You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Hello, fellow teammies! I'm looking forward to toppler with you!

Team members:
Saar - captain
Lanelle - co-captain
Cherie
Sarah
Fiona
Kathryn
Janice

Example for posting the books you've read:
book read: Seven Up
number of pages: 337
pub date: June 17th 2002
first published: July 19th 2001
series: #7
if audio, add length: n/a
fits numbers: 1, 2, 6, 7

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Does anyone have ideas for a team name?
Normally I'll make the spreadsheet tomorrow so we can have a view who's reading what and how we're progressing.

Three's a charm? :D

Saar The Book owl wrote: "Does anyone have ideas for a team name?"

3 Chapters and Counting
On the count of 3, GO!
3, two, one, COUNTDOWN!
The 3 Musketeers
It's 3 O'Clock Somewhere
3 a.m. And Still Reading

Saar, let me know how I can help you.

Hi team!

I like on the count of 3 and 3am and still reading.

I'll do some gophering in the next day or so .

Sarah wrote: "Hi team!

I like on the count of 3 and 3am and still reading."

I like 3 a.m. and Still Reading, too.

Hi Team mates. I just got home from a long weekend away so I'm a bit behind in everything. I'll start gophering tomorrow.

I like 3 a.m. and Still Reading!

Lanelle wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Hi team!

I like on the count of 3 and 3am and still reading."

I like 3 a.m. and Still Reading, too."

Me three!

Hi team three!
WoF Cherie, checking in.

I've been gophering for the last hour and a half. I have a long list, but I do not know how available they might be. I am still checking out my owned books for numbers in the title - for bonus points. I know I have at least two Nero Wolf paperback books with Three in the title. I think I have a hardcopy of the Charlie Davidson series book #2 - Second Grave on the Left. I could re-listen to Ready Player One and use it for my MM challenge. I own it on Audible. These will be after, I finish my first three books. The first two are for challenges.

I will be reading these first:
audiobook: The Mapping of Love and Death
number of pages: 338 hc
first published: March 23rd 2010
series: #7 (Maisie Dobbs)
if audio, add length: 9 hrs. 54min.
release date of audiobook: May 10th 2010
fits numbers: 3,5,7,8,9 (If I understood the rules correctly)

ebook: The Human Division
number of pages: 431 hc
first published: May 14th 2013
series: #5 (Old Man's War)
if audio, add length: n/a
fits numbers: 1,3,5
if we are reading an ebook, we default to the hardcover for reporting, right?

audiobook: Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
number of pages: 210 hc
first published: June 12th 2007
series: n/a
if audio, add length: 6 hrs. 17min.
release date of audiobook: Sept 1st, 2015
fits numbers: 1,4,5,6,7,9

Looks great, Cherie!

Super! I'll change it in your suggestion, Sarah :)

Lanelle wrote: "Saar The Book owl wrote: "Does anyone have ideas for a team name?"

3 Chapters and Counting
On the count of 3, GO!
3, two, one, COUNTDOWN!
The 3 Musketeers
It's 3 O'Clock Somewhere
3 a.m. And Stil..."

Will do and you too :)

@Lanelle: I've made the spreadsheet, but how can I link it with you, so we can follow the group progress? I'm not so good with spreadsheets ;)

Saar The Book owl wrote: "@Lanelle: I've made the spreadsheet, but how can I link it with you, so we can follow the group progress? I'm not so good with spreadsheets ;)"

I'm sorry. I don't know anything about spreadsheets. Maybe someone else can answer your question.

If it was me trying to figure out all the possibilities, I would muddle along with a post or two in a reporting thread :)

I think it best if fewer people have access to edit the spreadsheet, otherwise, it gets complicated. Captain and co-captain would be fine though. If Lanelle PM's you her email address, you can invite her to have access to the file and edit it too I believe. We report our reads in the reporting thread and you guys update it. But if only one of you can edit it, it wouldn't be a major issue either.

I have lots of options. Not sure what I'm going to feel in the mood for yet. I am going to aim for 1 print and 1 audiobook. I have a couple of books with numbers in the title too.

I'll PM you my email address. If you would rather have someone else with more knowledge of spreadsheets help, it won't hurt my feelings. This would definitely be a learning experience for me :)

I went to the library yesterday. I came home with 11 books with numbers in the titles! That's in addition to the 40 books I'd already gophered with numbers in the title.

