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Hi everyone! Thanks for the warm welcome :)

I've been going over the rules and goals and I think I'm caught up, but I'm not sure where to start.

Hi, Wren!

You'll want to start with creating a shelf for this game and linking it in here - you'll put all of the books you read on there so the captains can use it to verify the books you finish. I sent you a friend request so I can see your shelf since your profile is set to private. :)

Our current goals are:

Read a book that starts with the letter K - Brittney
Read a book with a giraffe - Teresa
Read a book with a turtle - Emily or Annika or Kate

Read a book where the page numbers add to 4 (i.e. 345 pages = 3+4+5 = 12) - Silje
Read a book with a horse on the cover
Read a book where the same consonant appears in the title at least 8 times - Kate

All goals are updated in post 5 of this thread since they can get lost in the chatter, so you can check there any time for the latest goals we need to finish!

The only one we don't have someone working on right now is the horse on the cover one since it just came up a couple hours ago. But basically we fill in goals as quickly as possible so if you finish something else that works first we'll use it.

All books count either way - if they don't fit a goal they will still add to attack points, so whenever you finish a book just post in here and let us know so we can get it added.

I'm checking with the mods to see if you just start adding books now that you've joined, or if you're able to use other books you've read since the game or this round started. I will let you know on that. :)

Hey all! has been posted! I'll add a link for this in post #5 with our goals.

Thanks Denise! That's so helpful, I was afraid of throwing off the team by just jumping in. The only thing I don't know how to do is linking my self.

I can start working a book with a horse on the cover.

I got it! You don't have a million shelves so it was easy to find, LOL. (For future reference if you want to link something, use <*a href="http://www.goodreads.com">my link text<*/a> but take the * out, your URL goes in place of the http://www.goodreads.com and then put whatever description you want instead of "My link text". You can find this if you click on the "Some html is ok" link right above the comment box. If you're using the app instead of a computer, don't worry about linking at all as it's a huge pain. :))

Mods said that you can use any books finished during this round, which started August 16th (or evening of August 15th depending on your time zone). That looks like The Burning Sky, Spirit Bound, Last Sacrifice, Imaginary Girls, and The Selection, I think? So you'll want to add those to your gladiator shelf when you have a chance, and I'll get them on the spreadsheet tonight as well. Anything finished during the round can be used for goals during that round so we'll probably fit at least a few of them in somewhere before the countdown ends.

At this point the book finished date is what counts, so if you start a book now and don't finish it before the end of the round, it will count for the next one. Goals roll over as well, so whatever we don't get through will still be there for round 3.

Also, I'm SO glad you have a horse on a cover, lol! I was hoping someone would because I definitely do NOT. ;)

Great work on the spreadsheet Denise!!!

Finished The boy with a painful tattoo. Giraffes at the Zoo @ 99%

Thanks, Brittney! Still have to get all of the old books on there tomorrow but it should be easy to keep up to date after that!

Teresa, awesome!!! Another goal down! Will post a new one soon...

Next goal: Read a book with a zombie

I'm not sure if Archangel's Kiss works for this - they aren't CALLED zombies but there are dead people who are brought back to life, and they're basically zombies and eat human flesh, etc. If we don't have another one that would work for this one I can ask the mods if mine would work!

I think you should ask the mods about thar one. I'm out on zombies. Do have a couple with horses on cover though if we need it. :)

Okay, I'll ask them. May as well use a finished book if possible. ;)

Yes we still have a lot of books not used for goals that soon will be scrapped so it's better to use them when we can.

Definitely! We've managed to use quite a few today (Yay!) but with Wren's books we're going to have well over 30 books not used yet. Let's see how many we can use in the last few days of the round! ;)

Let's hope we get some good goals to cover quickly then :)

I finished Magic Breaks. 302 pgs.
For the turtle goal:
“The colossal tortoise stared at me with dinner-plate-sized irises and opened its gargantuan mouth."
Unfortunately, I don't know what page it's on because I'm reading an iBooks copy that doesn't have real page numbers, and I couldn't get google books to tell me the page, sorry! (By my calculations, it should be about page 90 if you have to put a page number.)

