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Around the World Team Challenge
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Team Reading Between the Wines
Your itinerary is
here
When you have a team name, just let me know and I'll update this thread name :)
First stop - Santa Cruz De La Palma (Spain)
So just to get you started...Your first stop is Santa Cruz De La Palma, Spain
You can choose as a team to:
TASK
- Read books set in Spain, or by Spanish authors or
- Do a spell-it-out of Santa Cruz De La Palma or Spain
OR
You can elect to do the detour, which for this stop, means that four of you need to "Read a book that is in the "Best Unknown but must be Known books " Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...)"
Hi team, I am Melanie and I live in Australia.I'm looking forward to this challenge.
I'm good with either a spell-it-out challenge or the task based on Spanish books/authors. Let me know what you want to do.
Hi Everyone, I'm Michelle and I'm also from Australia. I'm happy with the spell it out or I also have some books on the detour list to read.
How do we want to keep track of it all? I've seen some other teams use extra pages on the google spreadsheet set up by the mods which looks like a good idea.
Twist wrote: "Reading Between the Wines..."Teehee
I should steal that for my RL book club!!
I'm mainly in it for a bit of fun and to diversify my reading. I'm not naturally competitive though so if we want to maximise points then I'm easy and open to whatever everyone else wants to do at each stop. I'll read pretty much anything :-)I love, love, love 'Reading Between the Wines'. It gave me a good giggle when I read that.
I am willing to join a team if anyone is still looking?
Cecily wrote: "I am willing to join a team if anyone is still looking?"added!
Hello Team 23 or is it already Reading between the wines? :)I am Melinda from Hungary. I am an avid reader and like challenges, but at the same time happy to go with the flow and read books for fun. I don't have any books about Spain/ by Spanish authors, but I am good for the spell it out.
Do we need to make a special GR shelf for the books read for this challenge? Is there an actual starting date when a book counts for this challenge?
hi everyone...I live in Alberta Canada. so nice to meet you all and look forward to finding new books and authors.
I read all kinds of books and I seem to be either reading or listening to a book.
I like Reading Between the Wines....very cute...
Twist wrote: "Melindam wrote: "Hello Team 23 or is it already Reading between the wines? :)"Michelle and I are the only ones who have said anything about it. What say you? That one is my favorite out of all of..."
I like Global Booking better, but happy to go with the "Wines" as well. :)
I will start reading The Hidden Icon: Book of Icons - Volume One and will keep track of character names for the spell it out.Can a book I started reading yesterday (13 May, Saturday in my timezone) be counted for this challenge?
Hey everyone, I'm Julia from Germany. I love reading challenges and I've been waiting for being part of this challenge for what felt like ages! I'm mainly here to diversify my reading and have fun!
As for the name of our team, I really like Reading between the wines :)
For this stop I'd be fine with either a spell it out or Spanish authors oooor the detour.
But it seems as if the majority is more into the spell it out. If we do the spell it out though are we doing Spain or santa de la cruz?
Updated the detour spreadsheet too!
Hello Everyone!My name is Lucy, and I'm from Maryland in the U.S. I'm okay with whatever the group name is, they were all very cute.
As for the reading challenge, I think I prefer Spell it out, but I think I might have a book from Spain somewhere. I like challenges but I'm also content with doing this for fun, it's been awhile since I've done my last team challenge so I'm content with enjoying it.
If we are doing the spell it out, I will be reading:
City: D A Darker Shade of Magic or C A Court of Wings and Ruin
Country: S Salt to the Sea or P Passenger
Just decide and I'll plan accordingly.
if we do the spell out for City...2 people would need to read 3 books and the rest of us read two books. if we do Country then 2 people would take a pass for this week.
if we read books set in Spain or by a Spainish author then everyone reads one book.
Am I correct in this logic?
I am fine with playing either for fun or competively.
I love the name Reading between the wines. lol
Marked my locations for the detour on the spreadsheet.If we are doing the SPAIN spellout
The Last Camellia for author letter S
If we are doing Santa Cruz De La Palma
The Last Camellia for author letter S or title L
2 I have already started - can they be used? I started them last night.
Ghosts of Tsavo for author letter E
Curse of the Purple Delhi Sapphire for author letter S or R or title letter C
If we are doing the Spanish author task I can find something at the library....
Marked my locations for the detour.For detour 3 & 7 (pages add up to 6 & audio narrated by author) I looked for books that fit this criteria but I couldn't find them yet. And I work a double today, tomorrow, and the late shift on Tuesday. On Wednesday, I'll look through my to-reads list again and see if I can find the books that fit this criteria.
Happy Reading Everyone!
P.S. I already started reading Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys just in case I might not be on here to update yall for the next two days.
