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Challenges: Year Long Help 2021
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2020 Twisted Trivia - General Discussion
Kristie wrote: "I can understand that, Cherie. I find books on my TBR occasionally that I don’t know why I put them on there. Sometimes I think they were recommendations from people, but I think most of them came ..."My wishlist suffers from the same problem. I have over 1000 book on it and need to do some deletions. I remember one person said that she deleted everything that she didn't recognize. I'm thinking that perhaps I'd delete anything with a 3.5 or lower rating. One thing I've started doing is deleting those books that come up repeatedly on sales and I don't buy them. If I've rejected them five times in a sale, why are they still on my wishlist?
I used to carry a notebook in my purse with a list of maybe 10 books that I would watch for when I was shopping. And then I joined Goodreads. LOL!
Beth wrote: "Cherie wrote: "Punishment! I thought I was going crazy when I was gophering this morning. I was searching for books with "April in the title or set in the month of". I moved off of the task to add ..."I also have both April tasks with nothing picked yet for either. To make matters worse the book I'm currently reading is set in April - A Study in Silks. Haven't decided whether or not I like it but it's set in April if anyone wants it.
I kept track of monthly settings when we did the Zany Zodiac challenge. Here are some April books:Outrun the Moon
The Cruelest Month
Airframe
Hunting Houses
A Crack in the Edge of the World
I'm going to add these here too:
A Study in Silks
The Ides of April
That happens to me too Cherie. I add to my TBR list so easily but I seldom delete from it. Usually, I add a number of books for a theme I am interested but I will end up reading one of those which I think it’s one and I forget about the rest forever. Until I look at my TBR and realize that they are still there. I have started editing like Janice suggested and deleting books with lower ratings.
Janice wrote: "I kept track of monthly settings when we did the Zany Zodiac challenge. Here are some April books:Outrun the Moon
The Cruelest Month
Airframe
[book:Hunt..."
Thanks Janice, I was just looking at the Louise Penny series and put it in for April. Detective series are so handy for months but they often don't mention it in the blurb. Don't they realize this is important 😂
Also I only have the one April task after all so phew
I haven't even started reading yet and I am already shuffling books!!!
Janice wrote: "I kept track of monthly settings when we did the Zany Zodiac challenge. Here are some April books:"Thank you! This will be helpful. Could you copy and paste into the card question threads that have those tasks? I haven't gotten through to the April tasks yet to know if I have one (I'm sure I will) and I know I'll lose these by the time I get there.
Also, have you read any of these? Would you recommend them?
Jayme wrote: "I haven't even started reading yet and I am already shuffling books!!!"Me too! LOL!
Kristie wrote: "Thank you! This will be helpful. Could you copy and paste into the card question threads that have those tasks? .."I linked back to message 104 in both card threads.
Janice wrote: "Kristie wrote: "Thank you! This will be helpful. Could you copy and paste into the card question threads that have those tasks? .."I linked back to message 104 in both card threads."
Thank you!
Kristie wrote: "I can understand that, Cherie. I find books on my TBR occasionally that I don’t know why I put them on there. Sometimes I think they were recommendations from people, but I think most of them came ..."Dom started cleaning her TBR list and eliminating a lot.
Jannene wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I can understand that, Cherie. I find books on my TBR occasionally that I don’t know why I put them on there. Sometimes I think they were recommendations from people, but I think mo..."I really need to find the time to do that too.
Jannene wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I can understand that, Cherie. I find books on my TBR occasionally that I don’t know why I put them on there. Sometimes I think they were recommendations from people, but I think mo..."L'm cleaning a little bit at a time. During the Holidays, I'll finish. People were recommending books and I wanted to be nice and kept cliking want to read but some are just not my style.
Dominique wrote: "Jannene wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I can understand that, Cherie. I find books on my TBR occasionally that I don’t know why I put them on there. Sometimes I think they were recommendations from people..."Yes. They just slowly add up. I currently have 1371 books on my TBR and another 317 on a maybe read shelf that I created. I will never get to them all. I'm thinking after the new year maybe I'll have time to clean some out.
Trivial Pursuit has an error on Card 16, question 1. Zero degrees north latitude is the equator, not the north pole. The north pole is 90 degrees north.I have changed the question to read, "What lies at 90 degrees north latitude?"
I will leave it up to you as to whether or not you keep your Yay or Nay task, or switch it according to how you originally answered. I think that would be the easiest solution.
This option only applies to people who have answered their questions prior to today's date (Dec 24, 2019). Anyone answering their questions after that date will have the correct question to work with and this option will not apply.
Lol, I thought it was the North Pole, but Rob said it wasn't. I was right (or so I thought, until now) and was so happy I got a question like that right, while Rob had it wrong! I think I'll just keep silent about this ;-) I am going to change to the Nay task though, as I had the question wrong. I had one option for the Yay task though, and none for the Nay, so I'm not sure if this is working out for me ;-)
Hehe, I got a "yay" for that one, but would be very happy to switch as I don't enjoy Christmas books as a rule. BUT I do know that's not the spirit of the thing so maybe not. I will mull it over 😃
I also got it "right"!! :) I think I am going to change, since I already have a book in mind that fits the Nay task.