Yay, Emily! :D

I put in 90 as an approximate page number, if we're questioned I'll just let them know you read an iBooks copy and don't have an exact one. Should be fine.

Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter B

90 sounds about right, it's in that area at least :)

Is that the one you were going to use for that goal? Lol I kind of wondered since you brought up tortoise earlier and we're doing the BR this week. :P

Also, no B names in the Team Commodus, checking Gabrielle now. I can only see what's listed on the book page or in the blurb though so if there's a more minor character let us know. :)

Nevermind, found one! ;)

Just found one too :)

*grumbles* Waiting for the refresh is killing me. I want to watch my Torchwood episode in the other room! LOL.

Read a book with the word tumble in the text

*goes off to start the computer*

Astounding has Tumbled, will that count?

Brokenhearted has tumble as well

Yeah it would! The Burning Sky has it as well, so I think I'm going to use that one so we get at least one of Wren's books in for a goal this round. :)

:)

Night all!

Night Teresa :)

Well we know we have lots of options if it comes up again!

Night Teresa!

And now we wait again.. =P

Read a book with an animal on the cover

I feel like we should have one for this SOMEWHERE haha. Even if it's just a bird or something...

I can help checking the Gabrielle sheet :)

No need, Trophy Hunt works! Second one I clicked on, yay. LOL.

Wings has a butterfly on the cover

Read a book that is book 2 in a series

Archangel's Kiss would work but I'm still waiting to hear on zombie for that one...

EDIT: Duh, The Elite. I put that on the sheet like 10 minutes ago. You'd think I would remember. :P

As they say: The memory is good, but shortlived... ;)

My memory is awful, lol. ;)

Read a book with a green cover

Aaah I'm on the laptop and these tabs are soo slow in opening. I don't think there are any really green books, though I'm not sure if Catch My Breath may count? I think it's the greenest we currently have. Maybe post in the main question thread asking if it can be used? I need to get going for the night and you'd probably get an answer well before I'm able to get back online in the morning. :)

works if we can't use any of the books we already have, but I'm barerly halfway through it.

I finished Magic Breaks; 357 pages.
Doesn't work for any open goals but it will be good for; turtle, lion, "an arm and a leg", "piece f cake", I author, various shifters, white/lion/weapon on cover - and probably a few more :)

Welcome Wren!

The new tab would really help. Thanks Silje and Denise! Your work is commendable on updating goals and spreadsheets simultaneously.

I started reading by Kerstin Gier today morning. For my time travel goal in other challenge.

Also the MC sees and talks to ghosts and has name Gwyneth.

My book had a character named Brimstone. The second round is near completion now... Wow! so many books are unused. I hope we get some nice goals!

Oh I see you already used it for the same goal. why I am so slow...? *sigh*

Also when I am sleeping everyone is active, and when I am active everyone is sleeping! I hate time difference! :/

Nidhi wrote: "Also when I am sleeping everyone is active, and when I am active everyone is sleeping! I hate time difference! :/"

Yeah that can be a bummer!!

Finished:

Tricks

Author: Ellen Hopkins
Pages: 627 *unfortunately it's a novel in verse and only has a word count of 77,642, so still only 0.5 attack points.
Goal: None.

Boston Kate wrote: "Finished:

Tricks

Author: Ellen Hopkins
Pages: 627 *unfortunately it's a novel in verse and only has a word count of 77,642, so still onl..."

Oh, that's not fair Kate! So many pages and to still be considered below 500 sucks!

Yeah. I had to checked with the mods when I first started reading it, since they said no poetry. I've got a few more of her books that I'm going to read, and they're all the same situation. Oh well. It would be nice to get the extra points, but I do understand why they go by word count since I can read a 500+ page verse novel a lot faster than a 500+ page prose novel.

agreed!