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[Teddie]

I'll definitely finish my mini books by the 15th, but I haven't started my second horns book, so if someone wants to grab that, feel free. (C26)

I'll be finishing up either later today or in the morning.
If anyone liked or you'll probably enjoy this one.

[Catherine]

I should be finishing up my last two books shortly. ETA Should be tonight and I did request the Page count to be added to Goodreads today.

My next book is And hoping to be done by 6/11/24 in case any open spots need to be competed.

[Melindam]

Just saw that the July Adult BOM will be the book I nominated, The Familiar, so yaaay for those extra points. 🥳😊

[Maritza]

Hi guys, sorry about book placement.

[Teddie]

Melindam wrote: "Just saw that the July Adult BOM will be the book I nominated, The Familiar, so yaaay for those extra points. 🥳😊"

Yay - DQ Queen strikes again :D
I've been looking forward to reading that one - and the Mark Lawrence one too - good month!

[Teddie]

Maritza wrote: "Hi guys, sorry about book placement."

No worries! Just getting tidied up for the end of Round 1.

[Melindam]

Teddie, drinker of the bitter invention of Satan wrote:
Yay - DQ Queen strikes again :D
I've been looking forward to reading that one - and the Mark Lawrence one too - good month!"

😅

Yes, I'm planning to read the Mark Lawrence book, too. :))

[Maritza]

I just noticed my book may fit one of the mini tasks - I noted in the extra field in the bottom.

[Sophie, The other one]

I'm trying to work out if I'm going to pay for The Familiar as my library doesn't have it.

Seriously considering cancelling my KU subscription and using the money to pay for books I actually want to eat.

[Sophie, The other one]

And yes, Mel you are definitely the DQ queen!

[Maritza]

Sophie wrote: "I'm trying to work out if I'm going to pay for The Familiar as my library doesn't have it.

Seriously considering cancelling my KU subscription and using the money to pay for books I actually want ..."

Do you eat books ??? :))))

[Sophie, The other one]

Speed typing on my phone while being interrupted by children who decided to fight over whether a door should be open or shut.

No book eating here.

[Melindam]

:D

[Teddie]

Sophie eating books...hmmm - sounds like a job for graphic AI!

[Melindam]

And Audible sales are on.... where is my mythical (as in noone has seen it, though they heard about it ;) self-denial?
Nowhere, that's where.... lol

[Sophie, The other one]

Teddie, drinker of the bitter invention of Satan wrote: "Sophie eating books...hmmm - sounds like a job for graphic AI!"

Can't imagine what your AI skills would return!

[Sophie, The other one]

Melindam wrote: "And Audible sales are on.... where is my mythical (as in noone has seen it, though they heard about it ;) self-denial?
Nowhere, that's where.... lol"

I didn't need to know about them too! Somehow I managed to ignore all the emails but this is a different matter.

[Melindam]

Curse them, sadly they know how to play me with an email saying "all books on your wishlist are on sale".

Normally books on my wishlist are hardly ever on sale (I flatter myself that's because of my distinguished taste -giggles), so of course I had to rush in and check. Of course their idea of sale doesn't always coincide with mine, but this time....

[Sophie, The other one]

Cecily - does at least 50% of hired help take place on the farm? If it less than 50% we can't use it for that task in the mini.

[Catherine]

Melindam wrote: "Curse them, sadly they know how to play me with an email saying "all books on your wishlist are on sale".

Normally books on my wishlist are hardly ever on sale (I flatter myself that's because of..."

Audibles did just that . OMG I am happy and sad because now I have a ton of books to read and listen to. To bad reading wasn't my FT job.

[Cat]

Sophie wrote: "I'm half way there with The Tailor of Panama then will see what gaps are left.

For those of you who haven't been on a team with me before, I will read some pretty abysmal KU books fo..."

I found a new MOST HATEFUL KU book. If you need one for Idaho still, then Murder at Mistletoe Manor will make you question all your life choices leading to the decision to read - and continue reading - the really terrible no good book.....

(for calibration purposes: worse than Mrs Fix-It, and I'm not even joking you (as my niblings would say))

[Sophie, The other one]

Cat wrote: "Sophie wrote: "I'm half way there with The Tailor of Panama then will see what gaps are left.

For those of you who haven't been on a team with me before, I will read some pretty abys..."

Oh no! That needs to be avoided if it's worse than Miss Fix It.

Unfortunately for you I have found a KU series (Paradise Idaho) that is actually readable.

[Melindam]

lol, Cat, that sounds terrible

[Stephanie]

Arena Battle info here

Please read the rules and ask any questions. I will go over how I am going to organize this new twist soon.

[Cecily]

Now that I think about it she runs away from the farm but it can be replaced with Brother. Over 50% for sure takes place on a farm

[Melindam]

Fighting
Once the fight phase starts each team simply reads their planned books!
There's no requirement to read them in the correct order, but if at the end of the week you have missed a planned strike then you will lose the battle, regardless of how many of the rest of the books you complete.

