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Nika ♥Marie♥
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Aug 15, 2013 09:13AM
I need to work on my september list!! Ugh!!!
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I have a question about this challenge - in order to participate in this with our group do I need to separately join all three reading challenges we pick as well?
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Not unless you want to, Andrea.
Oh ok, that makes sense. You can count me in as well then.
For A-Z, how about the author one? Using author names to go through the alphabet. Seems like that would be an easy one? Author A-Z
I noticed that the mods have been busy adding more A-Z challenges.eta: with the A-Z challenges, can more than one of us read a letter?
I would think so, but I'm not sure. Cuz it's basically that we are each doing our own challenges and then just combining those challenges together for a total? Am I wrong about that Vicky?
No, two people can not read the same letter. Each of us has a goal that we combine into the team goal, but as a team we are still completing the tasks within the challenges together.
I'm not going to participate in the September challenge. Too much personal life to tend to starting in Sept.
Oh ok Vicky. Thanks for clarifying about that.
Where is my team? I haven't seen one new post in days and I can't find our main page discussion thread. What is going on? Am I in the twilight zone?
A few updates from the mods.By 8/31, I will have to let them know who is participating. If you haven't already please check-in on the Check-In and Finished Books thread.
Good news, a player may drop out at any time until September 20th. So if you join and are struggling to get through your September goal you can drop out without hurting the team. Players can also join until September 31st, so if you decide part way through the month that you do want to participate, that's fine! :)
So, we have a week and a half to decide our other two challenges. Are we doing GottaRead? Which A-Z?
I am open to any of them. Just add my vote to whatever the majority wants. I will probably make a lose list of books for September soon now that we are closer to the 1st.
Vicky do you want us to claim spots for the Book a Day challenge? Or will we do what we normally do and just list everything our books work for and fit them in where needed?
I don't care what A-Z. I still think Camp Gotta read will provide a lot of options to work with.
Lisa Kay wrote: "You good now, Sarah?"Yes I am good. And I have figured out how to get to our main page now:)
Brooke wrote: "So, we have a week and a half to decide our other two challenges. Are we doing GottaRead? Which A-Z?"Executive decision time!
Since Camp GottaRead and Author Alphabet Reading Challenge seem to not have opposition, we'll go with that. If anyone has an issue with that, speak now! :D
Good news from the mods is that we can change these two challenges through September 20th, so if we find that we're struggling, we can shuffle!
In other good news, the number of BAP awarded has gone up. If we complete the challenge as laid out we will get 9/7/5 BAP for the three percentage levels. If we're struggling to fill spots by the 20th we have the option of switching to the Mango Tango Straight Percentage Challenge for 4/2/1 BAP (depending on percentage). We still have to read the same number of books, but we don't have to fit them into any category at all. I think we should shoot for the higher BAP and I'll keep an eye on what things are looking like closer to the 20th.
Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "Vicky do you want us to claim spots for the Book a Day challenge? Or will we do what we normally do and just list everything our books work for and fit them in where needed?"
I think there are enough options that we won't have to claim books. I'm going to work on adding a reference to the options on the spreadsheet so that everyone can easily see what the options are.
Sounds good Vicky!I'll be reading all my books quickly in the beginning, I'm gonna aim for one a day through the 16th. After that, my reading is gonna decrease, but I'll make sure to hit my 19 for the month.
Since Mary is sitting out, LMK if you need any help with any thing with the challenge. I'll not be online much on the 17th and not at all on the 18th and 19th though. :)
Ok. I added a tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet called "Challenge Categories".The list on the left is for the Book a Day Challenge, the right is for Camp GottaRead. Since there are so many options I added a few categories to the Book a Day options to help people find the categories their book fits in. Anything that doesn't have a category is a situation or subject.
Brooke wrote: "Sounds good Vicky!I'll be reading all my books quickly in the beginning, I'm gonna aim for one a day through the 16th. After that, my reading is gonna decrease, but I'll make sure to hit my 19 f..."
I probably can do a couple more than my five, 7 or 8?as a small buffer.
Vicky hey Vicky, Vicky, Vicky [singing in my high insecticide voice] YOU ROCK.Ha - gotta love autocorrect. Not insecticide = pitched rocker
Sarah wrote: "insecticide = pitched rocker"hahahah! :) Oh, autocorrect. My favorite is trying to type "geeze" and autocorrect gives me Herzegovina. As if I would talk about Balkan countries on a regular basis. :P
Hi Vicky,Which thread can I use to plan my books for the September challenge? If you need help with tracking I'm available (except from 21st to 29th of September).
I would keep planning in this thread unless people think we need a planning thread?
This thread is fine. I'm going to think now what I want to read in September and fit those in with the different challenges.
I just put my possible books in my original sign up post on the other thread and then hid them with a spoiler link. Just for me to see what I want to read soon and where it can be used.
Hmm. The edit thread button just keeps popping me up to the top of the page. Anyway, I can move it here if you want. Or to my personal challenge tracking thread.
