Team Ruby

[RachelvlehcaR]

Week 2: Book 5
Spell out: Baby Powder

Book: Dragonfly in Amber
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Pages: 743
Date Finished: 4/1/2015
In Bookshelf: Yes
B - Char: Brianna
A - Char: Alex Randall
P - Char: Madame Prudhomme
O - Series: Outlander
W - Char: Reverend Walter Laurent
D - Title: Dragonfly in Amber
E - Char: Greg Edgars
R - Char: Claire Randall

It's updated in the bookshelf and spreadsheets.
We just need two B's to finish out our second spell out of Baby Powder and we are at 225 points.
Great job everyone!

[Allison Ann]

I finished last night. I'm assuming we'll be using it for Y, but I'll post the other options later. I left my little piece of paper somewhere. :) Yes, I have a highly technical way of approaching this challenge - pencil scratchings on tiny scraps of paper that I am constantly losing.

Book - The Year Of The Virgins by Catherine Cookson - 272 pages - 3 stars

Colour - BABYPOWDER

B - character - Bill White
A - character - Annette Allison
Y - title
P - character - Peggie
W - character - Winifred Coulson
D - character - Daniel Coulson
R - character - Father Ramshaw

[Allison Ann]

I've been reading over my estimate these last two weeks, but I will be under for the next two weeks for sure. That's why it is called an estimate. :D

They seem to have dissolved a whole team and reallocated them to other stones. Kind of weird for the first week but oh well. Just keep reading everyone, that's all we can do.

[Michelle]

I finished but need to double check that I didn't miss any letters. Will update after work.

Also, I should finish today. It's great so far!

[Allison Ann]

Okay this is freaky, I was just checking our tracking sheet and someone was updating it as I looked - words appearing as if by magic. :) Maybe there are ghosts in my computer.

Also, I edited my The Year Of The Virgins book, there is a B character if we want to use it to finish out the spell.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Lol, it was me Allison. I updated it and added in our official spreadsheet. We are doing well. I'm working on a B Character now but if someone finishes a book that fits it before I do I'll use their book. :)

Allison Ann, I think it's best if we use your book for Y in Spell out 3.

Okay, I'm off to read!

[Allison Ann]

Since it is April Fools and not Hallowe'en, I didn't really think it was a ghost. ;)

I need an O title for another challenge, so I've been trying to find one to read this week. All the ones I haven't read yet from my library seem to be in the middle of series I haven't started. I hate reading out of order.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Last week I read, Othello and Orlando

[RachelvlehcaR]

Isn't it fun watching someone editing the spreadsheets. I always caught Angel doing it in TT.

[Michelle]

Finished . I loved it! I need to write a review for a different challenge now.
B - Author: Anne Barrows
A -Char: Juliet Ashton
P - Char: Isola Pribby
W - Char: Will Thisbee
D - Char: Dawsey Adams
E - Char: Eben Ramsey
R - Char: Eben Ramsey

[RachelvlehcaR]

Week 2: Book 6
Spell out: Baby Powder

Book: The Discovery of Chocolate
Author: James Runcie
Pages: 272
Date Finished: 4/1/2015
In Bookshelf: Yes
B - Char: Bartolome de Olmedo
A - Char: Aguilor
P - Char: Pedro de Alvarado
O - Char: Bartolome de Olmedo
D - Title: The Discovery of Chocolate
R - Author: James Runcie

[RachelvlehcaR]

All books are updated to here. We have 295 points and are finished with our second spell out of Baby Powder. :)

Yay! Go Ruby!

Now onward to our third spell out of Baby Powder!

(I'm hoping to finish NOS4A2 tonight. I'm really enjoying it. I had to stop reading it to finish The discovery of chocolate--which is another neat book.)

[Allison Ann]

Insomnia is good for reading terrible books, at least you don't have to get up to find another book, so you finish. This is a white cover too, if we still need it.

Book - The Case of Lucy Bending by Lawrence Sanders - 410 pages - 2 stars

Colour - BABYPOWDER

B - character - Lucy Bending
O - character - Osborn T. Fitch
W - character - Wayne Bending
D - character - Senator Randolph Diedrickson
E - character - Eddie Holloway
R - character - Ronald Bending

The next book I'll finish is a B title - The Babes In The Wood.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Oh, Allison Ann I can't stand to lose sleep. I get cranky she the alarm clock goes off. That is me this morning. I have a new work schedule so less reading. I will be home at 3pm and log your book in unless Michelle can.

