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Stephanie,I am not sure I understand, sorry.
I thought that we need to agree on our 1st book once you let us know what our start-book is and then we need to announce it to the opposing team. Our 2nd book would depend on ehat they choose to read and who among us would find a new book that would fit.
I have finished all my challenge books and now I am in the middle of two more books and not sure I can finish both in 3 days so I might focus on the audio one more since I am working everyday. The next Challenge has me lost but I'm just gonna go with the flow and see what happens.
The great thing is that non mini-challenge books give great points too!
Melindam wrote: "Stephanie,I am not sure I understand, sorry.
I thought that we need to agree on our 1st book once you let us know what our start-book is and then we need to announce it to the opposing team. O..."
I don't know what your question is. I mostly will be just handling flow of information.
My question is what do you need from us at this point?I am guessing you will announce what the start book is and will wait for us to come up with books we may have that would work?
What I don't understand is what "people not committed to read anything" means as this reading is expected for the last week of June, but we need to do all planning beforehand with the other team?
if you have a book that has been selected to be an "attack" book you are committed to read that.
for now Just wait I will post the first thing to match in a little over an hour.
I finished my unicorn book & will add it to the spreadsheet. It was pretty silly, innocent, and mentioned lots of good food. So kind of dumb but ?? There was also a fly shifter in it. That'd be like losing the shifter lottery!
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Hi everyone, the move is completed and I'm back. I will get right on reading now. I apologize for being inactive for so long. I was supposed to have a friend help me, but they had a family emergency. So it was just the movers taking the heavy stuff and me moving everything else, plus cleaning the townhouse to a 'move-in' level (likely the manager requires this so they don't have to pay as much to their professional cleaners). The upside is that my new townhouse is big enough that I can have a large storeroom as well as a craft room/library, and my cat is having the time of his life exploring cabinets and opening drawers (yep, he's a snoop).
Wow moving is a big job - but the new townhouse sounds wonderful! Welcome back!
Congratulations on the move, Marty! Hopefully you get your well-deserved reading & relaxing time at your new place. :)
Time to find the first Volunteer for the fight. We have been given Book Lovers as the first title.
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Overlap of ERS
No books committed for battle so far
I can read this, but would be equally happy if someone else wants to.
ETA we can ignore The, A or An in titles as per the rules.
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Yay well done on getting all that done after being let down. Cleaning to that standard is one of my worst nightmares - can never manage it.
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@Marty I don't think there is much I dislike more than moving! Good on you and welcome back! re: new challenge
I am open to reading as much as you need for the challenge, some of this is a bit confusing but I think it will clear up as we move forward.
Wow nice find Sophie. I don't have an "Ers" starting book. But I can backup for that one if life happens.
Thats the best match I have seen that works for that as anything I could choose would be more letters than the "ers"
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I found Ersatz Krieg: A True Story of Men Captured, But Not Conquered on Scribd that I could read also. If the game doesn't use subtitles, then I think IEG would be hard to match. But if it allows the subtitle, RED is easy.
Throwing out a book with a 4 letter overlap:Verse and Vengeance
D9 will need to do at least a 4 letter overlap as it's a bit more difficult of a title start, so we won't be behind at all. Tor is a fairly easy book title start with torment, torch, etc. - and maybe that doesn't matter so much, but I thought I'd throw it out there to discuss.
Also, does anyone not want to read a book for the first battle? We'll make sure that everyone who wants to read will have at least 1 book to read over the 2 battles, but don't feel pressured to read for a battle :) And anyone can come up with book ideas!
Teddie if you are up for it we will go with verse and vengeance
If I can find a book/books that will work for the battle chain, I'll read it gladly. I'm also fine with being a backup reader.
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1. It'll mean they send us back things that are harder to link to.
2. The points on offer for winning the battle are 5 i.e the same as a mini challenge task or 50 pages.
I agree with Sophie. I am not sure for 5 extra points we should make this an exercise in forcing them and us suffer through impossibly titled books that may be hard to come by.
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We try to include whether subtitles can be used when we write the tasks and in this mini we have been exclusively saying title not title and subtitle. So for this particular book we'd have IEG as the letters.
