You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Team Two consists of:

Marnie
Nistha (Nix)
Lynn
Janice
Kristie
Grainne

Toppler Main Page with full rules and requirements.

Series

✔️ 1. Lynn - The Wickwire Watch
✔️ 2. Lynn - The Fated Sky
3,
4.
✔️ 5. Janice - The Dark Wind
✔️ 6. Nix - Traitors Gate
7.
✔️ 8. Janice - The Devil's Novice
9.
✔️ 10. Janice - Hook, Line and Blinker

Title words This is the number of words in the title.
✔️ 1. Marnie - Beartooth
✔️ 2. Lynn - Good Material
✔️ 3. Lynn - The Wedding People
✔️ 4. Kristie - Death on the Nile
✔️ 5. Grainne - The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
✔️ 6. Kristie - Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love
✔️ 7. Marnie - The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
8.
9.
10.

Original publication year
1.
✔️ 2. Marnie - Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
✔️ 3. Kristie - Ward D
4.
✔️ 5. Marnie - How to Seal Your Own Fate
✔️ 6. Marnie - Lone Wolf
7.
✔️ 8. Lynn - The Calculating Stars
✔️ 9. Nix - The Haunting of Hill House
10.

Letters in title
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
✔️ 8. Kristie - Play Dead
9.
✔️ 10. Marnie - book:Cat's People|215805897]

Original publication day
✔️ 1. Grainne - A Song to Drown Rivers
2.
3.
✔️ 4. Janice - A Fall of Marigolds (Feb 4, 2014)
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Original publication month
✔️ 1. Janice - People of Darkness
✔️ 2. Marnie - The Snowbirds
✔️3. Grainne - The House in the Cerulean Sea
4.
✔️ 5. Nix - The Naga Warriors 1: Battle of Gokul Vol 1
6.
7.
✔️ 8. Nix - The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
✔️ 9. Nix - Apples Never Fall
✔️ 10. Marnie - The Racketeer

Pages
✔️ 1. Grainne - The Namesake
2.
3.
4.
✔️ 5. Marnie - The Windsor Knot
6.
✔️ 7. Grainne - Survival is a Dying Art
✔️ 8. Lynne - The Cinnamon Bun Book Store
9.
10.

Thanks, Janice.

Hello!

I can commit to 5 books, and below is the five I'd ideally be reading and how they fit with the prompts.
However if you can't use them all, then I could possibly look at alternative books if you need a certain prompt filled.

Series:
#1 The Wickwire Watch
#2 The Fated Sky

Title words:
#2 Good Material
#3 The Wickwire Watch
#3 The Fated Sky
#3 The Wedding People
#8 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Publication Year:
#1 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
#2 The Wickwire Watch
#3 Good Material
#4 The Wedding People
#8 The Fated Sky

Title letters:

Publication Date:
#7 Good Material
#9 The Wickwire Watch

Publication Month:
#2 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
#7 The Wedding People
#8 The Fated Sky
#9 The Wickwire Watch

Pages:
#1 The Wickwire Watch (421 paperback)
#4 The Fated Sky (384 paperback)
#4 The Wedding People (384 Hardcover)
#5 Good Material (345 paperback)
#6 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (176 paperback)

I know we don't have an organizer yet, but I'll add my intended books as well and where they fit for easy swapping.

Death on the Nile -
Title Words 4
Pub Year 7
Pub day 1
Pages 2

Ward D -
Title Words 2
Pub Year 3
Title Letters 5
Pub Day 8
Pub Month 5
Pages 8

Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love -
Title Words 6
Pub Year 4
Pub Month 8
Pages 4

I will definitely get through the first two and should be able to complete the third as well.

I volunteer to be scorekeeper.

Need to gopher. This looks fun!!

My possibilities

Beartooth
Title words 1
Publication year 5
Letters in title 9
Publication month 2
Publication day 1
Pages 2 (212 kindle)

How to Seal Your Own Fate
Series 2
Title words 6
Publication year 5
Publication month 3
Publication day 7

Lone Wolf
Series 1
Title words 2
Publication year 7
Letters in title 8
Publication month 8
Publication day 9
Pages 9 ( audio 7h 19 m)

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
Title words 7
Publication year 4
Publication month 9
Publication day 4
Pages 1 ( audio 8h 21m)

Hi all, I am just touching base here with everybody. I am off to gopher and I will update the books I plan to read soon xx

My possibilities

The Namesake
#2 words
#4 year of publication(2004)
#1 page number

The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
#5 words
#8 year of publication (2018)
#5 (May)
#8 page number

A Song to Drown Rivers
#5 words
#4 year of publication (2024)
#1 original publication day
#10 publication month (October)
#5 page number

Marnie wrote: "I volunteer to be scorekeeper.

Need to gopher. This looks fun!!"

Thanks, Marnie.

Thanks Marnie!

Do we also need a message where we list the prompts and who intends to read what so we know what's taken and what's not taken?

