Louise’s Comments (group member since Aug 29, 2015)

Louise’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Tati wrote: "do you think that would work for bright green? or it's not that bright?"

The green is bright but I don’t think it is at least 50%

🌈 Mini News - Rainbows 🌈
You’ve all probably looked at the mini and thought OMG where do I start. Not to worry, we have a plan. One of the task is to build a rainbow of 18 books and for that we need color covers. Our 18 colors are - we need 1 of each for our super rainbow.

White
Bright pink
Dark pink
Bright red
Dark red
Brown
Dark orange
Bright orange
Dark yellow
Bright yellow
Bright green
Dark green
Teal
Dark blue
Bright blue
Bright purple
Dark purple
Black

Shout out here to claim a cover color and make a note on the tracking sheet.
@Amy your book is a lovely Dark Green.

A color can be claimed more than once as we also have smaller rainbows to build

I’ll be backup for Team Sip

I’ll be backup for Team sip

Vicki wrote: "Louise and/or co-caps, I'm starting to plan some books. I've put a book on the May Books tab that fits for the Spell-It-Out as well. Do I put it in both places or pick one spot for it only?"

I’ve added some columns for spell-it out on the main sheet if you can note the options it works for on there we can move the books as needed.

Hi Saar, Heli and Nikki. Loving the diversity of our team. I can certainly see my TBR growing not that I need much encouragement 😀

TTX mini has been posted.

There are 4 elements:

Rainbow Towers
We have to build towers of coloured books (18 colours to choose from) to make a rainbow.
Cover needs to be at least 50% of the relevant colors
Each tower is complete when we have a tower of 10 books netting us 100 points
We can build 1 super rainbow with 18 books for a total of 300 points.

Crayola Towers
This is a spellout with each letter being worth 10points and each complete word worth 20 points.
Spellout options are:
Title
Series
Author - First/Last Name
Character - First Last Name/ Nickname
Audiobooks: Narrator - First/Last Name - only if you read the audiobook
Translated Books: Translator - First/ Last Name - only if the edition you read was translated.

Mod Towers - Tasks from this section can be claimed
Read a book shelved on previous Mods shelves. Only 1 book per mod for 20 points a book.

Past Winners - Tasks from this section can be claimed
Get creative link your book to the name of a past TT winner (max 5 books per team winner), 10 points a book.

Hi Cindy, welcome to TT, I think this is the second time we’ve been on a TT team together. For the next week I just need to remember which thread I’m in while we finish UNO 😂

Welcome Skye, at this point just read what you like, every book read gets us points.
For additional team points there is the BOMs which can be interesting, although I wouldn’t call the back-room BOM that. There is a mini running alongside TT which has been announced.

Tati I agree with Karen adulting is so time consuming. I’m not a lover of horror or zombie books. I will read them if it means points for the team but not a fan.

Hi Maritza I’ve managed to get hold of a copy of 2 of the BOMs. I never thought I was competitive but turns out these challenges brings out my competitive side. I will read anything for points and this is the only time I read BOMs and volunteer for DQs.

Good Morning everyone

Hi Jessica like UNO this is a fairly relaxed challenge, basically read whatever you want as the month progresses we will provide updates if we need anything specific to meet our 223 books.

For those of you that are new to TT or returning after a period of absence I find this challenge really easy to get in as practically every book counts.

If you like to plan feel free to add books to the tracking sheet.

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

For extra points there are BOM's running through TT. The May BOM's are linked here

Completions - when you have completed your book you can either post a completion post in this thread or add a read date on the tracking sheet.
Points to remember:
- make sure the edition you link and the one on your shelf is the edition you have read
- if you read the audiobook version this is the one that needs to be linked, the page count will be the page count of the default edition.
- If your book has an MPG of childrens or middle-grade don't forget to link the verified word count.
- Make sure that your book is on your TT shelf and marked with a date read.

Welcome everyone, we are certainly a diverse team. Thank you all for your kind words it has been tough but I have a strong support network which has helped a lot. My OH always said if you're not happy stop doing it, I live each day with the mantra of "Do what makes you happy".

@Karen I am very envious, it's one of the places I would love to visit in the future. I absolutely love Thai food and would love to sample it at source.

@Nistha I also work in finance and am glad that April is coming to an end.

@Emma - although I live in South Wales I grew up in North Wales roughly half hour drive from Wrexham, having completed my teacher training there. The media have gone absolutely crazy over non-league Wrexham reaching league 2. I just hope that when all the media hype dies down that the current influx of money and opportunity that has arisen doesn't disappear just as quickly as it appeared. North Wales is very impoverished and loses out to business opportunities to South Wales and the neighboring cities of Liverpool and Chester.

Team Sip is open for business come and say hello to friends old and new.

Hi all, welcome to the 10th edition of tower teams and welcome to Team Sip which is Thai for the number 10.

I am Louise your captain and alongside your co-Caps Melissa and Karen, we will guide you on this epic journey.
For those that don’t know me a little bit about myself. I am a bit of a team challenge addict and off in often have a number of challenges on the go at once.
I live alone in south Wales, with my 6 year old Springer/dachshund, my other half of 18 years passed away during Covid.
I enjoy a wide range of reading genres, team challenges, allowing me to read outside my comfort zone. My go to Genres are mysteries and thrillers; PNR and urban fantasy; romance and chick-lit. Recently I have been reading a lot of modern historical fiction set in the past 70 years.
Since the Covid pandemic and the introduction of hybrid working, but I work two days a week in the office and three at home, I have leaned more towards audiobooks.

For those that I wasn’t already friends with I have sent friends requests so do you keep an eye out.
When you drop by to introduce yourself, don’t forget to link your TT shelf.
Here’s mine TTX

I will be back later with some helpful information for now need my morning coffee.

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TTX mini

There are 4 elements:

Rainbow Towers
We have to build towers of coloured books (18 colours to choose from) to make a rainbow.
Cover needs to be at least 50% of the relevant colors
Each tower is complete when we have a tower of 10 books netting us 100 points
We can build 1 super rainbow with 18 books for a total of 300 points.

Crayola Towers
This is a spellout with each letter being worth 10points and each complete word worth 20 points.
Spellout options are:
Title
Series
Author - First/Last Name
Character - First Last Name/ Nickname
Audiobooks: Narrator - First/Last Name - only if you read the audiobook
Translated Books: Translator - First/ Last Name - only if the edition you read was translated.

Mod Towers - Tasks from this section can be claimed
Read a book shelved on previous Mods shelves. Only 1 book per mod for 20 points a book.

Past Winners - Tasks from this section can be claimed
Get creative link your book to the name of a past TT winner (max 5 books per team winner), 10 points a book.

BOMs

May

Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
Starts: May 2
Discussion



The Dangerous Harem by J.R. Hogan
Starts: May 10th
Back Room Dicussion Thread



The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Starts: May 16th
Discussion

June

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Starts - 2nd Jun
Discussion


11/22/63 by Stephen King
Starts - 16th Jun
Discussion

All About Tower Teams - the rules

Countdown
Start: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
June Start: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

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

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

Overall Status
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Useful Links
ARBookfind - verifying word counts for books tagged Children/ Middle Grade etc
UK: https://www.arbookfind.co.uk/UserType...
US: https://www.arbookfind.com/UserType.a...
Australia: https://www.arbookfind.com.au/UserTyp...

TinEye - checking cover colours - I have a love/hate relationship with this tool. Use at your peril.
https://labs.tineye.com/color/