Sophie wrote: "I'm not convinced there's any benefit to making it harder for the opposing team."Let's do what we can to help D9 come to this conclusion as well :) I don't want anyone to have to suffer through reading anything - I guess we all can decide how many letters we want to overlap to find that sweet spot of being competitive without it being too painful.
I'm glad we're chatting about this now as it will help us make decisions on all the future battle books. :)
I up for reading whatever as well, though I don't do scribd at this point. Is Ersatz Krieg too painful of a title to send?
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Verse and Vengeance is on the spreadsheet and has been sent to district 9's captains as our first title so maybe we can just keep this in mind going forward!
Sophie wrote: "It's going to be a balance depending on what letters get shuffled back and forth.Verse and Vengeance is on the spreadsheet and has been sent to district 9's captains as our first title so maybe we can just keep this in mind going forward!"
I'm with ya! I didn't know we'd already sent the title, but it will work out. I can read Verse & Vengeance, or maybe someone else will end up wanting to read it once we have our final 10 battle books list.
This will be so fun!
The Mods are going to be locking up our Round 1 spreadsheet tab on our official game sheet an hour after the close of Round 1, so we're asking that everyone get their final round 1 READ books in about 12 hours before, so before you go to bed on June 14th. Otherwise, Round 1 In Progress / Planned books can be moved to the Round 2 tab. (If in doubt about moving the books, you can leave them on the Round 1 tab and we'll get them moved over to Round 2.)
If you're signed up for a Round 1 MINI task and would like someone else to read for it, just post to the thread - we have a few backup books for most of the tasks.
Just a reminder about The Hunger Games informal buddy read:
If you want to get the 20 participation points for the informal buddy read for
you'll need to post your 3 discussion posts before the end of 6/15/24.
I just want to remind everyone it is a random number generator that picks from the different books suggested so everyone who wants to participate has a chance to get their book picked.
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Thank you everyone for how much you've engaged with both the main task of building our resource piles and the additional challenges the mods have thrown at us with the mini challenge, the supply drops and now the battle with district 9.
Is it ok if I finish Catching Fire tonight and then make 3 comments once the thread is up? Or since that puts the book and BOM in different months, would you rather have me hold off til after the 15th?
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No problem - I have plenty of other things I can read :)
Thank you Louise, for letting us know. :)
Checked the words that start with "ATH" and books starting with Athena, Athlete, Athens or Atheism could work.If we are OK to go for the complete word, I have Death in the Spires by K.J. Charles.
We have our counterstrike book from District 9: Vengeance in Death
I see a bunch of different types of books starting with "At Home ..." like:
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home in the World
At Home with the Horrors
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
At Home With the Templetons
At Home
etc.
We are striving to hit the minimum of 3 letters overlap without hitting District 9 with too harsh of a strike wrt letters. And only title (not subtitle) counts for the battles.
ETA: Plus the Athena, Athlete, Athens or Atheism books mentioned by Mel above :)
My last book for round 1 is in the spreadsheet. Now off to look for ATH
Also, Athena's Child is free on Kindle Unlimited - I could do that one instead - of if someone else wants it....Anyway those are the two books I found with easy access for me.
Louise wrote: "Hi Louise here from D9. Our counter strike book for our Week 2 battle is Vengeance in Death"I was a bit too keen on announcing our book will be back soon with our confirmed book
Teddie, great outside-the-box thinking .... I stayed inside 😅
Louise wrote: "Louise wrote: "Hi Louise here from D9. Our counter strike book for our Week 2 battle is Vengeance in Death"I was a bit too keen on announcing our book will be back soon with our con..."
That gives me a potential other chance to look for books that fit - it's like browsing in a candy shop!
Suzanne wrote: "That gives me a potential other chance to look for books that fit - it's like browsing in a candy shop!"😊
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Now I think everyone wants to do this quickly but I want everyone to get a chance to read, but do not want anyone to over commit.
I will post about the book title we are given and take up to 4 people who are not committed to read anything or after 6 hours (which ever comes first). I will use a dice roll to pick or the one with the best stratagy. If no first-timers volunteer I will open up to for 2nd book reader If I have no one after 2 more hours I will find something that works. Nobody should have 3 books of required reading.
I am planning on taking the last book if I don't have any that I need to take beforehand.
Any question before I start in 2 hours?