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[Stephanie]

Great job with the warm-up everyone!

[Melindam]

I may read this Mitford book some time, anyway. :))

[Teddie]

Patiently pausing on the -ath books until we hear back from District 9 ;)

[Vicki]

Melindam wrote: "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 f..."

Does the page count provide more points for us? Curious what you are reading too.

[Melindam]

I am slowly working my way through a reread, The Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan. All books are chunksters. :)

[Teddie]

Vicki wrote: "Does the page count provide more points for us? Curious what you are reading too."

The page points are a sum game, so 3 300 page books give us the same score as 1 900 page book. I guess the only difference would be that we can spread the 3 300 page books over a few resource piles - but we're keeping those easily balanced right now - we are still waiting to see whether that strategy will need to change :)

[Vicki]

@Teddie, I would LOVE to read Verse and Vengeance to start us off; however, if you or someone else wants to I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

@District 7: I have been in Utah on a national forest sight-seeing vacation. We've been to Zion, Cedar Break, Bryce Canyon, Dixie, all national forests. We also went to see Funny Girl at a black box theater and that was too fun. I'm with hubby, one of my daughters and her girlfriend. I am the LATE NIGHT person, so that helped get reading done. And we drive home on Sunday so I'll get a lot of reading in that day too.

I've done a lot of reading while driving in certain parts and listening while "hiking" around too. I did move 3 books to round 2 that I thought I'd read this round but ended up adding other books instead as I went. lol

I have not been reading about the battle and other discussions until now. I'm trying to fully understand. IF I read Verse and Vengeance (or not), do I also need to look for a book with ATH letters? Or it appears the other team wasn't sure. I guess my question is do I need to look for a book with the overlap letters whatever that may be?

Another question: Does page count matter and I assume whatever books we read, the person reading will want/need to read them ASAP?

[Teddie]

All good questions Vicki!

First off - all of the first Battle Arena books will need to be started and finished the week of June 22 - June 28 (We'll get a countdown clock on this as we get closer to the dates.)

Once we as a team have settled on the 10 books we need to read during a Battle week, the books can be read in any order. Page count doesn't matter for the Battle, but does for our team score.

If you are up for reading Verse and Vengeance the week of June 22 - June 28 - awesome! I'll put your name next to that one - thanks!

Anyone can offer up book title ideas along the way :)

ETA: I hope you are playing the National Parks challenge over in Game Night - sounds like a fabulous trip!

[Vicki]

Thanks for that nice summary, Teddie. I'm excited to get going on this battle! I just got the audiobook from my membership on Amazon and the ebook from Libby, so I am ready for June 22! Woo hoo! Let's BATTLE!

[Catherine]

Vicki wrote: "@Teddie, I would LOVE to read Verse and Vengeance to start us off; however, if you or someone else wants to I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

@District 7: I have been in Utah ..."

Nice Vicki, I live in Utah and recommend a trip here to every one. Southern utah is beautiful. Its starting to get hot though so wait until fall. You can also see the leaves change in the fall in the canyons near Salt Lake City, UT

[Melindam]

Sounds like an amazing trip, Vicki & a beautiful place to live, Cat! 😊

[Catherine]

Vicki wrote: "@Teddie, I would LOVE to read Verse and Vengeance to start us off; however, if you or someone else wants to I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

@District 7: I have been in Utah ..."

So do we all read the same book or think of new ones?

[Melindam]

Catherine wrote: "Vicki wrote: "@Teddie, I would LOVE to read Verse and Vengeance to start us off; however, if you or someone else wants to I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

@District 7: I have..."

No, it should be ten different books depending on what we find for titles overlap. :)

[Teddie]

Catherine wrote: "So do we all read the same book or think of new ones"

Mel's right - 10 different books/readers. Right now, we and District 9 are in the planning / strike / counterstrike phase. We sent Verse and Vengeance to them, and they need to find a book that overlaps with at least the last 3 letters of our book, to send back.

