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[Melindam]

Will finish my district book some time in the afternoon.

[Cecily]

I took my neighbours up to camp (2 adults, 2 kids under 3 years old)located roughly 4 hours from us. WELL, on our way my partners transmission blew on his work truck blowing a bunch of fluids and dirt into my windshield. My van is fine, the truck is still on the side of the highway. Anyway, I had to drive the kids and one neighbour the rest of the two and a half hours to the camp and then return the two and a half hours to the side of the road to pick up my partner and my other neighbour, plus 3 dogs who had been patiently waiting to the howls of coyotes in the distance. I was able to listen to about 3/4 of a book since then.

[Cecily]

I have my laptop with me so I will get going again to finish strong but it has been crazy to say the least

[Melindam]

Ooh, what an "adventure"!

[Teddie]

We have our new arena hazard: dog-mutt cryptids

[Melindam]

We are finished the D6 tasks! Yaayyy! :)

[Suzanne]

nice!

[Teddie]

Great job everybody!!

I'll get us a new district ... stay tuned!

[Teddie]

New district: district 3

@Lucy: are you up for reading The Atrocity Archives in the next couple days?
@Marty: are you up for reading The Clockwork Dynasty in the next couple days?

As always, options from planning sheet in italics:

IPOD in title: Penelope in Retrograde (Teddie)

white colour cover (50%+)
Play with Fire - Lauri
Germania - Marty
Iron Girl - Marty
Her Last Hope - Vicki
My Family and Other Animals - Melinda

#3 in series
Nonna Maria and the Case of the Lost Treasure - Suzanne
The Madness of Gods - Suzanne
The Angel of Indian Lake - Vicki

white text on cover - Black Heart (Cecily) - READ

item related to district on cover
The Atrocity Archives - Lucy

author first & last initials in ELECTRONICS
Saint of Wolves and Butchers - Marty
Black Hills - Lauri
A Cure for Magic - Cat
The Book of Doors - Cat
The Atrocity Archives - Lucy
Haunting Bombay - Marty
Speaker of Mandarin - Marty
The Mirror - Suzanne
Funny Story - Vicki
Her Last Hope - Vicki

Set in Korea-South/North (50%+) - White Chrysanthemum (Vicki) - READ

plot element that can be linked to the district: general electronics
The Atrocity Archives - Lucy
The Clockwork Dynasty - Marty

[Catherine]

May be our last rounds with only a week left. Great Job!! Let’s go team 📚

[Melindam]

I can take white cover with .

My edition is not white enough unfortunately.

But if someone else finishes sth sooner, maybe you can use my book for the spell-it-out.

[Catherine]

Do we want to try and use some of our saved books in the District task and Arena Hazard to try and get through these two faster?

[Melindam]

Cat your book is better placed under U as that's one of the hardest letters to come by. ☺️

[Catherine]

Melindam wrote: "Cat your book is better placed under U as that's one of the hardest letters to come by. ☺️"

So true!!

[Melindam]

♡

[Catherine]

@Lauri are you ok if we add Black Hills by Nora Roberts for District tasks author first & last initials in ELECTRONICS?

[Teddie]

Catherine wrote: "Do we want to try and use some of our saved books in the District task and Arena Hazard to try and get through these two faster?"

Absolutely! I used a couple read books for the district tasks. I like to check with people for the others, as our goal is usually to finish within a day or 2, and sometimes people don't have the book or the time right when the spin comes up.

[Suzanne]

Put me down for #3 in series. I'll read Nonna Maria and have it done by tonight or tomorrow
I went ahead and bought internet for the cruise because I'm reading competitive and I also didn't want to lose my duo Lingo 650 day streak. I still only have the app tho

[Suzanne]

Oops nvm I see Cat has one

[Catherine]

Suzanne wrote: "Oops nvm I see Cat has one"+
Suzanne if your commited I can give it to you. LMK We Can also use Nonna Maria and the Case of the Lost Treasure by Lorenzo Carcaterra as the ALN-C for the spell out word Or your April Fools Dead

[Suzanne]

Sure that works. I'll take that C.

[Catherine]

Suzanne wrote: "Sure that works. I'll take that C."

OK I moved it around so Nonna Maria is the C

[Catherine]

Did Lucy switch out of our team?

[Cecily]

I finished the DQs for Funny Story.
Funny Story Q&A

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[Marty]

Teddie, drinker of the bitter invention of Satan wrote: "

New district: district 3

@Lucy: are you up for reading The Atrocity Archives in the next couple days?
@Marty: are you up for reading The Clockwork Dynasty in the ne..."

Yep, I can set one of my others aside and concentrate on The Clockwork Dynasty.

[Marty]

Also The Iron Girl is a 13 in a series, in case you want to save it for D13.

[Teddie]

Marty wrote: "Yep, I can set one of my others aside and concentrate on The Clockwork Dynasty."

Thanks Marty!

[Vicki]

Catherine wrote: "Vicki wrote: "Just FYI team, I am heading to see It Ends with Us tonight with my daughters and 3 of my granddaughters. I am SO excited. That my favorite book she's ever written! Of course, I've rea..."

