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I'm starting Dark Descent next

Getting ready to add our first Thursday to the spreadsheet!!

We are so far behind :(

It did seem like it took us super long to get our first completion this week. Maybe it'll pick up now that we did the first time through the longer word

Maybe. “Candycorn” was even longer though, and our timeline was a lot better. Also, this week Megan has one (unfinished?) book on the spreadsheet and Rebecca has none. I don’t know if they’re busy reading stuff for Wheel and just not reporting in, or what...
*is nervous* 😕

Sorry I'm trying to get as many books read as I can. Next week will be slower for me with family in town for Thanksgiving and I am cooking the feast

Alysa wrote: "Maybe. “Candycorn” was even longer though, and our timeline was a lot better. Also, this week Megan has one (unfinished?) book on the spreadsheet and Rebecca has none. I don’t know if they’re busy ..."

That's true, it did seem like we were flying through Candycorn!

Brittany wrote: "Sorry I'm trying to get as many books read as I can. Next week will be slower for me with family in town for Thanksgiving and I am cooking the feast"

No apologies needed! You are chatting here a lot, at least, so we know what’s going on.

I think most of us (at least us Americans and American-adjacent people 🙂) have Thanksgiving plans next week. I might actually be able to read more though, or at least not less!

I'll be reading more next week too, no work to get in the way of my life.

Danielle- do you have the word in text from your Better not Pout book, I tried to pull it up on Amazon but its not letting me look inside the print edition for some reason (it could just be my work computer being ridiculous)

I will read less becuase I listen to audio books at work a lot so that helps me get through more book shaha.

Ashley wrote: "I'll be reading more next week too, no work to get in the way of my life.

Danielle- do you have the word in text from your Better not Pout book, I tried to pull it up on Amazon but its not lettin..."

DId you try books,google.com

Brittany wrote: "I will read less becuase I listen to audio books at work a lot so that helps me get through more book shaha."

That’s true for a lot of us.
But at least for me when I am off work almost the whole of next week that means I can read more print & kindle stuff to compensate. We’ll be visiting my mother, so my daughter can hang out with her while I hide in bed with books!

hahaha I don't think anyone will let me sit and read until they are in bed

We aren't doing anything for Thanksgiving so I just get to sit here and I'm so happy! My mother in law was here a few weeks ago and my parents are supposedly coming next month, so we will probably throw some kind of ridiculous meal together and call it a day. We don't really cook ever

haha I love to cook, but it does get time consuming to try to time everything to get done at once. I need a double oven so badly haha

It's all the dishes that really gets to me with cooking! I try to use paper/plastic for everything on a regular day.

Oh yeah I HATE the cleaning,

@Ashley... If you move Gone Girl from A to D, it looks like we can complete our 2nd spell-out? Is it worth doing, or do you wanna wait until more people finish more stuff?
ETA: Nevermind, I guess we'll have a D as soon as someone finishes Dark Descent ;D

Re Thanksgiving, after many years of superduper large family gathering's this will be the 2nd time in a row that it's just a small 'do with a handful of people. Both ways have their pros and cons, I guess!

I am starting Dark Descent as we speak! I'd like to finish it tonight but most likely tomorrow

completion post
details on ss

Just checking in while I wait for my oldest to get out of class. Power and wifi are out at home at least through tonight. Hopefully it will get fixed overnight. I'll get the planning spreadsheet for next week up tomorrow. I can run out to use the library wifi if mine hasn't been fixed yet.

Ashley wrote: "I'll be reading more next week too, no work to get in the way of my life.

Danielle- do you have the word in text from your Better not Pout book, I tried to pull it up on Amazon but its not lettin..."

Yes - I'm at work but when I get home I'll post the sentence and location in the book.

I've finished 2 more books but I've been crazy busy so haven't had a chance to post and update but I will tomorrow because I'm working from home.

I'm hosting my entire extended family for Thanksgiving as well so I"m not sure how much I'll get read that week. I'll probably post a few and than I can always add if I get a chance to read more.

Deanna wrote: "Just checking in while I wait for my oldest to get out of class. Power and wifi are out at home at least through tonight. Hopefully it will get fixed overnight. I'll get the planning spreadsheet fo..."

Oh wow, good luck w/ your power coming back on soon! That is no fun 🙁

First spelling is complete! Great job all! I'll catch up with you in the morning hopefully.

Danielle Gypsy Soul wrote: "I'm hosting my entire extended family for Thanksgiving as well so I"m not sure how much I'll get read that week. I'll probably post a few and than I can always add if I get a chance to read more."

The teams with lots of non-US people sure will have a edge next week!

Completion Post


Book: The Night We Said Yes
Author: Lauren Gibaldi
Pages: 304
Date Read: 11/10
Letters: Title (T)


Book: The Deputy's New Family
Author: Jenna Mindel
Pages: 224
Date Read: 11/10
Letters:
T - Title
R - Beth Ryken (character)
D - Title


Book: Firebolt
Author: Adrienne Woods
Pages: 394
Date Read: 11/14
Letters:
H - Herbert Watkins (character)
S - Sammy (character)
A - Author's first name

Yay Megan!