Have a great day everyone.

[Michelle]

I'll get it. Let me grab my computer since it is easier to add than on my phone!

[Wishbear]

Fat Ollie's BookI've finished by Ed McBain, 291 pages

B - char.Bert Kling
O - char.Ollie Weeks
W - char. Ollie Weeks
E - author, Ed McBain
It also is completely off white so it should work for colour.

[Michelle]

Finished In the Woods. On my phone at bowling so can't update our sheet!

[RachelvlehcaR]

I am home now. I can update the sheets. :)

[Allison Ann]

Book - The Babes In The Wood by Ruth Rendell - 323 pages - 3 stars

Colour - BABYPOWDER

B - title
A - character - Archbold
Y - character - Yvonne Moody
P - character - Peter Buxton
W - character - Chief Inspector Wexford
D - character - Giles Dade
E - character - Effie Troy
R - author - Ruth Rendell

And now I have to go look up simnel cake to see what it is. :)

[RachelvlehcaR]

Awesome job everyone! We have 325 points! We are half way through our third spell out of baby powder. We have our white covered book, one BotM DQ, and our extra points for the first spell out. I have my next BotM DQs due on the 4th. That will be another 20 points for DQs.

Woohoo! Go Ruby! I worked all day but I'm home for the rest of the night and I'm plan to read.

Have a good evening everyone. :)

[Allison Ann]

We are doing great again. Way to read Rubies! I'm kind of hoping we get MAIZE soon because I've got a couple of Z books I'd love to read.

[Diane ~Firefly~]

Just finished another book.

Title - Above the Bridge by Deborah Garner with 240 pages.

A - title
P - char Paige Mackenzie
D - author

This book didn't do it for me. It was overly descriptive and nothing really happened for the first 1/3 of the book.

[Cheryl]

Finished another book that I should have read a long time ago!

Title:The Phantom of the Opera
Author: Gaston Leroux
Pages: 360

A: character-Armand
P: title-Phantom
O: character-Opera Ghost
D: character-Christine Daae'
E: character-Erik
R: character-Raoul

I did not feel that it was cheating to list Opera Ghost as a character because he is referred to as "the Phantom," "Opera Ghost," and "Erik" interchangeably thoughout the novel.

I will finish one more book before the end of the week which is good for B,A,P,W,D,E,or R.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Awesome Job Cheryl, Diane, & Allison Ann!

I updated the spreadsheets. We have 355 points! Only O & W left in this third spell out of baby powder. :)

[Michelle]

Just starting another one.
by Agatha Christie
272 pages (GR)
B - Char: Megan Barnard
A - Title / Author
Y - ?
P - Char: Hercule Poirot
O - ?
W - ?
D - Char: Mary Drower
E - ?
R - Char: Mr. Riddell

I'll update as I find more. Hoping to find the other 4 letters for us.

[Cheryl]

The spreadsheet shows me having read Above the Bridge. I did not. Diane did. My final book for the week is The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Thanks for catching that Cheryl. :) I fixed it! That's what happens when hopped up on Benadryl. :P

[Allison Ann]

This may be all I finish today, we'll see. Good Friday and I'm the only store open within 86 kms. :D

Book - Open House by Elizabeth Berg - 272 pages - 3 stars

Colour - BABYPOWDER

B - author - Elizabeth Berg
O - title
W - character - Branch Willis
D - character - Daniel Morrow
E - author - Elizabeth Berg
R - author - Rita

BTW, simnel cake is fruit cake (delicious) with lots of marzipan (gross), I am torn.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Updated Spreadsheets and checked bookshelves.

375 points and finished our third spell out. :)

Yay!

[Michelle]

Finished The A.B.C. Murders. No new letters to add.

It will probably be my last book for this week. I work 4pm-1am today and tomorrow so I will probably roll my next book into Sunday.

[Cheryl]

I have finished my 3rd (and final) book of the week:

Book: The Girl Who Came Home
Author: Hazel Gaynor
Pages: 384

B: character: Grace Butler
A: character: Thomas Andrews
P: character: Peggy Madden
W: character: Harry Walsh
D: character: Seamus Doyle
E: character: Ellen Joyce
R: character: Robert Isaacs

I will start working on something that I will hope will work for next week. I will not get much reading done this weekend with it being a holiday and my daughter coming home!

[Allison Ann]

The curling is making me ill so I'm just going to pretend it's not on and finish the last few chapters of my book.

