Team CLASSICAL

[Vicki]

OK lol

[Vicki]

Tammie, I think it's good now. I had 2 books that ended up not working for anything and I forgot to remove them. And I had 1 book that I forgot to add to the SS, so I hope it's good now.

I added a book that I forgot to mark as read and I read it on Oct 27th lol so I added Nutshell by Ian McEwan and it works for I, E, C, T, R and I placed it on line 114.

[Cindy]

Got my books added.
Might be able to fit one more in but not sure

[Vicki]

Oh my gosh, I have SO many books planned for another challenge that don't work at all for Wheels! Hopefully when I get into them there will be some character names I can use. We're heading home this morning so later tonight or tomorrow I'll look through unplanned books for E and U and whatever else we need. This word is hard!

[Tammie]

Vicki wrote: "Oh my gosh, I have SO many books planned for another challenge that don't work at all for Wheels! Hopefully when I get into them there will be some character names I can use. We're heading home thi..."

I know right!
I found an L in Starter Villain yesterday...thank goodness! We are all going to have to try and bend a bit if we can for this next one :)

[Vicki]

I agree, Tammie! I have added all my books I could find until I get home. We’re leaving for home soon and I am driving, probably the whole way. With no traffic or potty breaks it’s a good 5 hour drive, so obviously I won’t be able to check this thread once we head home. And don’t worry about my last book, Beautiful Ruins., because I have the audiobook too.

[Tammie]

One more day Team Classical! Please try to have everything posted by noon (CentralUS) tomorrow. If you haven't already, please comment if a book is on it's way and is not on the SS already.
Thanks much!
See the timer on our SS for the deadline :)

Reminder...the official timer is 3 hours later...please note this for posting Round 3's books...I'll adjust once Round 2 is over :)

[Tammie]

Vicki wrote: "I agree, Tammie! I have added all my books I could find until I get home. We’re leaving for home soon and I am driving, probably the whole way. With no traffic or potty breaks it’s a good 5 hour dr..."

I really liked that book...read it quite a few years ago...hope you enjoy the ride...be safe!

[Tammie]

If anyone needs help searching for anything...if I can get a book via kindle from the library...I'll help looking if needed for our 4 letters if needed.

[Tammie]

I found these instruments on KU

- KU - U

- KU - K

- KU - K

[Kate]

Finished my book plus an audible book. Will update shortly!

[Vicki]

Tammie wrote: "I found these instruments on KU

- KU - U

- KU - K

- KU - K"

Thanks, Tammie, I loved CAKE books 1 & 2 and I am reading book 3 for this next round.

Plus, I posted my last book for this round.

[M]

I posted my last book for the round and I add my books for next round to the SS tomorrow.

[Kate]

I posted my last two for this round that I finished yesterday and added some books for the next round. It's a heavy work and graduate school two weeks going into Thanksgiving so three may be all I can manage this round. Sadly the class I'm in now is a lot of articles rather than books.

[Tammie]

Thanks everyone for getting your books posted...I'll be checking us in in about 3 hours so there's still time for more finishes if you like. We're currently in the #1 spot...we'll see how things shake out today. Follow here if you like :) Great Work!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Here's the official countdown to the Start of Round 3
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

[Natasha]

I finished an audiobook earlier today and added it to the spreadsheet.

[Tammie]

OK...looks like this is it...no more entries for Round 2. I'll do our final update and from here we're on to Round 3. Great work reading everyone!!

[Vicki]

Tammie, I'm confused about the time frame for reading books. Some people already read and finished Starter Villain and have answered the questions with a rating showing. Can we read books ahead of time like banking them? I know we can start our books prior to a round, but I didn't think we could finish them until the round began, so would you please clarify that for me?

[Tammie]

We cannot bank books.

Having said this...for BOM...you could have started Starter Villain 2 weeks ago and finished it yesterday and be able to answer question tomorrow and that would be fine.

The rules for this challenge is that no books can be started until the Start of the Challenge...that was October 7th. This includes all BOM.
Any book finished, must be recorded in the round it was finished...no banking books for another round.

Does this answer your question Vicki?

[Tammie]

I'm glad to address any worry you see...I don't police other teams...but if there is something wrong, just let me know...PM me if you like.

