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Tower Teams 9 - The Muses
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I can *try* to squeeze in Book Lovers for the read by TM task
I am going to work on Book Lovers as well once I finish my planned ones first, and that would work for an extra by TM and BOM points. Thankfully I don't have many plans this weekend other than reading.
I've finished book lovers, just need to do my questions.Will see if I can find a book for the mini as well!
Finished Book Lovers questions. Not sure if we can use it for the Mini as well....
I don’t think I ever got an answer - I read book lovers earlier in tower teams. Can I still participate in discussion and earn points?
Jenn wrote: "I don’t think I ever got an answer - I read book lovers earlier in tower teams. Can I still participate in discussion and earn points?"Yes you can., You need to answer and link 3 days worth of DQs
Thank you Louise. I’ll get that done today. Finished another book and will enter it in the spreadsheet when I’m on an actual computer.
I don't think I'm going to get to The Neverending Story, but I am halfway through Stardust, which would work for being on my TBR for over a year, as well! Is it okay if I swap that out? I'll definitely have Stardust done before the 15th.
The goodreads profile for There's More Than One Way to Sense A Killer doesn't have the page numbers in it - but on Amazon and my kindle it shows 203. Can we please get this added?
Jenn wrote: "The goodreads profile for There's More Than One Way to Sense A Killer doesn't have the page numbers in it - but on Amazon and my kindle it shows 203. Can we please get this added?"Done
I finished the The Boy in the Red Dress. Is there anything left that I could fill?
Since I finished The Book of Cold Cases, late that is, can I still do the DQs. I did the first day of questions.
Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "I finished the The Boy in the Red Dress. Is there anything left that I could fill?
Since I finished The Book of Cold Cases, late that is, can I still do the DQs...."
Unfortunately not, DQ points can only be claimed for the month that they are active.
I think at this point if anyone is looking to get in a book that will work for the mini - I'd go for a book a TM has read.We're starting to get a small bank of books that we can shuffle around if we need, but there's not a lot of crossover with those. There's one still unclaimed (although Stacey might have picked one up?) and three outstanding.
I'm pretty confident we'll get all of our outstanding books in - but just in case something happens that's definitely the task we could use the buffer for!
I'm reading one a TM read, but if someone finishes before me that's fine.
just finished Book Lovers, will add to the spreadsheet
I claimed one of the read by a TM and finished it today : )
Louise wrote: "Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "I finished the The Boy in the Red Dress. Is there anything left that I could fill?
Since I finished The Book of Cold Cases, late that i..."
That's what I thought but just wanted to make sure. Thanks : )
Finished Unforgiveable (read by Trinia). I've added it to the spreadsheet. Not sure if you need it anymore. Feel free to use or not - whatever we need for the most points.
I marked Crime scene as finished, now working on finishing Malibu Rising. was hoping to get more reading in today but actually left the house for a change and got a new phone finally
It's always been bom still counts 30 days from start date of bom read , even if the month changed, unless this is a new rule or change not posted somewhere. Malibu Rising was started July 16 but you see a lot of questions still being answered on today's date since it's not 30 days past. Sadly book of cold cases was early June.And ugh typing on phone in Goodreads is so awkward, so ignore bad formatting on my part. Don't feel like turning on laptop
Stacey wrote: "Finished Unforgiveable (read by Trinia). I've added it to the spreadsheet. Not sure if you need it anymore. Feel free to use or not - whatever we need for the most points."Unfortunately this one doesn’t work as Trinia read it during the mini 😞
Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "I claimed one of the read by a TM and finished it today : )"Unfortunately Loveless doesn’t work for this task as Vian read it for the mini
I finished Malibu Rising. will answer last set tomorrow. on phone so cant do the link on spreadsheet or copy and paste. heading to bed but did the marking as read part
Louise wrote: "Stacey wrote: "Finished Unforgiveable (read by Trinia). I've added it to the spreadsheet. Not sure if you need it anymore. Feel free to use or not - whatever we need for the most points."Unfortun..."
Really? What are the rules then? I was just checking our shelves.
Stacey wrote: "Louise wrote: "Stacey wrote: "Finished Unforgiveable (read by Trinia). I've added it to the spreadsheet. Not sure if you need it anymore. Feel free to use or not - whatever we need for the most poi..."This was announced before the start of the mini here when the Mods posted rule clarifications
"Calliope: the book should have been read before the start of this mini. Entire sections filled with BOM are not really in the spirit of the challenge.
If it is a series book, you must read the same book in the series. No substitutions."
Mini UpdateThalia - Comedy - Complete
Urania - Series - 1 Outstanding
Vicky - The Fires of Heaven (I'm just about 2 hours away from finishing this)
Polyhymnia - Title Squares - 2 Outstanding
Jax - In the Great Green Rom
Louise - Empire of Storms
Erato - Pairs - Complete
Calliope - Read by a TM - Outstanding, 1 Unclaimed
Please note the book chosen needs to be read before this mini started.
