ATW: Ongoing team Challenge: AIRPORT LOUNGE

[❤Stephanie ღ♥ღMrs Daryl Dixonღ♥ღ]

Hey everyone our team has a question about one of our goals, Read the first book from a series that you're interested in one of my team members asked "how can we determine interest because sometimes I read a book to test out a series and see if I'm interested in it." I have to say I do the same thing, So even know we are still testing it out would you say we are still interested in it enough to want to test it out, so it would count?

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

I would :)

[Jen]

❤Stephanie ღ♥ღMrs Lothaire Dacianoღ♥ღ wrote: "Hey everyone our team has a question about one of our goals, Read the first book from a series that you're interested in one of my team members asked "how can we determine interest because sometime..."

I'd say that would count. After all, you have to be interested in seeing if you want to read a series if you're willing to test out the first book. If you knew or thought you wouldn't be interested, why would you read book one? ;-)

:-)

[❤Stephanie ღ♥ღMrs Daryl Dixonღ♥ღ]

Awesome, thanks.

[Amanda]

My team has a goal "Read a book with the phrase 'gut feeling' in it".

I just finished a book and ran across the phrase "gut instinct". It's used the same way, i.e. "her gut instinct told her..."

What do you think? Can I use it?

[Vicky]

Amanda wrote: "My team has a goal "Read a book with the phrase 'gut feeling' in it".

I just finished a book and ran across the phrase "gut instinct". It's used the same way, i.e. "her gut instinct told her..."
..."

I would vote yes!

[Amanda]

Vicky wrote: "I would vote yes! ..."

Thanks Vicky! That's what I suspected but in all fairness I thought I'd ask. :D

[Angie ☯]

I have a silly question.... ☺

Can anyone tell me how to get the pic of the flight path? The travel agent has posted it a couple of times...but I can't find the right website to duplicate it.

I know how to post the picture, if I can figure out how to get it! lol

thanks all!!

[❀Tea❀]

We usually just googled location and picked something pretty :)
Or at least I did :P

[Angie ☯]

Hi Tea, I did that too for a location picture. But there was also a picture of the map - showing the flight path from one city to another - just an overview not very detailed...that is the one I am trying to duplicate

[❀Tea❀]

Angie ☯ wrote: "Hi Tea, I did that too for a location picture. But there was also a picture of the map - showing the flight path from one city to another - just an overview not very detailed...that is the one I am..."

Oh, I didn't do that :P

Let me check in our planning thread. There should be site from where we got destinations.

[❀Tea❀]

Found it! site

btw, link is also in rules ;)

[Angie ☯]

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Found it! site

btw, link is also in rules ;)"

I tried that site - but couldn't get the map for the flight path - so I am doing something wrong. No worries, I will just leave out that pic! ;)

[❀Tea❀]

Let me know the route so I'll try it

[❀Tea❀]

OK, I think I found what you are talking about. But that wasn't posted by us. It was by one of the travelers. :)

I think you can do that with google maps

[Jen]

Hello all, my team has a goal to "Sort your "to read" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is number 251 or higher on your list (the first column before the book cover image)."

We have one member, however, who only has 100 books on her To-Read shelf. So...what should she do? Read a book numbered 90-100? Read a book numbered higher than 251 on one of another of our teammates shelves? (I have over 3,000 books on my To-Read shelf, for instance.)

I know I've seen the answer to this somewhere, but I can't remember where, so any advice would be most welcome! :-)

Thanks, all!

[Vicky]

I think the whole point is to read a book that's been sitting on your to do list for a while. I might go with 80-100 for her, that's 20% of the longest lingering books and seems reasonable!

[Jen]

Vicky wrote: "I think the whole point is to read a book that's been sitting on your to do list for a while. I might go with 80-100 for her, that's 20% of the longest lingering books and seems reasonable!"

Thanks, Vicky! I'll let our teammie know. :-)

And to the Mods, I think these sorts of goals would be better if they were to "read a book that is number 250 or lower." For someone like me, with over 3,000 books on my To-Read shelf, that would be a lot more challenging, since the earliest books I added have been languishing.

This "251 or higher" means I could choose book #3,060, which I just added on Saturday (the 14th of this month).

Unless there are already goals to read books lower than certain number? I haven't looked.

[Catherine]

Ok....so I hqve a question.. I on a team...Reading Roamers...we completed our itinerary....some people also wanted to leave..what do we do now? We'll definitely need teammates, but do we get a new itinerary?

[Plethora]

I emailed the "NRBC Travel Mod" a few days ago for a new itinerary but haven't heard back. I'm sure you are swamped with WOBBLE event changes right now. But just checking in here as well.

[NBRC Travel Agent]

Catherine wrote: "Ok....so I hqve a question.. I on a team...Reading Roamers...we completed our itinerary....some people also wanted to leave..what do we do now? We'll definitely need teammates, but do we get a new ..."

Yes, we can get a new itinerary on your spreadsheet :)
You can also advertise in the hitchhikers lounge for new team members, that is what other teams have done - or you can keep to a smaller team. Up to you

[NBRC Travel Agent]

A Bookworm Reading (Plethora) wrote: "I emailed the "NRBC Travel Mod" a few days ago for a new itinerary but haven't heard back. I'm sure you are swamped with WOBBLE event changes right now. But just checking in here as well."

