SandyL’s Comments (group member since May 11, 2015)

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

Erika wrote: "Just because I know I have books that I can read towards them- here’s my thoughts on the tasks we could complete

HP&SS: Task 1
HP& OOP: Task 3 & 4
HP & DH: Task 2 & 3

And i’m going to have this ..."

Hi @Erika -FYI, Danielle has also finished an ARC, so if you can't get it done we are still good. But I know you've been working hard on this one, so if you finish we'll use your book for that class. I just wanted you to know the pressure is off. :-)

Hey @Sass - all the options are listed above. Right now we need to choose 2 out of the 5 tasks for Sorcerer's Stone and Deathly Hallows and 3 out of the 5 tasks for Order of the Phoenix. Once those are chosen, we can then pick out which sub-tasks each of us wants to read or our books fit.

Word is that TWT starts today, so any books finished today can count. So.......we need to make our picks asap. I'll give it another hour or so and if no one else has an opinion we'll go with what Danielle and Erika have suggested.

***We need to choose 3 tasks for each book*** Also, remember one person does not have to read all four sub-tasks (although you can - more on that after we've picked our tasks)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - We still need two tasks for this book

Task 1 - Defeat the Troll
Read a book with a double L in the title
Read a book with a baseball bat on the cover
Read a book with “troll” in the title or text
Read a book with a only 5 word title

Task 2 - Get past Fluffy
Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover
Read a book MPG Music
Read a book where the main character is a musician
Read a book with “Song” in the title

Task 3 - Play Wizard’s Chess
Working together as a team do a Title Relay of 4 books.
(The first word of the second book must match the last word of the first book, the first word of the third book must match the last word of the second book, the first word of the fourth book must match the last word of the third book)
You may not ignore articles (a, an, the, etc).
Each book must be read by different team member

Task 4 - Escape Devil’s Snare ** Linda will read all books in this task***
Read a book with a predominately green cover
Read a book with “Devil” in the title
Read a book where the title starts with S
Read a book tagged at least 10 times as “relax” or “calm” (variations are allowed)

Task 5 - Mirror of Erised
Read a book which the authors initials are E.D.
Read a book with a mirror on the cover
Read a book tagged at least 50 times as “wish”
Read a book with a person on the cover with their hand in their pocket

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Task 1 - Clean up the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix
Read a book with pixies or fairies
Read a book with "Order" in the title
Read a book a bird on the cover
Read a book with picture on the cover

Task 2 - Go on Trial
Read a book where the main character is a lawyer
Read a book MPG Crime
Read a book where someone goes on trial
Read a book with "Trial" in the title

Task 3 - Get a New Professor
Read a book with a predominately pink cover
Read a book where the title is pink
Read a book with a teacher character
Read a book with a cat on the cover

Task 4 - Department of Mysteries
Read a book MPG Mystery
Read a book where someone dies
Read a book with a large battle
Read a book where there is a "rescue"

Task 5 - The Lost Prophecy
Read a book with a seer/fortune teller character
Read a book with a prophecy as an integral part of the story
Read a book with "Lost" in the title
Read a book with 'Prophecy" in the title or series name

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Task 1 - The Seven Potters ** I think Claire said she could do this task??**
Read a book with 'Seven" in the title
Read a book that is #7 in a series
Read a book 'Seven" in the series name
Read a book with a number in the title

Task 2 - Tale of the Three Brothers
Read a book that is #3 in a series
Read a book with "Three" in the title
Read a book with brothers
Read a book that has a story/tale within the novel

Task 3 - Shell Cottage
Read a book with a funeral
Read a book a cottage on the cover
Read a book with lots of people staying in one home
Read a book where someone has a baby

Task 4 - The Missing Mirror
Read a book where the main character "goes home again"
Read a book where a long lost sibling is discivered
Read a book where the characters are under siege
Read a book with "Mirror" in the title

Task 5 - The Battle of Hogwarts
Read a book MPG War
Read a book with a sword on the cover
Read a book with a snake on the cover
Read a book multiple people die

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Good Morning Newts!!!
Since we haven't had anyone else chime in, to start with our TWT tasks we'll go with:

Sorcerer's Stone
Order of the Phoenix
Deathly Hallows

We need to pick 3 main tasks from these and read the 4 sub-tasks. Once those are done, we can read the rest of the tasks for any of the books. It's still a little unclear if we can use a book that fits another task before we've finished our first 36 books. It's also unclear if we start today or tomorrow - I'll let you know once those things have a final decision.

Also - for our Character Spell-outs, I got a lot of books logged last night, but there are still more to go - sheesh you guys read a lot of books in a few weeks! We need U's and Y's!!!!

