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Cerulean (AKA “Hobbit Blue”)
Dear Hobbits,
We found little bug in GR (*shock!*) and it looks like that for some of us stats (pages, books) stopped updating sometime yesterday (May 1st). Since we can't figure out when that exactly happened, we are not sure if those starting page numbers we wrote down are correct. It also means we can't depend only on GR's page counting system, but we'll have to do calculations ourselves for check up.
What we need from you is to tell us which is first book you've read that counts for RaT. Since we all live in different time zones it's difficult to figure out when RaT started for each of us.
And if you could also at one point during RaT, go to our spreadsheet and check in RaT sheet if all of your read books are accounted for. You'll find that info on first sheet scrolling to the right.
Thank you and enjoy your reading!
Jojiwoji wrote: "These were my first two"Congratulations, you've joined no-updating list :(
So far only TC is working
@md - Did you finish the two books on your challenge shelf? Or did you just put them there in preparation? I didn't see a finished date on them.
I just read a small novelette called
, a Christmas story told from the view of the late 1930s and spans through present day. Would this work for a historical book for the RaT?
Yes, that should count. Part of it is 50 yrs ago and you only have to connect the book to something 50 yrs ago or more, not necessarily have the whole book set back then.
I've finished one of them but I was waiting for my page count to sort itself out before I marked it as read.
md wrote: "I've finished one of them but I was waiting for my page count to sort itself out before I marked it as read."Go ahead and mark it as read then post a message here if it is the first book for the RaT. We are going to be keeping a manual list of books read for the RaT as well to make sure page number counts are accurate.
Turtlecollector wrote: "Yay Ezi, 2 books already! (Do you mind if I shorten your name?)"No, most people call me Ezin, Ezi or even "E", it's all good.
(*work is slow, so that's a good thing for reading)
@ Melissa - I am seeing your last three books read on your challenge shelf are showing up on currently-reading shelf not on read shelf. Can you check to make sure you have marked them on read shelf? Also the same with Zanna's Gift: A Life in Christmases, but don't put this one on your shelf it only counts for the RaT.
I haven't marked them read yet. I usually go and check all the challenges I am doing at the moment then mark them read. That way, I am able to keep up. lol. I will be marking them read today, though.
@ Melissa - You will need to mark the paperback version read of
for it to count to be fair according to LK and Sonia in the RaT thread.
Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "I haven't marked them read yet. I usually go and check all the challenges I am doing at the moment then mark them read. That way, I am able to keep up. lol. I will be marking them read today, though."Great, I am updating your RaT first book to be
I am working on the update for the RaT in Post #5 of this thread and here Link to Hobbit Games. It is a work in progress as we see how page number counts are going to work or not, but eventually I will add your page progress as well as your books. Please feel free to check it out and repost something I don't have on there yet, so I can remember to add it.
@ Turtlecollector: My book is an historical book. I didn't notice it specified. :D
Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "@ Turtlecollector: My book is an historical book. I didn't notice it specified. :D"thanks. going to fix that now.
My second book for the RaT:
more to come of course:D
My first book for RaT - release me and 2nd book once and always - historical , I will mark them on the challenge shelf when I login!
Karen
is blue, right? :D Or you have another one planned?
*facepalm* yes it is blue , I will use this one only!
RaT mini challenge
Mini-Challenge #2: “Behind Enemy Lines”
Team Members are doing “reconnaissance” and bringing back intel on the enemy's books! Sneak into another team's “view books: read”* in their challenge page and select any book listed that catches your fancy.
Post a bookcover link to said book and state the Team & member from which it came! State different reasons why you are posting that bookcover. Ideas, such as:
• Gave the same star rating as I did.
• I want to read it!
• They have a different bookcover - which I prefer to mine.
• Loved their review, etc.**
*Feel free to use the Google Team Assignments Round II Spreadsheet to get an overall lay of the land. Those coded in aqua are set to "private."
**Please respect the taste and genre of other readers. This in NOT an exercise in bashing.
Sugested by Team Cadet Blue
NOTE: Mini-Challenges are valid from the moment they are posted till the end of the Read-a-thon. You can do them by any order, as many times as you want, as long as you use the tag: Mini-Challenge #number
If you want to play, post your answers HERE
3rd book for RaT:
(blue)Still reading:
Starting:
Turtlecollector wrote: "3rd book for RaT:(blue)Still reading:
Starting:
[book..."
Some books look very familiar :D
Let me know about Higgins. It's next on my read list :D
Reading Update: 5/3/13
Finished before May 1st, 2013
Finished During RaT:
Still Reading:
Starting:
RaT mini challenge
Mini-Challenge #3:"Series Showoff"
Activity: Take (or find) a picture of all the books in your favorite series lined up in order.
Easy Level Option: use the add book tool!
~ How to Quickly Add Series ~
(view spoiler)
Suggested by Team Purple Mountain's Majesty
NOTE: Mini-Challenges are valid from the moment they are posted till the end of the Read-a-thon. You can do them by any order, as many times as you want, as long as you use the tag: Mini-Challenge #number
If you want to play, post your answers HERE
❀Tea❀ wrote: "@Ezi
cover book?"That will be my blue cover or
(was that your question?)
Ezinwanyi~For you, Agron wrote: "That will be my blue cover or (was that your question?)"
Yes, that's what I meant.
If you're thinking between them, I would go with Mortal Danger - it's bluer :D
Ezinwanyi~For you, Agron wrote: "your wish is my command to read :)"Why to read?
D**n GR! I thought you already read it. It's on your challenge page. Sorry, read whatever you want.
*goes to remove book from spreadsheet*
❀Tea❀ wrote: "Ezinwanyi~For you, Agron wrote: "your wish is my command to read :)"Why to read?"
Well, I can cede to you control in matters pertaining to reading for the challenge, my 5yr, 3 yr & 1 yr old control all other matters of my life...
husband can have whatever is left (LOL)!!!
Ezinwanyi~For you, Agron wrote: "Well, I can cede to you control in matters pertaining to reading for the challenge, my 5yr, 3 yr ..."LOL
Read whatever you want :)
I thought you finished it, so I was only asking what to put in spreadsheet. :D
Was that that test book? Could you please check if there is read date in it? It shows in your challenge as finished and gives us wrong numbers.
❀Tea❀ wrote: "Turtlecollector wrote: "3rd book for RaT:(blue)Still reading:
[bookcover:Infinite Jes..."Yes, I know. I saw your list and there were authors I read as well. I went and put them on hold for me at my library and I already got them. I needed some lighter reads to counteract my two big books. It is very difficult for me to keep my attention on them. Although, I already have 1000 pgs read in other books and only about 50/2000 of the big books,so I am not as worried about getting the big ones finished during the RaT.
❀Tea❀ wrote: "I thought you finished it, so ..."No, I am reading it, but I forgot to put it back to currently reading after I used it to reset my books. It has not been finished yet.
/ goodreads for the week-end
:D...keeping the eyes on the mark /cerulean aka hobbit blue :)
You are reading HP for the first time?I love those books. I'm somewhere in the middle of the rereading fourth. *need to get back to it* My problem is that every time I finish HP book (and LoTR) I go and watch movie (all of them - no point it stopping in the middle of movie marathon)
Mod
LMBO!
I've never read HP. the books are too long :)
Mod
They are wonderful on audio, Ezin!
❀Tea❀ wrote: "New crossword puzzle. Who wants to do it?"I love word puzzles! But if someone else wants to that's fine. I wouldn't be able to do it until late tonight(only noon for me right now) anyway and I feel as if I have been a bit selfish with doing the other word puzzles.
Have snuck in reading 10 more pages while at work so far today. Have 30 more min till my lunch break when I plan to read more of Infinite Jest.
Turtlecollector wrote: "❀Tea❀ wrote: "New crossword puzzle. Who wants to do it?"I love word puzzles! But if someone else wants to that's fine. I wouldn't be able to do it until late tonight(only noon for me right now) ..."
Go ahead. I think LK needs little break from me :D
Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "Ezinwanyi~For you, Agron wrote: "I've never read HP. the books are too long :)"They are wonderful on audio, Ezin!"
Jim Dale or Stephen Fry?
❀Tea❀ wrote: "Go ahead. I think LK needs little break from me :D"LMBO! Never, ❀Tea❀, my little Test Bunny extraordinaire!
Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "Ezinwanyi~For you, Agron wrote: "I've never read HP. the books are too long :)"They are wonderful on audio, Ezin!"
Lisa Kleypas is wonderful on audio...well, only if read by Rosalyn Landor.
Sookie STackhous & Elemental Assassin series are also Audio only for me. LOVE the narrators.
Harry Potter--I am sticking to HBO for that :)
Ezinwanyi~For you, Agron wrote: "Lisa Kleypas is wonderful on audio...well, only if read by Rosalyn Landor."True! I just love her, Ezin. The only voice she did that I didn't like was Harry in
- one of my favorite books. I just ♥Harry♥... but he had a deep baritone voice that she just can't pull off, even as talented as she is.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Ezinwanyi~For you, Agron wrote: "Lisa Kleypas is wonderful on audio...well, only if read by Rosalyn Landor."True! I just love her, Ezin. The only voice she did that I didn't like was Harry in ..."
It's funny you mentioned this book, that book is in my audible cart.
Why did LK stop writing HRs? I read one of her contemporary romances, and I didn't enjoy it as much
I don't know why, but it is a good thing I don't know where she lives. ☺
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