2017 The "All Your Book Are Belong to Us" Challenge

[HomeInMyShoes]

I know. AWOL. A long time. Apologies. Having a new child really did me in and then sorting out finances and paternity leave and work and stress and being a bit down sometimes. Anyway, I'm back. Maybe not as much as before but I am around. Anyway the 2017 challenge.

[HomeInMyShoes]

2017 "All Your Book Are Belong to Us" Challenge
Scoring
Just score as many points as you can. Highest scores get bragging rights and the chance to put their initials on the leaderboard. People can PM me to let me know how their scoring is doing so we can keep a list of shame going. I expect myself to be pretty far down this year with everything going on in my life.

points
1 point for every book you read this year, even if it doesn't fit a challenge

bonus points
1 point for reading a book from a sub-challenge (13 points in total if you read one from every possible challenge)
1 point for completing a sub-challenge, 2 for the next completed, 3 for the next, ... up to 13 for the last one


The categories (challenge)
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Alphabet (1)
1. a set of books covering every letter of the alphabet (26)

Character (3)
2. a book where a character has the same name as you
3. a book in which most of the main characters are retired
4. a book with a robot as the main character

Crayons (8)
5. a set of books with a cover the color of every color in an 8-pack of crayons (8)

Easy (5)
6. any book you want
7. any book you want
8. any book you want
9. any book you want
10. any book you want

Florida
11. a book that takes place on a boat (partial okay)
12. a book that takes place in in-land Florida excluding the Everglades
13. a book involving a hurricane
14. a book that involves going on a fun outing and getting lost

Genre
15. a book that was banned
16. a book about Zombies
17. a non-fiction book about science
18. a pulp/noir book
19. a horror book
20. a book about aliens
21. an urban fantasy book
22. a collection of short stories (one or many authors)
23. a microhistory

Miscellaneous
24. a book you choose because of the cover
25. a book about music (fiction or non-fiction)
26. a book with a number in the title
27. a book that takes place under the sea
28. a book from a pretentious or presumptuous list of books
29. a book about something you arre not supposed to be interested in
30. a book you fished from the library (see notes below)

Recommendations
31. a book from the GoodReads recommendations page
32. a book recommended by a librarian
33. a book recommended by your spouse, sibling, bff

Sports
34. read a book about the Grey Cup
35. read a book about the Saskatchewan Roughriders
36. a book written by a sports celebrity
37. a book about baseball

TBR
38. a favorite book you haven't reviewed and review it
39. a book you found at a garage sale
40. a book you've put off for years , though you know you really want to read it
41. a haul (set) of books purchased in 2017, at least 3 books < $5 US (3)

Time Traveller
42. a book first published in the year you graduated from high school
43. a book that takes place over 24 hours or less
44. a book with a season in the title
45. a book you should have read in school
46. a book published before you were born
47. a book published in 2016

World
48. a book written by an author from Newfoundland and set in Newfoundland
49. a book that reminds you of home
50. a book set somewhere you want to visit
51. a book by an author from Iceland

Writing
52. a book about a book
53. a book written in the first person
54. a book based on another author's work (fanfict)

Miscellaneous Rules and Notes
Books can be counted twice for challenge purposes (this is really to make the alphabet possible for everyone). You'll only get the single point for the read, but they can count the two bonus points for reading a book from a challenge group if you haven't nabbed that point yet.

library fishing
Check out your library and count the number of rows in the section you are fishing, pick a random number and go to that row. Count the stacks and repeat the random process. Count the shelves on that stack and repeat the random process. Count the books on the shelf and repeat the random process. Pick a book within a few of the fished target. You know how fish are and I don't want anyone getting a 1,200 page microfiche history of a place they don't care about.
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[HomeInMyShoes]

For keeping track of how the members are doing.



Dazrin 3/9/2017 71
DoodlePanda 3/6/2017 44

The Leaderboard
158 HomeInMyShoes (May 3)
120 Dazrin (April 28)
85 MrsJoseph (April 24)
81 Orlok (April 18)
75 DoodlePanda (April 10)
46 Stephanie (Feb 12)
17 Nyssa (Mar 29)

Let me know if I am missing any points.