Hi Nox
It looks like you are a member of the group - here's the link again:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Go to the Volunteers thread under Match 3 to sign up. Do you know what position you're interested in playing?

Updated to here

nox_reads wrote: "The Quidditch link didn’t work but I’ll participate!"

Yay Nox!! Laura sent you an invite to the group - you'll need to accept for access.

Here's where we're at:

Chamber of Secrets - 1
Deathly Hallows - 3
Order of the Phoenix - 2

Anybody else want to give their input?

Linda C wrote: "SandyL wrote: "Hi Linda - good news.
Here's the response I got:
Hey Sandy. Variations that have similar meanings would work. Pleasure. Leisure. Comfort. Etc. We aren’t being overly particular with ..."

Yay Linda! Where are you going on vacation?

Claire wrote: "I can start reading
For Harry Potter and the deathly hollows
Task 1 - The Seven Potters
Read a book with 'Seven" in the title
Read a book that is #7 in a series
Read a book 'Seven" in the series ..."

Just so everyone knows - you can read all the sub-tasks in a task, but the same person doesn't have to

Emma (M) wrote: "Can we use books started before the Tri-Wizard Tournament started? I’ve got a book that would work for a number of tasks but I’m a couple of chapters in."

Books that are started before the TWT starts (but not finished) can be counted.

Completion Post


Theirs to Take
Author: Laura Kaye
Pages: 170
Completed: 7/30/18

Characters:
A: ch - Jonathan Allen
B: series - Blasphemy
C: ch - Cruz
F: ch - Hartley Farren
H: ch - Hartley
K: author - Laura Kaye
L: author - Laura Kaye
R: ch - Cruz Ramos
S: ch - Scarlet

Completion Post


Wildcat
Author: Max Monroe
Pages: 371
Completed: 7/29/18

Characters:
B: ch - Quinn Bailey
C: ch - Catharine
D: ch - Denver
L: ch - Luke
M: author - Max Monroe
N: ch - Nikki
S: ch - Sean
W: title - Wildcat

Completion Post


Paper Princess
Author: Erin Watt
Pages: 370
Completed: 7/29/18

BR: Post6

Characters:
B: ch - Brooke
C: ch - Callum
D: ch - Daniel
E: ch - Ella
H: ch - Ella Harper
O: ch - Valerie O'Halloran
P: title - Paper
R: ch - Reed
S: ch - Sawyer
V: ch - Valerie
W: author - Erin Watt

Here are the current BOM's for July and August:

Rosemary and Rue - must be completed by 2 August

I Hunt Killers - must be completed by 12 August

The Tattooist of Auschwitz - must be completed by 22 August

Into the Water - Starts 2 August
**Thank you Erika for volunteering to do DQ's!**

Everland - Starts 16 August
**You can still sign up to write DQ's**

Magic Triumphs - Starts 28 August
**Mod Takeover, but DQ's end on the 31st so there is time to finish for TT**

TEAM TASKS

Each team will be performing their own set of tasks for the Tri-Wizard Tournament. These tasks are broken down by Harry Potter book.

Each book has 5 separate tasks, comprised of 4 book requirements per task.

In order to receive the points available for completing the tasks:

Choose 3 books
Choose 3 tasks within each of those books to complete

After you've completed those 9 tasks, you may go back and complete any and all additional tasks for more points should you choose to do so. (Note: We have to finish the inital tasks before reading for extra tasks/points)

You must complete the total of 9 tasks in the 3 different books before you will be awarded any points.

They may need some planning, so read instructions careful. Once in a while the Class Masters may go and check if your book applies or not. Points are at stake here.

**We need to pick three books from the list below**
We're going to use Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as one of our picks, so we need two more. Look over the tasks under each book and please post your choices/input. Then we need to determine which three tasks we want to tackle for the books we choose.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Task 1 - Defeat the Troll
Read a book with a double L in the title
Read a book with a baseball bat on the cover
Read a book with “troll” in the title or text
Read a book with a only 5 word title

Task 2 - Get past Fluffy
Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover
Read a book MPG Music
Read a book where the main character is a musician
Read a book with “Song” in the title

Task 3 - Play Wizard’s Chess
Working together as a team do a Title Relay of 4 books.
(The first word of the second book must match the last word of the first book, the first word of the third book must match the last word of the second book, the first word of the fourth book must match the last word of the third book)
You may not ignore articles (a, an, the, etc).
Each book must be read by different team member

