May Read-a-thon

[Thilde]

Jolene: I just came to the very same conclusion :-)

[Barbara ★]

It seems as if Chopping Spree doesn't have an edition with the same page count as the book I read so I changed my numbers to reflect this minus the 217 pages that don't count. Now I am in accord with GRs page count totals.

[Lisa Kay]

Barbara ★ wrote: "It seems as if Chopping Spree doesn't have an edition with the same page count as the book I read..."

Barbara★, do you need me to add an edition for you?

[Lisa Kay]

Ange, I change the page count of Beautiful Chaos.

As far as the cover, I would say that is mauve.

[Moderators of NBRC]

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[Barbara ★]

Lisa Kay wrote: "Barbara ★ wrote: "It seems as if Chopping Spree doesn't have an edition with the same page count as the book I read..."

Barbara★, do you need me to add an edition for you?"

That's not necessary LK. I only count the actual reading pages, while GRs counts every page inside the cover. My edition does have 368 if you count all those blank pages and adverts.

[Valerie]

The book I finished is considered Young Adult....

[Moderators of NBRC]

Barbara ★ wrote: "That's not necessary LK. I only count the actual reading pages, while GRs counts every page inside the cover. My edition does have 368 if you count all those blank pages and adverts."

Alright, Barbara★.

[JoLene]

Any goal changes need to be done before 8am Pacific time tomorrow!

Please post here !!

jingles, if you want to raise your goal since your already double, please let me know.

[Carrie]

The edition of the book I finished last night doesn't have pages listed for kindle. So if it get's edited now to say them will it show up in my pages read? Book in question kindle ed.

[Carrie]

I know it's a stretch but this won't work for the color theme right?

I have to read it regardless for a review, just hoping I could knock out two birds one with one stone, ha ha.

[JoLene]

Looks almost the same as the cover that Evil Twin Ange asked about so I would say yes.

[JoLene]

Yes, I believe that if its edited, they will automatically show up.

[Carrie]

Okay I checked amazon and edited the edition, they say 346 pages. I was sitting at a total of 17091 for the year before editing. I'll check later to see if it updates, as of the change it never.

Thank you about the book cover.

[jingles]

So, like, where do we stand with the read-a-thon? Do I need to change my goal? I've read a total of 3238 pages so far. Today is the last day to make a change. :)

[JoLene]

As mentioned above, you can change, but it has to be done in 6 minutes. Please send a message to mods as I am leaving for work. The team is on track

[Carrie]

My numbers of pages on the stats page hasn't changed from before the edit. :(

[JoLene]

@Carrie, there seems to be a "bug" with GR regarding the timing of when the stats are updated. This is the reason that the mods decided to use the "read" shelf instead.

It seems like if you select "publication year" in the stats section, it forces a refresh and your numbers get updated. Unfortunately someone said that sometimes it's only temporary. I know that when I was trying to get the start stats for our team, it was very strange because the books would be listed when you drilled down into 2013, but the numbers displayed didn't match up.

[JoLene]

@jingles, I'm sorry -- I mentioned in post 62 that you could raise your goal if you wanted. Unfortunately, I think that the deadline was 8am pacific time.

[Carrie]

Jolene I did that and all is well now, thanks.

[JoLene]

Team Mauvelous Update
May 8th

Barbara★: 3322/4000 pages read (✔YA, ✔cover )
Carrie: 1492/1500 pages read (✔cover)
Evil Twin One (Ange): 1388/2000 pages read (✔YA)
Hina: 3260/5000 pages read
Jingles: 3587/1000 pages read (✔YA, ✔cover )
JoLene: 681/1000 pages read (✔YA, ✔cover )
Thilde: 288/600 pages read (✔cover)
Valerie: 487/1000 pages read (✔YA)

Team Mauvelous: 14505/16100 pages read

Young Adult (Theme) Books Read:
Jingles: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
JoLene: Snow Treasure
Barbara★: Bookplate Special
Evil Twin One(Ange): Beautiful Chaos
Valerie: Divergent

Mauve Covers:
Jingles & JoLene:
Thilde:
Barbara★:
Carrie: (this one seems to fit the bill)

[JoLene]

Team Mauvelous --- we are 2/3rd done and at 90% of our goal!!! Great work everyone!!!

(Sorry, I guess I'm a lam captain but I don't have a lot of pictures or images)

As a reminder, here is still who needs to read:
Mauve: Evil Twin One, Hina and Valerie
YA: Carrie, Hina, and Thilde

[Barbara ★]

Jolene,
My YA book is
Tiger's Quest - Colleen Houck 5/4 (Young Adult)
not Bookplate Special.

[Barbara ★]

I don't know if we're supposed to be keeping track of the mini-challenges or not but I did all the games (which I don't think count) and these mini-challenges (1,2,3,7,8,9,10,11).

[Valerie]

I'll finish Sharp Objects tonight, and then I'll start my mauve cover.

[jingles]

JoLene wrote: "@jingles, I'm sorry -- I mentioned in post 62 that you could raise your goal if you wanted. Unfortunately, I think that the deadline was 8am pacific time."

I'm so sorry, Jolene. I didn't even see message #62 until about 11pm last night. I did see message #69, but it didn't make sense to me, and I was in such a hurry, I didn't take the time to check back through the the thread.

Apparently (as I've just learned from my son), sometimes the notifications do not come through right away, or not at all. As this is the primary way I've been checking up on things, I totally missed the earlier message, and didn't get my goal changed as I should have.

