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We have about 4.5 hours left until the end of Round 1. I wanted to toss out a reminder that our unfulfilled goals roll over into the next round (though our books read during the first round can no longer be used for them), so even though you might not finish it in time for the end of the round, you can still look for books that would fit. :) So a goal update:Read a book with a book on the cover - I'll be done The Book of Speculation either tomorrow or Monday, I am loving it so far!
Read a book with a single body part on the cover - I'm hoping the mods will accept Zer0es for this, but we may want some backups just in case.
Read a book first published on the 1st of a month - We'll need something for this. You can use "01," to search, but make sure to double check the publication date.
Also, I just found a neat tool for publication dates! FictFact's Book Release Calendar. It only lists books in a series since that hat FictFact focuses on, but it's still a much easier way to search!
Over the next two weeks I need to read Blood Song, Tower Lord, Queen of Fire. Hopefully there will be some good goals for them. :)
This sucks so bad !So, the Mods agreed and I was able to use Zer0es for our body part goal.
The new goal that popped up was Read a book with 31-40 chapters and I was able to use Unbroken for that.
So, now the new goal that came up was Read a book that is in the Amazon 2010 bestsellers (http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/...) and Unbroken is on that list.
I am like Grrrrr... :X
I did check all the other uncovered books, but I am wrong, please let me know and I can hopefully make some amends and get another goal in.
Also, if we cant use the books read in this round towards the next, would it be smart to complete our currently-reading books that dont fit any goal as of now, tomorrow so that they can be used for something ?
Thanks for the recap and tool for publication dates, Vicky!I really don't want to seem like a goal horder, but I've just noticed that there's actually a book on the cover of Winesburg, Ohio's edition I read. Do you guys (and especially Vicky) think that we could use it or do you prefer to keep things as they are? Just saying as I noticed it and wanted you to feel free to decide what's best.
And Vicky, I really do not want to step on your toes!
Glad that we used Unbroken as well, but too bad that it was good for next goal too since it is in the Amazon 2010 bestsellers :/
About an hour left to the end of Round 1, teamies! :)
Vicky is probably going to be out for the evening, so not sure if she would see this before the end of the round.Since we cannot use any Round 1 books into Round 2 (right?) I really do want to use Winesburg, Ohio for the goal, since Vicky would be finishing with her book after the start of Round 2.. hopefully we can get a few more goals taken care of.
I hope Vicky would be okay with it.
Apoorv wrote: "hopefully we can get a few more goals taken care of."That's specifically what I was thinking Apoorv. It would be good to get a few more goals covered before the end of this first round. But I really hope Vicky would be fine with that too!
I am sure Vicky will be fine with it. I think using the maximum number of books possible from Round 1 is key.
I actually did go ahead and used the book for that goal (sorry, Vicky :-() and the new goal is Read a book with the phrase "gut feeling" in a book.I am checking through the un-used books so far to no luck.. but let me know if you guys remember reading that phrase in your respective books.
I wonder if the Mods would allow 'feeling in the stomach' for this. I found that in Emerald Atlas, I guess.
Assuming things dont change drastically in the next 10 minutes, we would most likely be paired with Team Gannicus.Round 1 Stats (Yay!)
Total Books Read : 42
- Most Books Read : Sara (13)
Total Goals Covered : 37
- Most Goals Covered : Sara (11)
Total Attack Points : 24
Total Defense Points : 37
Un-used Books (Sorry!)
- The Book of Salt | Kate
- Moon Called | Vicky
- The Easter Parade | Sara
- Boston Jacky: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Taking Care of Business | Vicky
- The Emerald Atlas | Sara
Pending Goals (C'mon!) :
- Read a book first published on the 1st of a month
- Read a book that is in the Amazon 2010 bestsellers (http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/...)
- Read a book with the phrase "gut feeling" in a book
Thanks for taking care of goals tonight, Apoorv! Definitely not a problem to use the other book, I would have done the same. I thought I checked covers, but I must have missed it! I just got in for the night and I could have passed out 3 hours ago, so I'm off to sleep and will check in again tomorrow morning!
I think we did a great job and I had a lot of fun.I searched my Kindle and 'gut feeling' in not mentioned in any of the books I own. :(
But I do have a couple of books that are published on the 1st so I could take care of that goal.
FINISHED
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer
Date Read: 16/08/15
Pages: 215
Goal: Read a book that is in the Amazon 2010 bestsellers ( #18 )
Points: Attack 0.5 — Defense 1
FINISHED
Star of the Morning (Nine Kingdoms, #1) by Lynn Kurland
Read: 16. Aug. 2015.
