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2021 Team Challenges
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Team 2: The Jet-Setting Yetis
Title: Blood BoundAuthor: Patricia Briggs
Start Date: November 22, 2021
Finish Date: November 25, 2021
Category and task: Who's That 4. Read a book where the main character is indigenous
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: Yes
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read: No
Pages: 292
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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If you are doing a Buddy Read/Group Read that requires you ACTUALLY talking about the book in the thread. Maybe no one else will comment, however you are still having some opinions about the book even if you read it alone.
I was mostly done with the updates before realizing that some of the completion posts say the BR/GR happened but there is no participation in the discussions. So this is what's going to happen: I'm going to go again through the updates, if there's only one comment in the thread (even if it isn't about the book) and you put it as a BR/GR I'll count it, however after today we won't be counting those types of buddy/group reads.
Title: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest OwlAuthor: Jonathan C. Slaght
Start Date: November 22, 2021
Finish Date: November 23, 2021
Category and task: How did this happen 1. Read a book with snow or mountains on the cover
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: No
Pages: 368
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Title: HamnetAuthor: Maggie O'Farrell
Start Date: November 20, 2021
Finish Date: November 22, 2021
Category and task: When is this 5. Read a book set or published before 1880
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: Yes
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read: No
Pages: 372
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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We try to post updates each Sunday of this challenge for teams and solo participants. It might not be Sunday yet in some parts of the world but this is for consistency purposes.
TEAMS:
The Abominable Abdominals: 95
The Jet-Setting Yetis: 163
The Suffering Succotash Sasquatches: 114
The Blistering Bigfoots: 225
The Laughing Lake Monsters: 163
The Cryptic Cryptids
Laurel: 40
Isabella: 24
We're one month down, one month to go! It's still anyone's game—lots of big changes always happen in the last month of the games.
Just a quick reminder from earlier this week: if you want BR and GR points, you need to participate in the threads. Buddy Reads are meant to be read and discussed with a buddy.
Happy Winter Wars
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Completion PostTitle: Twelve Slays of Christmas
Author: Jacqueline Frost
Start Date: November 24, 2021
Finish Date: November 28, 2021
Category and task: When is this 2. Read a book set during the winter
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: No
Pages: 311
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hey team! How is it going? It's such a crazy time of year to do this book challenge!I'm working on my last buddy read for November. I have only 1 planned for December vs the 10 I did in November. Real life will be crazy so I will try to manage the group reads instead.
Next week I will be traveling either for work - long flight=binging on ebooks- or visiting my dad- long drive= binging on audiobooks. Either way I hope to jump into all the fun holiday books.
How were your November reads? Good stuff planned for December?
My tentative plans include:
Completion PostTitle: The Shining Girls
Author: Lauren Beukes
Start Date: November 25, 2021
Finish Date: November 29, 2021
Category and task: When is this 4. Read a book that has time travel
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: Yes
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read: No
Pages: 368
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Jen K wrote: "Hey team! How is it going? It's such a crazy time of year to do this book challenge!I'm working on my last buddy read for November. I have only 1 planned for December vs the 10 I did in November...."
It's going well even though I've been pretty busy with school! I managed to read two books this month (hoping to finish my third one soon). I'll post my completion posts once I write a quick review.
I plan on reading the following in December:
Hi Crazy busy at work and the holiday season has started. This next month will be a struggle to get books read.
Not sure how many i will get done but aiming for 6 books for December.
Have a good week everyone
December will be crazy and we will need to be kind to ourselves. :) The work trip is off due to the new Covid variant so I will be doing up the audio books in the next week, about 9-10 hours each way. @May, my library hold of
just came through today. Not quite in time for the group read but I might as well read now that book 2 will be the December group read. I was really hoping for
. I would be up for trying a buddy read on either or both if you are interested.
