Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

YAY BARB!

Don't forget that the moderator's 7% solution challenge begins this weekend! If you have any questions about it, see Mango Tango 7% Solution Thread

Remember, to make it easier for our Steven to keep track of the books we read for this challenge, ONLY COMPLETED BOOKS and the challenge options they fit should be posted HERE Please, NO CHATTER in that thread, not even book talk :)

And, last but not least, keep an eye on 7% Non-Reading Games & Puzzles for opportunities for our team to win 'cupcakes' that might be beneficial later in the Tower challenge overall! They're not required, but they're great for fun breaks from reading :)

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Hey team. We're still running 9th but I think we can take Radical Red and Tickle me pink...

Go Mango Tango!

I'm reading as fast as I can! Well, except this past weekend, but real life has to take priority once in awhile, right? I'll kick it up again later this week :)

Yeah, so much to do, I need to read more. :(

I have changed my total books to read in 2013. It was on 120 but as I have already read 87 books I have just changed it to 150.

I have changed it in my challenge for Goodreads and for Tower Teams but I don't know if I have to write it somewhere else as well in order to let the moderators know?

Jane wrote: "I have changed it in my challenge for Goodreads and for Tower Teams but I don't know if I have to write it somewhere else as well in order to let the moderators know?"

We got it, Jane. Thanks!

I will update our team spreadsheet. I'll probably be updating mine soon, as I'll be hitting my year goal in the next few weeks!

Haí, Mango Tango

and I have a question - can we gift a book to the other team? I would like to give Mango Tango my next (read) book.

         

               The 7% Solution Challenge posting thread is "officially" open!

Welcome.

            

Lára wrote: "Haí, Mango Tango

and I have a question - can we gift a book to the other team? I would like to give Mango Tango my next (read) book."

Hi, Lara! We appreciate the gesture, but you should count all your books for your team! :) That's very sweet of you to offer though!!!

Thanks!

Mango Tango - You have new members. Please welcome Nicole (040) and Thorne (024).

Welcome to the team, Nicole and Thorne :)

Hi new people. Great to have you on Mango Tango.

Hey! Lovely to meet you all.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Hi new people. Great to have you on Mango Tango."

Good to know I'm not the only Aussie here! ;)

Welcome, Nicole and Thorne!

Team captain Steven here, and we are glad to have you!

If you have any questions, feel free to message me! :)

I'm adding you both a friends!

Welcome to Mango Tango, Nicole and Thorn! You have a great team here!

I'm Teresa, from Pewter Blue. :) Your resident snoop, hehe.

Teresa, maybe we should start charging you rent? LOL

Only if I can pay in images, LOL!

Welcome to our new team mates. I'm sallie

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Only if I can pay in images, LOL!"

LOL Friendly chatter and encouragement works too :)

Steven wrote: "Welcome, Nicole and Thorne!

Team captain Steven here, and we are glad to have you!

If you have any questions, feel free to message me! :)

I'm adding you both a friends!"

I saw that! Thank you for such a warm welcome.

Resident snoop, Teresa? Gosh darn it. Now, if only we'd hidden all the group secrets...

No worries, Nicole, not *all of our secrets are out here in the open! We'll have to be sure to give you and Thorne the special passkeys ASAP ;) I'm sure Steven has a couple of extras hanging around somewhere!

:) definitely! If I can stop staring at the new abs. *blush* hehehehehe

I'm terrible. But people shouldn't post eye candy and not expect people to stare!

It's okay, Steven. I found this old looking skeleton key around here somewhere. I'm sure it'll work just fine until you've finished staring at those new abs. :P Hehe!

It looks like I'm not the only male in the tower teams challenge now too!

I'll be updating the team spreadsheet this morning to reflect our new teammates!

Nicole, did you see the links at the beginning of this thread to important things?

:)

Steven wrote: "It looks like I'm not the only male in the tower teams challenge now too!

I'll be updating the team spreadsheet this morning to reflect our new teammates!

Nicole, did you see the links at the beg..."

@Steven

There is Michael on Pewter Blue. I think he's been here since the beginning, but he doesn't appear to have been really active. And then, there were 3....

Haha Rhonsa. Epic win for you, with the Agatha Christie reference.

I think I might have known Michael was over there and forgotten.

after awhile, crocodile

Steven wrote: "Nicole, did you see the links at the beginning of this thread to important things?"

