay, we got 1 black and 3 whites so we know that Brown isn't the one that's duplicated. Anyone have an idea what should be our next guess?

[Andrea]

I hope you'll really love them!

What do we want to do for our next guess?

I'm hoping to read for the next round. Will this work for one of the spots?

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Thanks! Ihope I do too. :)

It would work for either of the B's, since the main character is Mellie Blake.

[Andrea]

Awesome. May I start it now, or do I have to wait until we decide what we're guessing? I can't remember...

[Andrea]

One final note on Melissa Tagg... I really adored her book Here to Stay. It's my favorite so far, with From the Start coming in at a close second.

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

We have to decide on a guess and then once you've chosen a color you can start :)

Thanks for letting me know your favorite Melissa Tagg book, hopefully I'll enjoy them just as much :)

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

So, I was thinking we could do one of the following for our guess:

If YELLOW is in the correct spot:

ORANGE, YELLOW, BROWN, YELLOW, BLACK
YELLOW, YELLOW, BROWN, BLACK, ORANGE
YELLOW, YELLOW, BROWN, ORANGE, BLACK
ORANGE, YELLOW, BROWN, BLACK, BLACK

If BLACK is in the correct spot:

BLACK, BROWN, BLACK, ORANGE, YELLOW
BLACK, BROWN, BLACK, YELLOW, ORANGE

If ORANGE is in the correct spot:

YELLOW, BROWN, ORANGE, BLACK, ORANGE
ORANGE, BROWN, ORANGE, YELLOW, BLACK
ORANGE, BROWN, ORANGE, BLACK, YELLOW
YELLOW, BROWN, ORANGE, BLACK, BLACK
YELLOW, BROWN, ORANGE, YELLOW, BLACK
YELLOW, BROWN, ORANGE, BLACK, YELLOW
YELLOW, BROWN, ORANGE, ORANGE, BLACK

The only thing I know from looking at the spreadsheet is that Brown isn't the color that was in the correct spot. Because if it was, the second spot would need a different color and all the other options have been in it already and we've only gotten white pegs.

Any preference to which one we try next?

[Andrea]

Looks like there's a lot more options if the orange is in the right spot. What if we worked on the other options before jumping into that list?

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Okay, how about: BLACK, BROWN, BLACK, YELLOW, ORANGE?

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Team Sherlock

Guess #7: BLACK, BROWN, BLACK, YELLOW, ORANGE

Books Read


BLACK: With Every Letter by Sarah Sundin (MC - Mellie Blake)
Read by Andrea, finished 4/20 ★★★★★

BROWN: The Wishing Season by Denise Hunter (Cover)
Read by Rita, finished 5/5 ★★★★★

BLACK: Julia - Small Town, Big Dreams by Kristin Billerbeck (Author)
Read by Caitlyn, finished 4/11 ★★★★

YELLOW: 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue by Deborah Smith Pegues (cover)
Read by Megan, finished 4/14 ★★★★

ORANGE: The Gypsy Enchantment by Carla Jablonski (Cover)
Read by Megan, finished 4/18 ★★★★

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★★★★★

Read by Andrea, finished ?/?
Read by Caitlyn, finished ?/?
Read by Kimberly, finished ?/?
Read by Megan, finished ?/?
Read by Rita, finished ?/?
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[Andrea]

Sounds good to me, but we should probably let the other ladies chime in before deciding for certain. I'll check in tomorrow to see when I may start Sarah Sundin's With Every Letter.

[Rita]

Sounds good! I'll start looking for a book.

[Kimberly]

I've got a wonderful orange one that I want to read.

[Kimberly]

Look at all of those orange shirts :)

[Andrea]

Guess I can start reading today. So excited!

[Kimberly]

Is it ok to begin reading the next book?

[Rita]

I think it's fine to begin reading since we've already selected our colors and their positions.

[Caitlyn]

I'll be reading a book that will work for either Black or Brown just not sure which one yet, I'll let you know when I decide!

[Rita]

I haven't decided on a book yet, but I'll take the color Brown.

[Caitlyn]

Megan I have a question about novella collections. If I read and the Kristin Billerbeck novella specifically (Because her last name starts with B), can I just read that novella or do I have to read the entire book? I have a kindle copy of the book and it does not list how many pages each of the novellas are, but according to Amazon the paperback copy is 432 pages so since there are four novellas I'm assuming that breaks down to around one hundred pages each. Either way is fine, I just wondered! :)

[Rita]

Caitlyn - The Kindle copy of Small Town, Big Dreams by Kristin Billerbeck is listed on Amazon as having 128 pages.

[Rita]

I'll be reading (Cover works for Brown)

[Andrea]

I'm seeing lots of B books. Is it still okay for me to read With Every Letter by Sarah Sundin (main character's last name starts with B)? Are we going to have the post with our chosen books this time? Just checking.

[Rita]

Andrea - I'm sure you can. Caitlyn's book works for black, mine works for brown. Since Kimberly is reading a book for orange, that leaves black and yellow.

[Andrea]

Thanks, Rita! I was getting a bit confused there, obviously.

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Caitlyn wrote: "Megan I have a question about novella collections. If I read and the Kristin Billerbeck novella specifically (Because her last name starts with B), can I just read that..."

Rita is correct! Since the novella meets the minimum page requirement, you can just read that one :)

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Kimberly wrote: "Is it ok to begin reading the next book?"
Since we've decided on a guess and you've selected a color - yes! :)

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Andrea wrote: "I'm seeing lots of B books. Is it still okay for me to read With Every Letter by Sarah Sundin (main character's last name starts with B)? Are we going to have the post with our chosen books this ti..."

Absolutely! I've made a tracking post above (edited message 222) and I'm perfectly fine with taking the yellow - it's actually the color I was hoping to get :)

[Andrea]

Well, that worked out perfectly, then, didn't it? Glad you got the color you wanted, Megan!

I just finished reading another influencer book, so I'm starting With Every Letter now.

[Caitlyn]

Thanks so much Rita and Megan. I didn't realize those novellas were also available individually! :)

[Caitlyn]

Finished my book

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Andrea]

Great job, Caitlyn! I'm several chapters into mine now and am loving it. Hoping to have more time to read tomorrow, but we'll see how my schedule goes. This week is a busy one at work for me. How's everyone else coming along?

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Finished my book
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

Team Watson just solved their code. Do we want to continue and see if we can solve our code? It's going to be a little bit until we have another team challenge, May at the earliest, so we could possibly solve it if we wanted to try.

[Andrea]

Yes please! This game is super fun. I'm getting close to halfway done with my book. Will have lots more time this weekend to finish it.

[Caitlyn]

I would love to continue solving our code!

[Kimberly]

I'm going to have to step out. Life has just become extremely busy.

[Megan, ☘I Lost My Shoe ☘]

I completely understand. Hope it's a good kind of busy Kimberly :)

I'm so glad that both of you want to continue! I'm fine with reading an extra color for us, as long as Rita still wants to continue. Hopefully she does :)