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teeheeno worries. I've updated the "how to play" above also in case anyone else also has the same question
Catsalive wrote: "I'll play, but there's no sheet for entering books on the SS, just the list of tasks."Once you sign up we create you an individual sheet to enter your books :)
(looks like this) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Our Upside Down challenge for January is back and sign ups openJanuary 2024 Upside Down Individual Challenge
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Summer is upon us in the Southern hemisphere and we invite you to get a bit topsy turvy, upside down, and jumbled up joining this challenge for one month only;
from 1 January 2024 - 31 January 2024
This is an Individual challenge, but you are playing for:
>Meeting your own goal of books read (a minimum of 3 for the month, there is no maximum)
>Points against everyone else who signs up. (you may wish to have a friendly side competition with those with equivalent book goals!)
IMPORTANT
You will need to be able to access and edit Google Sheets to join this challenge. We will give you a template, but you need to use it to track your books and your points.
We work on an honour system, so we are not asking you to submit your spreadsheets for review, but all sheets need to be accessible for viewing by all players.
ABOUT
Sign up using this form: https://forms.gle/1GevtUBeEyg2DhhD7
and we will send you a google tracking sheet that you will use to track your challenge. This will feed into a main tracking sheet here:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
that will track the points of all players.
Sign ups close on January 6, 2024.
1. HOW TO PLAY
You are given a list of tasks to choose from for January here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
that have points allocated to them as 10, 20, 50 or 100. It is up to you which tasks you decide to cover in the month, but you must choose a minimum of one 100 point and two 50 point tasks.
Each task can only be completed once.
2. POINTS TRACKING
Players are responsible for tracking their own points by using the Google Sheet template provided. (Once you sign up we create you an individual sheet to enter your books)
This will feed into the overall tracking spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
3. BOOK REQUIREMENTS
Books must be started on or after 8am, January 1st, 2024, AEDST to count for this challenge. Click here for the countdown: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
All books must be read by 11.59pm, January 31, 2024 AEDST (countdown: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...)
Re-reads are ok provided it has been more than 6 months since you last read the book.
The minimum page requirement is 100 pages unless a task specifies differently.
Unless otherwise specified in the task, (some lower point tasks will allow this) the following books can NOT be used:
* Comic / Graphic / Magna
* Cookbooks
* Textbooks
* Travel Guides
* Poetry
* Poems
* Childrens / Middle Grade novels and plays/screenplays can only be used where you can verify the word count through AR BookFind as 25,001 words or more. If you can't verify it with that site, you can check if audible or overdrive has the unabridged version as more than 3 hours. If you can't verify either, then you can't use it (unless the specific task says you can)
2024 winner has been posted https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Way of Kings won, closely followed by Shogun and Wanderers
2024 winner has been posted https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
The Way of Kings won, closely followed by Shogun and Wanderers
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READING SCHEDULE
January & February 2024
Prelude, Prologue and Part One: Above Silence
March & April 2024
Part Two: The Illuminating Storms
May 2024==BREAK / CATCH UP MONTH==
June & July 2024
Part Three: Dying
August & September 2024
Part Four: Storm's Illumination
October 2024==BREAK / CATCH UP MONTH==
November & December 2024
Part Five: The Silence Above and Epilogue
Over in the Cleaning out the closet challenge in 2018 we started talking...
Your know those MASSIVE books that you want to read, but everything else gets in the way?
Well we decided that perhaps the best way to tackle this problem is to pick a book and read it together over a year. So 2019 was the year of Les Misérables, 2020 was War and Peace, 2021 Gone with the Wind, 2022 Pillars of the Earth and 2023 Ship of Magic!
After nominating books and then voting for 2024, the winner is The Way of Kings!
Anyone is welcome to join. This is essentially an extremely long buddy read :)
There is a reading schedule below to show which chapters to read over a two month period and we will also have two break months ; meaning the read will last the whole year.
To participate, all you need to do is come on over and give your thoughts for the section you are reading. Please make it clear which section you are referring to, and if you are reading ahead of the schedule, put your comments in spoiler tags.
c.800 pages? 35+ hours of audio?! Meh! We got this! Let the Reading Begin!
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This is the 3rd level of this challenge.
The challenge consists of many levels, this level is 251 - 500 books. So, if you have not completed the first 250, go back and complete the previous levels of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2024 that you haven't already finished.
Just create your list of books (at this level, label them 251 through 500) and mark them off with a strike through or a check-mark them as you finish. If you find you can't finish one of the books on your list for any reason, you may replace it with another.
Also, if you just want to decide what you read as you go you can do that as well. Since this challenge is for the year 2024 any books you've read this year may be included.
This is a free choice challenge. Read whatever you want.
Make a ✔ Or Other Symbol
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This is the 2nd level of this challenge.
The challenge consists of five levels, and this one is for 101 - 250 books so, if you have not completed the first 100, go back and complete the previous levels of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2024 that you haven't already finished.
Just create your list of books (at this level, label them 101 through 250) and mark them off with a strike through or a check-mark them as you finish. If you find you can't finish one of the books on your list for any reason, you may replace it with another.
Also, if you just want to decide what you read as you go you can do that as well. Since this challenge is for the year 2024 any books you've read this year may be included.
This is a free choice challenge. Read whatever you want.
Make a ✔ Or Other Symbol
Level Quick Links
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