NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II discussion
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Challenge Ideas for Aug
Hina, The way I made the 5W's...I don't want to leave it at just any contemporary. But we can change the theme, I just went with the two that seemed the most popular to me in contemporary romance. So will that work for you if we change the theme under Contemporary? Okay that's what I was asking. It's more specific to the question asked than the genre itself. That works too just a little harder.
Hina, are we thinking that each of us would take a different set of 5 connections? OR that each of us would do one of the 5 connection points :-DI didn't really get the 5Ws one.....I don't read that much straight up romance --- although some YA and HF ends up with that tag.
JoLene wrote: "I didn't really get the 5Ws one.....I don't read that much straight up romance --- although some YA and HF ends up with that tag. "I would imagine that the genres can be changed to the teams tastes - using mystery, thriller, historical fiction, etc so that there is a theme available that works for everyone. I think Hina's post was just examples of what could be done.
I created a similar challenge for a group that is currently on hold. Mine was more like a scavenger hunt type challenge and less restrictive than Hina's.
For example:
✾ Who is it about?
1. Shape-shifter
2. Angel or Demon
3. Vampires
4. Zombies
5. Twins
✾ What happened?
1. Someone gets married
2. Weather-related incident
3. Science Fiction
4. Political thriller
5. Cozy mystery
✾ When did it take place?
1. Ancient (Rome, Greece, Egypt)
2. Medieval (5th century – 15th century)
3. Victorian (1837 - 1901)
4. Contemporary (1900-present)
5. Futuristic
✾ Where did it take place?
1. America, Asia, Europe, etc
2. On an island
3. In space
4. In a make-believe kingdom
5. Outdoors
✾ Why did it happen?
1. Theft/Robbery
2. Lust
3. Love
4. Terrorists
5. Revenge
ETA: my version had 20 items per section but I chose the easiest ones to find given our limited time frame.
Instead of doing female authors, we could do male authors which would make it more difficult.
JoLene wrote: "Hina, are we thinking that each of us would take a different set of 5 connections? OR that each of us would do one of the 5 connection points :-DI didn't really get the 5Ws one.....I don't read ..."
JoLene, We will try to have like 10 options, so its not mandatory to do something, so if 5w's does not fit for you, you can choose from the other option.
Barbara ★ wrote: "JoLene wrote: "I didn't really get the 5Ws one.....I don't read that much straight up romance --- although some YA and HF ends up with that tag. "I would imagine that the genres can be changed to..."
Barbara, I didn't want to have that many choices, because it would make it too easy in my opinion to pick a book. I wanted something medium sized difficulty so it is worth doing the challenge.. Having to read another genre, and trying something new with each question, so the genre matters, I went with the theme that is usually more popular in that particular genre.
Ok, hadnt seen the 5 Ws idea before --- its cool, might have to steal it :-). I know I'm in the minority on the romance books, so you don't have to switch the genre.I think we need to figure out how we are dividing up the challenge. It seems that we would creat the 15 categories with 5 connections and then have to start slotting the books so that we cover every slot once???
Barbara, I guess I shouldn't read and write that early in the morning because I also meant to add in that we can make yours another option as well for if anybody who doesn't want to do 5Ws because yours isn't genre specific to each questions.
JoLene,
Thanks, I haven't either but I was looking for categories we can make to connect 5 and I remembered how we usually had 5 W's in grade school where everything started off with.
I think it will be harder to assign categories now, since we have other members who are not here as often but maybe decide they want to participate. And we also might have some categories more popular than others. So I think as long as a person doesn't repeat the same categories that we should be good. We could have 15 categories so everyone has something to pick from.
Hina wrote: "Barbara, I guess I shouldn't read and write that early in the morning because I also meant to add in that we can make yours another option as well for if anybody who doesn't want to do 5Ws becaus..."
That would be cool since we need to come up with 15 options anyway. Right?
ETA: besides I just threw those options together. anything can actually be used.
Barbara ★ wrote: "Hina wrote: "Barbara, I guess I shouldn't read and write that early in the morning because I also meant to add in that we can make yours another option as well for if anybody who doesn't want to ..."
It seems like we are leaning that way towards 15, With a lot more options means more choices for us.....
so lets start thinking about more ideas...
Hina, I don't know if you have a listing of the genres/sub-genres but here's a link if you need it. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/8...
