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Wheel-a-thon 8
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Team POP
I'm almost done with my O book and I think that is my last book for this round. I checked our team sheet and we need MORE O's next round! 😮
Alyana wrote: "I'm almost done with my O book and I think that is my last book for this round. I checked our team sheet and we need MORE O's next round! 😮"we're currently debating a respin to avoid this... could be worse, but could also free us from all those Os PLUS the brown cover...
Judy wrote: "Alyana wrote: "I'm almost done with my O book and I think that is my last book for this round. I checked our team sheet and we need MORE O's next round! 😮"we're currently debating a respin to avo..."
I'd prefer an O than X lol
I'm so tired of searching for O's BUT the bom has an O character so it's a tough one!!
Who knows, there might still be an O if we respin x)
Alyana wrote: "I'd prefer an O than X lol"I agree hahaha but I do have a book out from the library right now that works for both.....
Less than 24 hours to go in Round 4!Please let us know if you'll be finishing any more books until then, and we'll share our new word as soon as we have one :)
Today went off the rails a little but I'll finish the Violin Conspiracy for sure tomorrow. I'm also a decent chunk through The Loner and hope to finish that before the deadline (it has... grunge ? in it!)
I ended up listening to another A book on the way home from a concert thing tonight lol traffic is good for one thing!
Put up my Christmas tree after work (although there's only Christmas lights on it so far and I don't even like them this year - kinda wish I had yellow/warm lights instead of white/cool ones, but I'm not sure warm lights even go with a white christmas tree and pastel pink and blue baubles??), finished reading we fell in love in october which will also be my last book for this round, and then I updated our spreadsheet with our new word for round 5. I expected something more fun ngl but the instrument itself, quite intruiging and mesmerizing if you ask me! Here are two links where you can see it in action:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lG9D...
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTP3h...
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UPDATE
🚨Once Judy finishes The Voilin Conspiracy we've got the maximum number of red covers and have found 29 music genres in the text of our books. There are a few more claimed, but if you've got more that'd be great too.
So far, we've spelled out VIOLA POMPOSA seven times with another one in progress.
We have about 19 hours to go so please check in with us and let us know if you still plan on finishing anything before the end of this round.
ℹ️ ROUND 5 INFO
Our next word is ERHU
Cover color: GREY
Bonus challenge
The instruments have been gathered, genres played, bands formed, and world tours commenced. Now it's time to read the stories, fact and fiction of the musicians.
Read books written by or about musicians. This could be non-fiction about a musician or band; or it could be fiction - in which case the main character(s) should be a professional musician (or aspiring). Someone who plays an instrument for personal pleasure only does NOT count.
Each book read will earn an additional 5 bonus points and a maximum of 10 bonuses.
- Again, there might be additional info on the bonus challenge coming in the next few days, but we'll see.
Well, it's no Os but this might be even more challenging!I have a bad feeling none of the books I was hoping to read next will work for this round, so I've just scrolled my library's U section once again and marked all the ones with grey covers...
The next BOM is also starting today!The Lost Bookshop - thread here
As always, if you are in any way interested in the book, it'd be awesome if you read the book and participated in the discussion! These points are super valuable to our overall total :)
Well, I was supposed to go to a football game today but it snowed 40cm overnight and everything is shut down (airport + trains), I don't even know if the opponent travelled here yesterday or were going to do it today lol
Since my plans for the day have completely changed, I'm going to knock out one more O book (that I can't use for next week's letters and have already started)Hopefully we can finish one more word so we can use all the books!
I wish I could help out in reading a quick P or A book today to finish the spell-out but as always on Saturdays and Sundays I'm at work all day long :/
Okay, I've done a bunch of shuffling and managed to fit all our finished books in! So now we've got no leftover stragglers! With mine and Aoife's books on the spreadsheet, we'll end up with 8 full spell-outs
I'll have mine finished by this evening :) just started1
Round 4 has finished! We got the final Viola finished and logged in with all 10 covers and 30 words in books! Very proud of is for that :D Now on to the fifth and final round - Erhu!
I'm going to work through a few U books I've had on my tbr and easy to listen to without thinking much so can listen away at night. Not sure which letter be harder - I feel like I have few H books.
The Lost Bookshop is the BOM from today and we were picked for DQs again this round! Works for Es as well
I've downloaded
and TinEye says it's 69.7% grey.I'm going to try to go out with a bang and read as many as possible.
