Insiyah’s Comments (group member since Apr 12, 2022)

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

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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

Janeylou wrote: "Are cover points & page counts from the copy we are reading / default/ any"

The copy you're reading, unless its the BOM in which case itll be official page counts as per BOM thread.

Kirsten wrote: "Demon Copperhead is also on my list for this challenge!"

Let me know what you think when you're done with it!

Happy Reading everyone!

Current TBR that's now piled up on my desk:
The Lord of the Rings - 1178 pages
The Silmarillion - 439 pages
The Count of Monte Cristo - 1276 pages
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - 428 pages
Demon Copperhead - 546 pages

I'm psyched, because Tolkien, but also, why am I doing this to myself again?

Aah yes, I'm a lunatic.

Has anyone read The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle? I completed it yesterday and I'm honestly not sure if I like it or not.

Jade aka MrsTosh wrote: "Am I right in thinking as well as getting point for reading the BOM and participating in the Q&A section, we can also use it on the main spreadsheet page for page points? Sure, I did in the last game similar to this I played?"

Yes, we use the book for the Rounds as well as for the BOMs as long as you're also answering the DQs.

Okay, perfect! I've volunteered for The Malevolent Seven, so that's May's BOMs covered.

If anyone is reading these two books, please make sure to let us know if we miss adding it to the BOM tab in the spreadsheet!

Has anyone volunteered for DQs for Salt & Broom?

Read a book that has been turned into a movie or TV show and the filming is done in South America
Direction: North

S - Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
K - Kafka on the Shore
I - In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
P - Persuasion by Jane Austen

I'll add a little warning here though - NBRC Backroom may cause minor trauma. Two words - Dino Island

Kirsten wrote: "I have like eleventeen books I’m waiting to read."

Same 😂 - I'm going a little spare trying to plan out the next few months in books.

Thank you for your support everyone. It's been a rough few days, but we're back to regular life mostly now. And it helps that a lot of my mum's extended family is all here, so we all were able to come together and support each other.

Hi everyone,

Need to step away for a few days - my grandmother passed away today

We do need to link the books though since we need to verify the dates and shelf before we add them to the main spreadsheet.

Are you using the Google Sheets app?

Janeylou wrote: "So as we read we note/ claim as many categories that it works for?

Ideally, yes.

Janeylou wrote: "Then are we trying to make an equal number WFSD tasks presumably to use further down the line"

That's the current assumption we're working with. The mods definitely have something cooking, and we're going to be using these categories somehow, but no clues as of yet as to how.

Janeylou wrote: "Im not a SS lover as only use my phone, but can manage basic ones so will.take a look"

Take a look at it and see if it works for you. If you're able to use it, go ahead. If not, add a completion post here and Beth, Amanda and I will ensure it's been added to the sheet.

MN Lisa wrote: "Ok. So I'm still trying to wrap my brain around this challenge. For Example, I'm currently reading Darkest Hour Before Dawn, I would fill out the following:
Weapon: Gun on cover
[bo..."

You're on the right track here - literally any little connection between the plot and four categories work. We can be as creative as we like - there's no hard and fast rule about how good the connection needs to be.


Janeylou wrote: "I thought we only have to pick out 1 that the book works for , not all.4 😳"

Official rules are that it goes into one category. However, if you're able to pick out more connections and add them to the internal spreadsheet, that gives us captains more choice when it comes to playing around with what we use for each category.

Take a look at the spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... - we've tried to make it as easy to use as possible.

If you're not comfortable using the spreadsheet, just post here on the team thread and we'll input it in the sheet for you :)

Kirsten wrote: "I have no pets. My daughter just got a really, really good score on the SAT, though."

Thanks great! Congratulations!

Caly ☯ Crazy Book Lady wrote: "OH and am I the only one on this team who doesn't read MM Romance? ROFL"

I dont much either - if a book I'm reading has that pairing, great, but I dont specifically gravitate towards MM


Okay, bedtime for me. Janine, you're not the earliest bedtime this time round - I am. Its nearly 11pm here in Dubai. And i have to wake up at 4:30. On Sunday. Ergh.

I wouldn't be surprised if the mods have something special planned for District 12 in the upcoming rounds or Minis considering how important it is in the books.

Welcome to District 12!

I'm Insiyah. I'm a data analyst based in Dubai (Gulf Standard Time or GMT + 4:00) at present. I'm in that annoying phase where I'm done with my studies and job hunting at the moment. The only good thing about it being that I have plenty of time to read and crochet. I occasionally branch out, but I mostly read literary fiction, classics, fantasy, and apparently historical according to my reading dashboard. I usually get in about 10 books a month, but I've input 5 for this challenge because I've reserved all my big books for this. So, The Count of Monte Cristo with your 1276 pages, here I come.

This is my fourth year doing team challenges - I got hooked on UNO like so many others and came to Tower Teams IX. I love doing these because they kick-start my competitive tendencies, and I get a lot of reading done because of it.

Really looking forward to playing Book Games with you all!

Book Games shelf - https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...