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District 12
Its on my shelf , checked before posted
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The struggle for survival in the arena is a never ending cycle. Sometimes a tribute will luck into a boon but they are just as likely to be a victim of sabotage.
The Randomizer was let loose on all of the teams' resource supply piles. The Arena Masters are not heartless, the news isn't all bad. At least this time.
In Round 1, 1 pile receives a boon (15% page point increase), 2 are left alone, and 1 is the subject of sabotage (15% page point decrease). Impacts to resource supply piles are team specific.
Your team's randomizer results
Weapons: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Shelter: 15% decrease (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Food: 15% increase
Defense: Left alone (protected by supply drop so left alone)
Janeylou wrote: "Its on my shelf , checked before posted"That's bizarre - I couldn't see it for some reason
I'm sorry but I am out of town and can't get to the spread sheet. I won't finish my book in time so can someone please remove it from the round 1 sheet ? Book is Fairvale ladies Book club. Thanks. I will be back in town on Monday.
Caly ☯ Crazy Book Lady wrote: "I'm sorry but I am out of town and can't get to the spread sheet. I won't finish my book in time so can someone please remove it from the round 1 sheet ? Book is Fairvale ladies Book club. Thanks. ..."Done!
Tammie wrote: "💥💥Battle plan - District 4 💥💥...our Book 3 will be entered in a few minutes: George Washington: True Patriot
...throwing out the 'fun' flag as we've decided to stick with what we want to read vs ..."
In case folks didn’t notice this since it looks like it is an edit of an older post. We’re looking for books starting with TON.
Aaaaaaand….. go!
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Tongues of Serpents - this is the 6th of a series I’ve been reading, and I just read book 5. It does give them a challenging ending to deal with, and they did say they’d like to “raise the fun flag.”
Tonight the Streets Are Ours
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
Tony and Susan
Tone Deaf
Tonight You’re Dead
Lots more options.
Potentials for TON: Tony's Wife (Romance)
Tony and Susan (Mystery)
Tony (Military Romance)
A Ton of Trouble (Cozy Mystery)
Tonight You’re Dead (Mystery)
Tonight We Rule the World (YA)
Tonight I Said Goodbye (Mystery)
Tonight I'm Someone Else looks really good - I'll read it if no one else wants to
Insiyah wrote: "Tonight I'm Someone Else looks really good - I'll read it if no one else wants to"I added that to my TBR when I found it. :) ELSE isn't a horrible ending to give them, is it? Better than ENTS.
Hi Team, and welcome to Round 2! I can hardly believe we're a whole month into our challenge!Wanted to share a few updates
-- We did amazing in Round 1 - second place by less than 300 points. Woo hoo! Quick analysis:
1. They had more people reading more of the BOM books
2. They got to post BOM DQs twice (that alone is worth 80 pts)
3. They read fewer books, but the books they read were longer on average
District 11: 275 books, 9013 total points, book length avg 328 pp
District 12: 286 books, 8658 total points, book length avg 302 pp
Not saying we need to do anything radically different; just letting y'all know how it shook out.
Stats for Round 1
-- The Round 1 tab in our internal spreadsheet has been locked and hidden so it's out of the way. You can still pull it up if you want to see it, but it can't be edited.
-- Any books that were on the R1 tab that weren't completed have been moved to the R2 tab. @Lisa, Dangerous Ground has also been moved over.
-- There were two books that couldn't be verified before the end of R1 so were not able to be counted. We can't count them toward R2 because they were definitely completed before the end of R1. ☹️
-- For R2 we may want to rethink the latest we can check in books so we don't "waste" any. Please share your thoughts on that.
Please don't hesitate to reach out to the captains if questions, suggestions for improvement, etc.
I wish you a joyful, book-filled weekend!
Beth wrote: "Tammie wrote: "💥💥Battle plan - District 4 💥💥...our Book 3 will be entered in a few minutes: George Washington: True Patriot
...throwing out the 'fun' flag as we've decided to stick with what we w..."