Things aren't great for me at the moment and reading has kind of taken a hit because of that. I'm hoping that changes soon so I'm looking at
and
for December if anyone wants to join me.There is also a buddy read of
towards the end of the month
Jen K wrote: "December will be crazy and we will need to be kind to ourselves. :) The work trip is off due to the new Covid variant so I will be doing up the audio books in the next week, about 9-10 hours each w..."We can buddy read A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! I'm going to wait a little and see if I'll end up having the time to read Our Violent Ends
May wrote: "Jen K wrote: "December will be crazy and we will need to be kind to ourselves. :) The work trip is off due to the new Covid variant so I will be doing up the audio books in the next week, about 9-1..."Great!! I will probably pick it up from the library tonight and will have 3 weeks to read it. I'm open to any schedule that works for you within those 3 weeks. When were you thinking to start and how much do you want to read per day?
Amelia wrote: "Things aren't great for me at the moment and reading has kind of taken a hit because of that. I'm hoping that changes soon so I'm looking at [bookcover:Mooncakes|44..."Sorry Amelia! Sending you good vibes and I hope things improve soon!! Holiday stress just make things worse sometimes. :(
You have reminded me that I still need to read the second book for Moose Springs, Alaska series. Hopefully it will be fun and uplifting or at least a fun escape! Someday I would love to visit Alaska.
Completion PostTitle: The Hairdresser of Harare
Author: Tendai Huchu
Start Date: November 29, 2021
Finish Date: November 30, 2021
Category and task: What's in a name 2. Read a book with a title or occupation in the title
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: No
Pages: 200
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Jen K wrote: "May wrote: "Jen K wrote: "December will be crazy and we will need to be kind to ourselves. :) The work trip is off due to the new Covid variant so I will be doing up the audio books in the next wee..."We can start on Sunday (5th) if you're free to read then! As for how we divide it, since there's 50 chapters do you want to do 5 chapters a day? If we end up reading ahead we can always hide our comments with the spoiler thing.
May wrote: "Jen K wrote: "May wrote: "Jen K wrote: "December will be crazy and we will need to be kind to ourselves. :) The work trip is off due to the new Covid variant so I will be doing up the audio books i..."Sounds perfect! I'll add it to the BR nomination thread.
Completion PostTitle: Carefree Black Girls
Author: Zeba Blay
Start Date: November 28, 2021
Finish Date: December 1, 2021
Category and task: Who's that 1. Read a book where the main character is Black
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: No
Pages: 240
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Completion PostTitle: The Holiday Swap
Author: Maggie Knox
Start Date: December 1, 2021
Finish Date: December 3, 2021
Category and task: When is this 2. Read a book set during the winter
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: No
Pages: 351
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Completion PostTitle:Empire of the Vampire
Author:Jay Kristoff
Start Date: nov 1
Finish Date: dec 3
Category and task: How #3
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? Yes
Group Read? No
Pages: 752
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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We try to post updates each Sunday of this challenge for teams and solo participants. It might not be Sunday yet in some parts of the world but this is for consistency purposes.
TEAMS:
The Abominable Abdominals: 121
The Jet-Setting Yetis: 186
The Suffering Succotash Sasquatches: 152
The Blistering Bigfoots: 263
The Laughing Lake Monsters: 218
The Cryptic Cryptids
Laurel: 59
Isabella: 33
Happy Week 5? of Winter Wars
Don't be alarmed if you see some differences between the team spreadsheets and what is listed here—there are a couple of BRs that were not counted due to a lack of participation.
Keep reading, we're over halfway there! If you're feeling slumpy (understandable since these games are A LOT), the December Readathon will be held December 11-17—hopefully right after finals for those of you in school and right before the holidays.
Happy Winter Wars
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Completion PostTitle: Written in the Stars
Author: Alexandria Bellefleur
Start Date: Nov 26th
Finish Date: Dec 4th
Category and task: Who's 3
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? Yes
Group Read? No
Pages: 384
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Completion PostTitle: A Court of Frost and Starlight
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Start Date: December 4, 2021
Finish Date: December 5, 2021
Category and task: What's in a name 5. Read a book where the title has this format: A [Noun] of [Noun] and [Noun}
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: No
Pages: 229
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Completion PostTitle: The Iron King
Author:Julie Kagawa
Start Date: Dec 5
Finish Date: dec 6
Category and task: What#3
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 384
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Title: Aurora's EndAuthor: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Start Date: 11/30
Finish Date: 12/6
Category and task: Whats In a Name 1
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 512
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finally have time to myself again, happy to be back at it!