Also, this is what each team member has read so far for this challenge:
BARBARA - chick lit, erotica, dystopian, fantasy, fiction, mystery, paranormal (all kinds), romance (various), steampunk, urban fantasy, YA
CARRIE - chick lit, fiction (realistic), inspirational, mystery, paranormal (werewolves), romance (various), YA
EVIL TWIN ONE - erotica, dystopian,mystery, paranormal (shifters),YA
HINA - chick lit, erotica, romance (all kinds), YA
JOLENE - chick lit, classics, fantasy, fiction (historical), mystery, romance (regency), YA
TILDHE - paranormal (vampires) and romance (regency)
VALERIE - chick lit, dystopian, fiction (realistic/historical), mystery, YA
All the genres seem to be hit so it should be relatively easy to select options.
I don't necessarily think we have to have 15 options and complete all of them like the 7% solution. I think it would work better (especially since we basically all read the same stuff) to have 10 options and let everyone pick whichever one they want to complete. As long as we hit the 75 book mark, it shouldn't be an issue.
Here are a few suggestions:1. Along with the 5 different continent option, we could also pick a continent and read 5 books from different countries.
2. We could spell out MAUVELOUS (like we did tower team challenge).
3. Using your LEO option, we could use a few of these tasks from a challenge I created but isn't posted anywhere yet. (view spoiler)
4. books written by male authors
5. We could choose 5 of the other tower teams (moonstone, lime, etc) and read a rainbow of covers.
I like the Mauvelous one and the rainbow of covers as long as it's not electric lime again ;-)Some other ideas:
1) Pick a genre and read 5 sub-genres for it (using Barbara's reference --- which is very cool by the way!)
2) Pick a decade (could combine with the male authors)
So, is the idea that we have these say 10-15 Connect-5 ideas and that we each read and slot as we want. We don't as a team have to try to "knock-off" a category.
As an example, spelling out Mauvelous, 2 people could read a book with an author with a last name of M??
That seems to be a bit too easy, but I also don't want to make it difficult. And I know that some folks really don't have much leeway on what they read given other challenges. (I guess I'm not doing Summer SRC because I never got around to reviewing all the tasks ;-( )
JoLene wrote "So, is the idea that we have these say 10-15 Connect-5 ideas and that we each read and slot as we want. We don't as a team have to try to "knock-off" a category." I don't know what Hina wants but I would think it's more time consuming (for her since she does the consolidating) if it's a team thing.
How about if we have wild cards? By this I mean if we read books that don't fit whichever option we are working on, those books would be free-for-all for any member who needs a book to complete their commit 5.
In other words, if I'm working on the 5 continents and can't get the last one but someone else can, I could use their book to complete my option. This would help with those members who don't read enough to complete an option on their own.
We'd have to make an august challenge folder and everyone should reserve two posts - one to post the books that work for their options and one for books that don't work. These books would be a free-for-all which could be pilfered by whoever needs it.
Therefore it would be quick and easy for everyone to see everyone else's progress and see what books are available if help is needed. Unfortunately, I think Hina would have to keep track of what is used so it's not duplicated.
JoLene, for the rainbow of colors one, I was suggesting we pick 5 colors and read books to make a rainbow. It wouldn't be any specific team, just whichever works for you. In other words, you pick the 5 colors you want to read.
JoLene wrote: "That seems to be a bit too easy, but I also don't want to make it difficult. And I know that some folks really don't have much leeway on what they read given other challenges. (I guess I'm not doing Summer SRC because I never got around to reviewing all the tasks ;-( )"I don't think the whole thing has to be hard. A good mix of easy and hard categories should be sufficient. After all 7% wasn't hard. Actually most of those options were pretty easy except the BOM.
It seems that only the three of us are actually participating in this conversation. Maybe we need to send out a group message to let everyone know about the August challenge and get some feedback. (Maybe after the 10 options are decided on.)JoLene and Hina, are either of you friends with all team members?
Yes, I can send out a message. I can also do the consolidation as Hina does the Sunday Updates and I was supposed to manage the challenges.I guess that I wasn't getting if people were "taking" one of the options to completion. If that is the case, then do each of us need to look at what we are planning to read and then try to do a "connect 5" theme. For the slower readers, we are probably only going to be able to do one category (or maybe 2).
@barbara, for the rainbow, I thought you were taking the idea that I suggested (roy g biv) and tying to the tower teams by using the colors of existing teams. :-)
OK -- I am going to start consolidating all of the suggestions into one post and see where we are.....it might take me about 30 min or so..
I think we have several ideas that I have tried to consolidate into Option 1. (There will also be an option 2)The Connect-5 August Challenge for Team Mauvelous
Team Goal: 75 books
Since we all have different reading speeds, each person will chose their level of participation. We have 15 options of connect 5. Each person can only do a category once, but some categories may be duplicated by different team members and some may not be done at all.
As a team, our goal is to finish 8 of the 15. The captains will monitor the reading lists to see if we can jointly do some of the categories.