Now I know, I'll definitely need to be more careful in checking the threads, and not totally rely on the notification feature.

:(

[Hina]

I have the book I am reading now and one more before I read the mauve cover and YA. Sorry I am going by my list. LOL.

[JoLene]

Barbara ★ wrote: "I don't know if we're supposed to be keeping track of the mini-challenges or not but I did all the games (which I don't think count) and these mini-challenges (1,2,3,7,8,9,10,11)."

I did a couple of both of these, but then decided I should read more :-D. I'm not a speedy reader like most of you!

[JoLene]

jingles wrote: "JoLene wrote: "@jingles, I'm sorry -- I mentioned in post 62 that you could raise your goal if you wanted. Unfortunately, I think that the deadline was 8am pacific time."

I'm so sorry, Jolene. ..."

No problem, I too am realizing that the notification feature is not always reliable :-)

[Hina]

JoLene wrote: "jingles wrote: "JoLene wrote: "@jingles, I'm sorry -- I mentioned in post 62 that you could raise your goal if you wanted. Unfortunately, I think that the deadline was 8am pacific time."

I'm so ..."

I have noticed that the notification remembers only a certain amount of things, I want to say about 10 - 15 maybe, but the older notification stop showing up depending how many new notification came in, or at least that's how I see it for mine.

[Moderators of NBRC]

Barbara ★ wrote: "I don't know if we're supposed to be keeping track of the mini-challenges or not but I did all the games (which I don't think count) and these mini-challenges (1,2,3,7,8,9,10,11)."

True. No of these affect your Team points, other than getting five points for submitting the mini-challenges before the R-a-T started.

However, you might get something else for the cupcakes...later.

[Hina]

I'll try to get some mini challenges in. But between reading, work and studying for my classes, I am short of spare time. And if I have spare time, I want to read. LOL.

[Barbara ★]

I work on the mini challenges at work when I have a spare moment (or 2 or 10 on some of them). It's a nice break from reading, reading, reading.

[Hina]

Barbara ★ wrote: "I work on the mini challenges at work when I have a spare moment (or 2 or 10 on some of them). It's a nice break from reading, reading, reading."

lol...I end up playing Sudoku.

[Thilde]

I just finished my Young Adult book this morning: which brings me to my goal of 600 pages. Wuhu!
I am still going to try and finish the book before deadline :-)

[Barbara ★]

Hina wrote: "Barbara ★ wrote: "I work on the mini challenges at work when I have a spare moment (or 2 or 10 on some of them). It's a nice break from reading, reading, reading."

lol...I end up playing Sudoku."

I do that too!

[Carrie]

I'll be reading my YA book when I'm finished the one I'm reading now.

[Valerie]

Updated Post 11

Only 241 pages to go to reach my goal. I'm reading my mauve covered book now, which is 390 pages, so when I finish it, I will have met all my RaT goals.

[Hina]

I have started my mauve book!

[Carrie]

I've started my young adult book, still reading the other one I had started even though I'm still reading the other.

[Barbara ★]

Only 46 pages to reach my goal. I should make that tonight easily.

[JoLene]

You guys are awesome!!!

I finished 2 books yesterday and today (gotta love the audio :-D), so I've made my goal.

[JoLene]

We have met our team goal!!! Looks like everyone is on track to meet their individual goals as well!

*Barbara★: 3954/4000 pages read (✔YA, ✔cover )
Carrie: 1492/1500 pages read (✔cover)
Evil Twin One (Ange): 2576/2000 pages read (✔YA)
*Hina: 3918/5000 pages read
Jingles: 3956/1000 pages read (✔YA, ✔cover )
JoLene: 1272/1000 pages read (✔YA, ✔cover )
Thilde: 600/600 pages read (✔YA, ✔cover )
Valerie: 759/1000 pages read (✔YA)

Team Mauvelous: 18527/16100 pages read

@Barbara★: When the Lion Feeds has 556 pages on your "read" shelf, you logged 356 -- If it is 512, than you have made your goal as well
@Hina: Dillon's Claim has 117 on your read shelf, but you have an *stating that something about LK page count. I'm not sure what that means :-D

[Hina]

JoLene wrote: "We have met our team goal!!! Looks like everyone is on track to meet their individual goals as well!

*Barbara★: 3954/4000 pages read (✔YA, ✔cover )
Carrie: 1492/1500 pages read (✔cover)
Ev..."

JoLene,

Its one of the books I asked her to verify since Kindle editions are all over the place or don't state any page numbers. But in this case, Lisa Kay (LK) had a different page count, but it was a small change and she didn't want to change it in the book edition. So she said I just can refer you to her thread on the page numbers.

[Barbara ★]

JoLene wrote: "@Barbara★: When the Lion Feeds has 556 pages on your "read" shelf, you logged 356 -- If it is 512, than you have made your goal as well."

Sorry my mistake. I started this back in April and noted down the wrong start page when the RAT started. It's correct now.

[Barbara ★]

Today I'll get through both (388 pages) and (432 pages).

[Carrie]

Is it tonight or tomorrow night that this is over?

[Moderators of NBRC]

Carrie wrote: "Is it tonight or tomorrow night that this is over?"

I believe it finishes tomorrow at 8 a.m. PDT, Carrie.

[Carrie]

Thanks plenty of time for me to finish the books I have started.

[JoLene]

24 more hours of reading time!!!!