[Vicki]

That answers my question with one exception. If round 3 doesn’t start officially until today, how could we finish the book yesterday and answer the questions today? Oh jeez! Never mind! I haven’t looked at anybody’s spreadsheets on any other team or anything but obviously they could have used it for round two. Forgive me for being such a dork! 😂

[Tammie]

Thanks for taking a turn at dork...I'm next!

BOM are tracked separately...we don't earn those points unless the book is marked 'read'. Our team had none for this last round.

[Vicki]

Lol oh good — I love dorkships!

[Tammie]

@Vicki a couple of things

I can't see a guitar on the cover for your Fiercely Emma book

also...there's been quite a bit of discussion in the captains thread regarding instrument cases...it's been decided that instrument cases are not be allowed to be counted as an 'instrument'...so The Unsinkable Greta James doesn't work :(

@ALL...we still need 7 instruments...calling on everyone to see if you can help with 1? I know with UKULELE it's difficult. Perhaps we can find a short U and we could all read for it :)
Thank you!

[Cindy]

I can read Of Beast And Burden by Kelsey Kicklighter for instrument on cover

[Tammie]

If any of you have an audible subscription...I found a shorty that works for U and has a guitar on the cover. 5 hrs, 200pgs
Tags: Music
Nonfiction
Essays
Jazz
New York
Memoir
Art


Unstrung: Rants and Stories of a Noise Guitarist

[MN Lisa]

I found an E, cause we need those too. Its about 5 hrs.

[Vicki]

Tammie wrote: "@Vicki a couple of things

I can't see a guitar on the cover for your Fiercely Emma book

also...there's been quite a bit of discussion in the captains thread regarding instrument cases...it's been..."

Oh jeez, I'm so sorry! I must've had a brain fart because Emma has NO guitar! I might've had another book in that spot and moved it because I did switch a couple books around or I simply messed up. And it's too bad that the guitar case doesn't count but OK.

[Vicki]

Tammie, I also added book 4 of the Cake series (follows Fiercely Emma) and it has an actual guitar on the cover. As of now, I had to put in in a K spot, but I might find another character for another letter to help fill in some words above.

And Emma has redeemed herself (and so have I) because the cover is 57.4% brown! :) There are a total of 6 books that are marked for brown and I know we can only have 5 but it's there in case we need it, unless you want me to remove the checkmark for brown.

[Vicki]

Tammie, this month due to daylight savings, I have to be at my daughter’s house at 4:30 in the morning and once I get the three older kids to school, I just have my three-year-old grandson Julián aka. JuJu. My son-in-law doesn’t get home until 5:30 in the evening, so I have a very long day to be able to read because JuJu is really good about playing by himself and watching his “big show” (tablet) so I can pretty much read all day. And he & Lily take naps once I get her home from her kindergarten class and even if they don’t nap they go to their rooms and they have rest time. I’m just telling you all of this because I am on my phone today and most of the time I can update on my SS, but for some reason I can’t get back to my book section on our spreadsheet. I can only see the right side where it has the author’s name and series etc. So if it’s OK I’m going to just mark my books as I’ve gotten them read because I have three books going right now because I need to finish them up for Turf Wars. I am going to be pushing myself today to get them all read which I can do. I just can’t put them on the SS until later tonight or if I am too tired it could even be Thursday when I don’t watch them. So I am going to add them here as I get them read and if you don’t mind you can add my read date on the SS.

Trial by Fire
Read: 11/6

Thanks and sorry for being such a pain in the you-know-what!

[Tammie]

Vicki wrote: "Tammie, this month due to daylight savings, I have to be at my daughter’s house at 4:30 in the morning and once I get the three older kids to school, I just have my three-year-old grandson Julián a..."

Aww...I wish I had some of those grandkids...JuJu sounds like a dream!
Whatever you need...just post it here :) If I'm not around, one of the team likely will be and we can update you for whatever...we're not on a deadline this week so it's no worries for you to wait if you prefer.

I think we're going to have a lot more books this round as I know I'm reading shorter books so far to get the U's. I've been thinking about that...I know longer is better...but I'm thinking that at this rate with more it shouldn't matter...someone correct me if my thinking is wrong.