Category 1: Summer Travel
1) Around the world Read 5 books, each set in a different continent (Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, South America)
2) Long Vacation: Read 5 books that are set in 5 different countries of the same continent.
3) Friendly Visit: Read 5 books that are set in or where the author is from places where our team is from:
JoLene is from California.
ETO is from Pennsylvania.
Hina is from Illinois.
Jingles - need to find out.
Valerie is from Texas.
Barbara is from New Jersey.
Carrie is from Canada??
Thilde is from Denmark.
Category 2: Team Spirit
4) Go Team Mauvelous: Read 5 books using the Spell it out rules using first word of title, authors first or last name or series title
5) Reading the Rainbow: Read 5 books that have covers that are the colors of teams participating in Tower Team II
Category 3: Celebrating August
6) Women's Equality Day. Read 5 books by woman authors published published since 1999.
7) Friendship Day. Read 5 books that a friend has rated a 4 or 5. [possibly move up to team spirit and use just team members shelves]
8)National Aviation Day. Read 5 books that either have something flying on the cover or that a plane flight is part of the plot.
9) Leo the lion: Read a 5 books that celebrate the zodiac sign of Leo. Options: Strong male lead, Lion or Fire on the cover, ???
Category 5: Celebrating Summer
9) Beach reads: Read 5 books from the listopia: Best Beach Reads 2013
10) Summer Settings: Read a 5 books that take place during the summer season (at least 50% of the action should be in the summer)
11) Summer Sites: Read 5 books that have a summer scene on the cover (beach, summer activity)
Category 6: We love books!!
12) Genre Mania: Pick a favorite genre and read 5 books each with a different sub-genre books.
13) Catching up on "must reads": Pick a listopia list with "must read" in the title and read 5 books from that list.
14) Connect 5 books: You may use a word from title or an authors first or last name and create a chain of 5 books.
15) Connect 5 bookshelves: Connect 5 books through bookshelves/genres on the book's main page. Example: Read The Diviners, and then your 2nd book would need to have a genre of fantasy, horror, young adult, mystery, historical fiction. At least 10 people need to shelve the book as something for it to be used.
Option 2: Based on the 5w's (Hina's concept with Barbara's simplification.Tell me a Story for Team Mauvelous
Team Goal: 75 books
Since we all have different reading speeds, each person will chose their level of participation. Each team member will build their own story by answering the 5 W's: who, what, where, when and why. An example will be shown at the end. Each book read will fit into one of the options for answering the 5 Ws. Each option can used up to 3 times.
Who is it about?
* A teenage girl
* A vampire, shifter or fairy
* A person who has magical abilities or controls magical creatures (dragons, unicorns)
* A wise older family member (grandparents, aunts)
* A pilot
What happens (genre)
* Something scary (horror)
* Something historical (historical fiction)
* Something romantic (romance)
* Something mysterious (mystery)
* Something magical (fanstasy)
When does it happen:
* In multiple time periods (time travel, dual stories)
* Ancient (Rome, Greece, Egypt)
* Medieval (5th century – 15th century)
* Victorian (1837 - 1901)
* Contemporary (1900-present)
* Futuristic
* Alternate time-line (in a fantasy world)
Where does it take place?
* At a summer vacation spot
* In a fantasy world
* In a small town
* In a castle
* In a real country
Why did it happen?
* jealousy
* greed
* love
* fate
* war
* friendship
Our goal is to build stories. We will put together some stories in groups of 5 to answer the 5 questions.
Example:
A person with magical abilities (Sookie) Dead as a Doornail
has something historical Letters from Skye: A Novel
that happens during medieval times Four Sisters, All Queens
at a castle A Storm of Swords
because of war A Very Long Engagement
(NOTE: this option is almost like mad-libs where we would have some funny combinations. We can add more if we want -- I know that Barbara had a bigger version of this ---- hope you guys are OK with the modifications)
@Hina & Barbara --- since we've been batting around the ideas mostly --- any thoughts on the 2 options I laid out.I am leaning toward option 2 because I think that it's more flexible, especially if we have more options under each question.
I like option 1 because it has the most options and should be easier for those of us not very creative (me in particular).
JoLene, Option 2 is not something we ever suggested should be done alone. That is not an option, since it is left one choice for everyone.
Option 1 is something we were planning but I have a lot of questions/issues with it.
1. I don't think we need categories for them. My own personal goal is to read all 15 during the month of August. I think we should leave it as that a person can't repeat the same option. SO if I do Around the world option, I can't repeat that option, but others can do the same thing.
Each person can only do a category once, but some categories may be duplicated by different team members and some may not be done at all.
