NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II discussion
Magenta Mix-Up
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June-July 7% Challenge Solution or 49 in 49
Amy J. wrote: "I finished And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
It works for Blue.
It would work for an A or a M in the spell it out challenges."
It also works for "Behind Enemy Lines": Jessica Qua from Leather Black Jacket also read it.
I finished
by Dan Brown.Works for:
1. Behind Enemy Lines (Steven from Mango Tango read it)
3. Color Behind: Bronze
5. Spell-it-out: I in Reading (Inferno), B in NBRC (Brown), D in REading (Dan)
6. Set in Florence, Venice and Istanbul, all places I'd consider favourite holiday destinations.
7. Inferno has seven letters.
Donna wrote: "Sorry, behind in posting. I finished . It works for:3. Color Behind - Bronze (I think)
5. Spell it Out - N E R N O
6. R-a-T Item - Venice & Florence
7. Seven - Infern..."
Works for behind enemy lines: Steven from Mango Tango read it (I also "stole" it from there ;)
Team Update 06/15/13:Total Read: 27/49
1. Behind Enemy Lines
2. Color Ahead - Blue
3. Color Behind - Bronze
5. Spell It Out - N B C T E M N (First 7 complete)
2nd Seven Letters Used: R E G
#6 R-a-T Item
#7 Seven
Great job Magenta!
Thanks for that, I was wondering what categories need attention so I can pick something from them! Did two people read Kiss of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon and I just missed that, or is it not meant to be there twice? And two people read Inferno so we can get another book in category #1 I think? :)
Jess - You are right on both counts. Let me check and get back to you.The 4th category is BOM/Buddy Reads which we can skip and double up on another category. Right now, it's looking to be Category #5.
What would really help us now:
1. Read more Bronze books for the Color Behind category. If you have any doubts on the color, please let me know. I'll co-ordinate with the mods.
2. Category #6 seems to be lagging behind with 1 book. For category #6, we can either:
Read a book with Moon on cover
Read a book with Green Color on Cover
Read a book with Flowers on Cover
Read a book with any monument on Cover
Read a book set in Favorite Holiday Destination
Read a book that can spell out ANY ROSE
Honestly, we are doing great! We can fit books to most categories except for #1 & #3. Bronze is not a easy book cover color to find.
And a big THANK YOU to all of you for posting your books in this thread and making the tracking easier for us.
Finished
by Iain M. BanksWorks for
#2: blue, perhaps? It looks more blue in person than it does in the little picture there.
#5: "I" in Reading (Iain), "B" in NBRC (Banks)
#7: "P" in Up (Player), 7 words in title/author (if the M. counts as a word - if not, 7 words in title/series/author) (The Player of Games, Culture, Iain Banks) or (The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks)
I've found a few books I own with flowers/moon on the cover so I'll prioritise them! :)
Jess, I think it'll work for Blue. I've asked for confirmation jic. If the book works, then we are done with category #2 too. Good job!And
is approved for Bronze. I *may* shift it to that category.
Fairlee finished
by Sarah Graves Fits:
#5 - T, D, S, G
#6 - S in Rose
#7 - S in Seven Up
^ Looks good to me, Allison!Finished
by Andrew MatthewsWorks for
#5: "S" in Teams (Shadow), "A" in Teams, Reading, Challenge (Andrew), "M" in Teams (Matthews)
#6: Flowers on the cover - a bit hard to see and confirm on this half-sized thumbnail, but there are two roses and a wide border of leaves and flowers that almost blend in with the background. Otherwise, "A" in Any (Andrew), "S" in Rose (Shadow)
#7: "S" in Seven (Shadow)
Edit: Trying to find a bronze book on my shelves, do you guys think these ones are bronze enough? I'll probably pick my next book from these ones.
Well, my first week of exams is up, so I can finally post something here...:DFinished Unleash the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
and Dark Side of the Moon by Sherrilyn Kenyon
(as you might have noticed, I'm tinsy-bit obsessed by finishing the Dark Hunter series at the moment...Hmm
Unleash the Night could do the ANY ROSE spell-it-out.
Dark side of the Moon - may be bronze, I don't know really, it's a tad too reddish for me, you decide. It could also be used to spell ANY ROSE.
Oh, and what happend with poor Barry Cunliffe?
For a moment I was so excided that I could actually include a textbook in this challenge...it seemed kinda cool
Marie, the Celts book work. I confirmed it with the mods. Sorry, I completely forgot to let you know. And the Celts book should work for Bronze as well. I'll confirm.Well done, Allison, Jess & Marie! At this rate, we should have the challenge done by this month! Awesome job, ladies!!