[Christa, The Renewed]

Welcome back! You were missed. :) And I think I speak for everyone when I say that we understand how life can do that sometimes, and we're just happy to know you're around and alright.

Now that the mushy stuff is out of the way...

Nice challenge list! You know, if I wrote a book about my adventures in Florida, I'd have that entire one covered for you. LOL But I won't because I'm too busy with my own challenge. :D

[Nyssa, Series Addict]

HiMS!!!! We missed you! I'm so happy you're back and okay. Congratulations on the little one!
And ditto to what Christa said! (((Hugs)))

[DoodlePanda]

Welcome back! :)

[DoodlePanda]

Im up for this, I'm not sure I'll read books spesifically for this but I recon a lot of my books will cover some of these points :)

[DoodlePanda]

Do the alphabet count as one point? Or one point per book?

[HomeInMyShoes]

Each book under anything with "set" in the description counts as a point. If you finished the alphabet one A-Z then you'd have gotten 26 points for the books read, plus a point for completing at least one book in a given category and bonus point(s) depending on how many categories you have completed at that point.

And if your math is faulty I'm not going to lay blame. The others might, but I won't. :P

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!


Welcome back!!

So glad to see you and CONGRATS on the new baby!

We all understand. Life happens.

I'm just glad that you're ok. :)

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

This challenge is swwwweeeeeet! And challenging.

I like!

[HomeInMyShoes]

This is going to pose some a challenge in optimizing the reading. I went to the library to pick a fishing book and found: The Symmetry Teacher by Andrei Bitov. So far it could count as Crayons:Blue, Alphabet:B, Miscellaneous:Fishing; Writing:1st person; Writing:BookAboutABook;Writing:BookBasedOnAnotherAuthor.

I'm thinking Fishing and BasedOnAnotherAuthor.

That is if I finish it. It is Russian.

[Christa, The Renewed]

Okay, you win. I'm going to try this and just add it as another scoring section along with my existing challenge. :D

[DoodlePanda]

Christa wrote: "Okay, you win. I'm going to try this and just add it as another scoring section along with my existing challenge. :D"

YAAAAAAAAY!!!! :D

[DoodlePanda]

I will need assistance on the points... just a heads up :P

[Orlok]

HomeInMyShoes wrote: "I know. AWOL. A long time. Apologies. Having a new child really did me in and then sorting out finances and paternity leave and work and stress and being a bit down sometimes. Anyway, I'm back. May..."

Good to see you back, and congratulations!

[DoodlePanda]

I can't figure this out: 1 point for reading a book from a sub-challenge (13 points in total if you read one from every possible challenge)

Wouldn't that be 53 points + 26 for the alphabet? The goal is to read all the books in the subchallenges to get max points?

[HomeInMyShoes]

Right, that probably wasn't clear enough. Should probably read one point for trying a category. So, if you read ten books that apply to the alphabet challenge you would get 10 points for those books and one point for having dipped into that pool.

So one point for starting a category one point for every book read in that category and then bonus points for completing the category equal to the number of categories you have completed.

Is that clearer? Muddier?

The alphabet challenge would give one 26 + 1 + (category bonus) for completing. Might not be fair for really large categories, but they have lots of points available and I figured this might get people branching out into some of the smaller groups of books.

[DoodlePanda]

Aaaaaaaaahhhh I get it now :D

Sorry, didn't meant to be difficult. Again :P

Thanks for explaining :)

[Christa, The Renewed]

I think I'm gonna stick with just my original challenges. After adding a post with this one, on top of the others, I realized I'd spend more time updating my challenges than reading. LOL

But I'm looking forward to watching the leaderboard! :)

[HomeInMyShoes]

^If it's that hard all you have to do is tell me the book and what categories it covers. I think I could make a spreadsheet pretty quick to do the tabulations fairly easily.

[DoodlePanda]

HomeInMyShoes wrote: "^If it's that hard all you have to do is tell me the book and what categories it covers. I think I could make a spreadsheet pretty quick to do the tabulations fairly easily."

LOL thanks! But I think I should be able to figure it out now :)

I doesn't help that I had 4 hrs sleep last night, I hope my brain function will pick up once I've caught up on sleep :P

[DoodlePanda]

Unless that was meant for Christa, in which case: Ignore :P

[HomeInMyShoes]

I meant for Christa.