Such as:
Series:
1. Lynn - The Wickwire Watch
2, Lynn - The Fated Sky
3,
4.
5.
(etc)

I haven't started gophering yet. I have two books to finish badge of the List challenge. I plan to do that this week and then any book I read for the toppler can count towards badge 2.

I am planning to read the below

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
#5 words
#4 year of publication (2014)
#8 publication month (aug)
#2 series
#4 page number

Apples Never Fall
#3 words
#1 year of publication (2021)
#9 publication month (sep)
#7 page number

I will gopher for the rest to also check what we are missing as a team

I'll be organizer to Marnie's scorekeeping. Will that work?

I'll update message 1 with a list of what needs to be done. I'll plug in people as they posted, starting with Lynn. Sort of first come first served.

Check out message one. I've plugged everyone's books as stated. Please check the list over and let me know where I've goofed. I did it down and dirty, so there are liable to be mistakes.

I think it's good that we continue to list everywhere our books will fit. From here on, state your preference and then list alternatives so that Marnie can fill shuffle things along.

Marnie, please let me know what you're moving and to where so that I can keep the list up to date.

Now... for my own.

I will commit to 3 books for now. I'll possibly read more,

First book will be:

A Fall of Marigolds
I will claim number of pages: 0 (320)
Also can be used for:
title words: 4
org pub year: 4 (2014)
org pub day: 4
org pub month: 2

This gives a whole new meaning to gophering! Phew!

Here's the other two:

Hook, Line and Blinker
Preference: series: 10
Will also fit:
title words: 4
org pub year: 7 (June 4, 2017
org pub day: 4
org pub month: 6
pages: 9 (239)

The Devil's Novice
Preference: series: 8
Will also fit:
title words: 3
org pub year:3 (Aug 1, 1983)
org pub day: 1
org pub month: 8
pages: 0 (290)

How is everyone doing? This thread has been quiet for 3 days! Is everyone ready to go? I already have my books set aside waiting for toppler time. :)

Too bad I didn't plan the toppler for this week. It's been so quiet here. Some of my plans were cancelled due to snow and I've been sitting at home reading more than usual. I hope I can keep up the trend next week. It's been really nice.

I think everyone was keen to gopher so got it done right of the bat.

I am just finishing my current reads to be mostly done for rest before the Toppler!

Can I also claim?

The Naga Warriors 1: Battle of Gokul Vol 1
Publ Month: 5

Added!

I think so too, Janice. I was just checking in. :)

If I am able to read as much next week as this week, I may be able to add an extra audiobook. :) We'll see how the beginning of the week goes though. I seem to be adding a lot of appointments.

Ive had a few appointments these last two weeks, but everything is clear for the toppler.

Sometimes having appointments can be a good thing during a toppler. I listen to an audiobook while driving and can read if I have to wait. It actually prevents me from doing other things that don't allow me to read.

I used to listen to my audibooks in the car while driving, but I've gotten away from it mainly because of my strokes. I need to concentrate on what I'm doing is the main consideration. Plus, I don't do a lot of highway driving anymore and driving around town is just short bursts . The final excuse is, I'm still getting used to my new car.

I have Apple Car Play with it, and the audiobooks weren't accessing my Audible library,When I first tested it out, the only book it offered was Bad Monkey, something we read as a group years back. I didn't even know I owned the audiobook. I finally found it in my ITunes library and I deleted it. TCar Play was accessing Itunes by default. With the help of ChatGPT I finally got it to link to my Audible library. Now, I'm procrastinating about using it.

Maybe I'll go for a drive this weekend, and listen to my toppler reads. It's above freezing, and I just hope the sun comes up and I can enjoy my sun roof now that the snow has melted off of it.

That's understandable, Janice. I definitely focus on the road more than my books, but if I needed to focus additional attention I would shut it off too. As it is now, if I'm going somewhere and don't know the area I will often turn my book off so I can pay more attention to where I'm going.

One of the nice things about audiobooks for me is that sometimes during a toppler my husband and I will take a long drive just for the sake of driving and listening. We once drove over two hours to try out an ice cream shop just so I would have good book time. We've done the same thing to a coffee shop and to take a walk on the beach. It ends up being some nice time together during the toppler.

Snow and Topplers seem like good companions. I’m in Florida with no weather to keep me reading. It’s been crazy busy and I’m looking forward to the toppler to refocus on reading.

I’m going to start with Beartooth and The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year (audio)



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I'm going to download my audiobooks this afternoon so that I have no delays tomorrow.

That is so cool, Kristie. Does your husband like the same books you do?

Marnie - I'll be really interested to see what you think of Beartooth. I keep going back and forth with that one on my TBR.

Fortunately, we like a lot of the same of books. We both tend to like historical fiction, mystery-thrillers, and contemporaries. There are certain authors that we both love. He knows that I have challenges and book clubs to read for, so he always lets me pick the book and I always try to pick something we will both enjoy.

I am all ready and set to go. The temperatures are below freezing, but snow is not forecast here. I'll be reading indoors in cozy nooks and cafes this week.

