District 7 Showing 1,401-1,450 of 1,981

[Stephanie]

I know that we have a few members with no book tied to the battle so please list want you would like to read from stories.

[Marty]

Thanks Teddie!

[Melindam]

Vicki wrote: "Awe, thanks Cat and Teddie! I feel the love. :)"

🤭🥰😍

[Marty]

My confession for this week: You know those books where the main character is flawed and pathetic, has a golden-boy-sanctimonious-martyr spouse, and seems determined to eff up her life? I hate this kind of drama right off the bat. So I go to the end of the book and see what the last page says to see if I want to continue being annoyed. Blood Orange is one of those. I'm meanly glad about how it's going to resolve itself.

In the meantime, I'm going to be infuriated on her messed-up behalf.

[Catherine]

Stephanie wrote: "I know that we have a few members with no book tied to the battle so please list want you would like to read from stories."

If no one picks up I will read

[Stephanie]

Thanks Cat that finishes up our battle plan

[Maritza]

Hi guys, I’m here chugging along. August us usually a slow read month for me but I would like to finish 7 books. Let’s see how it goes.

[Teddie]

Book Battle reading week has begun!

[Vicki]

Stephanie, Teddie, or Sophie, It's your favorite PITA! I was trying to add FOOD and every time it said something went wrong...line 99 on the SS.t's your favorite PITA! I was trying to add FOOD and every time it said something went wrong...line 99 on the SS.

[Stephanie]

Vicki wrote: "Stephanie, Teddie, or Sophie, It's your favorite PITA! I was trying to add FOOD and every time it said something went wrong...line 99 on the SS.t's your favorite PITA! I was trying to add FOOD and ..."
I am sorry I don't understand what you are trying to do.

[Vicki]

Stephanie wrote: "Vicki wrote: "Stephanie, Teddie, or Sophie, It's your favorite PITA! I was trying to add FOOD and every time it said something went wrong...line 99 on the SS.t's your favorite PITA! I was trying to..."

On line 99 of the SS under the FOOD column, it won't allow me to add anything to that cell. I got the others, SHELTER, WEAPON & DEFENSE, but I couldn't add to FOOD so something is wrong there.

[Sophie, The other one]

Currently row 99 is one of Lauri's books. What was the title in the row causing problems?

Sorry I updated the SS before checking here.

[Stephanie]

The book on that line is Lauiri's The last Devil to Die.
Are you on tracking or team sheet?

[Vicki]

I think I'm losing my mind. No, it WAS on line 99 and now it's not there at all. As of this moment: The Only One Left

This is the only SS I have open and added it to, the only SS I have saved. On this one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

But it's not on either one now!

[Sophie, The other one]

Ah that's because I've shifted it over to the main SS this evening and put it in for another resource piles.

If you ever can't find something, you can try take off the filter on column B and it will probably reappear.

[Vicki]

Okay I am not very good with SS in general. I just wanted to add the food part. Thanks 😊

It's there. I am so sorry to all of you for always needing something, it seems. I'll try to remember the filter next time, because I'm sure there will be. lol

[Sophie, The other one]

It's not a problem at all, and is part of why we are here! Especially since one of the reasons for your confusion is that we move and hide things.

[Marty]

I finished my Battle book! I love these Akashic Books noir collections. I've read at least a dozen and they've all be great.

[Melindam]

I'm in the middle of my very middle-of-the-road battle book. It's readable, but I find it bland & run-of-the-mill. I'm hoping to finish in a day or 2.

[Lucy]

I finished my battle books. Pleasantly surprised by An Obol For the Ferryman, Derail met my expectations. All added to the sheet!

[Suzanne]

Mine is done. I'll update when I get home.

[Sophie, The other one]

Mine is currently acceptable but not great. Don't have an enormous amount of enthusiasm to sit and read it unfortunately.

[Catherine]

Wow your all so fast!! I am halfway done but after just finishing our BOM which took a lot of brain power I think I need something lighter than a mystery.

[Lauri]

Still plugging away at the 2 BOMs… Am totally enjoying both actually! I’m still all over the place, but should finish The Familiar and a couple more books this week. Too much fun…

[Melindam]

Glad you are enjoying them, Lauri. 😊

[Melindam]

Yesterday I finished listening to The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman and loved it!

It's a set of self-reflective interviews, not a straightforward Memoir, but it was honest and touching and beautifully written. I love this guy even more now with warts and all. 🥰

[Teddie]

Melindam wrote: "Yesterday I finished listening to The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir by Paul Newman and loved it!

