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For #5 is it confusion because there are letters left over at the end (that we don't need to read) or that they're not quite sure how it would work? If it's the latter I have a partial example for that. I could continue it and pm it to someone/post it here if you think that would help?
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This may seem like a silly question but I presume all books have to be >160 pages?
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It would be very helpful, if you could post it here, md. Thank you. Could you include the letters N.B.R.C. to the front of it. I've decided those letters are going to be added. It will give people more options.
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Not silly at all, since we allowed them in May. Yes, all books must be >160 pages this time.
Is there a way to do a "bulk" search of everyone's books in the NBRC group, for a specific book to see if anyone has shelved it?
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Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "5. Spell-It-Out: Read books whose title, author’s (first or last), or series name would spell “N.B.R.C. T.O.W.E.R. T.E.A.M.S. R.E.A.D.I.N.G. C.H.A.L.L.E.N.G.E.” You may ignore the indefinite and definite articles (a, an, and, the), if that helps."
Can we use the first letter of ANY word in the book title? Or only the FIRST word (ignoring A, An and The)?
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Only the first word, Barb.
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SOME CHANGES and an EXAMPLE:
The letters “N.B.R.C.” have been added to Category #5.
md, from Cerulean (AKA “Hobbit Blue”) provided this example, which I tweaked a bit to include an example of a series name and to include the newly added letters.
You're not allowed to reuse a letter and since “N.B.R.C. T.O.W.E.R. T.E.A.M.S. R.E.A.D.I.N.G. C.H.A.L.L.E.N.G.E.” only has two letter 'T's in it that's all your allowed to have. We couldn’t read 7 books that qualified for the letter 'T,' we'd have to pick another letter.
For example:
B - The Bridgertons #4 - Romancing Mister Bridgerton
T - The Da Vinci Code
O - The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
W - Where'd You Go, Bernadette
T - Tom's Midnight Garden
E - Everything is Illuminated
M - Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
We've completed challenge #5 because we've read 7 books (and used 7 letters).
If we wanted to do this challenge again instead of doing one of the others (say #4) we can do so; but, we can only choose from the letters we haven't used already.
In this example it would be: “N.R.C E.R. A.S. R.E.A.D.I.N.G. C.H.A.L.L.E.N.G.E.”
We're allowed to do it a 3rd time, but we would only be able to choose from the letters that are remaining.
The letter 'E' appears 5 times so that would mean there could be 5 books that qualify for that letter and the remaining 2 books would have to be another letter.
Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "Barb wrote: "Can we use the first letter of ANY word in the book title? Or only the FIRST word (ignoring A, An and The)?"Only the first word, Barb."
Thanks, that's what I thought, but figured I'd better ask to be sure :)
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OK I don't get why the extra letters had to be added. I just had people filling in what letters they were willing to read for the original spellout and figured that we would try to do 21 of the letters using a letter from each word only once. Like this:
(I already understood that each letter could only be used the # of times it was in the spell-out and no more than that)
T-Lisa
o-Mary
w-Imke
e-Lisa
r-Teresa
T-Mary
e-Imke (ok there's 7 and one turn completed)
a-Mary
m-Lisa
s-Teresa
etc..,
(obviously not exactly in that order just as 7 books from the entire spell out were completed then a turn would be done until we had completed 3 turns and used 21 of the letters).
So now the change has me confused.
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The extra letter, N.B.R.C. are just to give your more options. That is all. Some people wanted to try for 21 and actually have it spell something that made sense: "N.B.R.C. T.O.W.E.R. T.E.A.M.S. R.E.A.D.I.N.G."
But you don't have to do that. You can choose any letter. You can not repeat a letter, unless it is repeated. Therefore:
You may read three "N" books.EXAMPLE
You may read three "R" books.
You may read two "C" books.
You may read five "E" books.
You may read two "L" books.
You may read three "A" books.
Let's say everyone on your Team wanted to read
.If your Team is only going to do this category once, you could do so, using the letter "E" five times from the title Ecstasy Unveiled.
Since it is written by Larissa Ione and two more people could read it and use the "L" twice. There are two available.
Poof! You're done.
If you were attempting to complete this category for 14 books, it is from the Demonica series, so another person could read it and use it for "D." But it can only be used once for "D" - as there is only one "D" available.