I don't know if you mean we can only choose 1 option out of the category. I think we should take it out.
2. Personally, I would like to see Barbara and my suggestion on 5W both as options. I am not particularly happy with seeing 6 categories to work with because instead of having 15 different themes, we now have 6 and I would like more variation and some of them sound too close to being repetitive, like summer travel. But I see your point of view about having something easy like reading all 5 books from one continent. People who do not read a lot will only be reading in certain genre so I can see where it will help. But I would also like to see some harder options, for people like me who do not want to do too many easy challenge. Reading from 1 continent will only take me a couple of days to do. So its kind of pointless for me and not even a challenge.
So I suggest, having 5 easy challenge, 5 medium and 5 hard. There is enough around that people could pick and choose from all three levels as they want. Also it will provide us with more options to read from. I personally do not want to read 3 options for the summer reads. I think one option is enough. I want to see more variety with 15 options.
So here is what I am proposing. ....
Level 1:1. Long Vacation: Read 5 books that are set in 5 different countries of the same continent.
2. Go Team Mauvelous: Read 5 books using the Spell it out rules using first word of title, authors first or last name or series title.
3. Women's Equality Day: Read 5 books by woman authors published published since 1999.
4. Connect 5 books: You may use a word from title or an authors first or last name and create a chain of 5 books.
5. Summer Settings: Read a 5 books that take place during the summer season (at least 50% of the action should be in the summer)
Level II
1. Friendly Visit: Read 5 books that are set in or where the author is from places where our team is from:
JoLene is from California.
ETO is from Pennsylvania.
Hina is from Illinois.
Jingles - need to find out.
Valerie is from Texas.
Barbara is from New Jersey.
Carrie is from Canada??
Thilde is from Denmark.
2. Friendship Day: Read 5 books that a friend has rated a 4 or 5. [possibly move up to team spirit and use just team members shelves]
3. Reading the Rainbow: Read 5 books that have covers that are the colors of teams participating in Tower Team II.
4.
5. Tell me a Story: Refer to Message 73 as an example.
✾ Who is it about?
1. Shape-shifter
2. Angel or Demon
3. Vampires
4. Zombies
5. Twins
✾ What happened?
1. Someone gets married
2. Weather-related incident
3. Science Fiction
4. Political thriller
5. Cozy mystery
✾ When did it take place?
1. Ancient (Rome, Greece, Egypt)
2. Medieval (5th century – 15th century)
3. Victorian (1837 - 1901)
4. Contemporary (1900-present)
5. Futuristic
✾ Where did it take place?
1. America, Asia, Europe, etc
2. On an island
3. In space
4. In a make-believe kingdom
5. Outdoors
✾ Why did it happen?
1. Theft/Robbery
2. Lust
3. Love
4. Terrorists
5. Revenge
Level III
1. Around the world: Read 5 books, each set in a different continent (Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, South America)
2. Read the 5 W's: Connect books: (I was thinking of this as a reading challenge or some sort for something else but I think it can fit here)
A. What happened?
Contemporary Romance - Pick a book that has friends to lovers theme OR Second Chance theme.
Romantic Suspense - Pick a book that has one of the character as an officer of the law (police officer, FBI agent) OR the heroine is on the run/hiding.
B. When did it take place?
Historical Romance - Pick a book that has a wallflower heroine and a rogue hero OR forced marriage/marriage of convenience.
Time Travel Romance - Pick a book that has a character going back in time OR a character time travels to the present.
C. Where did it take place?
Fantasy Romance - Pick a book that takes place in a completely made up fantasy world that is not Earth OR pick a books that has a character(s) will save a city/Kingdom from the villain/monster/socially unexpected policies.
Science Fiction - Pick a book with aliens OR pick a book that is set in the future on Earth.
D. Who is it about?
Paranormal Romance - Pick a book where the character is a vampire or shape shifter OR pick a book where there is magic, witches or ghost involved.
Multicultural Romance - Pick a book where there is an interracial couple OR pick a book where the hero/heroine overcomes adversity.
E. Why did it happen?
Erotic Romance - Read a book that is involved in Dom/sub relationship and/or there is a BDSM theme OR a book that has a menage scene. (Alternative, since this genre is so controversial, the third option is to choose a book in a genre that you rarely read or something new to you, but it couldn't be one of the ones you used earlier in this theme)
Inspiration Romance - Pick a book that falls into the category of inspirational romance, christian themed romance OR pick a book that is categorized as a sweet "clean" romance.
JoLene,I want to see a couple more harder categories. Because what I have in level 1 are too easy for me personally, since I read fast and I want to challenge myself. I know not every one feels that way but I like to stay interested in a challenge. I think we should have a good mixture of everything to appeal to all the levels of readers and especially if they want to try something else.