Sorry about that D12...I was using a previous post to template my message...got interrupted and forgot what I was doing...
💥💥Battle plan - District 4 💥💥
...our Book 3 will be entered in a few minutes: George Washington: True Patriot
...throwing out the 'fun' flag as we've decided to stick with what we want to read vs trailing after yuk... :)
No worries, Tammie! I do that with Word docs All. The. Time. Grrrrr!Thanks for the repost!
Insiyah wrote: "Potentials for TON: Tony's Wife (Romance)
Tony and Susan (Mystery)
Tony (Military Romance)
A Ton of Trouble (Cozy Mystery)
[book:Toni..."
Tony looks like it would be pretty hard to match? Also the blue from A Ton of Trouble?
OK...After trailing their posts for a little bit. They are not trying to stick us with hard endings. They really seem to want to just go for a coin flip to see who wins the extra 5 pts at the end. Given that we are in second place...I'd vote for a similar strategy. I'm in enough challenges where I have to read certain books, I'd hate for people to read something they don't think they will want to just to give them hard letters to start with.
Anyone know how often the moderators accept people into the backroom group? I asked to be added two days ago and nothing yet.
MN Lisa wrote: "OK...After trailing their posts for a little bit. They are not trying to stick us with hard endings. They really seem to want to just go for a coin flip to see who wins the extra 5 pts at the end. ..."Thanks for this perspective, Lisa. You’re right—we should be choosing what we want to read.
Yes at first they really focused on the end letters and now have decided not to so I’m totally on board with doing the same!
I’d vote for one of theseTonight I'm Someone Else
Tonight You’re Dead
Tony and Susan
Tonight I Said Goodbye
They’d likely need ELSE and DEAD for the first two. With the second two, I’m sure they’d have no problem with SAN or BYE.
I’d be good to read any of these, and Insiyah has already said she’s also interested in reading the first one.
What say you?
None of those should be hard for D4 to find. I’d be willing to read Tonight I Said Goodbye if we want to go with that one.
What if, in the interest of turning over a new leaf for this round, we give D4 a choice between "Tonight I'm Someone Else" (Insiyah) and "Tonight I Said Goodbye" (Jackie)
I like it, Amanda. Excellent idea! I'll present the options to them after some other folks have weighed in to confirm.
MN Lisa wrote: "Anyone know how often the moderators accept people into the backroom group? I asked to be added two days ago and nothing yet."Did you hear anything yet?
Beth wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "Anyone know how often the moderators accept people into the backroom group? I asked to be added two days ago and nothing yet."Did you hear anything yet?"
I applied to be a member again a couple of days ago so I could get more BOM points for the team and was accepted almost instantly.
Congrats team on second place! Thanks too Beth for moving my book. I will be back home tomorrow and should have more time to read now that vacation is done. 🙂
OK. i'm in now. I didn't get a notification, but when I click on the discussion link it shows me the thread instead of the request page.
Lisa, I think that might be the way it worked for me but I forgot until you mentioned it. Good idea re choice for d4, Amanda.
I’ve posted to D4. They’re discussing it now.
To anyone reading Catching Fire for the information buddy read:The official page count is 439, no matter what edition you are actually reading.
Great thanks Beth. Been waiting for the link to appear :)
Hi D12We'll read a book for bye...since I'm reading for this one I have 2 choices for you like you gave us...just let us know which you'll take...🌻
Bye, Baby
BYE, I Quit
Nice, Tammie, thanks!@Jackie, thanks for offering to take this book. I'll suggest that everyone claim a book for battle week before anyone takes more than one.
Since D4 chose to go with BYE, our book to send them is the mystery Tonight I Said Goodbye. I'm happy to read it, but also happy to let someone else read if they'd like to.