Task 4 - Escape Devil’s Snare ** Linda will read all books in this task***
Read a book with a predominately green cover
Read a book with “Devil” in the title
Read a book where the title starts with S
Read a book tagged at least 10 times as “relax” or “calm” (variations are allowed)

Task 5 - Mirror of Erised
Read a book which the authors initials are E.D.
Read a book with a mirror on the cover
Read a book tagged at least 50 times as “wish”
Read a book with a person on the cover with their hand in their pocket

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Task 1 - Escape the Dursleys
Read a book with Iron in the title
Read a book with a gate on the cover
Read a book with a car on the cover
Read a book where a character escapes prison

Task 2 - Wizard’s duel
Read a book with “Witch” or “Wizard” in the title
Read 2 books with similar covers
Read a book with a deadly weapon on the cover

Task 3 - Take Polyjuice Potion
Read a book with a cat on the cover
Read a book something to drink on the cover
Read a book with a cauldron on the cover
Read a book with a P and a J in the title

Task 4 - Attend a ghost party
Read a book where the characters attend a party
Read a book with Ghost in the title
Read a book with Death in the title
Read a book where they celebrate Halloween

Task 5 - Fight a Basilisk
Read a book with a snake on the cover or Snake in the title
Read a book with a blind character
Read a book with the word “Phoenix” in title or text
Read a book with a sword on the cover

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Task 1 - Ride the Knight Bus
Read a book with a bus on the cover
Read a book with "Night" in the title
Read a book with a predominately purple cover
Read a book with the main character's initials are S.S.

Task 2 - Learn to fight Boggarts
Read a book with a shapeshifter character
Read a book MPG Humour
Read a book with a balloon on the cover
Read a book with a hat on the cover

Task 3 - Write a report on Werewolves
Read a book with a moon on the cover
Read a book MPG Paranormal
Read a book with a wolf on the cover
Read a book with 'Wolf" in the title

Task 4 - Go back in time
Read a book with time travel
Read a book with a clock on the cover
Read a book with "Time" in the title
Read a book a form of transportation on the cover

Task 5 - Defeat Dementors
Read a book a wand on the cover
Read a book with woods on the cover
Read a book with "Death" in the title
Read a book with eerie/scary cover

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Task 1 - Four Champions are competing
- Read a Square of Young Adult books -
How to read a square:
- Read four books
- Match first & last letters of the title in order to form a square/rectangle.

Example:

Wink Poppy Midnight
Waterfall
The Infinite Sea
Looking for Alaska

WINK POPPY MIDNIGHT
W T
A H
T E
E
R I
F N
A F
L I
L N
E

S
E
A
LOOKING FOR ALASKA


Task 2 - Retrieve a golden egg guarded by a dragon
Read a book with "Dragon" in the title
Read a book with "Dragon" in the series name
Read a book with a Dragon on the cover
Read a book with a Dragon in the book

Task 3 - Yule Ball
Read a book with your favorite romance hero(es)/heroine(s) or your favorite pair (Pair has to be a romantic couple in the book, not just a love interest)
Read a book with couple dancing on the cover
Read a book with a feast or dinner item on the cover
Read a book with a single shoe on the cover

Task 4 - Retrieve Treasure
Read a book with mermaids
Read a book with "Treasure" in the title
Read a book with someone swimming on the cover
Read a book with water on the cover

Task 5 - The Maze
Read a book with "Maze" in the title or series name
Read a book with a riddle in the text
Read a book with 'Spider" in the title
Read a book with a key on the cover

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Task 1 - Clean up the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix
Read a book with pixies or fairies
Read a book with "Order" in the title
Read a book a bird on the cover
Read a book with picture on the cover

Task 2 - Go on Trial
Read a book where the main character is a lawyer
Read a book MPG Crime
Read a book where someone goes on trial
Read a book with "Trial" in the title

Task 3 - Get a New Professor
Read a book with a predominately pink cover
Read a book where the title is pink
Read a book with a teacher character
Read a book with a cat on the cover

Task 4 - Department of Mysteries
Read a book MPG Mystery
Read a book where someone dies
Read a book with a large battle
Read a book where there is a "rescue"

Task 5 - The Lost Prophecy
Read a book with a seer/fortune teller character
Read a book with a prophecy as an integral part of the story
Read a book with "Lost" in the title
Read a book with 'Prophecy" in the title or series name

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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Task 1 - The Slug Club
Read a book with "Club" in the title
Read a book where there is an exclusive club
Read a book with a teacher main character
Read a book with a club like object on the cover

Task 2 - Silver and Opals
Read a book with a necklace on the cover
Read a book with 'Silver" in the title
Read a book "Curse" in the title
Read a book "opal" in the text

