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Bookish Yahtzee Team Challenge
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I completely understand being busy, Andrea, and feeling to the need to unplug during storms (especially since lightning fried many of my family's electronics a couple of years ago, through serge protectors).Maria has finished a book today that completes the Round 1, Section 2, Small Straight #3 task. I just made a review post for this.
26 tasks down, just 7 left to go now for Round One! Great job, team! :)
Hannah wrote: "If anyone needs help, I have a 275 page book up for grabs, pub. 1923..."It would be great if you could post this book for the Round 1, Section 2, Small Straight #1 or #2 task! :)
Great! Thank you, Hannah! 🙂
SECOND CARDMay be posted now.
I'll update this one piece by piece as we go. Great job on finishing round one so quickly!
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Updating the tracker on this page now.
Monique, how is your reading coming along? Are you enjoying the books you've got going?
That would fit Small Straight, #1, if Monique is able to slide hers to that spot in round two.I have one I'm about done with that can cover one of the Christian Fiction slots in the Four of a Kind, because an audio I'll be reading in its entirety tomorrow won't work for that but will for my Chance book.
What do you think, Monique? Are these changes okay for you? We're sooooo close to finishing up round one. It'd be great to do that this weekend.
Abigail, please keep working on Les Miz as you're able. We're going to slide that one into a future round, though, so we may finish up round one soon.Team Daisy, we're doing amazing! Keep up the quick reading. So proud of all of us. High fives all around.
Yes, it would be great for Hannah to claim the Round 1, Small Straight #1 task with A Yellow Aster. :)I have the e-books of The Killing Tide, Where Hope Prevails, Shattered, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond on loan from the library. I'll have to return these books soon, so I'm trying to finish them all as quick as I can. One or more of these can be saved for Round 2, if needed. I'm focused on finishing The Killing Tide first, which I am loving and hope to finish either tonight or tomorrow. I'll post this book for my Chance task, making my other remaining tasks flexible. 🙂
Got it! I completed another this morning, if you want me to post it.
Silence in the Dark 368 pages, pub 2016
That's great, Hannah! Feel free to post Silence in the Dark for the Section 2, Four of a Kind (Same Genre: Christian Fiction) #3 or #4 task. 🙂
I posted You Belong with Me for Four of a Kind #3, Hannah's doing #4. My chance book will be done by the end-of-day today. It looks like we might finish round one today. Yay!Monique, thank you so much for your flexibility. I'm glad you're enjoying the Killing Tide. I've got that one from NetGalley but haven't started it yet. Good to know it's a good one.
I think we can finish today!! Killing Tide was a quick read for me, so hopefully it will be for you as well. :)
Looks like all we have left is Monique's and my chance books. Yay!I've got the audio on 2x speed, so it should fly by quickly.
It is wonderful how quickly we are getting through the first round! :) I've updated our progress in message #204. Has the Large Straight #1 task been fulfilled?
Yes. Hannah told me she finished The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict for that one.Hannah, did you post that one yet?
I have a book done if Abigail doesn’t finish, though it’s shorter.
From what Abigail told me in Hangouts, she's not very close to finishing Les Miz yet. Let's save Les Miz for the next round. The points will still count for us there.
Claimed for round 2:Let's focus hard on Chance books first so that no one has to wait for those at the end of the round to go ahead and start on round three, when we get there.
Section One
1. Monique - 352 pages
2.
3. Andrea - 391 pages - DONE
4. Hannah - 1,000 pages
5. Hannah - 528 pages DONE
6. Hannah - 440 pages
(Bonus requirements met with these books.)
Section Two
Three of a Kind (Christian fiction)
1. Hannah - 336 pages - DONE
2.
3.
