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Tower Teams 9 - The Muses
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Team Circe
I haven't been able to do any reading or audio listening today so far due to work - ugh.
Since we have the two non-spelling tasks done for Calliope should we try to do the spell it out for that one first?
Not sure how the captains are doing it, I am assuming they are waiting toward end since those haven't been filled in yet. A lot of my reads after the two tasks will focus on vowels just in case since we need several. A good thing about this group's spell it outs is they include character names, which gives a lot more options and makes much easier.
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Not sure how the captains are doing it, I am assuming they are waiting toward end since those haven't been filled in yet. A lot of my reads after the two tasks will focus on vowels just in case sin..."Jenn wrote: "Since we have the two non-spelling tasks done for Calliope should we try to do the spell it out for that one first?"
Vicki is taking the reigns on spell-out tetris on this one and will post a shout-out if we are struggling for letters.
Louise wrote: "@Trinia please check 214 Palmer Street the edition you have shelved does not include page numbers."Should be fixed now
RE: The spell-outs, I'm going to do a batch insert tomorrow after work and see where we are and if there's anything we need to really focus on. If we read on track, we should be just over 100 books by the end of May. So, I'm going to start with the assumption that we will get all 84 books in and focus on filling in the uncommon letters first over making complete words. If it ends up looking like we won't make it, I'll shuffle around to get us as many complete words as possible!
Trinia wrote: "Louise wrote: "@Trinia please check 214 Palmer Street the edition you have shelved does not include page numbers."Should be fixed now"
Thanks Trinia, I've asked a librarian in the Captains group to add a page count to the paperback edition. Amazon has it at 272pgs https://www.amazon.co.uk/214-Palmer-S...
Hey Team!! I'm a little bit behind getting books read and posted but I'm getting back on track. I ended up having my grandkids an extra day because my son was sick UGHHHH. I didn't get much done while they were here LOL I'll try to get everything caught by tomorrow or Friday : )
Vicky wrote: "RE: The spell-outs, I'm going to do a batch insert tomorrow after work and see where we are and if there's anything we need to really focus on. If we read on track, we should be just over 100 boo..."
Sounds like a great plan to me.
I know there is a penalty for over-reading as a team whole, but it looks hard to do so I don't think we need to worry about that too much unless it becomes extreme. I doubt we'll go over 100 books as a team in the remaining weeks of May, so at least there's that --- but hopefully we do get ALL of the Mini done-- love the mini and bonus themes =)
No more audio for me today unless I go for an evening walk. I got - wait for it - less than FOUR hours of sleep last night. Could not fall asleep until after 330 and had to be up by 7 for a long day. Just clocked out. For background noise right now I mentally need more stimulation, so going to do old fashioned TV for a bit. Will try to do physical reading later when / if catch a second wind.
Vicky wrote: "RE: The spell-outs, I'm going to do a batch insert tomorrow after work and see where we are and if there's anything we need to really focus on. If we read on track, we should be just over 100 boo..."
I'm confident that we will complete the May mini. We are on target with 21 books read over 3 full days. We have 13 full days to complete the mini, I will get a countdown posted later.
Managed to finish the BOM which I really enjoyed and The Perfume Collector. Didn't manage to get started on The English Patient had 2 conference calls sprung on me. Should be able to get it done tomorrow, going to see if I can find an audio with a mask on the cover.
Will we be adding to her books for the mini to the spreadsheet. Or should I refer back to the thread to see which haven’t been claimed?
Trinia wrote: "Will we be adding to her books for the mini to the spreadsheet. Or should I refer back to the thread to see which haven’t been claimed?"Although I could put an additional tab with some info into the tracking spreadsheet if people would find it helpful/easier to find? (Honestly, might just do it anyway LOL).
EDIT: I added a "May Mini Needs" tab to our tracking spreadsheet.
Found
for mask on cover on page 54 of amazon audio/kindle
Vicky wrote: "RE: The spell-outs, I'm going to do a batch insert tomorrow after work and see where we are and if there's anything we need to really focus on. If we read on track, we should be just over 100 boo..."
Let me know if you need specific letters. I don't have anything specific picked out to read next, and wanted to tailor my reading to what letters we need. Thank you.
