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Important Links
All About Wheel-A-Thon
Challenge Updates


Books Read Thread




Team Shelves
Eldarwen
LaurLa
Stacie
Tea
Sophie
Abbie DiscoSuperFly
Ashlee Marie
Joanne
Steven


BOM
November
Crazy Rich Asians - starts 4th November
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein - starts 16th November
December
My True Love Gave to Me - starts 1st December


message 5: by Eldarwen (last edited Dec 08, 2018 08:00AM) (new)

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Help Save Christmas - Mini Challenge - Open Tasks

9. Host an end of year BBQ with your mates. Read a book with a BBQ, or BBQ food on the cover (10 points) - claimed by Tea
21.Read a book that has the number 25 in the page count. ( numbers may not be reversed) (10 points) - claimed by Joanne


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Sonia (darktalynn) | 11599 comments *self-defenestration*



So... a challenge has been issued....


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Please do not interrupt us, while we're trying to find a more suitable place to put our Christmas tree....



... preferably away from the window so you cannot hold onto it while you're jumping out windows or *gasp* drag it down with you!


message 13: by Eldarwen (new)

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*clears throat*

I mean...

Hello Team!! (and visitors.... :-p)

I think most of you know how Wheel-a-Thon works, and you know how the crazy NBRC mods work, and most of you know us Captains, too, so.....

Let's keep this quick and simple, yes?

Welcome to Team Giant Snake! Please post a link to your W-A-T shelf when you swing by, read the rules and if you have questions, feel free to ask! Other than that, have fun!! :-)


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❶İձ❶ (ttea) | 9615 comments Read the rules?! Do we really have to? Can't you just tell us what to do? :P


My shelf is wheels-iii



Hello team!
*waves to everyone*


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Stacie (thesebooksaremyfriends) wheelathon3

I came to play gif war but I can't get any to post for some reason. Humph.


message 16: by Sophie, The other one (new)

Sophie (drsophie) | 5504 comments Mod
Hello everyone!

/review/list... for my shelf

I'm doing everything on my phone currently so I'll appreciate the gif war, but my contributions will be limited/non-existent


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❶İձ❶ wrote: "Read the rules?! Do we really have to? Can't you just tell us what to do? :P"


Alright, fine! You're getting the hard to find tasks then ;-)
The rest of us will read for the easy stuff :-)))


message 18: by Sophie, The other one (new)

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I'm with Tea - surely your job is to tell us exactly what to do?!


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And you're already ganging up on me?

I am shocked...

Though not really surprised :-p


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Sonia (darktalynn) | 11599 comments If you need good book recs, I can always tell Jenny to pay a visit :P


message 21: by Eldarwen (new)

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Sonia wrote: "If you need good book recs, I can always tell Jenny to pay a visit :P"

No, no, we're good, thanks!! o.O


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Sonia (darktalynn) | 11599 comments I don't know.... books from with Black as a genre? Certainly you need some vanilla in your life :P


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Sonia wrote: "If you need good book recs, I can always tell Jenny to pay a visit :P"

Does Jenny know that you are using her as a threat over other teams like this, eh?! She's a reader with feelings, y'know, even if she lacks a certain amount of discernment in her reading material! ;-P


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Sonia (darktalynn) | 11599 comments Cat wrote: "Sonia wrote: "If you need good book recs, I can always tell Jenny to pay a visit :P"

Does Jenny know that you are using her as a threat over other teams like this, eh?! She's a reader with feeling..."





message 26: by Joanne (new)

Joanne Hi!

Here is my shelf: wheelathon


message 27: by Abinormal (new)

Abinormal Hey ladies, a quick hello before I head off to work. I miss those gif wars!

My shelf: /review/list...


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Am I right in thinking our first word is black?


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❶İձ❶ (ttea) | 9615 comments Sophie wrote: "Am I right in thinking our first word is black?"

You are right :)


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LaurLa | 2334 comments Why am I late to everything? And they have the nerve to make me co-captain as well? Poor E... she thought she’d have real help this time 😳.

Okay, I’m here and ALMOST caught up with my GR stuff. (Are we ever really caught up?)


My shelf for madame: nbrc-wheel-3


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❶İձ❶ (ttea) | 9615 comments *waves*

Do you expect us to read rules as well? :)


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Alright, it is the middle of the night and I'm still awake so I might as well do something slightly useful for all those of you who like to be told what they're expected to read ;-))


Our word for the first week of the wheel is BLACK.

