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Members

Name Books p.a. Timezone
Imke	 175	Europe
Joyce	 75	USA (East Coast)
Kate	 300	USA (East Coast)
Kathy	 75	USA (East Coast)
Aspanna	 110	Europe
Melissa (L) 256	USA (MST)

Captain Imke and Co-captain Joyce

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Hello teammates and welcome to team Butterfly.

Week 1: MYSTERY

Results Week 1

Week 2: HISTORY

Results Week 2

Week 3: NEW ADULT

Results Week 3

Week 4: CLASSIC

Results Week 4

Week 5: HUMOROUS

Results Week 5

Week 6: SCIENCE FICTION
Results

Week 7: THRILLER
1 Points = 80 + 15 + 20 = 115
T (Character)- Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden - Character: Tsubodai - Aspanna - ✔ 24 August 2014
H (Author)- Red Dragon by Thomas Harris - Aspanna - ✔ 25 August 2014 Genre Read
R (Title)- The Rose Ransom by Spencer Baum - Kathy - ✔ 24 August 2014
I (Character)- The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman - Character: Isabel - Aspanna - ✔ 24 August 2014
L (Character)- Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich - Character: Lula - Imke - ✔ 25 August 2014 Genre Read
L (Author)- The Giver by Lois Lowry - Aspanna - ✔ 26 August 2014
E (Character)- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - Character: Eddie - Aspanna - ✔ 25 August 2014
R (Character)- The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen - Character: Rachel - Joyce - ✔ 24 August 2014

2 Points = 80/80
T (Title)- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - Kate - ✔ 26 August 2014
H (Series)- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams - Series: hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy - Aspanna - ✔ 27 August 2014
R (Character) - The Bonding Ritual by Spencer Baum - Character: Ryan Jensen - Kathy - ✔ 25 August 2014
I (Author)- Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews - Imke - ✔ 28 August 2014
L (Character)- Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger - Character: Lefoux - Aspanna - ✔ 27 August 2014
L (Author)- How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet - Kate - ✔ 26 August 2014
E (Character) - Real Murders by Charlaine Harris - Character: Jane Engle - Imke - ✔ 26 August 2014
R (Character)- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler - Character: Rosemary - Kate - ✔ 26 August 2014

3 Points = 80/80
T (Title)- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Melissa - ✔ 28 August 2014
H (Character)- The Inverted World by Christopher Priest - Character: Helward Mann - Aspanna - ✔ 30 August 2014
R (Author)- Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan - Aspanna - ✔ 30 August 2014
I (Title)- The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells - Apsanna - ✔ 28 August 2014 43k words acc. to ARbookfind
L (Title)- Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams - Aspanna - ✔ 28 August 2014
L (Character)- Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology by Brandon Sanderson - Character: Lecid - Aspanna - ✔ 29 August 2014
E (Character)- Hounded by Kevin Hearne - Character: Emilia (a.k.a. Emily) - Imke - ✔ 29 August 2014
R (Author)- I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson - Aspanna - ✔ 29 August 2014

4 Points = 20/80
T (Title)- Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones - Imke - ✔ 30 August 2014
H (Author)- Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris - Imke - ✔ 29 August 2014
R -
I -
L -
L -
E -
R -

Total Points = 295

Links to team member shelves and read/page number verification can be found in our spreadsheet.

Oh pretty :)

(just visiting the competition friends :)

You're welcome to visit anytime.
Can't wait to hear from my teammates. I'm at work at the moment, I'll check in again later today when I'm at home.

Hello, Team Butterfly. Yeah for another fun team challenge!

Hello :)

Hi Melissa and Kate good to see you here.

Thanks, Imke! Where is everybody? Just a quick check in, so we can get this party started would be fantastic!

When are we getting our first assignment (approximately)?

week one

I'll keep mine up here to make it easier to track :)


24/08 - 30/08
[*THRILLER*]


✔ Iggulden, Conn - Bones of the Hills [char: Tsubodai, Ho Sa]
✔ Stedman, M. L. - The Light Between Oceans [char: Isabel, Hannah, Ralph]
✔ Harris, Thomas - Red Dragon [char: Hannibal Lecter, Eileen] *
✔ Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [char: Eddie, Lunkwill]
✔ Lowry, Lois - The Giver [char: Rosemary]
✔ Adams, Douglas - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide #2) [char: Eddie]
✔ Carriger, Gail - Etiquette & Espionage [char: Lefoux, Temminnick]
✔ Adams, Douglas - Life, the Universe & Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide #3) [char: Trillian, Eddie]
✔ Wells, H.G. - The Island of Dr. Moreau [char: Edward Prendick]
✔ Matheson, Richard - I Am Legend and Other Stories
✔ Shadows Beneath (Authors: Tayler, Howard - Kowal, Mary Robinette) [char: Lecid]
✔ Riordan, Rick - Percy Jackson's Greek Gods [Hades, Erisikhthon, Ixion, Thanatos, Laomedon]
✔ Priest, Christopher - The Inverted World [char: Elizabeth, Helward Mann, Victoria Lerouex]


note: books with * cover the genre.

