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[Diane ~Firefly~]

Welcome Dawn!

[Samantha]

Welcome to the team Dawn!

Ah, I see, I thought it was just finish date.I read the majority after 5/15 but I'll remove it

[Melissa]

No worries Sam! Yea, they had to be started after the challenge began.

[Diane ~Firefly~]

So is anyone else no longer able having a drop down to choose bookshelves/tags when they are in Edit My Activity on a book?

This is how I have been reviewing and rating my book after finishing, but now I can't change it from currently reading to read.

Am I missing something?

[Trisha]

Yes, I've been having issues too.
I go into my "my books" and to my "read" shelf
and then I'm editing my shelves there so it will move to "read" and then I can add the shelf.

It's not letting me add dates either, but changing to read is adding that. Hopefully Goodreads will do an update to fix this soon. I know I've had to do this workaround all day yesterday and today.

[maria helena]

I’ve been having the same issues.

[Louise]

Me too

[Louise]

@Sam please add Amari and the Great Game to your shelf please

[Dawn]

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Please welcome a new tribute, Dawn to district 9

• Dawn"

Hi everyone!!

Had some family visiting for the UK Bank holiday and nearly missed this message! Glad to be "picked as tribute"- looking forward to playing with you all :)

[Dawn]

Melissa wrote: "Welcome to District 9 Dawn!"

thank you!

[Dawn]

Leslie Ann wrote: "Welcome Dawn!!"

thank you!

[Dawn]

maria helena wrote: "Welcome Dawn!"

thank you! Working out how to play now... :D

[Dawn]

Shelf link here: Games-2024

[Nick]

Welcome to District 9, Dawn! Excited to have you join us!

[Trisha]

Welcome to the team, Dawn!

[Dawn]

Is there anything in particular I should focus on for this month's round ? :)

[Natasha]

Welcome Dawn!

Finally added my book. I had a bit of a crazy week last week. Found out I have a heart murmur and have to go for an echocardiogram in June and my husband had a cardioversion on Friday to correct his afib (which appeared last month).

[Louise]

Welcome Dawn, at the minute just read, we do have a mini starting on June 1st, see below.

Sending hugs Natasha, hope all goes well

[Louise]

Race to the Cornucopia Mini




Make sure you get yourself the best resources possible at the start of the Games by getting bonus points for each of the tasks you fill. Each task can be repeated a maximum of five times. Each food item in text can be repeated once.

This mini challenge runs from June 1st to June 15 9am UTC

• 1 point tasks
- Read a book with a orange cover
- "harvest" (plural OK, no other variants) in text
- Author initials in HERACLES
- Word in title is hiding a different smaller word (of at least four letters) inside it (not the singular form or verb tense differences) - examples LimonCELLO; THINg; wereWOLF (or indeed WEREwolf); HUNGer but NOT GAMEs (as that's the singular/plural)
- One of the following food words in text (plural OK, no other variants): corn, grape, ham, bread, cheese, apple, fish, chicken, bread, rice, tomato, pepper, salt, honey, lobster

3 point tasks
- Horn on cover (instrument or animal equally OK. but not antlers please)
- Book set in Crete
- Book set in Idaho
- Author's name has a diacritic (Cornucopia was a concert tour for Björk. yes, it's tenuous, but go with it anyway!)
- "abundant" or "abundance" in text
- Takes place on a farm (farm meaning somewhere raising plants or animals to be sold for food)

5 point tasks
- Title (including subtitle) includes all the letters CORNUPIA (no need to duplicate C and O)
- The cover has at least 3 different food items
- Set in Peru, Panama, Colombia or Venezuela (or combination of them to reach the 50%)


General Notes
Locations must represent 50% or more of the setting
Colour cover must be 50% the colour (use of common sense, please)

[maria helena]

I can definitely cover one or more of the 3 point tasks. I have plenty of books to choose from since our alphabet has 3 letters with diacritics :)

Icelandic also uses diacritics in names. If anyone wants to try out Icelandic crime, I have lots of recommendations.

[Louise]

I’ve added the mini tasks to our tracking sheet for claiming tasks

[Nick]

I feel stupid for not understanding so just want clarity:
I've added Loop by Kōji Suzuki due to the macron on the O in his name in Romanji to the list for Diacritic author's names for the mini thingy. Should I also add it to the Round 1 master list? No, right? lmao

Sorry I feel dumb lol

[maria helena]

I’ve added two planned reads to the mini challenge and round 1 master list (I assume that the books for the mini are also used for the main challenge as per previous challenges)

[maria helena]

Nick wrote: "I feel stupid for not understanding so just want clarity:
I've added Loop by Kōji Suzuki due to the macron on the O in his name in Romanji to the list for Diacritic auth..."

Absolutely no need to feel stupid. Always better to ask :)

I’m sure one of the captains will clarify it for us. On all previous big group challenges, the books read for the mini are also used for the main challenge round (but those books earn extra points). I assume it is the same this time since the instructions for the mini didn’t state anything different.