I would suggest that we have themes that are far and wide, your categories makes us limit to the category's theme rather than having 15 different ones, we have 6 different ones. Some of them I think belong there, so I used it in my example that people would like to do.
I really don't want to make it super hard but I would like a challenge from it as well, I don't want any and all books to fit the challenge for me since I will be reading a lot which means I wouldn't have to really curtain my original reading to fill in a category. But I would like for me to do so, because that is the point of doing a challenge.
But if everyone likes your original challenge, its fine by me as long as majority rules.
Also, I will be done with school in August, so I can do track this challenge. I know you will be working more next month with both of your job so I can take over. Sunday updates are not as bad at all, since I have been keeping track of us every week, it is even easier since I don't have to go that far back to do my checks. It takes me 20 mins at the most to be done with it.
I'm here, ladies. I'm just only usually here during the work week, as I have no computer at home.I do check in on my iphone during the weekend from time to time, just to stay on top of things, but I hardly ever post anything from it because it is not very user friendly for that purpose.
I am in the US - Arkansas.
I'll be good with whatever you all put together, as long as we have help should we need it, in finding books to fit the more difficult stuff.
Thanks for all the feedback Hina --- I was only putting them into categories because there seemed to be some logical groupings to the suggestions we were getting. I was taking many of the suggestions from team members. For example, someone suggested the all countries in one continent. Jingles had suggested the summer themes one. The intent was that people could only do each option once, not category -- my bad. I realized that you wanted the 5 Ws in the challenge, as I was trying to honor many of the other suggestions, it seemed like it could stand on it's own and be an interesting challenge. (And seemed like it would be a bit more flexible)
If you look at the other teams challenges, they are much simpler (which is one reason that I tried to do the categories --- to make it seem a bit simpler). I think it's fine to organize them around Easy, Medium and Hard.
Again, I was trying to help by putting things all the items into one post so that we can get some feedback from some of the other team members. I am sorry that you did not feel it was useful.
JoLene, I am sorry if my comment made it seem like it was not useful. It was helpful that you put it together, but it also made me realize that some of the categories are a little redundant and easy for me. I don't have a problem with doing one summer option, but having three is a bit much for me, especially if we can have something else for those slots. I want to do as many as I can for my own personal challenge and I would like to see a variety of things we can come up with.
I don't want to necessarily organize them in easy, medium, hard. I was just trying to show that having 5 in each would be better since every body get what they want. There are simpler categories and some more difficult ones for people like me who want a bit more challenge out of it. I think since we have 15, we are able to do that.
We could just leave it this way:1. Long Vacation: Read 5 books that are set in 5 different countries of the same continent.
2. Go Team Mauvelous: Read 5 books using the Spell it out rules using first word of title, authors first or last name or series title.
3. Women's Equality Day: Read 5 books by woman authors published published since 1999.
4. Connect 5 books: You may use a word from title or an authors first or last name and create a chain of 5 books.
5. Summer Settings: Read a 5 books that take place during the summer season (at least 50% of the action should be in the summer)
6. Friendly Visit: Read 5 books that are set in or where the author is from places where our team is from:
JoLene is from California.
ETO is from Pennsylvania.
Hina is from Illinois.
Jingles is from Arkansas.
Valerie is from Texas.
Barbara is from New Jersey.
Carrie is from Canada??
Thilde is from Denmark.
7. Friendship Day: Read 5 books that a friend has rated a 4 or 5. [possibly move up to team spirit and use just team members shelves]
8. Reading the Rainbow: Read 5 books that have covers that are the colors of teams participating in Tower Team II.
9. Tell me a Story:
✾ Who is it about?
1. Shape-shifter
2. Angel or Demon
3. Vampires
4. Zombies
5. Twins
✾ What happened?
1. Someone gets married
2. Weather-related incident
3. Science Fiction
4. Political thriller
5. Cozy mystery
✾ When did it take place?
1. Ancient (Rome, Greece, Egypt)
2. Medieval (5th century – 15th century)
3. Victorian (1837 - 1901)
4. Contemporary (1900-present)
5. Futuristic
✾ Where did it take place?
1. America, Asia, Europe, etc
2. On an island
3. In space
4. In a make-believe kingdom
5. Outdoors
✾ Why did it happen?
1. Theft/Robbery
2. Lust
3. Love
4. Terrorists
5. Revenge
10. Around the world: Read 5 books, each set in a different continent (Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, South America)
11. Read the 5 W's: Connect books: (I was thinking of this as a reading challenge or some sort for something else but I think it can fit here)
A. What happened?
Contemporary Romance - Pick a book that has friends to lovers theme OR Second Chance theme.
