NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II discussion
Mango Tango
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Books by the Numbers Challenge
Please make sure all your updates are laid out as follows:Book Title
Series and # in Series
Book Cover (please do your best to make sure you have the correct edition that matches your page count)
Page count
Example:
Dead Until Dark
Sookie Stackhouse #1
292 pages
STEVEN:ONE: The Secret of the Old Clock180 pages
TWO: The Hidden Staircase192 pages
THREE: The Wide Window208 pages
FOUR: Inferno464 pages
FIVE: Dead as a Doornail295 pages
SIX: Definitely Dead324 pages
JANE:
ONE: Interview with the Vampire353 pages
TWO: Sea of Monsters279 pages
THREE: The Last Colony320 pages
FOUR: Zoe's Tale360 pages
FIVE: Sharpe's Prey338 pages
SIX: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince607 pages
SEVEN: Merrick370 pages
EIGHT: Guards! Guards!388 pages
NINE: All Summer Long384 pages
TEN: Frostbitten339 pages
BARB:
ONE: Larceny & Old Lace224 pages
TWO: Deliver Us From Evil406 pages
THREE: Dead In The Water304 pages
FOUR: Make, Take, Murder345 pages
FIVE: Decaffeinated Corpse273 pages
SIX: Love Lies Bleeding336 pages
SEVEN: Wedding Cake Killer320 pages
EIGHT: Dragonwell Dead304 pages
LISA:
ONE: Mine Till Midnight360 pages
TWO: Comanche Heart419 pages
THREE: Rajmund260 pages
FOUR: Rapture480 pages
FIVE: Willow Springs373 pages
EVANA:
ONE: The Negotiator379 pages
TWO: World Without End1024 pages
THREE: Effigies:A Faye Longchamp Mystery313 pages
FOUR: The Tiger Warrior512 pages
SIX: 6 Rainier Drive496 pages
SEVEN: 74 Seaside Avenue416 pages
NANCY:
ONE: Inkheart534 pages
KARLA:
ONE: Anne of Green Gables304 pages
TWO: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God243 pages
THREE: Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas 173 pages
FOUR: Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants206 pages
SHEILA:
TWO: UnWholly402 pages
SALLIE:
TWO: The Last Boyfriend319 pages
FOUR: Happily Ever After333 pages
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SCOREBOARD:
STEVEN: 6
JANE: 10
BARB: 8
LISA: 5
EVANA: 4
NANCY: 1
KARLA: 4
SHEILA: 1
SALLIE: 1
(Don't forget, the scoreboard only takes into account consecutive numbers, so you might have read more books than your score shows, but the score reflects the longest numerical order string of books!)
I'll play, but I'm not sure how many I can read without messing up my read-what-you-already-have challenge in another group :)
LOL Nah, I'll just do what I can this time around, and hope to do better the *next time :) After work tomorrow, I'll look at my series list and see what I'm "allowed" to read LOL
I'm in. Got to say I could get more read if I didn't spend so much time rummaging through the TBR for the exact book needed for another challenge. Not that I mind or I wouldn't sign up for so many challenges.I already have a 6 and 7 lined up. Now to fill those first five slots...
Yay.. My first Mango Tango mini challenge. I'm going to try for 6. Book 1
Hathaways 1Book 2
Vampires in America 2Book 3
Vampires in America 3Book 4
Parasol Protectorate 4Book 5
Parasol Protectorate 5Book 6
Scansguards Vampires Book 6
Oh, and don't forget everyone, you don't have to start with 1. :) as long as they are consecutive you are good!
Evana wrote: "I'm in. Got to say I could get more read if I didn't spend so much time rummaging through the TBR for the exact book needed for another challenge."Or taking the time to update all those challenges online LOL I feel your pain, Evana :)
Steven wrote: "Oh, and don't forget everyone, you don't have to start with 1. :) as long as they are consecutive you are good!"Yay, thank you! I'm likely to start with #1 anyhow, but it's nice to know I don't have to :)
ok i will join. Lets see if I can get some serious reading done :) What are the dates for this challenge?
Yeah! Just thought the consecutive run was easier than trying to force everything into a "box"...Plus like you've mentioned before, some of us series-obsessed would like to make dents in the series we're in before we read book one in another! haha
Sheila,This mini-challenge will last from Saturday May 18th until Friday May 31st. Any books shelved as FINISHED during these days will count towards the challenge.
I will give it a try as now, i'm done with school can focus more with reading
So, current list of participants:Steven, Barb, Evana, Karla, Lisa, Sheila, Nancy, Jane
Of course I am in. There is just no way I can say no to another challenge LOL. I am reading a nummer one just now but I am hopefully finished that one by tomorrow. But I have several other books lined up that are useful.
Just save the last chapter until Saturday and you can use it for this challenge!Hopefully I can figure out if Amazon/B&N allows email gift cards to be sent internationally!
Since it's all done via email, I don't see why that would be an issue. But, what do I know? :)
So, we might have to figure out a way to get any of you internationals a prize.Do those of you who live outside the US use Amazon to purchase books? Do you buy the ebook version?
We'll figure out a prize to make it fair for all if we can't work that out.
I'm pretty dense, I should have worked out the international issue before I posted the challenge!
Yeah, I assume the same Barb, but they might not be able to pay for content that way. I dunno.Guess we'll see, eh?
I have both a amazon.com and co.uk account and as I for 7 years have lived far from any bookshop I read mostly Kindle books.So an Amazon gift Card is no problem for me.
