The Chase - Sign-Up and Questions

[Berit]

Just wanted to point out that, Christina is at 32 points, you took 10 points away from her :-) congrats to all of you!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Sorry, not sure what went wrong there, think I'm a bit tired today!

[Berit]

No worries, I just knew she was ahead of me, so I checked!

[C.P.]

Here's a freebie: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Whisperi...



Anyone want to buddy read it? It's middle grades, the second in a series, but doesn't really have to have the other read first. About 133 pages.

[Heather]

Yes Courtney!

[Tati]

Am I the only one that gets depressed with the gap between the leading team and the chasers?

[Melanie]

If you just count books read, and not the extra buddy read points, the teams are actually much closer to the chasers. :) it's the buddy reads that are making the big difference. :/

[C.P.]

Heather wrote: "Yes Courtney!"

Great! When can you start?

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Gemma wrote: "I have just bought a book set (5 books in 1) can i count each book? (they are all over 300 pages i think) Normally i would get them separet only it was cheaper to buy the combined..."

That's fine, just write seperate reviews, so if you had , you'd just post reviews for & ☺

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Tati wrote: "Am I the only one that gets depressed with the gap between the leading team and the chasers?"

We already split one team up because of that. It's ten of you against 2 of us at the moment.

[Irene]

No you're not Tatiana :)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Melanie wrote: "If you just count books read, and not the extra buddy read points, the teams are actually much closer to the chasers. :) it's the buddy reads that are making the big difference. :/"

Well, we are a buddy-reading group ☺

[Melanie]

Sarah wrote: "Well, we are a buddy-reading group ☺ "

True! I get why there is an extra point for buddy reads, but in my mind I'm just going to try and catch up in books read ;)

[Noella]

Sarah wrote: "Tati wrote: "Am I the only one that gets depressed with the gap between the leading team and the chasers?"

We already split one team up because of that. It's ten of you against 2 of us at the moment."

It's a massive advantage for us teams! Well, it should be. Can only say some members let us down...

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I have to say that I'm impressed by how many people have actually turned up. I think we only have 2 people who have totally abandoned us. Hopefully people will have some more reviews to post this weekend ☺

[Berit]

Everyone who signed up for serious, said they would read at least 10 books this month. I sure hope everyone comes through on that, so all the teams have a fighting chance!

[Megan]

Christina wrote: "Some more kindle freebies for some easy points, does anyone want to join me..."

I can probably read with you, if you're still looking to BR it.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Berit wrote: "Everyone who signed up for serious, said they would read at least 10 books this month. I sure hope everyone comes through on that, so all the teams have a fighting chance!"

Most people have read 8 books, or are on track to read 8 books, I think people have been pretty good for turning up to this challenge, this is definitely the best team challenge we've ever done participation wise ☺

[Berit]

Good! Glad to hear that! My team is working really well together and I'm glad to see that is happening on all teams. We all just need to start only buddy reading! ;-)

[Noella]

oh ok, that's good to hear!

[Irene]

Sarah wrote: "Berit wrote: "Everyone who signed up for serious, said they would read at least 10 books this month. I sure hope everyone comes through on that, so all the teams have a fighting chance!"

Most peop..."

That makes me happy because it'll probably increase the chance of more team challenges :P

[Berit]

I agree! I do love these team challenges! Makes it more fun!

[Christina]

For those who want to do Breakaway the buddy thread is at
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hope to see you there!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

So do you guys prefer the team challenges or the solo challenges?

[Rachel]

This is my first challenge, but I've liked working as a team :)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I think the teams are quite good in that you guys are able to support one another and motivate each other to read more, rather then everybody being the enemy.

[Christina]

Hands down teams!

[ɑƨħŵɑɡ ♥Team Magnus Damora FOREVER♥]

Sarah wrote: "I think the teams are quite good in that you guys are able to support one another and motivate each other to read more, rather then everybody being the enemy."

I agree.. team challenges are way more fun!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

We were going to revist the New Years Resolutions challenge next month, would you guys like it to be run as a team challenge?

[Victoria]

I definitely prefer team challenges! I vote stick with them for next month :)

[Markus]

Team challenges are so much fun, my current team is amazing!

[Irene]

Yeah team challenges are fun!

[Jackie]

Team challenges all the way!

[Tati]

I like team challenges as well, but they add a bit more pressure. If it's a solo challenge, if I don't read/review that much, it's okay, as I'm the only affected. In team challenges, the whole team suffers, and I'm not always in the mindset for that added pressure, if that makes sense?

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Perfect Sense ☺ I've done the april challenge so that you can choose if you want to be put in a team, or if you just want to enter as a solo player for the individual prize ☺

[Elizabeth Emily]

Hey I just wanted to ask why if me and Sarah read the same book (The flirting games) why Sarah got a point and I didn't? Just curious that's all:)

[Berit]

Another team challenge! Fantastic! Where do I sign up?? Can I keep my current team :-)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Elizabeth wrote: "Hey I just wanted to ask why if me and Sarah read the same book (The flirting games) why Sarah got a point and I didn't? Just curious that's all:)"

Because 1. you didn't join in the discussion here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
and 2. you didn't post to say that you had participated in a buddy read, you said 'buddy: no' - even if you had participated we wouldn't have known if you said you didn't. does that make sense?

You can still claim a buddy read point by going to the buddy read thread and discussing it with the other people who have read it. You'll still have to post to let us know you've done it though, or we won't know!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Berit wrote: "Another team challenge! Fantastic! Where do I sign up?? Can I keep my current team :-)"

I think you found it ☺

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Berit]

I don't believe Elizabeth was talking about buddy read points, she didn't get a point for the book, she was told it was not long enough.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Okay, I'll let Abbie know, the page count for the book has changed, it's 104 pages on amazon ☺

[Abi]

Elizabeth, I didn't count it because at the time it was only 64 pages. I'll add your point on when I update the others.

[Berit]

How does a book go from 64 pages to 104 pages? I don't care really, we get the point, but that is weird!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

It's amazing how different some of the page counts are. Sometimes an author will re-release a book with an excerpt from the next book at the end, and it will bump the length up. Sometimes they reformat with a different font and the page length changes.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Current Scores:


__________|_Books_|__Buddy__|__Total
__________|_Read__|__Reads__|__

Team S2____|_115___|___46____|__161
Team S1____|_113___|___42____|__155
Team S4____|__93___|___43____|__136
Team S3____|__98___|___27____|__125
Team S6____|__90___|___33____|__123
Team FUN___|__81___|___10____|__91


The Chasers__|_122___|___76_____|_198

[Berit]

You Chasers are killing me :-) in the next team challenge, are we competing against you guys? Guess I'll be reading all weekend, just to catch up ;-) or at least try. Perhaps you girls should not read all weekend, LOL

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Oh we won't be reading all weekend, abbie will have family round, and I might go shopping ☺

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Oh, you won't be competing against us. Abbie and I will probably still have our own team though ☺

[Berit]

Good! You should go on a very long shopping trip :-)

[Jackie]

This is the challenge. It is a renewal of the New Year's resolutions challenge from January. you can choose to join a serious team, a fun team, or be a solo participant. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...