We ALL loved it!!! My daughter's girlfriend doesn't even like going to movies but she went anyway and she also liked it a lot. :)

If anyone goes to see the movie, there is a party scene that Colleen is in but only in the background. She is at one time behind Lily and she's wearing a plain black dress. It goes really fast though. She's also at the very end opening the door to her bookstore in Texas so watch the credits too.

[Teddie]

Cecily wrote: "I finished the DQs for Funny Story.
Funny Story Q&A

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Woot! I added it to the planning sheet - please adjust the read date when you add to your BG shelf.

WTG! :)

[Teddie]

Catherine wrote: "Did Lucy switch out of our team?"

Nope, she's still team Entwives :)

[Lucy]

I've finished Atrocity Archives, sorry I updated the spreadsheet a little late

[Teddie]

Lucy wrote: "I've finished Atrocity Archives, sorry I updated the spreadsheet a little late"

Just in time :)

[Maritza]

Finished Not a Happy Family will update later.

[Suzanne]

I finished the Nonna Maria book but it's not on the spreadsheet anymore (for C). lol I didn't think I was thar slow. although no problem- it will get used for at least page points :)

[Melindam]

Suzanne, it could be used for the set in Italy task (should we get there :), right? :)

[Suzanne]

yes for sure! and that's a great "in case " to save it for!

[Teddie]

You know, there were a few that had that mini indicator, so I think people didn't know it was taken.

We'll save it for Italy or #3 or something :)

[Teddie]

@Cat - I scooted your This Year I Will to the T - we can't skip the This for the Y here unfortunately.

[Catherine]

Teddie, drinker of the bitter invention of Satan wrote: "@Cat - I scooted your This Year I Will to the T - we can't skip the This for the Y here unfortunately."

Good to know

[Melindam]

It seems there are some overclaiming of mini indicators. Cat already finished her #3 in series books, but it disappeared from the mini list and Vicki's planned book appeared there instead.

To avoid confusion, I removed that particular mini indicator code for Vicki 's book.

[Vicki]

Melindam wrote: "It seems there are some overclaiming of mini indicators. Cat already finished her #3 in series books, but it disappeared from the mini list and Vicki's planned book appeared there instead.

To avoi..."

That's probably my fault. I had originally planned the #3 book but hadn't read it yet, so I saw Cat's name there and wasn't sure about my book. I had put it up for the last round, I think, but it got replaced. Anyway, when I "claim" a book and it gets moved it confuses me. I don't know if I should stop putting what all my books work for but it seems unfair to assume/make others look up how they'd work. I don't mean to step on anyone's toes! I am still waiting to read my #3 book until it can be used.

[Vicki]

That makes me wonder about my book set in Pakistan. Should I bother reading it?

[Teddie]

Vicki wrote: "That makes me wonder about my book set in Pakistan. Should I bother reading it?"

Well, if that's the only reason you're reading it right now, I would say no. We've already done the setting in Pakistan district, and as we're trying to do a different district each time, we won't be getting back there before the end of the game.

Do you have a book with author initials in ELECTRONICS that you could read sooner - Funny Story or Her Last Hope? I don't think we've heard back from Lauri yet, so I can swap that task over to you?

[Lauri]

Catherine wrote: "@Lauri are you ok if we add Black Hills by Nora Roberts for District tasks author first & last initials in ELECTRONICS?"

Use me wherever and however you need. I am yours to command....
:)

[Teddie]

Lauri wrote: "Catherine wrote: "@Lauri are you ok if we add Black Hills by Nora Roberts for District tasks author first & last initials in ELECTRONICS?"

Use me wherever and however you need. I am yours to comma..."

lol :D

Are you close to finishing Black Hills? Right now that book is assigned to the Author initials in ELECTRONICS task. No biggie if not - we can move things around :)

[Vicki]

Teddie, drinker of the bitter invention of Satan wrote: "Vicki wrote: "That makes me wonder about my book set in Pakistan. Should I bother reading it?"

Well, if that's the only reason you're reading it right now, I would say no. We've already done the s..."

Thanks, Teddie, I sometimes feel like I sound as though I'm complaining, but I truly am not. I simply get confused! I did look up a Pakistan book last night because I thought we needed it, so I will definitely not read it and read something else.

I am going to read Funny Story but the author's initials are E.H. so not in ELECTRONICS. I am currently reading River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer so that one works, BUT I don't want to confuse anyone by putting/crossing over the code indicator, so IF we can use that one would you please put the code for it. I'll be finished with it in a couple hours at the most.

I also finished a book yesterday that works if it wasn't already used: The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

[Marty]

Just an update about : I'm going to try and finish it tonight. However, if that doesn't work out, definitely will be done tomorrow. I hope that won't hold us up.

[Teddie]

@Vicki - There are a lot of moving parts with this mini - I'm glad you are checking in, asking questions - we sometimes need to move books to get to the next spin, but every book is important, so keep on keeping on - we're doing great as a team!

@Marty - all good! There are 2 tasks left for the district, and 5 for the hazard.

[Catherine]

Vicki wrote: "That makes me wonder about my book set in Pakistan. Should I bother reading it?"

If it's one you want to read, we can always use it elsewhere, later on once we know Pakistan is not an option.

[Catherine]

Working on my last spell-out book (T), about 25% done. Might need to head to bed early and finish in the morning though.

Looks like were 4th in the team placing. Doing soooo Good.