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Read-a-Thon #2 - Blue Team Battleship Strategy Topic
Welcome Blue Team, I’m looking forward to reading along with everyone. :-)I have shamelessly borrowed Laura’s grid and tracker so I can update this to keep track of our progress, including how many guesses our team earns and when we’ve used them.
I can earn guesses for our team by completing tasks but you guys will have to use the guesses as the mods have a map of the ships so I’m not allowed to guess!
Targets
(_)(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)(F)(G)(H)(I)(J)(K)(L)
(01)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)
(02)(-)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)
(03)(🌊)(-)(-)(💥)(💥)(💥)(💥)(💥)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)
(04)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)
(05)(-)(🌊)(🌊)(-)(🌊)(-)(🌊)(💥)(💥)(💥)(-)(-)
(06)(-)(-)(💥)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)
(07)(-)(-)(💥)(-)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)(-)
(08)(-)(-)(💥)(🌊)(-)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)
(09)(-)(-)(💥)(-)(-)(💥)(🌊)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)
(10)(-)(-)(🌊)(-)(🌊)(💥)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)(-)(-)
(11)(-)(-)(-)(-)(🌊)(💥)(-)(-)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)
(12)(-)(🌊)(-)(-)(-)(-)(-)(🌊)(💥)(💥)(-)(-)
GUESSES USED/GUESSES EARNED
Bryony (Mod)
Rachel (5/5)
Erica (4/5)
Marina H (6/8)
Rachelnyc (5/5)
Tracy (3/3)
Hannah (2/2)
Kathy Jo (5/6)
Hilde (3/4)
Jill (2/2)
Jody (2/2)
Team (3/11)
GUESSES
Bryony (Mod)
Rachel - C5, C10, H12, E10, F11
Erica - C9, A3, B12, H5
Marina H - F2, I12, J5, G8, F7, F10
Rachelnyc - E5, C7, F3, G9, F9
Tracy - H10, G4, J12
Hannah - H3, I7
Kathy Jo - B5, C6, C2, B1, G3
Hilde - D8, I5, E3
Jill - J11, E11
Jody - C8, J3, J8
Team - G5, D3
TEAM TASKS TRACKER
Reading Tasks
- Finish 3 Books (Single Member) ⚡
✔️ Marina H
✔️ Finish 10 Books (2 Books per Member) ⚡
- Finish 15 Books (3 Books per Member) ⚡
- Finish 20 Books (4 Books per Member) ⚡
- Read 5 Books for the ATY Reading Challenge (2 per Member) ⚡
✔️(5/5) [Rachelnyc] [Kathy Jo] [Marina] [Jill] [Kathy Jo]
- Finish a Book or Story in One Sitting ⚡
✔️ Kathy Jo
✔️ Rachel
✔️ Marina H
✔️ Hilde
✔️ Marina H
- Read for 2 Straight Hours (1 Per Member; Limit of 10 Hours) ⚡
✔️ Kathy Jo
✔️ Marina H
✔️ Rachelnyc
✔️Erica
✔️ Hilde
Finish 3 Books Started Before the Read-a-Thon (1 per Member; <75% Complete) ⚡
✔️(3/3)[Marina] [Rachelnyc] [Bryony]
(2/3) [Hilde] [Jill]
✔️Rachelnyc
✔️Jody
✔️Hilde
✔️Erica
✔️ Tracy
✔️Read 4,000 pages (600 per Member) ⚡(/4,000)
Bryony - 158
Rachel - 600 (max)
Erica - 600 (max)
Marina H - 600 (max)
Rachelnyc - 600 (max)
Tracy - 170
Hannah - 600 (max)
Kathy Jo - 297
Hilde - 53
Jill - 600 (max)
Jody - 263
- All members of the team recommend a book
- 2 Books by a Female Author (1 per Member) ⚡
✔️(2/2) [Jill] [Marina]
✔️(2/2) [Tracy] [Erica]
✔️ (2/2) [Kathy Jo] [Rachelnyc]
- 2 Books by a POC ⚡
✔️(2/2) [Jody] [Kathy Jo]
✔️(2/2) [Tracy] [Erica]
- 2 Graphic Novels or Manga (1 per Member) (1/2) [Bryony]
- Listen to 20 Hours of Audiobooks (5 Hours per Member) ⚡(21.5/20)
✔️ Hilde - 5 hours
✔️ Marina- 5 hours
✔️ Kathy Jo - 5 hours
✔️ Jill - 3 hours
✔️ Jody - 3.5 hours
- 3 Short Stories/Novellas (1 per Member) (3/3) [Kathy Jo] [Hilde] [Tracy]
- Read the Rainbow (1 Book for Each Color - Red [], Orange [✔️], Yellow [], Green[✔️], Blue [✔️], Purple/Violet [✔️]) ⚡
READ-A-THON GAMES TRACKER
Bryony (Mod) - [✔️][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][W]
Rachel - [✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️][4][5][6][7][W]
Erica - [✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️][4][5][6][7][W]
Marina H - [✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️][4][5][6][7][W]
Rachelnyc - [✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️][4][5][6][7][W]
Tracy - [✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️][4][5][6][7][W]
Hannah - [✔️][✔️][✔️][3][4][5][6][7][W]
Kathy Jo - [✔️][✔️][✔️][3][4][5][6][7][W]
Hilde - [✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️][4][5][6][7][W]
Jill - [✔️][✔️][✔️][✔️][4][5][6][7][W]