Previous Weeks
:

13/07 - 19/07
(view spoiler)[*MYSTERY*]


✔ Yates, Dornford - The Blind Corner [chars: Mansel, Rose Noble] *
✔ Fforde, Jasper - The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1) [char: Jack Schitt] *
✔ Moore, Christopher - Sacre Blue [char: Toulouse-Lautrec]
✔ Yancey, Rick - The Monstrumologist (Monstrumologist #1) [char: Starr]
✔ Yancey, Rick - The Curse Of The Wendigo (Monstrumologist #2)
✔ Martinez, A Lee - Emperor Mollusk Vs The Sinister Brain
✔ Yates, Dornford - Perishable Goods [char: Marsel, Rouse]
✔ Kushner, Ellen - Swordspoint (Riverside #1) [char: Michael]
✔ Moore, Christopher - The Serpent Of Venice [char: Emilia] (hide spoiler)]

20/07 - 26/07
(view spoiler)[*HISTORY*]


✔ Boffa, Alessandro - You're an Animal, Viskovitz!
✔ Jacobs, Harriet - Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl [char: Sands] *
✔ Howard, Jonathan - The Necromancer [char: Rufus Maleficarus, Simpkins]
✔ Judson, Olivia - Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice To All Creation [char: Dr Tatiana]
✔ Evanovich, Janet - One For The Money (Stephanie Plum #1) [char: Ramirez]
✔ Okorafor, Nnedi - Lagoon [char: Rome, Troy]
✔ Asimov, Isaac - The Naked Sun (Robot #2) [char: Daneel Olivaw]
✔ Ibrahim, Laila - Yellow Crocus [char: Samuel, Rebecca]
✔ Yancey, Rick - The Isle Of Blood [char: Will Henry]
✔ Asimov, Isaac - Robot Dreams [char: Susan Calvin, Oswald Grant, Harg Tholan]
✔ Yancey, Rick - The Final Descent [char: Will Henry, Samuel Isaacson] (hide spoiler)]

27/07 - 02/08
(view spoiler)[*NEW ADULT*]


✔ Sharpe, Tom - Wilt [char: Eva]
✔ Chase, Emma - Tangled [char: Drew, Alexandra, Warren] *
✔ Joyce, Rachel - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry [char: David]
✔ Gaiman, Neil - Smoke & Mirrors [char: Abingdon, Whitaker, Dundas, Lassiter, Talbot, Ezekiel]
✔ Shusterman, Neal - Unwind [char: Ariana, Lev, Risa Ward, Tyler]
✔ Christie, Agatha - & Then There Were None [char: Wargrave, Lombard, Emily, Thomas Rogers]
✔ Davidson, Mary Janice - Undead & Unwed [char: Elizabeth Taylor, Antonia, Nostros, Watkins]
✔ Davidson, Mary Janice - Undead & Unwelcome [char: Elizabeth Taylor, Laura, Wyndham]
✔ Sharpe, Tom - The Wilt Alternative [char: Eva]
✔ Le Guin, Ursula - A Wizard Of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle #1) [char: Duny, Nemmerle]
✔ Wodehouse, P.G - Uneasy Money [char: Dawlish, Elizabeth, Nichols]
✔ Kane, Stacia - Unholy Ghosts (Downside Ghosts #1) [char: Terrible, Lex] (hide spoiler)]

03/08 - 09/08
(view spoiler)[*CLASSIC*]


✔ Brent, Weeks - The Way Of Shadows [char: Azoth, Solon, Elene Cromwyll, Logan Gyre]
✔ Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood [char: Susan, Al Dewey] *
✔ Smith, Alexander Gordon - Lockdown [char: Carl]
✔ Christie, Agatha - Murder On The Orient Express [char: Samuel Edward Ratchett] *
✔ Lewis, C.S - Prince Caspian [char: Aslan]
✔ Andrews, Ilona - Magic Bites [char: Curran Lennart, Jim Shrapshire]
✔ Andrews, Ilona - Magic Burns [char: Curran Lennart, Jim Shrapshire]
✔ Andrews, Ilona - Magic Strikes [char: Curran Lennart, Jim Shrapshire]
✔ Andrews, Ilona - Magic Bleeds [char: Curran Lennart, Jim Shrapshire]
✔ Andrews, Ilona - Magic Slays [char: Curran Lennart, Jim Shrapshire]
✔ Andrews, Ilona - Magic Rises [char: Curran Lennart, Jim Shrapshire]
✔ Andrews, Ilona - Magic Breaks [char: Curran Lennart, Jim Shrapshire] (hide spoiler)]