It's a set of self-reflective interviews, not a s..."

I love him so THANKS for the suggestion! I'll def add that to my TBR :)

I'm with Lauri - working on the Mark Lawrence BOM and really enjoyed The Familiar - Bardugo is so good with complicated characters and a dark tone.

[Melindam]

Teddie, hope you'll like it. :)

[Melindam]

Pushed myself to finish my battle book. I was not a fan and mostly I feel relieved it's done.

It was a thriller and I don't like them in general, but here I was mostly bored by the cliched writing/characters and storyline. There was nothing here that hadn't been done before and done much better, I guess.

[Vicki]

I had some books to read for buddy reading, so I plan to start my battle book today.

[Lucy]

Melindam wrote: "Pushed myself to finish my battle book. I was not a fan and mostly I feel relieved it's done.

It was a thriller and I don't like them in general, but here I was mostly bored by the cliched writin..."

That's always a bit of a pain when you have to finish a book and it's just dragging. But well done on getting it finished!

[Melindam]

Thank you, Lucy. :)

[Teddie]

Looks like the final BOM for Book Games will be:


Link to discussion thread

[Melindam]

It would still cost almost 25 usd for me, so I'm giving this one a miss.

[Vicki]

Marty wrote: "My confession for this week: You know those books where the main character is flawed and pathetic, has a golden-boy-sanctimonious-martyr spouse, and seems determined to eff up her life? I hate this..."

I could NEVER do that!!! How do you want to read the book if you already know the ending? That's just impossible for me to do. It's the not knowing and the suspense that keeps me going.

[Vicki]

Suzanne wrote: "Yes - great find Vicki!! Yay!"

I know this was a delayed response, but I see your message now. It wasn't exactly a great find. I had it planned for a buddy read so I just got lucky with the book letters we needed. But I'll take it because some of them are SO hard to find! lol

[Melindam]

Then you are one of those people with iron resolutions, Vicki. ♡

I'm with Marty on this: sometimes I need to know the ending to bother with a book and I don't mind spoilers in general. :))

[Vicki]

Spoilers drive me insane!!! Lol To each her own!

[Vicki]

Just to be sure, our battle books need to be read by when? I am putting my book off until tomorrow so I can use it for another challenge as well.

[Cecily]

I have added my battle book. I read the BOM during the challenge (it was excellent!) can I still participate?

[Melindam]

Vicki,

I think we need to finish by Monday (29 July) 9 am utc.

[Vicki]

Thanks, Malindam. I will definitely have it before then.

[Suzanne]

Teddie, drinker of the bitter invention of Satan wrote: "Looks like the final BOM for Book Games will be:


Link to discussion thread"

I saw the book at the library a few days ago on the "quick reads" section (have to return in 7 days), and went by this morning and it was still there, so picked it up. Yay!

[Teddie]

Suzanne wrote: "I saw the book at the library a few days ago on the "quick reads" section (have to return in 7 days), and went by this morning and it was still there, so picked it up. Yay!"

Cool! I might need to try that as the wait for anything digital will be too long for Book Games. Hope you're feeling better too :)

[Lauri]

I’m number 45 on my library waitlist to get Funny Story :(

Hope I can get it in time…

[Sophie, The other one]

Vicki wrote: "Spoilers drive me insane!!! Lol To each her own!"

I'm with you on this. I don't want to know the ending when I start.

[Sophie, The other one]

Funny Story isn't available at my library and I'm cheap when it comes to buying books so I'll be giving this one a miss.

[Sophie, The other one]

Melindam wrote: "Vicki,

I think we need to finish by Monday (29 July) 9 am utc."

Thanks Mel! That's right on the timings.

[Marty]

Melindam wrote: "Then you are one of those people with iron resolutions, Vicki. ♡

I'm with Marty on this: sometimes I need to know the ending to bother with a book and I don't mind spoilers in general. :))"

And it's a good thing that I did read the last page, otherwise I wouldn't have stuck to it. Oof, another slog. Returning back to the other two I have started.

[Marty]

On another topic - who's watching the Olympics? That opening ceremony was amazing. Paris knows how to throw a party.

I resubscribed to Peacock so I could watch any sport I wanted. So far, I've watched the men's qualifiers for gymnastics, women's water polo, men's soccer and rowing. I'm currently watching women's beach volleyball. In short, not getting much reading done at the moment!