Mauvelous

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

For members with Challenge Goals 50 books or less, I'll set the minimal as 300 pages.

[JoLene]

Ok Mauvelous mavens......how many want to do the readathon???
I need to look at my TBR to determine my goal. Since I'm trying to knock off some long books, I might try for 1000 pages.

[jingles]

I need to take a look at it again, to see if I can do it.

I tried a mini challenge in round one, and did not do so well.

I'll have another look see tomorrow and decide then.

:)

[JoLene]

Anyone have any good "mini-challenge" ideas to submit. Each team can submit one challenge. It should be book related, but not necessarily to read specific books. Examples, take a photo of what you use as book marks....take a photo a book cover that XXXX.


A couple of ideas:
Take a photo of 4 books covers that represent each of the seasons.
Take a photo of book titles which form a sentence of at least 4 words and 3 books.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Congratulations, Team Mauvelous, for your progress so far! From, Team Cadet Blue.

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[Barbara ★]

I only want to do the read-a-thon if everyone else does. It's a lot of work for all involved and I have NO interest in the mini-challenges.

For RaTs I want to read what I need to read as each month I already have set books for the whole month. I don't want to force in something else as each month I'm already committed to more than I can possibly read anyway.

This RaT seems restrictive
◈ Each team should choose a theme for the read-a-thon and read at least one book representing that theme.
*1 point per book read
*30 points if 50% of team members read a book representing the theme
*50 points if all the team members read a book representing the theme

◈ Each of them should read a book with a cover representing the color of the team.
*1 point per book read
*30 points if 50% of team members read a book with the team color
*50 points if all the team members read a book with the team color

◈ An extra 5 points if all the team members participate in the read-a-thon.

And the whole point seems to be that ◈ The winner will get a 4 book advantage on the team's total

So I would think that everyone has to be involved and everyone has to commit to all the little challenges and everyone has to do the mini challenges. Like I said it's a whole lot of work and time involved.

I only want to participate if EVERYONE is going to participate because otherwise what's the point?

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

READ-A-THON UPDATES

There are some misunderstanding about ALL the team members needed to participate to get points.

Well, they DON'T

If a team has 12 members and only 4 want to participate, that team can still earn all the points available.

We'll consider that team a team of FOUR elements to the Read-a-Thon only.

[JoLene]

Greetings and salutations from Stockholm......
I need to get a roll call of folks participating in the Readathon by Wednesday noon Pacific time, as I will be leaving for Copenhagen on Thursday and we won't have wireless at the hotel.

From the message above, I think that "the whole team" points only applies to those folks that are participating in the Readathon, so Barbara if you don't want to participate, it will not penalize us.

I know what you mean about planned reading....I also have a pretty solid list going into the month. We could probably find a theme that would fit something on most of our lists.....like a "young adult", or romance. For me the harder one is the color mauve which I think pink would be accepted, but I don't read many books with pink covers :-)

[Barbara ★]

It's not that I don't want to participate in the read-a-thon itself. I'm going to be reading anyway and posting here is no harder than posting elsewhere.

I was just saying that the point of the RaT is to get the most points so you get the 4 extra books for our team. But if everyone doesn't participate, then we can't win so why go through all the bother. But that seems to have been a misunderstanding as the instructions are unclear on this point.

So if we're going to do it, I'm in.

In 12 days time I typically read over 4000 pages but to be on the safe side, I will go with 3500.

I have 5 romances and 7 YA on my May reading list so I could do either theme.

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Definition of MAUVE
a : a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color
b : a strong purple
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Click here for images of mauve: https://www.google.com/search?q=defin...

It looks like I might have two books that qualify as mauve for May if I can get them from the library. What do you think, is this mauve?

[Sonia]

Hi all.

I see there is some confusion about the whole RaT process, can I help?

The RaT has a max of 160 points per team.

If not all the team members want to participate, your team can still earn 155 points.

In order to gain that 155 points, every PARTICIPATING member of the team has to read 2 books, one matching the color and other matching the theme, that allow to achieve the goal set, and the team has to suggest a mini-challenge (before the start of the read-a-thon).

Is not supposed to be easy.

I'm sorry that things get so confused. It all made sense in my mind when I was creating it. But my brain sometimes work in mysterious ways *giggles*

I'll try to be less complicated to the next one.

Any more question feel free to ask.