10/08 - 16/08
(view spoiler)[*HUMOROUS*]


✔ Bierce, Ambrose - The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary *
✔ Cline, Ernest - Ready Player One [char: Ogden Morrow, James Donovan Halliday, Sorrento]
✔ Shusterman, Neal - Unwholly [char: Hayden, Miracolina, Risa]
✔ Fielding, Helen - Bridget Jones's Diary [char: Una, Mark, Sharon]
✔ Shusterman, Neal - Unsouled [char: Risa, Mason, Hayden]
✔ Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone [char: Malfoy, Snape, Oliver Wood]
✔ Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter & The Chamber Of Secrets [char: Malfoy, Snape, Oliver Wood]
✔ Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban [char: Sirius Black, Malfoy, Oliver Wood]
✔ Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire [char: Moody, Olympe Maxime, Snape]
✔ Rowling, J.K - Harry Potter & The Order Of Phoenix [char: Dolores Umbridge, Sirius, Moody]
✔ Abercrombie, Joe - Half A King (Shattered Sea #1) [char: Odem, Uthil, Rulf]
✔ Stroud, Jonathan - The Amulet Of Samarkand [char: Martha Underwood, Rupert] (hide spoiler)]

17/08 - 23/08
(view spoiler)[*SCIENCE FICTION*]


✔ Asimov, Isaac - Foundation [char: Hari Seldon, Linge Chen, Jaim Orsy, Eskel Gorov] *
✔ Asimov, Isaac - Foundation & Empire [char: Hari Seldon, Cleon II, Toran Darell, Ebling Mis] *
✔ Asimov, Isaac - Second Foundation (Foundation #3) [char: Channis, Toran, Elvett Semic, Orum]*
✔ Lloyd-Jones, Emily - Illusive [char: Ciere, Magnus Fugare] *
✔ Gaiman, Neil - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
✔ Iggulden, Conn - Genghis: Birth of an Empire [char: Temujin, Eeluk, Sholoi]
✔ Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet #1) [char: Rose the Nose] *
✔ Gaiman, Neil - Fragile Things [char: October, Earnshawe, Campbell, Susan, TwoFeathers]
✔ Iggulden, Conn - Lords of the Bow [char: Temuge, Ho Sa, Ogedai]
✔ Gaiman, Neil - The Graveyard Book [char: Owens, Silas, Frost, Elizabeth, Caraway]
✔ Colfer, Eoin - Artemis Fowl [char: Artemis Fowl, Holly Short] (hide spoiler)]

Hey Aspanna. Your team only needs to read one book of the genre, and with the 10% rule your Yates book would count for Mystery :)

Thanks! I probably expressed myself poorly there :) I got the part about the genre. I just couldn't find another viable option, for me, to read with a Y in it (the A-Z challenge for Authors and books cut my options short) :P So, me saying its a mystery writer was to point out that the others might not need to read the genre. Sorry if I wasn't clear :)

Hi Aspanna great to see you here. Good thinking about searching for the difficult letters. It would be wonderful if you started on one of those. I'm waiting to hear from our other teammates and co-captain before making a plan. With your book we have at least A genre book and a difficult letter covered.

Hi all finally made it!! I'm new to this challenge had a bit difficulty finding the room.

Hi Kathy nice to see you here. Is everything clear for this challenge? Do you have an idea what you are going to read this week?

I have a few just want to know what letters are available so I can start reading

I don't have any books with a letter "y" However, I have books for all the other letters in the word Mystery. Just waiting for the other team members to see which letters they are going to take.

We are going to spell out MYSTERY this week. Aspanna is going to read for at least one Y and probably also the second one. Her book also covers the genre. You can take one of the other letters. Post here what you are going to read and when you finish also post this and make sure you place the book on your wheel-a-thon shelve. You can also post what you thought of the book. I'm always looking for new books to read, so recommendations are always welcome.

I will take the letter (S) -

I can cover M-started My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel this morning.

I do not have any obvious Ys on my shelves either, but if needed I can certainly wander over to the library and pick something.

The other letters (S, T, E, and R), I have books currently planned for this week which will qualify.

I'm currently reading/listening Rock Chick Regret. That will take care of the "R". For the first Mystery we have left T and E.

I am currently reading The Blue Book which has a main character named Elizabeth. I could finish it today, but I will put it aside for a few hours and finish it tomorrow.

Books need to be marked as "read" on (or after) July 13th using GoodReads time zone/clock, right?

I have made a spreadsheet where I can track of what you have read you can find it here: spreadsheet.

