Amanda’s Comments (group member since Mar 13, 2022)

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

I have at least one more to add right now, might get through one more but I will post by tonight if I will!

I’m going to be contrary and say I’d vote against Rth Rising because it’s less letters for us but I feel like sing will give them so much to work with that they can really send something terrible back!

But I’m always good with what the team decides ☺️

Okay I found Arthur & George. 4 letters but not sure they can do less with it!

Yes! District 12 is going with The Ants Are My Friends: Misheard Lyrics, Malapropisms, Eggcorns, and Other Linguistic Gaffes, so passing it back to you :)

Jackie wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Jackie, do you want to actually read it? It looks interesting to me as well if you don’t want to!"

Yes, I was planning to read it. Lol"

Awesome! Could you put the edition you're reading on the Round 2 Tab? I'll let District 4 know!

Amanda will pretty much NEVER hae better recall lol. It's why I can reread so many times

Jackie, do you want to actually read it? It looks interesting to me as well if you don’t want to!

Ooh I vote Jackie’s’ otherwise we might just volley ants back and forth

MN Lisa wrote: "While "Time" might be easy, it is 4 letters like we had to use. although they might be able to find"

Don’t give them ideas, hope they’re not smart like I’m not and forget about that 😂

Janeylou wrote: "Ive got nothing at all ...it didnt even occur to me that we had to find the hardest ones available"

lol me either at first’! I was just thinking everyone would probably read all ten (but I’m assuming you’re trying to get to a stumper at some point). Poor naive us 😂

Oof a hard one! I knew you were devious Tammie 😉

Team, I don't think we will be able to find a title starting with NTS so will probably have to do ANTS.

I could read Antsy Does Time which would hopefully make them also pick up a 4 letter.

If anyone has an NTS or a better ANTS let us know!

Janeylou wrote: "So for the new mini , we need to read 10 books quicker than the other team .
Also we need to use less overlap letters ( can we just use 1 , as that would be really easy)

I havent really been foll..."

Just to add to Beth's answer, I think 3 letters is the minimum

Beth wrote: "In case you weren't aware...

There is a BOM option that started Jun 10 in the NBRC Backroom group. This BOM runs through Jul 10.

Book: The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
Discus..."

I've read it to recently unfortunately, but it's very good!!

I think the end date for Starling House is actually July 2!

Beth wrote: "@MN Lisa - Horns on the cover of The Captive's Curse... is that the thing immediately to the left of the lute that looks like an upside-down bowl? I see what I think are horns on that. :)

Also, yo..."

There's a big like musical horn on Captive's Curse right in front of the lute (I'm the one that recommended this one lol)

Lol! It'll make more sense once we know what to work off of. We're not going first so we really can't start yet, but once they pick their book I assume we will put out a "does anyone have a book planned that starts with these 3 letters call".

But I can voluntold you if you want 😂

So we will have to do planning and coordinating for this one. All books have to be planned during the first week and then read during the second (they can't be started until the start of the second week). Fortunately, they do not have to be read in order and luckily we have a team of fairly fast readers so I'm confident we can do it!

NEW MINI!



In order to succeed in the Arena you will need to battle with your competing District Tributes.

You have been matched with an opposition and will fight them twice (once in round 2 and once in round 3), switching who strikes first.

The fight will consist of parrying book titles back and forth, by matching the end of your opposing team's title with the start of your own. You can use or ignore articles at the start of the title. There must be an overlap of at least three letters.

Planning
To start the fight each pair will be spun a title by the Arena Masters. The first team must find a book with a title that overlaps by at least three letters, and declare their planned strike to their opposition team, who must then plan their riposte. Each team will plan out a maximum of 10 strikes each this way.
Books can be read in any language, but titles must be in English.

Note: planning must be completed within the first week, and you must NOT start reading any book until the second, fight, week.

Fighting
Once the fight phase starts each team simply reads their planned books!
There's no requirement to read them in the correct order, but if at the end of the week you have missed a planned strike then you will lose the battle, regardless of how many of the rest of the books you complete.

Supply Drops
Supply drops from your partner team can be used to provide ONE extension letter to help you make an overlap.
You can use either the first or last letter of your supply drop title to make the overlap work.
Supply drop books can be read during either of the two weeks, and may be started at any point during the challenge.

Points and Winning
Each team gets 5 bonus points for each completed strike
The winning team in each pair will get a further 5 bonus points
The winning team will be either:
- the team to make the last completed strike, if not all 20 books (across both teams) are read; or
- the team with the smallest number of overlap letters in their strikes, if all 20 books are read; or
- if there is a tie for number of overlap letters, a coin toss will be made by a neutral mod to decide the winner.

Example
Team A will strike first.
Their randomly assigned book title is Orphan Black.

Team A Strike 1: Blackwater (BLACK overlap, 5 letters)
Team B Strike 1: Terms and Conditions (TER overlap, 3 letters)
Team A Strike 2: Onset of Danger (ONS overlap, 3 letters)
Team B Strike 2: Anger (ANGER overlap, 5 letters)
Team A Strike 3: Gerald's Game (GER overlap, 3 letters)
Team B Strike 3: Me Before You PLUS a supply drop letter A (AME overlap, 3 letters)

Team A final total (of overlap letters) = 5 + 3 + 3 = 11 letters
Team B final total (of overlap letters) = 3 + 5 + 3 = 11 letters

Battle Pairings

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

Timings
The first week in each of Round 2 and 3 shall be for planning your fight
The second week in each of Round 2 and 3 shall be for fighting your fight

In Round 2 Districts 1 - 7 will strike first
In Round 3 Districts 8 - The Capitol will strike firs

Greetings from District 12! We've narrowed down our supply books and wanted to let you know so that you're able to plan accordingly. In the next couple days we will send the following books.


-MPG Childrens but audiobook over 5 hrs
-Works for Mini: Orange cover
-Weapons: Gray on cover
-Shelter: 'abbey' in title
-Food:Orange on cover
-Defense: 'lake' in title


-Works for Mini: Horns on cover
-Weapons: Horns on cover could be used as weapon
-Shelter: "...in one of the caves above the village" p. 13
-Food: "I scrape up the last potato" p. 32
-Defense: Set in a mountain down that is inaccessible unless you can teleport


-Works for mini: Author's name has a diacritic
-Weapons: Letters of GUN in title
-Shelter: letters of HUT in title
-Food: "...holding sausage links" p. 79
-Defense: MC Maryse Boudreaux is a resistance fighter

We saw you needed these books on the mini so hoping they help! If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to us captains!

I already did Bridge of San Luis Rey but can add Chronicle of Death Foretold as well!