Romantic Suspense - Pick a book that has one of the character as an officer of the law (police officer, FBI agent) OR the heroine is on the run/hiding.
B. When did it take place?
Historical Romance - Pick a book that has a wallflower heroine and a rogue hero OR forced marriage/marriage of convenience.
Time Travel Romance - Pick a book that has a character going back in time OR a character time travels to the present.
C. Where did it take place?
Fantasy Romance - Pick a book that takes place in a completely made up fantasy world that is not Earth OR pick a books that has a character(s) will save a city/Kingdom from the villain/monster/socially unexpected policies.
Science Fiction - Pick a book with aliens OR pick a book that is set in the future on Earth.
D. Who is it about?
Paranormal Romance - Pick a book where the character is a vampire or shape shifter OR pick a book where there is magic, witches or ghost involved.
Multicultural Romance - Pick a book where there is an interracial couple OR pick a book where the hero/heroine overcomes adversity.
E. Why did it happen?
Erotic Romance - Read a book that is involved in Dom/sub relationship and/or there is a BDSM theme OR a book that has a menage scene. (Alternative, since this genre is so controversial, the third option is to choose a book in a genre that you rarely read or something new to you, but it couldn't be one of the ones you used earlier in this theme)
Inspiration Romance - Pick a book that falls into the category of inspirational romance, christian themed romance OR pick a book that is categorized as a sweet "clean" romance.
9 and 11 are really different versions of the same 5Ws so it seems you can combine those and just make 1 version that has 5 options for each choice --- which brings the total back up to 15.
The only reason I left it separate is because not everyone would want to do it, and that way we can get more options in as well. 9 offers a lot of broader options than what 11 does. I have several more I thought of over the weekend, that I also want to throw out there....if anyone is interested. I will be posting them soon along with the ones I left out from your original option 1, so we can vote on them or something. Give me like 30 mins.
4 more categories left to fulfill?...and these are the following suggestions:1. Genre Mania: Pick a favorite genre and read 5 books each with a different sub-genre books.
2. Catching up on "must reads": Pick a listopia list with "must read" in the title and read 5 books from that list.
3. Connect 5 bookshelves: Connect 5 books through bookshelves/genres on the book's main page. Example: Read The Diviners, and then your 2nd book would need to have a genre of fantasy, horror, young adult, mystery, historical fiction. At least 10 people need to shelve the book as something for it to be used.
4. National Aviation Day: Read 5 books that either have something flying on the cover or that a plane flight is part of the plot.
5. Leo the lion: Read a 5 books that celebrate the zodiac sign of Leo. Options: Strong male lead, Lion or Fire on the cover, ???
I thought of some more categories over the weekend that I want to throw out there as well:
6. "I spy with my little eye...
a. Jewelry on the cover.
b. Dress on the cover.
c. Sunglasses on the cover.
d. male and female on the cover.
e. naked chest on the cover.
f. Hat on the cover.
g. or something to this effect.
7. Stop Hitting Yourself: Read 5 books that have a violent tendencies or weapons/violence in the title, authors, series and/or book covers with a weapon. The story could be particularly involved in a lot of violence/fighting to survive.
Ex.
1. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin.
2. Echoes at Dawn by Maya Banks. Guns on the cover
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.fights/survival in story
4. Forged in Fire by Trish McCallan. Gun on cover
5. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.
Another example could be: The Killer Angels, it sounds violent, the story doesn't have to be.
8. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: Read 5 of your favorite authors and/or books.
I like the idea of easy/medium/hard since it's summer and a lot of people vacation and won't be able to devote huge amounts of time to reading.Level I - I like all of these options.
Level II - I like 1, 2, 3. There is no 4 as of yet. For 5, why don't we take out all the options and just leave in who, what, why, when and where and let the team member decide on their own story. I find this option hard enough without restrictions. This option also doesn't really fit in with the rest, so we could even take it out completely. (It was just a suggestion and I won't be upset if we don't use it.)
Level III - I like both of these options
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We are missing 4 options.
I like JoLene's Category 6: We Love Books! That's 3 options (12, 13, 15). I also like #9 (leo). Leo characteristics: Fire, Ruling Planet = the Sun, the lion. Key Characteristics: imposing, inflexible, motivated, ambitious, loyal, physical, charitable and majestic. We could use books about a lion (or any cat) shifter, on the cover: lion, fire or sun, with a main character who is king, strong male lead, etc.
We can make the options easier or harder depending on where they are needed.
Also August 4th is Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival. We could read books with water or a boat on the cover or books with a dragon in the story, in the title or on the cover.
