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[Midu]

oooh its so pretty,LK!

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Barbara ★ wrote: "HI everyone. I'm going to start with a non-fiction book (one of the many I have to read in 2013). Probably going to read [bookcover:Ship of Destiny|45102..."

**waves to Barb** Good to see ya here ☺☺ Can't wait to see what good books you are going to be reading this year!!!!

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Melinda wrote: "Happy New Year!!!"

Back at ya Melinda ☺☺☺☺☺

[Lisa Kay]

Did I put myself on Barbara's★ Team? I'm so smart. ☺

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Karen wrote: "Hi Lisa Kay and Midu :) :)
Know you from the RLftCI group!"

Hi Karen!!! I thought I recognized you from some where...now I know it's RLftCI ☺ Good to see you on our team!!!!

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Christina wrote: "Hi everyone! I'm excited to be on this team; it seems pretty awesome so far. :)

I'm planning to start reading just as soon as I can tear mys..."

Hi Christina ☺☺☺☺ We are AWESOME...including YOU!!!!! Nice to meet ya and hope you are ready to have some fun with us!!

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Kme_17 wrote: "Hi Guys ! I am glad to be on a team with you . Happy new year !"

HI Kme!!! Happy New Year to you too!!! Glad to have you on the "C" Team ☺☺☺ Look forward to seeing what good books you are going to be reading!!!

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Well teammates, I think I am going to go start my books ☺ It's 12:30 am here and I have work at 7 am but I want to read for a while first LOL I hope you all have a good rest of the night and will "C" you all tomorrow afternoon when I get home from work!!!! Take care and have a great New Year's☺☺☺

[Lisa Kay]

Thanks, ♥Robin♥! And Happy New Year to you, too.

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♥Robin ♥ wrote: "Karen wrote: "Hi Lisa Kay and Midu :) :)
Know you from the RLftCI group!"

Hi Karen!!! I thought I recognized you from some where...now I know it's RLftCI ☺ Good to see you on our team!!!!"

Hi Robin ! Sorry I missed you ! Glad to see you on the team too :)

[Renee]

Midu - Oh I am so going to fit in. I always read what people say but I have been bad about joining in the conversation. With this challenge I know that won't be the case. :-)

[Midu]

@Danielle:
chatting's half the fun in group challenges anyway :-)

[Christina]

Thanks Robin! I'm definitely ready for fun. I'm like Danielle, I usually just read what everyone else writes and don't participate much myself, but I don't think that'll be the case this time. :)

[Dragana]

Hello everyone. I'm glad to be on a team with a lot of familiar faces/names. :)
New year is always so chaotic, so I am relaxing today with: ;)

[Wendelin (Alex)]

Hi awesome everyone ;)


It's 1 pm over here, but still: Happy New Year!
Well, first book is first and from Neil Gaiman

[Cathie]

Happy New Year Everyone!
I am starting my team contribution by reading and .

Happy Reading to all!

[Amy J.]

♥Robin ♥ wrote: "Midu wrote: "Robin, I'll be going around too but to find Vi's group and make threats lol"

LMBO!!!!! Does anyone know what book they are starting off the new year with????"

I'm starting off with

[Erin]

Hope everyone had a safe and fun New Years!
I'm going to be starting with Sovay and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Happy Readings!

[Kme_17]

I am going to start off with Have fun!

[Vikki]

*waves*

go Team C :o) :o)

Love the penguins as well

I'm starting off this years reading with

[Vikki]

Have you been using any characters other than letters or numbers? Like a "?" etc?

[Vikki]

♥Robin ♥ wrote: "I think I am going to read and "

I read Twenties Girl a few months ago and enjoyed it. Had been in my to-read pile for ages!!

[Vikki]

Diana wrote: "No, I am just putting in the title of the shelf I created last night."

Hmmm.... I just did mine and it was ok. Maybe delete the shelf and then use the sign-up to re-create it?

[Rocsana]

Hi everyone.
I'm glad to be part on this team. So, I am starting my team contribution by reading Something Blue.

Happy New Year and Happy Reading.

[SandyC]

Hello Team C!
Happy New Year!

I am starting off with and .

Looking forward to reading with you!

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Hello everyone !!

I am starting off with

I am looking forward to reading with everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Diana wrote: "Okay, I've tried 3x to enter a shelf name on the first page, but it keeps saying that I need to enter a name. I have been. I don't know what I am doing wrong."

Diane! Don't give up. Is your bookshelf name more than one word? If so, DID YOU TYPE IN A HYPHEN between the words when you tried to enter it? You need to do that.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Examples of bookshelf names...showing hypens: "nbrc-tower" or "tower-challenge-2013".

Example of your bookshelf screen:


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[Aneeqah]

Hello, hello everyone! I'm seeing a lot of familiar faces and can't wait to jump in!

So, first things first, we need a Team Captain, yes? Any volunteers? We also need to decide if we're going to be alternating or not.

