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

Team 1 Information

Team Members
Lanelle
Lynn
Janice
Kristie
Annerlee
Anna's Reading Life
Grainne
Art

Toppler Rules & Information: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Team Spreadsheet: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AuLtbSLkK84jqHtYx...

Team Reporting Thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Team Name Suggestions:

Numero Uno

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Yes, Lynn! Glad to have you take charge. I have been gophering since posting and have my two books planned. I decided to try for the cards that might be more difficult in the first hand, so I have

Hand 1:
Woof for wild draw 4 - animal MC/on cover and card 6 author Spencer Quinn**
Also fits for:
Card 1 - first in series
Card 6 - author Spencer Quinn
Hand 1, wild - (card 6 author Spencer Quinn)

Hand 1:
Trouble in Mudbug for reverse - previously read by Janice
Also fits for:
Card 1 - first in series
Card 2 - title
Skip - narrator Johanna Parker
Draw 2 - author Jana Deleon (and card 1 or skip if used in hand 3)**

Feel free to move things around as you need. I have no problems changing this up if we need to. Let me know if you need any help with anything and I'll jump in.

I'll more than likely have to come back later tonight / tomorrow with a spreadsheet plan because I have my choir zoom meeting tonight (starting in about an hour).

In the meantime please do post your book plans for that week and which cards / tasks they could be used for.
Please list ALL possibilities (even if you don't plan to read that many books) ..... and how many books you are willing to read in a week.

I suppose there's an obvious team name for us - Numero Uno

I just updated my previous post. After looking at my books and the cards, if someone else has a book to read for reverse in hand 1, Trouble in Mudbug will work for the draw 2 in hand 3 and we can use it for 2 cards because it also fits for skip or card 1.

I might be able to read 3 books, but I'm only going to commit to 2 because I've been reading a lot less lately. If I think I'll be able to fit in another, I'll see what we need later in the week.

Lynn wrote: "I suppose there's an obvious team name for us - Numero Uno"

omg...I love it! lol How did I not even think of that?

Lynn wrote: "I suppose there's an obvious team name for us - Numero Uno"

That's perfect!

Thanks for taking the lead, Lynn. I know we're in good hands.

I'm not sure if it's annoying or not, but I have a habit of hanging back to see what tasks are remaining and filling them. I'll post my options soon and you'll see that I have books for all of the cards.

I should be able to read ten to twelve books.

Options: (view spoiler)[
0 (Zero) - Zoned for Murder (Z), The Zeppelin's Passenger (Z), The Garden of Eve (standalone), Bob (standalone)

1 (One) - Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (1), One Year in Coal Harbor (1), The Shrunken Head (O), A Muddied Murder (O), The Zeppelin's Passenger (O)

2 (Two) - Taking Off (T), A Muddied Murder (T), Museum of Thieves (T), Cat's Paw (T), The Lightning Thief (T)

3 (Three) - Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (3), Three Wishes for Miss Winthrop (3), The Aspern Papers (H), The Haunting of Autumn Lake (H), Meet Me at the Museum (green)

4 (Four) - The Sign of the Four (4), A Woman To Belong To (F), Flinx's Folly (F), Who Put The Butter In Butterfly? (F)

5 (Five) - The Five People You Meet in Heaven (5), Spoon Creek Mystery (I), The Innocence of Father Brown (I), Indian Foot Lake Love Story (I)

6 (Six) - Stef Soto, Taco Queen (S), No Doubt About It (S), The House with Chicken Legs (S), "The President Has Been Shot!" (S), Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station (6th)

7 (Seven) - Valor (V), Victor (V), Ghosts of Tsavo (V), The Visions of Ransom Lake (V)

8 (Eight) - The Orphan of Ellis Island (E), Echoes of Love (E), The Zeppelin's Passenger (E), Zoned for Murder (E), An Elephant in the Garden (E)

