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Puzzle #97 has been emailed for Team Mauvelous
jigsaw puzzle 98 submitted, working on #100
I just submitted puzzle #98 too.I will work on Puzzle #99 tomorrow morning. Will that work?
I finished both 98 and 100 and then realized when I snipped it, I didn't get the "change cut" in the snapshot so I have to do them both again. #100 redone and working on #98.
I've been working on Puzzle #91, but still cannot get it. Someone else may want to try. I think this is the only one we've not submitted.
took forever but I got it. Man I hate these things.
I'm also not a fan of HP.......read the first 2 books and they were OK. Got to the 3rd and could not get through it. Renewed it 3times from library but couldn't get past 1/2 mark.
Well apparently the 7% Solution Challenge is done! No more games either. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Oh BTW, puzzle 91 doesn't count since it was completed after the challenge ended. Oh well, we got all the rest though.
I saw that you did #91 after the fact, Barbara★ - and you hate sliders! Oh, dear.
Lisa Kay wrote: "I saw that you did #91 after the fact, Barbara★ - and you hate sliders! Oh, dear."I just saw Jingles post #416 and gave it a shot. I had no clue this challenge ended before July 31st. No biggie.
I claimed our remaining bouncing cupcakes so this would give us an additional 12 books for Sunday's update. Great teamwork! Thanks everyone for reading the longer books and doing the "bouncing" cupcake puzzles :-D
Team Mauvelous
The word count is from AR BookFinder, but many of our books weren't listed.
Evil Twin One (Ange)
12. Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia, 5/2, 516 pages, 127,836 words
13. Reached by Ally Condie, 5/9, 512 pages, 112,418 pages
JoLene
14. The Diviners by Libba Bray, 6/30, 578 pages, 156,984 words
Jingles
15. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, 7/16, 928 pages,
16. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, 7/8, 870 pages
17. The House At Riverton by Kate Morton, 7/3, 600
18. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story by Ann Rule, 5/3, 560 pages
Hina
19. A Year and a Day by Virginia Henley, 6/5, 498 pages
Barbara
20. Citadel by Kate Mosse, 7/16, 696 pages
21. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill, 7/18, 692 pages
22. Lover At Last by J.R. Ward, 6/4, 591 pages
23. Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, 4/21, 560 pages, 199,346 words
JoLene,Don't know if you need another one but I just finished another biggie (528 pages) yesterday. The Immortal Fire by Anne Ursu.
Hina,
what did you think of A Year and a Day? I have to read that this year and have been putting it off. Your thoughts would be appreciated.
We only have 23 bouncing cupcakes :-D...I will use it next time as we still have some biggies on peoples's lists.
Ah that makes sense. I haven't been paying attention to redeeming them, just collecting them.
Mod
If you were 'tagging' books as read last night, please make sure they are on your designated Tower Teams Reading Challenge shelf. Since Alice (the girl in the chair that appears when the system is over capacity) kept appearing, we are finding a lot of books didn't get 'tagged.'
The best way is to compare your main GRs challenge (if you've joined) with your "view books" page of your Team's Home Page Challenge.
Hi Jingles. I've been lurking but not much to say.
Hi guys,I have been going through midterms this week and just lurking when I habe a chance. This weekend I am going to finish adding all the links and getting my books together for the August challenge.
Awesome ETO...I am glad u got a chance to stop by :)
There's a new cupcake coming.
It's mad and it's bad.
Some of you will be humming.
Some of you will be glad.
It's called the "Triple Threat"
And as it's name implies...
While it isn't a sure bet,
It increases your book count size.
Puzzle #101 submitted for Team Mauvelous
Hi! I’m Nichole from the Leather Jacket Black team and wanted to invite you to participate in our daily quizzes for fun! If you are interested, the quiz for today is posted in Message 2512. What Greek God Or Goddess Are You? It’s all for fun! Enjoy :)
Is anyone working on puzzle 103? Just wondering if someone is already in the process....
