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District 3
The Battle Planning Continues!I'm on my phone so pardon the lack of links. As you can see above we have to chain our next book onto The Dirty Book Club.
So we need to find a book that starts (ideally) with LUB but we could also stretch to CLUB. I looked up words that start with LUB and our only options are Lube (or its forms like lubricant, lubrication, etc).
Remember all books for this battle can not be started until the 22nd and must be finished by the 28th.
Any ideas?
Yeah, I was looking it up too and not having much luck aside from lube. Another option I saw was Lub Dub Love (on KU) which is good for us only using three letters, but not ideal cuz they could only use three letters in response pretty easily. I'll keep looking!
I'd be happy to read Clubbed to Death.I suppose that would give them an easy 5 letter start with 'death' - I'm not sure how many letters you can use.
There're lots of books starting with Club or The Club - mind you, many of them are erotica.
Here's a good one but who'd want to read itLubrication Fundamentals
or, Lubbers Afloat - impossible to find
another great one - Lubricating Grease Manufacturing Technology
& of course - Lubrication for Industry 😂
more erotica, no doubt Lube Job, Lube Job, Lube Jobs: A Woman's Guide to Great Maintenance Sex
I think they're allowed to use as many letters as needed (as long as it's a minimum of 3) but the goal is to use fewer because if each team completes their own 10 books it's the fewest overlapping letters that wins! So that seems like a great option to me since ATH would probably be harder for them to pull off.
Kaley wrote: "I think they're allowed to use as many letters as needed (as long as it's a minimum of 3) but the goal is to use fewer because if each team completes their own 10 books it's the fewest overlapping ..."Ah! I see. Then I suppose Clubbed to Death would be ok, but that old favourite Lubricating Grease Manufacturing Technology would be better 🤣
Whats required in this mini challengeI can't find a list to check from
@Snowtulip Ohhh The Lubetkin Legacy could be good. ACY would be hard to match! We'll give it a few more hours for others to pop in before we solidify though. @Bee - This mini is the Arena Battle. The full rules are here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
But to sum things up we're in a battle with District 13 where we need to form links of at least 3 letters between books to attack. We're currently in the planning stage and can only plan one book at a time as we need to wait for D13 to respond to our strikes.
Can the letters cross words? Eg Could we have, A Cyan Sea to match legacy? I know that’s the other team’s book, and I made up the title as an example.
@Elisabeth - Yes. We can ignore spaces (and other punctuation), we just have to match up the letters!
Snowtulip wrote: "Oddly enough I have The Lubetkin Legacy. I could read it if we want."This sounds like our best bet so far.
I was going to offer to reread
as I love this series, but it's too soon. Hasn't been 6 months since I read it.
Arena Battle UpdateI'm going to go ahead and toss Snowtulip's The Lubetkin Legacy over to District 13.
We've got 17 more books to plan by Saturday, so that gives us 8 hours to chat about each link which isn't a ton of time. That said for anyone that wants to be involved please try to check in as often as possible as we'll be trying to move this along as quickly as possible! :)
Okay we are still debating on the new word, will let you know soon!
Just an FYI - updated my tracking posts at the top of the thread with the July BOM's based on the top of the poll voting and the new books in our chain. :D
Hey Team - I've been keeping an eye on District 13's thread and while there isn't an official book for their next attack it's looking like they're choosing between:A Cyclist's Guide to Crime & Croissants
and
Acyrologia
If they go with the first we will probably have to go with ANTS or go all the way back to CROISSANTS because I think NTS is going to be pretty impossible to find.
If they choose the second we'll be looking at GIA so we could maybe find something with GIAnt?
Like I said - not official yet and they could always throw us a complete curve ball; but I do want to cut down our turn around time and I'm about to head to bed so I wanted to get us rolling on the brainstorming/searching part.
ALSO! Please feel free to throw out ideas and participate in the brainstorming even if you can't/don't want to commit to reading the book! Searching is the hard part and there might be someone here who can get the book and wants . read it. :)
Glad I’m not the only one who’s been spying on the thread!! 👀
Oooh I've been spying too and I found a book if they do go with the more likely Croissants (using ANTS because yeah, NTS seems pretty impossible). It's perfect and fits another challenge for me that I hadn't picked a book for.
I'm glad you've found something as I'm having no luck finding anything of interest to me! Lol.
Found one for NTS that is accessible.
We have officially decided to go with the cozyBattle 1 Chain
D3 - American Dirt
D13 - The Dirty Book Club
D3- (The) Lubetkin Legacy
D13 - A Cyclist's Guide to Crime & Croissants
Kylie what's you're NTS? Cause that would be amazing. I've got a for sure for ANTS that I'm good with reading, but if we have an NTS that could be really sweet.
Girl, that's amazing! It's yours if you want it. You down for me to send them that as our choice?
Shelby wrote: "Girl it's yours if you want it. You down for me to send them that as our choice?"Sure, I'll read it.
Done. I'm going to send them our choice now. :)
Returned!Battle 1 Chain
D3 - American Dirt
D13 - The Dirty Book Club
D3 - (The) Lubetkin Legacy
D13 - A Cyclist's Guide to Crime & Croissants
D3 - N'Tsuk
D13 - Sukiyaki, Gospel and Jazz
So, I don't think there are many options that start with "AZZ" (though there are several books with AZZ as its own word in the title, but unfortunately none I could find that start with them! lol.Here's are some options I found. None of these in particular appeal to me, but hopefully they appeal to someone else!
Jazz (are we allowed to do just a word that's the same letters?
The Jazz Club Spy
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe (not sure by the rules if this would end with ICS or RSE for them?
The Jazz Palace
My husband’s a jazz musician and retired jazz history lecturer. I’ll have a look for something not too eye wateringly academic.
Okay! I found:
All look interesting. Retrospect might be hardest to match?
I'm not sure if that one would work (word count looks like it's not enough from what I can tell) which is a real bummer because they'd likely have to respond with four letters with that one!
I’m interested in Jazz Moon. I would be happy to read it
I'd be down to read The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe. It's an easy audio and since subtitles wouldn't count they'd be looking at ICS as their letters.
Shelby wrote: "I'd be down to read The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe. It's an easy audio and since subtitles wouldn't count they'd be looking at ..."Sounds good !
Ok so right now we've got people interested in:Jazz Moon - Lucy
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe - Shelby
A Jazz Retrospect by Max Harrison (1-Sep-1991) Paperback - Elisabeth
Unfortunately Jazz Owls isn't long enough - I checked the word count.
Thoughts on which is our best option?
The physics one, I think. Ics is hard and then it would probably be one letter or back to the whole word. My retrospect book throws up a few ect titles and moon is easy with the 1 extra letter.
I'm good with it. I can get the audio from my library and it sounds interesting. I'll send it over to them now.
Just checking in to say I’m out of town this week and will have limited internet access and no access to an actual computer. I will check in when I can for planning the battle. Is it okay to wait to add my books read to the spreadsheet until 6/23?
Thanks for letting us know! No worries about getting your book on the spreadsheet, go ahead and do it when you can!
I was looking at other teams to see how their book battle plans were going . . . some teams are being much nicer to each other than we are :-PThat competitive spirit is alive and well on our team and in District 13, it would seem.
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