Jody - [K][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][W]
K= Kick-Off Questionnaire
1 = Getting to Know You
2 = Bookish A-Z
3 = Recommendations
4 =
5 =
6 =
7 =
8 =
9 =
10 =
11 =
W = Wrap-up
All the books read:
Started before readathon :
Read during readathon:
Good morning, Blue Team:) Excited to start!
Good morning Blue team. Great with a new team challenge... I'm working the first three days next week but then I'm off for Easter and I have no plans those days, so I hope to read a lot of books!
This is going to be great! Looking forward to getting started!
Hi Blue Team! Loving the format of this read-a-thon and really looking forward to it!I have two books I'm currently reading and four more library books already out that I'm hoping to get to during the read-a-thon. I'll have to look later at which prompts the others fit but You fits the following prompts:
One word title
Thriller
Female author
Published outside Major 5
Red on cover (not sure if it has to be entirely red or if this fits
Good morning team..... I’m confused already lol. I currently have 2 books started and am less than 30% with both of them . I can’t link here on the app but they are Peony in Love by Lisa See and The Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks. I’ll have to check back in when I get out of work, but I’m hoping to finish up those two this weekend for the challenge.
Peony in Love
Lost Memory of Skin
I am also confused, Tracy, haha. But I guess we learn as we go ;) This is going to be fun!I am currently reading Liv andre har levd (audio), and have approx 50 % left. So this can fit the "finish a book started before the Read-a-Thon" as well as others.
I am planning to read The Complete Persepolis, which can fit the graphic novel in addition to others. I have read 1 page so far, so will wait to start it until tomorrow.
I will check which other categories these can fill when I get back home from work.
I'm working on My Not So Perfect Life which we could use for the green cover in read the rainbow
.I've also just started Huset ved Riverton and both books are for the ATY challenge.
I went to the library today and brought home 5 books so I should be all the set!
Glad I'm not the only one confused. I re-read the instructions and I guess we don't have to worry too much about which category a book matches since we can have multiple guesses per category?
Rachelnyc wrote: "Glad I'm not the only one confused. I re-read the instructions and I guess we don't have to worry too much about which category a book matches since we can have multiple guesses per category?"The only tasks we need to sort of plan are the ones that require we work together such as read the rainbow, listen to 20 hours audio and a few others like that.
As I understand it each book we read can count for one task unless it's one of the tasks marked ⚡And we don't need to complete every task, though it would be fun if we did 😊.
Hi team, sorry if anyone is finding the game confusing! I’ll do my best to answer any questions so just shout if there’s anything you’re not sure about.Other than the tasks marked ⚡ we can repeat tasks so as Rachelnyc says, we don’t need to worry if two people want to read a book that matches the same category.
We will need to coordinate for the ⚡tasks though because they can’t be repeated and for some there is a limit to how much each team member can contribute, eg if we want to earn a guess for reading ten books then we need at least five people working on the task as each person can only contribute two books to the total.
Haha, we must have posted at the same time Marina! I think your explanation is clearer than mine though. Completing all the tasks will be an ambitious goal, but I think it’s worth trying... :-)
Its making sense now that I'm home on the computer and not trying to read it off the app
Thanks Marina and Bryony! I hope that didn't come across as a complaint, it is just a lot to take in, which is a good thing. I love that it's more complicated and there are more ways to get involved and work together as a team. You mods are awesome and I am really impressed with the detail of this read-a-thon!