You can always post it to the RaT or send a PM, just in case I let it pass unnoticed.

[Hina]

Sorry guys my internet has been on the fritz for the longest time, and I just don't spend enough time at home to switch over my internet services because then I will be totally without internet.


I think I am going to set myself up for a goal of 5000 pages.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Hina wrote: "I think I am going to set myself up for a goal of 5000 pages."

Whoa. Babe.

[Hina]

well I looked the books I have lined up to read, and usually finish about 350 pages per day and start another....I was looking at over 4200 pages so I am going to push myself a bit and go for an bigger number.. hehehe.

[jingles]

Okay, sign me up for 1,000 pages. Surely I can get that many done in 12 days. I think my biggest problem will be finding books with mauve covers.

[Hina]

jingles wrote: "Okay, sign me up for 1,000 pages. Surely I can get that many done in 12 days. I think my biggest problem will be finding books with mauve covers."

I don't think all of your books has to match the theme...I think only 2 out of all of them have to in the mauve cover and second one to match the theme. Mods correct me if I am wrong..:)

[Barbara ★]

Because we don't get any extra points for exceeding our goal, I'll push myself to 4000.

[Barbara ★]

It doesn't seem as if we've heard for Carrie, Valerie or Evil Twin One on the RaT.
Hina or JoLene do you want to contact them?

[Barbara ★]

And we need to come up with a mini challenge too. Any ideas? We get 5 points just for suggesting it. It seems like the Mods will introduce mini-challenges during the RaT and might choose from the suggestions.

How about "take a picture of the books you plan to read for the RaT"?

[JoLene]

I read a lot on the kindle so not sure how to take a pic......
I had suggested a couple things above....
though of another one....take a picture of books that represent a trip involving multiple continents.

You guys are amazing in terms of reading speed. I wish that I could read that fast!!

I always thought that mauve was more pink-ish than purple.....I found a pink book, but will now start trying to find a more "purple" one.

Hina, I will send the others a quick message.

[JoLene]

This is our official tracking post or the Readathon

Hina - 5000 pages
Barbara - 4000 pages
Evil Twin One (Ange) - 2000 pages
Carrie - 1500 pages
Jingles - 1000 pages
JoLene -1000 pages
Valerie - 1000 pages
Thilde - 600 pages

Theme: Proposals
Color: mauve

Mini-challenge proposal:
Mini Challenge Proposals

[Carrie]

I'll sign up, I'll try for 1500.

[Hina]

Awesome!! I have read some YA's but its usually not on the top of my list, but I think I can do YA most of the group vote for it.

[Barbara ★]

I can do either YA or romance.

[Barbara ★]

If you google mauve, you get this link which shows mauve can basically be any color purple.
https://www.google.com/search?q=defin...

Definition of MAUVE
a : a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color
b : a strong purple

[Barbara ★]

It looks like we only have to read 1 book each for theme and color to meet the challenge conditions.

[Carrie]

I always thought it was this color

[Valerie]

OK, I'm in for 1000 pages. I'm not big on romance, but I do have some romantic suspense books in my TBR pile, would those count? I also have some YA.

[JoLene]

I prefer YA to romance :-). I'm part of a Forever Young Adult bookclub, which a nation-wide bookclub with local chapters. A friend started a local one and since I read a lot, she asked me to join. Of course, I read a lot compared to my friends --- not compared to you guys :-)

[JoLene]

Would any of these work??? I originall thought mauve was closer to pink (a dusty pink with a hint of purple or gray). I am doing another challenge where I need to "pre-define a reading list" for May so I'm trying to get this nailed down.


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[Barbara ★]

I don't think the first one qualifies but the other 4 are definitely mauve.

[Carrie]

Jolene, mauve is more of a dusty pink like you said, like the top I showed.

I don't think any of them would work really, sorry. Those purple covers would fall in the lilac family and the first would be in the magenta one.

[Hina]

Hello all,

I updated our Google spreadsheet, we are up to 36 books. YAY us!!!

[Carrie]

❀ Oo ❀ wrote: "@ Team Mauve

I googled the colour for you, since you seem to be having some difficulty.This is what Wikipedia regards it as (with examples):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauve

It should give you..."

Thanks, I always leaned towards opera mauve, mauve taupe and sometimes old mauve when thinking of the color.

