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Cerulean (AKA “Hobbit Blue”) .

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Reserved.

[❀Tea❀]

Welcome fellow Hobbits to the second part of your journey!

During this part you'll have 3 guides who'll do their best to get you safe to the end. They are: Turlecollector, Jojiwoji and me (Tea). I should probably warn you that this is our first try as guides so please be patient with us.
To make this journey fun, we'll chat, play few games and most of all read good books.
Your suggestions are welcome. ☺

Let's read!

[❀Tea❀]

Hobbits Goal Read % 
Turtlecollector ♚ 320 237 74,06
❀Tea❀ * ♚ 185 137 74,05
Jojiwoji 100 45 45,00
Karen 85 35 43,75
md * 16 14 87,50
Ezinwanyi 250 182 72,80
Gemma 3 4 100,00 ☆
Dee 10 8 80,00
Melissa (ladybug) * 243 148 60,91
Sanz 50 20 40,00
Jenny 100 47 47,00
Jordan 35 32 91,43

TOTAL 1393 915 65,73



BAPs 180 

TOTAL (with BAPs) 1095 81,11 

* - profile is private. To see books, you need to friend them.
☆ - goal lowered by Mods because of inactivity

Update: 20.11.2013. 1pm CET

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

Don't forget, this game is also running now if you are participating. Jojiwoji has 1 point already and md has 20 points on the first day!

June Hobbit Games Challenge

How many points can you achieve in June?

10 pts each - books 160-250 pgs

1 pt each - books 251-500 pgs

5 pts each - books 501 and over

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This is a less intimidating complicated game (if you are confused about the inter-team game) with just three rules. Participation occurs at the same time so any books read can count toward both games if you want them to. In this game it is possible for slower readers to get the same amount of points as the faster readers if they can read several smaller books, since I looked at our book lists and most of the faster readers' books are between 250-500 pages.


1. Books must be finished in June, but not necessarily started in June.
2. Books must fit into one of the 3 page count areas.
3. Have fun reading!

As always, participation is NOT mandatory. Please only participate if you want to and will have fun doing so.

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO KNOW

- Spreadsheet for seeing where everyone is at and updates on team books read, this will also be in posts of updates, but always here if you want to check at other times

Google Spreadsheet(captains')
Team Summary Spreadsheet(moderators')

- Minichallenges for Tower Team Cerulean (AKA Hobbit Blue)

Link to Hobbit Games Feel free to look at this thread for progress on mini-challenges. There is no need to post on this thread, it is so we don't need to keep scrolling through posts to keep track of challenges.



Rules(condensed)

- Anything finished April 12th or later will count, please be sure to tag your books with your shelf name

- Books must be at least 160 pgs, if you are reading an ebook and need a page count you can post in this thread or one of us will try to find out for you

- Graphic novels and small/young children's books will not count

- Rereads are allowed after 6 months

- Have a great time reading!

New Rules for Round 2 thread

[Ezi]

Hi everyone

[❀Tea❀]

Hello.
Nice to see you again :D

[Ezi]

Thanks. I'm still sad on losing...and of the end is Soartacus. So I'm ready to kick butt

[❀Tea❀]

That's the spirit! :)
I've formed little alliance with other two blue teams (at least to give us head start ☺)

You still need to sign in here. Every book over 160 pages you've finished on/after April 12th counts.
And if you could give me your shelf name, so I can stalk you easier :D

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

Welcome to Round 2, Ezi. I was very sad to lose the last round as well after being so close.

To get this round started well, I am currently reading
and

I also plan on reading
, and this weekend(Sun/Mon for me); although one of those books is too short to count for this. I think I might slip in fluffy romance too. That would be a quick read for me.

Weekends I get a lot of reading done and usually only a couple during the week, but it averages out nicely. I am a homebody and prefer activities I can do at home. But really, what do you expect for the main hobby of someone who has worked in a library for the past 16 years? Skydiving?

[joanne]

I'm very happy to be co-captaining the Hobbit blue team, please be patient as I'm new to this but I will try my best to keep everyone on track.