Bryony wrote: "Haha, we must have posted at the same time Marina! I think your explanation is clearer than mine though. Completing all the tasks will be an ambitious goal, but I think it’s worth trying... :-)"I'm up for an extra challenge :-)
Rachelnyc wrote: "Thanks Marina and Bryony! I hope that didn't come across as a complaint, it is just a lot to take in, which is a good thing. I love that it's more complicated and there are more ways to get invol..."
I love it too!
No worries Rachel, it didn’t sound like a complaint at all. :-) Marina, challenge accepted! Read-a-thons always encourage my competitive side!
Hi Team Blue! Very excited about our read-a-thon, especially since I thought it started next week. 🤦🏼♀️ I've just finished two books, so I'm pumped and ready to start some fresh ones!
Jody wrote: "Hi Team Blue! Very excited about our read-a-thon, especially since I thought it started next week. 🤦🏼♀️ I've just finished two books, so I'm pumped and ready to start some fresh ones!"Same here! I was sure it started next week, and I think that's actually the week I voted for. In hindsight, this week actually works better for me since I have absolutely no plans for this weekend, and I have next Friday off!
Hello team!Confession time: I started The House of Seven Gables before the last readathon. I decided it was going to be a slow read, so I moved on to get more books finished. I STILL haven't finished it, and I only finished one book since the last read-a-thon. So hopefully I can finish the darn thing tomorrow and count it for started before the read-a-thon. I am using it as my gothic novel for ATY.
I have several short stories lined up, so I should be able to do that too.
Rachel wrote: "Jody wrote: "Hi Team Blue! Very excited about our read-a-thon, especially since I thought it started next week. 🤦🏼♀️ I've just finished two books, so I'm pumped and ready to start some fresh ones!..."Oh Rachel true.... I have next friday off too and the girlies won't be here.... thats a whole extra day to read :-)
Also was planning on working on my middle grade and picture books challenges , so I can cover those tasks easy. I have a stack in my room.
One started for before the read a thon ( Lost Memory of Skin)
and Peony in Love could work as a second female author buddying up with Rachelnyc if thats where You ends up......or could be a spring cover.
Hi team! I’m working today and tomorrow so won’t get a ton of reading done, but I’m reading Strange Weather by Joe Hill and though it is long, it is a quick read:) Looking forward to reading with you!
Good morning, Team Blue! 🎽It’s just past 9am here, and I’m about to get started with the read-a-thon. Happy weekend & happy reading everyone!!
good morning Jody and everyone... Its 4:30 am here in CT and I'm up thanks to the miracle of text messages and my sciatica lol. Getting started with finishing up what I'm reading right now ....I'm about 40% in.... probably will fall back asleep at some point but i got my cleaning done the other day so just have a few light chores to do at some point today and ready to hole up for the weekend with a lot of coffee and some good books . I'm so excited, I love these read a thons :-)
I'm up as well and working on my first book. I hope to finish My Not So Perfect Life maybe today but definitely tomorrow. I started it before the read-a-thon and it's for the ATY challenge. Happy reading everyone 😊
Good morning, Blue Team:) I just finished my breakfast, and are ready to kick off the read-a-thon. I am currently working up my motivation to start cleaning the apartment for easter. Luckily I have my audiobook to help keep me entertained for that, so will probably get a good two hours audio in this morning. I am listening to Liv andre har levd which I started before the read-a-thon and it is also for the ATY challenge. Happy reading 😊
So for the read-a-thon games task, I have done the Kick Off, Getting to Know You and Bookish A-Z
Bryony wrote: "Hi team, sorry if anyone is finding the game confusing! I’ll do my best to answer any questions so just shout if there’s anything you’re not sure about.Other than the tasks marked ⚡ we can repeat..."
Hi Bryony,
So I have a question for the prompts that can be repetitive. For example, for the author task we need to read two books to get a prompt completed. But for most of the others, it only has to be one (genre prompt for instance). Will you get two quesses for the author task per prompt or just one? Otherwise it would be wiser to chose the prompt where we only have to read one book. Hope that wasn't to unclear.
Hilde wrote: "Bryony wrote: "Hi team, sorry if anyone is finding the game confusing! I’ll do my best to answer any questions so just shout if there’s anything you’re not sure about.Other than the tasks marked ..."