Non Spell-Out Mini Tasks Claimed• Mask on cover - Louise
• Stars on the cover - Stormie
• Map at the front of the book - Kelsi
• Sword on cover - Kerri
• Tagged Tragedy - Erin
• Letters of HYMN in title - Robin
• Author initials in SACRED - Kelsi
• MC is a writer Louise
• MPG History/Historical Fiction - Jax
• Musical instrument on cover - Vian
• Characters attend a musical performance - Stacie
• Dancing in the book - Trinia
• Letters CLD in title of book - Robin
Louise wrote: "I'm confident that we will complete the May mini. We are on target with 21 books read over 3 full days. We have 13 full days to complete the mini, I will get a countdown posted later."
Wow, didn't realize we already had that many down. Go, us!
Vicky wrote: "Although I could put an additional tab with some info into the tracking spreadsheet if people would find it helpful/easier to find? (Honestly, might just do it anyway LOL).."
Personally speaking will find something like that very helpful, thank you.
Jenn wrote: "Let me know if you need specific letters. I don't have anything specific picked out to read next, and wanted to tailor my reading to what letters we need. Thank you."E, I and O are big targets and we're definitely going to need one more U!
Vicky wrote: "Jenn wrote: "Let me know if you need specific letters. I don't have anything specific picked out to read next, and wanted to tailor my reading to what letters we need. Thank you."E, I and O are b..."
I can cover several U's and random vowels. Alien will definitely work for an A. We don't need to worry about the Y's because of all reading the BOM and that works for it. Hm, looks like we are good to go for the time being.
The tab that has been added is helpful, thank you.
Vicky wrote: "Trinia wrote: "Will we be adding to her books for the mini to the spreadsheet. Or should I refer back to the thread to see which haven’t been claimed?"Refer back to the thread. :) The way the MOD..."
Thanks for the tab, it's not easy to look through the thread when I'm only on my phone.
The letters needed column is super helpful!
I'ma bit lost...Can someone point me to where I can find the tasks other than the mini challenge?
Tati wrote: "I'ma bit lost...Can someone point me to where I can find the tasks other than the mini challenge?"
Right now the only tasks are for the May Mini Challenge. Books not used for the mini challenge work for page points for the overall team score.
I finished The Travelling Cat Chronicles and, yeah, it definitely had me tearing up at the end. Really enjoyed this one ❤Edited to ask, do I need to link my DQ answers for this BOM in here to have it tracked on our spreadsheet? I've done all the DQs so far.
Just finished The Travelling Cat Chronicles, oh my I was crying so much! I don't remember the last time I connected with a book enough to actually cry over it. It got 5 stars from me.
Kerri wrote: "I finished The Travelling Cat Chronicles and, yeah, it definitely had me tearing up at the end. Really enjoyed this one ❤
Edited to ask, do I need to link my DQ answers for this BO..."
There's a tab on the spreadsheet for tracking the BOM and DQs :)
Edited to ask, do I need to link my DQ answers for this BO..."
There's a tab on the spreadsheet for tracking the BOM and DQs :)
It made me tear up too. That’s too books so far this month that made me cry. The other was before the challenge started and the book was 10 Things I Hate About Pinky. Every book in that series made me cry. But in a good way
Oh I have that series on my list to read, I bought the first one recently. Now I really need to bump it up and read it soon!
Kerri wrote: "I finished The Travelling Cat Chronicles and, yeah, it definitely had me tearing up at the end. Really enjoyed this one ❤Edited to ask, do I need to link my DQ answers for this BO..."
There is a tab on the tracking sheet for BOMs for tracking DQ participation. You can either track your DQs on the sheet or post your completion in the thread and we’ll transfer it to the sheet.
Louise wrote: "Kerri wrote: "I finished The Travelling Cat Chronicles and, yeah, it definitely had me tearing up at the end. Really enjoyed this one ❤Edited to ask, do I need to link my DQ answe..."
Ahh, okay! I wasn't sure if I was allowed to edit it as it's in view only mode for me. I'll ask for permission to edit.
