Judith’s Comments (group member since Apr 15, 2015)

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

Happy Reading everyone! And former Lusties, don't do anything I wouldn't do ;)

My 2 bpm reader (which is what she read in Feb & March) ending up reading like 15 books in April. I think she had a school break or something because it came out of nowhere.

And we had someone completely ghost that got replaced with pixie books. It just a few but it certainly helped with the mini.

Especially with the April mini, it was novella city there for a bit

Yes, as long as it pops up with the title on GR, it’s fine to use

megan wrote: "Hello everyone!
I'm Megan in Indianapolis. This is my 5th or 6th Tower Teams challenge. (WOBBLE was my favorite (Battleship))

I'm a mechanical engineer in civil aerospace - jet engines. I have a ..."

Welcome Megan!

Maybe some former mods have some good nonfiction on their read shelves or you are able to make fun connections to past winning teams?

If nothing else nonfiction still has cover colors we can use in the rainbow towers!

But I do hear you about nonfiction being hard to make fit into tasks. I think it's a area we mods can do a bit better at having some more nonfiction friendly tasks worked in.

Jamie wrote: "Just as a heads up I am going to be unavailable starting sometime tomorrow, until either the 2nd or 3rd. I will be reading and once I have regular internet access and get get on the spreadsheet aga..."

Okay, thank you for letting us know. Hopefully you are doing something fun :)

Not pre-planning is totally fine! I tend to not plan far out either unless it's for really specific tasks.

Jamie wrote: "Hi everyone!
I am glad I randomly decided to look at the challenge chat. Hadn't realized teams were made lol. Now to catch up on some of the info we have here... :)

I did one of these challenges s..."

Welcome Jamie!

Laura..devouring books like crumpets wrote: "Im looking at The spreadsheet.... And their only seems to be info on the towere teams Mini challenge... Is that the Whole challenge or will Something else be announced nearer the time... sorry just..."

The 'main' challenge for TT this years is building the towers based on page numbers and just reading a bunch of books which was how the first TT started 10 years ago.

The plans for towers inspired by TTs in years gone by ballooned a bit so we thought we'd just let teams chip away at it throughout the challenge.

More things may be coming, us mods are tricky and like to keep teams on their toes.

It's all good and honestly at least some of your questions others probably had as well :)

Those are quite long responses, but hopefully that answers some of your questions. But please keep asking as they pop up :)

Answering Part 2 of your questions. Tracking spreadsheet in general.

You can do both. Entering books you know you are going to read and then others as you start or finish them. Both options are perfectly fine.

The 3 I entered first are all BOM (books of the month) for NBRC in May so I know I'll be reading them. Others I'll likely add as I go.

I'm fine if you want to wait to add them until you finish. Some people may wait until the have a few read and then add 4 or 5 completed books at once so they don't have to get into the spreadsheet as often. It's all fine with me.

There may be some things that pop up later in TT that have ore finite deadlines. If that's the case, we'd only ask that you have things logged by the deadline so we get the credit. If something like that happens, we'd post reminders in the thread.

As for books we don't need. . .well as long as it meets the requirement of TT, we can use the book. Even if it fits ZERO mini challenge tasks (unlikely, I can always make a book fit!! I am very creative! LOL) we can still get page points.

But if it doesn't meet the TT requirements, like a children's book with a word count that's too low (an example that's come up in the past is The Bad Beginning, the others in the series are long enough to count, but not the first book). You can of course read it and just not put it on your TT shelf. That's one of the reasons we ask people to make a TT shelf, so if you are reading other things they don't get mixed up with your TT books.

Hello Tricia!

I'm going to answer you in two parts. First the mini challenge. Yes, we are working on all of them and we have the whole challenge to chip away at them. It probably seems like an overwhelming amount of tasks. But . . . our teams monthly book count, based on sign ups, is 228 books per month. So that's closing in on 700 books by the end of the challenge.

As for which prompt to use. I try to start with what I think are harder tasks. Maybe it works for a harder to find letter like Z or U so I'd put the book there. Or it's a good color for the 18 book Rainbow tower, so I put it there.

And then list some other options in case a captain needs to move your book to a different task to get something to fit. Nothing is locked in for the mini challenge until the end of TT.

There's no wrong prompt to chose as long as the book fits there.

I would say after we complete the 18 book Rainbow tower, I'd put a lower priority on additional rainbow towers until the other parts are more complete.

I've also added a countdown clock to the top of the book tab so it'll be easy for everyone to know if TT has started.

Hello Team!

Here's the tracking spreadsheet for our team:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Feel free to start adding books you plan to read, just don't start reading until TT actually starts.

We have some things automated, if you played TT last year this should be familiar to you.

Column H on the Book tab is where you can enter a code for the mini challenge task and it will auto populate the mini challenge tab, so you just have to enter things in one spot. It's why the mini challenge tabs are locked so formulas don't get overwritten.

I'll add some books I'm going to be reading as examples in a little bit which may help more than looking at a blank spreadsheet.

I'm also adding the link to the tracking sheet in the top post so it's easy to find later.

Mahi wrote: "Hi everyone!

I'm Mahi and I live in Texas. Right now I work as a research assistant but in July I'm going to be starting medical school!

I gravitate to fantasy more than anything else but I do re..."

Congratulations! Very exciting :)

Sammy recommended it to our team during the last round of My Restaurant Rocks. I thought it sounded fun so 🤷🏼‍♀️🙂

Hello Hello!

Welcome everyone whose checked in so far! Most of the team has, just a few left which is great since the thread hasn't even been open 24 hours.

I love the excitement!!

Logan wrote: "I think my link didn't paste correctly so here you go!

tower-teams-×"

There was certainly something weird going on with the links starting about halfway down the team list. I fixed your shelf and a bunch of others. Hopefully it's all fixed now!

Sonia wrote: "Sophie wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Sophie wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Yey, the teams are up. Have you notice you have not one, not two, but three former mods in our team?

And since our captain just asked so n..."