We can get extra points for the following:
Word in Text
Word in Title/Series
Word as Genre
Word on Cover (which in this case, since the word is a colour, means a cover that is over 50% black)


In addition, we now have a Books Read thread.
Please post all your completed books in that thread with all the necessary information. Thank you!

May I remind you that while I'm already putting this here so we can plan ahead just a little, we still have a few weeks to go before the challenge actually starts, so no rush! :-)

Gosh, so much longer to wait! o.O


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Joanne The waiting is so hard. Once this stuff gets organized, I just want to start...


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Right? It seems so far away now still!

Then again, I'm pretty sure time will be racing away from us nevertheless - or from me anyway. It has a way of doing that lately.


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LaurLa wrote: "Why am I late to everything? And they have the nerve to make me co-captain as well? Poor E... she thought she’d have real help this time 😳.

Okay, I’m here and ALMOST caught up with my GR stuff. (..."


There's no way to catch up. Not ever.


message 37: by Sophie, The other one (new)

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E - I'll try not to be too much of a nuisance from now until the challenge starts, but I can't promise anything. I'm too excited to be calm - but it is a long time to wait


message 38: by Eldarwen (new)

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Sophie wrote: "E - I'll try not to be too much of a nuisance from now until the challenge starts, but I can't promise anything. I'm too excited to be calm - but it is a long time to wait"

Bounce away!! :-D

If you need to occupy yourself, browse through the wheel options and start hoarding books for the various options - some are a little harder to find! (Cobweb genre... just saying!)


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❶İձ❶ (ttea) | 9615 comments This waiting for challenge to start is always killing me. I have serious guilt going on every time I pick new book cause 'what if we need it later in the challene'

For example I wanted to go through LotR before challenge so I'm not rushing it and so I can take notes for might-be-next-challene, but all my covers are black!!!


message 40: by Eldarwen (new)

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Hahaha, don't worry about the black covers, Tea! I think that'll be the easiest and we're only getting bonus points for the cover once. I think you can safely read your LotR and take notes! :-)


message 41: by LaurLa (new)

LaurLa | 2334 comments ❶İձ❶ wrote: "*waves*

Do you expect us to read rules as well? :)"


Um, no, since I'm in line with all of you to be told exactly what to do. Did I mention poor E getting stuck with a co-captain that doesn't like to read rules either???


message 42: by LaurLa (new)

LaurLa | 2334 comments Maybe during our wait we could examine some of our potential books and make them qualified by encouraging 'others' to place them on the appropriate shelves? That's fair right? As long as we're actually shelving it appropriately? I mean, if I know of a book that has cobwebs on the cover or is maybe about a spider making cobwebs (Charlotte's Web, anyone?) and someone puts it on a shelf named cobwebs, that's legal, ya?


message 43: by Eldarwen (last edited Oct 06, 2018 10:25AM) (new)

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Theoretically that might work. Practically not necessarily.

Needs to be on the first page of shelves/tags and that often requires a fair number of tags unless it's a more obscure book.

But hey, I'm all for it ;-)

Eta: in theory - I don't actually use specific shelves... *hides*


message 44: by Abinormal (new)

Abinormal Eldarwen wrote: "Alright, it is the middle of the night and I'm still awake so I might as well do something slightly useful for all those of you who like to be told what they're expected to read ;-))


Our word for..."


YES!!! Y'all know I love black!




message 45: by Eldarwen (new)

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*sigh*

That particular Black.... I do approve ;-)


message 46: by Ashlee (new)

Ashlee | 638 comments Hi team,

You can find my shelf at /review/list...


message 47: by Abinormal (new)

Abinormal So when does this actually start?


message 48: by Sophie, The other one (new)

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27th October, so still a couple of weeks to go


message 49: by Eldarwen (new)

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So yes, it is a while yet. Saturday in two weeks, we can start reading for this :-)


message 50: by Eldarwen (new)

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Hello hello Team!

The Powers That Be have given us a little slack for the harder (read impossible) to find words where genres are concerned.

Here is a list of words that can be substituted when we're hunting for our weekly word as genre:

Word: Can also use:
SKELETON CLOSET
BROOMSTICK FLYING
TOMBSTONE GRAVEYARD
POTION MAGIC
CANDY CORN TREAT
JACK-O-LANTERN VEGETABLE
COBWEB WEB
CAULDRON WITCH

For all the other genres, we're going to hunt for the given word.

Plurals can be used. Hyphens cannot.


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