Last night I finished reading


I am currently reading
and

And will soon start on
, and

I'm actually currently on holidays, so should be able to get plenty of reading done

Could I please ask for everybody to remember to check in with the name of your shelf here

If people haven't joined within the next few days, I will start chasing them up

[❀Tea❀]

My turn :D

I'm listening to
(fitting, right? :D)

Reading to
and

There are few books that keep tempting me

so there is great possibility they'll be read very soon.

As you can see, there is everything on my shelf :D

[joanne]

Just finished

[❀Tea❀]

Great! :D

Updated spreadsheet. :)

[[deleted user]]

Hello ! I see you havent added my name tea?

[md]

Turtlecollector are the Richard Castle books any good?

[Gemma]

Hi guys, excited to have another go at winning!

I'm reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? at the moment (:

Just to let you all know I'm expecting a baby any day now so if I go quiet for a little while that may be why!

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

Welcome to md, Gemma and Karen. I am glad to see you here. I should be getting the spreadsheet updated with your information soon.

@md - The books are OK. It takes me a little bit to get into them. Unusual for me, but I like the TV show better than the books. Could possibly be because the books came out of the TV show instead of the TV show being based on them.

@Gemma - Congratulations on the new baby! I don't have any of my own, but I watched my niece and nephew a lot when they were tiny and they were so much fun. Sometimes I like to consider them my honorary children, since I am still the favorite aunt. Although there were also times when I was very glad I could give them back to their parents:)

@Gemma and Ezi - We still need you to check in at the first two links in post 5 so that your books can be counted and to get the name of the bookshelf you are using.

[Ezi]

I've checked in. I'm reading and listening to on audio.

I haven't been able to stop watching various episodes of this seasons Spartacus: War of the Damned. I'm grieving because its ended. I'm so sad. My husband said " it's just a TV show" but I've never been so engaged to a show before. I hope Game of Thrones picks up fast so I can snap out of this funk.

Gemma: I love babies. Congrats. I hope you have help, family support so you don't get overwhelmed

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CAPTAINS/CO-CAPTAINS Please read!

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[Dee Gonzalez]

I'm checked in, and my shelf for this round is named...Hobbity Bobbity Blue. :) I can't remember how to make it my main shelf...can someone help me with that.

[Gemma]

Thanks for reminding me guys, I'm all checked in now I think.

Thankfully me and my partner both have massive families so we have already get loads of support, leaving me plenty of time for a few books hehe ^_^

[[deleted user]]

I just finished and thinking about my next book.

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

@Dee - If you want the shelf to show up at the top of your list of shelves:

Go to My Books
Click the link at the top of the list of shelves which says (edit)
This should take you to a page with all of your shelves listed alphabetically and boxes to check on the right
Make sure the middle box for 'sticky' is checked for your shelf
When you go back to your my books page it should show up towards the top with an asterisk in front of it

You also need to make sure to go to the first two links in post 5 to join the challenge page and add your shelf so that your books will be counted in the total.

[❀Tea❀]

Oops, sorry Karen! Fixing it as we speak.

I have no idea how you got lost! I remember putting you there. Maybe wrong copy/paste?!

[[deleted user]]

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Oops, sorry Karen! Fixing it as we speak.

I have no idea how you got lost! I remember putting you there. Maybe wrong copy/paste?!"

Maybe!

[[deleted user]]

And no problem , fellow hobbit :D

[Dee Gonzalez]

Turtlecollector wrote: "@Dee - If you want the shelf to show up at the top of your list of shelves:

Go to My Books
Click the link at the top of the list of shelves which says (edit)
This should take you to a page with al..."


Thank you, TC, I have done both. :)

[❀Tea❀]

Dee, you've put your goal as 5 and before was 10, right? We need to check because of final numbers.

[Melissa (ladybug)]

Hello to the team! ^_^

[❀Tea❀]

Hey, Melissa. Glad you found us! :D

Don't forget to join the challenge here :D

[Dee Gonzalez]

My goal is 10 for the year 2013...5 for this challenge.

[❀Tea❀]

Dee wrote: "My goal is 10 for the year 2013...5 for this challenge."