Kindle is fully charged and ready. I actually charged it out in the living room because I oftentimes wake up in the middle of the night and read a bit ;)

I’m curious about Beartooth too Kristie. Hope it’s not overhyped. I’ll let you know later. It’s very short so a good first book.

Ready and raring to go. :) I had a moment last night trying to find The Devil's Novice on my kindle app. Got to keep those programmers working so they keep updating apps/websites when they don't need to. The way your library is listed is different. I thought maybe I was mistaken about owning it, but I found it and downloaded it. Phew!

Oh that's funny, Marnie. Good idea to keep it out of the room.

Janice, I got a newer Kindle a year or so ago and I hate the way they are set up now. It is so difficult to find anything. My old Kindle just had my Kindle library in it and I loved it. I wish they didn't add so much junk to them. For me, my Kindle is meant to be a book. If I wanted access to everything else I'd get something else.

My physical book for this toppler is a paperback. It's been sitting next to my bed for a while now and I'm happy to finally get to it.

It's getting to be a pet peeve of mine. It's not just Kindle, it's everything. Every website is constantly making changes. I just get used to a new layout, and bang it's all shuffled around. I hate the the new book page on Audible.

The government webpage has all been changed around, and without making any kind of an announcement, they now require specific things when filing T4 slips. I don't know what you call them in the States, but they are a report of earnings and deductions for each employee and they need them to file their income tax. I noticed a new box on the filing summary that I needed to check and fill out because I was filing on behalf of my client. When I uploaded the file, it was rejected because my ID on the summary didn't match the ID I used to log into the site. Talk about pulling hair. So frustrating.

I've finally come to the conclusion all these changes are make work projects for hired programmers. They take something that doesn't need fixing and mess it up so it now becomes something that needs fixing just to give them something to do.

So frustrating!

I actually have a hard time finding my books in my Kindle now. There is so much junk on there.

Good luck everyone!

How's everyone doing? I'm about 1/2 way through my first book. I'm just taking a break for some lunch.

I finished Beartooth

I’m not sure how to rate it. I was expecting Where the Crawdads Sing ish but this wasn’t that. It was sad and extremely atmospheric ( I could smell the words lol) I found it more depressing than inspirational.

Oh boy... I'm not sure what to do with that. lol

I read 1/3 of my first book. I had one of my migraines starting, so I shut my eyes for a bit and I'm feeling better now. I'm going to grab some dinner and get back at it.

I know. I’m sorry. I’m going to put more in a spoiler and you can decide if you want to know. I hope your migraine eases. They sound so debilitating.

I would suggest skipping (view spoiler)[ It is a very short book and these are all the subjects that came up

Poaching
Pain killer addiction
Kidnapping
Extreme poverty
Natural treasure looting to include a human skull

The only non depressing part was the last paragraph where one brother decides he might want to rejoin society lol (hide spoiler)]

I know what you mean about Kindle and Amazon. I got rid of the Amazon account and Kindle app completely from all of my devices. I live a stressfree time now because of it. I started to buy more physical books. I do use a reading app sometimes, and I found one called Kobo. It is better than Kindle, that's for sure, but it's also not that hard.

I had some time and started reading Traitors Gate - around 50% done. Just realised, I did not add this one but got available in library. Can you please add it to series 6?

Nistha wrote: "I had some time and started reading Traitors Gate - around 50% done. Just realised, I did not add this one but got available in library. Can you please add it to series 6?"

Added.

I finished my first book, A Fall of Marigolds and now my vision is a little blurry.

I'll probably skip it, Marnie. I feel like I won't be in the mind space for a book like that for a very long time.

I stopped at 33% in Ward D today, but started Eddie Winston is Looking for Love tonight. I won't get too far, but I'm still on track for where I expected to be and I think it's going to be a good read. Totally different than Ward D, which is good.

I'm going to read a little bit more and get to be a little early. I'm hoping a good night of sleep will help me to feel better in the morning.

I'm in the middle of The Wickwire Witch and should be able to report finishing tomorrow

Can you add another book to the list for me please. I had planned / hoped to have reread The Calculating Stars by the time we started the toppler. Alas, that did not happen lol
(and I need to get to it before The Fated Sky, which is already on my list)

Calculating Stars
#8 Publication Year
#3 Publication Day
#7 Publication Month
#1 Pages

I am reading the first book. I didn't get as far as I had hoped. I have blocked off some time tomorrow after work, and I will hopefully make more progress then xx

Yikes Marnie! That's a list and a half. There's a lot of topics covered there. I hope your eyesight is okay after some rest, Janice. Feel better soon, Kristie.

Lynn wrote: "I'm in the middle of The Wickwire Witch and should be able to report finishing tomorrow

Can you add another book to the list for me please. I had planned / hoped to have reread [book:The Calculati..."

I added it under Publication Year.

After a good night's sleep, I'm raring to go again today. I'm going to start Hook, Line and Blinker.