Decade Challenge

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

I tried to keep this challenge simple and easy.

The purpose of this challenge is to read books from previous years. I don't know about others but I usually get distracted by new releases which I see repeatedly on my GR feed. I jump the wagon and so ignoring what is already been on my bookshelves for years. So one can also say that this a way to clear out some of those books from my to-read shelf.

This is how it works, I have prepared a list of genre/categories. Suppose some reads The Fifth Season, Little Fires Everywhere, The Travelling Cat Chronicles, and Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood and so on. And this is how they will cross out the years and categories.

2011 - Award - Hugo - Blackout
2012 - Translation - The Travelling Cat Chronicles
2013 - Book to Movie - Allegiant
2014 - Fantasy - Words of Radiance
2015 - sci-fi - The Fifth Season
2016 - Non-fic - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
2017 - Fiction - Little Fires Everywhere
2018 - Horror - Dracul
2019 - YA - On the Come Up
2020 - Mystery - The Night Swim

Hope above list cleared how this challenge will work.

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Genres/Categories
1) Award Winner
2) Translation
3) Horror
4) Fantasy
5) YA
6) Fiction
7) Sci-fi
8) Non-Fic
9) Book to Movie
10) Mystery/Crime/Thriller

This will be a team challenge. Two members min and five members maximum per team. Points will be rewarded for every book and bonus points for whichever team complete a decade first.

Book page count must be between 300-500 for this.

Challenge will go live on April 1.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Decade Challenge - 2011-20 (April 2022)

Team - Can't Stop Reading

Bookworm - 4
Visalakshi - 3
Pallavi - 3

Team Points - 10*10 - 100
Bonus - 50
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Total - 150

Genres/Categories
1) Book to Movie - 2011 - Ready Player One
2) YA - 2012 - The Fault in Our Stars
3) Fiction - 2013 - The Lowland
4) Mystery/Crime/Thriller - 2014 - My Sister's Grave
5) Horror - 2015 - The Library at Mount Char
6) Fantasy - 2016 - Age of Myth
7) Sci-fi - 2017 - Borne
8) Non-Fic - 2018 - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
9) Translation - 2019 - The Murmur of Bees
10) Award Winner - 2020 - Network Effect

Team - Never Say Never to Books

Nathan - 1
Leena -2
Soumith - 1

Team Points - 10*6 - 60

Genres/Categories
1) Horror - 2011 - Graveminder
2) YA - 2012 - Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe
3) Mystery/Crime/Thriller - 2013 - The Cuckoo's Calling
4) Non-Fic - 2014 - The Underground Girls of Kabul: in Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
5) Translation - 2015 - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
6) Fiction
7) Sci-fi
8) Award Winner
9) Book to Movie
10) Fantasy - 2020 - Black Sun

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Decade Challenge - 2000-10 (May, 2022)

Team 1 - Visalakshi & Pallavi

Team 2 - Nathan & Bookworm

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[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

I'm in!!!

[Visalakshi]

In In !!

[Nathan]

Ok I'll give this a shot. In ~

[Pallavi]

I'm in

[Pallavi]

I also have a doubt in this...
Is it like we need to read a book that falls into a category for each year of the decade?
Say Category =Fantasy.
So read books that belong to Fantasy genre published in year 2011,2012 .... to 2020.

So 10 books belonging to 1 category that are published in each year of the decade .

Am i correct?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

That will take a lot of dedication and time ;)

No, one book per category.

[Pallavi]

ok... got it :)

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

If we end up with odd number of participants, we'll just go ahead with uneven teams, right?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Well then i think i will ask/request/threaten someone on my friend list. 😅

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Well then i think i will ask/request/threaten someone on my friend list. 😅"

lol. That's great!

[विकास]

I'll try to do this challenge. Reserved for me.

Genres/Categories
1) Award Winner
2) Translation
3) Horror
4) Fantasy
5) YA
6) Fiction
7) Sci-fi
8) Non-Fic
9) Book to Movie
10) Mystery/Crime/Thriller

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

@Vikas - you want to do it individually?

[Nathan]

Well the last odd person who joins will probably go solo I guess

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

@Em,
Or can she/he join another of the teams. Say, if 15 are interested we can make teams of 3. If some odd no. like 19, one team can have 4 and the rest 3? (Unless, someone does want to go solo)

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

We have five so far, so its two on each team for now, fifth have to wait till another person sign up. But I will ask someone to join to even out the teams with three members on each team to start the challenge with.

After that whoever sign up have to wait till we have enough members to make a new team or even out the existing teams.

[Ahtims]

I would love to join but I get very less time nowadays . would surely have joined if this was a personal challenge.. but being a team challenge I am worried of letting down my team , which is invariably going to happen.

[Soumith]

I'm in!

[Leena]

hi! is there a duration? fastest first?

