Team Broken Down Car

[Navi]

Somebody marked all of my TBR books as read on the spreadsheet. Not sure if that was intentional but I have only finished two books so far!

[Megan]

Finished and added it to the spreadsheet.

[Tara]

Navi - not sure how that happened! But it has been fixed. We've also finished 1 round of our word and moving on to the next!

[Navi]

Thank you! I just didn't want to skew the books reads prematurely :)

I plan on finishing my 1000+ page book today or tomorrow so loads of incoming points (works for a bunch of letters because there are so many characters so if you still need an E, it can be used soon) and then I will focus on reading a few shorter books on my list.

Thankfully, I am in the mood to read epic fantasy which tend to be longer books - yay for more points!

[Tara]

Hi all - almost done with our second round - just need D, R, N! Navi has a book that will fit literally any of those, so I am waiting to place it until I see where we need it! Happy reading!

[Navi]

Hi Mods! I am going to remove a few of my planned books on the spreadsheet. But not to be alarmed - I plan on reading more before this round is up but I'm being moody with my book selection (lol!) so I will add them as I finish . I'll keep an eye on letters we need!

[Tara]

Sounds good Navi!

We are on our third spell out now and currently in 3rd place!

[Megan]

Finished and added it to the spreadsheet.

[Megan]

Finished and added to spreadsheet.

[Jenn]

Gwen can you please add the following to your Wheel shelf
Running Wild
To Seduce a Sinner
Eyes of Silver Eyes of Gold
The Heartbreaker
Inked in Lies

[Gwen|| Bookish Blondie]

Done! (All my missing ones have been added)

[Tara]

Hi all -

our new word is MOWING LAWN and the 3, yes 3, mini challenges are up.

I've added the round 2 tab to the tracking sheet, but still working on the minis and will get those up at some point today. All minis start 10/26 and last through the rest of the challenge. Links to them are below and I will post in another reserved spot higher up so they don't get lost!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Keep in mind these are all optional. If you have any questions, let us know and we will answer or reach out to mods for clarification!

I think we should also come up with a plan for the minis - ie are we only working on 1 at a time, or trying to tackle all 3 simultaneously. And a book can only work a spell out + 1 mini challenge. Which means 97 books across all 3 mini challenges.

[Tara]

I think we can probably squeeze 1 more spell out for this round! We only need G and R to finish our 4th spell out and move on to the next!

[Michelle]

I just posted a book for the letter R

[Michelle]

My vote is to tackle all 3 simultaneously.

[Michelle]

Also I have a G

[Megan]

Finished and added it to the tracking spreadsheet.

I think my book, , was credited to a different player on the official spreadsheet - unless two of us read it.

I like the idea of working on the minis simultaneously.

[Tara]

Megan wrote: "Finished and added it to the tracking spreadsheet.

I think my book, , was credited to a different player on t..."

Good catch - I fixed it!

[Navi]

I agree with tackling all the minis at the same time!

I have three books added to the spreadsheet that I will definitely get to before the end of this round - not sure if I will have time to add any more :)

[Stacey]

I'm good working on all 3 minis together. They start with the next week, correct?

[Tara]

Stacey wrote: "I'm good working on all 3 minis together. They start with the next week, correct?"

They will start on Saturday at 1pm PST!

[Jenn]

Hi Gwen, we're missing some more of your books on your wheel shelf. If it's not checked off on the tracking sheet, it's not on the shelf yet. Thank you!

[Jenn]

I just added three more of my reads for this round.

I agree, let's work on the minis simultaneously

[Tara]

We need 2 Os to finish up this spell out! That being said, we can have an incomplete spell-out. But only 1x! So let's use it wisely.

[lorii (Loriidae)]

I can find a short O, and be finished.

Edit: added to SS

[Gwen|| Bookish Blondie]

Jenn wrote: "Hi Gwen, we're missing some more of your books on your wheel shelf. If it's not checked off on the tracking sheet, it's not on the shelf yet. Thank you!"

They were all on the shelf already and had completion dates, so I don't know what to tell you.

[Jenn]

Gwen|| Bookish Blondie wrote: "Jenn wrote: "Hi Gwen, we're missing some more of your books on your wheel shelf. If it's not checked off on the tracking sheet, it's not on the shelf yet. Thank you!"

