Team Wandering Bilbiophiles

[NBRC Travel Agent]

Team members - Business

Delitealex

Lauri

Laila Jane

Jess

Cathy M

Greta

Denise

Team members - Economy

Delitealex
Lauri
Kazen
Karen
Laila Jane
Drishti
Jess
Cathy M

[NBRC Travel Agent]

Your itinerary is here

When you have a team name, just let me know and I'll update this thread name :)

First stop - Kagoshima (Japan)

[NBRC Travel Agent]

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[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Oh my goodness that is so pretty.

Hi everyone! *waves*

Any ideas for a team name?

[Delitealex]

Hey team I'm really bad at thinking of names. How about Readers on Walkabout or Wandering Bibliophiles?

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

How can you say you're really bad? Great ideas!

I love Wandering Bibliophiles :)

[Jess]

Hi!

Japan looks super pretty, I think we're starting our trip off quite nicely :)

I'm not good with names lol but happy to hear suggestions!

I look forward to getting to know you all through our books! :)

[Jess]

Wandering Bilbiophiles sounds good :)

[Suzanne]

Hello everyone! Those are both great names - you aren't bad of thinking up them at all! I like them! And this sure looks fun :)

[Drishti]

Hi, team! :-)

Well done, Delitaleax! Wandering Bibliophiles is a great name!

[NBRC Travel Agent]

So just to get you started...

Your first stop is Kagoshima, Japan.

You can choose as a team to:
TASK
- Read books set in Japan, or by Japanese authors or
- Do a spell-it-out of Kagoshima or Japan

OR
You can elect to do the detour, which for this stop, means that four of you need to "Read a book with yellow text on the cover"

[Jess]

I'm happy with Japanese author/setting or spell it out :)
I'd have to check to see if I have a book with yellow text on the cover but I mean surely at least one in 500 will, that's not much to ask, haha.

[Laila Jane]

Hi everyone! I love that Japan is our first stop, I'd love to go there in real life.

I think Wandering Bibliophiles is a great team name. Thanks Delitealex!

And I wouldn't mind doing a spell it out. I don't have too many books set in Japan

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

So....
to get maximum points we would need to do the maximum number of detours (5) ; and the other 3 stops as tasks. o
Our detours don't look too bad, but I think for stop 4 ("Read a book with the name of the tarot card ""The Hierophant"" in the text or title") we probably want to do the task instead!! ;)

Stop 1
Task option
-- If we do the task...we should probably not 'spell it out' Japan as it is only 5 letters, and we need at least 6 of us to contribute to the spell it out for max. points.
That means we can either:
>>Spell-it-out : KAGOSHIMA
or
>>read books set in Japan or by Japanese authors.
or
if we do the detour, we need at least 4, and ideally (for maximum points) 7, of us to read a book with yellow text on the cover.

Preferences?
I'd rather do the spell it out of KAGOSHIMA or read a book with yellow text on the cover. (I think, I best check that I can find a book with yellow text haha)

[Drishti]

I can do either of these. For a spell-it-out of Kagoshima I have books for letters S and H. And, for yellow text on the cover, I have one too.

[Jess]

love it Karen :)

My thinking is the easiest detours will probably be yellow text, mystery, published in December, rebellion/resistance, castle/palace, but I'm happy to try to fill any of the detours (except for the tarot one, hard! Haha)

Really depends if many of us have yellow text covers I guess :)

[Laila Jane]

Wow thanks Karen for really simplifying it that way! The next book I actually plan to read starts with both an S and is yellow, so I could go with either one.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

;)
I agree Jess, they seem to be the ones with the broadest appeal / easiest to find.
Although I could find a werewolf one, the difficulty is that if we want max. points 7 of us need to read one ; and not everyone may be a paranomal reader.

So let me go check what I can read for yellow text and then I'll come back and confirm :)

[Delitealex]

I can find something for the spell out or Japan setting. I have to check on the yellow text on cover though.

[Jess]

I've got this I picked up two weeks ago at a huge second hand book sale, so I'm good for yellow text. Also have a Japanese author and can find any of those letters for Kagoshima :)

[Laila Jane]

Ugh, I have to go re-check my TBR list. I read that detour wrong, I didn't realize it said "yellow text". I thought we just needed a yellow cover

[Delitealex]

Found quite a few books with yellow text on the cover.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Ok, I can read for yellow text on cover (author name)

Looks like most of us can do yellow text on cover? Once the others check in let's confirm and then start reading :o

I'll change our team name too

[Laila Jane]

Ok, found a book with yellow text

[Lauri]

Wow! You guys are awesome! I have any and all of the above laying around. Japanese settings are one of my favs, yellow text is easy as are the letters in Kagoshima. Maybe someone should just flat out tell me what to read...
And I really like Wandering Bibliophiles, too

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

haha Lauri

I think we are going with yellow text on the cover, unless anyone really struggles to find one, and then we can flip it back to a task ;)

[Kazen]

I sign up during a break at work and I come home to find I'm on a team, yea!