Four of a Kind (??)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Full House
Hannah - 368 pages
Small Straight
1. Hannah - 323 pages
2. Hannah - 272 pages
3. Hannah - 358 pages
4. Andrea - 496 pages
Large Straight
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Yahtzee
4+ rating - Andrea - 384 pages
teammate/moderator rated 5 stars - ??
title begins with YAHTZE - ??
red cover - ??
white or black cover - Hannah - 433 pages
Chance
Andrea
Hannah - 502 pages
Abigail
Monique - 261 pages
Maria
Plans for card 2:4. Summer of Suspense: Sixteen Tales By Some of Christian Fiction’s Most Popular Mystery and Suspense Authors 1000 pages; Aug. pub.
6.
440 pages; ship on coverFull House
More Than Words Can Say 358 pages; author name Karen
Small Straight
2 By Paths Unknown 305 pages; pub 2019
3. The Words Between Us 358 pages
Yahtzee
5. Black cover
433 pagesChance
The Magic Cameo/The Heatherford Fortune 502 pages
*+Hannah*+ wrote: "I just got done reading saving Amelie. That's about 400 pages."Are you sure you have the right team?
If you're not already on a team, you may message Melanie (the moderator of the game) if you'd like to be considered for a fill-in spot if someone has to pull out for some reason. The sign-ups are already closed, but I'm sure she'd consider starting a fill-in list like that.
Just posted my Chance book. I think we only need Monique's Chance book to be finished with round one. Yay!
Andrea wrote: "*+Hannah*+ wrote: "I just got done reading saving Amelie. That's about 400 pages."
Are you sure you have the right team?
If you're not already on a team, you may message Melanie (the moderator of..."
I'm a newbie here, but thanks for telling me I'll have to do that.
Are you sure you have the right team?
If you're not already on a team, you may message Melanie (the moderator of..."
I'm a newbie here, but thanks for telling me I'll have to do that.
Glad to help. If there's not a slot this time around, I hope you'll come back for whatever the next game is. They're lots of fun, and I think you'll love 'em.
Monique, how's your chance book coming? It'd be great if it could be posted today, to finish up round one for us. Happy reading!
To make finishing Round 1 easier, so we can move onto Round 2, I've rearranged a couple of books/tasks in my review posts that have yet to be counted for points...
Monique, we've already posted reviews for some of those, which means they cannot be changed (reviews cannot be changed once posted, which Melanie had stated earlier in the sign-ups, I believe). The only task we're waiting for is your chance book for round one. We have time to wait, so please feel no pressure.Rearranging books after reviews are posted confuses everything too much as all records (trackers, notebooks, posted reviews) are already set by that point.
Okay... Thank you for letting me know that, Andrea. I've reversed what I did. :)
Thanks! Hey, don't worry about rushing, truly. We're still on a great track. Maybe focusing early in round two on the chance books will be a help to all of us to relieve any pressure. I love how we can learn these tricks as we go along. :) Hugs!
You can do it! If you need reading sprints, hop over to Hangouts. Abi and I are both over there right now.
Andrea wrote: "You can do it! If you need reading sprints, hop over to Hangouts. Abi and I are both over there right now."How's it going, Monique? You can get it done!
I ended up reading another book tonight to fulfill my chance task, Who Was Harry Houdini? (a quick read), so that we can get started on Round 2. I’m now going to read more of The Killing Tide, which I still hope to finish tonight, but now I won’t worry about holding our team up if I fall asleep before finishing it. 🙂I’ll definitely fulfill my Chance task earlier in the next round(s). 🙂
Congrats on finishing Round 1 so quickly, team! 33 books in 14 days. Great job! 🙂
Well done, Team Daisy! We're the first team to finish Round One! :)I'm also planning on finishing my chance a lot sooner this next round.
Round Two has officially begun for us, so if you have any of those books done, let me know where they fit and post away! :) Remember to check the tracker at the top-ish of the page (I try to post it close to the top of every new page) for what's available, as some boos are already planned out. Thanks!
