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That's awesome, woohoo!!

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I'm so glad Thanksgiving vacation is finally here!

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Book: Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks
Date Read: 11/19
Pages: 352
Letters:
C - Adrienne Cahill (character)
A - Adrienne Cahill (character)


Book: Reunited At Christmas by Belle Calhoune
Date Read: 11/19
Pages: 288
Letters:
C - Author's last name
R - title
B - Author's first name


Book: Spoiled by Heather Cocks
Date Read: 11/19
Pages: 385
Letters:
C - Author's last name
A - Arugula (character)
B - Brooke Berlin (character)


Book: Forever Mine by Elizabeth Reyes
Date Read:
Pages: 335
Letters:

R - Author's last name
A - Angel Moreno (character)
E - Author's first name

Finished Anansi Boys, updating SS

Our second spelling of cranberry is finished! Awesome job everyone!

Two housekeeping items:

Jan - The start date on A Red Herring Without Mustard seems to have disappeared.

Danielle - Single White Incubus is also missing its start date.

Please add them in when you get a chance this week. Thanks so much!

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How was Kings of the Wyld?
Maybe I will try to read it during Week 5 or 6 if the opportunity arises 🙂

It was good! It wasn’t exactly my kind of book so it was a little hard to sit and read for like 4 hours straight, but it was actually really funny. It kind of reminded me of The Riyria books. It was worth the read!

Deanna - I added a start date but am not sure if the book edition changed. Im also not positive my Anansi Boys edition is correct. I'm not sure what time I can get on my computer tomorrow but I'll check both and fix them soon, if needed.

We got our word for next week: TINSEL
(anf for word-as-genre we can also use FESTIVE).

TINSEL only has 1 difficult letter, to Sally’s 2 in a word of the same length (RIBBON), which probably knocks us well out of the running for a win in that category. (Unless we get a miracle spin in Week 6) 🙁

Also: Happy Thanksgiving!

Current Team Status - Thursday 11/22
Week 4: Spelling CRANBERRY

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

Spellings of CRANBERRY
🔸Spelling 1 - Complete
🔸Spelling 2 - Complete
🔸Spelling 3 - RANER complete, CBRY claimed
🔸Spelling 4 - All letters claimed
🔸Spelling 5 - CRAER claimed, NBRY open
🔸Spelling 6 - All letters open

Go team!!

and enjoyable books as well. 😉😁



🦃🦃🦃HAPPY THANKSGIVING!🦃🦃🦃

Happy Thanksgiving!

I can't get to the spreadsheet just now, but I finished The Secret Garden!

Alysa wrote: "I can't get to the spreadsheet just now, but I finished The Secret Garden!"

Added it for you.

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Week 5 TINSEL spelling is now on the planning tab.

Ashley,

Can you post the quote for cranberry from Kings of the Wyld please when you get a chance? Thanks.

It is “...apple, orange, cranberry- and crisp white wine...” loc 1384. It doesn’t look like there’s page numbers in the book from what I can tell. I had the audio

I can do word-in-text for TINSEL, to atone for my dropping word-in-text this week ;)

Ashley wrote: "It is “...apple, orange, cranberry- and crisp white wine...” loc 1384. It doesn’t look like there’s page numbers in the book from what I can tell. I had the audio"

It’s in Chapter Eleven, at Kindle Location 1387, if that helps.

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Current Team Status - Friday 11/23
Week 4: Spelling CRANBERRY

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

Spellings of CRANBERRY
🔸Spelling 1 - Complete
🔸Spelling 2 - Complete
🔸Spelling 3 - RANBERY complete, CR claimed
🔸Spelling 4 - AE complete, all other letters claimed
🔸Spelling 5 - CRABERY claimed, NR open
🔸Spelling 6 - All letters open

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!

NOTE: It's Friday again. Please double check the books/letters you have remaining on the spreadsheet and let Ashley and I know if there are any you will not finish this week or if you think you will be running right up to the deadline to finish.

Countdown to the end of week 4

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I will finish my other book for this week. It’s an anthology, and there were a few stories that I specifically skipped over because I wanted to listen to the audio, but my library hold didn’t come in time so I’ve had to go back and read them after all. In total, I only have about 100 pages left. 🙂

I have a ways to go on my last long book. I should be able to finish it, if it doesn’t look like I’m going to I will get a short one to replace my letter. It will be close

Ashley wrote: "I have a ways to go on my last long book. I should be able to finish it, if it doesn’t look like I’m going to I will get a short one to replace my letter. It will be close"

If your long book has anything that will work for TINSEL, maybe you should switch books now. You can always pick the long book up again to finish early in Round Five...

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I'm at 80% in Life of Pi and 60% in The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein, so I will easily have both finished before the deadline.