Ive marked the Detour spreadsheet and I am happy with either playing for fun or playing for points.This is my first time playing at NBRC so I may need help along the way. lol
If we read book by Spanish authors/set in Spain I have
The Shadow of the Wind which is set in Barcelona and by a Spanish author.If we can ignore the THE I could use it for either spell outs too.
I'm happy with Reading Between the Wines as my vote and I'm thinking the city Spell It Out will be the easiest to start with.I'm about to start A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron
I'm not sure what the main characters name is in this yet but will let you know if it could go for any of the other letters instead once I start reading.
Ive checked post 32 and for Points or Fun I will say either.I don't mind if we just do it for fun or competitive.
Twist wrote: "This is the list of books that you all have said you are reading, in the order that you posted them above. Please see the spreadsheet and enter the character names from your books so we can see how..."I will add the characters later today for my 2 books. I am off to do some study now.
I am fine whatever is best to the Team! :)I have just finished Den of Shadows by Christopher Byford
I will definitely read The Hidden Icon: Book of Icons - Volume One by the end of the week and I can also tackle a 3rd book The Case of the Deadly Toy by Erle Stanley Gardner. I will put it to the spreadsheet as well.
Twist wrote: "How many books can you read in 1 week?Cecily -
Julia -
Lucy -
Melanie -
Melindam - 3
Michelle -
Rosina -
Twist - 4 or more"
this week I can definitely read 2 with a possible 3rd
I'm gonna read Die Therapie by Sebastian Fitzek (1) and Still Alice by Lisa Genova (2). I'm probably going to stick to two books a week with a possibly third. Also I started reading today, so May 15th :) Can anybody explain the third spread sheet to me real quick? Do I just put the books in once? So for example I put in book (2) into the S row for the book title column. Should I put it into another column that fits (for example the L row for the authors name column)?
I apologize in advance for any grammar mistakes by the way!
Twist wrote: "Julia wrote: "I'm gonna read Die Therapie by Sebastian Fitzek (1) and Still Alice by Lisa Genova (2). I'm probably going to stick to two books a week with a possibly third. Also I started reading t..."Ah ok, thank you!
It usually depends on the book and how busy my week is.Based on this week and the length of the books listed above:
This week I grabbed an extra shift at work so I can guarantee one book. most likely two books.
But I would say my average is 2 or 3 books a week.
I normally read 2 books in a week and will try my hardest for the 2 this week (The Three Musketeers and Outlander) however they are 700 odd pages and 800 odd pages respectively.
I have added the main characters of my two books. Would it be easier if we all added to the city spell out sheet or would it be easier for one person to add it?Not too sure how we can do this without doubling up on titles.
Referring to message 53, my start dates were May 14th and 15th.
I can usually only get through one book a week on average. I was under the impression we could make the time between stops as long or as short as we like and didn't have to stick with just a week.
I won't be able to have set start and finish days for books as I run a business and have two young kids I juggle around that so reading is my escape when everyone is in bed at night. That's why challenges are more for the fun for me because sometimes I'll get to plow through a book in a couple of days but then if work and kids get too much it may take me a week.
I started reading on the 13th in the evening for 2 books and then this morning 15th for the other one...
Twist wrote: "I think that this time around let one person add to the city sheet. Let's get a feel for it to see how it goes. I think Michelle created the sheet, and then I added the city name and someone added ..."Im only new to team challenges too and I don't want to either slack off nor step on toes. lol
Thank you for taking leadership Twist, I am happy to help in any way I can too.
Is there any other character besides Eiren in The Hidden Icon: Book of Icons - Volume One by Jillian Kuhlmann? Any first or last names that start with A, U, or Z?Yes, there is a character named "Antares". I have yet to see if there is anyone with names U / Z. I have updated the characters-spreadsheet with some names from Hidden Icon.
Reply to message 53 - I started reading 13th May (converted from my timezone which is CET).
Twist: Thanks! You are awesome!! And I think you are doing great, I don't think you are doing too much, thank you for your leadership! I'm busy with half the week, (my work schedule is a little crazy because I'm a workaholic) but let me know if there's anything you want help with. I'm just going to post things on here so I don't double post on the spreadsheet.
Salt to the Sea
started on the 13th
Characters
Alfred Frick
Joana
Florian Beck
Emilia
Looking great everyone!
I want to thank everyone as well. I was so worried to be put in a team where no one is participating...and thank you Twist for organizing all of this! Let's do this! :)
Hear! Hear! Thank you, Twist for taking us all under your wings. :)
twist so far no U Z or A names in the Ghosts....have R S L B G...
my other book the Last Camellia has character named Addison
just checked spreadsheet it's already under A....
If it helps I could exchange Still Alice for The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, that way we have a U!
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