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Team HEAVY METAL



• Eldarwen (Captain)
• Melinda (Co-Captain)
• Kira
• Claire
• Cris
• Vi
• vian
• Stacie
• ⚚♆ Cynthia ♆⚚


Challenge Status Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Team Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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All about Wheels aka THE RULES

Round Three Bonus

Countdown to End: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

You will find all the countdowns included on the team spreadsheet as well!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...


Team Shelves:
• Eldarwen
• Melinda
• Kira
• Claire
• Cris
• Vi
• Vian
• Stacie
• Cynthia



Sample Completion Post

Bookcover (please add especially for the colour cover tasks)
Book: the edition you have actually read (for audios, use the default)
Date Read:
Pages:
--> and (!) for any books tagged Childrens' or Poetry etc, please indicate that you have verified the wordcount
Rating: optional but could lead to interesting discussion :-)

Bonus: (not needed if your book doesn't work for these)
- cover colours need to be at least 50%
- when finding a word in text, please give us the sentence as well as the page number/location

Spell-Out:
- please add name AND surname every time (unless one of them is not mentioned)
- please add ALL options the books work for (this will allow captains to move things around if necessary)

ROUND FIVE

Our word to spell out for the fifth round is: Saxophone

Our bonus cover colour is blue. (5x)

Additional Bonus
During Round 5, books written by or about musicians earn an additional 5 bonus points. This could be non-fiction about a musician or band; or it could be fiction - in which case the main character(s) should be a professional musician (or aspiring). Someone who plays an instrument for personal pleasure only doesn't count. The usual maximum of 10 books applies.

(view spoiler)[October BOM


How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

starts 16 October - ends 15 November

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November BOMs

by John Scalzi

starts 2 November

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by Brendan Slocumb

Starts 16 November

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December BOM

by Evie Woods

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Hello and welcome to Team HEAVY METAL !

I will be your captain for this particular round of the fabulous Wheel challenge :-)

If you have played Wheel before, you know the drill!

If you have NOT played Wheel before, please read the rules carefully. If you are unsure, read them again . For any further questions, feel free to ask us captains and we'll gladly clarify!

Now, is this the kind of music you enjoy listening to? Or do you prefer something else? Do not hesitate to start a music discussion! It is usually just as awesome as a book discussion hehe.

Your first task will be to link your challenge shelf, please!

Your second task will be finding books with lots of crazy musical instruments that will at the same time have a black cover and with for the spell-out is going to be fun - and that is just the first round! At least the word we have to spell-out isn't the most difficult there is ;-)

We have a while before the challenge starts, so you have lots of time to grab aaaall the books!

So without further ado: GO AND HAVE FUN! :-D

Hello Team Heavy,

I am Melinda (or Mel) and will be your co-captain for Wheel 8 and very excited to read/listen to music with you all. 😊

I cannot say that I am a die-hard metal fan, I am more of a hard-rock-bordering-on-progressive/glam/trash-metal kinda girl when it comes to this particular musical spectrum.

But I am also a big fan of classical music (symphonic, operatic, what have you), rock and pop.

My shelf is: wheel-8

As for reading, while occasionally I am willing to try most genres (with the exception of Horror/Thriller), my go-to genres are the Classics, Fantasy, History, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction and Golden-Age Detective Fiction with the occasional Sci-Fi thrown in.

If you like symphonic and aren't averse to metal, then I can really only highly recommend Apocalyptica!

They started off covering songs from Metallica and other heavy metal bands with only cellos before adding their metal element to classical pieces. In the meantime, they have a drummer as part of their band as well - and if they do vocals, they do collaborations with some of the best voices out in the rock and metal world :-)

A little instrumental sample from way back when: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdr2Z...

I think I speak for all when singing

"I've been too long, I'm glad to be back"

I even feel a little bit like Iron Man and everything!!!

Sonia, in this case... 😉

I think you must be channeling my google fu, because you only find awesome things!!!!

:D I spent a verrra fruitful morning by collecting memes. ;)

Ahahhahahahha

Yeah. mine was a very productive one too. looking at stetsons with rhinestones.

