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Anagram for A Gentleman


Members

Name Books p.a. Timezone
Lauren	 170	Europe
Tonya	 100	USA (East Coast)
Nathalie	30	USA (Hawaii)
Shan	 100	USA (CST)
Laura	 100	USA (East Coast)
Rachel	 100	USA (East Coast)
Kelly	 400	USA (CDT)

Captain Lauren & Co-Captain Tonya

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Hello Team Elegant Man - this is your captain speaking...

Welcome to the challenge everyone!

Looks like I'm the only one from Europe so Tonya will be my esteemed #1 :0)

It is now 12:40 my time and I'm certain most of you are either still asleep or waking up, but I'm sure we will still have plenty of time for chatting.

Can't wait to get started!

Woo hoo!
It is a bit of a mixed bag with time zones. I tried to match them, but we had so many US participants, I ended up going more from books per year read. ;)

No worries, Karen! We will manage and thanks for all your hard work - you've done a fabulous job!

Thanks Lauren. I keep being distracted by your team image though.... maybe I should've picked a different one? lol!

No, no, no! Yes so sexy - we'll definitely be keeping him ;0)

Karen wrote: "Thanks Lauren. I keep being distracted by your team image though.... maybe I should've picked a different one? lol!"

No. No. No. Karen, don't be mean, let the poor guy be.

lol
ok ok
well I guess it may distract the team so much that they can't read and beat my team ;)

Karen wrote: "lol
ok ok
well I guess it may distract the team so much that they can't read and beat my team ;)"

See. That's the reason we also have Arrow, and Hook (the only reason I forgive you about it is because you didn't know), Castiel and Tom Cruise. Uhmmm... you choose the wrong Sherlock Holmes to the "distracting" effect.

Karen wrote: "lol
ok ok
well I guess it may distract the team so much that they can't read and beat my team ;)"

Aha! Very sneaky .... you planned it this way. Naughty, naughty!

bahahahaha

And, actually, sherlock homes image was picked by Amanda so I'm not responsible for that one...

And yes my team is a car.... a cool one... but not a distracting one :D Means I can read more... lol!

Hi everyone, this is my first group challenge! I am very much looking forward to all the fun:)

Hello! Just checking in :)

After seeing all the other team names I thought maybe Elegant Man was a reference to a particular character so I was scouring my brain... but nope, just a random smexy guy :)

Team Elegant Man sounds a lot more sophisticated than Team Random Smexy Man so I approve ;)

Rachel wrote: "Hello! Just checking in :)

After seeing all the other team names I thought maybe Elegant Man was a reference to a particular character so I was scouring my brain... but nope, just a random smexy ..."

lol!

Hi all. Just wanted to check in. Love team challenges and I am ready to kick butt :).

Sonia wrote: " Uhmmm... you choose the wrong Sherlock Holmes to the "distracting" effect. "

What? You mean Isapicnic Bringasnack doesn't do it for you? ;)


What about this one?


This one?

number 2 please

Hi all! This is my first group challenge as well. I'm hoping to up my number of books read this year, and this seems to be a good way to do it. :)

Welcome everyone whose checked in :0)

Still waiting on Tonya and Kelly to check in and then we'll be ready for the spin!

Quick question: Once the genre is allocated, do we want to go with the first come, first served method for allocating letters OR do we want allocate the letter placement in advance, i.e., every week the first letter is read by X, the second letter by Y, the third letter by Z and so on...

week one

Members Challenge Shelves

Lauren: 2014 Wheel-a-Thon
Tonya: Wheelathon
Nathalie: Wheel-a-Thon
Shan: Wheelathon
Laura: NBRC Wheelathon
Rachel: NBRC
Kelly: wheel-a-thon

Week #1: History
Books read: 30
Points: 1st round: 70 + 2nd round: 70 + 3rd round: 70 + 4th round: 70 + 5th round: 20 + Genre: 20 genre + Spell-out: 15 = 335

Members Challenge Shelves

Lauren: 2014 Wheel-a-Thon
Tonya: Wheelathon
Nathalie: Wheel-a-Thon
Shan: Wheelathon
Laura: NBRC Wheelathon
Rachel: NBRC
Kelly: wheel-a-thon

✔ Genre Bonus: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzi (Shelved as "History" 78 times)

1st Read Through: 15 point bonus

✔ H - Laura: True Colors by Kristin Hannah - July 15th
✔ I - Laura: A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah - July 19th
✔ S - Lauren: This Side of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost (Character: Spade) - July 13th
✔ T - Kelly: Laid Bare by Lauren Dane (Main Character: Todd Keenan) - July 13th
✔ O - Laura: The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro (Main Character: Eva d'Orsay - July 16th
✔ R - Lauren: Grim Shadows by Jenn Bennett (Series Name: Roaring Twenties) - July 13th
✔ Y - Kelly: Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis (Main Character: Lilah Young) - July 14th

2nd Read Through:

