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And the winner with 10/13 votes (including 2 x first choice) is...
Closely followed by The Count of Monte Cristo with 8 votes (incl 3 x first choice). For those who are interested, there is a prior buddy read thread here
Thread for 2023 Weight Tome is here
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 and 2022 Pillars of the Earth!
After nominating books and then voting for 2023, the winner is Ship of Magic!
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!
Have a favorite monster you'd like to see on a wheel? From a book, non-Greek mythos, movie? Share here, new wheels and monsters will be periodically added :)
Post questions here. But remember, use common sense and don't overthink tasks. This is just for a bit of fun!
Below is a link to a spreadsheet of potential monsters, assigned difficulty level/hit points, and additional tasks required to vanquish each monster.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
The ancient Greeks are known for their tragedies and no tragedy is complete without a good monster. For good to triumph and a Hero to be born, there first must be an evil to vanquish and a wrong to right.
Below is the randomizing wheel for Greek Monsters. To start, spin 5 times to get your first 5 monsters. If you get a repeated monster remember you can respin for a replacement.
https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
1.) Each monster has a set of required tasks that must be completed in order to vanquish the monster.
2.) Books can be used to complete more than one task, but only for the same monster. If you can find a single book that meets all five tasks, congratulations, you defeated the monster with just one book! Expect other teams to notice this and copy your choice ;)
3.) Teams/individuals can have up to 5 monsters to vanquish at any time.
4.) Monsters are assigned at random and may be repeated by the same team/individual.
5.) We like players to be creative, that's what makes this fun. However, please do not hurt yourself over thinking the tasks. If there still is some indecision, post in the Q&A thread or just find a different book.
6.) Once you vanquish a monster and get a replacement it should be considered locked and you cannot swap out books.
Back by popular demand, the Wheel O'Monsters mini challenge from Tower Team 9: The Muses is now up for a self directed challenge. You can do this as an individual or as a small group of fellow Goodread adventurers (aka your friends).
To start there is a wheel of Greek Monsters. Each individual/team will start off with 5 monsters selected at random by spinning the wheel. Monsters can be repeated as many times as you'd like, but if you already have a given monster as one of your 5, you can respin for a different one.
Periodically wheels for other monster types will be added to allow for some variety. Any wheel can be spun to replace a vanquished monster.
To start, make a thread for you/your team, copy the spreadsheet template (if you want to use it), and spin the wheel to get your first 5 monsters. Then start the battle!
Template: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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✿~Danielle~✿ wrote: "Mods, just so you’re aware the formula in the points in column, says December Bonus, not January. I’ve changed it on my sheet."Thanks!
I did check that, but my brain clearly thought December was right as it is the month we are currently in ;)
Voting is now open for 2023 weighty tomeonly vote if you are intending to join the read!
https://forms.gle/cafqu5YbSBUwPQQB7
Feel free to post any questions, or just chat and share book ideas below :)
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 2023 - 31 January 2023
Sign ups close Jan 6.
January 2023 Upside Down 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 2023 - 31 January 2023
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/MUXAAmrviavRGCbe8
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, 2023.
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.
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, 2023, 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, 2023 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)
