NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II discussion
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Cadet Blue
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May R-a-T Member Page Count Spot
Teresa's Tallies:
Total Page Goal: 1200
Starting Page Count: 9176
Total Pages Read:
Total Theme Books Read: 1
Total Cover Books Read: 1
Total Books Read: 4
*My Reading Plan*
Uniform Read:
- DONE!! (456 pages)Blue Cover:
- DONE!! (199 pages of words, but Goodreads says 201 pages... there's a flyleaf at the end so I didn't count it)Other Books Read
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- DONE! (277 pages)
- DONE! (338 pages)
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Note to self: Current Page Count, as of 4/30 8:30p PDT is: 3,648
Total books read: 2
✔ The Kingdom, by Amanda Stevens ★★★★½ audible.com 5/4 “buddy read” = 343 pages - Blue Book
✔ Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden - 434 pages - Uniform Book
Total: 777 pages
Mod
Total Page Goal: 4,000
Starting Page Count:
Total Pages Read: 4,234
✔ Total Theme Books: Open Season, by Linda Howard ★★★★½ audible.com 5/5 = 337 pages
Total Cover Books: see covers below
Total Books Read: 11
Read
✔ Death by Darjeeling, by Laura Childs ★★★★☆ PB 5/1 = 256 pages
✔ Prince Charming, by Julie Garwood ★★★★½ audible.com 5/2 = 560 pages
✔ The Kingdom, by Amanda Stevens ★★★★½ audible.com 5/4 “buddy read” = 343 pages
✔ Betrothed, by Elizabeth Elliott ★★★★☆ Library-PB 5/4 = 376 pages
✔ Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, by Fannie Flagg ★★★★☆ ODA 5/6 = 384 pages
✔ The Boss's Bedroom Agenda, by Nicola Marsh ★★★★☆ PB 5/8 = 192 pages
✔ Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life, by Sophie Uliano ★★★★☆ Library-Kindle 5/9 = 336 pages
✔ One Good Earl Deserves a Lover, by Sarah MacLean ★★★★☆ Loupe's CD YSI 5/9 = 373 pages
✔ Marriage: To Claim his Twins, by Penny Jordan ★★½☆☆☆ PB 5/10 = 185 pages
✔ Heartbreaker, by Julie Garwood ★★★★☆ audible.com 5/11 = 520 pages
✔ To Sir Phillip, With Love, by Julia Quinn = 372 pages
Blue:
I'm ready for this RAT!
Page Goal: 1200
Pages Read: 961
Blue Books:
(579)Uniform Books:
(382)Other Books:
Starting Page Count: 3900
End Page Count: 4861
My Spot :o)
Page Goal: 600
Starting Page Count: 9688
Current Page Count:9688
Total Pages Read:910/600
Blue Books:
Uniform Books:
Other books:
Saving this spot to keep track of who has read what. Participants: Mary Dresden, Teresa, Sonia, Lisa Kay, Jessica, Jex, Sarah, Mods (8)
Blue Books: 7/8
1: Jex:
✔ 2:Mary(HDLS):
✔ 3: Sonia:
✔ 4: Sarah:
✔ 5: Teresa:
✔ 6: Lisa Kay
✔ 7: Jessica:
✔Uniform Books: 8/8
1: Mary HDLS:
✔ 2: Teresa:
✔ 3: Lisa Kay:
✔ 4: Mod:
✔ 5: Sarah:
✔ 6: Jessica:
✔ 7: Sonia:
✔ 8: Jex:
✔1: Teresa-needs update
Goal: 1200
Pgs read: 932
Blue book: ✔
Uniform book: ✔
b>2: Mod Account-GOAL!
Goal: 300
Pages Read: 777-needs update
Blue:
Uniform:✔
3:Lisa Kay
Goal: 4,000
Pages Read: 3342 needs an update
Blue:✔
Uniform:✔
4: Jex: OK
Page Goal: 1200
Pages Read: 961
Blue:✔
Uniform:✔
5: Mary: HDLS-GOAL!
Page Goal: 1,500
Pages Read: 1561updated
Blue Book:✔
Uniform Book:✔
6: Sonia-GOAL!
Goal: 600
Pages Read: 910 NEEDS UPDATE
Blue Book:✔
Uniform Book:✔
7: Jessica: GOAL! needs update
Goal: 1,000
Pages Read: 1487
Blue Book:✔
Uniform Book:✔
8: Sarah-GOAL!
Goal: 3500
Pages Read: 4081-needs update
Blue Book:✔
Uniform Book✔
Mod
I'm tempted to start another audio - the one counting for uniform... which will make three going for me. Usually I have multiple books going, but not in the same media (I don't count one in the car the same as the one on my iPod/Touch). Still, I haven't been doing much reading-reading --- except in THESE THREADS! LOL!