Jess - I realized I'm horrible at guessing the colors - I would say the third definitely works. Let me confirm with the mods and let you know. I think we might not even need a Bronze any more. If I use
,
&
for Bronze, it will complete the category.
Haha, I'm horrible at guessing colours too - well, if we end up being short a bronze let me know (I'm sure at least one of those is bronze), otherwise I'll try to make category 6 less lonely, haha.
Jess, all of your choices are approved for Bronze. Concentrate on category #6 and at the end of next week, we can check which category is easiest to do another round.
Allison, if we are doing category 4, then we need to have 7 books to fill that. I don't think any of us are participating in Buddy Reads taking place in the NBRC group. The best way is to skip #4 and do another category twice like #5 which is basically spell it out. You can still read The Passage but we'll try to fit in another category. Sounds good?
Team Update 06/16/13: (CORRECTED)Total Read: 35/49
1. Behind Enemy Lines
(1)
(2)
2. Color Ahead - Blue COMPLETED!
3. Color Behind - Bronze
5. Spell It Out - N B C T E M D (First 7 complete)
2nd Seven Letters Used: R E G
#6 R-a-T Item
#7 Seven
Great job Magenta!
Allison - for Behind Enemy Lines, you can't use Michael J. Sullivan's books because they weren't read since this challenge started i.e April 12. That's okay. I'll check about fitting this in the other categories.Thanks for posting them here though. It's very helpful.
Mod
Just finished. Would work for bronze."
Approved.
Thanks, LK!Allison, how are you liking the Ryria series?
Finished
by Cecily von ZiegesarWorks for
#6: set in New York City, a holiday destination
#5: "G" in Reading, Challenge (Gossip), "C" in NBRC, Challenge (Cecily)
I have finished
which works for the following:2. The colour ahead (shoot just realized it's finished)
5. Spell it out "A" or "D" or "H" (where ever we need it to fit).
Sorry, again I can't figure out how to find out if it works for behind enemy lines. :)
Also if anyone wants to suggest which category I should be reading from, suggest away, and I will try to find something that fits!! Thanks everyone!!
Thanks for discovering that. I started to see if anyone else had read it, but the process is so overly long that I quickly abandoned it. Ellinor wrote: "Amy J. wrote: "I finished And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
It works for Blue.
It would work for an A or a M in the spell it out challeng..."
Finished
today.It's green cover means that it'll work for #6
I loved the series too. Especially the final book. The build-up was done very well.Allison wrote: "I LOVE the Riyria series... The first book was good but not the best. I didn't start loving the series until book 2."
Donna, it's ok - Just post whatever categories it fits. If we have enough blue books to do it twice, then that would be great.You can try Category #1 - Behind Enemy Lines. It requires some pre-planning - you have to scout to one of the enemy team member's view book (You can use the spreadsheet for easy navigation) or you can try your hand at category #6.
Marchioness of Magenta wrote: "Donna, it's ok - Just post whatever categories it fits. If we have enough blue books to do it twice, then that would be great.You can try Category #1 - Behind Enemy Lines. It requires some pre-pl..."
I am going to read Winter Moon, which has a picture of the moon on it. This should work for category 6!! If I have nightmares, then I'm blaming you!! (Just joking). I actually have not read anything by Dean Koontz in a very long time, so it should be interesting. :)
I will finish
today or tomorrow. I've seen it on a few shelves around here so it will work for category one. I've also sitting
on my shelf and I want to read that next. It also works for category one which would be finished then. This means you won't have to worry about it anymore.
Ellinor, Emily from Moonstone read it on May 20. So it'll definitely work for Category #1.I found another way to find if the books were read by others. The mods did post that idea somewhere and I used it this time. It worked.
Donna, I couldn't find your book being read by an "enemy".I haven't tried Dean Koontz but if it's horror, then let me know. I'll read it :P (P.s: I didn't know he was a horror author)
I've finished The Dream Hunter by Sherrilyn Kenyon
It has a blue cover.
It's happening on Santorini, I favourite holiday place, so it can fit in that category too.
Also can be used for spell it out S,D,H
Marie, it can also work for category #7 in two ways:1. If we count hyphenated word as one - The Dream Hunter (Dark-Hunter Universe) Sherrilyn Kenyon - 7 words
2. If we count hyphenated words as two & ignore THE - Dream Hunter (Dark-Hunter Universe) Sherrilyn Kenyon - 7 words.
Excellent. With the addition of Allison's books, I think we should be *almost* done by this weekend, if not completely. Awesome work, Magenta!!
