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[Sophie, The other one]

Weapons and food looks like being straightforward categories to fill! We might need to be a bit more creative with shelter and defense but let's see.

[Melindam]

Sophie wrote: "Catherine wrote: "3XXXXX-Triple Kindle points day tomorrow-5/15/2024. Any book ideas that are not available with Kindle Unlimited?"

What are kindle points? I've got kindle unlimited and buy kindle..."

I used to get them after shopping kindle books and if you reached a certain number of points, you could swap them for 3 or 5% discount vouchers. However, a few months ago amazon.com told me that I don't qualify for this option any more for whatever reasons.

[Sophie, The other one]

About an hour left to be patient!

[Cecily]

Haha you can do it! It starts 3am my time so I will hopefully be falling asleep soon

[Melindam]

And we are OFF! HAPPY BOOK GAMES!!

🥳🥰🤩

[Teddie]

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

[Stephanie]

Happy reading 📚

[Marty]

I started my book this morning! I love Ron Hansen's novels. Happy reading everyone!

[Melindam]

Listening to The Malevolent 7 at 1.90 speed, so I am halfway through already. I don't dislike it, but (Grim)Dark Fantasy has never been my thing and this book isn't making me a convert either.

[Maritza]

Hi guys, just checking in. Need to finish up my current read.

[Vicki]

Good morning, everyone. I am starting my first book but have a lunch date with one of my daughters, so I won't finish it until tonight. Excited to start with Just for the Summer

[Teddie]

I am listening to - really engaging!

[Sophie, The other one]

Was unexpectedly called into work this afternoon so my plan to start reading hasn't happened.

Will be starting with Malevolent 7 (glad it's not horrible Mel, even if not your thing) and The Hunger Games.

Have Children of Time started as my audio too.

[Sophie, The other one]

Teddie and Vicki - and so the process of my tbr increasing during a challenge faster than I can read begins.

[Melindam]

The audiobook narrator is really good (as Sammy and Cat have said), that helps. :) I will be done with it tomorrow.

I need to get Hunger Games 1 from the Library, so I can only start with that once they notify me that it's available.

[Ushashi]

Checking in. Started The Island of Missing Trees as well as The Hunger Games buddy read.

[Cecily]

Finished my first book! I'm not home though and only have my phone so I can't update until Friday though I am adding my books to my shelf

[Sophie, The other one]

Well done Cecily! No rush on adding things right now. Enjoy your trip away.

[Melindam]

Finished The Malevolent Seven and posted my DQs. Gave it 3 stars.

As said before, grimdark fantasy is just not my thing and this book has not persuaded me otherwise. But I didn't dislike it, so that may be called a success. :)

[Melindam]

Soon to be off on my wellness-weekend where I am planning to be indulged and to read a lot. 🤭

[Maritza]

Good Morning Guys, started Reacher: Bad Luck and Trouble (Movie Tie-In): A Jack Reacher Novel

[Catherine]

Spent the whole day in the airport yesterday so I was able to get a book in. Logging this morning.

[Teddie]

Melindam wrote: "Soon to be off on my wellness-weekend where I am planning to be indulged and to read a lot. 🤭"

Enjoy!!

[Teddie]

Catherine wrote: "Spent the whole day in the airport yesterday so I was able to get a book in. Logging this morning."

Not much better than a book to block out the travelling masses :)

[Cecily]

About to start book 4! It's been raining and I have been listening and crocheting and taking notes. Really my kind of day! Books and crafts lol

[Teddie]

Cecily wrote: "About to start book 4! It's been raining and I have been listening and crocheting and taking notes. Really my kind of day! Books and crafts lol"

Sounds like a perfect day! I spent a few hours today simultaneously knitting, playing Civ, and listening to a zombie book (Rot & Ruin) - pretty good day here too :)

[Melindam]

Rain & crocheting & books sounds lovely. So does knitting, playing & audiobooks. :))

[Sophie, The other one]

Books and crafts sounds wonderful! My knitting is all in a box because I don't trust my small humans round it (and I don't really have time for it right now)

[Sophie, The other one]

Quick reminder to please add books to your challenge shelf when you've finished them.

[Marty]

Finished The Kid and started Ghost Station. I'm going on a mini vacation this weekend, so may not check in again until next week.

[Teddie]

Everyone needs a little help from a friend (or sponsor).

Supply drops consist of books read by the sending team to be used in a way chosen by the receiving team within specified criteria.

Teams have been paired up for the duration of Book Games and are allowed to send up to 3 supply drops each to their partner team per round. This is not required - your team could decide to not send any supply drops. But if that's your team's choice, your partner team could decide to do the same.