"Books need to be marked as "read" on (or after) July 13th using GoodReads time zone/clock, right?"

Yes I think so, but let me check that out for you. I'll reserve the E for you as well.

I've made a Reading Plan, this can still change when we have read more books and start to spell out mystery again for more points. Here you can see which letter still needs to be read.

I am reading Spin a Wicked Web. For the letter S? :) I also am finishing reading The Waves. Would this work for the T? I also am reading Tik-Tok of Oz. Tik-Tok has 52,828 words. I don't know if the words add up in this book to the right number. If someone is able to check that out for me, I could also finish it for "T". I am also reading Tarka the Otter. Even though you might think it is a children's book it isn't really.

Sorry Ive been out all day. I am looking forward to this and Mystery is a fav of mine so it will be easy for me to read this genre.

Ill take the letter "T" I'll read A Touch of Dead by Charlaine Harris It is listed in the mystery lists so it will fall into the genre easily

I'm also reading another mystery currently It Only Takes a Moment by Mary Jane Clarke this would be good for an "M" or "E" for the main character is Eliza Blake

Hi Joyce good to see you. I'll update the planned reading with your choices.

I've finished Rock Chick Regret today. First letter is taken care of.

I've started Rock Chick Revolution for an R.

Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "I am reading Spin a Wicked Web. For the letter S? :) I also am finishing reading The Waves. Would this work for the T? I also am reading Tik-Tok of Oz. ..."

I'm checking with the Mods about word count for Tik-Tok.
I've put you other books in the spreadsheet. And I'll update the Reading Plan with your books.

I can take care of at least one of the second set of Y's. I'll start Down London Road by Samantha Young today. I have more of her books on my to be read shelve. If I finish the first one on time I might be able to finish the second one as well.

I finished The Blue Book by A.L. Kennedy this morning.

It should work for letter T for the title, and it is currently slated in the E slot for MC Elizabeth.

The other characters don't work for this week's genre.

I also finished The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd this morning.

It will also work for T for the title, S for the author's name (and the main character, Sarah).

I was not planning on using this one for this challenge, but I finished it and if it is a help to the team, I want to make sure I mention it.

I finished The Waves by Virginia Woolf today.

It could work for "T" title, "S" & "R" for main characters (Susan and Rhoda).

Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "I finished The Waves by Virginia Woolf today.

It could work for "T" title, "S" & "R" for main characters (Susan and Rhoda)."

Hi Melissa can you mark the book as read and place it on your wheel a thon shelve?

Reading through the Rules thread, I see we are not limited to Main Characters. Mary Grimke is Sarah's mother in Invention of Wings, and certainly plays a larger role than Goldie the Goldfish. So, if it works better for the team, this book could also go into the M slot.

MYSTERY is 7 letters long, how many times are we aiming to spell it? I know I read between 5 and 7 books a week and am trying to make sure I pick books which fit in some way. What are other people's goals?

Thanks for mentioning about the character Kate, I have updated the spreadsheet accordingly. I'm trying to complete MYSTERY first. Later when we have read more books they can be shuffeled around for the best fit.

I read about 2-3 books per week, depending on how busy I am at work/home.

I'd like to have some books that fit for the Y, which is a difficult letter to find and it's in mystery twice. We have to complete the word before extra letters and/or words count for points.

What did you think of Ivention of Wings, I'm thinking about reading it.

We already have 4 letters done, good job. Let's continue the good work.

Imke, I am feeling pretty confident I will have a Y after all. I am 100 pages or so into My Promised Land and there have been several people with Y names. Yitzhak Tabenkin has been mentioned many times. And as this is a book about Israel, I am sure Yasser Arafat will be making an appearance. :)

I thought The Invention of Wings was OK. There was a large focus on the brutality of slave punishments throughout the book which made much of the bigger story harder for me to connect (it's hard to watch the blooming abolition movement and woman's suffrage movement when you are flinching at yet another reference to that whipping or those scars). It did spark an interest in seeking out more information about the Grimke sisters and their work, though.

Imke wrote: "Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "I finished The Waves by Virginia Woolf today.

It could work for "T" title, "S" & "R" for main characters (Susan and Rhoda)."

Hi Melissa c..."

hi. sorry, I forgot about shelf. am fixing <○○> :)

Thank you. :)

I've completed reading The Spymistress
7/13/14
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The next book I'm reading is for the letter (E) The Encyclopedia of Me

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Done :)
That's Y & E or T (mc Thursday Next), both cover the genre
Starting on second Y tomorrow

Do we have a tally of how many points we have so far? How many times can we read for the word Mystery?

I don't have a tally yet. I'll post points when the first week is done and we have the points of the other teams.

We can read MYSTERY as many times as we want, can fit in one week.

Melissa, you can use Tik Tok of Oz for this challenge.