NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II discussion
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September Challenge - Discussion Thread
1. This challenge is completely optional
2. Based on the mods' %, here's the book breakdown for each member for reading at 9.9%. Remember, this number is just a guideline only. We need to read 127 books as a team (to reach 9.9% of our team goal) so if you can't meet your target, then that is fine.
Breakdown:
Emily - 40 book goal = 3 books
Katie - 40 book goal = 3 books
Diane - 72 book goal = 7 books
*Chris - 118 book goal = 11 books
Catherine - 120 book goal = 11 books
Melissa - 150 book goal = 14 books
Rebecca - 150 book goal = 14 books
Judy - 180 book goal = 17 books
Vi - 213 book goal = 21 books
Leslie - 285 book goal = 28 books
Goal - 1368
Total # of books required - 129
* Possible Goal Increase
3. Moonstone is one of the most active teams so our team goal for September might actually be a challenge. But, we've read 97 books against LJB in two weeks and we've been consistently ahead of LJB by 30 books. (doesn't include BAP). So while 127 might be a challenge, it's certainly doable for us a team.
4. We (the captains) would like to know if you are participating in the September Challenge. For this challenge, the final number of books depends on how many members are participating and we can't use books from non-participating members. We hope you would join the challenge but we would understand if you can't.
5. For the second option, A-Z challenge, here are the following options:
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge
Hero Alphabet Reading Challenge
Heroine Alphabet Reading Challenge
Pet Names Alphabet Reading Challenge A-Z
Title Challenge: Read the Alphabet
Setting Alphabet Reading Challenge
Villains Alphabet Reading Challenge
6. For the third option (Any NBRC challenge), the captains strongly suggest looking at Animal Alphabet Challenge as it's a Spell-It-Out and flexible enough to fit books that don't fit in the first two.
7. We don't have to finish any of the 3 challenges - just fit books that works for the challenge. We also don't have to sign-up for any of the challenge. (You can if you want to).
8. All challenges will be attempted as a team. Just think of the three challenges are three categories like in August with many different subcategories.
Participants
Emily 40 3
Katie 40 3
Diane 72 7
*Chris 118 11
Catherine 120 11
Melissa 150 14
Rebecca 150 14
Judy 180 17
Vi 213 21
Leslie 285 28
Total 1368 129
* Goal upped only for Sept Challenge
Moonstone's Chosen Challenges:
1. A Book a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay Reading Challenge.
2. Title Alphabet Reading Challenge
3. Animal Alphabet Spell-It-Out Challenge
I looked over several of the challenges, and it seems like the BINGO challenges would be great to do. So many options.
do we have to say which challenge? I am in a whole lot of these challenges! :)
Catherine, we are not reserving posts at this point. I'm just checking to see if there's any particular interest in a challenge.
Yeah I think that any of the Bingo ones look fun. I just know I'm really bad with the summer ones because I don't read hardly any light "summer reads" with pictures of beaches on the front. :D
I'm with you, Emily. Have a hard time with anything "beachy"!
I think the only NBRC challenges I'm currently doing are the Decades Challenge and the 50 States Challenge, but I'm not likely to finish either.
Judy, I understand. SRC itself is a massive commitment. I've known to scramble in the last week. Can I say you would prefer not to participate in the September challenge?
Catherine, Emily, Diane - Can I assume you guys will be participating in the September Challenge?
I'll give it the old college try! lol :)
Judy - I didn't realize you were a fellow SRCer. I am also in awe of Vi on her finishing. I don't think I've even come close in the years that I've been participating, lol!
This season completes my first year :) You both are veterans compared to me. To be fair, the both times I've completed, the total points was low - 1110 & 870? Even then, I was scrambling the last two weeks. And hubby learnt not to expect anything the last week. Have they told us the rules for creating tasks in Fall? I don't think there'll be many finishers this time.
I keep hearing about the SRC. I've never done it. I'm so intrigued with it.Also, the decades challenge might be a good one for September. I'm doing that one as well
Oh Judy, I know but compared to Winter which was 1200+? and this Summer 1350 (humungous), the total seems low. Of course, I don't know what the usual total was before last year. And this Summer we already have 4 finishers. I love waiting for the new task - I usually lose interest in the current season once I see the new tasks and it's become an exercise in willpower not to start the planned books immediately..
