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[❀Tea❀]

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[Shanna_redwind]

Aha! Thank you so much!

[Diane Woods]

Are we doing another Tower Team Challenge get soon? I really enjoyed it and I was hoping to be informed when the next one is imminent. Thank you!

[Karsyn]

Diane Woods wrote: "Are we doing another Tower Team Challenge get soon? I really enjoyed it and I was hoping to be informed when the next one is imminent. Thank you!"

No, sorry, BUT another Team Challenge IS on the horizon and you'll see info for it soon. If you've loved the Tower Teams, you're gonna wanna join up this Team Challenge!! :)

[Diane Woods]

How soon is soon? LOL Thank you!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Diane you can also follow our Facebook page or blog to get updates :)

https://www.facebook.com/Nothing-But-...

http://n-b-r-c.blogspot.com

[Marie (UK)]

is it time for another tower teams or similar pleeeease

[Diane Woods]

Marie wrote: "is it time for another tower teams or similar pleeeease"

Karsyn said there is another one coming up soon. I subscribed to thier blog (website above) so I will know as soon as it is live! You can try that too.

[Caly ☯ Crazy Book Lady]

Hey Karsyn, When will you know the books that we will be reading for the BOM for May. I want to get copies of the books and that may take awhile so I don't want to miss it.

Thanks!

[❀Tea❀]

Books are (in order of reading):
and

[Caly ☯ Crazy Book Lady]

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Books are (in order of reading):
and "

Awesome! Thanks Tea!

[Karsyn]

Sorry I missed your question Caly! I hope you enjoy the books, especially SotW, one of my all time favorites!

[Caly ☯ Crazy Book Lady]

No problem. Looking forward to that one and Orphan #8, i have. both ready to go.☺

[Groovy]

this is not a question about books, but first I love the new look of the forum. And my question is: Did you get rid of the thread where we can talk about anything?

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Groovy wrote: "this is not a question about books, but first I love the new look of the forum. And my question is: Did you get rid of the thread where we can talk about anything?"

No, we are terrible hoarders and don't delete threads :o

Do you mean this one: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... ?

[Artie]

Can we use the same book for two different challenges?

It doesn't matter much right now, because I'm trying to use the challenges to clean my TBR list, but I'm curious for future challenges... O.O?

[Karsyn]

Olalla wrote: "Can we use the same book for two different challenges?

It doesn't matter much right now, because I'm trying to use the challenges to clean my TBR list, but I'm curious for future challenges... O.O?"

Yes and no. It depends. It's very subjective.

Yes, you can use the same books between various monthly challenges / seasonal challenges / regular challenges.

What you can't do is use the same book between two different RPG challenges. So within the RPG game it's one book per challenge. Then, for the "Choose Your Own Adventure" challenge, you can use the same book unless you are wanting to get Gem Coins, then you have to use different ones.

So, it all depends on the challenge. I'd suggest just reading the rules of any challenge and if it doesn't say, then you can use it for multiple ones.

[Artie]

Thanks for the answer, :)

[Groovy]

Thank you, Karen. I looked and looked. If it had been a snake, it would have bit me:)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Teehee
No worries ;)

[Avamuc]

Is there actually a challange on reading the books you own but did not get around to read because another one came up (..... or because you just love books and bookstores always tend to force you to buy books.......and kindle offers......and......gifts....). A challenge to reduce your "inventory" and to not buy new ones? I've been looking around the group but did not find a challenge like this.

Thx :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Avamuc wrote: "Is there actually a challange on reading the books you own but did not get around to read because another one came up (..... or because you just love books and bookstores always tend to force you t..."

Sure! You can join our Cleaning out the TBR Closet to do just that.
Some of us are reading the oldest books on our "to read", and there are also some people reading books they own and haven't yet read :)

[Avamuc]

Thx Karen :)

I am going to join it and try to decide which books I am going to put on my list there..