"There is no need to read them in the required order" - does this mean that both we and the opposing team need to plan for all 10 possible books during that 1st week?

[Sophie, The other one]

Yeah, during week 1 we should plan for all 10 of ours and then read them all in a week. If people have signed up for more than one book it probably makes sense for them to read them in the order they come in the chain as the later books only count if the earlier ones have been read.

[Sophie, The other one]

Cecily wrote: "Now that I think about it she runs away from the farm but it can be replaced with Brother. Over 50% for sure takes place on a farm"

Thanks I've swapped that on the main sheet.

[Suzanne]

Sounds like a cool challenge - and it scratches my "find books to fit" itch.

So can you duplicate a book? So read the exact same book as the opposing team? because that would match ALL the letters. Just wondering.

[Sophie, The other one]

You could, but a shorter overlap is worth more points so we want to avoid doing that where possible and stick to 3 letters where we can.

[Suzanne]

Oooh - cool - lol I need to go back and read more carefully . Which I shall right now.

[Melindam]

Sophie wrote: "Yeah, during week 1 we should plan for all 10 of ours and then read them all in a week. If people have signed up for more than one book it probably makes sense for them to read them in the order th..."

Thanks, Sophie.

[Melindam]

Suzanne wrote: "Oooh - cool - lol I need to go back and read more carefully . Which I shall right now."

It will be exciting. 🙃

[Suzanne]

If we end up needing backup, I could finish a book before the end of the mini. But, if not, I'll happily keep on reading the backroom bom and listening to Catching Fire.

[Sophie, The other one]

We've got a few things that haven't been started yet and with 3 days left, time is getting a little tight.

If you happen to have:
Horn on cover
Authors name has a diacritic
Harvest in text
One of the food words in text

That we can use as back up, that would be wonderful.

[Suzanne]

I'll read as a backup. It may end up being terrible, but it's short. It may have a food word in the text too.

[Cecily]

One of the food words in text

The Inmate by Frieda McFadden
"...buying Lucky Charms and I guess eggs and cheese and bread and some other stuff we need." Page 106 Chapter 14

I read the book on June 07 that could be added for backup

[Cecily]

back up for "harvest in the text"

Between Two Trailers by J. Dana Trent
I read on June 08

"...one harvest disappointed, the other came through." Page 165

[Cecily]

Suzanne wrote: "I'll read as a backup. It may end up being terrible, but it's short. It may have a food word in the text too."

now that's a cover hahaha
I really hope its not too cheesy lol

[Lauri]

I’m alive! Had some time off, & finished a couple more books… still reading like a lunatic, but must return to work tomorrow…

The battle(s) sound intriguing and yet, alarming!

[Melindam]

Have finished my CORNUPIA book today and started reading a shorter book with diacritic in author's name. Will be done with it by tomorrow.

[Melindam]

When will the books for the new challenge be spun? :)

[Sophie, The other one]

Stephanie is going to let us know the book and the strategy she'd like us to be following as a team for this.

[Melindam]

Thank you, Sophie. :)

[Melindam]

OK, so I have reread the rules for the battle game.

Please correct me, but I want to make sure I get this right:

We will soon be given the title of a book and need to find another book to read with a 3-letter overlap (preferably only 3, because we are given more points for that).
Once we agree on Book 1 to read, we announce it to Team 9, who in turn will choose their counterstrike book and let us know. Once again, we choose our book 2, announce it, they get back to us ... etc., until we reach 10 books/team.

Between 15-22 June, we & Team 9 have to announce all our 10 planned books to each other.

Then Fight Week comes (22-29 June), where we will start and finish the planned books.

Did I get it? 😅

[Ushashi]

I'm still around. Reading got slow because I was on a trip to the grand canyons and was too overwhelmed by the nature to read anything. But I'm back now so should be finishing up the half-read ones soon.

[Sophie, The other one]

Excellent work on the back up books, thanks everyone!

Mel that basically matches. We might be able to start planning in the next 72 hours a little earlier than stated in the rules.

With the overlap letters, one way to think about it that made more sense to me was that each letter counts as a point and the winner has the lowest number of points at the end of the round.

[Melindam]

Ushashi, that trip sounds amazing. :)

[Maritza]

Sophie wrote: "We've got a few things that haven't been started yet and with 3 days left, time is getting a little tight.

If you happen to have:
Horn on cover
Authors name has a diacritic
Harvest in text
One of ..."

Hi I listed my book on bottom of ss of the mini. Have book with salt in it that I have finished.

[Melindam]

Sophie, glad I almost got it right. :D

My back-up book is finished.

I won't finish more books for Round 1, but already started listening to a 1000 pager + have the Backroom BOM on kindle. I'll finish them after the 15 June countdown.