7% Challenge Player Update Threads: Doing a 2nd round

[Mary X]

Vicki was a huge help to me with getting the books rearranged when I had to remove some people. I basically just copy/pasted her format to submit the final categories.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Great job, Vicky!

[Vicky]

Thanks Teresa, I had fun rearranging it all. I swear I spend more time playing with challenges than I do actually reading! ;)

What does everyone think about doing a second round of the 7%? It wouldn't count for anything and it would be totally optional, but I thought it might give us something fun to do while we work on some mini-challenges.

[Mary X]

I thought about doing a 2nd one just for the heck of it too. Just to see if we could do it.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

I'm game for a second round, considering I'm still behind on my reading plan for the challenge, LOL. I started my plan when we were but a tiny little group and I wasn't sure how long it would take us to complete it. I've still got most of my books here from the library and have intentions of reading most of them anyway!

[Andrea]

We probably could do it again given how fast everybody finishes their books!! Thanks for all your hard work Mary and Vicky :)

[Mary X]

Ok so lets see if we can complete it again. I based my reading plan for the 7% challenge on what I wanted to read soon for other challenges.

I almost tossed my written list of Behind the Enemy lines books I made. Glad I kept it.

[Vicky]

I definitely think we can do it again, at this rate I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't make it three rounds. :)

I was also thinking that if anyone we had to drop from the first round wants to play along, I don't see any reason they can't join back in. Unless anyone feels strongly otherwise, but since it's just for fun now I don't see any harm in it.

[Riya]

I think that would be fun, but we could always go beyond that. Maybe the spell-it-out could be spelling PEWTER BLUE or something instead :) and instead of a moon on the cover, we could look for suns or swimming pools (it is summer)

[Mary X]

We won't get any credit for doing it a 2nd time so we can use any team members books.

I like the idea of doing a Pewter Blue spell out is a mini-challenge another time. Maybe that can be one of the August ones we submit.

[Mary X]

I'm going to bed now.

I'm so glad to have an actively chatting team now.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Sleep well, Mary! Oh that bunny is SO adorable.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "Ok so lets see if we can complete it again. I based my reading plan for the 7% challenge on what I wanted to read soon for other challenges.

I almost tossed my written list of Behind the Enemy ..."

I know, I'm so glad I made a Behind Enemy Lines "possible reads" list on my update post!

[Lisa Kay]

Brooke wrote: "Finished ~

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Oh, man! I bought that one on audio recently... I must get to it.

[Karsyn]

Lisa Kay wrote: "Brooke wrote: "Finished ~

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Oh, man! I bought that one on audio recently... I must get to it."


It was ok. Started off REALLY slow for me. I got it when it first came out, but decided to pick it up again and it got much better, maybe about 30% into it.

[Lisa Kay]

Ah. Good to know. Thanks, Brooke.

[Vicky]

Some Round 2 Info!

I'm keeping a spreadsheet with a list of books and categories they fit in so we can see easily see what categories we need to fill in, feel free to take a peek and let me know if I missed any categories a book would fit in!

Since this round is for fun, we're not going to be as immediate with updates. If we haven't updated in a few days, it's not because we've forgotten, just that we're taking it easy and it will be less shuffling if we wait until we're closer to 49 books and have a clearer picture of what we're working with. :)

[Vicky]

We finished again, yay! :) Once they open up submissions for bonus cupcakes, we'll have 5 more coming our way!

Category #1: Behind Enemy Lines

1. Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris // ShoSho, Atomic Tangerine, 4/16 [Holly, 6/6]
2. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness // Jex, Cadet Blue, 5/1 [Imke, 6/15]
3. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman // Lara, Forest Green, 5/13 [Brooke, 6/15]
4. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson // Sandy, Radical Red, 5/27 [Sarah, 6/15]
5. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman // Zanahoria (Taly), Electric Lime, 4/17 [Vicky, 6/15]
6. Heart of the Wolf by Terry Spear // Megan L., Tickle Me Pink, 5/31 [Mary, 6/19]
7. Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness // Carol, Blast off Bronze, 4/30 [Imke, 6/20]

Category #2: Color Ahead: Blast Off Bronze

1. Inferno by Dan Brown [Michael, 6/6]
2. Venom by Fiona Paul [Andrea, 6/10]
3. Pray for Silence: A Thriller by Linda Castillo [Brooke, 6/13]
4. The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig [Mary, 6/15]
5. Still Life With Murder by P.B. Ryan [Andrea, 6/15]
6. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman [Vicky, 6/16]
7. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway [Riya, 6/25]



1, 2, and 5 approved here.
4 approved here.