[Louise]

Books used in the mini are also used in the main challenge for points

[Nick]

Great! Thanks everyone. I've also added it to the main tab.

[Diane ~Firefly~]

two questions about the mini:

Does this count for letters of CORNUPIA (requires sub-title)
You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

For 3 different food items on cover:
Can it be different types of the same thing - for example apple pie, chocolate pie and pumpkin pie?

[Louise]

@Trisha please add The Voice Inside to your shelf

[Louise]

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "two questions about the mini:

Does this count for letters of CORNUPIA (requires sub-title)
[book:You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation|6..."

Cornupia Yes, I’ll check the other and come back

[Trinia]

Hey gang, just checking in. We’ve been without power since the storms blew through 2 days ago. So I’m limited with the internet , etc.
I added a book to my shelf but am sure I didn’t get it to the SS. (Mrs Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha) I can look through at work and add suggestions for placement.
Do we need specific book pages? Or can I just give examples of defense, shelter , etc?

[Louise]

@Diane


For 3 different food items on cover:
Can it be different types of the same thing - for example apple pie, chocolate pie and pumpkin pie?

Yes it can

[Louise]

Trinia wrote: "Hey gang, just checking in. We’ve been without power since the storms blew through 2 days ago. So I’m limited with the internet , etc.
I added a book to my shelf but am sure I didn’t get it to the ..."

For text in book we would need the page/location if possible and short sentence . For other items, take a look at some of the examples on the sheet and in "msg 5 of this thread

Mrs Pollifax isn’t on the tracking

[Trinia]

Louise wrote: "Trinia wrote: "Hey gang, just checking in. We’ve been without power since the storms blew through 2 days ago. So I’m limited with the internet , etc.
I added a book to my shelf but am sure I didn’t..."

Yes, I added it to my shelf but not the SS. Have no internet to browse on my computer.

[Louise]

Trinia wrote: "Louise wrote: "Trinia wrote: "Hey gang, just checking in. We’ve been without power since the storms blew through 2 days ago. So I’m limited with the internet , etc.
I added a book to my shelf but a..."

If you add the details in here one of us can grab it and move it for you

[Trinia]

Great, will do in a bit. Got to finish up at work

[Trisha]

Louise wrote: "@Trisha please add The Voice Inside to your shelf"

Sorry, done!

[Nick]

if anyone likes Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe horror books I would really recommend Question Not My Salt which would be perfect for the food on the cover part of the mini. I read it within the past six months so I can't do a reread for it haha

its pretty gross so...fair warning!

[Trinia]

Was able to get on my iPad and update the SS. Please move around as needed.
Thanks!

[Diane ~Firefly~]

Louise wrote: "@Diane


For 3 different food items on cover:
Can it be different types of the same thing - for example apple pie, chocolate pie and pumpkin pie?

Yes it can"

Thanks!

[Leslie Ann]

Nick wrote: "if anyone likes Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe horror books I would really recommend Question Not My Salt which would be perfect for the food on the cover part of the mini. I read it..."

Thanks Nick, I ca handle gory and gross … lol besides it is short

[Nick]

Leslie Ann wrote: "Nick wrote: "if anyone likes Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibe horror books I would really recommend Question Not My Salt which would be perfect for the food on the cover part of the mi..."

Oooo!! I hope you enjoy it! I had so much fun with it. It’s messed up but really fun haha

[Melissa]

Hey everyone! Sorry I was MIA I had some personal stuff going on that kept me busy. I’ve been trying to read in my spare time but didn’t get much done.

Thanks Louise for posting about the mini!

We’re doing a great job so far!

[Ashley]

Hello, District 9!

Just checking in with you from District 6 to see if you've decided on any preferences, AND to formally request that if you so decide to send us any supply drops, we would love books that we could use for protecting our supply piles!

We await your decision!

[Melissa]

@Nick - can you add a Read Date for The Elementals

[Melissa]

The Main SS is all caught up to here!

I've requested that District 6 provides us with 3 books to protect our Supply Drops (fingers crossed!)

Unless anyone has any objections, I think we should be District neighborly and supply them with their requested books :) :)

[Nick]

Melissa wrote: "@Nick - can you add a Read Date for The Elementals"

yes! Sorry! I legit just finished the book and haven't updated goodreads yet. I'll do so now.

[Melissa]

LOL thanks! I was in the spreadsheet and didn't realize you had just finished. No need to apologize :)

[Nick]

Melissa wrote: "LOL thanks! I was in the spreadsheet and didn't realize you had just finished. No need to apologize :)"
You're just too efficient :P hahaha

If you like Beetlejuice I super recommend that book BTW! Its by the guy who did the screenplay and one of the characters is SO Lydia Deetz!

[Melissa]

hahaha No book left behind!

Thanks - sounds good! Horror is hit or miss for me but I don't mind trying it.

[Melissa]

As a reminder - if your book fits into a mini and you're currently reading it, if you want, you can hold off on finishing until the Mini starts. Anything that was started after the Challenge started and finished after the Mini starts can be used!