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Azure Angels:
Captain: Jennifer ♔Princess Penguin�

Dusty
~Leslie~
Turtlecollector
Angie ~aka Reading Machine~
~Melissa~

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Hi teamies - look at all the familiar teammates/faces/readers LOL :D

This is gonna be fun!!

Hi! I think we will win this round. I want to complete a hat trick.

Books read for this round:
Completed: 11/11, 39/40 words

Week 1-Dog/Wing: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini 1/27/14 3.5� post 69

Items claimed: dog, wing, hunter, story, statue

Week 2-Mattress/Fire: Flat-Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy 2/1/14 4� post 143

Items claimed: mattress, fire, grandmother, girl in red, frog

Week 3-Princess/Blood: One Hot Cowboy Wedding by Carolyn Brown 2/8/14 4� post 176

Items claimed: princess, blood, horse, fictional character, bridge

Week 4-Frog/Castle: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 2/19/14 3� post 264

Items claimed: frog, castle, fairy, unusual name, flying machine

Week 5-Tree/Bone: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 2/23/14 3� post 301

Items claimed: tree, bone, Englishman, rat, dream

Week 6-Wolf/Paper: Grave Peril by Jim Butcher 3/6/14 3.5� Post 352

Items claimed: wolf, paper, elf, short person, lamp

Week 7-Grandmother/Stool: Once in a Lifetime by Jill Shalvis 3/7/14 4� Post 385

Items claimed: grandmother, stool, bug, long hair, bread

Week 8: Key/Forest: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 3/15/14 3� Post 412

Items claimed: key, forest, monster, fictional place, prince

Week 9: Short Person/Purple: Tiger's Voyage by Colleen Houck 3/23/14 4� Post 456

Items claimed: short person, purple, thief, bear, apple

Week 10: Bug/Sock: I Love This Bar by Carolyn Brown 3/28/14 4� Post 514

Items claimed: bug, sock, brother, bird nudity, shoe

Week 11: Elf/Blue: Darkling by Yasmine Galenorn 4/7/14 3.5� Post 562

elf, blue, cat, wind

Hello Everyone!! I'm with Turtlecollector, we are going to win this round!

If no one else would like to be captain I can do it.

As for names, I really stink at coming up with names so I'm hoping one of you is more creative than I.

Does anyone have any preference on how we choose our extra words? Do we want to coordinate our choices or just everyone pick at random? In previous rounds, my teams have coordinated and come in 2nd place but I up for whatever you guys want to do :)

I'm thrilled you would like to be captain Jennifer PP :D

I third it - we are gonna win!!

I will have to think about blue names.....

Fictional Place & Person are going to be tough to look for. Those two have me a bit worried.

My groups have started the first couple of weeks just picking our own items and then coordinating later. If everyone has already read the item called, the whole team loses a chance to earn a point that week. If there is still one person who hasn't got it yet, the team can still earn all 4 points for the week by coordinating the other items picked. Does that make sense?

It seems to have worked well for me in the last two rounds anyway. Towards the end it is almost inevitable to have claimed an item called though. That is where real luck comes into play. Just a side note, I have been on the winning team the last 2 rounds, which is why I want a hat trick.

I'm fine with Jennifer being captain and I am pretty bad at names too.

Hello ladies! For team name since the color is blue ~Cookie Monsters. I'm fine with Jennifer being captain. Personally I try to get the harder items out of the way first before moving on to easier items. Just my personal preference. I'll follow what the team does or plans to get the points.

Hello Team! So happy to be with everyone. It's great to be with friends!

Happy to have Jennifer as our Captain.

I was trying to come up with some play off of Blue Fairy and found a really cool image, but for some reason I couldn't paste it. Oh well.

Just an FYI, I started a full time job today, so my computer time is limited to early mornings and after work and weekends. This is a huge change for me. Please bear with me. I am excited about the team challenge and making this work.

Congrats on the job, Leslie!

Congrats Leslie!

Thanks, everyone! My brain hurt last night but it was a pretty good first day.

Also, I am good with the system of starting out picking our own items and then as the weeks progress we will have to coordinate. And I am good with winning as well!

Congrats on the new job Leslie - hope you are enjoying it!

The only thing that keeps popping into my head for a team name is Blue Bells or Blue Jays - IDK why? I'm so bad at names,lol.

I'm fine with whatever way we decide for picking the extra words each week. I've done it both ways ~ there are pros and cons to both :)

Here are a couple names I've thought of...


The Blue Man Group
Cornflower Cuties
Azure Angels
Blue without Books
The True Blue Team

Here's a link to our

Nice spreadsheet, Jennifer!

Thanks, Melissa - I did a little bit better today than yesterday. It's a lot to learn! I am a case auditor for a bankruptcy trustee law firm.Really high learning curve for me.

I don't know why, but I like Blue Man Group. Or we could be the Blues Sisters!

I like the alliteration of Azure Angels.

Blue without Books definitely describes me when I get down to only having 10 or so checked out from the library. I feel like I have nothing to read even though I have hundreds loaded onto my Nook, Kindle, and my "real, tangible" bookshelves at home.

I am such a book hoarder that my parents got me my first ereader to keep me from requesting bookshelves for Christmas and birthday presents. I have since upgraded it to two tablets and now just keep downloading free/cheap books even though it is going to take me years to actually get around to reading some of them. I still prefer having an actual book in hand.