Kerri wrote: "Louise wrote: "Kerri wrote: "I finished The Travelling Cat Chronicles and, yeah, it definitely had me tearing up at the end. Really enjoyed this one ❤Edited to ask, do I need to l..."
You should be able to edit any part of the tracking spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
The Team Official spreadsheet is restricted to Captains only
Yay, looks like Stacey has been chosen from Team Circe to ask Daily Questions for the Backroom BOM! Looks like several members of our team signed up for that one as volunteers.
Yep, we had a good chance of getting DQs with how many from our team volunteered for the Backroom BOM. Happy to do it, but if someone who signed up earlier really wants to, let me know. Got to love the extra points!
Louise wrote: "Kerri wrote: "Louise wrote: "Kerri wrote: "I finished The Travelling Cat Chronicles and, yeah, it definitely had me tearing up at the end. Really enjoyed this one ❤Edited to ask, ..."
Of course I’m looking at the wrong one 😂 Sorry about that!
Louise wrote: "Non Spell-Out Mini Tasks Claimed• MPG Humour - Jenn
• Mask on cover - Louise
• Stars on the cover - Stormie
• Map at the front of the book - Kelsi
• Sword on cover - Kerri
• Tagged Tragedy - Erin..."
WTG Team!!! Thanks for the "Needed" tab on the spreadsheet. That really helps a lot. Especially since I really didn't plan out any books to read. I can just read what we need : )
I did get my 2 my two task books posted to the spreadsheet! I told you all I'm really challenged with spreadsheets but getting lots of NEEDED practice with all these team challenges LOL My next few reads should help with some of those pesky vowels--particularly A, E, and I is what I will have--I think : )
I hope everyone is having fun and getting in lots of reading time. I will be back in a bit!!!
I am so tired today again. I got some sleep last night compared to the night before, but have an irritated tooth and, between needing to catch up on sleep, and taking pills for that, and busy work, I am hit by exhaustion. I resumed audio reading now and am hoping to finish off some books today and get a lot of reading done this evening.
Backroom BOMDQs are allocated, well done Stacey
Date Chapters MPDQs
22 May 1 - 8 Truitt_T (Pan)
23 May 9 - 20 Tina (Ajax)
24 May 21 - 34 Stacey (Circe)
25 May 35 - 50 Sonia (Hec)
If you wish to volunteer for DQs for The Book of Cold Cases please do so hereWe get 40pts for writing DQs and 20pts for participating.
For those that have played before, Mods are ignoring the order of volunteering in the discussion thread. Every team member who volunteers has equal chance of being chosen.
Hey Team! I just did a big spell-it out dump and we're actually in REALLY good shape.We still need 5 of both O and I but everything else is under 4!
Normally I'd be worried about P, but the MC's last name in the Backroom BOM will cover that and I looks like we have at least 4 people reading that.
Stacey wrote: "Yep, we had a good chance of getting DQs with how many from our team volunteered for the Backroom BOM. Happy to do it, but if someone who signed up earlier really wants to, let me know. Got to love..."Our team made up a quarter of the volunteers which is great news. Can you double check your and confirm that this works for you in the discussion thread
Vicky wrote: "Hey Team! I just did a big spell-it out dump and we're actually in REALLY good shape.We still need 5 of both O and I but everything else is under 4!
Normally I'd be worried about P, but the MC'..."
That's great news.
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "I am so tired today again. I got some sleep last night compared to the night before, but have an irritated tooth and, between needing to catch up on sleep, and taking pills for that, and busy work,..."Hope you feel better soon Erin.
Managed to start and finish The English Patient despite surprise conference calls. I didn't think much of the film but the book was a 5-star read for me. Off to bed with Shopping for a Billionaire.Tomorrow I think will be Waiting for Tom Hanks
Like I always say, the Book is always better (except The Life of Pi).I’m still trudging through my 900+ page book. 3 listening hours left 😅 I’m happy to have it almost under my belt ! My other books are lining up.
Impressive, Trinia. I was happy with my under 600 page book. I just finished. My next one is almost as long but I expect it to be much more to my style.
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I have one more day of DQs for The Travelling Cat Chronicles and will finish the book today.