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

@Leena, there're points for each book and also bonus points for team that completes a decade first. So maybe each decade can be considered as a round, I think.

@Em, the duration is whichever team completes the decade first and wins? Or we continue with decades till the 2022 year end (or some particular month) and whichever team has max points wins?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

@Leena - fastest wins.

@Bookworm - we are doing 2011-20 first, then 2000-10. Both teams going to have same numbers of points as they are given on the bases of books completed.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Smitha wrote: "I would love to join but I get very less time nowadays . would surely have joined if this was a personal challenge.. but being a team challenge I am worried of letting down my team , which is invar..."

Trying doing it individually then. :)

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "@Leena - fastest wins.

@Bookworm - we are doing 2011-20 first, then 2000-10. Both teams going to have same numbers of points as they are given on the bases of books completed."

Ohok. Yeah. I thought once a decade is complete, the team that completes it first gets bonus. It's in your description, 1st msg.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

I meant team to finish a decade will get bonus. And if others wants to do a 2000-10, we can do that too. :)

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "I meant team to finish a decade will get bonus. And if others wants to do a 2000-10, we can do that too. :)"

Ok. I mistook it as only fastest team gets bonus(when it completes a dec). That clears it. :)

[Visalakshi]

Can we pick a single book which will cover 2-3 categories or just 1 category per book?

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

1 category (Even if it fits 2-3 categories, it'll still be linked to only 1 year).

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Bookworm wrote: "1 category (Even if it fits 2-3 categories, it'll still be linked to only 1 year)."

+1

[Visalakshi]

okay. All clear now

[Leena]

this sounds fun
visalakshi, the genre of the book will be what's mentioned in the main genre on GR page

[Visalakshi]

Yes leena, I didn't mean that. what i meant was can I pick a book that will cross out both YA and Fantasy categories. Or pick a book which crosses out both SciFi and book to movie category.

But we can only consider a book for a single category

[Visalakshi]

Can't wait for the challenge to start! EXCITED :D:D

[Pallavi]

me too...
but my problem is I wander to out of challenge books very soon. Usually to newly released books...

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

Pallavi wrote: "me too...
but my problem is I wander to out of challenge books very soon. Usually to newly released books..."

ikr!

that's why I made the challenge flexible. :)

[Pallavi]

true...
So the challenge starts tomorrow. You will put up the team details tomorrow?

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

will do it tonight.

[Em Lost In Books, EmLo is my Name, PIFM is my Game]

I have assigned the team members. If one wishes to change the name of the team, you are most welcome. :)

Good Luck!

[Bookworm (have loads of catching up to do)]

Em, can the teams create thread in the Group challenge directory to discuss books?
( say Decade Challenge- Team A)
I see threads created by only mods in this specific dir. If so, could you do it for the teams? :)

[Leena]

so we start tomorrow?

[Leena]

em, can you please link the relevant shelves for us to choose from/ help us navigate

[Soumith]

Hello Team B

Nathan
Leena
Soumith

Genres/Categories
1) Award Winner
2) Translation
3) Horror
4) Fantasy
5) YA
6) Fiction
7) Sci-fi
8) Non-Fic
9) Book to Movie
10) Mystery/Crime/Thriller

Our Picks:

2011 - Covered by Team Member/Horror - Nathan
2012 -
2013 - Covered by Team Member/Crime - Leena
2014 -
2015 - Translation - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry Page Count- 372 (Soumith)
2016 -
2017 -
2018 -
2019 -
2020 -

copy the text add your picks!

[Leena]

Wont this fit as translation?

[Leena]

Genres/Categories
1) Award Winner
2) Translation
3) Horror
4) Fantasy
5) YA
6) Fiction
7) Sci-fi
8) Non-Fic
9) Book to Movie
10) Mystery/Crime/Thriller

Our Picks:

2011 -
2012 -
2013 - crime - The Cuckoo's Calling 456 pages - Leena
2014 -
2015 - Fiction - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry Page Count- 372 (Soumith)
2016 -
2017 -
2018 -
2019 -
2020 -

[Leena]

Seriously, Em each team needs a thread.

Calling Nathan and Soumith - Hello. Lets pick the best for the categories given.
Soumith,maybe change your bk to translation?

[Nathan]

This is bit confusing. I think with other teams + their threads this will be an addition to the confusion.

But anyway: Here is my thread xD

Genres/Categories
1) Award Winner
2) Translation
3) Horror
4) Fantasy
5) YA
6) Fiction
7) Sci-fi
8) Non-Fic
9) Book to Movie
10) Mystery/Crime/Thriller

Our Picks:

2011 - Graveminder Horror. Currently Reading
2012 -
2013 - Covered by Team Member/Crime
2014 -
2015 - Covered by Team Member/Fiction
2016 -
2017 -
2018 -
2019 -
2020 -