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Captain ~ Shy

Kristin ~ Experiment in Terror Junkie
Denise (Sign up post 57)
Berit
Allison Ann

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★Publication years, any edition so long as it is published in the given year.
★Covers must be at least 50%
★Locations as long as the book takes part in the given location at some point in the book.
★Author letters, first, middle, or last name must start with the given letter.
★Title letters, must be the first word in the title excluding the, a, and.
★Cover Item, must have the given item on the cover.
★The alternates with links are for shelves, your book must be on the given shelf.
★New item - Text item, your book must contain the given word and need to include the sentence with it and location when posting your review. Plurals will be ok to use.
★ Please link the proper edition when using publication year, cover item, and cover color.

The Alternates:
1. N/A
2. White
3. 1999
4. Need to Buy
5. Title D
6. Cover Item Weapon
7. Author M
8. Text Item Garage
9. California
10. Purple
11. 2001
12. Read 2014
13. Title L
14. Cover Item Shoe(s)
15. Author J
16. Text Item Broom
17. Spain
18. Gray/Silver
19. 1995
20. Interesting
21. Title W
22. Cover Item Hat
23. Author H
24. Text Item Ambulance
25. China
26. Orange
27. 2000
28. Done
29. Title T
30. Cover Item Water
31. Author Z
32. Text Item Sidewalk
33. Nevada
34. Red
35. 2007
36. Made Me Cry
37. Title B
38. Cover Item Building(s)
39. Author K
40. Text Item Envelope
41. Tennessee
42. Brown
43. 2011
44. Ereader
45. Title E
46. Cover Item A Dress
47. Author I
48. Text Item Sink
49. New York
50. Pink
51. 2002
52. Favorite Author
53. Title R
54. Cover Item 2 People
55. Author S
56. Text Item Thunder
57. France
58. Black
59. 2014
60. Beautiful Covers
61. Title G
62. Cover Item Fire
63. Author B
64. Text Item Lace
65. Australia
66. Green
67. 2012
68. Cute
69. Title S
70. Cover Item An Animal
71. Author L
72. Text Item Midnight
73. Oregon
74. Multi-Colored (3 or More Colors)
75. 2009
76.Set Aside
77. Title C
78. Cover Item No People
79. Author A
80. Text Item Butterfly
81. Scotland
82. Yellow
83. 2006
84. Four Star
85. Title M
86. Cover Item Moon
87. Author F
88. Text Item Gloves
89. England
90. Blue
91. 2010
92. Priority Reads
93. Title G
94. Cover Item Flower(s)
95. Author E
96. Text Item Mountain
97. Illinois
98. Purple
99. 2013
100. Read Me
(view spoiler)[101. Priority Reads
102. Author M
103. Tennessee
104. Text Item Midnight
105. Beautiful Covers
106. Black
107. 2009
108. Title E
109. Text Item Thunder
110. Four Star
111. Multi-Colored (3 or More Colors)
112. England (hide spoiler)]

Trying this again... LOL!

Hello Teamies!! Checking in & wanted to say HEY!

(This time to the right team!! I got too excited I guess..)

Took me a while to find my team. I'm excited to start!

Yay! And now there is 2 of us! :)
Welcome Denise!

Now there are three :-) excited to get started on this! I really love team challenges ;-)

Fabulous! Welcome To Team 4!

Has anyone done this before? I believe we need to pick a captain, I choose anyone but me ;-) I have never done this particular challenge before!

Hi team! Yay new challenge! Now we are four.

Don't think I've "met" any of you yet, so hello. I'm Allison, I live in NW Ontario, Canada where yesterday was spring and today was winter again. :) I love this challenge, I think it is my third round playing. I'll try and think of some names later, but I will always vote for a name with alliteration or a pun and soundly against anything with the words bitches, babes, gals, chicks, etc. I just can't, sorry. I sounds very old and cranky, sorry again. Now I've apologized twice and I sound very Canadian. Not sorry. :D

Haha! Love it! Glad to meet you too Allison Ann!

This is my third tour of SS also. I've been a captain and I didn't mind it, but more than happy to spread the love if someone else wants to fill that spot.