Blue without Books is a great name for the team. Great looking spreadsheet Jennifer!

Hello everyone. Sorry I'm late. My youngest turned nine yesterday an have spent the last couple days getting things ready. Congrats on the job Leslie.

Jennifer - those names are fabulous! Spreadsheet looks great.

I like Azure Angels, The Blue Man(Sisters) Group or Blue without Books.

@Leslie - your job sounds like it would be really interesting - hope it's fun - well as fun as work can be :)

It looks like it's between Azure Angels, The Blues Sisters and Blue without Books. I'm leaning towards Azure Angels. Dusty do you have a favorite?

I like Azure Angels or Blue without Books.

Azure Angels it is. I'll let Dawn know. See you all tomorrow.

Love Azure Angels and Blue without Books. Either of those is fine with me.

Happy Birthday to your daughter, Dusty.

And I completely understand your book hoarding impulses, Turtlecollector. I think that's why I like my tablet, I can hoard and no one knows!!

When do words get called?

Dusty wrote: "Hello everyone. Sorry I'm late. My youngest turned nine yesterday an have spent the last couple days getting things ready. Congrats on the job Leslie."

Hope her day is loads of fun :)

And I completely understand your book hoarding impulses, Turtlecollector. I think that's why I like my tablet, I can hoard and no one knows!!

Hubby would say I'm one book away from a hoarder's episode and he has no clue how many I have in ebook format,lol :D
What he doesn't know can't hurt him!!

First item will be called sometime tomorrow morning.

Around 8am MST, Leslie :)

Just an FYI it was my son's birthday. I have two boys. Little one is 9 an the oldest is 13. They keep me busy but try to read when I can. See u all in the morning.

Dusty, have no idea why I thought you wrote daughter! 2 boys will definitely keep you busy. Hope he had a fun party!

I will check tomorrow morning before work and then try and check at lunch time. But I won't have time to look for a book until tomorrow night. Please bear with me as I learn how to juggle work and GR! Not sure how people do it.

I'm the worst Aunt ever. Tell him I said Happy Birthday.

Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: "I'm the worst Aunt ever. Tell him I said Happy Birthday."

That title has to go to me. I forgot to call my nephew on his birthday, Monday the 20th, when I made a big deal out of him remembering to call me on my birthday last week. We have birthdays only a week apart.

ok, I don't feel as bad...

Ok will tell him in the morning. Was meaning to call u today an bug u about forgetting.

Leslie it takes some time to get used to dealing with work an gr. I work full time at Walmart, deal with two boys, two dogs, an try to read, plus stay up to date on gr. Its hard but I try my best.

Good morning Team!! Excited to start this round.

Thanks for the encouraging words, Dusty! ( I forgot you and Dawn were sisters). I'm determined to make this work.

Freezing here in Shreveport. Hard to make myself go start the car.

@Dusty - hope his day was great - I saw your post and then Leslie's and assumed it was a girl. I shouldn't have since you talked about your sons last time we played together :( What to do when the memory starts going lol.


@Leslie - you'll figure out a way that works for you :)

Item: dog. Bonus: wind


I will be reading

Haven't decided on other items yet

I'll re interested to hear what you think Turtlecollector. I have to read it for my RL bookclub for the end of March.

I've picked a book - not sure what all words I'll claim yet. Has both dog and wind. Will figure out rest of items tonight when home

Turtlecollector wrote: "Item: dog. Bonus: wind


I will be reading

Haven't decided on other items yet"

Bonus is Wing not Wind

I'll be reading . These are the items I'll be claiming:Thief, Dog, Fictional Place, Statue, and Wing.

Sorry I'm running a little bit behind. Thanks Turtlecollector for listing the words. I've got a book I want to read but I have to check with Dawn to see if what I have for wing will work. So, I'll let you know in a bit what other words I can claim.

Angie ~aka Reading Machine~ wrote: "I'll be reading . These are the items I'll be claiming:Thief, Dog, Fictional Place, Statue, and Wing."

Angie, I just want to make sure you understand fictional place. Here's what Dawn has to say about it...

26. Fictional Place A place that does not really exist in the setting of your book. For Example the Emerald City is a fictional place and in most books a reference would work. However, if you are reading The Wizard of Oz it is a real place for those characters so it wouldn't count in that book.

You probably already know this but Fictional Place and Fictional Character have me worried that they are going to be really hard to find :/

Jennifer ♔Princess Penguin� wrote: "Angie ~aka Reading Machine~ wrote: "I'll be reading . These are the items I'll be claiming:Thief, Dog, Fictional Place, Statue, and Wing."

Angie, I just want to mak..."

I'll ask Dawn, it's only mentioned in the book 6 times. It's referenced as place beyond the human world.

Sorry, misspelled. See what happens when I'm in a hurry to get ready for work.

I'll be reading

Items I can also claim:

Hunter, Thief, Bother, Sister

Dream, Long Hair, Nudity, Story, Wind, Unusual Name (Etienne), Short Person, & I will have to read the book to see if I can claim Fictional Character or Fictional Place

Shoe, Tree, Mattress, Key, Lamp, Apple

Hello everyone! I will be reading

My words will be dog, wing (bonus), brother, girl in red, flying ship (helicopter).