[Elizabeth]

ok so question , what just happened, went to update a challenge I'm doing here Serious Readers Challenge > Level 1 of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2016
and after I did it, a message came up and said I couldn't post anything because I wasn't a member , so I had to rejoin the group , so can any one tell me why that did that

[Amanda]

Elizabeth wrote: "ok so question , what just happened, went to update a challenge I'm doing here Serious Readers Challenge > Level 1 of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2016
and after I did it, a message came up an..."

Now that is very odd! Maybe it was a Goodreads bug? I checked the GR Feedback group but no one else mentioned having the same problem.

ETA: Was it possible that you weren't logged in at the time?

[Elizabeth]

Amanda wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "ok so question , what just happened, went to update a challenge I'm doing here Serious Readers Challenge > Level 1 of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2016
and after I did it, a ..."

No because I have it to stay logged in here on Goodreads like you said it could of been a Goodreads bug.

[Paige]

Hello, I am new to this group and to Goodreads, I am a little lost and would love a lot of direction about how to participate and the expectations of this group.
thanks!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Paige wrote: "Hello, I am new to this group and to Goodreads, I am a little lost and would love a lot of direction about how to participate and the expectations of this group.
thanks!"

Hi Paige, Welcome!
It can be a little daunting :o Unfortunately Goodreads is not the most user friendly interface for groups, so it can be hard to navigate.
Have you checked out our thread here which is a bit of a "where to start" depending on what you would like to do.
We have a new Book of the Month discussion starting on the 12th (Rebel of the Sands) and a team challenge about to begin, plus loads of individual reading challenges.
If you'd like to check out that link and then let us know if there is anything you'd like more info on?

[Paige]

Hi Karen,
how do i get involved with the reading challenges?
I've already read rebel of the sands so I'd love to be a part of the discussions

[❀Tea❀]

Paige wrote: "Hi Karen,
how do i get involved with the reading challenges?
I've already read rebel of the sands so I'd love to be a part of the discussions"

Hi Paige :)

To start a challenge, just pick one and post you are in. After that all you need is to keep track of your progress, either by editing your first post or post new one when you accomplish something. There are different types of challenges and they ae mostly grouped by similarities. I'm not promising all are here, but it can help - challenge index

As for Rebel in the Sands, you can find book discussion here

[Rida of the Books]

Hello lovely book readers!
I'm new on this group, and I'd like to know if there are any challenges planned to start next month?

I'm still trying to figure stuff out (Kudos to the Mods for being on top of all the awesome things going on here), and from what I've read, its better to start out slow, with a few challenges, and then work my way up from there...?

Any help is appreciated :D

[Karin]

Is there a way we can sign up as a replacement player for Wobble?

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Karin wrote: "Is there a way we can sign up as a replacement player for Wobble?"

Sure can. Just fill out this form

:)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Rida of the Books wrote: "Hello lovely book readers!
I'm new on this group, and I'd like to know if there are any challenges planned to start next month?

I'm still trying to figure stuff out (Kudos to the Mods for being o..."

Hi Rida and welcome!
Thanks for the nice words.
If you read at least a book a week you can sign up to be a reserve for Wobble and when there is space we will let you know and assign you a team. Sign up form is here

You can also join an Around the World team Challenge here or, wait for our newsletter in a few days where we will post any new individual challenges for July :)

[Karin]

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Karin wrote: "Is there a way we can sign up as a replacement player for Wobble?"

Sure can. Just fill out this form

:)"

Thanks Karen - I filled the form out last week but wasn't sure if that was only for initial sign ups- good to hear I'm on the waiting list - sounds like a fun challenge

[Caly ☯ Crazy Book Lady]

"Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Karin wrote: "Is there a way we can sign up as a replacement player for Wobble?"

