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[Suzanne]

I could be wrong - right now we have two entered in Wall 2 and Wall 3 at #1 and #3. So those would go from 1 to 9. If we want to change one of the walls to do those higher series numbers, we'd have #17 to #24, which would use the two mentioned above, and I guess the ones listed on the "WO's from #17 on (possibly not the 17.5?) That seems doable? Or it looks like we have quite a few people who have put down books going from 13 to 20.

Seems like the "problem" we have is a lot of options - so many willing book readers. Pretty lucky!

[Melindam]

I also understood that we want to build a wall of higher numbers than 1-8 and Lauri and Vicki already offered to read books for that?

@Marty, one of your books #3 can go in the first wall. I'll put mine for MPG Historical Fiction instead and change the code for yours, too.

[Vicki]

Suzanne, we definitely have a fantastic team!

[Lauri]

I finished the BOM The Wishing Game! My DQ comments can be found in messages #132, 169, 187, 201 & 213.

If someone could give us credit for BOM…

Thank you kindly!

[Sophie, The other one]

The 'problem' we've got is definitely a good one to have.

At the moment we've got a wall from 1-8 and another run of 12-19.

As I see it was have a couple of options:

1. Find books to make a run of 1-24: this is probably the highest effort option but I have confidence we can do it if you all want.
2. Make a chain of either 12-18 or 13-19 and another of either 0-7 or 1-8 as lower series numbers come up more often.

[Maritza]

Good Morning Guys. I'm stumped on how my books can fit into challenge right now.

[Maritza]

my book The Essence of Darkness has MPG of Horror.
and I can read Bad Apple for contemporary

[Melindam]

Maritza wrote: "my book The Essence of Darkness has MPG of Horror."

That's good, b/c there is still one unclaimed Horror task, the code is S39. :)

I added the code to your book and also listed the alternative MPGs (Thriller, Mystery, Paranormal).

[Melindam]

Maritza wrote: "Good Morning Guys. I'm stumped on how my books can fit into challenge right now."

If you list here or on the sheet your books, we can check them together and come up with solutions. :)

[Sophie, The other one]

For MPG we've got:
2 nature
2 literary fiction
1 science fiction
1 contemporary
1 paranormal

Left unclaimed so if your books work for any of those, we can slot them in.

Sounds like Maritza has the contemporary slot filled too.

[Melindam]

I can claim an MPG Nature book with Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens.

Currently included in the audible plus catalogue for free.

[Sophie, The other one]

Lauri wrote: "Yikes! Are you ready??

Here’s what I have:

#0: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

#1 : An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Apocalypse Cow
[book:Beartow..."

Your 5 + 6 would be great for the 2nd was which is looking like 1-8 again

[Sophie, The other one]

Wall 2
1 Marty
2
3 Marty
4
5 ?Lauri
6 ? Lauri
7 Cecily
8 Cecily
Window 3.5 Cat

Wall 3
12 Suzanne
13 - Gone Tomorrow (Sophie)
14 - Cross Country (Cecily)
15 - Purity in Death (teddie)
16 - Peace Talks (sophie)
17 - Sleep No More (sophie)
17.5 window - Big Jack (teddie)
18 - Divided in Death (lucy)
19 - Council of the Cursed (Lauri)

[Suzanne]

Sophie wrote: "The 'problem' we've got is definitely a good one to have.

At the moment we've got a wall from 1-8 and another run of 12-19.

As I see it was have a couple of options:

1. Find books to make a run ..."

Is it advantageous to make a run of from 1-24? If so, I think we should do that, as we certainly have the flexible reading power.

If not, well I support whatever we decide, of course. As a bookaholic, I have books of every conceivable series number and am happy to read any of them. And I'm also ok with letting others read for walls, tasks. I'll still be reading stuff either way.

Or....are walls stronger with higher number series? Hmm....that's probably a horrible thing to suggest.

[Suzanne]

Lol - I typed that, then saw Sophie's list above - it looks great! I need to learn to never write stuff on Goodreads when I first get up :)

[Sophie, The other one]

So long as we have 3 walls with 8 books and a window book each then what numbers we use doesn't matter at all.

[Sophie, The other one]

Oh and if anyone wants to read a 5, 13, 16 or 17 to replace mine please say! Getting them all done is likely to be a bit tight for me.

[Suzanne]

Sophie wrote: "Oh and if anyone wants to read a 5, 13, 16 or 17 to replace mine please say! Getting them all done is likely to be a bit tight for me."

I'm happy to back you up on any of those. If you'd like, we can just wait and see what you need as time goes on. Otherwise, just feel free to choose one :)

[Suzanne]

I put Mammoths at the Gates down for #4 in series on wall 2. I'm reading it either way - I'm trying to get the Hugo 2024 nominees finished before July 20th so I can vote responsibly :)

[Marty]

Melindam wrote: "I also understood that we want to build a wall of higher numbers than 1-8 and Lauri and Vicki already offered to read books for that?

@Marty, one of your books #3 can go in the first wall. I'll p..."

Sounds good! I'm going to add a few more suggestions to the form, I have a lot of 20+ books in the Sharon McCone series that can be used.

ETA, I saw that we need a #4 for Wall 2. I'll add one.

[Sophie, The other one]

Wonderful!

Please remember to use the mini code from column B to fill in the mini sheet. If you type directly into the box the tracking through from the main Round sheet breaks.

[Suzanne]

Oh Marty - I'll take my #4 out then. It can be a backup

[Marty]

Sophie wrote: "Wonderful!