I believe I have. I've read almost everything I could get my hands on, but do let me know if I've missed anything! :)

I'm sure you got it all! It's not too complicated!

Okay, everyone! We need to start talking ideas for a minichallenge for July, and also for what we want to do for our August Self-Created "Mods" challenge.

We have to read SEVENTY FIVE 75 books for the August challenge to earn book points.

Shall we do another Books by the Numbers challenge for one of those months? Any other ideas?

What's the duration of the August challenge? I think it's only two weeks, right? That's not much time to read 75 books ...

Oh and by the way:



WE'VE COMPLETED THE SEVEN PERCENT JUNE/JULY CHALLENGE!!! GOOD JOB TEAM!!!

I made sure to use as many books from each person that I could to make it work! :D

Barb wrote: "What's the duration of the August challenge? I think it's only two weeks, right? That's not much time to read 75 books ..."

It's the whole month, based off a poll of the captain's preferences. We can handle that. We almost read 50 in our two week Bbt#s... and that's just those of us who wanted to do the mini-challenge, and not the whole team :D

OK, a whole month is a lot better :) I know I had some ideas before, but now I can't remember them *sigh* I'll have to go back through old messages and see if I can find them.

Steven wrote: "Okay, everyone! We need to start talking ideas for a minichallenge for July, and also for what we want to do for our August Self-Created "Mods" challenge.

We have to read SEVENTY FIVE 75 books fo..."

I would like to participate in the August challenge, but I won't be able to if it is another books by the number challenge. I am trying to finish a few other challenges this year and the series I am reading don't fit. Except for Confessions of Georgia Nicolson and I am SO tired of her!

What if we only read books published in 2013, or in August of 2012?

Or a play off Behind Enemy Lines, where we each have to read one book from each team members' shelves that were not previously on our own.

I understand that, Karla... I really need to keep working on another challenge I'm in for the best Horror of all time for Horror Aficionados!

Steven wrote: "I understand that, Karla... I really need to keep working on another challenge I'm in for the best Horror of all time for Horror Aficionados!"

If we go with my second idea, about taking books from our members' shelves, I can add all of the Stephen King books I own, but will probably never read, to my to read shelf and you can choose from them.

Looks like Pewter Blue has created something like the 7% challenge (but with 8 categories) for the August thing.

Maybe I'll work on creating something like that.

Great job on finishing the 7% Solution, Mango Tango!!!

Ooooh, and it's even mango-colored :) Thanks, Teresa!

Steven wrote: "Looks like Pewter Blue has created something like the 7% challenge (but with 8 categories) for the August thing.

Maybe I'll work on creating something like that."

Eight categories of eight books each won't give us the 75 books we need ...

Karla wrote: "I would like to participate in the August challenge, but I won't be able to if it is another books by the number challenge. I am trying to finish a few other challenges this year and the series I am reading don't fit. Except for Confessions of Georgia Nicolson and I am SO tired of her!

What if we only read books published in 2013, or in August of 2012?"

Would we be able to come up with 75 books that fit such a limited criteria? I know that if three of us read the same book, it counts three times, but it still seems kind of restricting. Except for the handful I have from the library right now, I'm current on the 2013 books that I want to read, and I wouldn't want to count on getting the new releases at a time when they would be useful to me. That said, if that theme works for the rest of you, I'm sure I'll be able to contribute a few here and there.

Karla wrote: "Or a play off Behind Enemy Lines, where we each have to read one book from each team members' shelves that were not previously on our own."

Would it be ANY shelf? Or just the "Read" shelf? Would you keep it to Mango Tango teammates, or anyone participating in the Tower challenge?

Maybe if we limit it to MT members, but use any shelf -- Read, To-Read, Currently Reading?

I dunno... Most of the stuff that you ladies read is quite different from my choices! Haha! Barb's mystery obsession is probably the closest!

Barb wrote: "Steven wrote: "Looks like Pewter Blue has created something like the 7% challenge (but with 8 categories) for the August thing.

Maybe I'll work on creating something like that."

Eight categories ..."

Pewter Blue came up with a way to tack on 11 "left-overs" in addition to the 64 from the 8x8 categories. If you guys went the 8x8 route, that's something you could consider doing, as well.