Our third spelling of cranberry is finished! Less than 24 hours left for week 4! Go team!

Completed books verified through here.

Deanna wrote: "Completed books verified through here."

Is there something wrong with mine (Win)? Spreadsheet isn’t showing it as verified. Unless there’s just something the matter with my display.

Anyone heard from Rebecca? She hasn’t been around all week...

I’m definitely going to have to switch to my shorter book. I’ll read Rogue Queen for the R, I will update the sa tomorrow morning

Alysa wrote: "Deanna wrote: "Completed books verified through here."

Is there something wrong with mine (Win)? Spreadsheet isn’t showing it as verified. Unless there’s just something the matter with my display...."

No, it was fine. I must have clicked twice by accident and unchecked it. I'll get it marked in the morning.

Cool. You can check my other book then too — I just finished it 😁

Finished:

11/20
11/21
11/22
11/23

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Found a book with Tinsel as the genre but every book I found with tinsel on the cover wasn't long enough. I'm done searching for the night :)

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Next Song I Sing
Book: Next Song I Sing by Donna McDonald
Completed: 19 Nov
Pages: 203
Fits: Character-C-Chloe Sanders

Room Service
Book: Room Service by Jill Shalvis
Completed: 17 Nov
Pages: 250
Fits: Title-R

The Wedding Date
Book: The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
Completed: 24 Nov
Pages: 310
Fits: Character-A-Alexa Monroe

Morrigan's Cross
Book: Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts
Completed: 22 Nov
Pages: 321
Fits: Author-N

Dance of the Gods
Book: Dance of the Gods by Nora Roberts
Completed: 23 Nov
Pages: 321
Fits: Character-B-Blair Murphy

Summer People
Book: Summer People by Elin Hilderbrand
Completed: 21 Nov
Pages: 352
Fits: Author-E

The Noel Stranger
Book: The Noel Stranger by Richard Paul Evans
Completed: 22 Nov
Pages: 352
Fits: Author-R

Valley Of Silence
Book: Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts
Completed: 23 Nov
Pages: 318
Fits: Author-R

Yours Until Dawn
Book: Yours Until Dawn by Teresa Medeiros
Completed: 24 Nov
Pages: 384
Fits: Title-Y

Working on my last book - should have it done before the time is up.

Me too. I should be done in a few hours or so

For the final round (Week Six), depending what word we get, I think it would make sense to pick a whole-team strategy to try to win either A) Traditional (total # of points), by reading long books for max value, or B) Difficult Letter, by reading more books but shorter.
So far we have been reading a big mix, and we have been consistently in or around like 3rd place in both at the end of each round. So at the end of Round Five, in one week, we may need to just choose one category to go for the win...

Good idea Alysa! Hopefully we get lucky and get a short word with a few difficult letters, and all just read a ton of short books.

Without accounting for “tinsel” being removed from our possible Round Six words, If my findings are correct, we have:

Just over 50% chance of getting a word with 0 or 1 difficult letters.
Just under 50% chance of getting a word with 2 or 3 difficult letters.
A 1 in 6 chance of getting a word with 3 difficult letters.
A 1 in 12 chance of getting a shortish word with 3 difficult letters (cookies; goodwill). Those are the jackpot!

Note: nearly all the Difficult Letters will be O’s and I’s.
(There are only two words with a U, one word with a Y, and zero with a Z).

All we can do is hope! (And save up our O and I books!)
If we get a long word, or a word with 0 or only 1 difficult letter... we’ll see what words other teams have and what their rankings are before we decide. If we go for “Total # of points” category, we would pretty much need full team buy-in though, and that probably won’t happen depending on what different people actually enjoy reading. 🧐

We also have a shot at the BOM category, but it’s more difficult to predict how many people are into Xmas books enough to track the book down and participate. It looks like most teams have at least 1 person already (including us — yay Deanna!)

Anyone heard from Brittany? She has 3 claimed books worth 140 points for this week (plus possible BOM points) and hasn’t checked in in a while.

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Book: You Don't Own Me
Author: Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
Date Read: 11/24
Letters:

C - Clark (author's last name)
R - Ryan Nichols (character)
A - Alafair (author's first name)
N - Ryan Nichols (character)
B - Burke (author's last name)
Y - title

Finished last book for this week and posted on SS.
11/24

Alysa wrote: "Without accounting for “tinsel” being removed from our possible Round Six words, If my findings are correct, we have:

Just over 50% chance of getting a word with 0 or 1 difficult letters.
Just und..."

Sounds good to me - I'll start looking for O and I books

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Completed books verified through here, and all added to official spreadsheet.

For bonus points for tinsel, I have

Alysa for word in the text and Danielle for word as genre.

I found , which could work for either tinsel in the title or I think tinsel on the cover since the elf is named Tinsel.

I found for tinsel on the cover.