Category #5: Spell-it-Out

Set #1
NBRC TOWER TEAMS READING CHALLENGE

1. Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown // Brown [Andrea, 6/21]
2. Rise of a Hero (The Farsala Trilogy, #2) by Hilari Bell // Rise [Riya, 6/12]
3. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud // Claire [Barbara, 6/20]
4. Off the Grid by P.J. Tracy // Tracy [Brooke, 6/14]
5. Where She Went by Gayle Forman // Where [Teresa, 6/11]
6. The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon // Elizabeth [Vicky, 6/21]
7. Murder in the Marais (Aimee Leduc Investigations, #1) by Cara Black // Aimee [Mary, 6/25]

Set #2
NBRC TOWER TEAMS READING CHALLENGE

1. Carrie by Stephen King // Stephen [Nika, 6/13]
2. The Dawn Star by Catherine Asaro // Asaro[Mary, 6/15]
3. Invisibility by Andrea Cremer // Invisibility [Michael, 6/10]
4. And She Was by Alison Gaylin // Gaylin [Michael, 6/12]
5. Kill You Twice by Chelsea Cain // Chelsea [Brooke, 6/20]
6. Lost Homicidal Maniac by Jeff Strand // Lost [Brooke, 6/16]
7. The Gossip Ghouls: Zombies and Lipstick by Z // Gossip [Holly, 6/10]

Category #6: May Mini Challenge

Flowers on the Cover
1. Here to Stay by Catherine Anderson [Brooke, 6/17]
2. Perfect Timing by Catherine Anderson [Brooke, 6/18]
3. The Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig [Mary, 6/23]
4. This Duchess of Mine by Eloisa James [Vicky, 6/23]



4 approved here.

ANY ROSE
5. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner // Ratner [Barbara, 6/11]
6. Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein // Elissa [Mary, 6/12]
7. The Gate Thief by Orson Scott Card // Orson [Vicky, 6/25]

Category #7: Sevens

Set #1
7 Letter Authors
1. Hooked by Liz Fichera // Fichera [Andrea, 6/13]
2. Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard // Reynard [Nika, 6/15]
3. When You Were Here by Daisy Whitney // Whitney [Andrea, 6/21]
4. Heaven and Earth by Nora Roberts // Roberts [Brooke, 6/22]

7th in a Series
5. Murder Game by Christine Feehan // Ghost Walkers #7 [Mary, 6/9]

Published in July
6. Murder in a Mill Town by P.B. Ryan // July 6th 2004 [Andrea, 6/16]

7 Words
7. A Murder at Rosamund's Gate by Susanna Calkins // Title (5) + Author (2) [Andrea, 6/23]

Set #2
7 Words
1. The Night Gwen Stacy Died by Sarah Bruni // Title (5) + Author (2) [Michael, 6/19]
2. Murder Most Frothy (Coffeehouse Mystery, #4) by Cleo Coyle // Title (3) + Series (2) + Author (2) [Teresa, 6/15]
3. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim // Title (5) + Author (2) [Teresa, 6/24]

SEVEN UP

4. Master of the Abyss by Cherise Sinclair // Sinclair [Brooke, 6/25]
5. When the Duke Returns by Eloisa James // Eloisa [Vicky, 6/22]
6. The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan // Engagements [Michael, 6/9]
7. Persuasion by Jane Austen // Persuasion [Imke, 6/22]

[Karsyn]

WooHoo!! :)

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Cool! Glad my books helped out, too!

[Mary X]

Woop woop!

We have yet to use any of these cupcakes we have.

I saw that the bouncing cupcake thread for chunky books was open. How are we doing on that? Can we redeem some for our doorstopper books?

[Vicky]

We completed the series so we have 12 bouncing cupcakes to spend and we have more than 12 books we can claim, so we'll be able to get 12 bonus points!

I have to verify them with Countess Paige, but I want to wait for the page count/children's books/word count ruling from the mods so I don't give her too much work and then have things change. :)

[Mary X]

They still haven't decided on that?

[Vicky]

Not yet. :(

[Riya]

Wait- how do the cupcakes work?

[Vicky]

We get bouncing cupcakes () from the Spot the Differences puzzles that Captain Cupcake gives us here.

As a team we did all 12 puzzles in the latest series of Spot the Differences, so we have 12 . We can use these twelve cupcakes to cash in chunksters (450+ page books) for bonus points. For each chunkster we turn in we get an extra point added to our book total. In other words, with a , a chunkster counts as two books instead of one.

[Riya]

Thanks for the explanation- so to clarify, for the next 12 times we read a book over 450 pages we can cash in a bouncing cupcake and it will be worth 2 books? Because if so, that is AWESOME- pretty much all my books are that long, so I'll be happy if that gets rewarded!

[Vicky]

Not necessarily. We can cash in on any 450+ book we've read so far this challenge. As of the 15th we had already read 35, give or take a few that are iffy on the page count/word count. But there will probably more up for grabs throughout the challenge, so don't let that dissuade you from reading longer books! :)

[Riya]

Awesome; thanks so much for telling me all this!!

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

I know we don't get anything from it, but are we doing an informal 3rd round? I know how much Vicky enjoys tracking challenges, so I was wondering if she was going to go ahead and track another round, hehe!

[Vicky]

I'm more than willing to keep track as long as people want to keep going (I love doing anything that lets me play with a spreadsheet!). If people want to keep playing, we can keep going until the end of the challenge, 7/19, and see how many times we can "lap" the challenge!

[Sarah]

Finished and both on 6/26/13