Strike 1: D7 sends Verse and Vengeance to D9 - Vicki to read
CS1: D9 sends AncexxxxTBD to D7

S2: D7 sends TBDxxxx book title - one of us to read
CS2: D9 sends etc....

We can all come up with ideas of which books to consider sending to D9 - throwing out an idea doesn't mean you have to read the book. We do, of course, need someones to read sent books eventually, but you get the picture.

[Catherine]

OOH ok I get it. How fun!!

I have started a book with short stories and will not likely be done. Can I put the pages read on Round 1 and the rest on Round 2?

[Sophie, The other one]

Catherine wrote: "OOH ok I get it. How fun!! I have started a book with short stories and will not likely be done. Can I put the pages read on Round 1 and the rest on Round 2?"

Please put all of it on round 2.

[Vicki]

Catherine wrote: "Vicki wrote: "@Teddie, I would LOVE to read Verse and Vengeance to start us off; however, if you or someone else wants to I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

@District 7: I have..."

We are staying in St. George and we love the city here!

[Teddie]

Catherine wrote: "OOH ok I get it. How fun!! I have started a book with short stories and will not likely be done. Can I put the pages read on Round 1 and the rest on Round 2?"
"

It's when you finish the book, not how many pages you read in a round :)

[Cecily]

I have added my last book for round 1 :)

[Teddie]

Great Cecily! The entwives had an amazing round one - and you guys are seriously BOM champs!

Whichever books don't have a read date in the next few hours, we'll just move over to the Round 2 tab.

I'll be finishing the last MINI book soon and we'll be set there.

We're waiting for D9 to decide on which book to send, but like Stephanie said, great warm up earlier with the book they initially sent :) When they send over their counter strike title, anyone can suggest a book here on the thread and then we can figure out who wants / will read it during Battle week starting June 22.

[Sophie, The other one]

I need to answer the questions for Salt and Broom.

The Secret Life of Country Gentlemen is waiting on my shelf as is Catching Fire.

[Suzanne]

Way to go for round 1 team! Captains thanks so much for your patience and hard work!!

[Maritza]

Finished
The Hunger Games
Can some one link my comments on ss
Comment 1 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Comment 2 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Comment 3 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

There were no more rows on ss can someone add for me please. I finished today. There is arrow on cover for defense and bird for food

[Teddie]

Maritza wrote: "Finished
The Hunger Games
Can some one link my comments on ss
Comment 1 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"


All set! :)

[Vicki]

I just added a read book but I put it on week 1 since I finished it tonight/June 14. I had to read it today, so I'm sorry for the late entry because I know you wanted our books posted earlier. If we can't include it, no worries but I figured I would try adding to week 1 since, I don't think, week 2 starts for a few more hours. I saved my much larger book to finish until tomorrow.

[Lauri]

Completion Post!
Finished my last Round 1 book - the BOM The Malevolent Seven. It was a struggle!

I couldn’t see where to put it as BOM on the tracking sheet and I can’t do a link to save my life. My DQ answers can be found in Messages 257 / 260 / 263 / 268 / 277.

[Sophie, The other one]

I've added them to the official sheet. I haven't done the BOM stuff but we will get to that later.

[Melindam]

Sophie, I will add Lauri's links to the BOM tracking and then you can transfer them later. :)

[Sophie, The other one]

Amazing! Thanks Mel.

[Melindam]

Added them. :)

[Sophie, The other one]

Well done on round 1 everyone! We are currently 2nd which is fantastic!

Books for round 2 can be marked as finished now.

[Melindam]

Awesome reading & teamwork! ♡

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

The struggle for survival in the arena is a never ending cycle. Sometimes a tribute will luck into a boon but they are just as likely to be a victim of sabotage.

The Randomizer was let loose on all of the teams' resource supply piles. The Arena Masters are not heartless, the news isn't all bad. At least this time.

In Round 1, 1 pile receives a boon (15% page point increase), 2 are left alone, and 1 is the subject of sabotage (15% page point decrease). Impacts to resource supply piles are team specific.