That's fine too Mary, I didn't even think of that! Definitely feel free to use your sign up post. I just don't want a bunch of new extra posts in the finished books thread.
Believe me I know. It's hard to find the finished books in the middle of the chatting.
I did an update of the sign-up thread today. So far the people who signed up are:Andrea, Brooke, Imke, Mary, Marianne, Nika, Riya, Sarah and Vicky.
Our goal is going to be 88 books and everyone's personal goals are listed in Post #5 of that thread as well as on the Spreadsheet.
You don't have to make it to your personal goal, but to make it easier for everyone, we should all aim for that. If you find that you're getting behind, let us know so that we can adjust for that if necessary! To help keep track of this I've added an "On Track" column to the spreadsheet. This will automatically calculate where you should be on a daily basis so you can easily see if you are ahead or behind!
Sounds good. I started a longer one (for me) yesterday, so I can get it finished up on the 1st and start with my next book. I plan on knocking them out pretty quick. Can't wait for Sept to start because a favorite author of mine just came out with the next in her one series and I'm holding onto it til the first. :)
I think I could also say this book fits 15 ~ a glow of light. What do you think ladies? Vicky? We don't have it (that number) yet and it seems to be sunset-like with a glowing light to the right.
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Ditto.
:) Thanks ladies. Vicky, if you want, add it to 15. Probably is easier to get the other categories it's in, than that one.
I just found out from the mods that for our 'other' challenge (which we're using Camp GottaRead for) we can only use each option twice.Because of that, our breakdown is going to look like this:
Minimum 61 in the Book a Day Challenge
Maximum 26 for the A-Z Challenge
Maximum 12 for Camp GottaRead
By my count there are ~85 options for the Book a Day Challenge and since we can use them each twice it's definitely possible to fit 61 in there, but it might get harder with some of the less common options.
We can switch around our challenges until September 20th, so we do have that option. We may want to have a back-up in mind and we can revisit how we're looking around the 15th. Just wanted to give everyone a heads up.
Brooke: I added 15 to that book. :)
That is problematic with only 12 for GottaRead, as you said, some of the ABAD challenges harder ones would be hard to fill once, let alone twice.If we wanted to change is, maybe find something almost as broad but with more options? Hmmmm.
Thanks for adding 15 to that one. :) I thought 15 might be a more difficult one to find, though another book I'm reading now could be considered glow-y. :)
What about switching it to a spell out or maybe the Decades challenge? The decades challenge would limit it to books between 2003-2013 and only so many per year. But it we can do the challenge the way it's written, without any limits by the mods, it would give us 88 book spots: 13 for 2013, 12 for 2012, 11 for 2011 etc.., Just a thought.
I was thinking about the decades one as well Mary, I think that would give us a bunch of options.
I am down with that. Is this published in these years?
We can't replace it with a spell it out. The alphabet challenge could be either an A-Z or a Spell-It-Out but the "other" challenge had to be something not an A-Z or Spell-It-Out.I'm double checking with the mods on the Decades challenge, just to be sure.
Yup, publication date. Here's the specifics from the challenge thread.Level I is the least/easiest. It would consist of reading 1 book, for each year, years 2003-2009 and then 10 for 2010, 11, 12 and 13 for the respective years. This would give us a total of 53 books.
Of course, if we wanted more variety, we could go with Level VIII which is for 88 books and is read a book by it's year from 2003 (3) to 2013 (13)
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Decades Challenge
The number of books you have to read for each of the years is the number corresponding for that year and must be published within that year.
For example:
2013 = 13 books published in 2013
2012 = 12 books published in 2012
2011 = 11 books published in 2011
etc...
LEVELS
Level I = 53 books.
Read one (1) book for decades 2003 to 2009, then the corresponding ending number for 2010 to 2013.
Level II = 61 books.
Read one (1) book for 2003 to 2008, then the corresponding ending number for 2010 to 2013.
Level III = 69 books.
Read one (1) book for 2003 to 2007, then the corresponding ending number for 2010 to 2013.
Level IV = 74 books.
Read one (1) book for 2003 to 2006, then the corresponding ending number for 2010 to 2013.
Level V = 79 books.
Read one (1) book for 2003 to 2005, then the corresponding ending number for 2010 to 2013.
Level VI = 83 books.
Read one (1) book for 2003 to 2004, then the corresponding ending number for 2010 to 2013.
Level VII = 86 books.
Read one (1) book for 2003, then the corresponding ending number to 2013.
Level VIII = 88 books.
(Original challenge.) Read three (3) books for 2003, four (4) for 2004, ect., on through the corresponding ending number to 2013.
If you get an OK Vicky, I added the publication dates to my Finished books. :)
Since we don't have to finish the challenge, I say we use Level VIII option which gives us more per year that we can use. If they let us do that, I don't see any reason to restrict ourselves. I'll go add the years to my books too in case we switch to this.
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I am reading some big books that have slowed down my reading - but I want my five allotted to me. I will get them done.
I'm reading a bit slower this week too, should have some books to post this weekend though
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