Sure can. Just fill out this form

:)"


Hi, I just filled out that form as well, since I am a member of Team Readers of the world Unite for the Around the world Team Challenge and we are almost done with the last leg. I joined late but I so enjoyed being part of a team challenge that I really want to get involved with others. I am having so much fun at NBRC! Thanks

[Jen]

This is probably the better place for my question than the intro board. I just joined and I'm fascinated by the WOBBLE challenge but obviously came too late to the party this year. Does this happen every summer? Or is there a winter WOBBLE?

[Kelly]

You can still sign up to be a replacement.

Wobble is a one time type of thing but we run various team challenges a few times a year.

[Jen]

I assume the way you sign up as a replacement is just by filling out the sign-up sheet?

[Kelly]

Yup.

[Jen]

Question for the moderators? (And as this would require a great deal of work, feel free to tell me to shove it.) I am wondering if, in the Reading Challenges index, it is possible to index "spell it out" challenges (you know, the sort that ask you to read books spelling the name "DRACULA" or the color "ORANGE" with the titles) separately from other types of challenges? It seems there are quite a few of these and they are definitely a particular subset of challenge that some of us may wish to look for or avoid, depending on what type of reading challenge lovers we are. Just a suggestion, since there are so many challenges on the index.

[Laura]

I'm having trouble finding how to post a picture to a thread. I know there are instructions somewhere. Can anyone help me?

[Sam]

I was wondering....
I see that new challenges are posted in the Newsletter each month. Are new challenges ever posted later in the month that aren't included in the newsletter?

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Sam wrote: "I was wondering....
I see that new challenges are posted in the Newsletter each month. Are new challenges ever posted later in the month that aren't included in the newsletter?"

Very rarely we have some challenge starting in the middle of the month. But if that happens, it's going to be mentioned in next newsletter.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Laura wrote: "I'm having trouble finding how to post a picture to a thread. I know there are instructions somewhere. Can anyone help me?"

I saw you found help, but in case anyone else still needs it, there is Goodreads 101 folder where you can find some neat GR instructions and/or practice your html stuff.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Jennifer wrote: "Question for the moderators? (And as this would require a great deal of work, feel free to tell me to shove it.) I am wondering if, in the Reading Challenges index, it is possible to index "spell i..."

Are you talking about this index?
We did try to separate challenge types in different folders so all similar challenges are together. for example challenges with sub-genre theme are here
It's still work in progress and sometimes it's different to do it since some challenges are mix of everything (tasks and spell-it-outs).
We are also working on revamping older challenges so we'll fit them properly as we go.

[Hege]

I have some questions:
What is a book sprint?
What book challenge are there in this group?
Do we have to read the book of the month?
What is WOBBLE?

[Rachel]

What is Wobble? I'm so curious about it, I know there are no sign-ups but these bingo board thingies look so fun!

[❀Tea❀]

Hi Hege and Rachel :)

Wobble is our current team challenge. We usually have couple of different ones during a year. This is first time we are doing wobble. Basically it consists of 6 different games played for few weeks. We have about a month and a half left (bingo is over this week) and if you are interested, we could always use backups. Some players had to drop out. Each game has it's own rules and they are posted as they come. You can find general rules and explanations here and if you want to sign up, go here (click on the image and you'll open sign-up form ☺)


OK, now to answer rest of Hege's questions:
- book sprint is like small read-a-thons (when you read as much as you can for certain period of time). Read-a-thons usually are over longer periods, for example few days, but we started those sprints, so people can do them on smaller time scales - couple of minutes/hours. Basically it works that you go to Sprint thread and post how long you are going to read. After that period people usually post what they were reading and how much have they read. That's optional.
- There are plenty of book challenges here. Monthly, seasonal, yearly, no-time-limit,... Most things going in this group are challenges. :) You can find list (I'm not promising that everything is in there!) here
- No, you don't have to read Book of the Month with us.

[Hege]

Thank you for answering :-D

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Hi Hege and Rachel :)

Wobble is our current team challenge. We usually have couple of different ones during a year. This is first time we are doing wobble. Basically it consists of 6 different gam..."