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is out on audio? Hmmm... I'll have to check that out and see who narrates. And it is an "SS"? Great! Thanks, Mary: HDLS. I did finally finish one audio, since my "buddy read" partner on The Kingdom is behind. I thought I just get it finished!
Alas, I need to write a review for it and I'm too tired from reading all these threads. ☺
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I think so...
Mod
OK here is the actual update I submitted. The other post is just for me to keep track of who has read what and our theme & color books. 5/3/13
Cadet Blue Update
Team Totals
Total Page Goal: 7700
Total Pages Read: 1815
Players with updates
Jex pages: 579
Blue book: A Discovery of Witches
Lisa Kay pages: 816
Mary(HDLS): 420
Uniform book: This Heart of Mine(football players)
5/5/93-Submitted
Lisa Kay:
Total Pages read: 1535/1000
Jex:
Total Pages read: 961/1200
Uniform book: Little Brother
Moderators:
Total Pages read: 343/?
Mary: HDLS
Total pages read: 804/1200
Blue Book:Perfume of Paradise 5/5
Jessica:
Total Pages Read: 277/?
Teresa
Total Pages Read: 456/1200
Uniform book: True Blue 5/5
Cadet blue has now completed 2 uniform books and 3 blue books.
5/6/13-Submitted
Lisa Kay:
Total Pages read: 1872/1000
Uniform Book: Open Season 5/5
Sonia:
Total Pages Read: 336/600
Blue Book: Unwind
Sarah:
Total Pages Read:919/1000
Blue Books: Beauty and the Blacksmith 5/1
Cadet blue has now completed 3 uniform books and 4 blue books.
Total pages read:4691/7700
Ladies, don't forget to delete the non-page-count related comments, or move them to the main group page (or even the non-page-count thread about the RaT). :)*message to self destruct*
Page Goal: 1,000Pages Read: 819
Pages to goal: 181
Starting Page Count: 48871
Current Page Count: 49690
Blue Book:
Uniform Book:
Books read:
My blue cover is a novella so I didn't add it to the page count total. Let me know if I can keep it as the blue book.
I'm reading
right now and that's 544 pages 
is nearly finished, but I didn't think we could count books we started before May 1.
We can count books started before May 1st as long as they are finished during the read-a-thon. I'll do another update tonight.
You can keep the blue book, Sarah. For the RaT, I do believe novellas are allowed! Lisa Kay can correct me if I'm wrong. Just don't add it to your cadet blue book shelf. However, if it makes you feel better, you can count Lord of Wicked Intentions for your blue cover, it qualifies.That is a beautiful book cover, too (the novella). I've never read Tessa Dare but I'd like to. She has the prettiest covers. Yes, I judge books by their covers, LOL!
Definitely count Storm of Swords if you finished during the RaT! :)
ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "You can keep the blue book, Jessica. For the RaT, I do believe novellas are allowed! Lisa Kay can correct me if I'm wrong. Just don't add it to your cadet blue book shelf. However, if it makes you ..."This was my first Tessa Dare. B&N has the titles from that series for 99 cents right now so I might pick them up. I totally grab books for their cover art- but I double check the synopsis. It's terrible when a book has a great cover and then sounds disappointing. So deceptive
Dumb question- Cadet Blue shelf? Do I need one of those? I have a 2013 shelf...
Oh dur, I called you Jessica, oops!! And I even read your name. Fixed!And yes, beautiful covers can be deceptive when the synopsis sounds bad! Sooo disappointing.
Oh, by cadet blue shelf I meant whatever shelf you're using for our team (i couldn't recall your shelf name when I was typing that response). Hm... if you're using a 2013 shelf, I will just be sure not to count any books that are <170 pages when I do the spreadsheet updates! I forgot, some people are using a shelf for the entire year.
I'm not listing any of the <170 books on the "2013" shelf- at least I'm trying not to! I think I've taken them all off.
Oh, okay then! I wasn't sure.
Mod
You are correct, Teresa. ☺
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I'll pretend I didn't see that. ☺
For some reason, I was thinking that 170 is less than 160 when I typed that up, LOL! My brain!