LOL

Hi team !!

Nice to see some familiar faces here :) And some new ones too!
Nice to meet you all.

I'm really excited about this challenge. I've been on a reading challenge break for a year, and I'm so happy to be back for a Wheel game. If I'm not mistaken it will be my 5th time participating.

I'm not really a fan of heavy metal either. To be honest I listen to all kind of music, except heavy metal 😅 Haha. Really my tastes are so eclectic I'm unable to describe it.

For reading, I read a bit of everything, but I'd say I read mostly Fantasy, Romance, Classics.

My shelf is : Challenge-Wheel8

Sounds like you both had VERY productive mornings heheh.

Hellooo Claire!

*bear hugs Claire*

It's so wrong not being on a challenge with you *pouts*

I shall visit lots!!!

Sonia wrote: "*bear hugs Claire*

It's so wrong not being on a challenge with you *pouts*

I shall visit lots!!!"

I totally understand why you couldn't join, Sonia. But I'm glad you'll take the time to join in the conversation from time to time :)

Hi Eldarwen !

Hi Claire! Welcome to Team Heavy! :)
Glad you decided to rejoin reading challenges.

And lovely to have Sonia as a Spectator. :)

Ahhhh. hi my friends!!

Hi everyone! Nice to meet you all.

I'm Vi, I live in Netherlands. I've rejoined the land of reading challenges this year after a long hiatus. I've played Wheel-a-thon before the hiatus so maybe 7 years earlier. I've seen most of you around but this is the first time playing together except for Cris who was my TT teammate.

My music tastes are eclectic. I listen to any and all genre depending on my mood. And they change over time so what I liked madly 5 years before isn't to my liking now (which I discovered today). Reading wise, I read mostly Romance, Fantasy trying to branch to Mystery/Thriller. Though I do have to get back to regular high fantasy with high page number - which I don't due to my time constraints.

My shelf is wheel-a-thon

Hello Stacie! :)

Hello Vi, welcome to the team! :)

Hey Mel,

I can still be visiting, even if Sammy claimed me as a country mascot, right?

I do have a soft spot for metal :D

Hey Stacie!

Hey Vi!
I went to the Netherlands on vacation a couple of weeks ago. No need to say that I had a blast, and Tony's white chocolate with raspberry and popping sugar is now a favorite of mine.

LOL

Hey all! I didn't know this was up and running until I got a couple of team friend requests, so I came to investigate, LOL!

I'm Cris and I've just discovered challenges in the past year or so. Two rounds of TT, and this year I've also done Uno and currently in Turf Wars. This will be my first Wheel.

Hello to Vi and other former teammates... look forward to hanging out here with all of you!

I'm in the Midwestern US (Iowa) and have lived here all my life. Metal wouldn't have been my first choice as a favorite musical genre, but I did grow up in the 80's and 90's so definitely some affection for old school Metallica and the like!

Hello everyone!

I am Kira and I am from India. This is my first time playing wheels and I am quite excited! I am not much of a chatty person though so won't probably be here much but I will check in frequently. I read a lot and am able to alter my reading plans as per challenges so it would be fun!!

Hello Cris and Kira,

Very glad you joined us! 😀

Sonia, of course you can drop by. 😉

I'll do a real intro and post my shelf later when I'm not on a train!

Hello hello everyone and welcome to the team! :-)

Stacie wrote: "I'll do a real intro and post my shelf later when I'm not on a train!"

Helloooo!
And no rush, plenty of time before we start! :-)

Oh, right... my shelf!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

So, I know we can't start reading yet, but are we able to go ahead and add books to the spreadsheet? Or would you like us to wait?

I've still got TurfWars going on too, so trying to plan ahead with my reading a little!!

Also, just to clarify... a book can be used on just one of the bonus point categories, correct? Like it doesn't have to both be the color and have a bonus word, just one or the other? Can it be counted for both if applicable?? :)

Cris,

A book may be used for only one or both of the bonus categories (cover colour and/or word in text), but it may be used only for the spell-out. We have a limit on the bonus points: we can get max 25 points for covers, so we need 5 books for that, and we can use max 10 books for the word-in-text option. Depending on how much books we read/round, the rest will be used for the spell-out only.
Hope this makes sense.