I was wondering the same thing ---- hadn't started it yet.
It looks a bit time consuming and I am wondering if I should start it....:) maybe in a bit.
I'm working on #105. Unfortunately I'm missing two four letter words. I've sent a message to both Hina and JoLene for assistance. Hopefully someone will come up with the missing words.
Thanks Hina. I'll submit what I have and hopefully it will be enough to get the cupcake.
Submitted 106, 107, 108 and 109.
Didn't look like anyone actually did puzzle 103 so I did and submitted it.We're all caught up on the puzzles 101-109 done!
Awesome!! Thanks Barbara -- I will go look for our triple threats to turn in our George RR Martin books :-D
Sweet! They ought to count for more than 1 book anyway.
Well I've been reading such crap that I needed something else to do. Figured I'd kill two birds. :)7 out of 21 books rated 1 or 2 stars. UGH I'm not usually this bad at picking them.
Hina & JoLene, the Mods are set to torture us again in September. Here's the link to the proposed challenge: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...On the surface it seems that we have to read 1/3 of our books from the A Book a Day Challenge and the remainder from any two other NBRC challenges. Which sounds easy enough but then they added all kinds of restrictions and examples and I got lost. Hopefully you ladies can figure out what exactly it is we have to do for this one. Maybe it's just too darn late and my brain is fried but I can't make heads or tails of it.
Mod
FOFLMBO! Oh, dear.
Mod
The Short and Sweet of the Mod's September Challenge for BAP:
• As a team you need to read between 7% and 9.9% of your total team participant goal in order to get any BAPs.
• 1/3 of these books needs to fit into the Book a Day challenge of which you may double up and the remaining books need to fit into:(1) One A-Z challenge which is not a spell-it-out.
(2) One other NBRC challenge.
@Barbara, yes --- Hina and I have been discussing how to handle this challenge and I was just in the process of writing up possible approaches.And the mod challenges will continue until someone wins :-D Although they are going to be bi-monthly moving forward.
Hello Mauvelous Mavens of Bookish-ness,High Level Summary
In September, we are back to doing a mod challenge. As with the other challenges, this is purely voluntary. In fact this time, the team goal will be determined based on the individual participants (vs having to read X number of books, so having more people is better).
We can earn a maximum of 4 book advantage points (which translates into 4 books added to our tracker). We get the maximum points when we read as a team, 9.9% of the yearly goal of each participant -- I will give an example further below.
The books that we read will come from existing challenges in the NBRC group; one is determined and 2 we get to choose as a team.
* 1/3 of the books must come from the A Book A Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay; team members can do the same day on this challenge
* At least one book must come from an A - Z Challenge (that is not a Spell It Out): Examples include
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge
Hero Alphabet Reading Challenge
Heroine Alphabet Reading Challenge
Pet Names Alphabet Reading Challenge A-Z
Title Challenge: Read the Alphabet
Setting Alphabet Reading Challenge
Villains Alphabet Reading Challenge
* At least one book must come from another NBRC challenge (seasonal, monthly, yearly --- it is our choice :-D)
We do NOT need to complete any of these challenges to get the points --- we just need to read the number of books determined by our goals that will fit into one of the 3 challenges.
Determining our Team Goal
To get maximum points (4), we would need to read a total that is the sum of 9.9% of each participants yearly goal. This is the goal that you put into the challenge tracker when signing up for Tower Team II challenge.
The 9.9% for each of our team members is:
Barbara 29
Carrie 9
ETO 19
Hina 34
Jingles 24
JoLene 7
Thilde 1
Valerie 7
If everyone participated we would need to read 130 books. If only Hina and I participated, the goal would be 41 books.
We use the individual goals to determine the team's goal -- but in the above example, I could read 1 book and Hina could read 40 and we would still get our points.
I also want to point out that we are currently in 6th place. The 5th place team is about 20 books ahead of us. The 7th place team is about 9 points behind us --- but the 7th place team does not seem to be doing many of the book advantage points.
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