Hilde, check message #13 in this thread, Bryony explained it pretty well up there :-)
Completed the Kick off Game ( message #6) , Getting to Know You ( message #8), and Bookish A-Z ( message #3)
From what I've read this year I'm going to throw a recommendation out there : The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder. This book blew my mind. I think its a great read for anyone who's into non-fiction and/or works in the healthcare field, or is interested in law in general.What I loved most about it was that it wasn't the Killer that had me saying " OMFG"!!!!!!!!
Tracy- I read that book last year on the recommendation of a coworker. Definitely recommend it. Amazing his sickness and the way the hospitals covered it up!I will recommend another nonfiction. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, about a young man who wanderfps around for a few years and ends up dying in Alaska. (Not a spoiler, he tells us he dies at the very beginning.)
Tracy wrote: "Hilde wrote: "Bryony wrote: "Hi team, sorry if anyone is finding the game confusing! I’ll do my best to answer any questions so just shout if there’s anything you’re not sure about.Other than the..."
Thank you Tracy, but I am still left wondering. Should the author tasks perhaps have lighting signs since they require multiple books?
We're visiting some friends this evening, so I won't be reading much more this first day.But I finished My not so perfect life and it can count towards A book for the ATY challenge and A book started before the read-a-thon.
I've also read for two hours straight today. And we could use it as a romance book.
Maybe I'll check in later tonight 😊
Hilde, the intention is that the team needs to read two books to complete those tasks and earn a guess. But of course you’re right that people may want to count books for tasks that offer a guess for completing just one book. Unless we do want to aim to finish all the tasks, of course! :-)
Bryony wrote: "Hilde, the intention is that the team needs to read two books to complete those tasks and earn a guess. But of course you’re right that people may want to count books for tasks that offer a guess f..."Thank you, Bryoni. I got the intention, but it wouldn't be very clever for us as a team to chose those, as we would earn more guesses by choosing the one book prompts. Unless we wanted to go for all, like you said ;)
I took up the question in the general thread as well, and Laura just got back to me saying that she had changed the rules, and that the author prompts now have a lightning sign:)
Marina H wrote: "We're visiting some friends this evening, so I won't be reading much more this first day.But I finished My not so perfect life and it can count towards A book for the ATY challenge and A book star..."
Yay, first book finished, well done! :)
oh my good ness, just when I think I've figured it out.....Bryony, so can any tasks without lightning be overlapped ( one book used for multiple tasks earning multiple guesses?)
For example: I am reading Peony in Love which could fit for
historical fiction or romance
more than ten years old
a spring cover
and/or female author
once finished does it then count for all the tasks finished, and if I read another book by a female author would I then have also completed that task?
Also, for some of the tasks with limitations
again read 2 books by a female author... 1 per member....does that mean I could read 2 books by a female author ( or 2 graphic novels) to win a guess but then not complete that task again? Or does it mean that 2 members each have to read 1 book by a female author to complete the task?
Then some look like team tasks, finish 15 books, 5 members each have to read 3 books for this one?
and
read 20 hours of audio.... 4 people would each have to read 5 hours on audio for this task
Sorry....you poor thing, thats a lot of questions. I hope they make sense.
Tracy wrote: "oh my good ness, just when I think I've figured it out.....Bryony, so can any tasks without lightning be overlapped ( one book used for multiple tasks earning multiple guesses?)
For example: I a..."
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's opposite, i.e the lightning one are the ones that can be overlapped but not repeated, whilst the others can be repeated, but not overlapped.
😩.... gotta go back and read the rules again lol. Brain is completely malfunctioningBryony....dont even attempt to answer those silly questions lmao
Im about 95% sure I get it now, lol...but I need to get off this computer and READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good morning/afternoon blue team!I read for two hours straight and participated in the kickoff, bookish A-Z and getting to know you threads.
I have commented on A-Z, kickoff, and get to know you!Currently working on audio book by a Chinese man. Does that count as POC?
Good evening Team Blue!I'm a third of the way through A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. It's horrifying, to say the least. I would have gotten through it, but I was distracted by the first amazingly sunny & warm day in months, and took the opportunity to clean off the balcony and do some Spring cleaning. My back aches.
It could count for quite a few of the topics, but the child main character is probably the best one to pencil it in for.
I finished You which fits the following of the overlapping tasks:Finish a book for the ATY challenge
Book started before the marathon
Book by female author
For other tasks, it could be used for:
One word title
Mystery/Thriller
Book in a series
Book set in the country I reside in
Is anyone good with creating spreadsheets? It's not my strong suit but if someone could put one together, that would probably help keep us organized since there is a lot to track!