[Allison Ann]

Book - Golden Cup by Belva Plain - 399 pages - 3 stars

Colour - BABYPOWDER

B - author - Belva Plain
A - character - Angelique De Rivera
P - author - Belva Plain
O - character - Olga Zaretkin
W - character - Paul Werner
D - character - Daniel Roth
E - character - Emily Hughes
R - character - Daniel Roth

[RachelvlehcaR]

Week 3's word is Licorice. :)

[Allison Ann]

Well I know what I'll finish for tomorrow then, it won't work for anything in LICORICE. :)

[RachelvlehcaR]

I've updated spreadsheet and looked at bookshelves. :) We are doing awesome. I plan on finishing three books by tomorrow night and the BotM DQs.

I have plenty of books that will work for Licorice.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Countdown Clock: End of Week 2 (Beginning of Week 3)

[Cheryl]

Oh man!!! That word does nothing for the books I was needing to get read next week!

[Cheryl]

I will be reading a non-fiction book again this week. It will only work for either "E" or "C." Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony A Friendship That Changed the World by Penny Coleman.

My second book will work for "L," "I," or "O." Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende.

I will read Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, which may only be an "O" or a "C." It is difficult with shorter words that are mostly vowels!

[Michelle]

My many Agatha Christies will help us cover the 2 C's. I'm sorry I can't finish anything tonight. Just popping in on a break to say hi and happy reading!

Rachel thanks for all of your hard work with the spreadsheets and shelves. You are great.

[Allison Ann]

Guess we can't quite finish a fourth spelling of BABYPOWDER? I've got one to post now and could finish one more by tonight, but maybe I'll just read ahead in some LICORICE books instead. I've got some L and I books I've been hanging on to that will work.


Book - Merciless by Mary Burton - 416 pages - 3 stars

Colour - BABYPOWDER

B - author - Mary Burton
A - character - Angie Carlson
P - character - Paulie Sommers
O - character - Olivia
W - character - Charlotte Wellington
D - character - Deacon Garrison
E - character - Eva Rayburn
R - character - Eva Rayburn

[Allison Ann]

P.S. The O title for the last full spell out is mixed up on the spreadsheet, someone else's character is there instead of Open House. Don't know how (or if) to fix it myself. :D

[Wishbear]

I'm sorry I thought I posted this yesterday before I left. now I have to do it on my phone.

I finished Whatever Happened to Janie by Caroline B. Cooney. 224 pages
r-char. reeve shields
B-char. Brian spring

[RachelvlehcaR]

Allison Ann wrote: "P.S. The O title for the last full spell out is mixed up on the spreadsheet, someone else's character is there instead of Open House. Don't know how (or if) to fix it myself. :D"

Thanks Allison Ann, fixed it. Thanks for checking! I'm going to go over all of them in a few hours and double check the shelves to make sure we have everything correct and that the number pages match with the books in the shelves. :)

[RachelvlehcaR]

Mollie wrote: "I'm sorry I thought I posted this yesterday before I left. now I have to do it on my phone.

I finished Whatever Happened to Janie by Caroline B. Cooney. 224 pages
r-char. reeve shields
B-char. B..."

Added it! Yay! :)

[RachelvlehcaR]

Michelle wrote: "My many Agatha Christies will help us cover the 2 C's. I'm sorry I can't finish anything tonight. Just popping in on a break to say hi and happy reading!

Rachel thanks for all of your hard work wi..."

Thank you. I'm luck to have the time to do it. My schedule was very free this week.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Mollie, can you please add Whatever Happened to Janie by Caroline B. Conney in your bookshelf.

[Michelle]

Next week:

by Lilian Jackson Braun 224 pages (GR)
L - Author: Lilian Jackson Braun
I -
C - Title
O -
R - Char: Arch Riker
E -


I am heading back to work. I am working on 2 books right now that hopefully will work for LICORICE.

I will try to drop in on my break to see how everything is going. Let's get reading for LICORICE! I don't have much luck with I's so I am a little nervous.

[RachelvlehcaR]

Michelle, I have finished triple checking your bookshelf and the spreadsheet. Yours is matching up. :)

[Diane ~Firefly~]

I finished my last book for Babypowder

title: Otherwise Engaged by Amanda Quick, 377 pages

B char - Benedict Standbridge
A author
P char - Penny Marsden
O title
W char - Virgil Warwick
D char - Amity Doncaster
R char - Richard Standbridge

I really enjoyed this historical romance, but I kind of expected to as JAK is my favorite author.