Anybody want to join me reading
anytime between now and christmas?
@Leah, welcome back! It's a crazy time of year but glad you have more time again!@Amelie, already read that one. It's good though, hope you enjoy!
Priority tasks to complete categories (if anyone needs inspiration):*MC is South Asian
*Book set in future
*Book has time travel
*Set in Europe
*Set in Asia
*Snow or mountains on the cover
*Bird or feline on the cover
I have possibilities for set in future, time travel, set in Europe coming up but not sure on the others.
Completion PostTitle: Elatsoe
Author: Darcie Little Badger
Start Date: December 1, 2021
Finish Date: December 5, 2021
Category and task: Who's that? 4. Read a book where the main character is indigenous
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: Yes
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Pages: 362
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Jen K wrote: "Priority tasks to complete categories (if anyone needs inspiration):*MC is South Asian
*Book set in future
*Book has time travel
*Set in Europe
*Set in Asia
*Snow or mountains on the cover
*Bird..."
I have snow and mountains covered as a buddy read later this month I think
Amelia wrote: "Jen K wrote: "Priority tasks to complete categories (if anyone needs inspiration):*MC is South Asian
*Book set in future
*Book has time travel
*Set in Europe
*Set in Asia
*Snow or mountains on t..."
Awesome!!!
Completion PostTitle: The Matzah Ball
Author: Jean Meltzer
Start Date: December 4, 2021
Finish Date: December 5, 2021
Category and task: When is this 2. Read a book set during the winter
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: No
Pages: 416
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Completion PostTitle:The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Start Date: nov 8
Finish Date: Nov 13
Category and task: What #2 The Giver is an occupation that gets assigned by the society
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 208
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just going through my read books for November to date and looking for more completion for prompts...
Completion PostTitle: Sweet-Talking Cowboy
Author: Vicki Lewis Thompson
Start Date: nov 21
Finish Date: Nov 24
Category and task: How #1 mountain & snow on cover
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 217
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Completion PostTitle: Possession
Author: C.J. Archer
Start Date: nov 23
Finish Date: Nov 27
Category and task: How #4 94% blue
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 180
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Completion PostTitle: The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery
Author: James Aura
Start Date: dec 6
Finish Date: dec 8
Category and task: What #2 Killers is an occupation
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 258
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
@ Rosina, nice work!!! I also have a few saved up that have been waiting for reviews. Hope to get them in tonight.
Completion PostTitle: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Author: Holly Jackson
Start Date: December 6, 2021
Finish Date: December 10, 2021
Category and task: How did this happen 2. Read a book with a white cover
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: Yes
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read: No
Pages: 433
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Completion PostTitle: These Precious Days: Essays
Author: Ann Patchett
Start Date: December 6, 2021
Finish Date: December 9, 2021
Category and task: Why are these prompts so hard 4. Read a collection of short stories/essays
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: No
Pages: 320
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Completion PostTitle: Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery
Author: Jenny Colgan
Start Date: December 9, 2021
Finish Date: December 9, 2021
Category and task: Where are you? 4. Read a book that takes place in Europe
Graphic Novel?: No
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: No
Pages: 325
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Title: The Sea KingAuthor: C.L. Wilson
Start Date: 11/11
Finish Date: 12/12
Category and task: whats in a name 3
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 598
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Author: Noelle Stevenson
Start Date: November 23, 2021
Finish Date: November 24, 2021
Category and task: How did this happen 5. Read a book with a bird or feline on the cover (It's a very small detail but there is a cat and a bird there)
Graphic Novel?: yes
Buddy Read: No
Group Read: No
Pages: 133 (266 halved)
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