✔ H - Kelly: Death Masks by Jim Butcher (Main Character: Harry Dresden) - July 18th
✔ I - Kelly: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (Character: Ismay Parrish) - July 16th
✔ S - Kelly: Hungry for You by Lynsay Sands - July 19th
✔ T - Rachel: The Looking Glass by Jessica Arnold (Main Character: Tony) - July 15th
✔ O - Kelly: Zoo by James Patterson (Main Character: Jackson Oz) - July 17th
✔ R - Kelly: Vortex by Cherry Adair (Main Character: Daniela Rosado) - July 12th
✔ Y - Kelly: You...Again: Baby Blessed\Yesterday Once More by Debbie Macomber - July 15th

3rd Read Through:

✔ H - Lauren: Lethal by Sandra Brown (Main Character: Honor Gillette) - July 19th
✔ I - Lauren: Blood Spells by Jessica Anderson (Character: Iago) - July 18th
✔ S - Nathalie: Passage to Dawn by R. A. Salvatore - July 17th
✔ T - Laura: The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven by Kevin Malarkey - July 17th
✔ O - Tonya: We Are Water by Wally Lamb (Main Character: Orion Oh) - July 17th
✔ R - Kelly: Gabriel's Redemption by Sylvia Reynard - July 17th
✔ Y - Lauren: Cold Sight by Leslie Parrish (Character: Yvonne Jackson) - July 18th

4th Read Through:

✔ H - Tonya: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson - July 19th
✔ I - Kelly: I Spy a Naughty Game by Jo Davis (Series Name: Shado Agency) - July 17th
✔ S - Laura: Still Missing by Chevy Stevens - July 17th
✔ T - Kelly: The Tin Collectors by Stephen J. Cannell - July 19th
✔ O - Rachel: Hounded by Kevin Hearne (Main Character: Atticus O'Sullivan) - July 19th
✔ R - Laura: A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny - July 18th
✔ Y - Laura: I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzi - July 14th

5th Read Through:

H
✔ I - Shan: The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts (Series Name: Inn Boonsboro Trilogy) - July 19th
S
T
✔ O - Shan: One More Day by M. Malone - July 19th
R
Y

Hi all, first come first served method would be my choice

First come, first serve.

Do we each have to do a letter each week? For example, if Lauren finishes two books that count, does that mean I can read a book in the genre instead?

Or if, say, Kelly is out of town for a week can we cover for her for that week?

And I agree with first come, first serve

I don't think it matters who reads the books as long as we cover all the letters. However, I will ask in the captain's group just to make 100% sure :0)

Happy Reading everyone:) I am currently reading I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the TalibanI should finish it in a couple of days and hopefully work on another letter!

Laura wrote: "Happy Reading everyone:) I am currently reading I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the TalibanI should finish it in a couple of days and hopefully work..."

Great! So we have the "I" covered :0)

I'm reading - which works for the letter "R" as the series name is "Roaring Twenties"

I just started Passage to Dawn by R.A. Salvatore for "S".

Thanks Nathalie - have you down for the "S".

I will read One More Day by M. Malone for "O".

Wahoo! we are making progress team Elegant Man!!!

Got you down for the "O", Shan :0)

I'm close to finishing with a MC named Tony. So I could do "T" unless someone has a better "T" in the works?

Hey. Sorry I thought it was Saturday nights in the US.

Looks like we can do characters first/last names so I'll do Y for Lilah Young in Animal Magnetism

I'll also have an R (for our second round) for Daniela Rosado in Vortex sometime tonight since I'm almost done with it.

Did anyone pick a history labeled book yet?

H everyone! it's Tonya aka Co-Captain. Sorry for the late check in, I can only blame it on the Book I am currently reading. Avoiding housework and social media today to keep reading, bad me. I will go back through and see what is left for me to fit in. :)

I can do the H, I will be reading Housekeeping this week.

I will have the O for the second go through, the Book I am caught up in is We Are Water, a main character is Orion Oh, and his ex wife, Annie Oh, then the kids. :) Great book if you haven't read it yet!

Welcome Tonya and Kelly!

Rachel, I've got you down for the "T" and Kelly, you have the "Y"

Tonya - you have the "H"

Great teamwork everyone!

Anyone have a book labelled "History" that they can read?

It only has to be labeled 10 times to qualify

OK, I'm done with for the "R" and will read for the 2nd round "S" (a character is named Sasha)

Kelly wrote: "Looks like we can do characters first/last names so I'll do Y for Lilah Young in Animal Magnetism"

Really enjoyed this book, Kelly. The animals are a laugh riot.

The Cherry Adair books is also good. It was better than the 2nd book in the series.

done with Vortex. I like that series quite a bit. I have to catch up with her other series.

Kelly wrote: "done with Vortex. I like that series quite a bit. I have to catch up with her other series."

Yes, I like her writing. I'm on book #6 of T-FLAC but haven't gotten round to it yet. Her Lodestone series is also very good.