Bye, Baby - ABY - abyss, abysmal, Abyssinian are the words that come to mindThe Abyss Surrounds Us (Fantasy / SciFi)
The Abyss (Sci Fi / Thriller)
The Abyss Beyond Dreams (Sci Fi / Fantasy)
Abyss (Fantasy / Sci Fi)
Abysmal (MM Romance)
Abyssinian Chronicles (Historical Fiction)
The Abyssinian (Historical Fiction)
The Abyssinian Proof (Historical Mystery)
Abyssinian Nomad: An African woman's journey of love, loss, and adventure from Cape to Cairo (Travel / Nonfiction)
The Abyssinian: A Traveller to Henry's Court (I'm guessing Historical Fiction)
BYE, I Quit - UIT - nothing useful / QUIT - quit, quite are probably the easiest words to find books for
I'll suggest going with ABY since we have to use only 3 letters. If we want to use QUIT, I'll find some books to suggest.
I haven't checked availability on any of the books.
I am happy to read either Abysmal or Abyssinian Chronicles, if we want to give the other team a choice.
Kirsten wrote: "I am happy to read either Abysmal or Abyssinian Chronicles, if we want to give the other team a choice."I think these both work and give D4 enough potential options.
Agree! I’ll present them with the options.
BTW, team, we're looking for someone to read Tonight I Said Goodbye. Jackie had offered, but she's already got one book for battle week.Any takers?
We’ve chosen Abysmal > we’ll read Malibu Rising
Ok, Kirsten, Abysmal is yours! Would you please add it to the team spreadsheet, including the link to the edition you’ll read?
Tammie wrote: "We’ve chosen Abysmal > we’ll read Malibu Rising"We have ING as our goal with SING as backup.
Some options
The Ingredients of Us
Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
The Ingredients of Love
The Ingredients of You and Me
The Ingredients of Happiness
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
Inglorious Royal Marriages: A Demi-Millennium of Unholy Mismatrimony
Inglorious
Inglorious: Conflict in the Uplands
The Inglorious Arts
Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
The Ingenue
Do any of these interest anyone, or does anyone have other suggestions?
Reminder that these battle books are not to be started until Jun 22 9 AM UTC. Countdown clock: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India has been on my TBR for ages. I'll take it if everyone agrees, considering IRE gives some options to D4 as well.Still waiting on someone to read Abysmal and Tonight I Said Goodbye. So far we have Kirsten reading The Ants are my Friends and Amanda reading Arthur & George.
📕📕📕📕BOM Update📕📕📕📕Currently Active: (discussions are linked)
Salt & Broom BOM - Ends on 25th July
Starling House - Ends on 2nd July
The Wishing Game - Started on 16th June, ends on 16th July
Backroom BOM - The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen - Ends on 10th July
Informal Buddy Read - Catching Fire - Ends on 15th July
Future BOMs
One of these will start on 2nd July, the other on 15th of July.
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
The Familiar
Informal Buddy Read: Mockingjay - starts on 15th July till the end of the challenge
Insiyah wrote: "Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India has been on my TBR for ages. I'll take it if everyone agrees, considering IRE gives some options to D4 as well.Still waiting on someone to read [b..."
That’s great, Insiyah, thanks! Do you want to let D4 know in their thread?
Actually, Jackie is reading Ants, and Kirsten is reading Abysmal. Yes on Amanda with A&G. Just need someone for TISG. I started tracking in post 8 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 😉
I’ll read it if no one else takes it but at this point I’m going to wait till later to claim.
And thanks for the BOM updates!
Beth wrote: "That’s great, Insiyah, thanks! Do you want to let D4 know in their thread?"Actually, Jackie is reading Ants, and Kirsten is reading Abysmal. Yes on Amanda with A&G. Just need someone for TISG. I started tracking in post 8
Will do!
Ah, my bad! Clearly my pre-caffeine brain needs to focus more!
Insiyah wrote: "Ah, my bad! Clearly my pre-caffeine brain needs to focus more!"☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
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You need to add it to your shelf please