[JoLene]

Ok, I think I'm going with as my selection for mauve. This is more of the color that I think of when I think of mauve. Funnily enough, this is the color that we painted our dorm room in college, but it was called "country clover" :-)

Also, we have a new teammate......welcome Thilde!

[Barb]

And I thought we had problems trying to find mango-colored covers! The blue teams sure have it easy for this part of the challenge, don't they?

[Hina]

Barb wrote: "And I thought we had problems trying to find mango-colored covers! The blue teams sure have it easy for this part of the challenge, don't they?"

LOl...I already predict I am going to find myself holding the book up to the screen or switching screen to see if the book color qualifies.

[JoLene]

Mini-Challenge Ideas:

Some ideas for mini challenges. We need to pick one to submit before the challenge starts. Please indicate your favorites or add some others.

A. Take a photo of 4 books covers that represent each of the seasons.
B. Take a photo of book titles which form a sentence of at least 4 words and 3 books.
C. Take a picture of all the books you are planning to read for Readathon.
D. Create a series of 4 books which created a sequence, either alphabetical or numerical. The books cannot be from the same series.
E. Take a trip around the world with books set in at least five continents.
F. Take a road trip with 4 books set in contiguous countries

[JoLene]

Readathon Theme:
Anyone opposed to the young adult genre for our theme??? If anyone else does the SRC, YA will probably be something you need for the 50 point task :-)

Proposals:
A. Young Adult: WINNER!!!!!
B. Romance
C. Has a non-human character
D. Set in a foreign country

Votes: JoLene, Barbara, can do any
Hina: C or D
Valerie:A or D
Jingles: A or B

Feel free to nominate some else......

[Carrie]

I'm going through my up and coming reads, I don't think I have anything mauveish in them, lol.

[Hina]

I like C & D, I have a book set in Portugal that is on my May list. I can also find non-human pretty easily as well. and I think taking a picture of all the books you are planning to read for readathon be the easiest to do since we can make a collage of it online and not necessarily have to take a picture. Do we need to take picture picture for sure like with a camera?

[JoLene]

Hina wrote: "I like C & D, I have a book set in Portugal that is on my May list. I can also find non-human pretty easily as well. and I think taking a picture of all the books you are planning to read for rea..."

We need to ask regarding the picture vs collage. The examples were take a photo so I was just going with that :-)

[Carrie]

Yay I found one that I could read, still going to keep checking.

[Barbara ★]

This is the only book I have that even remotely looks mauve. Thoughts?

mini challenges - we don't actually have to do this, just suggest it. I like E best.

theme - I can do any of those.

[JoLene]

Barbara ★ wrote: " This is the only book I have that even remotely looks mauve. Thoughts?

mini challenges - we don't actually have to do this, just suggest it. I like E best...."

Seems like it would work based on the purple-y definition of mauve :-)

You are correct that we only need to suggest the mini challenge, but I would say that at some point we will be requested to do the challenges as well :-). I have asked a question regarding if we can just use GR links vs taking and then uploading photos.
Also, someone indicated that you earn points for every book with your team color and I have pointed out that it is a bit unfair because some covers are easier to find than others :-).

I'll keep you guys posted.

[Thilde]

Hi all

Just checking in.
That Read-a-thon sounds great. Maybe I'll join in and set my goal to 600 pages.

I have found that the book I am currently reading sure is mauve the other one I think the lettering might qualify as mauve - I don't know.

[Hina]

Thilde wrote: "Hi all

Just checking in.
That Read-a-thon sounds great. Maybe I'll join in and set my goal to 600 pages.

I have found that the book I am currently reading sure is mauve [bookcover:Living Dead in ..."



Welcome Thilde!!! Please let me know where you will be shelving books for this challenge so I can add it to our spreadsheet. All of the important links are in the beginning of this thread.

We can't count the book you are currently reading for the read-a-thon since that one has a set start time of May 1st.

[jingles]

I just looked, and I don't have anything scheduled for May that has a mauve cover. I don't even think I have one in my entire TBR, though, I do need to check that again.

If all else fails, I will either use the one posted by JoLene or Barbara. Those two books are in a favorite genre of mine, so it's all good.

[JoLene]

Ok, we need to settle on a theme. Can you each chime in on what you can NOT do. If you have a preference, also let me know. It looks like the 4 themes could work for most.

I will list in the proposal thread which is here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

We are using YOUNG ADULT as the theme

[Valerie]

I like A or D

[jingles]

I like A or B.