Paired teams are allowed to coordinate with requests for books which would be most helpful to the receiving team. However, the sending team ultimately gets to decide which books are sent as supply drops.

Sending Team

The sending team chooses up to 3 books to send to the recipient team each round. These can either be 3 random books or books that meet specific needs of the recipient team.

The books can be sent any time during the round and the books do not have to be sent at the same time. That being said, it would be most helpful to the receiving team if the supply drops were received early enough in the round to decide how best to use the books for their team.

The sending team logs the supply drop books on the respective round's book log, puts the books in an appropriate resource category, and receives page points for the books sent. However, the books sent for supply drops cannot be used for other tasks. The appropriate code for supply drops is added to the mini reference column.

Supply drop books cannot be sent until they have been read by the sending team.

Receiving Team

The receiving team can choose from a variety of options on how to use the supply drops. But once used, they are locked in and the supply drop books cannot be moved to a different spot.

Supply drops can be carried over into future rounds but can only be used for mini challenge tasks in the round they were sent.

- Mini Task: Supply drop books must work for the mini task they're being used for. This includes the read date being within the timeframe of the mini challenge.

- Additions to resource piles: Supply drop books must meet a requirement of the resource pile.

- Protecting supply piles: Supply drop books must fit into that category AND have some type of shield/defense. These would need to be separate. So if you want to use a supply drop book to protect your defense supply pile, the book needs to fit into the defense category in 2 different ways.


Team Pairings

District 1 & The Capitol
District 2 & District 13
District 3 & District 12
District 4 & District 11
District 5 & District 10
District 6 & District 9
District 7 & District 8

[Melindam]

Oh, interesting. :))

[Teddie]

It looks like it comes down to using a supply drop received book for:

1. a Mini task - need to verify that read dates align with task and we don't get page points

2. additions to resource supply piles - must fit resource requirement

3. protecting resource supply piles - book must fit resource requirement (food, weapon, shelter) AND have some type of shield/defense.

Here's a link to our partner District 8 - feel free to pop over and say Hi!

[Judith]

Hellllllooo!

Supply drop partners! Let us know if you need some comfy pillows for your reading nook as textiles are our specialty ;)

[Melindam]

Hello, Lady Lu(st/cifer). :)

[Sophie, The other one]

That's a good summary Teddie! My view would be that we want to be nice to our paired team and hope they do the same in return.

Comfy pillows... Could you also manage hammocks for our trees?

[Judith]

of course!

[Teddie]

Judith wrote: "of course!"

And perhaps some snuggly muumuus? We'd be happy to provide some reams of paper :)

[Melindam]

We can provide sexy lumberjacks, too. ;)

[Suzanne]

Hello from Peru! I'm excited to read through the whole thread when I get home! it's been an amazing trip. I started an excellent fantasy book on the 15th that should be done on the plane I hope. anyway have a great weekend and I'll see you all soon!

[Melindam]

Hey Suzanne!! Take care. :)

[Cecily]

Added my books to the planning sheet! Feels good to be home :)

[Sophie, The other one]

Glad you're having an incredible time Suzanne! Looking forward to hearing your highlights.

Welcome home Cecily!

Hope everyone has a relaxing weekend.

[Melindam]

Will finish my SJM doorstopper today and then switching to a comfort read: Written in Red by Anne Bishop.

The Others has been a series that kept popping up in my feed all the time couttesy of friends' reviews. Last year I caved in and the binge-read the 5 books of the main series during TT 10. :)

[Lauri]

I’m totally enjoying ALL my books thus far! Should finish the 1st few this weekend. Finished up my gap books today, so maybe now I’ll be more focused. NAH! Who am I kidding? I read like I eat - - - just like an unsupervised 5-year-old!

[Melindam]

:D

[Sophie, The other one]

Comfort read is a good place to head. How was the SJM?

Focus? But there's something else just over there that looks more entertaining.

[Melindam]

It's a reread of the ACOTAR series (read them first when they were published), but I find I am very much over SJM and her Faes (with capital F as opposed to humans with "h".)
I am at book 3 and will reread book 4 b/c of points and the books are quick reads despite being chunky.

[Vicki]

Sophie wrote: "Teddie and Vicki - and so the process of my tbr increasing during a challenge faster than I can read begins."

Oh, don't even talk to me about ever-increasing TBR shelf! lol I'm right there with you! lol

[Vicki]

Where did our "READ" books go on the SS? I forgot to add them to my own shelf for this challenge, but I just added them.