I would like to see at least 1-2 more of harder options and 2 could be in the range of easy/medium whichever they want it as. Message 87 has all the options that we have not used yet. Let me know if I am missing anyone's suggestions.
jingles wrote: "I'm here, ladies. I'm just only usually here during the work week, as I have no computer at home.I do check in on my iphone during the weekend from time to time, just to stay on top of things, b..."
Jingles,
Have you tried putting in comments recently with the Goodreads app? It has gotten a lot friendlier. I even started doing it a couple of times. As long as its not a lot to write down, I don't have a lot of problems with it. I just don't like to type that long on my phone.
I don't like #9 as a story. If you want to create a story using titles, you need broad options like who, what, when, why and where not specifics as that makes it way too difficult. from post #87 I like (in order) 3, 2, 6, 7, 1, 5
Barbara ★ wrote: "I don't like #9 as a story. If you want to create a story using titles, you need broad options like who, what, when, why and where not specifics as that makes it way too difficult. from post #87 ..."
Okay...I was leaning towards leaving them open, and the participants can fill them in. Who? What? When? Where? etc etc. I just copied your original post to put there. So that makes it broad enough right?
I liked JoLene's theme about making a story that she has,
Our goal is to build stories. We will put together some stories in groups of 5 to answer the 5 questions.
Example:
A person with magical abilities (Sookie) Dead as a Doornail
has something historical Letters from Skye: A Novel
that happens during medieval times Four Sisters, All Queens
at a castle A Storm of Swords
because of war A Very Long Engagement
Barbara ★ wrote: "I don't like #9 as a story. If you want to create a story using titles, you need broad options like who, what, when, why and where not specifics as that makes it way too difficult. from post #87 ..."
I liked how you put it in order of likeness. 3,2,6 and 7 are in my top 5 as well.
Connect 5Duration: 8/1/13 - 8/31/13
The goal of this challenge as a team to read 75 books in the Month of August. The goal is to read 5 books for a category and connect them with a common theme found in the category. You are allowed to do as many categories you feel comfortable doing.
The rules are simple:
- Book must be 160+
- All the categories must have 5 books each to be considered completed. If you are unable to complete it on your own, or would like to collaborate with another member of the team to get the total of five, it is okay as long as you let us know, so we can count it towards completion. You can decide ahead of time or post it in the challenge thread later to get a partner.
- There is no minimum or maximum number of categories to do.
- Please read each categories carefully, some are more specific than others.
- Please create 1 post to keep track which you edit. It can help you and me keep track and post new updates as you finish your books so I can update the spreadsheet more regularly. This will also help when you are collaborating on a challenge.
- You cannot repeat the same category if you have already completed it once.
- You can let another "borrow" your book as long as you do not use it anywhere else, meaning all books should only be used once.
Categories:
1. Long Vacation: Read 5 books that are set in 5 different countries of the same continent.
2. Go Team Mauvelous: Read 5 books using the Spell it out rules using first word of title, authors first or last name or series title.
3. Women's Equality Day: Read 5 books by woman authors published published since 1999.
4. Connect 5 books: You may use a word from title or an authors first or last name and create a chain of 5 books.
5. Summer Settings: Read a 5 books that take place during the summer season (at least 50% of the action should be in the summer)
6. Connect 5 bookshelves: Connect 5 books through bookshelves/genres on the book's main page. Example: Read The Diviners, and then your 2nd book would need to have a genre of fantasy, horror, young adult, mystery, historical fiction. At least 10 people need to shelve the book as something for it to be used.
7. "Must Read" Mania: Pick a listopia list with "must read" in the title and read 5 books from that list.
8. Friendly Visit: Read 5 books that are set in or where the author is from places where our team is from:
JoLene is from California.
ETO is from Pennsylvania.
Hina is from Illinois.
Jingles is from Arkansas.
Valerie is from Texas.
Barbara is from New Jersey.
Carrie is from Canada??
Thilde is from Denmark.
9. Friendship Day: Read 5 books that a friend has rated a 4 or 5. [possibly move up to team spirit and use just team members shelves]
10. "I spy with my little eye:
a. Jewelry on the cover.
b. Dress on the cover.
c. Sunglasses on the cover.
d. male and female on the cover.
e. naked chest on the cover.
f. Hat on the cover.
g. Tattoo.
11. Stop Hitting Yourself: Read 5 books that have a violent tendencies or weapons/violence in the title, authors, series and/or book covers with a weapon. The story could be particularly involved in a lot of violence/fighting to survive. Example in Message 87.
12. War of the Tower Teams: Read 5 different book covers that are the colors of participating Tower Teams II. (The cover cannot be Mauve.)
13. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: Read 5 of your favorite authors and/or books that you have been waiting anxiously to read.
14. Around the world: Read 5 books, each set in a different continent (Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, South America)
15. Read the 5 W's: Connect books: (I was thinking of this as a reading challenge or some sort for something else but I think it can fit here)
A. What happened?
Contemporary Romance - Pick a book that has friends to lovers theme OR Second Chance theme.
Romantic Suspense - Pick a book that has one of the character as an officer of the law (police officer, FBI agent) OR the heroine is on the run/hiding.
B. When did it take place?
Historical Romance - Pick a book that has a wallflower heroine and a rogue hero OR forced marriage/marriage of convenience.
Time Travel Romance - Pick a book that has a character going back in time OR a character time travels to the present.
C. Where did it take place?
Fantasy Romance - Pick a book that takes place in a completely made up fantasy world that is not Earth OR pick a books that has a character(s) will save a city/Kingdom from the villain/monster/socially unexpected policies.
Science Fiction - Pick a book with aliens OR pick a book that is set in the future on Earth.
D. Who is it about?
Paranormal Romance - Pick a book where the character is a vampire or shape shifter OR pick a book where there is magic, witches or ghost involved.
Multicultural Romance - Pick a book where there is an interracial couple OR pick a book where the hero/heroine overcomes adversity.
E. Why did it happen?
Erotic Romance - Read a book that is involved in Dom/sub relationship and/or there is a BDSM theme OR a book that has a menage scene. (Alternative, since this genre is so controversial, the third option is to choose a book in a genre that you rarely read or something new to you, but it couldn't be one of the ones you used earlier in this theme)
Inspiration Romance - Pick a book that falls into the category of inspirational romance, christian themed romance OR pick a book that is categorized as a sweet "clean" romance.
What does everyone think? But just to fine tune this:
For 10, we can change the objects to look for on the cover, I went with a few things, people. If someone wants to see some type of places, we can take something out or use it in the last option. I was trying to have 7 total so we can choose 5.
For 12, reading the rainbow: can we only read books that part of the rainbow and correspond to a team color or just any other team color like Behind the Enemy Line from 7%?
If no one has a problem with this, I will submit it as our August challenge.
I don't think that tell me a story really works in with the rest if you don't have something under the question words. I had taken Barbara's idea and made it a bit more general....I would suggest that we take that one out and put in the Leo one that Barbara was suggesting. I will send out msg to the team members to check out the thread 94 for feedback when I get back from my dr appt (or maybe while waiting for it :-D
JoLene, I think Barbara wanted to leave it open so she has more flexibility in creating her story. Even more general then what you have. But essentially creating a story out of the title like you did for the example. But I will leave it up to you guys, if you guys want to throw it out.
Also,
According to how she rated, Barbara has Genre Mania before Leo. So we can vote on it. But I like Genre Mania over Leo. (My vote)
1. Genre Mania: Pick a favorite genre and read 5 books each with a different sub-genre books.
2. Leo the lion: Read a 5 books that celebrate the zodiac sign of Leo. Options: Strong male lead, Lion or Fire on the cover, ???
I thought genre mania was on the list of 15 already
JoLene wrote: "I thought genre mania was on the list of 15 already"I don't see it, but I have been staring at the computer screen all day so I might just not notice. I don't think its there. Let me know which number and then I will just add Leo in.
Ok, I was reading too fast --- it was in the list vote on, not the final list on 94. My problem with 9 now is that it is just read 5 books, but if the mods let that slide, it's fine.If we are voting on what to add, I my votes would be 8, 3, 1, 2. I think 5 books about aviation a would be too much.
@Hina, I want to direct the other members to post 94. Can you write up the instructions so they know how it works at the top. I think we are saying people should try to complete groups of 5 on their own, but if they read stuff that doesn't fit, then you would slot like in the 7 % solution. Barbara's suggestion of each of us having 2 threads --- or if you just want to have us post 1 book at a time.
NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II
Books mentioned in this topic
Forged in Fire (other topics)A Storm of Swords (other topics)
Echoes at Dawn (other topics)
The Killer Angels (other topics)
The Knife of Never Letting Go (other topics)
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You are right, according to my calculation, my goal 350/12 = I should be reading about 30 books in a month. So yes I think it will work out to reach the goals. That is one of the reason I am not worried about reading 75, I mean if you just look at how much we read in the month of June and for the 7% challenge, I mean there were enough books to repeat the challenge one more time.
Barbara,
The way I made the 5W's...I don't want to leave it at just any contemporary. But we can change the theme, I just went with the two that seemed the most popular to me in contemporary romance. So will that work for you if we change the theme under Contemporary?