I've been reading way more than usual as I just haven't been busy with work...the real estate market is so slow for me right now. I secretly would like it to stay that way through the holidays ;)

[Jax]

Tammie wrote: "Vicki wrote: "Tammie, this month due to daylight savings, I have to be at my daughter’s house at 4:30 in the morning and once I get the three older kids to school, I just have my three-year-old gra..."
I think longer is better unless you can get a hard letter.

Let's say we average 300 pages a book. So we need 2U books for 2100 pages. Now let's say we go to 400 pages a book. We get 2800 pages per 2 U. True, we read less books but that means we need less letter Us to spell out Ukulele.

We will get a lot of short U books but reading longer books for the other letters will take the pressure off finding U books and probably average out.

Also, for those who like fantasy, Ursula Le Guin's EarthSea Series (A Wizard of Earthsea are all fairly short fast reads.

[Tammie]

Jax wrote: "Tammie wrote: "Vicki wrote: "Tammie, this month due to daylight savings, I have to be at my daughter’s house at 4:30 in the morning and once I get the three older kids to school, I just have my thr..."

Thanks Jax.

[Vicki]

Thanks, Tammie. And regarding the page count of books and how many U-books we need to read, my brain definitely does not work that way! I get what you are saying, but I never would’ve thought of it myself! 😂

[Vicki]

The Raven Brothers
11/6

[Rebecca]

I can read which has a piano on the cover! And I will look out for some U's

Sorry I was away for the weekend and need to get my life together today hehe.

[M]

I would like to read this book
The Wolf Den
Would the lyre (hand harp) count as an instrument or does it specifically need to be one on the list?

[Tammie]

Vicki wrote: "The Raven Brothers
11/6"

gotcha Vicki :)

[Tammie]

M wrote: "I would like to read this book
The Wolf Den
Would the lyre (hand harp) count as an instrument or does it specifically need to be one on the list?"

It does not follow a list...good eye!

For this round, find musical instruments on the cover of your books (any instrument, just has to be obviously an instrument)

[Tammie]

Rebecca wrote: "I can read which has a piano on the cover! And I will look out for some U's

Sorry I was away for the weekend and need to get my life together today hehe."

No worries Rebecca...we all understand how life can be...why it doesn't always align with our reading time...I'll never understand!

[Rebecca]

Also for anyone reading IRON FLAME tomorrow - it will work for E (i think) because the series is "The Empyrean"

[Tammie]

Rebecca wrote: "Also for anyone reading IRON FLAME tomorrow - it will work for E (i think) because the series is "The Empyrean""

I'm on the list at my library for that book...cannot wait!!

[M]

I have a bunch of "U" books covered. I love Umberto Eco and will dive back into his works with no problem. If someone is looking for an interesting one with a 'U' may I suggest The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike, it is around 350 pages.

[Jax]

Just dropped in to say....Starter Villain (the BOM) is fantastic and fast. Highly recommend.

[Kate]

I finished my audiobook - - this morning on the way to work and had totally forgotten that narrators counted. Nice surprise! Edward Herrmann is one of the best narrators and there is nothing like feeling Richard Gilmore is reading you a story. Started . I have two more commuting days this week so I should be able to knock it out via audiobook as well.

[Tammie]

Yeah!!

I really liked Starter Villain as well. Ditto what Jax said!

[Cindy]

I added a couple of books to the spreadsheet. I want to make sure its filled out correctly though because for some reason my sheet didn't have the bars to make it go left and right?

And also I read a U book but I logged it under E for now since I didn't want to start another word but we can move it around if needed or wanted

[Tammie]

Cindy wrote: "I added a couple of books to the spreadsheet. I want to make sure its filled out correctly though because for some reason my sheet didn't have the bars to make it go left and right?

And also I rea..."

Thanks Cindy...I'll unfreeze that left/right I've got set up. I'm not enjoying it either. For now...go ahead and move your 'e' to the 'u' spot. We'll likely get to at least line 140.

[Kate]

Plowed through . Updated the spreadsheet and now onto . Going to finish this book for school this week and just added it . It's a non-fiction season for me for sure.

[M]

It is is foggy and pouring rain outside. My cat is laying by my fireplace. I have a pot of good tea and some cookies. I am going to curl up under a blanket and read for the afternoon. Hope everyone is having a good day.