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Team Roof Repairs




🏡 Cat (Captain)
🏡 Danielle (Co-Captain)
🏡 Keely (Co-Captain)
🏡 Lucy
🏡 Eunice
🏡 Elli
🏡 Preeti
🏡 Saar the Book Owl
🏡 Vikki
🏡 Sarah
🏡 Keli
🏡 Marie
🏡 Mia
🏡 Paula




Team Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Challenge Status Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...


Tracking Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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Books of the Month

20 bonus points for answering 3 sets of DQs
40 bonus points for a volunteer lucky enough to be assigned DQs to write

October Theme (Cars)
book: The Road Trip
start date: 16 Oct

November Adult
book: The Spellshop
start date: 2 Nov

November Theme (Old School)
book: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
start date: 16 Nov

November Bonus Theme (Old School)
book: The Secret History
start date: 20 Nov

December Adult
vote: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/invite... (closes 7 Nov)

not part of the challenge, but voting for December Theme (Tradition) is here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/invite...

Mini Tasks

For completion during Rounds 2 - 4. Each book must be also used in the spellout and can only be used for one task across all the minis

A01 the main character works in an office
A02 the plot revolves around an office romance
A03 typical administrative material on the cover
A04 tagged non-fiction / nonfiction (at least 10x)
A05 tagged office (at least 10x)
A06 the main character works in taxes
A07 the main character works in finance
A08 the clue to solving a murder is found in paperwork
A09 cover colour is at least 50% grey
A10 cover colour is at least 50% orange
A11 someone is murdered in an office
A12 the plot revolves around white-collar crime
A13 the main character needs to know how to handle a budget
A14 letters GREY in title
A15 letters TAXES in title
A16 letters ADMIN in title
A17 author first & last initials in FILING
A18 author first & last initials in PAPERWORK
A19 author first & last initials in SHREDDING
A20 tagged DNF (or direct equivalent) (at least 10x)
G01 Trellis (series sequence) 1
G02 Trellis (series sequence) 1
G03 Trellis (series sequence) 1
G04 Trellis (series sequence) 1
G05 Trellis (series sequence) 1
G06 Trellis (series sequence) 2
G07 Trellis (series sequence) 2
G08 Trellis (series sequence) 2
G09 Trellis (series sequence) 2
G10 Trellis (series sequence) 2
G11 Germinate: word in title is 6 or more letters long
G12 Plant: word in title is exactly 5 letters
G13 Mulch: word in title contains one of the following digraphs: CH, PH, SH, TH, WH
G14 Weed: word in title contains a double vowel
G15 Water: word in title contains and H and 2 Os
G16 Pest Control: word in title contains two letters consecutive in the alphabet (e.g AB in alphabet)
G17 Feed: word in title contains a double letter
G18 Prune: word in title can be cut to reveal a different word of at least 2 letters (e.g PRUNE - RUNE / AFFAIR - FAIR)
G19 Harvest: title contains a word that could be a noun or verb (e.g TRAIN)
G20 Deadhead: word in title contains a repeat set of at least two letters (e.g BEGINNING repeats IN)
G21 Colour Cover: Green
G22 Colour Cover: Brown
G23 Colour Cover 3
G24 Colour Cover 4
G25 Colour Cover 5
G26 Colour Cover 6
G27 Colour Cover 7
G28 Colour Cover 8
G29 Colour Cover 9
G30 Colour Cover 10
F01 potato in text
F02 rice in text
F03 pasta in text
F04 bread in text
F05 beef in text
F06 lamb in text
F07 chicken in text
F08 fish in text
F09 lentil in text
F10 broccoli in text
F11 carrot in text
F12 pumpkin in text
F13 squash in text
F14 yam in text
F15 bean in text
F16 corn in text
F17 okra in text
F18 tomato in text
F19 onion in text
F20 lettuce in text
F21 cucumber in text
F22 apple in text
F23 peach in text
F24 fig in text
F25 grape in text
F26 banana in text
F27 salt in text
F28 pepper in text
F29 sugar in text
F30 spice in text
F31 China *5 tags
F32 Mexico *5 tags
F33 Italy *5 tags
F34 France *5 tags
F35 India *5 tags
F36 Greece *5 tags
F37 Japan *5 tags
F38 Thailand *5 tags
F39 Korea *5 tags
F40 Turkey *5 tags
F41 Nigeria *5 tags
F42 Jamaica *5 tags
F43 Bangladesh *5 tags
F44 Hawaii *5 tags
F45 Southern Gothic *5 tags

