Around the World in 1990s Challenge

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

Few of us have come together to create this challenge. We are going to tackle this challenge in teams. Each team can pick Asia, South America, North America, Europe and Africa, and go on trying to cover maximum countries (or states in terms of North America) from their chosen continent with the books published in 1990s in roughly 45 days. Team with maximum coverage will be the winner. So sign up for this challenge by January 8 and we will commence this challenge on Jan 15.

Participants so far
1) Smitha
2) Iniya
3) Bookworm
4) HP
5) Manju
6) Nate
7) Kavitha
8) Gaurav

Team A:
1) Bookworm
2) Iniya
3) HP
4) Kavitha

Team B:
1) Smitha
2) Nate
3) Gaurav
4) Manju

Keep track of your books here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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

Yess!
So, finally mixed decade and arm chair?

I think including this link in the monthly newsletter would be helpful.

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

Em, Will team be limited to only their chosen continent (as in only one continent per team) or we can just go around?

Also, pg count? 200/250+ onwards?
Max cap can be upon the reader, if someone wants to go for tome, they could, I guess?

[Nathan]

Okay, I'll join this combo challenge.
Sign me up.

[Kavitha]

Count me in.

[Kavitha]

Couple of questions.

1. Partners randomly assigned? or we find our partner?
2. Minimum page requirement?
3. 1990s only?

[Gaurav]

Hello. am new. I also could like to join. Sign me up too.

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

Kavitha wrote: "Couple of questions.

1. Partners randomly assigned? or we find our partner?
2. Minimum page requirement?
3. 1990s only?"

1. Yes, randomly assigned teams. We were thinking of 3 (atleast) per team.
2. @Em, do confirm on this one.
3. Yes, 1990s only.

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

Bookworm wrote: "Em, Will team be limited to only their chosen continent (as in only one continent per team) or we can just go around?

Also, pg count? 200/250+ onwards?
Max cap can be upon the reader, if someone ..."

Yes, they have to try to cover maximum countries in their selected continent.

200-250 page count is good. One can go for tomes but since its a team challenge it could hinder the team progress.

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

Kavitha wrote: "Couple of questions.

1. Partners randomly assigned? or we find our partner?
2. Minimum page requirement?
3. 1990s only?"

8 people so far, 4 on each team sounds good to me. If more people sign up then we can keep 5 in every team.

200-250. 10 books for 10 yeats and add ten more for the countries, 4-5 books is enough for every team member. Gives a breathing space to read 1-2 other books that one is planning or waiting to read.

1990s, yeah. I keep reading books post 2010s, even after promising myself to explore more books from older decades. So I thought this would give me and hopefully others too a chance to find some gems from those years.

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

I have added the new names to the first comment.

If you have suggestions, don't hesitate. We can make adjustments to make it more comfortable as well as competitive.

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

Em Lost In Books wrote: "200-250. 10 books for each year and add ten more for the countries, 4-5 books is enough for every team member. Gives a breathing space to read 1-2 other books that one is planning or waiting to read.."

Um, 10 for countries? I thought, whichever team has covered most no.of countries (books published in 1990s) at the end Feb wins.

And 10 books for each year? We're doing specifically decade, as well?
Won't that make searching for books difficult, if each team sticks to a specific continent only?

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

10 countries was used as an example. You interpreted it perfectly. You have to cover the most number of countries to win. :)

No, one book per year. I will edit that comment. Looks like am sleepy. ;)

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

Em Lost In Books wrote:

No, one book per year. I will edit that comment. Looks like am sleepy. ;)"

Go..sleep! Good Night. :D
We'll discuss tomorrow. We have till 8th anyway.

[Nathan]

Wait -
1 continent
10 countries
1990s decade - meaning 10 books to be read per team?