But you could use the "I" from the author's last name.
Got it?
Well that's how I understood it to begin with. So really nothing changed but adding 4 other letter options. Unless I had it wrong the first time and now it's been changed to what I thought it was to begin with.
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Oops I missed that Challenge was removed. DArn we had people for those letters.
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No! It is NOT removed!
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Isn't it fun to communicate via the Internet?
Ok I just went by what you said in post 126 about it making more sense to remove Challenge and add NBRC.
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If it helps any, it made perfect sense to me the first time through :) Must mean we think alike ... but is that good or bad? LOL
B.A.D. V.E.R.Y. V.E.R.Y B.A.D. L.M.B.O.
LOL That's ok, I can handle being bad for awhile :)
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A15. You may read a flower bookcover, a green bookcover, a moon bookcover, a landmark/monument bookcover, any of the letters provided, etc. You can even repeat any of those 'sub-categories' as many times as you desire to reach 7 or 14 books.
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A16. Certainly. Just keep track of who and which Team.
Oh good. I thought the team as a whole could only read 1 flower book, 1 moon book etc.., (well 2 if we did that challenge twice). Good to know we can do more.
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Thank you.
I've never done a buddy-read in this group --- are there specific rules or criteria? Can anyone join in? I've had Discovery of Witches on my TBR forever!!
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Also Discover of Witches "buddy read" has been set up already.
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Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "JoLene, What is a Buddy Style Read? How does it work? might answer a lot of your questions.Also Discover of Witches "buddy read" has been set up already."
Thanks -- I hadn't seen the buddy-reads guide before. I agree that discussion questions help to stimulate the conversation. I get really irritated in some other groups when all we have is a bunch of people saying --- I liked it. Me too. and then Me Three :-D
Ditto, JoLene. It is nice they liked it; but, if wanted to know that, I could look at their star rating. I love the "buddy reads" we do and I always get more out of the book.
Just to be sure -- for #7 (the seven words, titles, etc) can I use two different books by the same author and count that author twice for the "7 letters in the author's last name" part of that task?
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Yes.
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Ezin, GRs is experiencing a glitch this week-end with regards to looking up certain books.
A "work around" is to go to the book's Home Page and copy the ISBN # or ASIN #, in this case 1416914293. Paste that into the look-up.
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Summer Knight, by Jim Butcher The Dresden Files #4Fits/How:
#1. BEL - Cathy Galloway, Team B'dazzled Blue
#5. Letter "B" "S" "D" for author, title, series' name
#7. Seven words in title & series. Also in author's last name.
#7. S.E.V.E.N. U.P. - "S" for title
The Diviners, by Libba BrayFits/How:
#1. Elle, Magenta Mix-up
#4. BOM
#5. Letter "B" "D" for title, author
Sorry, I don't know who to credit for this lay-out. Maybe Jex was the first?
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Is there a specific format you want our post to look like when we post the finished categories?
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Ah! Excellent idea, T. Maybe you and another volunteer or two could come to a mutual agreement? Go ahead a set up a post under the 7% Solution Folder in the Captains' Group.
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Some people also tag their “to-reads” with their selected “TT”* shelf in advance.
The safest way to select a book is looking from the
Google “Team Assignments” Spreadsheet.
*“TT” = Tower Teams
For Behind Enemy Lines, does it have to be read after the one posted by the other team?For example(from my team so wouldn't really count, but the idea is there), I read Hip Check and so did Tea when I look at her list later, but she read it after I did. Does it still count?
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Yes. You have to read it after the "enemy" does. However, if they finish it June 4th, and you finished on June 4th too, we'll take that.
Also, it must be posted on their shelf after April 12th...onward.
Unless...
the Team Captain is using a "blinkie" cupcake.
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It will show you their approved books via bookcovers. For example, Teresa's looks like this:
Aqua high-lighting means "private." However, if you see someone else has used that book, and you want to use it too, just as a Mod to verify it is is on their shelf.
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Acceptable Examples: (color respective to above order)
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When July 1st comes, members may begin using additional colors, if you have any change in who is ahead or behind you on the last Sunday Update in June. You may continue using the old colors, too.
Groovy! This is something I'd been wondering about but figured I'd ask later.
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