Looks like I missed out all the excitement at the beginnning, haha. I was with the family at the time of the countdown. ;)

I'm planning to start today, after hanging around on the Internet for a little.

Let's do this guys! *throws confetti in the air*

[Erin]

Sandy, I'm extremely interested in how you found The Casual Vacancy. I'd love to hear your thoughts when you finish reading it

[Vikki]

Can I suggest we should maybe do some introductions to ourselves... I'm not sure I recognise any names. Might be nice to get to know each other a little.

I like the idea of alternating - or even having a couple of people to share the load. Life can get in the way sometimes so might be handier?

[Lisa Kay]

I'm Lisa Kay, and I'm the moderator doing the NBRC Tower Team Challenge. You'll see me sign-off sometimes as "~LK" (when I remember) under that sign-on. I know several of you from around GRs. I mainly read romance, but some YA, fantasy, and biography.

I'm pretty busy right now as mod. LOL! This challenge is having a bigger response than we were expecting. So, I'm going to ask NOT to be Team Captain. However, when things calm down a bit, and the captain wants to go on vacation sometime this year, maybe I can help out.

I'm open for any ideas on a Team Name.

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[Renee]

My name is Danielle. I work full time in Marketing but my real passion is reading and volunteering in the deaf community. I wish I had more time for reading, I would read all day if I could. If only I could get paid to do that it would be great.
I read a wide variety of books. I love legal thrillers, mysteries, historical fiction, JAFF, and even some biographies. My favorites will always be the classics though. I am really getting into Russian literature. Not exactly the easiest books to read but I love learning about the culture and people through the novels.

I am excited to see what everyone here will be reading. I have found some great new authors from this group. Oh and just so you know I blame this group for the increase in books I have on my shelf. But Amazon thanks you. :-)

[Vikki]

My turn I guess....

I'm Vikki, from Northern Ireland. I'm a lawyer, my main area of interest being criminal law. I'm self-employed so my time's reasonably flexible.

I've been a bookworm for as long as I can remember. Can't imagine life without books. I read a little bit of everything.... chick lit, paranormal, crime/legal, historical fiction, classics... Or anything that sounds like a good read.

Goodreads has probably made my book addiction worse. My to-read shelf never really seems to get smaller. There are so many great books out there to be read and I'm sure I'll never get time to read them all! But I'll enjoy trying.

Apart from that my big love in life is music - playing, listening to, going to concerts. I also enjoy penpalling. And 101 other things I guess...

Enough about me!!

[Jayme Pendergraft]

Hi Team C!

I'm Jayme and I live in Virginia, but was born and raised in New Hampshire I work in the disability employment policy field and keep pretty busy.

I love to read pretty much anything, but do tend to stick to mostly fiction. I have a long commute so listen to lots of audio books. I'm usually over at the Seasonal Reading Challenge page, attempting to get close to finishing. :)

I'm starting with for this year. I am also reading one I can't count bc. I started too soon, but I highly recommend it-- . It's a really great book.

Any way, off to read!

[Panda]

I'm Jessica from eastern Australia. I am starting a science/engineering degree this year so I'm going to be super busy. I have a gazzilion interests and so my reading list tends to be somewhat erratic (particularly to an outsider). My husband and I are addicted to books, and have a huge physical library (2000 plus). Thus, my to-read list is ridiculously large and I'm constantly adding to it.

If I were to choose my favourite genres I'd say

fiction: romance, erotica, post-apocalyptic
non-fiction: science, history.

I'm currently reading Mastery, a carry-over from last year, but once I finish I will begin the challenge with Beyond Exile - the 2nd book from a zombie series that I am really enjoying.

I'm looking forward to participating in this challenge with everybody else. Go team c! :)

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Danielle wrote: "Oh and just so you know I blame this group for the increase in books I have on my shelf. But Amazon thanks you. :-)"

LMBO!

~LK

[Julianne]

Yay Team C!

I'm Julianne, I've been MIA from here for several months as I left my husband, so now I'm a single mom of a 13yo boy and I've got a new life. That's pretty much it about me right now...trying to figure out what to do next. :)

I'll be reading Tracking the Tempest by Nicole Peeler for my first book of the year.

[Melinda]

I'm Melinda. I live in Kansas. I'm an avid reader, but find that real world life tends to interfere. :-) I'm hoping to double my reading time this year, but will have to see what's in store for me in the coming new year.

My genre is anything to do with the paranormal and prefer shapeshifters, vampires, witches and fae. I live in my own little world and do my best to ignore "reality". Hee! Hee!

I wish I could blame Goodreads for my hoarding, but, well, I was hoarding books long before I began participating (much to the dismay of my hubby). However, I have no regrets, I just keep telling my hubby we need a bigger house. LOL!

So, here's to Team C! Good luck to everyone!

[JoLene]

Hello all ---
This is my first challenge with this group --- I really like the idea of a group challenge.