Your team's randomizer results

Weapons: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Shelter: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Food: 15% decrease
Defense: 15% increase (protected by supply drop so left alone)

[Teddie]

Oof - well, we'll go scrounging in our forests this month for a bit more food to make up for the loss - District 7 will bounce back!

[Melindam]

♡

Hoping to finish my 1000pager today

[Sophie, The other one]

It's dropped us to 3rd which isn't disastrous at all.

In other news District 9 are sending us Ancestral Night. It's my son's school fair today, but I'll look for options a bit later if we haven't chosen anything before.

[Melissa]

Greeting from District 9! I hope you found favor with the Gamemakers… er, Mods… in Round 1!

We’ve chosen Ancestral Night as our first battle book.

[Melindam]

I have 2 options for title starting with Night, I can read either if needed.

A Night to Remember or The Night Watch

[Teddie]

There are a bunch of "night" options - I'm not really seeing any reasonable books that start with fewer letters overlap, but if you guys do, great.

Here are a few "night" options:
Night
The Night Circus
The Night She Disappeared (might be too easy with -red)
Night Road
The Nightingale
Night Shift or The Night Shift or Night Shift (a few other Night Shifts as well)
The Night Swim
Night Watch or Night Watch or The Night Watch
The Night Olivia Fell
The Night Tiger
Night Film
Night Pleasures
The Night Country or The Night Country
Night School
Night Broken

[Sophie, The other one]

There are no words Iin the dictionary starting ght and ight is an obscure old English word so titles with that are likely to be non-existent.

As I've said before, I have no problem with it being easy in the hopes they'll reciprocate.

[Vicki]

And here WE were trying not to make it too difficult of a book for the next team...might want to change that strategy.

[Vicki]

Would something like Might Makes Right or The Light Between Oceans or Fighting Destiny work for a four-letter overlap or am I thinking wrong?

[Melindam]

I think that Vengeance ending was not easy. :)

M/Light as title beginning doesn't work, it needs to be Night b/c of the necessary overlap.

[Teddie]

Vicki wrote: "Would something like Might Makes Right or The Light Between Oceans or Fighting Destiny work for a four-letter overlap or am I thinking wrong?"

Almost - our titles have to start with whichever letters we pull from the end of their book, so:

GHTxxxx (3 letter overlap)
IGHTxxxxxx (4 letter overlap)
NIGHTxxxxxxx (5 letter overlap)

We will also try to keep our overlap sum low while doing this.

[Teddie]

I will say that we COULD use a supply drop book to add a letter in there, so if we did a 4 letter overlap with IGHT and used a book that starts with an M or L, we could make that first word Might or Light.

I don't think we need to here, even if we got new supply books in time - I think the supply drops are better used to protect our resource piles (this round's results notwithstanding lol.)

[Melindam]

As we said, for a 5 points overall surplus in case we win, it's not worth making this unnecessarily difficult. :)


A 15% loss of points of suplies is much worse, so it's better to use supply drops to protect our points.

[Vicki]

So in this case the four letter overlap is IGHT, so that means it would have to start with those four letters only...a word that would begin with IGHT which doesn't exist? Therefore we go to the next letter N?

[Marty]

Adding some more 'Night' titles for your consideration:

Night of the Animals
The Night Sister
Cruel is the Night
The Nightwalker
Emma in the Night
Clever Creatures of the Night
The Book of Night Women

[Marty]

A question (which has probably been answered before): If we started a book during round 1, and haven't gotten very far in it, can we count it for round 2 when we finish it?

[Sophie, The other one]

Vicki wrote: "So in this case the four letter overlap is IGHT, so that means it would have to start with those four letters only...a word that would begin with IGHT which doesn't exist? Therefore we go to the ne..."

That's right Vicki.

Marty - Night of the Animals, The Night Sister, The Nightwalker work because Night is the start of the title (ignoring The). The others wouldn't because the night is further into the title.