Finished another book last night/this morning so here's my update.Page Goal: 3,500 new
Pages Read: 1291
Pages to goal: 2209
Starting Page Count: 48871
Current Page Count: 52371
Blue Book:
Uniform Book:
Books read:
Books currently reading:
Did another update since I was submitting my goal change and finished a book. I submitted the other goal changes I saw earlier today. \
Might as well do another update while I'm here:
Jessica:
Goal: 1,000
Pages Read: 884
5: Mary: HDLS
Page Goal: 1,500
Pages Read: 1184
Updating my page count total:Finished
this morning,
last night, and
Tuesday for a total of 803 pages.Page Goal: 3,500
Pages Read: 2904
Pages to goal: 1406
Starting Page Count: 48871
Current Page Count: 53174
Sarah wrote: "Updating my page count total:Finished
this morning, last night, and Tuesday for a total of 803 pages..."Finished
last night. I can't find my edition, but it is 1177 pages. I'm also counting this as my uniform book- The Night's Watch.Page Goal: 3,500
Pages Read: 4081 Finished!
Pages to goal: 0
Starting Page Count: 48871
Current Page Count: 54351
Finished another. I'm under 300 from goal. I wish I had made my goal just 900, but I'll try to squeeze in my final book before 10 AM tomorrow (when RaT ends for myself). I did not anticipate the two over-nights at work, plus my cat running away interfering so much. But, those two over-nights have done me in and I'm still catching up on sleep and feeling kind of bad (headaches, ugh).
Why does the RAT end for you tomorrow at 10 am?
Eek. Kind of sorry that I upped my goal. I was thinking there were more days left but I just realized that there's only 2 days left. But I should be ok because I got a good chunk of the latest Sookie book read today and I have no real plans for the weekend.
I might switch back to Lady Sophia's Lover on audiobook because it's much shorter than Cold Days. I have a better shot of finishing it in time.
Well, I haven't looked at the original RaT thread but i have in this one that it ends on May 11 at 8 am PDT. But I keep thinking it's 12 days long.... hmmm... what did I do, copy the wrong info??
Not this thread...our RaT one. Since now I see in THIS one that it ends on the 12th! Hmmm, wonder where I got the 11th from on that other thread. I thought I copied that from the original but now I don't remember.Well, yay! I think i'll finish that book then.
You freaked me out and I went and checked on the main RAT thread. It ends at at 10am on the 12th for me at EST.
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Mod account finished it's uniform book - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden - 434 pages - Uniform Book
Oh, so I wasn't crazy, just unobservant of the date change, LOL! When I copied the post to put on our May RaT thread, I must have copied her original date but for whatever reason, it just never clicked that the date was changed, even though all this time I kept thinking it was the 12th but when I double checked the nearest thread, which is the one with the wrong date, I thought I must have been mistaken, LOL.Sorry for freaking anyone out, hehe! I'm just glad I can now take a little bit of time to read my final book!
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And I sneaked another book in... *giggles*
Thanks Lisa Kay :o)And now I'm going to take my meds and crash... my head is killing me!
14 hours left of the read-a-thon
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I hope your head is better, Sonia.
My daughter is having a friend sleep over. I'll probably stay up late reading. They're teenagers but they're loud teenagers in a tiny house. Finished Lady Sophia's Lover. Tempted to reread Worth Any Price. But I think I want to read book 2 before I reread WAP.
Normally I devour the new Sookie books as soon as they arrive but I keep finding excuses not to finish this one. Obviously because I know it's the last.
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NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II
Books mentioned in this topic
Beauty and the Blacksmith (other topics)If I Stay (other topics)
A Discovery of Witches (other topics)
Little Brother (other topics)
Unwind (other topics)
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Julia Quinn (other topics)Penny Jordan (other topics)
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Thanks for the idea, LK (borrowed from Joanne in TMP)! (My formatting inspired by Oo in LJB). And no, I couldn't think of anything more creative for the title.
◈ Duration: May 1st PDT 8:00 AM (BST 4PM) to May 12th PDT 8:00 AM (BST 4 PM)
Start Times Clock
Countdown to Event
The Read-a-Thon will allow each team to win a maximum of 155 points, distributed as follows:
◈5 points if the team submit a mini-challenge idea till the start of the Read-a-Thon
◈Points for goal:
*1 point per participating member reaching goal
*20 points if 50% of the team participating members reach page goal
*30 points if team goal is reached
*50 points if all the team participating members reach page goal
◈Points for color:
*1 point per participating member reading a book with the team color
*30 points if 50% of the team participating members read a book with the team color
*50 points if all the team participating members read a book with the team color
◈Points for theme:
*1 point per participating member reading a book matching the team's theme
*30 points if 50% of the team participating members read a book matching the team's theme
*50 points if all the team participating members read a book matching the team's theme
The winning team will receive a 4 book advantage.
Team Totals
Total Page Goal: 7700
Total Pages Read:
Total Theme Books Read:
Total Cover Books Read:
Team "Before" Page Count