Hopefully we have a night owl who is lucky with dice?

I live in Indiana and can sympathize with your weather conditions. Today I'm a happy camper with a sunny 75 but on Wed our high is in the 40s...

I'll think on some names tonight and try to offer some suggestions but no promises they will be very creative or inventive.

Hi! I live in Southern California, where it has been 90° for the last few days :-) I am really excited about this challenge, I have never done it before, so I may need some guidance ;-) names? I will gladly approve any name you guys come up with.. Looking forward to getting to know all of you much better!

Here are a few team name suggestions:
Fab-Team Four
Four: A Divergent Team
Fabulously Fearless & Feisty Four (->Say THAT 10x!)
4Eyes Book Club

Berit - I'm totally envious of your 90 degree weather!!!

I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area. Weather is crazy. Cold one day, hot the next. I was a sub for the last round, so I've done this before, a little, but never from the beginning.

Any of the team names is fine by me, as long as I don't have to be captain. :)

Hi ladies. Im just checking in to say hi. My name is Shy and this is my second time around with this one. I am giving a heads up that I am out of town the rest of this week for a field trip with my kiddie so I will probably check in sometime Friday night or Sat morning.

Hi Shy! **waves**

Looks like Denise and Berit pass on captain.

Shy, Allison Ann - Either of you want to be captain?

And - what's our name? :D

Maybe we could come up with a name that has something to do with our number, what number are we again? Oh yeah number 4!

Does the captain have to do much extra work? I don't feel comfortable volunteering, when I'm not exactly sure what is involved. I promise that I will be a good team member ;-) I do think I need to do this a few times before I volunteered to be the captain!

Well I was the captain the last time I played. I can do it again but I will be out on Friday so I can't do the roll for it for this week. Is someone wants to roll then I can take it from there when I get back into town.

I don't mind covering it the roll this week Shy.

I posted some "four" type names above. I'm on my phone app so I can't tell what the post number is.

I didn't say they were good suggestions necessarily but they were ideas. :)

I totally missed that post, from earlier :-) great minds think a like and all that! All those names are absolutely fine with me.

So, does anyone have a favorite name? Also I'm doing a team challenge right now, we are doing very well! I think the key to a good team is communication. I am on Good Reads all the time, so I am always willing to chat :-)

Berit wrote: "So, does anyone have a favorite name? Also I'm doing a team challenge right now, we are doing very well! I think the key to a good team is communication. I am on Good Reads all the time, so I am al..."

I totally agree with you on communication! I've played this game twice before and it makes a huge difference when there are some chatty folks on the team. :) Which challenge are you doing right now? I'm a bit of a challenge-a-holic...

I can go with any of the names. I may be partial to Four: A Divergent Team since Insurgent comes out this weekend and Four is wayyyyy hot, but I could easily be persuaded to use another name.

Hello again team and hi to Shy. I work 7 days a week and don't have internet at work, so I'm only usually around in the evenings. I check in super quick in the morning to see what I'm reading, but then I'm gone for 9-12 hours. :D

I'd be happy to be captain if no one else wants to but if someone with a bit more access is willing, I'll vote for them. Same with the names. I kinda like Fab Fours, but I'm cool with the divergent one too (even though YA generally makes me roll my eyes) ;)

Good to know Allison Ann - that's a lot of hours!

I think Shy said she'd be OK with captain, she did it last time. I don't mind doing the captain thing if Shy doesn't want to. I did it last time also.

What kind of genres do you ladies like to read?

I seem to read mostly PNR, CR and YA, although I usually mix other genres in from time to time. One of my favorite books so far this year is The Martian - which is not something I would typically read so I try to keep an open mind. Although I did try All the Light We Cannot See which EVERYONE loved but I wanted to claw my eyes out I was so bored. :(

Fab four , Is just fine with me. I read a lot of YA, Historical fiction, contemporary, and I'm trying to branch out into fantasy and Science fiction. I plan on reading The Martian, for a buddy read and another group in a few days. . I generally use the app, so I have access at most times. :-) this also sometimes causes my post to be a bit odd, typing on the phone isn't always the easiest ;-) Fab four

BTW, I love the Divergent series, wouldn't mind going with that name either ;-) but I know not everyone is a fan!