I'm going to stay with the Yay task. The answer was right, even though the question was wrong. Does that even make sense? I've got Krampus: The Yule Lord slotted and I've had that audiobook for way too long.
Janice wrote: "I kept track of monthly settings when we did the Zany Zodiac challenge. Here are some April books:Outrun the Moon
The Cruelest Month
Airframe
[book:Hunt..."
Thanks Janice for the recs.
Re Card 16 Question 1. Hmm, I think you just pushed me over the edge, Janice. I answered Yay and even have a book for the task, but I really wanted to start reading a library book that came early, and had been slotted into the winter/summer task. I am going to move my Christmas book to the winter/summer task, and go with the Nay option. I own two other books with a direction in the title. Thanks for letting me read another Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series book earlier than I had expected.
Ok I will change to the Nay task because even though I got Yay originally I really got Nay. I think? Hahaha
When does the new challenge reset? It still has last year’s movie mania and not the trivia test. I like to plug in my goal of what I will read toward this year’s challenge.
Jannene wrote: "When does the new challenge reset? It still has last year’s movie mania and not the trivia test. I like to plug in my goal of what I will read toward this year’s challenge."
I was wondering too. Just finished book 1 for the challenge -- card 11 3Nay task.
Beth wrote: "Jannene wrote: "When does the new challenge reset? It still has last year’s movie mania and not the trivia test. I like to plug in my goal of what I will read toward this year’s challenge."
I wa..."
Congrats Beth!!
Jannene wrote: "When does the new challenge reset? It still has last year’s movie mania and not the trivia test. I like to plug in my goal of what I will read toward this year’s challenge."
I knew I was forgetting something! I'll do it right now.
I need to check on the tasks .I answered north pole I think .
I'm definitely going to change to Nay. The thought of reading a book about Christmas doesn't fill me with joy!
Honestly this is one of the most elaborate reading challenges that I've ever seen! :) You guys do something like this every year? and is there a deadline for starting the challenge?
Janice comes up with the most amazing challenges every year! She keeps us very busy with reading ;-)You can jump in whenever you want, but you can only count books you read from the moment you sign up. So if you start now, you can't use books that you read before today (good thing the new year is only 4 days old ;-))
It's really impressive. :) That's great, i'll do that as soon as I've answered the questions then. I'm glad to start this reading year here. Thanks!🌼
Every year Janice says she’s going to make it simpler... lol Every year she comes up with an amazing, elaborate challenge.
That's great to hear Niloo! You picked a great group to join. Lots of activities, chitchat and nice people. I'm sure you'll fit right in!
Oh, and don't hesitate to ask if something's unclear or if you have any other questions about this group :)
Janice is a reading challenges goddess.
Thanks for the glowing accolades. :) Next year, it will be less intense. This one nearly did me in. Niloo, your start date for the challenge will be determined by the date you set up your personal report thread. Any book you start from that point on will count. Enjoy!
See... next year. ;) lol I do think this year would be really difficult and unrealistic to top though. A crazy amount of thought went into this. It will certainly keep us all and Janice busy all year.
Yes, Janice you are the reading challenge goddess for sure! Not only do you make these great challenges - you are also here to answer our every little question and make rulings on our books. You rock!
My son was over today for a few hours teaching me great things to do with Excel. I'm going to redo my tracker with tables, formulas, and filters. I'll be able to filter out Card 1, Geography Nay and get a list of what books were actually read for that task.
Janice wrote: "My son was over today for a few hours teaching me great things to do with Excel. I'm going to redo my tracker with tables, formulas, and filters. I'll be able to filter out Card 1, Geography Nay an..."Fancy!
Peggy wrote: "Oh, and don't hesitate to ask if something's unclear or if you have any other questions about this group :)"Thank you, i will. You're all so nice and welcoming! :)
Janice wrote: "My son was over today for a few hours teaching me great things to do with Excel. I'm going to redo my tracker with tables, formulas, and filters. I'll be able to filter out Card 1, Geography Nay an..."Oh cool! You're going to be playing with that a lot. I know I would.
I have a tracker built and am using it. It's going to take me a while to build the new one, and then I'll have to add all the books that have been already read. I might decide at some point that it will be too much work. But, I'm learning new things and that's fun.
That’s awesome Janice! Excel is soooo much fun, and it can do so much 😃
I felt bad for him because I was all about the application and what I want from it. He was all about the mechanics. It was:Me: Change the header to Category, please.
Alan: Mom! It doesn't mean anything. It's just an example.
Me: I know, but I would feel better if it read Category.
Alan: Fine!
Alan: (as he fixes all the borders on his lists because one is missing) My OCD is really bothered by this.
Me: It's just an example.
LOL!
lol, Janice. I know what you mean. When my oldest son complains about something he is trying to explain and I don't get, I always tell him that teach him to use a spoon and potty training him wasn't easier. :D
LOL! Aren't sons the best? Mine gets his OCD from someone near and dear to him, so I just chuckled anytime he added a border.
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I do the same. E.g. tasks that require a certain word in the title or author name, those I try to gopher for, but more general tasks, like a certain MPG, those I usually manage to fulfill more "spontaneously".