I’ll update this list as Round 2 progresses, keeping in mind its accessibility for Maria. 🙂Bookish Yahtzee - Round 2 - Plans & Progress:
✔️[Section 1:]
#1 - MONIQUE (352 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#2 - MARIA (219 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#3 - ANDREA (391 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#4 - HANNAH (1,000 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#5 - HANNAH (528 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#6 - HANNAH (440 pages) - FINISHED✔️
[Section 2:]
✔️Three of a Kind - Same Genre: Christian Fiction
#1 - HANNAH (336 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#2 - ABIGAIL (346 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#3 - ABIGAIL (246 pages) - FINISHED✔️
✔️Four of a Kind - Same Genre: Christian Fiction
#1 - MARIA (114 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#2 - HANNAH (336 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#3 - ANDREA (352 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#4 - ABIGAIL (308) - FINISHED✔️
✔️Full House
#1 - HANNAH (368 pages) - FINISHED✔️
✔️Small Straight - 1,2,3,4 (page count or publication date includes the number)
#1 - HANNAH (323 pages, pub: 1911) - FINISHED✔️
#2 - HANNAH (272 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#3 - HANNAH (384 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#4 - ANDREA (496 pages) - FINISHED✔️
✔️Large Straight - 1,2,3,4 (page count or publication date includes the number)
#1 - HANNAH (695 pages, pub: 1882) - FINISHED✔️
#2 - MARIA (497 pages, pub: 2015) - FINISHED✔️
#3 - MARIA (365 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#4 - MARIA (400 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#5 - ABIGAIL (320 pages, pub: 5/17/2016) - FINISHED✔️
✔️Yahtzee
#1 - ANDREA - FINISHED✔️
#2 - HANNAH (391 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#3 - HANNAH - (216 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#4 - HANNAH (302 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#5 - HANNAH (433 pages, black cover) - FINISHED✔️
✔️Chance/Freebie
#1 - ANDREA (349 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#2 - HANNAH (502 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#3 - ABIGAIL (576 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#4 - MONIQUE (147 pages) - FINISHED✔️
#5 - MARIA (217 pages) - FINISHED✔️
Finished Tasks: 33/33✔️
Simplified task Instructions can be found here:
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Andrea's ROUND 2 list with completed books and book covers can be found here.
My ROUND 1 list can be found here.
My ROUND 3 list can be found here.
I fell asleep last night before finishing “The Killing Tide”, so I’ll be finishing it this morning/afternoon for the Round 2, Section 1, #1 task. 🙂
When you make a new edition of your list, Monique, my categories have gotten edited a bit....some of those ended up on the first card 😋So excited to get a good start on this card! Yay, team!
Great plan on finishing Killing Tide today, Monique. I love that we're getting off to another fabulous start! Let's keep racking up those points!
Awesome!I'm hoping to be able to listen to all of Mansfield Park today. Claiming Small Straight, #4 (496 pages) for this book.
Going back over the review thread and chat thread posts, I've fixed and improved my lists for Round 1 & Round 2, including adding links to each other and to Andrea's lists. I'm keeping my lists for each round separate to avoid confusion and to not go over the maximum text permitted for GR comments. I'm also really trying to have my lists be as simple and friendly as possible to the blind, for Maria. 🙂My TBRs hardly ever go as planned, because library books become available to me at random times when I'm on waitlists for them, and books I've requested from publishers come to me at random times, with varying deadlines to read them. That being said... After finishing "The Killing Tide" (for Section 1, #1), I will be starting on "Where Hope Prevails" (for Four of a Kind #1), then "Shattered" (for Yahtzee #2), then restarting "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" (for my Chance task). I have about 2 weeks to finish and return all of these books to the library.
We're off to such a good start with Round 2. It really amazes me how quickly we got through Round 1, in just 2 weeks! If we keep up that pace, we might finish 4 rounds before this challenge ends! 😃
I'd love to get through four rounds! And great progress on your reading. My library holds act the same way...you never know when someone's going to return something early. :)
Monique, will you please remind me who rated Shattered as 5 stars? Taking notes over here. :)
(We were so close to the top of a new page that I took a couple of spots so the tracker would be the top comment.)
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If anyone needs help, I have a 275 page book up for grabs, pub. 1923, so it would work for anything 1-3. Just finished. 😋