Pages: 336 (kindl ed)
Goal: none
FINISHED
The Mangle Street Murders (The Gower Street Detective #1) by M.R.C. Kasasian
Date Read: 17/08/15
Pages: 348
Goal: none. But it has 71 chapters :)
FINISHED
Map to the Stars by Jen Malone
Read: 17. Aug. 2015.
Pages: 242(Kindle ed)
Goal: Read a book with a road on the cover
FINISHED
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Pages: 320
Goal: Read a book by an author born in South America (Gannicus Goal)
FINISHED
The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life by Tal Ben-Shahar
Date Read: 18/08/15
Pages: not sure about the page count as I read the audio version. Do I have to consider the most popular edition?
Goal: Read a book that starts with the letter P.
FINISHED
The Discovery of Chocolate by James Runcie
Date Read: 20/08/15
Pages: 250
Goal: None at the moment.
FINISHED
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Pages: 201
Goal: Author name F (Gannicus)-This was claimed by another reader, we can save this for a later goal if needed.
Added up to here, I put you in for the F author. I'll put the goal update in the Achilles thread. :)
FINISHED
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
Date Read: 21/08/15
Pages: 270
Goal: Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Spiritual.
Shelved as Spirituality by 26 people.
FINISHED
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Read: 21. Aug. 2015.
Pages: 237 (kindle ed)
Goal: Read a book with a dinosaur
FINISHED
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
pages: 258
goals: none at this time
FINISHED
Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo by Julia Stuart
Date Read: 22/08/15
Pages: 255
Goal: Read a book with a penguin. "He watched as the first van passed, a solitary penguin standing on the passenger seat looking at him through the window." (p.115)
FINISHED
Neanderthal Seeks Human (Knitting in the City, #1) by Penny Reid
Read: 22. Aug. 2015.
Pages: 394
Goal: Read a book with a pink cover
Kate, it says that the book was first published on the 8th of January :(
Where? For my own information, it would be good to see what I have missed.
If you open the book page, the line where it is says published on blah blah, talking about the edition you are reading, the first published date is in the parenthesis next to it.
I only saw January 1 when I originally looked at it, so I sought out more information as the first is not usually reliable. Interesting that they originally released this book on a Thursday, I thought Tuesday was the traditional drop dates for books. I'm sure we can find something else.
Okay, GoodReads probably has the wrong info.I checked some other websites and they do say that Saint Odd was published on the 13th of January this year.
So I guess we are okay.
Thank you for checking into this Apoorv. I am sure you have better things to do on your Sunday afternoon than tracking down the publication date of a book I would have read (and enjoyed) anyhow. Thank you very much for your tenacity in this situation!!
Yeah, I also think it's fine. I think Amazon has some erroneous information that got imported, as everywhere else lists it at the 13th. I updated the GR record.
"Life saver" is in You're Never Weird on the Internet on page 97: "I was weeping onto the keyboard, typing, thank you life-saver"
I just found that one too! haha I had forgotten about it. ;) Waiting on the goal refresh now.
FINISHED
Hyperversum by Cecilia Randall
Date Read: 23/08/15 (but here in Italy it's the 24th already)
Pages: 793
Goal: Read a book that starts with the letter H.
FINISHED
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
pages: 310
goal: should work for 2007 bestsellers as it is one of the box set, but I am not sure that is how the rules work?
this was a re-read, but I last read this in 2007
FINISHEDI managed to finish my book for H goal, although it turned out I completely misunderstood it. I thought that the book should start with H letter (like first sentence in a book...)
So, it's good Sara read another one. :)
You Make Me (Blurred Lines, #1) by Erin McCarthy
Read: 24. Aug. 2015.
Pages: 291
And now the details...
Publication date: April 16, 2014
Number of chapters: 22
Cover color: blue? brown?
Items on cover: boy, girl, couple, kiss, dock, wood
Setting: USA, Maine (half of the book is set on the island)
Character Names: Heath, Cat, Ethan, Aubrey, Brian, Tiffany
Character occupation: college student, bartender, ex-marine, ferryman,
They travel a bit by car & by ferry
Characters dance, she gets engaged (twice)
Romance type: forbidden romance, childhood crush, second chance at love,
Book is modern retelling of Wuthering Heights
Tell me if I forgot something... :)
FINISHED
The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Date Read: 24/08/15
Pages: 383
Goal: Read a book first published on the 30th of a month (September 30th, 1992).
FINISHED
Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress, #1) by Jeaniene Frost
Read: 25. Aug. 2015.
Pages: 384
Goal: Read a book where a character is a vampire
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