Apoorv ’s Comments (group member since Mar 26, 2014)

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

Sara wrote: "Hi, Team!
I plan to start reading Margherita Dolcevita by Stefano Benni today (with 1,385 ratings at the moment) to cover task #1."

Sara, Margherita Dolcevita has 1385 ratings and 114 reviews. We need a book with more than a 1000 reviews, so that one would not specifically work for that goal.

We can always use it as a book towards our attack points though. :)

Time to unleash our power, girls ! :)

Just as a reminder, please dont forget to update your finished reads here, I will be checking atleast twice a day (possibly more.. hey ! I am a GoodReads addict :P) so that I can update the spreadsheet real-time as far as possible.

Also, make sure to add all your read books to your designated shelf. I will lurking around your shelves as well. (Geez ! I do sound creepy)

All the best ! :)
*runs off to polish his weapons*

Thanks, Kate ! :)

Has anybody heard from Dragana ? She is the only one missing to the party !

Roger that, captain ! :)

.. and hey, heartiest congratulations.. we will do our special team celebration in that week for you ! :D

Woopie ! :D
This is so awesome.

BTW, I have all our shelves linked up to my first message. Please check if I have them correctly linked. Do let me know if not.

Dragana, Kate, its absolutely possible that I might not have found your shelves, but incase you havent set them up, please do so, so that we can be ready to go tomorrow. :)

EDIT : Also updated are some basic rules and the point system for easy reference.

Yay ! Just waiting on Dragana and we are all set ! *hii everybody, my first challenge with all of you.. super-glad*
I am so excited for this challenge.. amongst all the team challenges I have played so far, this is most novel.

The fusing of teams will be really cool.

Vicky, if you need any organizing help, spreadsheet preparations or anything of that sort.. I am here ! :)

Team Crixus - GoodReads Shelves
Please log in all the books you read during the challenge period, into your respective shelves.

✔ Apoorv (Challenge-NBRC-Gladiator Games)
✔ Dragana (NBRC-The Gladiator Games)
✔ Kate (Crixus)
✔ Sara (Gladiator Games)
✔ Vicky (NBRC-Gladiator Games)

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Rules
☞ Books must be more than 160 pages in length.
Children's books, Graphic Novels, Cookbooks and Poetry books cannot be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 160 pages.

☞ Only books read during the specified round can be used
(“read date” is what counts, not the day you start.)
Books cannot be “banked” from previous weeks to use later in the challenge.

☞ Books must be started after the start date of the challenge to count towards the challenge.

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Point System
A gladiator may gain an advantage through two methods: Attack and Defense

☞ Attack points
Any book read will earn:
161-500 Pages : 0.5 Points
500+ Pages : 1.0 Point

☞ Defense points
Any books read toward completing goals will earn:
1 Goal = 1 Point

REMEMBER: You also gain attack points for books read toward completing goals.

You had a task and one dedicated to you ? WOW !
Now, I need to go and check it out.. that is so neat, I must say !

.. and 800 points !! I have even come closer to that figure.. even remotely, LOL !

I hope you get to write another task, I would love to read books that you come up with for that. Mighty cool.

Summer looks wonderful, indeed. Need to lay my books out. Gonna be fun ! :D \m/

OMG, yes !
Getting the notifications back up and running makes me feel so relieved. It was just so weird to see that blank space up there.. I even thought that I pressed something wrong and left all the groups accidentally ! Hehe !

Zee, hope you are feeling better now with the knee. Take rest and hopefully you read stuff that you would enjoy.

Cait, arent you excited for the new season of SRC ? I am going back to it this time and I am all excited.. was out for 2 seasons now (one coz I wanted to, one coz I forgot :P). Hope you did well on the Spring Challenge. Which task did you like the most ?

Anita, Hii ! :D
I am so glad I be-friended you guys, now I get to see all the tons of books you read ! :)

How are you guys doing ?
Feels so weird.. I still have the spreadsheet tab open.. I just love looking at how we all worked together.

Cant believe that after an 8-week long challenge, I still feels wanting for more. All coz of you bunch of AWEEEEEEESOME people ! ^_^

For one last time !

Here are both the spreadsheets for everyone's reference :
Official Spreadsheet
Team Spreadsheet

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Weekly Tally

Total Points : 355
Total Books Read : 27
Total Complete Spell-outs : 4

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FINAL TALLY

Total Points : 2800
Total Books Read : 219

Wow ! Still cant believe that I am waking up on a morning without having to decide what I am going to read this week for this challenge.

THIS has been truly a pleasure.. and its all thanks to you gals.
Anita, Cait, Erin, Kelly, Sarah and Zee, YOU ALL ROCK !
As mentioned above, this indeed was a TEAM effort.. look at the books read and we are all more-or-less, in the same bracket of # of books read which goes to show evenly strong we were.

I honestly dont care that we were nowhere close to the first place. I was rather glad that I could have a blast reading books for this challenge.. making the spreadsheet and realizing that the colors that I added there were actually colors that you guys added to the challenge.. each different yet part of a resplendent rainbow !

I really want to be in the same team with you guys the next time I am here for a challenge.
THANK YOU, ALL ! :D

Would you guys mind if I send friend requests to you all ? I would want to keep in touch with you guys even after the challenge is over and discuss books with you.. its getting over ! O.V.E.R :'(

Kelly, I used Sarah's first two books for A and L in the fourth spelling and used your book for O in the fifth spelling, just incase tough letters are counted.

I am finishing one more before the deadline.

Update

Oh. My. Gods. | Tera Lynn Childs | 14May2015 | 272 Pages

A : Character (Adara)
L : Character (Leonidas)
M : Character (Miss Matios)
O : Title
N : Character (Nicole)
D : Character (Damien Petrolas)

.. and we complete the second spell-out ! :)

Darn ! Darn ! Darn !
I had taken a break from SRC last season and had planned to play this season.

Grrr.. now I have to spend this weekend to post my list. Oh dear, its gonna be painful making all those posts.

I am gonna try doing it without a spreadsheet this time and I know I am gonna curse myself in a week about it.

But, thanks for reminding me of it, Cait !

Anita wrote: "Do you know if the audios are any good? "


I have read 3, of which only one was the audiobook version and that was by Sawyer Allerde and I liked that. Sawyer is definitely a good narrator.. although I know the narrator changes to Sean Crisden somewhere in the series (cant remember from which book).. not sure how good/bad he is. Never heard him.

Anita wrote: "It sounds like your book is mild compared to Cut & Run. :) "

OMG, yes !
Cut & Run series is just awesome.. this one is not bad but pales in comparison both in terms of the mystery and the romance.

First spell-out completed, ladies !
BTW, what is the color for this week ? Brown ?