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Wheel-a-thon 8
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Team R&B
ANNOUNCEMENT
As before, please check the tracking spreadsheet (re)move any books you won't finish by tomorrow morning ET. Captains will close the tracking sheet @noon ET unless we hear there is a final book coming in.
The first 2 books I need to read in round 4 have genre words, so yay! Do you want us to post here and on the spreadsheet, Teddie?
RachelG. wrote: "The first 2 books I need to read in round 4 have genre words, so yay! Do you want us to post here and on the spreadsheet, Teddie?"I'd love if you would post here re: genre words as well as indicating on the tracking sheet. Thanks Rachel!
Yes please post here. Maybe someone else will be interested in reading to use for another word.
I’m going to search murder in g major for some words. Maybe I’ll save it for next week.I have a book about the grunge music scene.
Murder I g major has spiritual and thats it so i will just finish it because that's probably one of the easiest words to find. Also it works for open letters I'll finish it while I make dinner.
I have found in Dirty Thirty= polkaand
A Life with Ghosts: True, Terrifying, and Insightful Tales from My Favorite Haunts = folk
My grunge book doesn’t work our word. It’s a hard one. Only 4 letters to choose from: ukle
BONUS GENRE tracking post
Claimed: 11/10 Read: 4/10
Baroque | Mary
Bhangra Bluegrass Calypso | Sana Electronica Fado Grunge K-Pop Mambo Mariachi | Mary Merengue Motown | Mary Noh | Teddie Rautalanka Reggae | Sana Salsa Shashmaqam Ska | Teddie Sufi Yodeling (or Jodeling) (Note: either English or US ll / l variant acceptable) Zydeco
Great start! I know - having only 4 letters makes it really tough. I've never even heard of a couple of these genres before - will be looking hard for a couple bonus books today too.
I was using the sheets app on my phone last night. I’ll add page info and book links later
If anyone's interested, I'm using this book for "Noh" but The Ground Beneath Her Feet also has calypso, salsa, tango, and reggae with a character Umeed Rai Merchant (may have KLE - I don't know yet.) I've never read any Rushdie yet, but thought I would throw it out there :)
Underworld U.S.A #2 The Cold Six Thousand has Calypso and mambo. I'll add that too. The series has a U, E and good pages.
Good find Sana! I've marked you as "mambo" for American Tabloid, but good to know that can be switched to tango or bluegrass if anyone finds a mambo they want to read.
Hey Sana - will you be finishing Demon From the Dark soon? In other words, should we wait to check in?
Sana wrote: "Just finished!"Great! I'll update shortly.
Standings After Round 3Team Points Rank
Classical 11915 1
R&B 11767 2
Hip Hop 11349 3
Heavy Metal 11091 4
Rap 11005 5
Pop 10579 6
Country 10169 7
Jazz 9917 8
Britpop 9572 9
Rock 9209 10
Punk 9070 11
Soul 8837 12
Opera 8139 13
Amazing round everyone!
This is soooo close!I'm excited to see how the last two rounds go - couple of books here and there and its anybody's game right now.
Delighted to be part of this amazing group of people. :)
I have a question does the genre actually have to be in the book or just the word mentioned? I have a book that has spiritual and tango in it.
Joyce wrote: "I have a question does the genre actually have to be in the book or just the word mentioned? I have a book that has spiritual and tango in it."Just the word needs to be in the book. That's awesome!
I finished a book Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing has spiritual in it and Fan Fiction and Tango in it
Very cool :) We should be able to get all our genre bonus points this round even with the UKLE fun.
Updated BONUS GENRE trackingClaimed: 11/10 Read: 4/10
Baroque | Mary Bhangra Bluegrass Calypso | Sana Electronica Fado Grunge K-Pop Mambo Mariachi | Mary Merengue Motown | Mary Noh | Teddie Rautalanka Reggae | Sana Salsa Shashmaqam Ska | Teddie Sufi Yodeling (or Jodeling) (Note: either English or US ll / l variant acceptable) Zydeco
Both books mentioned a few posts above this interest me. I'll see if I can get one or both. Night train to Lisbon in boring but I'm slogging through. I might switch to something more exciting to break it up a bit.