Next up for me is A Man Called Ove
Day one-Participated in games
Made a recommendation (into the Wild, Jon Krakauer)
The House of Seven Gables-
Read for 2 hours straight
Started before readathon
For ATY challenge
Could also be published more than ten years ago, article in title
Never Bet the Devil Your Head, Edgar Allan Poe
Short story
Read in one sitting
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, including the Raven and Annabel Lee
Couple hours early left on my audiobook
Page total: 103
Hope you all had a happy and productive reading day!I participated in all three games up so far.
I hope to finish The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir tonight but it may not happen until tomorrow morning. It is a book for the ATY challenge and will fill the book with a long title prompt.
Off to a decent start. I read 122 pages of Dumplin', and honestly I don't want to put it down but it's getting very late. No completed books yet, but I did the Kick-off post, Getting To Know You, Bookish A-Z, and I made a recommendation in the Recommend a Good One! thread. I'm not sure exactly how many or which of these are counted as games.
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If you need to reacquaint yourself with the rules for the Team Battleship Challenge, they're all posted over here.
Ultimately, your goal is to blast the five ships hidden on your board out of the water. There is one 5-Block ship, one 4-Block ship, two 3-Block ships, and one 2-Block ship hidden.
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Blue Team Roster
Bryony (Mod)
Rachel
Erica
Marina H
Rachelnyc
Tracy
Hannah
Kathy Jo
Hilde
Jill
Jody
BATTLESHIP TASKS
Reading Tasks
- Finish 3 Books (Single Member) ⚡
- Finish 10 Books (2 Books per Member) ⚡
- Finish 15 Books (3 Books per Member) ⚡
- Finish 20 Books (4 Books per Member) ⚡
- Read 5 Books for the ATY Reading Challenge (2 per Member) ⚡
- Finish a Book or Story in One Sitting ⚡
- Read for 2 Straight Hours (1 Per Member; Limit of 10 Hours) ⚡
- Finish 3 Books Started Before the Read-a-Thon (1 per Member; <75% Complete) ⚡
- Read 4,000 pages (600 per Member) ⚡
- All members of the team recommend a book
April Fool tasks!
In celebration of some of the greatest April Fool pranks...
- The Swiss spaghetti harvest: read a book set in Switzerland or by a Swiss author
- Sans Seriffe: read a book set in a fictional location
- The Sydney iceberg: read a book with snow on the cover
- Nixon for President: read a book about politics
- The London UFO: read a science fiction book
Title Tasks
- Read a Book with a One-Word Title
- Read a Book with an Article in the Title (a, an, the)
- Read a Book with a Long Title (6+words)
- Read a Book with a Color in the Title
Genre Tasks
- Read a Sci-Fi Book
- Read a Fantasy Book
- Read a Dystopian Book
- Read a Mystery/Thriller Book
- Read a Historical or Historical Fiction Book
- Read a Young Adult Book
- Read a Middle Grade Book
- Read a Picture Book
- Read a Horror Book
- Read a Romance Book
- Read a Non-Fiction Book
Author Tasks
- 2 Books by a Female Author (1 per Member) ⚡
- 2 Books by a POC ⚡
Format Tasks
- 2 Graphic Novels or Manga (1 per Member)
- Read a Book in a Series
- Listen to 20 Hours of Audiobooks (5 Hours per Member) ⚡
- Read a Poem
- 3 Short Stories/Novellas (1 per Member)
Setting/Character Tasks
- Read a Book Set in Winter
- Read a Book Set in the Country You Reside In
- Read a Book with a Child Main Character
Publishing Tasks
- Read a Book Published in 2018
- Read a Book Published More than 10 Years Ago
- Read a Book Published Outside the Major 5 Publishers (Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster)
Cover Tasks
- Read the Rainbow (1 Book for Each Color - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple/Violet) ⚡
- Read a Book with a Spring Cover (Trees, Flowers, etc.)
- Read a Book with a Summer Cover (Sea, Beach, etc.)
- Read a Book with an Autumn Cover (Leaves, Pumpkins, etc.)
- Read a Book with a Winter Cover (Snow, Ice, etc.)
Award/Rating Tasks
- A Book from the 2017 GR Choice Awards
- Finish a Book with an Average GR Rating of Between 4 and 4.3
- Finish a Book with an Average GR Rating Below 3.5
Read-a-Thon Tasks
- Complete every Read-a-Thon Game