bonus points are available for:
A tasks - finding "QUILT" or "COFFEE TABLE" / "COFFEE-TABLE" in text
G tasks - finding "PIANO" or "VIOLIN" in text
F tasks - finding "LOBSTER" or "VINEGAR" in text

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Tracking sheet - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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Hello everyone! Welcome to this latest edition of Wheels, which is a case of back to the grindstone of dull reality after the mayhem of Hunger Games!

As always the first rule of Wheels is to have fun and be kind! (is that two rules? maybe, but they are equally important and go together!)
Most of the rest of them are tried and tested, but there are a couple of wrinkles this time, so do reread the official rules at some point.

The TL; DR is:
- points per page; books must be at least 100 pages (or an audio / wordcount minimum for "special" categories
- we'll be spelling out a word each round, using author, title, series & character initials (plus narrator and/or translator when applicable)
- books must be started after the countdown (info in team sheet), and finished in the round in which they are used

NEW!!!
Each reader has a personal book cap, based on their sign ups. The cap is in the official team sheet; going over the cap will result in PAIN, DAMAGE and DESTRUCTION, so we aren't going to do that! We'll have an overflow sheet for any excess books in each round, to tetris for maximum points

Bonus Points!
- for longer books
- for older books
- for BOMs

Admin
- captains are the only ones who get to add books to the official team sheet in post 1
- lovely Danielle will be working up a team sheet for everyone to add their books too, and that will be added to a post clearly marked
- you should be able to see the team sheet, but no write access
- if you don't want to add your books to the planner that's fine, just post a completion post with all the letters & reasons
- don't forget to add your books to your shelf. preferably only when you have started reading
- you are expected to check into the team at least once a week, so we know you are still about and playing. A quick post with progress report on your book (or latest TV binge) is fine. more frequent chats even better!
- if you have to reduce your reading / are going to go quiet / etc etc do let us know so we don't worry unduly (either the thread or directly as a PM to one of the captains or even to the mod account)

Anyway, onto the fun stuff:
- what useful letter books have you been saving all year for use in Wheels?
- what fun books are you looking forward to?
- how many books are you going to clear off the older shelves of your TBR?

Hello team! I see lots of familiar names here and some not so familiar, but hopefully that will change!

I am Keely, one of your co-captains. I am from the UK but will be in Norway for pretty much all of this challenge. For those that don't know, I am planning on moving to Norway to live with my boyfriend but because of boring (and annoying) rules, waiting for permission to move is long. So I visit as often as I can for as long as I can in the meantime!

I don't think I have any letters I've been saving, but I am hoping to make progress with some series I have already started. These include A Song of Ice and Fire (book 3 onwards), The Lunar Chronicles, and A Court of Thorns and Roses (book 2 onwards). These will come off my TBR list too!

I am planning on mainly focusing on longer books (for big points) which is why I signed up with a smaller number, but I am always happy to read something shorter and find random books that work to help fill in any gaps.

Hello team :)

I’m Danielle (she/her) and I’m from Wales. Looking forward to playing Wheels.

I haven’t saved any particular letters for wheel. I’m not much of a planner but I do hope to read some of my longer books and catch up some series.

Here’s my shelf wheel

ack! shelves! I always forget about that bit of admin, and Danielle, luckily, long-sufferingly, always remembers!