Please remember to use the mini code from column B to fill in the mini sheet. If you type directly into the box the tracking through from the main Round sheet breaks."

Missed that step, sorry.
@Suzanne, only if you want to!

[Suzanne]

@Marty - I moved my #4 in series to the WO section - feel free to move yours up to S55 (the wall #4 place).

[Melindam]

Sophie, how about a bargain? You could move your Catching Fire to my door task (delete my Keeper book), my #4 book (A court of silver flames) could be moved to MPG YA and Susan's book could still be used for a 4-in-series task.

My Keeper book will keep for later. :)

[Suzanne]

My Liberty's daughter book can be moved up to MPG Science Fiction too. Although really, I'm not too worried - I'll read them no matter what - and if they can help for the shelter - that's great! If not, that's also great!

Melinda, you are like the best juggler of large book tasks that I've ever seen!

[Ushashi]

Oh dear! There's a lot of messages that I missed. But from what I'm gathering we need a #4 book and 2 literary fictions. With my schedule the way it looks I can certainly read 1 more book before Jul 15 besides the 2 I claimed.

So I can re-read HP #4 which I haven't read Goblet of fire in 2 years now. That would give a good page count. Or I can read one more literary fiction because I always have an endless supply of those with me. But it will possibly be a lower page count as I tend to read them a bit slower because of the genre.

Let me know what works best for the team and I will go with it.

[Melindam]

Ushashi,

no #4 book is needed any more. :)

Among MPGs we need
1 Natur
1 Science Fiction
1 Paranormal
2 Literary Fiction

[Ushashi]

Great! I will get another literary fiction then. Thanks Mel!

[Melindam]

Suzanne, thank you. :)

hope I'm not driving our Captains crazy with my "brilliant" suggestions. :D

[Sophie, The other one]

You aren't driving me mad at all Mel! I'm happy for my Catching Fire to be taken out completely, then you can shuffle yours. We've then got an unclaimed Door task and Ushashi can read for #4 if she wants to, or someone else can fill it in.

If we don't get a taker for the door, mine can always go back in later.

[Catherine]

Melindam wrote: "Suzanne, thank you. :)

hope I'm not driving our Captains crazy with my "brilliant" suggestions. :D"

:)))

[Maritza]

MY BOM got returned to library by accident. I am now on hold for it. All hunger game books are out with long wait list and other BOM do not capture my interest.

[Catherine]

Maritza wrote: "MY BOM got returned to library by accident. I am now on hold for it. All hunger game books are out with long wait list and other BOM do not capture my interest."
No worries don't stress to much. Read another book you want :)

[Melindam]

Sophie,

I'm not too keen on reading my Keeper book just yet, so if you are reading Catching Fire anyway, it can cover the door book. :)

[Marty]

I have book on the Round 2 sheet that would work for Literary Fiction as well. I'll add it.

[Maritza]

Catherine wrote: "Maritza wrote: "MY BOM got returned to library by accident. I am now on hold for it. All hunger game books are out with long wait list and other BOM do not capture my interest."
No worries don't st..."

I was just getting into the book and would like to finish.

[Melindam]

Marty, you only need to add your books to the Round 2 tab.
There you can to enter the Mini task ref number in Column N and the Reason in Column O and it will autofill the data on the Mini tab. :)

[Suzanne]

When I finish books that I don't have on the list of shelter books but that fit one or more tasks, is it ok to put notes in the "alternatives" column on the tracking sheet? Then just in case we need them, they can act as backup.

[Sophie, The other one]

Absolutely! May come in helpful depending on how we are doing towards the end of the round.

[Sophie, The other one]

Maritza wrote: "Catherine wrote: "Maritza wrote: "MY BOM got returned to library by accident. I am now on hold for it. All hunger game books are out with long wait list and other BOM do not capture my interest."
N..."

Oh no! Really hope the hold list for it is short so you can pick it back up soon.

[Sophie, The other one]

Melindam wrote: "Sophie,

I'm not too keen on reading my Keeper book just yet, so if you are reading Catching Fire anyway, it can cover the door book. :)"

I was holding the last chapter to finish today, so that's finished and I'll add it in there later.

[Catherine]

Looks like we only need #5 in the series for a wall. We could always switch out themes if others reads will give more points because of higher page counts :)
We could all read the Wandering in for the doors for 100 pts each. The Wandering Inn

LOL and totally kidding

[Catherine]

I have two questions ready for The familiar for tomorrow. I will think on 1-2 more tonight and post around 10:00 MST tomorrow.

[Stephanie]

I am so sorry for missing a few days a kitten emergency I have a lot to catch up on.

[Suzanne]

Stephanie I hope the kitten is ok!

[Lauri]

Sophie wrote: "Wall 2
1 Marty
2
3 Marty
4
5 ?Lauri
6 ? Lauri
7 Cecily
8 Cecily
Window 3.5 Cat

Wall 3
12 Suzanne
13 - Gone Tomorrow (Sophie)
14 - Cross Country (Cecily)
15 - Purity in Death (teddie)
16 - Peace T..."

Okey dokey! I can take Paranormal with Watchers - halfway done.

And #5 with Network Effect & #6 with A Midwinter's Tail for sure! Can't add them till I get home though...

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[Catherine]

Does anyone have the actual book for the familiar? What page number does chapter 13 start on?

[Melindam]

I have the kindle edition, according to that chapter 13 starts on page 80.

[Melindam]

Hope your kitty is better, Stephanie.