Leslie wrote: "I keep hearing about the SRC. I've never done it. I'm so intrigued with it.Also, the decades challenge might be a good one for September. I'm doing that one as well"
Leslie, I keep trying to convert you to SRC as well. You'd really enjoy it ;)
Vi, send me a PM with the link to it. I think I looked at it once and it terrified me. Maybe I'm feeling braver now LOL!!
The minute the next season tasks are posted, I always seem to focus on my scavenger hunt, LOL!I just had a look through my files and I've been doing the challenge on and off since Winter 2009. There was even a time where I was tracking and not reporting. And for those who are interested - 1100 points.
RESERVED 0/???I'm definitely in! I can read at least 15 books, so tell me how many you need and I'll put them in the categories necessary.
September Book Advantage Points Challenge
There are some modifications to the September challenge as the mods have come up with the % reading to complete the challenge.
Here's the scale (as a team):
9.9% = 4 BAP
8.33 to 9.8% = 2 BAP
7 to 8.2 = 1 BAP
Rules: Your Team must have a minimum of one-third (1/3) of your books from the first challenge, A Book a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay Reading Challenge. You may then choose the rest, in any percent each of the next two NBRC challenges you choose.
Referring to our challenges, choose books that fit:
◈ A Book a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay Reading Challenge.
◈ One A-Z challenge posted in NBRC. (See #5 below)
◈ Plus one more from any other of our NBRC challenges.
These
Important! Please Read:
1. This challenge is completely optional
2. Based on the mods' %, here's the book breakdown for each member for reading at 9.9%. Remember, this number is just a guideline only. We need to read 127 books as a team (to reach 9.9% of our team goal) so if you can't meet your target, then that is fine.
Breakdown:
Emily - 40 book goal = 3 books
Katie - 40 book goal = 3 books
Diane - 72 book goal = 7 books
*Chris - 100 book goal = 9 books
Catherine - 120 book goal = 11 books
Melissa - 150 book goal = 14 books
Rebecca - 150 book goal = 14 books
Judy - 180 book goal = 17 books
Vi - 213 book goal = 21 books
Leslie - 285 book goal = 28 books
Goal - 1350
Total # of books required - 127
* Possible Goal Increase
3. Moonstone is one of the most active teams so our team goal for September might actually be a challenge. But, we've read 97 books against LJB in two weeks and we've been consistently ahead of LJB by 30 books. (doesn't include BAP). So while 127 might be a challenge, it's certainly doable for us a team.
4. We (the captains) would like to know if you are participating in the September Challenge. For this challenge, the final number of books depends on how many members are participating and we can't use books from non-participating members. We hope you would join the challenge but we would understand if you can't.
5. For the second option, A-Z challenge, here are the following options:
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge
Hero Alphabet Reading Challenge
Heroine Alphabet Reading Challenge
Pet Names Alphabet Reading Challenge A-Z
Title Challenge: Read the Alphabet
Setting Alphabet Reading Challenge
Villains Alphabet Reading Challenge
6. For the third option (Any NBRC challenge), the captains strongly suggest looking at Animal Alphabet Challenge as it's a Spell-It-Out and flexible enough to fit books that don't fit in the first two.
7. We don't have to finish any of the 3 challenges - just fit books that works for the challenge. We also don't have to sign-up for any of the challenge. (You can if you want to).
Please to post your feedback/comments HERE and also to confirm if you are participating in the challenge.
You can post it here Judy. If you would prefer to PM, just PM me.
And edited post #28 to clear confusion (hope that helps)
The questions make sense, Judy.Options 2 is a A-Z challenge. For example: Title A-Z challenge and you check off letters corresponding to the title you read. This will be a team challenge and done as a team.
Option 3 - Spell-it-out. For example: Animal Alphabet. If you would rather spell out an animal by yourself, then that is fine. Just let us know beforehand so that it's reserved to you as we can spell out the same animal only once. if you'd not, then we'll plug in books as needed. We're flexible.
Hope I made sense.
I just realized something. Judy, A Book A Day is also attempted as a group. It's just like the August Challenge - i.e we have three categories with lot of different subcategory option.