As a parent of a young one again I thrive on lack of sleep. Or I pretend to.

Thanks for all the kind wishes everyone.

[HomeInMyShoes]

I took a stab at a spreadsheet and tallied the points which you can see above. I took some guesses where people would have slotted books they have shelved as read this year.

I'm way behind already, but since I just started reading yesterday that is to be expected.

[Christa, The Renewed]

Thanks for the offer, Homey. It wasn't because of that so much, but rather that my other main challenge is pretty involved. The Weird Challenge takes more effort than I've ever put in for one of these things and I worry if I over-extend myself, I'll give up on all of them.

[DoodlePanda]

I will have a look once the weekend arrives to see if I can sort the books I've read so far! This week has been a lot of lack of energy and not enough sleep so my brain isn't fully functioning :P

[HomeInMyShoes]

Does anyone think February will roll around before I finish a book?

[Christa, The Renewed]

HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Does anyone think February will roll around before I finish a book?"

Hmm... Too soon to tell. :D

[Stephanie]

Fun challenge, I've got a few on it already.
What other alphabet series are there other than Sue Grafton and Carole Nelson Douglas?

[DoodlePanda]

Stephanie wrote: "Fun challenge, I've got a few on it already.
What other alphabet series are there other than Sue Grafton and Carole Nelson Douglas?"

They don't need to be books from the same series :)
At least I hope not... LOL

[HomeInMyShoes]

Nope. Whatever works.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Whew. I'm on the scoreboard.

[DoodlePanda]

HomeInMyShoes wrote: "Whew. I'm on the scoreboard."

Well done :D

[Stephanie]

I have 6 points so far. :)

[HomeInMyShoes]

I'm up to ten now with another book read and a fresh start into the Alphabet and Characte subchallenges.

[DoodlePanda]

HomeInMyShoes wrote: "I'm up to ten now with another book read and a fresh start into the Alphabet and Characte subchallenges."

Well done :)

I'm gonna enjoy my place in the lead as I'm pretty sure it's not gonna last long... :P

[HomeInMyShoes]

It is hard to tell since the others aren't being too forthcoming with their points yet. Probably just lulling you into a false sense of security.

I'm up to 14 now, but it seems wasteful to not be achieveing five points with the first few selections.

[DoodlePanda]

I'm assuming audio books count?

And how long does a book need to be to count?

[HomeInMyShoes]

Question one: YES.
Question two: who cares. :)

It really doesn't matter. In the past I've counted books as short as 31 pages. I wouldn't count an individual short story usually but that one was a prequel standalone I needed to finish a series. I've also counted the 48-page Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot. It all balances out at some point as my average book length since 2011 is 290 pages. If you think something is too short or not applicable that's your choice not anyone else's.

The goal of the challenge is to get us talking about things we read and maybe gettinng us to try some different stuff. That's really it. The points are just silly really. Giving us a chance to play book rationalization BINGO.

[DoodlePanda]

Cool, thats what I thought

It's a fun challenge tho! :D

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

I'm so bookless right now.

*wails*

[DoodlePanda]

MrsJoseph wrote: "I'm so bookless right now.

*wails*"

I hate that feeling :(

[HomeInMyShoes]

MrsJoseph wrote: "I'm so bookless right now.

*wails*"

+

MrsJoseph wrote: "I have a problem reading books I own.

Thats a major failing."

Is not adding up for me. Is this a new math kind of question?

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

pfffffft

I don't not have books - that's 100% impossible because I'm pretty sure I'm close to SABLE.

But I don't have books to read.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

And that double negative is really bothering me but I'm stuck on how to change it

[Nyssa, Series Addict]

MrsJoseph wrote: "And that double negative is really bothering me but I'm stuck on how to change it"

"I do have books, just not books I want to read."

[HomeInMyShoes]

I know, I was just beinng a jerk. :P

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

HomeInMyShoes wrote: "I know, I was just beinng a jerk. :P"

pfffffft!

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Resident Book Pusher]

Nyssa wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "And that double negative is really bothering me but I'm stuck on how to change it"

"I do have books, just not books I want to read.""

I couldn't brain that yesterday, lol.