Vicky - The Gunslinger
Clio - TBR - 1 Outstanding
Keri - The Neverending Story
Euterpe - Concert - Complete
Terpsichore - Ball - 2 Outstanding
Erin - The Drawing of the Three
Vicky - American Duchess
I can *try* to read another book for Calliope, depending on the time zone we're following (which I always forget)
Tati wrote: "I can *try* to read another book for Calliope, depending on the time zone we're following (which I always forget)"Uk Time zone there is 29 hours left
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
I finished The Fires of Heaven and am 67% into The Gunslinger. I have 8ish hours of audio time between that and My American Duchess, which should be no problem between today and tomorrow!
Sorry, it's been very busy here and I missed that. I'll try to read a quick one for TM. It will have to be short so if someone else can finish something better, great.
I'm working on my book and will have finished before going to bed tonight.IF have time will do Book lovers for BOM and that counts as a previously read for the inspired, but no guarantees yet as both are decent page counts and depends if I run into other distractions in the meantime. Hopefully can get a few more done
Tati wrote: "I can *try* to read another book for Calliope, depending on the time zone we're following (which I always forget)"The announcements thread has a countdown. The first post tells the time zone in the thread as well, easy to find anyone to find the info with some looking, but I hate figuring out time zone differences, so just use the countdown link to tell hours days remaining to keep it even simpler
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
I updated the BOM on the spreadsheet for Malibu Rising now that I can get to a computer today, and answered the last set of those questions from finishing the book last night.
Louise wrote: "Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "I claimed one of the read by a TM and finished it today : )"Unfortunately Loveless doesn’t work for this task as Vian read it for the mini"
I must have missed that because I didn't see it stated that way in the rules. Sorry. It just says "during the challenge"
Sometimes thought of as the leader of the muses, Calliope would like to see a demonstration of team work. To do this you can read books read by a team member during the challenge. A maximum of 16 books can be used here.
Update! We have just under 21 hours to go (9PM London Time, 4PM Eastern).The mini is looking good! We have four books outstanding - Erin, Louise and I all have one to go and Tati is trying to get another TM read done. Looking at the other teams sheets, I'm thinking worst case we can put one more read of Book Lovers into that category if Tati can't finish in time!
I also did some clean-up/double checking of things and found some things that need fixing up:
Trinia - Lost Boy is on your challenge shelf but without a read date, even though it looks like you read it during the challenge? If you did and you add it in we can get those page points!
Vian - You read Americanah for the last round of Warships but it's not on your shelf.
For BOMs - the following books are on the spreadsheet without DQs, no pressure if you decided to DNF or won't finish, but just a reminder that we can get those DQ points!
Book Lovers - Tati, Jenn
Malibu Rising - Vian, Louise
We can log another 19 books for the challenge and we have 26 books in the low page count bank, so we'll definitely be pulling some of those out to fill in the cap once we see what everyone finishes up tomorrow! :)
Just finished up The Drawing of the Three. Even better than I remembered. Going to mark it read now, then work on Book Lovers :)
Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "Louise wrote: "Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "I claimed one of the read by a TM and finished it today : )"Unfortunately Loveless doesn’t work for this task as Vian read it for the mini..."
Some of the rules were clarified in the Captains group, which was communicated here
This was to deter teams from filling up the section with BOM’s
Good Morning all, can’t believe it’s the last day of the challenge. Managed to finish Malibu Rising today. Just Empire of Storms to go.
Hello all! Unfortunately I am done. I have work today in the office and am still at the very beginning of Book Lovers, so highly doubt I will finish before the deadline ends. I did finish all my books on the mini.It has been GREAT playing with you all! :)
Under checking tab it says Yes, problem for me, and lists Malibu Rising. I have double checked and I have it marked with a read date and a towers shelf
I finished The Obelisk Gate yesterday. With that I am finished for the challenge. Excited to see results. It has been fun playing with everyone!
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Under checking tab it says Yes, problem for me, and lists Malibu Rising. I have double checked and I have it marked with a read date and a towers shelf"Not sure what the reference in column H is
@Vicky please clarify what this relates to.
The problem column relates to discrepancy between the tracking sheet and official sheet.
Nice job ending strong team. It's been a lot of fun for my first TT.
I’ve just finished my last book and am off out for a couple of hours. Be back before challenge ends to check on how everyone is doing. Check out the Campfire for the Team Tragedies and Comedies.
I'm done too. I won't have another book done before the end. It was great to play with you all.
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Our biggest priority is getting two more of those books read by another TM during the challenge in.
Thalia - Comedy - 1 Outstanding
Jax - The Quiet Zone
Urania - Series - 1 Outstanding
Vicky - The Fires of Heaven (I'm just about 2 hours away from finishing this)
Polyhymnia - Title Squares - 2 Outstanding
Jax - In the Great Green Rom
Louise - Empire of Storms
Erato - Pairs - 1 Outstanding
Erin - Crime Scene
Calliope - Read by a TM - 3 Outstanding, 2 Unclaimed
Louise - The Red Pyramid, Book Lovers
Vicky - The Gunslinger
Clio - TBR - 1 Outstanding
Keri - The Neverending Story
Terpsichore - Ball - 5 Outstanding
Erin - Malibu Rising, The Drawing of the Three
Louise - The Worst Best Man
Robin - Boy in the Red Dress
Vicky - American Duchess