Hi all! I'm Kazen, a medical interpreter living in (dun dun DUN) Japan! I met Karen during Tower Teams ~waves!~ and look forward to getting to know all of you!

I have some library books hanging around, including the audiobook of with (tiny) yellow text on the cover. So count me in! :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

*waves*

I did think of you when I saw Japan was our first stop!

[Cathy M.]

Hi everyone! Look forward to playing with you. This is going to be fun :)

So it looks like for the first task we are reading books with yellow text. No problem! I have a couple that I can choose from but will need to finish my current read first. Most likely start it tomorrow.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Hi Cathy!

Ok, I need to finish my current book also.

Just a question... as a team are we happy to take things easy or do we want to finish in 8 weeks?
There is no time limit to the challenge so I'm happy to just take things as they come, but if anyone wants to be really speedy then I'll try and prioritise these books

[Laila Jane]

I would prefer to take things easy just cause I'm doing more than one team challenge at the moment, but if you guys want to do speedy I'll make it work.

[Delitealex]

Taking it easy sounds good to me.

[Jess]

I'm good with whatever :) just to make sure I understand though, we're at each stop for one week. We get extra points if we all finish our books in that week. But if we don't, we still get the points for completing the task. Is that right?

[Cathy M.]

I tend to read several books per week because I have become way too addicted to these challenges so I can make it work either way :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Jess wrote: "I'm good with whatever :) just to make sure I understand though, we're at each stop for one week. We get extra points if we all finish our books in that week. But if we don't, we still get the poin..."

It's a minimum of one week, but we can stay longer. There is no extra points for finishing faster ; but we do get more points if everyone reads a book while we are at the stop (so we probably don't want to move forward until everyone has finished at least one book. Any books we read can be used for future stops too, so faster readers don't need to feel like they are "wasting" anything they read while waiting for slower readers). I hope that makes sense!!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

In summary
Because we are choosing to do a detour for this first stop....
◈ Completing a detour (a minimum of4 team members reading a book with yellow text on the cover) will earn the team 25 points AND
◈ If at least 7 members of the team read a book with yellow text on the cover that is an additional 15 points AND
◈ If ALL team members read a book for the time we are at the stop, that is an additional 10 points

--I think we can totally rock this for the 50 points :D --


P.S sorry if I go into mod mode and takeover. Because I created this challenge I get the mechanics more than most. Just yell at me to shut up ;) I really won't mind!

[Kazen]

Karen wrote: "Any books we read can be used for future stops too"

Yea! Now to see if anything on my TBR has December pub date. ;)

[Lauri]

Kazen wrote: "Karen wrote: "Any books we read can be used for future stops too"

Yea! Now to see if anything on my TBR has December pub date. ;)"

Okay Karen. I vote we name you Queen! I definitely have a book with yellow text. Anything else needed for this 1st detour?

[Cathy M.]

Karen wrote: "In summary
Because we are choosing to do a detour for this first stop....
◈ Completing a detour (a minimum of4 team members reading a book with yellow text on the cover) will earn the team 25 point..."

Are you kidding??? We TOTALLY lucked out having you here!!! I'd vote with Lauri to name you Queen :D

[Jess]

Thanks for the explanation! And agreed with the others, no need to apologise! :)

Sounds like a good plan then to stay at each stop until everyone's done. I might try to read ahead with a few possible tasks/detour options while I'm on uni break if they'll count for later :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Oh thanks, that's really sweet.

My baby is having a nice day sleep, so I just did a quick tracking page on our s/sheet.
The s/sheet has been opened up so it can be edited by anyone with the link.
Basically, just add the book you read for this detour to the cell under your name when you have finished it :)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Delitealex]

I use a kindle for now so I can't edit spreadsheets :(

[Lauri]

I'm on an iPad mini & couldn't do it just now either. I'll try on my laptop later on...

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

No worries Delitealex. If you post here once you finish your book someone can add it in :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Do you have the sheets app Lauri? That's what I use on my iPhone/iPad although it doesn't have full functionality, it's ok for small edits or looking at a s/sheet

[Lauri]

Nope. Still need to charge my laptop & try that way - BUT - I have started on my yellow text book. Should be a quick and easy read... It's 'Insane City' by Dave Barry. Happy reading, everyone!


Just figured out how to add the book cover...SO proud of myself!

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

I finished

which although doesn't count for this challenge, I *really* enjoyed. Can't beleive it took me so long to get around to reading it.
Anyhow, it means I can now start my book with yellow text on the cover :)

[Jess]

Yay :) I'll be starting my yellow text book tonight, though I changed my mind on what it was, haha. I'm going with this one now :)

[Laila Jane]

I'm hoping to start my yellow text book this weekend, just need to finish my current book first.

[Delitealex]

finishing up 2 books will start yellow text book this weekend.