Cat’s Comments (group member since Jan 28, 2015)

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

I. Am. Spartacus!

Gerard gets my vote.

Fun fact: he's been filming around a friend's home. She's more incensed that her neighbourhood is being used as post apocalyptic world than excited for a Butler spot!

Exciting surprise reveal!

Basically, we get to send our partner team, District 5, 3 of our books each month. We keep the points, but can't use for any mini that comes up.

We can do this the low-effort way, and just send them three (high page count) books, that they get to use as they want, but which aren't targeted for a mini task or not.
Alternatively, we can wait until any mini information is released and work out what tasks we don't like, and see if they will fit them (e.g. suppose there is a need to read horror books, and we all hate that genre - they might have a horror fiend who can read an extra one for us).

The second option might be more fun, though I can see a Prisoners' Dilemma risk developing over the game too!

Thoughts?

We've had a surprise update! Info below...

Everyone needs a little help from a friend (or sponsor).

Supply drops consist of books read by the sending team to be used in a way chosen by the receiving team within specified criteria.

Teams have been paired up for the duration of Book Games and are allowed to send up to 3 supply drops each to their partner team per round. This is not required - your team could decide to not send any supply drops. But if that's your team's choice, your partner team could decide to do the same.

Paired teams are allowed to coordinate with requests for books which would be most helpful to the receiving team. However, the sending team ultimately gets to decide which books are sent as supply drops.

Sending Team

The sending team chooses up to 3 books to send to the recipient team each round. These can either be 3 random books or books that meet specific needs of the recipient team.

The books can be sent any time during the round and the books do not have to be sent at the same time. That being said, it would be most helpful to the receiving team if the supply drops were received early enough in the round to decide how best to use the books for their team.

The sending team logs the supply drop books on the respective round's book log, puts the books in an appropriate resource category, and receives page points for the books sent. However, the books sent for supply drops cannot be used for other tasks. The appropriate code for supply drops is added to the mini reference column.

Supply drop books cannot be sent until they have been read by the sending team.

Receiving Team

The receiving team can choose from a variety of options on how to use the supply drops. But once used, they are locked in and the supply drop books cannot be moved to a different spot.

Supply drops can be carried over into future rounds but can only be used for mini challenge tasks in the round they were sent.

- Mini Task: Supply drop books must work for the mini task they're being used for. This includes the read date being within the timeframe of the mini challenge.
How to log this on the spreadsheet: add the book to the appropriate round's book log, enter 0 for the page number, select "Supply Drop" as the resource category, then enter the appropriate mini reference code.

- Additions to resource piles: Supply drop books must meet a requirement of the resource pile.
How to log this on the spreadsheet: add the book to the appropriate round's book log the same way you enter any other book read by your team, select the appropriate supply drop code in the mini reference column.

- Protecting supply piles: Supply drop books must fit into that category AND have some type of shield/defense. These would need to be separate. So if you want to use a supply drop book to protect your defense supply pile, the book needs to fit into the defense category in 2 different ways.
How to log this on the spreadsheet: add the book to the appropriate round's book log, enter 0 for the page number, select the resource category you'd like the book to protect in column F and provide the reason why the book meets that pile's requirements in column G. Then add the appropriate supply drop code in the mini reference column in column H and provide the reason why the book meets the defense resource criteria in column I. Protection (column G) and defense (column I) must be two different reasons.


Team Pairings

District 1 & The Capitol
District 2 & District 13
District 3 & District 12
District 4 & District 11
District 5 & District 10
District 6 & District 9
District 7 & District 8

I'm just here to say Bale. you can keep your brawn, thanks!

I kicked out Sophie's "set in London" to finish off the Thames Ice Snake.

spun....

Dr. Zachary Smith (Lost in Space)
1 200 to 299
2 Set in space or on another planet
3 Character is untrustworthy
4 A cheesy book (your interpretation)
5 MPG science fiction/Sci-fi

I realised that I could switch Mel's book out and finished off Danny Zuko, respan....


John Willoughby and Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
1 500 to 650
2 published under a pseudonym
3 MC has at least 3 siblings
4 character is a cheater (your interpretation)
5 GREED (letters in any order) found in title

gah! sorry folks!

I realised that I could switch Mel's book out and finished off Danny Zuko, respan....


John Willoughby and Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
1 500 to 650
2 published under a pseudonym
3 MC has at least 3 siblings
4 character is a cheater (your interpretation)
5 GREED (letters in any order) found in title

NOTICE!

The captains would be super-grateful if you could adjust your challenge shelf settings to show the page count information.

How to do this:
- go to your shelf page
- at the top, below the main ribbon, is the subset of options (reads Batch Edit / Settings / Stats / Print / Enable Sorting)
- select Settings - it'll expand to show all the fields that can be displayed
- select "num pages"
- press the "Save current settings..." button
- smile with a job well done to ease the captains' lives :)

Thanks!

Here's one: cashing in by retelling the story from the other point of view! Looking at Grey in particular, but there's others. ...

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Christmas books that don’t have any Christmas in them!
Book descriptions or covers that misrepresent the book’s contents

I still grudge that alien santa christmas book that promised red skinned alien and failed to deliver!

And we are now almost half an hour into the Games!
Enjoy the reading :)

Sammy wrote: "you show that line Cat! 😁"

within 3%! and I've another from the closet going too! :D
I shall be above it at the end of this month! I shall, I shall, I shall!

#19 & #20 done! Both good in very different ways!

long division
imaginary numbers
integration


but, why leave it at maths, when we could embrace the delightful Grocers Apostrophe, or the Oxford Comma....

convo with work friend about the dangers of the baked spud:
I sent an article about someone who's going through a tribunal due to sleeping on the job after a jacket p lunch.
she commented that they are known dangerous foodstuff - "remember Brian Harvey and his potato?"
I expostulated that I knew about him driving over himself, but knew nothing about a spud (my mind was boggling as to what mayhem Brian and his muppets could have got up to with spuds)

the driving over himself was ALSO the spud story - he had had too many spuds, was throwing up, fell out and ran over himself!!!!!!

which just goes to show:
1. spuds are menaces, avoid! or at least, handle with caution
2. an earworm is lurking in the strangest of places.

you'll be pleased to know that my friend thinks it hilarious that she's infested me for the forseeable future! and being infested, I had to share the pain #sorrynotsorry



Also, Lexi, I feel we need Stay Another Day on the list, with spud related tasks! (tuna mayo filling, if that helps)

for the Brits, and via a conversation about baked potatoes being dangerous, I now have "oooh don't leave me alone like this...." stuck in my head!

("stay now ..[stay now]...")

Up to you! It's less work for us if you add details to the sheet, but it's always good to have a post about a finished book, especially if it's a strong rec / avoid warning! :)