9 (Nine) - Nine Coaches Waiting (9), Letters to a Young Gymnast (N), The Netherfield Affair (N), Newt's Emerald (N), Next of Kin (N), No Way Out (N), No Doubt About It (N)

Skip - The Priest and the Peaches (P), A Quiet Life In The Country (K), The Jungle Book (K), The Spider Sapphire Mystery (K), The Killer Whale Who Changed the World (K), Mystery of Crocodile Island (10+), Stef Soto, Taco Queen (-18), The Lightning Thief (-18), The Orphan of Ellis Island (-18), Spoon Creek Mystery (-18)

Draw 2 - Zoned for Murder(D, also Zero, 8),The Lightning Thief (R, also 6), Who Put The Butter In Butterfly? (D, also 4), The Sign of Four (D, also 4), The Hound of the Baskervilles (D, also Reverse) , No Doubt About It (D, also 6), Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station (D, also 6), Echoes of Love (R, also 8), The Jungle Book (R, also Skip, Wild Draw 4), Matilda (RD, also Reverse)

Reverse
Lynn - Hope Was Here, The Ship Who Sang, Moon Called, Austenland
Kristie - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Louisiana Longshot, An Elephant in the Garden, Pollyanna
Janice - One Fell Sweep, Sweep in Peace, The Secret Garden, Clean Sweep, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, The Picture of Dorian Gray,
Annerlee - Bubba and the Dead Woman, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Twenty-One Balloons
Grainne - Persuasion, Anne of Green Gables, Northanger Abbey, Matilda
Anna - Charlotte's Web
Art - The Paper Magician, Howl's Moving Castle, Death of a Fop, Jane and the Bow Street Runner, A Muddied Murder, Real Murders

Wild Draw Four - The Jungle Book (animal, Skip, Draw 2), An Elephant in the Garden (animal, Zero, 8, Reverse), Charlotte's Web (animal, Zero, 8), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (animal), The Haunting of Autumn Lake (season, 2, 3), Spoon Creek Mystery (trees, Zero, 5, 6, Skip)
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Woohoo! Greetings team mates.

Lynn, could you update the first message and add our team members names?

I like the name Numbero Uno. It seems like an obvious choice. :)

Janice wrote: "Woohoo! Greetings team mates.

Lynn, could you update the first message and add our team members names?

I like the name Numbero Uno. It seems like an obvious choice. :)"

Yes, I plan to have the various info in the top posts but I've just got out of a 3 hours zoom meeting and now need to eat. I will get it organised :)

Eating?! Wow... just wow, Lynn. Taking time to eat... Actually, the toppler hasn't officially started yet, so I guess we can allow it. lol ;)

We just had a new addition to the toppler and he is added to our team. Art should be along to check in soon.

Lynn wrote: "Yes, I plan to have the various info in the top posts but I've just got out of a 3 hours zoom meeting and now need to eat. I will get it organised :) ..."

Sorry. No pressure. :)

Welcome Art!

I like the name! Great choice :) I am on my way to work so I will do some planning later this evening.

Lanelle wrote: "Options:[spoilers removed]"

I love your options! Nice list.

Kristie wrote: "I just updated my previous post. After looking at my books and the cards, if someone else has a book to read for reverse in hand 1, Trouble in Mudbug will work for the draw 2 in hand..."

I can do Reverse with one of your books, A Curious Beginning.

Hello team!

Love the suggested name - works perfectly ;-)

I can read 2 books for sure. If I can wangle a day or two off from work, (or work from home on a couple of days), I could do another 2.

I will spend some time today gophering and post various options. I'm flexible with what I read so can fit in where you need me to.

A few books I would like to get to if possible.
(view spoiler)[
What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Card 0-Stand Alone & Author Z
Card 4-Blue Cover
Card 8-Blue Cover

The Agony of Bun O'Keefe by Heather Smith
Card 0-Stand Alone
Card 3-Author H
Card 6-Author S
Skip-Child Main Character

Charing Cross Road 84 by Helene Hanff
Card 0-Stand Alone
Card 3-Author H
Card 4-4 in title
Card 8-8 in title
Wild Draw-Animal on cover

The Murder Farm by Andrea Maria Schenkel
Card 0-Stand Alone
Card 6-Author S
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Janice wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I just updated my previous post. After looking at my books and the cards, if someone else has a book to read for reverse in hand 1, Trouble in Mudbug will work for th..."