Oh, OK. I'll let the mods know.

Have you already decided what are you reading or are you 'spur of the moment' kind of person?
I always have trouble deciding upfront what to read. In those cases I usually end up with something I'm not in the mood for.

[Melissa (ladybug)]

I have joined the challenge. My shelf is "team-read".

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

Welcome Melissa!

@Dee - Can you change your intended goal back to the 10 books, please? The moderators want the yearly goal there not what you still have left to read for the year or this challenge.

My yearly goal is 320 which is what I entered, even though I have already read 91 of them.

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Melissa (ladybug), please Tell us the name of your bookshelf , too! Thanks.

[Dee Gonzalez]

Turtlecollector wrote: "Welcome Melissa!

@Dee - Can you change your intended goal back to the 10 books, please? The moderators want the yearly goal there not what you still have left to read for the year or this challen..."


Sure can. :)

[Dee Gonzalez]

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Dee wrote: "My goal is 10 for the year 2013...5 for this challenge."

Oh, OK. I'll let the mods know.

Have you already decided what are you reading or are you 'spur of the moment' kind of person?
..."

I have already decided on the books I want to read. But, being an implusive reader..it may change. HA.

[❀Tea❀]

And mods moved end of the challenge to April 2014, so we still have whole year to read :D

[Dee Gonzalez]

The changes have been made. :)

[Melissa (ladybug)]

I am currently reading:

and

I am also very much a spur of the moment reader, so these books may not be the ones I actually finish next.

[❀Tea❀]

Few months ago I was one-book-at-the-time. After I finished reading one I would spend hours deciding what to read next.
So I joined challenge in one of the groups here to help me decide about next book. Then another challenge sounded interesting, then another,... So now I'm in I-have-no-idea-how-many challenges, still having trouble deciding what to read in most cases, and in those I have to decide upfront it's usually something that can't hold my interest for long. (I've been dragging with Wives and Daughters for almost a month now, and I'm still only half way through. It OK book, just going slowly. And it doesn't help that I keep reading something else to 'speed things up' :D)

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❀Tea❀ wrote: "And mods moved end of the challenge to April 2014, so we still have whole year to read :D"

LMBO! No, we'll be finished way before then.

[❀Tea❀]

Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "❀Tea❀ wrote: "LMBO! No, we'll be finished way before then."

To be honest I have trouble figuring out how.
At the moment we are at the teams with goals little more than 1350. Each member put in their yearly goal (in my case 200) from which some books are already read (in my case about 55 that counts). But for this challenge we are starting from 0 (those 55 already read doesn't count). I don't think I'll be able to read 200 books in less than year.
Unless we'll be getting more members

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

I just sent a PM to the Moderators about that myself. It was an epiphany I had earlier today and should have thought of it sooner being a math fanatic/major in college.

[Dee Gonzalez]

You ladies and gents-impress me with your high numbers. I know some are probably audio books..but still that's a Shiz ton of books. I listened to two audio books and after decided that I needed to actually read them..sooo Im sticking with holding the actual book. I'm really stoked that I have read 5 books so far..considering I only read 6 last year. :) I'm just about done with my 6th and am ahead of my 10 goal schedule. Which is huge considering softball season started on friday and that takes up a big chunk of my time.

[❀Tea❀]

I feel better now :D
I've been thinking about that ever since I saw our team goal that first day. Didn't want to stir the waters at that time. (and I felt little stupid since I couldn't figure it out) They had enough to do without my questions. :D

[❀Tea❀]

Don't feel bad Dee. :D
I'm spending practically every free second with book in my hand (having ereader helps :D)
As for audiobooks, my first and only so far is LotR, which is reread, so yes I know what's going on. I did try them before but found myself listening book on comp while following text on screen/paper. :) So I decided since I'm reading a book, no point in listening it at the same time :D

Enjoy your softball. :D
OK I have to ask, are you playing or watching?
Should we start cheerleading team here? :D

[Gemma]

I'm always impressed by people with big numbers too, I think the most I've ever read in a year was about 60 books and that was with serious pushing myself!