I checked out The Ground Beneath her feet and American Tabloid. Not going to add them until I know for sure that I will read them or if they're needed.
Kiss Me Catalina also had salsa but Amazon wouldn't show me the page number. I noted it on the sheet with the audio book time. Just in case mariachi shows up some where else however unlikely.
I finished Split images for Motown. Was out running around and didn’t know what to read next, so listening to American Tabloid because I know it has a few words and definitely letters
Mary X wrote: "I finished Split images for Motown. Was out running around and didn’t know what to read next, so listening to American Tabloid because I know it has a few words and definitely letters"Did you enjoy American Tabloid Mary? It took me a while to get used to the the short, precise dialogues and gangster style writing.
I did but I also got lost a few times. I checked out the audio and the ebook which helped because I could go to the kindle version if I lost the plot in the audio. I love noir type movies and books and have read Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy, Ed Mcbain quite a bit.I'll add links to my books today. I'm finding the sheets app on my phone very handy but it's a pain to do links.
I do the same thing Mary - try to get the ebook version and the audio - especially for BOMs :)Hope everyone had a good thanksgiving!
I forgot that we can only earn bonus points for 10 of the words. So I'm going to stop looking for the ones we haven't covered. I'll focus on finding letters instead. Looks like we're short some U's.
I think my reading of American Tabloid was used for the wrong word. I thought we could only get points for each bonus word once? American Tabloid was used for mambo both times. Mine should probably be used for bluegrass. (I think it also had tango in it if I remember correctly)
Mary X wrote: "I think my reading of American Tabloid was used for the wrong word. I thought we could only get points for each bonus word once? American Tabloid was used for mambo both times. Mine should probably..."Great catch, Mary! Thanks!
Updated to capture it for bluegrass! :)
I only noticed because I was checking how many words we had already to see if we had our limit covered.
Thanks Mary! Looks like we are set for our genre bonus. I switched my brown cover book for an "L" book instead.
I will probably still read the zydeco book because it works for letters. Reading Undercity now. Picked it for the U but it has all the other letters and a brown cover if it's needed.
I am enjoying finding as many "U" books as I can but seem to be running out. I have also been glad I have been able to enjoy some fantasy books this round.
How are we looking for ukulele spell outs? Wondering if I should save finishing Plantation shudders for trumpet? Do we need any last minute u’s for a ukulele? (No U in plantation shudders)
I think we are good on u's for this round.
ROUND 5 INFO
Our round 5 word is TRUMPET
For the color bonus, we're looking for ORANGE for the next round.
The round is bonus is looking for Musician authors or MCs. See info here.
Less than 24 hours to go in round 4. As before, please check the tracking spreadsheet (re)move any books you won't finish by tomorrow morning ET. Captains will close the tracking sheet @noon ET unless we hear there is a final book coming in.
Standings After Round 3Team Points Rank
Classical 15692 1
Hip Hop 15639 2
R&B 15499 3
Rap 15174 4
Heavy Metal 14891 5
Country 14161 6
Pop 138085 7
Britpop 12626 8
Jazz 12524 9
Punk 12411 10
Rock 11997 11
Soul 11458 12
Opera 10484 13
Fantastic round everyone! It's a close race going into the final round! Happy reading!
Oh we dropped down to 3rd but it’s so close! I’ll try to read a few extra books this round
This is getting intense! Loving it.Team Classical has pretty much been our consistent competition. But Team Hip Hop has had an interesting rise - every round their score has gone up. One to look out for, I guess!
Excellent reading so far though - we will finish this on a high!
Seeing how close we are is certainly helping give me a boost to finish strong!
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Books mentioned in this topic
Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas (other topics)American Tabloid (other topics)
Fan Fiction (other topics)
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing (other topics)
The Cold Six Thousand (other topics)
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I'll set up a post so we can make sure we don't have any doubled genres - but this team can rock this bonus :)