Sounds good to me.

I'm putting together a list of the books I want to read along with all the cards they would fill. I'll try to post it tonight, but we have lots of time.

Should we just go with the team name I suggested, or wait for all the team members to turn up?

Still waiting on Annerlee and Art

I think you're okay to go ahead. It's unanimous so far.

Agreed.

I think this is the first time every that I've come up with a team name - I'm a *genius! ;)

(*Not really, I'm terrible at it)

Kristie wrote: "Lanelle wrote: "Options:[spoilers removed]"

I love your options! Nice list."

Thanks. I'm still working on it. I'll be filling in books needed for Twisted Trivia, too.

I hope to be able to read 5 books for the toppler - 3 audiobooks and 2 print books. I've indicated the ones I'm keen on reading.

Audiobooks:
➽ The Library of Legends
- Card 0, Narrator Emily Woo Zeller
- Card 4, mostly blue cover
- Card 8, mostly blue cover
- Card 8, Narrator Emily Woo Zeller
➽ A Curious Beginning
- Reverse: Kristie
- Card 1, First in series
➽ The Bone Houses
- Card 0, Standalone
- Card 8, author Emily Lloyd-Jones
- Skip, Main Character is 17
The Limehouse Text
- Card 2, Author Will Thomas
- Card 3, Third in series
- Card 4, Narrator Anthony Ferguson

EBooks:
➽ Out of the Silence: After the Crash
- Card 0, Standalone
- Card 4, mostly blue cover
- Card 8, mostly blue cover
- Card 8, AuthorEduardo Strauch Urioste
➽ Frost Burned
- Card 4, Title: Frost Burned
- Card 7, Seventh in Series
- Skip: Author Patricia Briggs
Kade's Dark Embrace
- Card 9, Cover mostly black
One Corpse Too Many
- Card 1: Title One Corpse Too Many
- Card 2: Second in series
- Card 3: Cover mostly green
- Card 8: Author Ellis Peters
- Skip: Author Ellis Peters
- Wild Draw Four: Wild animal on cover (lion)

I have other books that I could read if we need to shuffle things around.

I noticed that Hand #2 has a couple of 9 card tasks. I just picked up a freebie from Kindle that is 250 pgs long (as paperback) and I could probably squeeze it in. I updated my list above to include it.

Hey guys, I had planned to have a spreadsheet ready by now so we could start some initial planning. Instead, the past two days I've spent putting together a makeshift recording studio in my wardrobe and recording a couple of tracks for my choir.

Will look at the spreadsheet (and my own tbr) this weekend.

No worries, Lynn. We're still a week away from the Toppler. There is lots of time to plan.

The recording sounds interesting!

Lynn wrote: "Hey guys, I had planned to have a spreadsheet ready by now so we could start some initial planning. Instead, the past two days I've spent putting together a makeshift recording studio in my wardrobe..."

Ok, that's interesting! I've been offline most of the day due to a migraine, not nearly as fun as recording tracks in my own personal wardrobe studio!

I hope you're feeling better Kristie!

Thanks, Janice. Better today, but not gone. Hopefully, it will go away completely today.

That's wonderful Lynn. It sounds like you had a very productive day.

Feel better soon Kristie.

I have done some gophering and these are 2 books that will work for Hand 1 and some for other cards as well.


Hand 1 and 2: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
0: stand alone book
6: Title starts with S, author’s name starts with S

Hand 1 and 3: The Diary of a Young Girl
0: stand alone
4: Author’s name begins with F
5: Book has a mostly red cover
Draw 2: title beginnings with D

Grainne - For card 'Reverse' it would be useful if you could make your bookshelves public, or add the team to your friends list so we can check to see if any of our books are on your read shelf.