I am definitely in! Do we have to break it down between the three challenges as well?Do we have to complete all tasks in the Book a Day challenge or pick and choose which ones to complete as long as our percentages are good?
Added #8 above to post 2:8. All challenges will be attempted as a team. Just think of the three challenges are three categories like in August with many different subcategories.
Leslie:Do we have to break it down between the three challenges as well?
Not necessarily. But we might move your books around if needed.
Do we have to complete all tasks in the Book a Day challenge or pick and choose which ones to complete as long as our percentages are good?
No, we don't have to complete all the tasks in a Book A Day challenge. Just pick and choose. We just need to make 33% of our total books fit that challenge.
Honey, y'all can do whatever you want with my books that I read! (Did that sound southern enough!!)They are yours.
It just seemed like it needed a southern touch at that moment.
Leslie wrote: "Honey, y'all can do whatever you want with my books that I read! (Did that sound southern enough!!)They are yours."Well....you should have put "mah" instead of "my". And you should have put y'all a second time too! :) and..."ah" instead if "I" lol
Well, my accent isn't quite that thick, Catherine!!
So if the team needs to read 127 book and 1/3 (42) have to come from the first challenge which only has 31 options, does that mean we have to hit all 31 and then start again for the remaining 11?I'm not sure if I'm in or not. 7 books is iffy and since I've been working hard this month to make sure my books fit specific challenges, I'm not sure I'm up to it again so soon as I'm a very mood driven reader.
Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "So if the team needs to read 127 book and 1/3 (42) have to come from the first challenge which only has 31 options..."The first challenge has a lot of sub-options which we could double up on and don't necessarily need to do all 31. For example, #1 in that challenge is to read a book where the main character has a first experience OR is a one word title OR is the first of a series. This actually allows us to do this one category 6 times (2 times for each "OR" since we can double up).
We completely understand that you read as you go and it's up to you to participate in September. Just remember that we will be doing a spell it out which we could use the letters anywhere. Plus we'll have an A-Z challenge which is fairly open. If we see that a book you read can be fit into that first challenge, we can switch things around.
Oh sorry I forgot to say that yes I'll be in.
Diane, what Rebecca said. Additionally, I second your thoughts. I'm a mood-reader too and I don't like listing down books based on a challenge (it's the easiest way for me not to read those books). The reason we're advocating this challenge is because we think it's very doable even when you are not reading books specifically towards it. And please don't think you have to read 7 books or if you have to preplan your books. That said, it's still up to you whether to join the September Challenge. We're trying to make it flexible/easy enough so that everybody joining can have fun. That is the most important part of the challenge.
Leslie wrote: "Well, my accent isn't quite that thick, Catherine!!"That's ok:) I have a British accent anyway:)
Catherine, what do you think of the September Challenge? You are joining, right? Right?? :)
Well if y'all don't mind that I'm not going to plan anything specific to read, then I'm happy to let any books that fit count towards the challenge.
Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Well if y'all don't mind that I'm not going to plan anything specific to read, then I'm happy to let any books that fit count towards the challenge."Diane, we would love to have you join us!
Ok, then it sounds like I'm in.
Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Ok, then it sounds like I'm in."Yay!!
Okay....I'll try it. I might get confused and ask a lot of questions, but count me in.
The mod's have come up with another challenge for September. This thread is a discussion thread to gather interest/feedback for the challenge.
Please note that it is not compulsory for everybody to participate in this challenge.
Here's the scale (as a team):
9.9% = 9 BAP
8.33 to 9.8% = 7 BAP
7 to 8.2 = 5 BAP
If we just aim for the % (without fitting the books into the challenge)
9.9% = 4 BAP
8.33 to 9.8% = 2 BAP
7 to 8.2 = 1 BAP
Rules: Your Team must have a minimum of one-third (1/3) of your books from the first challenge, A Book a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay Reading Challenge. You may then choose the rest, in any percent each of the next two NBRC challenges you choose.
Referring to our challenges, choose books that fit:
◈ A Book a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay Reading Challenge.
◈ One A-Z challenge posted in NBRC. (See #5 below)
◈ Plus one more from any other of our NBRC challenges.
Challenge List:
Reading Challenge Index
Monthly/Seasonal Challenge Index
Any questions, comments or suggestions? Are you participating in any NBRC challenge? Any specific NBRC challenge that interests you?