Just one more thing, sorry I am very chatty! I think it's funny I said I'm always here to chat, and then I wasn't here :-) I was at my youngest son's baseball game. I have three children 18, 17, and 12, boy, girl, boy.

Good morning! I noticed a lot of teams already have their very cute names, all number related, so I really wasn't being all that creative :-) I say you captains can make an executive decision and just name is ;-) also I have a question, the person who rolls comes and lets us know, Then we choose our books, do we report the books here? And also is this the thread and which we post our final reviews? I know for my own sanity I like knowing what everyone is reading, and to be honest that everyone is reading ;-) sorry in advance if I ever come across as bossyh

Please don't apologize for being chatty! Love chatty! :)

My kids are similar ages - 18 yrs boy & 13 yrs girl. Have been spending lots of time at lacrosse games so I can relate.

Yes, after the captain (or whoever) rolls the dice, they will post on this thread letting us know what we rolled and what spot we are on, as well as what the criteria is for selecting a book that week.

(Example: if we landed on spot #10, it would say we could read a book that's a first in series, a stand alone, or has a purple cover)

Then, YES, scamper off, pick your book and post it here on this thread again. Cuz you're right Berit, everyone feels better knowing we each have a game plan for the week. Once you're done with the book, you come back to this thread and post:
The book cover or link
Date the book was read
Your rating of the book
Your review

Then when all of us have our reviews in, the captain will link to one post and we're ready to roll again when the time comes!

Thank you for clarifying that! So, we chat and review all in the same thread? Just making sure, because sometimes I think they can get a bit confusing.

Is your 18-year-old graduating high school this year? My oldest son is, and that is another thing I have going on. Getting him ready for college next year, we've got all but one acceptance letters, now we need to decide. I think he's very lucky he has a lot of choices, Now I'm hoping we get a lot of money ;-)

I like Fab Four ok too but just wasn't sure if it had been used recently.

Maybe Shy will be able to pop in and weigh in a vote too.

:)

Yes - chatting & game play all take place here. There is a thread for the captain to post our reviews & new rolls once a week.

I used to bookmark to the most recent post that combined everyone's books & reviews so that's how we kept track of who's were in, etc. As well as if one snuck in and I didn't see it, they could prompt me to link it up.

The name really doesn't matter to me, I just really enjoy these team challenges. So, while were doing this one if you hear of any others, let me know :-)

My son just decided on LMU for college next year (Lincoln Memorial Univ in Tennessee). It's about a 6 hour drive from our house so it sounds much better than the Florida College he was also considering.

He's playing lacrosse in college so that helped him narrow down his decision.

College stuff is crazy though right?!!

All my sons choices are in California. His number one choice Berkeley, which does not notify until the 26th of this month, is up north. So, I really don't know what I want. If he doesn't get in there he will probably end up going to school at UC San Diego, which is only an hour or so away from me.. He was a picture in high school, but is not playing at the college level, the colleges he could have gone to for baseball, weren't where he wanted to go for academics.. All decisions need to be made by May 1, so only time will tell :-)

LOL, a picture not a picture :-)

It gets really stressful. What does your son want to be when he grows up?

He thinks he is all grown up :-) he would like to go to law school. What about yours?

He's still trying to decide.. :S
He's planning to take business & minor in Spanish

My daughter who will graduate next year, wants to minor in Spanish, she wants to be an elementary school teacher.

Hi all finally checked into the hotel. I am a Four lover so Im cool with the name and I can be captain.

Kristin if you can roll for me on Friday then I will be good from there.

Oh I saw us all saying a little bit about ourselves I work full time and have 3 kids 14,10 and 5 and between the 3 I am always running to take someone somewhere.

That is the life of a mom :-) have fun on your field trip! Are you somewhere fun? Also do we need to report our name, whatever it is to somebody? I seem to have a lot of questions ;-)

Yep this GR app is awful I can't get to the thread to announce our name and that I'm captain. if someone can do it that would be great.

I can, what did we decide our name was?