Hey people.....
new here...
very cooperative, tho...
assign me something, and I'll read it...
please help me figure out the rules as We go.....
I'm good for at least 5 books, maybe more...
it's the choosing part that is my drawback...
I have little(i.e. none) understanding of the "gophering" process...
just point me at what you need and I'll read it!!!
😆😆😆😆😆

my previous "team reading" experience is @SOSBingo...
I've led teams there...
I never pre-planned there either...
Is a book report required here?...

Spreadsheet link: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AuLtbSLkK84jqHtYx...
(link in the top comment too for easy access)

Still a work in progress at the moment, as were still waiting for Annerlee and Art (I messaged them both this evening)

The top of the spreadsheet lists all the books and what tasks they fit. I'll start working on the bottom part of the spreadsheet, which lists the hands, and start assigning books tomorrow.

Art (Posting elsewhere as Whistler Reads) wrote: "Hey people.....
new here...
very cooperative, tho...
assign me something, and I'll read it...
please help me figure out the rules as We go....."

Hey Art, if you could do the following ....
1. Let me know how many books you think you'll read in the week.
2. Give me a list of possible books
3. Work out what tasks those books will fit. You can find the tasks here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Welcome, Art! What types of books do you enjoy? I can take a look tomorrow and make some suggestions. :)

Gophering is just our way of saying searching for a book to fit a task. Lynn, linked to the tasks in the comment above mine. We do report books after we finish them. For our team we will report in this thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Lynn, do we have any task in particular that we need more books for? I may put off starting The Bookish Life of Nina Hill for a couple of days so I can read it during the toppler. It fits for 0, 2, 6, 8, draw 2, reverse-Lynn.

Art, just to simplify it, each card has a possible of four tasks. Some of the special cards (wild, reverse, etc) might not follow that rule of thumb.

Kristie has "shuffled the deck and dealt out a number of hands". The first hand that we need to complete as a team has these cards: 4, Wild, 4, 6, Reverse, 5 & Wild Draw 4. So we need to fill those hands with the books we want to read.

Easiest thing to do in my opinion, is to look at the books you want to read next week and figure out which tasks they fit like I did in message 29.

Looking at hand 1, I have books that fit 4, Reverse, and Wild Draw 4. Other team members will have the wild, 6 & 5.

We can read out of order, but for scoring purposes we count them in order. That means if you don't have any hand 1 books, but have a hand 2 book, you can go ahead and read it. We just won't be able to score it until we finish hand 1.

It can be a bit confusing, but we'll help out.

Lynn wrote: "Spreadsheet link: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AuLtbSLkK84jqHtYx...
(link in the top comment too for easy access)"

The spreadsheet looks great, Lynn!

Wow Lynn! That spreadsheet is amazing!

Don't worry Art, we're here to help!

Hi Lynn, I have sent a friend request to you all. I was getting likes on my comments and book choices a while back. They sometimes had links to questionable websites so I made my account private.

Welcome Art!! Great to have you on board :)

Should we start trying to fill in the hands?

Hand 1: 4, Wild, 4, 6, Reverse, 5 & Wild Draw 4.

I want to start with The Library of Legends which fits the #4 card. (Audiobook)

Yikes! I see I don't have a great variety in the books I've priorized for myself. I also want to start Out of the Silence: After the Crash which would fit the other #4 card. It could also fit the Wild card.

Could I hog the two #4's in hand one?

That’s fine by me Janice. It’s a good idea that we start to put some markers down. I can start on 6. I have that book on loan from the library for the challenge.

Grainne wrote: "Hi Lynn, I have sent a friend request to you all. I was getting likes on my comments and book choices a while back. They sometimes had links to questionable websites so I made my account private.
..."

I've just accepted Grainne!

All of the books I have on my list fit for the Wild card. I could also do the Wild Draw 4, provided the Wild card counts as one other task in this hand?