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Decade Challenge
Visalakshi wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "Anyone else experience the reading speed difference with ebook and physical copies?"I don't see much difference. I'm slow with either :p"
With the speed at which you have read for this challenge, I beg to differ. :D
@Em, Team 'Can't Stop Reading' Status: Completed Visalakshi - 2011, 2012, 2013
Pallavi - 2015, 2016, 2017
Bookworm - 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020
3 consecutive years for 3 of us. This is some coincidence. :D
Thanks Leena. :)Looking forward to your team updates.
Because of this challenge all of us have picked some very different books and found new favorites as well. Thanks to Em, for that. :D
oh Shit! I stopped and have been catching up on all those chores I turned a blind eye to.
hey, I've signed up for the 2022 serial challenge .so, the crux is crazy - you need to read different parts of a series to go all the way to 22
12.3 etc and after 8 or 9 if you don't find series to match you can do a permutation combination to reach that no.
9 can be 3×3 so 2 bks which are 3rd in their respective series or if you are more adventurous then 3+4+2
all the way till 22.
it's in a group called Pick a shelf
Leena wrote: "oh Shit! I stopped and have been catching up on all those chores I turned a blind eye to."😂
Leena wrote: "hey, I've signed up for the 2022 serial challenge .so, the crux is crazy - you need to read different parts of a series to go all the way to 22
12.3 etc and after 8 or 9 if you don't find series t..."
This is crazy! Because we can't just directly read 3rd installment, so inherently have to begin that series. Have fun! :D
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1) Award Winner - Network Effect - 2020 (Nebula 2020, Hugo 2021) - Bookworm
2) Translation - The murmur of bees - 2019 - Bookworm
3) Horror - T..."
congratulations!!
wow!! in 10 days. wow!! :)
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It was a 5 star read. Enjoyed it thoroughly"
i have my eyes set on this one... will move it up on my tbr.
Leena, i got confused reading the challenge details :o all the best to you!!
Em Lost In Books wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "@Em, Team 'Can't Stop Reading' Status: Completed 1) Award Winner - Network Effect - 2020 (Nebula 2020, Hugo 2021) - Bookworm
2) Translation - The murmur of bees - 2019 - Bookwor..."
We were on a roll !!! :D
Em Lost In Books wrote: "Bookworm wrote: "@Em, Team 'Can't Stop Reading' Status: Completed 1) Award Winner - Network Effect - 2020 (Nebula 2020, Hugo 2021) - Bookworm
2) Translation - The murmur of bees - 2019 - Bookwor..."
Thanks for the challenge idea :)
Btw, Network Effect was fun!!!
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Ive already taken a break amd I believe so has Nathan. Let me check with them
Continue in the sense?? I just have 1 book pending from my end. Now that team a has completed, I assumed that I could take my time to read at my own pace. : )
so, fair enough. let's throw in the towel and put our feet up
I thought once a decade was over we would continue with previous decade? For finishing 1st decade each team gets some points and a little extra for finishing first? I thought that was the game.. and what is the end point?
Em Lost In Books wrote: "@Vikas - you want to do it individually?"I guess i will not be able to participate in this... The challenge is far too gone for me to chase it...
@Em; please award the points. Challenge has ended. And if all are ready we can start another decade
Pallavi wrote: "@Em; please award the points. Challenge has ended. And if all are ready we can start another decade"Oh... Points are already given. Check the first 2 messages of the thread.
Guys shall we start 2001 to 2010 decade ? How many are in?
I'm not.this one threw a spanner on my other challenges. Enjoy ladies.
I'm in. Interested but busy so be warned that I'll not be at my previous challenge reading speed. :)
I'm in too. I'll try to beat my previous performance in this challenge! xD
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...Since you guys are keen on challenges Em, look at this one. Might help you plan accordingly.
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Since you guys are keen on challenges Em, look at this one. Might help you plan accordingly."
I can make one but things comes to a halt on participation. :(
you cannot force anyone to participate, and I've been noticing that in every group there are a few diehard competitors and the rest are just a hava ka jkonka :))
and many just keep getting carried forward to the next yr esp for those people only
you should check out the Spotify challenge on the same group Pick A Shelf. is amazing.
Ideally two team would be nice but anything is fine with me...
Em Lost In Books wrote: "@Pallavi Nathan BW Visalakshi - you want team of twos or try to tackle it individually?"Anything is fine...
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Any genre you want to replace? or we can do any ten genres of your choice i.e. each person will pick their own genre...
This means each one has to read 10 books to complete the challenge.. Right?
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Anything is fine for me too.@Em, You're in? Then only 5 of us? If anyone else is interested, we can again make teams of 3 each.
10 books for 1 will be somewhat hard. we can reduce the genres ?
hard as in, it will take long time for the challenge to complete
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Depends on my mood, time, work and life. 🤣How about teams of two?
And remove few genres since we are less in number.
I usually take a month or a little more that a month to finish 10 books.. I find "Book To Movie" genre a bit hard. The number of options is very less in this genre.
I try to read 2 books a month. As Nathan said, depends on work. Sometimes swamped too much that can't pick a book for a week straight! Due to challenge I had powered through weekend and evenings to read the 3 books :D doing the same for 10 books will take a loooot of time for me.
Anither way to do this is to announce the dates beforehand. E.g Read - a- thon will bd held once every quarter and dedicate 10days for it and you decid either individually or in pairs. You can slso pre- determind a theme or location so bks will circulate around that. E.g. rainbow so you choose any bk/ any genre but covers have to form the rainbow. Bonus colours like gold,silver get added points.This way, one can get rid of excess regular work- urgent pressing ones will obviously be impossible to sweep away.
Pallavi wrote: "I usually take a month or a little more that a month to finish 10 books.. I find "Book To Movie" genre a bit hard. The number of options is very less in this genre."
Haha, I actually like this genre as it feels exciting to read the book when I've already seen the movie! I had already picked out a book for the next decade as well when I was choosing for 2011-2020 one!
@V... oh is it? that's wonderful..then we should be in the same team ;)
@Vis, that's a new height of pro-activeness!! :D
Looks like I may have stiff competition again🤣
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