My name is JoLene and I live in the CA Bay area. I like to read a variety of mostly historical fiction, fantasy and mysteries. This year, I've decided to read some of the "chunky monkeys" on my shelves (unfortunately for this challenge, so I won't quite tally up the books. I am a co-moderator over at the Historical Fictionistas group.

In real life -- I'm in job transition. I took a early retirement package and now need to decide what I want to do now since I'm a bit too young to retire. I live in the CA Bay area.

Can I ask, what are the duties of the Team Captain?? Since GR will be doing the tallying, what are our status reports?

Go Team C!!!

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Hello and Happy New Year! everyone. My name is Melissa and I live in New Mexico. I was born and raised in Tenn though and NM and TN are really different. I was reading ever since I can remember and do not remember ever "learning" to read. In real life I work as the Office Manager at the local Police Department and find it a good job. I can read if there isn't anything going on. I look forward to the challenge with everyone here.

My favorite genres are Classics, Sci-fi, Fantasy (like with fairys and elves) and supernatural romance such as Christine Feehan.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

JoLene wrote: "Can I ask, what are the duties of the Team Captain?? Since GR will be doing the tallying, what are our status reports?"

I need to know who the Team Captain is and if the team decides on a Team Name.

There is someone responsible for reading the Status Update (Team Captains) thread.

If someone hasn't entered the challenge on the Home Page.

If someone signed up for the wrong team. (Hasn't happened yet. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.)

If someone hasn't added any books at all...or for a very long time (respective to their book goal).

If someone is having trouble adding a book, and if the Team Captain can't help them.

The Team standing, in relation to the other Teams, could be posted as an update in the Team thread.

Plus, I'd kind of like a bi-monthly update that "all is well" from the TC.

Can't think of anything else...my brain is fried.

~LK

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Hi ! I am Karen Booklover , as you can see from my name I love books LOL.
I'm from Kolkata, India . I'm currently studying finance , Chartered accountancy (finance and audit) and corporate law.

I love reading all genres of books but over the past few years have been on an absolutely constant reading of mainly historical romance with a bit of contemporary thrown in , but this year intend to go back and read some other genres again !

I love challenges and spend a lot of time on GR when I should be studying :p :p . I love making new friends and look forward to chatting with all of you and looking forward to new friends :)

I too would prefer rotating captains and would like to volunteer as one . :D

I am out on vacation and will be reading quite a number of books but will not be able to add them on the shelf till I come back because I only have my smartphone and I can't do it there.

[Samantha]

Hi, I'm Samantha Hedrick and I'm really excited about doing this but I'm not sure how to set up my shelf and stuff because I'm on the mobile app. I live in North central Indiana and I've been an avid reader since I feel in love with the movie Gone with the Wind and then read the book when I was in fourth grade. I usually have a few books going at a time. I always have an actual book to hold and read. Then I have a book going in either my nook account or my mom's kindle account for before bed or when not home. I'm starting the year with "Wedding Season"

[Barbara ★]

♥Robin ♥ wrote: "Barbara ★ wrote: "HI everyone. I'm going to start with a non-fiction book (one of the many I have to read in 2013). Probably going to read [bookcover:Shi..."

I'm trying something new and reading a good number of books outside my comfort zone. We'll see how long that lasts.

[Barbara ★]

Diana wrote: "Barbara, I've always wanted to read ! Please post reviews so that I can see how the book is. It's been in my TBR pile forever!"

I tried to read it this morning and gave up within the introduction. I picked up something else and I'll try again when I'm done with that book. I'm not much on non-fiction but I'll post a review so you can decide.

[Amy J.]

I'm Amy. I teach psychology at a community college in Kansas. I am originally from Iowa.

I read mostly fiction (though I'm going to try to read some non-fiction this year). I love sci-fi, fantasy, PNR, romance, and horror novels.

[Barbara ★]

Diana wrote: "I give up."

Diana, you have to enter the name with the - symbol since GR automatically adds it to each shelf if it's more than one word. I had to do it about 5 times before I remembered.

[Aneeqah]

I guess I really should jump on the intro bandwagon...

My name is Aneeqah, and I currently reside in Texas, where I've lived for about a year and a half. I moved from Indiana, where I lived for 8 years. I read mainly YA, more specifically urban fantasy/paranormal.

So I've finished my first book of the year, If I Stay, which was pretty short and emotional.

How are you all doing in terms of reading? And do we have any volunteers for our Team Captain yet?

[Barbara ★]

Hi everyone, I'm from New Jersey and read about a book a day (unless it's non-fiction, then it's harder to keep my interest and takes longer). I work full time and have a daily commute of 2-1/2 hours (so I listen to audiobooks in addition to reading - usually about 2 a month).

I have no interest in being captain as I'd rather be reading! I'm not creative enough to come up with a team name so hopefully someone else can.

I've changed my first book to because I couldn't get into the one I originally chose.