Finished
Giant moon on the cover for category #6
I finished Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green I could count for 7 if the middle initial counts as a word.
It could also count for for # 6 since it has a moon on the cover.
I finished
. We could either take it for category #1 or for category #6 as part of it is set in Mauritius, a place I'd most definetely call a favourite holiday destination!I'm now starting
and I'm in the middle of
.
Finished
by Gregory BenfordWorks for
#2: blue cover
#5: "I" in Reading (In), "G" in Reading, Challenge (Gregory), "B" in NBRC
#7: 7 words in title/author (In the Ocean of Night Gregory Benford)
Mod
I could count for 7 if the middle initial counts as a word."
We will accept that, Amy J.
I finished
. It works for #5: "S" in Teams (Sworn), "T" in Tower or Teams (To), "L" in Challenge (Linda), "C" in Challenge (Castillo)
#6: "S" in Rose (Sworn)
#7: Seven-Word-Title: Sworn To Silence, Kate Buckholder, Linda Castillo
I squeezed in
. It would work for #6 (mostly green cover; the version I read was actually even greener; I didn't find it here on Goodreads and was too lazy to upload :) maybe I'll do that later.It would also work for #5 ("D" in Reading (Das), "A" in Teams or Reading or Challenge (Anne), "E" in Teams or Reading or Challenge (Enright)) or for #7 (Enright has 7 letters).
I'm now continuing with
Allison, pardon my ignorance but what is that landmark?
Hello! Finished Faking it by Cora Carmack
and Devil May Cry by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Devil May Cry can fit in blue cover category - I don't know if we need any more of those- also can be used for spell it out - D, C, S. It is set in Las Vegas, so it can be used as a holiday destination thingy :D
Faking it - hmm, I don't know, maybe for spell-it-out C, or I.
Finished
by Matthew Reilly#5: "A" in Teams, Reading, Challenge (Area), "M" in Teams (Matthew), "R" in NBRC, Tower, Reading (Reilly)
#6: "A" in Any "Area), "R" in Rose (Reilly)
#7: The word "Seven" in the title
Finished
by Julie Otsuka.#5 "W" in Tower (When, Was), "T" in Tower or Teams (The), "E" in Tower or Teams or Challenge (Emperor), "D" in Reading (Divine), "O" in Tower (Otsuka)
#6 Mainly green cover
#7 seven words in title/author combination: When the Emperor was Divine, Julie Otsuka
Team Update 06/22/13: Total Read: 54/49
1. Behind Enemy Lines - COMPLETED
(1)
(2)
2. Color Ahead - Blue COMPLETED!
3. Color Behind - Bronze COMPLETED
5. Spell It Out - N B C T E M D (First 7 COMPLETED)
2nd Seven Letters Used: R E G G L C L (2nd 7 COMPLETED)
#6 R-a-T Item - COMPLETED
#7 Seven - COMPLETED
Great job Magenta - Looks like you're done!
Please let me know if you see any errors - We have some spares, too.
Marchioness of Magenta wrote: "Team Update 06/22/13: Total Read: 54/49
1. Behind Enemy Lines - COMPLETED
(1) [bookcover:Inferno|1..."Looks perfectly fine team me. Awesome job!
I did some re-arranging. Everybody who finished a book on/after June 1 has contributed atleast 1 book. Here's the final listing for those interested:(view spoiler)
I'll be posting them in the Posting Thread by today/tomorrow.
Keep Reading - We can do Round II of 7% getting upto 5 cupcakes which we can use later.
NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II
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An Episode of Sparrows (1955) by Rumer Godden
3. Color Behind: Blue Cover
5. Spell-It-Out: Title: An Episode of Sparrows
T.O.W.E.R. - .E. Episode
T.E.A.M.S. - .E. Episode, .S. Sparrows
R.E.A.D.I.N.G. - .E. Episode
C.H.A.L.L.E.N.G.E. - .E. Episode
5. Spell-It-Out: Author: Rumer Godden
N.B.R.C. - .R. Rumer
T.O.W.E.R. - .R. Rumer
R.E.A.D.I.N.G. - .G. Godden, .R. Rumer
C.H.A.L.L.E.N.G.E. - .G. Godden
6. R-a-T Mini Challenges: Title: An Episode of Sparrows
R.O.S.E. - .E. Episode, .S. Sparrows
6. R-a-T Mini Challenges: Author : Rumer Godden
R.O.S.E. - .R. Rumer
6. R-a-T Mini Challenges: Cover: has a flower on the cover