My shelf: boring-wheel

Hi, I'm Lucy. Second time for this message thanks to Goodreads being its usual self! I live in the UK but mostly work night shifts so I do a lot of my reading while others are asleep. Looking forward to wheel and getting some of those older books off my TBR, like Jane Eyre and Rebecca.

Shelf

Oh yes, my shelf is wheel-a-thon-9

Ok - so not on your team, but just thread stalking and well I swear you all should have as your book mascot. ;) Really good book btw, but the family business is roofing.

Hi I am Marie she/her
I haven't saved any books for particular letters but I do need some vowel letters for another challenge
I have a series where MC is called Albert and another series where series title begins with E - I know vowels can be difficult to find

I am in God's own County of Yorkshire UK I am away for a week end of October when I may read less. The cap should be fine for me

My shelf has the truly riveting and immensely unique name of wheels9
i have no idea how i had the imagination to come up with it

I think I still have a couple of V books left and I'm sure I could find a dreaded X or two if needed.

Marie, I can't imagine what made you think of that as your shelf name! :P

Hi everyone. I'm Vikki from Northern Ireland. Looking forward to another Wheel!

I'll be in Italy for a weekend later this month but that won't impact taking part in the challenge. I've 2 flights to stick my nose in a book!

Don't have any books saved up for this challenge. Come mid/late November I'll be trying to get through the Christmas books on my shelves. Maybe I'll find some hard letters in them.

My shelf is: Wheel 9

Hi, all. My name is Preeti. I am from India and live in the southern part of the country. I have been looking forward to this challenge. It is nice to see so many familiar names and get to know more people.

I was so pleased to see the bonuses for older and longer books. I have a huge list of classics I have been meaning to get to and this seems to be the perfect place to do so.

My shelf is wheels-9-nbrc

I've a couple of U books that I've been semi-hoarding:
(author, oldish title)
(title, oldish title)

but not much more right now. :(

Hello! I'm Elli from Singapore. I'm anticipating a lull period at work so I might get to sneak in more reading time. Hoping to finally read some lengthier books this round.

My shelf wheels9

Welcome :)

are we likely to need Q's I have one but can't put it off beyond round 1

Marie (UK) wrote: "are we likely to need Q's I have one but can't put it off beyond round 1"

Here’s the list of possible words https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I don’t think I spot a Q in them.

✿~Danielle~✿ wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "are we likely to need Q's I have one but can't put it off beyond round 1"

Here’s the list of possible words https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

those are such cracking words particularly "projectile vomit clean up"

Hi everyone, I'm Sarah from the UK. I'm always hoarding Us and Xs, but don't really save others as most other letters seem to fall out quite easily, even the Qs and Zs. Which we don't need this time anyway, I think.

My shelf is the appropriately boringly named wheel-9.

Looking forward to seeing how many old books I can fit in! I have some new releases from the library which are annoyingly too new and too short for bonuses, but otherwise I'll do my best to maximise those points. :)

Hi everyone! So, we have our Round One word!

TAKE OUT GARBAGE

only the one U this round, but we can't relax too much on that front, as there are a LOT of U words!

Feel free to start adding planned books to the tracker sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Also: BOMs. The Theme BOM (The Road Trip) will count for bonus points (and a B and O!) so do head over there to volunteer for DQs / get ready to answer questions : https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hi, everyone! This is the perfect time for me to pull out the old classic mysteries hehe

Here's my shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Please pray for my soul, people! After much perusing, I finally chose my first two books...
It by Stephen King
Ulysses by James Joyce

Both big books, from what many people have told me one is likely to scare me to death and the other is very likely to bore me to death. 🫣😜

That said, I was told the same things about The Shining and Mrs. Dalloway and I ended up giving both 5 stars so one never knows. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hi all. I think I have played on a team with nearly all of you at some point.
I live in England. I read a few books a week. I might read more than I claimed on the official sheet as I am trying to read as much as I can for Turf Wars. But we can use the best 5.
I'm excited to play and win with y'all.