They were all on the shelf al..."

Weird....when I was on your shelf last night there were about 5 or 6 missing....but they're showing up now, so I'll mark them on the checklist that they're on your shelf. Thank you

[Jenn]

Megan can you please add a Rolling Scone to your wheel shelf?

[Jenn]

Shelf checks are up to date

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Perhaps, my book, Guardians of the West could be swapped out with my book Bear in a Bookshop for G in the third spell out as the former is over 400p

[lorii (Loriidae)]

I have finished my O book and marked it off.

[Megan]

Jenn wrote: "Megan can you please add a Rolling Scone to your wheel shelf?"

Done

[Tara]

lorii (Loriidae) wrote: "Perhaps, my book, Guardians of the West could be swapped out with my book Bear in a Bookshop for G in the third spell out as the former is over 400p"

I swapped some stuff around and got us a final spell out! Round 2 starts in 3.5 hours!

[Navi]

No more books from me this round! Great job everyone 👏🏽

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Tara wrote: "lorii (Loriidae) wrote: "Perhaps, my book, Guardians of the West could be swapped out with my book Bear in a Bookshop for G in the third spell out as the former is ove..."

Excellent!

[Triathlete_Reads]

Little check-in, sorry I've been reading a bit slow these past few days, I hope to finish my 2 current reads soon (one was started before this challenge began so it won't count here, my bad). Hopefully on Monday at the latest? We'll see how I feel. Work's been exhausting.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!

[Triathlete_Reads]

Hey! so I'm filling up the SS for my current read (not yet finished) and I'm looking at which other minis it could work (aside from the one I entered it for).
Here are the facts:
The book is a memoir.
The author is an renowned economist (specialized in poverty).


Since economics and finances are not the same but do overlap on some area I'm hesitating. Would it work for "the MC works in finance" and/or "works in taxes" and/or "needs to know how to handle a budget"? Also, is the author considered the MC or is the memoir not considered like having a MC?

[Tara]

Triathlete_Reads wrote: "Hey! so I'm filling up the SS for my current read (not yet finished) and I'm looking at which other minis it could work (aside from the one I entered it for).
Here are the facts:
The book is a mem..."

I'll bring it to the mods, they do explicitly state that nonfiction doesn't have characters in the rules, but this is a v nuanced situation, ha!

Also, we need an O and N to more on to the next spell out! It's looking like those are the hardest ones to come by this round!

[Tara]

Triathlete_Reads wrote: "Hey! so I'm filling up the SS for my current read (not yet finished) and I'm looking at which other minis it could work (aside from the one I entered it for).
Here are the facts:
The book is a mem..."

Yep - they came back with bc it is NF, there is not a MC.

[Gwen|| Bookish Blondie]

I added an O book

[Tara]

Gwen|| Bookish Blondie wrote: "I added an O book"

Thanks! We've made it to spell out 2. I've moved everything over that I could so far.

[Triathlete_Reads]

Tara wrote: "Triathlete_Reads wrote: "Hey! so I'm filling up the SS for my current read (not yet finished) and I'm looking at which other minis it could work (aside from the one I entered it for).
Here are the..."

Ok thank you <3

[Tara]

Need an O and L for the 2nd spell out - I know I will finish one today that will work for either of those!

[Triathlete_Reads]

I have an L on the tracking sheet that hasn't been verified yet, finished it on the 27th (Home in the World)

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Hello Team Broken Down Car!

Please welcome your new team member Lori

Happy Reading :)

[Jenn]

Hello Lori!

[Tara]

Hi Lori!

[Navi]

Welcome Lori!

[lorii (Loriidae)]

Welcome Lori.

Mods perhaps you might change me to loriidae on the spreadsheet, so the single i Lori isn’t confused with the double i lorii.

[LoriLovesBooks]

Hi all,

Sorry, I didn’t receive a message about joining the team. Saw on Google sheets that I had been given access to your spreadsheet.

Glad to join the team.

I think I might be able to use these books for this round:

The Curse of the House of Foskett started 23rd October and finished 30th October.

Nettle & Bone started 18th October and currently reading

Let me know and I’ll add them to the spreadsheet and my shelf. I’ve just started The Invisible Library as well.

My shelf is: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...