Completion Post

Finished and yesterday - details on spreadsheet.

Spelling 2 is now complete! Go team!

Current Team Status - Friday 11/16
Week 3: Spelling THURSDAY

Bonuses - Complete
🔸word in text - Danielle ✓
🔸word in title - Jan ✓
🔸word on cover - Deanna ✓
🔸word as genre - Alysa ✓

Spellings of THURSDAY
🔸Spelling 1 - Complete
🔸Spelling 2 - Complete
🔸Spelling 3 - THUSAY complete, RD claimed
🔸Spelling 4 - TSA complete, all other letters claimed
🔸Spelling 5 - T complete, all other letters claimed
🔸Spelling 6 - HSD claimed, TURAY open
🔸Spelling 7 - All letters open

Week 3 ends tomorrow at 5pm EST. Please double check your books and let us know if any will not be completed for this week's deadline or if you will be finishing up close to the deadline.

Countdown to end of Week 3

Brittany,

The spreadsheet currently has Gold Dust Woman and This Side of the Grave listed for you.

Excellent!

I am nearly done with An Unkindness of Ghosts. That will be my last book for this week. I could theoretically finish Dark Descent, but will focus instead on my 800+ page R book instead so that I can use it next week.
I’m also not sure if Dark Descent can be used for this week even if I did finish it by the deadline, depending on how many times we spell out “Thursday” with our existing claims.

Alysa wrote: "Excellent!

I am nearly done with An Unkindness of Ghosts. That will be my last book for this week. I could theoretically finish Dark Descent, but will focus instead on my 800+ page R book instead ..."

There are plenty of swaps I can make to open up a D or two for anyone wishing to finish Dark Descent this week. If you finish it, I'll make sure it is used.

It also works for H (character Henry — whose last name, Clerval, can be used for C next week too 🙂)

I will finish Dark Descent today, and I think I’m going to start a longer book for next week too. I might try to do a few longer books this week with the long weekend

Thanks, Gold Dust Woman got SUPER boring, but I did finish THis Side of the Grave, updating the book completion right now actually!

Planning spreadsheet for next week's spelling of CRANBERRY is up!

Completion Post



Details on spreadsheet.

Alysa wrote: "Completion Post



Details on spreadsheet."

Alysa, what did you think of this one? I just finished listening to it this week and thought it was awesome...

Cat wrote: "Alysa, what did you think of this one? I just finished listening to it this week and thought i..."

I was disappointed in the plot (well, the general lack thereof) but I thought the character work was outstanding.

I was switching back & forth between ebook and audio. The narrator was fine, but I didn't think audio was the best medium for this book.

Deanna wrote: "Planning spreadsheet for next week's spelling of CRANBERRY is up!"

For word-as-genre, we can also use RED instead of CRANBERRY.
Which is awesome. Because I don't know about the rest of you, but for me it's impossible to find Cranberry as genre.

I found for cranberry on the cover, which I will definitely read.

I also found at the library, which has red on the first genre page that I can read if needed. Even with the red tag option I had a really hard time finding a book I could borrow with either cranberry or red on the first page of tags.

Alysa wrote: "I was disappointed in the plot (well, the general lack thereof) but I thought the character work was outstanding..."

True, the plot was, well, yeah.... I tried to explain it to my boyfriend and floundered a lot, until I just told him it was good & he should check it out! but it was a good example of talking about difficult subjects by taking them out of context - family often wonder why I like SFF books, and this one is why - slavery and racism out of context is hard to justify but is also less judgemental, somehow.

I'm not sure I'm explaining myself well...!

On the contrary, that makes total sense!

And that ending was... interesting. Like, more symbolic than making any actual sense. Sometimes this book wasn't sure whether it wanted to be literal or symbolic, and ended up an odd mix.

Deanna wrote: "I found for cranberry on the cover, which I will definitely read.

I also found at the library, which has red on ..."

I haven't found a RED-as-genre book yet either, but I did find a GR user who has tagged hundreds of books as Red so maybe someone else can have a look and see if anything interests them and has Red as MPG.
Here is the link:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

@Rebecca: I see you've been reading and shelving some stuff for Wheel this week, but haven't added anything to the spreadsheet and haven't checked in to this thread in days...
Is everything alright?

Just added the 2nd spelling to the spreadsheet.

And one letter on third spelling to get all the bonus books in there.

Finished Hector and the Search for Happiness and The Dressmaker, both on SS

JanEyre9 wrote: "Finished Hector and the Search for Happiness and The Dressmaker, both on SS"

Do my eyes deceive me or are we both reading early Terry Pratchett for next week? :D

Hmmm... that first set of BOM questions (Nov 16-17) better go up soon so that those of you finishing Dark Descent for this week can claim BOM bonus points...
There's only 24 hours left to go on Week Three!

Deanna wrote: "Planning spreadsheet for next week's spelling of CRANBERRY is up!"

Boo: Sally is still significantly leading us on "Difficult Letters" and they actually also have the word "CRANBERRY" for next week. So, no help for us there, but potentially no harm either I guess?