My shelf is Wheel 9 here https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

By the way, am I the only person who had never heard of "The Women Roofers"?

In case anybody is interested in reading about them, I am adding links to the image from People magazine about them as well as an article from Carolina County's website.

https://www.carolinacountry.com/image...

https://www.carolinacountry.com/carol...

@Preeti I read Ulysses many many years ago and enjoyed (most of) it. I certainly didn't fully grasp everything that was going on, but instead enjoyed the experience. and, a bit like the opera Aida, the last section was wonderful and made the struggles worthwhile!

oh! for UK readers, the November BOM, The Spellshop is available as kindle for 99p

Cat wrote: "@Preeti I read Ulysses many many years ago and enjoyed (most of) it. I certainly didn't fully grasp everything that was going on, but instead enjoyed the experience. and, a bit like the opera Aida,..."

That is good to hear.

Cat wrote: "oh! for UK readers, the November BOM, The Spellshop is available as kindle for 99p"

I already have the hardback of this one. If it's November BOM I'll wait until then for it. I've been trying which books to read this month and there are too many options!

Hi I'm Mia! I live in Italy. Sorry to see this so late, but this my first reading challenge so I'll try to be the most active member possible, but please remember I'm in school and half to priorize that first.

Still, I'm exicited to read with you all!!

Hi Mia! No worries at all. GR hasn't helped with it's changes to notifications. You're here now and that's the important thing!

Also, all we ask it that you pop in to post once a week, any more than that is a delightful bonus, so focus on school 😀

Hi everyone, my name is Saar and I live in Bruges, Belgium.
This is my shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

I think I might read more than I've planned too, but I'll see. I'll be adding books to the sheet tomorrow or the day after.

Welcome! That’s everyone checked in :)

Preeti wrote: "Please pray for my soul, people! After much perusing, I finally chose my first two books...
It by Stephen King
Ulysses by James Joyce

Both big books, from what many people have told me one is like..."

I've read It before, but I might read it again during this challenge too!

@Preeti, I'm not sure I'm brave enough to try either of those - for exactly those reasons - too scary, too boring! Good luck!

I may have to invest 99p in The Spellshop. I put holds on both book and audio at the library in the vain hope that at least one would come in faster than the January dates I currently have. I'm really not going to get them in time...

Sarah wrote: "@Preeti, I'm not sure I'm brave enough to try either of those - for exactly those reasons - too scary, too boring! Good luck!

I may have to invest 99p in The Spellshop. I put holds on both book an..."

I also did the same thing with 2 library apps I have. I have some Audible credits just sitting there so I'll probably use one of those nearer the time if it's still not looking good for the library holds

Cat wrote: "Hi Mia! No worries at all. GR hasn't helped with it's changes to notifications. You're here now and that's the important thing!

Also, all we ask it that you pop in to post once a week, any more th..."

Cat what changes has GR done to notifications?

if we need long books I might be tempted to re read The Count of Monte Cristo or The glums otherwise known as Les Misérables later in challenge. However our upstairs is currently in next door's garage as our kitchen refit meant we had to have a full house re wire and are now waiting for a whole house decorating challenge which we have given to the local (and in demand) decorator who cannot come until 4th November and is to be followed by carpet layer before furniture can return. We have been undergoing renovation since January 6th - I need a bit of renovation now

I can go and do a root through the book boxes if it becomes necessary

They stopped emails and also cleared the history of everyone's saved threads for notifications, so you have to manually refollow them, and remember to check the notification function in app.

Particularly annoying for those threads that are passively in the background or if you aren't on gr daily

I found a load of U books on my library app and I have lots of I's saved. Some of them aren't very long, but that just means I can read them quick and I could balance it out by reading a long book.

Marie - I also looked at The Count of Monte Cristo. Maybe I will finally tackle it during this challenge. It's very unlikely to happen in the first round though