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Hmm, I keep forgetting to update in here but at least I remember to tag my books.I have finished another 3 books.
Update (as of 15Jan2015)Finished:
The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 15Jan2015 | 371 pages | 20 Points
Good job team!!We have reached 57 books for this read-a-thon duel.
We still have a couple of days.
So lets read!!!
I have a question. I am currently reading Theft of Swords, which is an omnibus of 2 books. I will finish the 1st books today. Do i count it as a book read?
Esther wrote: "I have a question. I am currently reading Theft of Swords, which is an omnibus of 2 books. I will finish the 1st books today. Do i count it as a book read?"Esther, I would say no. Mostly because of the way we consider a book finished in GoodRead and in the challenge.
GR will only consider it finished when you read all pages. So we can only count 'omnibus' as 1 book.
My advice is to you use different editions. One for the first book and a second and independently edition for the second book. That way both books would be count as individual things for GR, and the challenge.
@Kelly, did I understand it right?
January 17th - January 23th
I finally finished my big book for the Read-a-thon Duel!!!And with that we have completed all the 6 requisites for the duel. All of our books will count!!!
Right now we have 60 books read!!
Great work team!!
But we still have more couple of hours to tackle down some more books.
finished
last night...late :) 327pgs
Our current status is: 9320 points With 68 valid books for the read-a-thon duel!
We're so close to dark! Only 9 books away! Quick! Little books!
HiI cannot edit posts on my phone, but I finished Red Herring without Mustard yesterday. I will edit my post as soon as i get on a computer. Probably tonight.
Sorry for how inactive I've been! Haven't been able to be on goodreads in a little bit. But I finished
yesterday. I am not feeling so well today so I'm probably going to lay in bed and maybe be on goodreads for a little bit and if I get in a good mood I may pick up a book. Great job everyone with their reading progress!
Hi Trinity, I hope you get better during the day. ;)
Agnès wrote: "I've finished 
and it was a very good book :). I really recommend it!"Good to know Agnès, thanks!!
Juliana wrote: "Hi Trinity, I hope you get better during the day. ;)"Thank you. :)
Agnès wrote: "I've finished and it was a very good book :). I really recommend it!"This book is on my top 5 favorite books of all time
Trinity wrote: "How's everyone's day been today?"Stressful, but much better now that I'm home.
Michelle wrote: "Trinity wrote: "How's everyone's day been today?"Stressful, but much better now that I'm home."
I'm glad your day is getting better. :)
I've finished a couple of short books, but don't have how to put the links now.I also noticed that achieved the mark of 10090 points!! And jumped two positions. Now we are in 16th.
From the Status spreadsheet I think we won the read-a-thon duel, but lets wait the mods announce the winner.
Great job, everyone!!!
I'm glad that the light side won. :)
Update (as of 23Jan2015)Finished:
The Shining | Stephen King | 23Jan2015 | 659 pages | 70 Points
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore | Robin Sloan | 23Jan2015 | 288 pages | 20 Points
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From Wiki
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and raising of the Flag of Great Britain at that site by Governor Arthur Phillip. In contemporary Australia, celebrations reflect the diverse society and landscape of the nation, and are marked by community and family events, reflections on Australian history, official community awards, and citizenship ceremonies welcoming new immigrants into the Australian community
Tower Teams Australia Day Scavenger Hunt
See how many items you can find!
The items need to form part of the book title, author name, character name, or be an image on the cover, or occur somewhere in the story of the book you are reading.
Your team will get 5 points for each item found (one item per book), and if more than 75% of your team members find an item, you will get a bonus 30 points!
Note:Individuals can only find each item once, but multiple people on a team can find the same item. So if two people on the team read a book with a dog on the cover, both would claim 5 points, but that same person couldn't then claim "dog" again
Duration: January 23 - January 31
Items:
Summer Pool Beer Beach Outback
BBQ Koala Kangaroo Emu Mountains
Island Surf Boomerang Spider Snake
Birds Britain Aboriginal Marsupial Green
Gold Dingo Crocodile Meat Pie Football
Cricket Tennis Migrants Bridge Opera House
Wheat Oil Sheep Wool Democracy
Opals Gas Coal English Wine
Farmers Mango Banana Prawn Crab
Lobster Fish Seafood Oyster Lamb
Desert Sand Sun Banknote Drill
Wi-Fi Film Water Solar Grass
Tree Dog Flag Ute Bush
Lamingtons Reef Mate Rock Star
Downunder Vegemite Southern Continent Land
Paul Naomi Nicole Chris Anna
Geoffrey Cate Hugo Eric Heath
Hugh Guy Russell David Toni
Anthony Joel Ben Rose Colin
Cool!!!I love a good Scavenger Hunt! :)
question....for places....ie..Britain....does that mean only the word or the actual place as a setting? and why isn't Australia up there?
I am reading
and it is set in Britain, main character is English, ...I am not sure about items occurring somewhere in the story. Does it have to be prominent or do I just search ebook for that word appearing anywhere in the text?
I'm currently reading a few books.
has a tree on the cover
has mountains.
Girls, I'll try to get more details with the mods to answer your questions.
Mod
It could be either
And...lol...yes I probably should have added our country name, Oh well!
Ok team,⚑ So far what we have is.
- A quote from the book with the word marked counts.
"It overlooked downtown on one side, and the Atlantic Ocean on the other with beach access and a sweeping porch made for watching sunsets. | 'link to the book | page or location found | date finished
- Individuals can only find each item once, but multiple people on a team can find the same item. So if two people on the team read a book with a dog on the cover, both would claim 5 points, but that same person couldn't then claim "dog" again.
- Books set in a place (for example Great Britain) but the setting isn't mentioned anywhere in the book, does still count for Britain. (But you have to be able to guess the location based on the story).
Keep bringing the question so I can check with the mods.
⚑ We will have a separated part on the spreadsheet to keep track of all this, but I suggest that we use a different message on our ' Lightning Hounds BOOKS READ ' thread so each member can mark all the words they found and how.This way it'll be easier for me to update the spreadsheet.
Great Juliana, thank you for clearing that up.This is going to be fun and a great way to pile up some points. :)
Juliana wrote: "We will have a separated part on the spreadsheet to keep track of all this, but I suggest that we use a different message on our '' thread so each member can mark all the words they found and how...."
The spreadsheet is in now if you wanted to take a look.
Tower Teams Australia Day Scavenger HuntAlphabetical list under spoiler for those that like order ;)
Items:
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Apart from it I've finished two short books: