Mini-Challenges and Read-a-thons!

[Steven]

If we are counting THEs then you can add my The Serpent's Shadow... Otherwise I didn't have any Ms or Ts this week. :(((

[Barb]

We'll count it this time, because I wasn't specific enough in the initial post :) Next time, I'll know better!

[Jane]

I just finished by D'Elen McClain before midnight.

[Steven]

Way to go Jane!!!!

[Barb]

Because this mods' RaT is such a huge challenge, Steven created a separate thread for it, so announcements and progress updates don't get lost in everything else that's going on. You can find that thread HERE

This is the place to post your goals, your ideas for our team's theme, and ask any questions you might have about the RaT. Thanks :)

[Barb]

Yay Jane! I added your book to the list :)

[Alba]

Hi everyone, new group member here :)

So far, I have added 5 books to the shelf. If you have looked at my Shelves, you'll see that I am into the Highland Hottie Scotties at the moment. (Mmmm, Gerard Butler anyone???) My tastes in genre changes regularly, as I tend to get bored easily LoL

So far, I have read and which I see our Fellow Team Member ~Mariee~ is also reading. YaY

[Alba]

@ ~MARIEE~ How are you enjoying the Melissa Mayhue books? I'm about to start the forth one, I just love those Alpha Males :) I picked alot of them up from a car boot sale for about £1 each, such a bargain. Would you be interested in reading any of them together, sort of like a buddy read? Let me know? Would anybody else like to join? :)

[Barb]

I've never done well with buddy reads, although I've been tempted from time to time :)

Mariee's been dealing with sick kiddos, and I think she's fighting the bug herself, so it may be awhile before she responds to your post, Alba. Didn't want you to think she's ignoring you!

[Alba]

I just read over the past posts and come across that. Poor Mariee, Her little ones sound quite poorly don't they, Bless them. I hate when my 2 are sick, they want constant attention, but as twins, they comfort each other. I can't imagine how tired Mariee must be, sick herself and with 3 sick little ones. Hope your all feeling better soon Mariee.xxxxx

To be honest Barb, I've never done a buddy read before, but I've seen them mentioned on GR so many times, I thought it might be nice to try it.

[Alba]

Just started at 870 pages long. WOW.

[Barb]

Good luck to you, Alba!

[Steven]

Perhaps the next Mini-Game idea we can do is for everyone to pick a new series, and to read the first book in that series, and keep reading that series until our timeframe we set is over.

After the read-a-thon, I mean. :)

[Barb]

That's a possibility, but I usually don't read series books back to back. I need variety in my reading :)

[Steven]

Le sigh. I finally have a remotely creative idea and you go and shoot it down! X)

[Barb]

Not at all! LOL Just because *I don't reach series books back to back doesn't mean others on the team won't want to! And maybe I could break my "rule" for the sake of the team :D

[Steven]

I'm just teasing! Just an idea that popped into my head.

I don't always read them back to back... Lately I've been splitting them up to keep some variety involved.

That being said, I'm off to work more on book four of Sookie Stackhouse... which I am reading directly after book three -- but there were a few books in between books two and three hahahaha

[Diane L]

Along the lines of Steven's suggestion, we could each read book 1 of one series, book two of a series - not necessarily the same series, book three of a series...Then those who want to read a series start to finish can do it but those who jump around can just look for a series where they need to read book two, another where they need to read book three, etc.

[Steven]

That's a fun idea!!!

[Barb]

That does sound like fun :) Would they have to be read in order? #1 first, then #2, then #3, or could we skip around? I can see reasons for doing it both ways. If we do them in order, it would be a 'challenge' just to see how far we can get. If we skip around, the challenge would be sticking to the books we'd committed to read LOL

[Steven]

Oh lordie, I don't know if the accountant OCD-ness in me would let me read in non-numerical order.

Of course, if we choose to do this one, we need a few days to plan. I can think of a book one, a book two, a book three and a book five. I'm reading a book four now (Inferno)(DOH!!!). I'm sure I could find something.

BUT, I must say... I REALLY like this idea. :)

[Barb]

Oh there would most definitely be time to plan :) For me, since I would almost certainly be reading from all different series, the out of order thing wouldn't bother me. If it was all from the same series, I would have to read in order or go crazy!

[Diane L]

Just off the top of my head, I would say they do not have to be read in order. BUT they only count if at the end of the challenge you can 'count' up to their number. So if you read a 6, and 7 but never read a #5 you lose credit for the other those two.

[Steven]

My concern would be -- if you could choose to read them out of numerical order, and you never got around to, say, book three... but you read 1,2,4,5... you didn't complete the challenge? Because if it's not in order, it's really just "Read any book in a series" right?

[Barb]

LOL You both said the same thing at almost the same time!

[Steven]

Great minds, they say? :D

I was looking at my "next up in a series" shelf... I have no book fours... except the Robert Langdon book I'm reading now! *SIGH*

Of course, I could just read a book four based off of what I read for book three! haha

[Steven]

Oh, and I like what Evana is saying... that if you read books 1,2,3,5,6,7 then only the 1,2,3 would count, and you lose the 5,6,7 because four wasn't there connecting them! :D

[Barb]

Steven wrote: "Great minds, they say? :D

I was looking at my "next up in a series" shelf... I have no book fours... except the Robert Langdon book I'm reading now! *SIGH*

Of course, I could just read a book four based off of what I read for book three!"

Or, since you're the king of re-reads, you could re-read a book four :)

And can I say that I really don't want to go to work today? After today, I work another five straight days before I get a day off :\

[Steven]

Without reading the others first?! *dies*

Just kidding (kind of)... perhaps!

[Jane]

Oh, that sounds like a good idea. Looking forward to it.
But I think some rereads might have to be part of it depending how long time we have for the challenge.

[Barb]

Steven wrote: "Without reading the others first?! *dies*"

Well, I thought you'd have a series that you'd already surpassed book #4 LOL

[Steven]

Yes, but when I re-read them, do you think I can skip volumes?!?!

[Barb]

Steven wrote: "Yes, but when I re-read them, do you think I can skip volumes?!?!"

ROFL Oooops, didn't think about *that! LOL

[Steven]

Okay everyone! We have a new READING MINI-CHALLENGE! It's going to be a little bigger than normal, so it has its own thread to minimize update posts getting lost in discussions.

Go here to sign up: Books by the Numbers Challenge!