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

Nathan wrote: "Wait -
1 continent
10 countries
1990s decade - meaning 10 books to be read per team?"

you have to pick one continent, 10 books must be read covering each year of 1990-99, that means you are covering 10 countries and after that you can try to read as many books as possible with other countries as the setting. Like Asia has 48 countries, Europe has 44, Africa has 54, South America has 12, and North America has 49 states (as per Google), so to win the challenge you have to read atleast 10 books released in 1990-99, and then you have to focus on covering maximum number of states,

For winning the challenge I will see both conditions are met. Suppose if Team covered 25 states of their selected continent but was not able to read 97 (an example) you're not winning.

Does that make sense? Hope I have not make rules more confusing again... :)

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

Made sense!
I think we can put up an example later if someone needs bit more clarity.

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

Say, if my team's 94 and 97 yr books are from the same country, will those get counted?
Or you'll consider only one of them?

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

both will be counted but when we are counting how many countries are visited they'll be counted as 1.

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

Got it. Thanks!

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

I have divided the teams. Let's get started! :)

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

@Smitha @ Nate @Gaurav - Lets decide on the Continent. :)

[Ahtims]

hi EM.... any continent is fine ..

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

Smitha wrote: "hi EM.... any continent is fine .."

I was looking for books, Europe and North America books are easy to find. Asia, Africa, and South America are not that easy... but let's see what others say.

[Gaurav]

Smitha wrote: "hi EM.... any continent is fine .."
I think we should start with Europe so we can find titles easier and then move on to other countries if we are done with our allotted years.

{this is my first time, if that violates any rules. please tell me.}

[Nathan]

@EM: Any continent is fine with me too...

[Nathan]

Let's have a separate thread for discussions cont inents/update books? We would inevitably be spamming this thread with individual updates.

[Ahtims]

Am fine with Europe , too

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

@Team A:
Our thread - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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

@Em, Team A has decided upon Europe! :D

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

So what you are starting your challenge with?

I am starting with Sophie's World.

And I have added the link to excel sheet in the first post of this thread to keep track of our books. Hope everyone have a hotmail account.

[Nathan]

Sorry no Hotmail account. 😂😂😂

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

Don't worry, I will ask Kavi to help out with Googlesheet. :)

[Gaurav]

Em Lost In Books wrote: "So what you are starting your challenge with?

I am starting with Sophie's World.

And I have added the link to excel sheet in the first post of this thread to keep track of our books...."

I'm starting Vertigo by W. G. Sebald

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

Em Lost In Books wrote: "Don't worry, I will ask Kavi to help out with Googlesheet. :)"

That'll be great!

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

Em Lost In Books wrote: "So what you are starting your challenge with?"

I'm currently caught up with another book. Just few pages into We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Once this is done, maybe I'll pick up Blindness for the Decade Challenge.

[Nathan]

Go Speedy 🙊

[Kavitha]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Kavitha]

I started reading A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age So far good.

[Nathan]

Somehow the link is not updating correctly. Getting saved under personal one drive document instead of reflecting correctly.

[Nathan]

I tried updating and it would ask me to save. When I press save, it saves to my onedrive.

Yea I finished reading a book.

[Nathan]

My intention would be once I update, it should be reflected publicly I.e to all my team members.

[Kavitha]

Nathan, I changed the access rights. I also added your book.

[Kavitha]

Nathan wrote: "My intention would be once I update, it should be reflected publicly I.e to all my team members."

The spreadsheet is for both the teams :)

[Nathan]

Thanks. :)

[Kavitha]

How was the book?

[Nathan]

Adding spoiler tag so that others may enjoy reading it going in blind.

(view spoiler)[ Its basically about a woman locked in a bunker with 39 other women. So much emotions/intensities/difficulties they/she faces. The second half of the book gets more bleak but it is quite thought provoking.

A speculative & dystopian novel.

I'd give it 4/5 stars. :)

(hide spoiler)]

[Nathan]

It being the book**
Sadly editing older comments in mobile/browser is not available. 😅

[Kavitha]

Gotcha. :)

[Kavitha]

Kavitha wrote: "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/..."

Manju, would you please add this link in your first message? thanks!