Task 3 - The Unbreakable Vow
Read a book with something broken on the cover
Read a book that starts with U
Read a book with "Vow" in the title or series name
Read a book where someone tries to protect someone

Task 4 - Love Potion
Read a book with "Love" in the title
Read a book with chocolate on the cover
Read a book with a bottle on the cover
Read a book with a heart on the cover

Task 5 - The White Tomb
Read a book with a white cover
Read a book with "White" in the title
Read a book with a graveyard on the cover
Read a book where one of the main characters dies

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Task 1 - The Seven Potters
Read a book with 'Seven" in the title
Read a book that is #7 in a series
Read a book 'Seven" in the series name
Read a book with a number in the title

Task 2 - Tale of the Three Brothers
Read a book that is #3 in a series
Read a book with "Three" in the title
Read a book with brothers
Read a book that has a story/tale within the novel

Task 3 - Shell Cottage
Read a book with a funeral
Read a book a cottage on the cover
Read a book with lots of people staying in one home
Read a book where someone has a baby

Task 4 - The Missing Mirror
Read a book where the main character "goes home again"
Read a book where a long lost sibling is discivered
Read a book where the characters are under siege
Read a book with "Mirror" in the title

Task 5 - The Battle of Hogwarts
Read a book MPG War
Read a book with a sword on the cover
Read a book with a snake on the cover
Read a book multiple people die

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**Note - the same person does not need to read all four sub-tasks**

First of all, I just want to let you know that I think all of you are AWESOME!!!! Thanks for all the hard work you've put into this challenge so far.

I know there is a lot of info - I've tried to condense, but please read it all and feel free to ask any questions. Thanks!

TRI-WIZARD ANNOUNCEMENT

Tri-Wizard will have 3 parts:

**Individual Team Tasks
**House Maze
**Final Quidditch Match

Individual Team Tasks
See next post

House Maze - Starts 31 Jul - more info to come
Each House will go through the Maze together as a House. Each move through the maze will require one book, with its own requirements.

Be prepared for surprises, portals, moving floors. There really is no telling what all a House may find within their maze.

Quidditch Round #3
Hufflepuff v Slytherin - 10 August - 15 August
Quidditch Link
Badgers Burrow
Our readers get extra points for the team when participating in Quidditch - it can be intense but a lot of fun, so please consider volunteering, even as a reserve.

We still have our Character spell-outs for any books that don't work for Tri-Wizard. I will get our banked books logged in today and tomorrow. Letters that we need a lot of: E, I, L, N, O, R, S, U and Y (we need 11 Y's!!!) So if you don't want to do tasks, no worries - we still need your books!

Buddy Reads end tomorrow - get any BR's finished up asap!

BOM's - we can still get points for Books of the Month participation. You can participate up to 1 month after the start of the BOM, and we get an extra 20 points. I'll list the current BOM's after the TWT tasks.

Page points
Don't forget we earn points for pages:

100 to 160 pages ........................ 5 points
161 to 350 pages..........................20 points
351 to 500 pages..........................40 points
501 to 650 pages..........................60 points
651 to 800 pages..........................80 points
801 to 900 pages..........................100 points
901+ pages.....................................130 points

So keep in mind - if you read a book that is 350 pages we get 20 points but if its 351 pages we get 40 points. I know most of us are also participating in other challenges and there are books we need to read for those. But when you're looking for books to read, keep in mind the point system above.

Hi Linda - good news:
Total shelves work for me. So like if you have tagged 6 times as pleasure and 4 times as calm, that works.

Hi Linda - good news.
Here's the response I got:
Hey Sandy. Variations that have similar meanings would work. Pleasure. Leisure. Comfort. Etc. We aren’t being overly particular with tasks this Tower.

Here’s a place to try:
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/relax

I'm still waiting for an answer if we can combine shelves to get to that 10 number. I think it's still going to be a tough task to find something that fits that you actually want to read, though. :-)

If you find another term just ask - they said to use our judgement, so we can discuss it here and if no one is sure I can ask in the captain's thread.

Linda C wrote: "I am leaving tomorrow for a 2 week vacation and will only have my kindle to read from - I am trying to plan accordingly

I took a look at the tasks and what I have scheduled to read for other chall..."

Hi Linda
When they say "variations are allowed" it usually means relaxed or relaxing instead of just relax, or calming instead of calm. Not a completely different term. I will double check to make sure, but you may want to start looking for a different book.

I know there is a way to search for shelves - if anyone knows how to do that please post. In the meantime I'll search around - I think I have notes somewhere.