Keli wrote: "I've downloaded and TinEye says it's 69.7% grey.I'm going to try to go out with a bang and re..."
Grey enough for me! And a U! Dream combo! 😍
Cheering you on 💪
I've started the BOM and... I knew it wasn't going to be my taste but it's already so tedious - and Scribd is being mean to me so I can't even switch to the audiobook from time to time 😩
Judy wrote: "I've started the BOM and... I knew it wasn't going to be my taste but it's already so tedious - and Scribd is being mean to me so I can't even switch to the audiobook from time to time 😩"That's a shame because it sounds really good.
Keli wrote: "That's a shame because it sounds really good."I'm pretty sure it's more of a me problem than the book's! So I'm sure most people will enjoy it
Keli wrote: "I've got three more U titles, not too."Awesome!
That was a slog to finish Undead & unwed 🙄I was hoping for something a little more fun... Oh well!
Aoife wrote: "That was a slog to finish Undead & unwed 🙄I was hoping for something a little more fun... Oh well!"Yeah 😬 I really wasn't a fan either and can't make myself continue the series... despite the tasty Us...
I was thinking I could just bang out a load of Us with the series but i think I'll just look for other ones and they can be a back up 😶 we do seem to have a decent number of Us already tho!
If we read another 100 or so books, we'll need at least 25 though 🫠 no such thing as enough or too many Us in this round, I'm afraid
This is true... and with the numbers from the last rounds we will need at least that amount of Us..... guess I might be reading some more of them 😢
I started the BOM during commercials while watching TV last night and I got so confused about the sections (thought Day 1 was until chapter 19, but it's ch12 - 19% lol) that I ended up pushing myself through the rest of Day 2 as well.I am enjoying it actually, although I do think 3 POVs might be a bit much...
I'm already dreading getting to section 2 (and maybe 3) today... I just think the writing is not good at all 😬
I got the audio so I've been going back and forth from the physical book and listening which has helped! It's easy enough to follow along with the different voices. That's annoying you're not liking it Judy :( I know the points are good but if you really don't like it maybe dnf?
I am liking it (which honestly I usually am so critical of things set in Ireland) but there are issues with the story. I did think the start was the worst bit tho, it got better as it went on
God I wish I could switch! Hahaha I'm 30% in at this point, at least it's an easy enough read... I will persevere 😤💪 really hoping I feel the same as you and it'll get better!
It is a very easy read so maybe it could be something to psuh through at the end
Judy wrote: "God I wish I could switch! Hahaha I'm 30% in at this point, at least it's an easy enough read... I will persevere 😤💪 really hoping I feel the same as you and it'll get better!"
I still don't get why you can't listen to the audio - it works for me on scribd without any issues... but like you said in the DQs, the characters are so interchangable even to me listening to the audio and having 3 different voices and accents, I don't know if it'd change much for you liking/disliking the book lol.
Some book put me over that weird imaginary limit that you never know when it's going to hit you 😩 luckily I could get the ebook from my library, but audio would help sooooo much
Oh no, sucks that happened! I can let you log in on my account if you want though, we'll just need to remember which chapter we stopped at lol
I think I'll be fine, but thanks for the offer!!
Keli, can you please add The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant to your shelf? :)
Judy wrote: "Keli, can you please add The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant to your shelf? :)"All done. Thanks for the reminder, cos i forgot the other one too.
Awesome, thank you! Upright Women Wanted too, please ;)
I've got three more U titles lined up. Two will be knocked out fairly quickly. Well, I'm not sure how long Uncle Tom's Cabin is, but hopefully won't be more than a few days. Should I stick with U or move on to a different letter?
Keli wrote: "I've got three more U titles lined up. Two will be knocked out fairly quickly. Well, I'm not sure how long Uncle Tom's Cabin is, but hopefully won't be more than a few days. Should I stick with U o..."Given that we probably need at least 25 Us total, feel free to keep going!
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We have a few more books left for the last word
VOM are finished and ILS are waiting for the remaining 3 books on the SS to finished (funnily by all captains lol)
If you have a short book that works for any of the leftover letters let us know or if this is you done for the round! Remember we can only have 1 unfinished before deadline tomorrow evening.
A x2
O x2
P x2