My Top Choices:

The First Last Day
number of pages: 232 hc
published: 7/7/16
series: n/a
if audio, add length: n/a
fits numbers: 1, 2, 6, 7

You Go First
number of pages: 288 hc
published: 4/10/18
series: n/a
if audio, add length: n/a
year of nomination or award: 2018, 2020
fits numbers: 1, 4, 8

One Mixed-Up Night
One Year in Coal Harbor
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor
Three Pennies
The Third Mushroom
Three Bird Summer
All Four Stars
The Seventh Wish

Jax Sheppard and the Seven Mirrors
number of pages: 332 ppb
published: 9/29/14
first published: 9/12/14
series: n/a
if audio, add length: n/a
fits numbers: 2, 4, 7, 9

Seven Dead Pirates
number of pages: 304 hc
published: 9/8/15
first published: 1/1/14
series: n/a
if audio, add length: n/a
year of nomination or award: 2016
fits numbers: 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Eight Faces at Three
number of pages: 308 hc
published: 3/20/18
first published: 1939
series: #1
if audio, add length: n/a
fits numbers: 1, 3, 8, 9

Nine Lives
number of pages: 308 hc
published: 3/20/18
series: #1
if audio, add length: n/a
fits numbers: 1, 3, 8, 9

The Fourteenth Goldfish

The Boy with 17 Senses
number of pages: 256 hc
published: 8/13/16
series: n/a
if audio, add length: n/a
fits numbers: 6, 9

Here are my other options: (too many to list all the info)
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The Feisty One
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
One Texas Night
Once Upon a Summer - 1, 5, 7

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - 1, 2, 3, 6, 8
Two Widows and the Thrift Store Murders - 1, 2, 6
Two Widows and the Misdirected Message - 1, 2, 8
Two Widows and the Rest Home Menace - 2, 3, 4, 6, 8
Pistols For Two - 2, 9
Walk Two Moons - 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7

Three's a Crowd - 2, 3, 5
Three Act Tragedy - 2, 3, 4, 6
Clone Three - 1, 2, 3, 5, 9
Three Wishes for Miss Winthrop - 1, 2, 3, 4, 8
Three Men in a Boat - 1, 3, 9
Three Days in Seattle - 1, 2, 3, 6

The Four Feathers - 2, 4, 6

The Fifth Day of Christmas
The Fifth Hour - 2, 4, 5
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9
Five Little Pigs - 2, 5

Six Months in Montana
Six Against the Yard - 6, 7, 9

The Seven Tales of Trinket- 2, 4, 7, 9

Eight Cousins - 1, 2, 4, 8

Nine Coaches Waiting - 2, 5, 8, 9

Other numbers
The Twenty-One Balloons - 6, 7, 8
The Thirteenth Pearl - 1, 8, 9
The Mystery of the 99 Steps
The 101 Dalmatians - 1, 4, 6
Number Seventeen - 2, 4, 5, 9
Around the World in 80 Days - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The Eleventh Hour - 2, 5, 6
15 Minutes - 1, 3, 4, 6, 9
The House of a Thousand Candles - 1, 2, 4, 5
The House of a Thousand Lanterns - 1, 4, 7
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Lanelle wrote: "I went to the library yesterday. I came home with 11 books with numbers in the titles! That's in addition to the 40 books I'd already gophered with numbers in the title.

Here are my options: (too..."

I actually read three of your options, I didn't expect that :D

And I also bought a book with a number in the title today!

Lanelle - are you reading any books for challenges, or just for the toppler?

My last book for the Birds of a Feather challenge (last month) finally became available today. That challenge is done, but it will fit in my MM challenge, so, I might slot it in, IF I finish the others I have planned first. It is a little long, so I may not.

Cherie wrote: "Lanelle - are you reading any books for challenges, or just for the toppler?"

Yes, I will need to read books for other team challenges next week. I've got my fingers crossed that the books I have picked out for this challenge will fit those. You'll know that I'd had to come up with a different book if I report reading a book that doesn't have a number in the title :)

Hmm, Lanell, you made me re-think one of the Nero Wolfe books. It will fit in the October monthly challenge, if I use "death" instead of "human". I will compare the scoring. ;o)
It does not get me any closer to ever killing off the Nero Wolfe series, but it IS an extra 5 points over The Human Division and shorter.

That's quite a list, Lanelle!

Janice wrote: "That's quite a list, Lanelle!"

I may have gone overboard on the gophering :)

Lanelle wrote: "I'll PM you my email address. If you would rather have someone else with more knowledge of spreadsheets help, it won't hurt my feelings. This would definitely be a learning experience for me :)"

I'll sent you an invite in a second. Can you make a reporting thread? Thanks :)

Sarah wrote: "I think it best if fewer people have access to edit the spreadsheet, otherwise, it gets complicated. Captain and co-captain would be fine though. If Lanelle PM's you her email address, you can invi..."

Thanks for the help, Sarah. I think that way will work out.

Lol! I love your team name!

I've started gophering:
The Wonder
published: 20th September 2016.
pages: 291
Nomination: 2017

The Kite Runner
first publication: May 29th 2003.
pages: 371 pages
Nominations: 2004,2006, 2008

Travels with Charley: In Search of America
first published 1962.
pages 214.