And to add to what Mel said: only captains have access to edit the spreadsheet and we will not be using a planning/tracking sheet.

Any and all books you read are reported in this thread.

If you're a planner, feel free and mention what you're planning on reading and what they might potentially work for - spell-out, cover colour and/or word in text - and we'll start pencilling stuff into the spreadsheet to see where we're at.

Vi wrote: "Though I do have to get back to regular high fantasy with high page number - which I don't due to my time constraints."

Same!! It needs to be at least an urban fantasy every now and then between everything else or I'm not happy. And I do love a big doorstep fantasy book but they are tough to fit in at times because they take a certain amount of time to read.

Hi,
* waves *
I'm not on the team but played with several of you this year - so just popping by - so excited about the music theme! I'm on Team Country with Sammy (Sonia is our mascot :))!
Apocalyptica absotuely rock - Metallica by four cellos - absolutely brilliant!!
Have a great time everyone :)
x

Here's my shelf -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Hi! I'm Stacie! I live in Maryland, East Coast of the US with my husband and our four cats. I work for the federal government so I'm about to be out of work for an undetermined amount of time while Congress figures out how to function.

I've been doing challenges around these parts for over 10 years now and have been friends with some people only on GR for that long as well. I read mostly fantasy and romance.

As for music, I was just at a concert last night! I love live music and this is my first year back at shows since 2019 and I'm so happy. I listen to a lot of indie music/alternative or as my friends call it whiny white boys, though I do listen to more women than I used to.

Looking forward to playing with all of you!

Hi everyone, I'm vian!

I'm located in Atlanta, Ga and I'm a theatrical stage manager. I'm just going into rehearsal, but it's a short contract with lots of reading time. Otherwise, I'm a night owl/insomniac. I keep vampire hours so I'm mostly online overnight.

I'm really excited to be back for this challenge. I love heavy metal but I don't listen to it that much. My vibe is more Black Sabbath metal and not so much newer stuff.


My shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Hi Vian! Welcome to the team.

Theatrical stage managing sounds really intriguing. :)

Elinor wrote: "Hi,
* waves *
I'm not on the team but played with several of you this year - so just popping by - so excited about the music theme! I'm on Team Country with Sammy (Sonia is our mascot :))!
Apocalyp..."


Hellooo!

I might swing by and terrorise Sammy a little about that whole mascot thing ;-))

And yes!! Apo are brilliant <3

Stacie wrote: "Here's my shelf -- https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Hi! I'm Stacie! I live in Maryland, East Coast of the US with my husband and our four cats. I work for the federal go..."



Heya!

Oh no... not again..?! Wasn't this an issue a few years ago as well? Hope you'll at least get paid throughout their figuring things out!

Ah, alternative... always good :-) Whiny white boys haha :-p not entirely wrong haha.

Elinor wrote: "Hi,
* waves *
I'm not on the team but played with several of you this year - so just popping by - so excited about the music theme! I'm on Team Country with Sammy (Sonia is our mascot :))!
Apocalyp..."

Hi Elinor,

Thank you for dropping by. 😘

Sonia is your team Mascot, but she is definitely our Special Guest Singer. 😉

To All Teamies,

In message 5 you can check out the upcoming BOM(s) and you can also find the link to vote for the November BOMs.

For the October 16 BOM you can still volunteer for DQs. If you do, you know the drill, please mention the Team name. :)

This is for info, not for pressure. If the chosen book is not your cuppa, we totally get it. 😊

Kira wrote: "Hello everyone!

I am Kira and I am from India. This is my first time playing wheels and I am quite excited! I am not much of a chatty person though so won't probably be here much but I will check ..."


Could you link your shelf for this challenge, please? Thanks :-)

I know it is early days, but I am compulsive planner, so for starters, I am planning to read (mention of piano and flute) and (mention of piano and drums). 😊

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The trickiest letter for our first spell-out word is "U", so please be on the lookout for that. :)

Here's a link to my shelf

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Thanks!