Thanks, Yes, you're right ;)
Will do the new itinerary in about half an hour :D

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Hello ATW Players

Just in case anyone didn't sign up for Wobble, but is interested, we have room for a few new players. The challenge still has 15 weeks to run and does require active goodreads usage (checking in with your team every few days at least).

You can read more about it and sign up here

[Sally906]

Team 'Around the World With a Book' Is starting Business Class with 6 members - we need 2 more people to make up our team of 8 - how do we go about this? Or can we stay as 6?

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

You can stay with 6, or do a shout out on the hitchhikers thread for new players

[Johanna]

Hey guys,

I'm waiting to join a team and I've been asking myself: do the teams compete against each other? Is there an overview of the different team's points? Is there some kind of winner? Or is each team just playing for themselves for the fun of it?

[Sam]

I am pretty sure that each team is just playing for themselves for the fun of it.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

It isn't a competition between teams, just playing for fun

[Zuzana]

Hi, has anybody been in contact with Travel Agent lately? We need a new itinerary so I PMed them almost a month ago and again last week with no response.

[Jen]

Zuzana wrote: "Hi, has anybody been in contact with the Travel Agent lately? We need a new itinerary so I PMed them almost a month ago and again last week with no response."

Maybe try writing the Mod account? That one sees more use. . .

[Zuzana]

Thanks, Jen. I did that last week. No reply. I might have to try and pick one of the mods.

[NBRC Travel Agent]

Sorry. We only tend to check it every 2 weeks or so and with Tower Teams we've just had more on than we could poke a stick at and this account got a bit neglected :(

[Zuzana]

We PMed Tea and she provided new itinerary. So all's good. :)

BTW The new itinerary is great and we all love it. It was worth the wait.

[Jen]

Twist wrote: "anybody ^"

I looked for a list but wasn't successful at finding one. But. . . Some books that I know of off the top of my head. . .

1) An Abundance of Katherines by John Green [Lots of Katherines and two Colins]
2) Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor [Great Ellen and Less Ellen; the "Great" and "Less" were added to their names to differentiate between them]
3) Because I'm Watching by Christina Dodd [John, Senior, and John, Junior]

[Jen]

Twist wrote: "Thank you so much!"

You're very welcome. Hopefully one or another of those three will be appealing to you and your teammates if you can't identify any others.

Happy reading!

Also, one note: in An Abundance of Katherines, I don't now remember if multiples of Katherines actually appeared in the book. . .it's possible they were only mentioned. But there are definitely two Colins!

:-)

[Tammie]

The next detour calls for a body part

Would 'legacy' in the title work for 'leg'

Would 'heart' be a body part?

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Tammie, I don't think legacy would work but heart definitely would fit.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Tammie, I don't think legacy would work but heart definitely would fit."

agree

[Tammie]

◈ Books count that are started after your team thread is created. Provided the book is started during your challenge period, it can be used at any point during your challenge for a task or detour

Just to clarify...does this mean that we can read ahead with out books if we choose? Our team is currently in business class...

Thanks,

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Yes

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Question: If we read a really long word like NOVOSIBIRSK and we manage to do all the letters (with some people reading twice) do we get more points?

[Tammie]

Not sure if our team is doing the tarot card ‘wheel of fortune ‘ yet or not.
Q: do the words ‘wheel of fortune’ need to be together as a phrase or can we find each word separately.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Question: If we read a really long word like NOVOSIBIRSK and we manage to do all the letters (with some people reading twice) do we get more points?"

No, same points ;)

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Tammie wrote: "Not sure if our team is doing the tarot card ‘wheel of fortune ‘ yet or not.
Q: do the words ‘wheel of fortune’ need to be together as a phrase or can we find each word separately."

Needs to be a phrase

[Jess]

Sonia wrote: "Romina wrote: "Can one book be used for more than 1 task or detour?"

Just once."

Is this rule per person or per group?

[Nanci]

Our team has a detour that states "Read a book where a character's name is also a word."

One of our teammates has this question:
Hi girls. So I'm reading Kate Daniels's series and there is a character: Curran, I search and his name apparently means "cute" "quite" "lovable", does it counts for stop #6 (Read a book where a character's name is also a word)? People used it as a word, btw.

What do you think? Does that work?

[Jill]

For the detour, in order to get maximum points, does everyone has to read a detour book or can 4 members read a detour and the rest of the team read any book?

[Nanci]

Hi Jill,
I copied this from the rules:

DETOURS
◈ Completing a detour earns the team 25 points AND
◈ If at least 7 members of the team read a book for the detour, that is an additional 15 points AND
◈ If ALL team members read a book for the time you are at the stop, that is an additional 10 points

So by these rules it looks as if a minimum of 7 members must read for the detour. To earn the maximum points for the detour ALL team members must read.

[[deleted user]]

How much of the book has to be in the country?

[[deleted user]]

Does the book/short story have to have a link on Goodreads? Also, if it says that you can bank books does it mean that you can read a stop after you passed it?