Friday on My Mind
first publication: March 31 2015.
pages: 301
Series: 5th

Numbers that could fit: 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

Saar The Book owl wrote: "I'll sent you an invite in a second. Can you make a reporting thread? Thanks :)"

I've received the invitation and logged on. It looks good from my inexperienced viewpoint :)

And I've made the reporting thread. Let me know if there's anything you would like me to add or change.

I think I'm going to listen to Thirteen Reasons Why which would fit the following numbers: 2,6,7 (could use for realistic fiction in MM)

For a print book, I think I'll go for one of the following:
Dune Messiah: 2, 6, 9 (could use for monthly challenge)
Three Parts Dead: 1, 2, 3
The Ninth Orphan: 1, 2 (has 2 authors), 4, 6, 9
The Tattooist of Auschwitz: 1, 2, 8, 9 (could use for MM)

Saar, be careful with your date numbers. Only dates of the month under 9 count. So your 9 for Kite Runner and 1 (in 31st) for Friday on my mind (although you have 1 for that with the page count)

For months and days of the month, the number still needs to be below ten. So a book published in January through September would work, as the months are numbered 1-9. Books from October through December (10-12) don't count for month numbers. Same with days of the month, if it is published on the first through 9th of the month, you can use it.

Love your team's name!

Sarah wrote: "I think I'm going to listen to Thirteen Reasons Why which would fit the following numbers: 7, 6 (could use for realistic fiction in MM)..."

Don't you get to apply the 2 for the 352 pages in the hardcover version, since you are listening to an audiobook?

Debra wrote: "Love your team's name!"

We're committed. And if we stay up so late each night, we'll need to be committed. "They're coming to take me away... ha ha he he… to the funny farm where life is gay." And now I have an ear worm. I'll be singing that whacky song all night.

Cherie wrote: "Sarah wrote: "I think I'm going to listen to Thirteen Reasons Why which would fit the following numbers: 7, 6 (could use for realistic fiction in MM)..."

Don't you get to apply the..."

I didn't think to look at page count for any other numbers for that one. Thanks!

Lanelle wrote: "Saar The Book owl wrote: "I'll sent you an invite in a second. Can you make a reporting thread? Thanks :)"

I've received the invitation and logged on. It looks good from my inexperienced viewpoint..."

Thank you and will do :)

Sarah wrote: "Saar, be careful with your date numbers. Only dates of the month under 9 count. So your 9 for Kite Runner and 1 (in 31st) for Friday on my mind (although you have 1 for that with the page count)

F..."

Thanks for the reminder, Sarah. I've read over that, I think.

Debra wrote: "Love your team's name!"

A night with a bit less sleep for a book, is no problem ;)

I googled a bit more last night and have a few more options. I'll have to whittle my list down to a more manageable size.

Janice, thanks for sharing your ear worm!

These are my picks for the toppler:

book: Miss Marple, Das Rätsel der Tänzerin
number of pages: 213
pub date: 1986
first published: February 1942
series: #3
fits numbers: 2, 3, 6

book: Die Einsame im Meer: Das Märchen von der Meerjungfrau Arielle
number of pages: 208
pub date: August 30th, 2019
first published: July 26th, 2016
series: #3
fits numbers: 3, 6, 7, 8, 9

book: Never Too Close
number of pages: 464
pub date: September 30th, 2019
fits numbers: 4, 9

book: Ein Fahrrad für zwei
number of pages: 528
pub date: June 18th, 2019
series: #1
fits numbers: 1, 2, 6, 8, 9

Cherie, I was looking over the first three books you have planned to read. Could you add '4' to the possible numbers for Four Seasons in Rome?

I've sent a PM to Kathryn. Hopefully she'll find us soon.

Could everyone please tell me which book(s) they will start reading or listening to for the Toppler? I'd like to start plugging in numbers on the spreadsheet to see where there's a hole or two.

Saar, awards and nominations for awards have been approved as a way to get a number for a book. Could you add:
7 to The Wonder for a nomination in 2017
4, 6, and 8 to The Kite Runner for awards and nominations in 2004, 2006, 2008

@Lanelle: I've added the nominations.

I see the remark in some posts for the number of pages: 'hc'. What does that mean?

Hi teammies, if you look at the spreadsheet: I've added books for the first round. You don't need to follow that. We will be switching and swapping books from places as the toppler continues and we're finishing books.

I'm down for ninth orphan but I'm not sure if I'll choose that book yet. I'll decide tomorrow which I'm reading. Also, I'm a slow poke so I wouldn't rely on me for two books in round 1. I think we can only really allocate once we've completed to some degree. Not all team members are listed on the spreadsheet either.

Saar The Book owl wrote: "@Lanelle: I've added the nominations."

Thank you.

Saar The Book owl wrote: "I see the remark in some posts for the number of pages: 'hc'. What does that mean?"

hc = hardcover. For those that are reading ebooks or listening to audio books, we have to go by the highest rated hardcover version of the book.