Okay, that is perfect. Hopefully Lisa (from Australia) can handle that as well :)
Steven wrote: "So, current list of participants:Steven, Barb, Evana, Kayla, Lisa, Sheila, Nancy"
I, Karla, am in. Not Kayla, who is too busy with school.
Doh, I'm sorry. The names are so close and I was looking at Kayla's bookshelf verifying the page count on her new book when I typed that out.I'll go fix it now!
No problem. We use the same computer, so I thought I had signed up under her name. Just wanted to make sure it was correct.
Yep, Lisa from Australia can surely handle that... I have a kindle with an Amazon US account. You just have to email me the gift voucher... if I win...Haha, I might be putting the cart before the horse, so to speak.
That's what I needed to know!Hopefully we can add some serious books to our total :)
Good grief. I'm in. Can't resist another challenge. I seriously need book therapy. Lol
We all do. But hey, we can all "suffer" in good company here!
That's why I keep coming back lol.
I think that's why we're ALL here LOLSteven, please tell me that this starts and ends according to our local time on the appropriate days? Or are you going to choose one time zone as the beginning/end times?
Nah, just the dates. As long as its marked on goodreads as finished during the date range, it will count!
Sounds good :) But bear in mind that GR works on Pacific Time, so if I mark a book as finished at 1am on Sunday morning, it's going to show up on GR as finished at 10pm Saturday night. *grumbles*
As long as you post it here, should be fine.Maybe everyone should post date/time finished in addition to all that info from post two!
Yeah, I think we're all honest enough in something like this not to say we read a book we didn't read or whatever ... Sorry, it's late, I haven't slept well, and my brain has shut down for the night. Maybe I should take that as a clue to go to bed instead of spending time here on GR? LOL
working out the time difference to Australia is a nightmare. I think we are 19 hours ahead of Goodreads time.
Right now, it's 8:17pm on Thursday, May 16, on Goodreads time (Pacific Time). Google tells me it's 1:17pm on Friday, May 17, in Sydney, Australia, right now. Does that help, Lisa?
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I think as long as very one posts their local date/time when they finish it, that should suffice... I can't see any of us lying about it!Besides, all these time zones get so complicated haha
Sounds good to me :) I picked up some of my possible books for this challenge at work today. Several others are on their way to me from other libraries in our system, so I'll probably have those in hand Monday. I even dug the ones I own out of the multiple piles of books sitting around the house! The point of all of this is: I'm ready for the challenge to begin! LOL
Aside to Sallie: Yes, these were all on my library list when the Double Dare challenge began :) I just hadn't gotten around to reading them yet!
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Steven :)
Everyone ready? It's about to start in my time zone! :) For some of you it's already started!
The game is ON! I'm about to hit the board with the first book! :D
Finished my number FOUR:Inferno by Dan Brown
Robert Langdon book #4
464 pages
I didn't get as much reading done the last few as I had hoped. Too tired after work. Not good for my current challenge to read 4 books this week.But good for this challenge LOL.
It means I have finished my number ONE:
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Chronicles #1
353 pages
I have chosen to put that edition in as my read book. I am actually reading
but I am not going to continue straight away with the next one.
Steven wrote: "The game is ON! I'm about to hit the board with the first book! :D"WTG Steven! I worked all day today, and am taking a few moments to sit and veg before I cook dinner, then I plan to get back to reading my #3 in a series book. I hope to finish it tonight, but since I work again tomorrow, I can't guarantee I'll be able to stay up that late tonight :\
NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II
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Everyone loves a good series! Plus, we need to get our numbers up for the Tower Challenge, so let's get reading!
Here's the scoop: we are going to read books from series. The same series, different series, doesn't really matter. What will matter is what NUMBER in the series each book falls. The LONGEST string of consecutive books will win.
Read the numbers in any order you want. Read book seven of the Harry Potter, then book two of the Sookie Stackhouse series -- it's your call! But be warned -- if there is a break in the sequence at the end of the mini-challenge, we'll take the longest "run" as your score!
Here's an example:
Barb reads 7 series books, numbered 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Evana reads 7 series books, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Barb's longest sequence is 5-8, so she gets FOUR for her score. Evana's longest connected sequence is 1-7, for a score of SEVEN. EVANA would win... unless Barb finished a series book numbered 4, which would connect the full sequence and provide her with a score of EIGHT.
You DO NOT need to start with ONE. Any consecutive runs of books will count towards your score.
In the case of a tie, I'll total up the pages read for each of the tied winning sequences, and the person with the highest page count will win the gift card.
If that doesn't make sense, please ask questions. As stated before, the books don't have to be from the same series.
ALL THE TOWER CHALLENGE RULES APPLY: Rereads are okay as long as it's been at least a year, page counts need to be over 160 pages, no graphic novels, etc.
This mini-challenge will last from Saturday May 18th until Friday May 31st. Any books shelved as FINISHED during these days will count towards the challenge.
I'll keep a post following this one to track our books, so just post here when you've completed one after the challenge has started.
THERE WILL BE AN ACTUAL PRIZE FOR THE WINNER OF THIS MINI-CHALLENGE, as long as the winner has read at least 5 books total. I'll update you all once I've decided on the exact prize, but it will be along the lines of an Amazon/B&N eGift Card.
Please post here by FRIDAY to let me know if you are participating! :) (Also, I will be participating for fun, but not competing for the prize, as I'm providing the prize!)