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Mar 31, 2023 12:04PM
I'm just loving these ideas.
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I started with TT2 on Mango Tango but alas never been on the winning team but it's all about the fun and the crazy , right..🤣
God I hope it isn't Aliens
Sammy wrote: "Read a book while para-gliding from the top of mount Everest..."Hhahahaha 🤣
Imagine making the headlines and trying to explain yourself afterwards "Sooo I'm in this team challenge on GR..."
Excited for this. I think the theme has something to do with towers/skyscrapers or buildings as well :)
Could be "Records". So we'll have to find and read the books with the most 1/2/3/4/5-star ratings. ;)
so can you swap out your books as you read if you end up reading longer ones later? can you read more than the number of books you say you can?
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Note: 223 is the minimum you need to read as a team each month and provided you do that and meet the requirements of those page counts above you are eligible to win.
I.e. more than your sign up is fine, but please don't deliberately underestimate your reading numbers.
Ohhh, does this mean no book cap? So I can choose to read more smaller books and don't do silly things like try to read twenty 1000-pagers a month? lol.
Yep, read it all already. Looks like fun! And I definitely didn't see anything about a book cap :PI like the idea of being able to pick up a shorter book when I feel like it and not feel guilty about costing the team points, lol.
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Eldarwen wrote: "Well to be fair, even with the book cap, nobody forced you to read chunksters every single time ;-)"I know, but I always feel really guilty reading a shorter book when there are a set amount of books we're allowed to read. Because with a cap in place, the team with the highest average page count per book wins. If I read a 20 point book, I'm giving up 80 points! ;) Whereas if in a capless challenge I forego the 1000 page book and read 2x 400 page books instead, that's only 20. Makes me a lot less antsy :D
I *should* just sign up with 2 or 3 when there's a cap and sit back and relax/read outside of the challenge in that case, but there are always missing team mates to make up for, so I'll still overdo it and fry my brain, lol. Plus I get excited about challenges and sign up with far more books than I should :D
I just can't help myself.
And just to be very clear, I do not ever expect other people to do the same. I am very much a one rule for me and cut everyone else some slack kind of person, lol!
I want to start a movement to get rid of the book cap and replace it with a page cap. I'm picturing t-shirts, buttons, baseball caps, banners, marches down small town main streets, the whole works. Maybe even defenestrating people who don't agree with my cause from the upper floors of those lovely towers pictured above.
Too much?
On the other hand, I do have some loooong books I have been saving up.
I'm good either way.
😂🤣 your word defenestration was used as the vocabulary word for the week for my 21 year old-- SO THANKS!
I fell in love with that word years ago when I read
. Very fun book. Lots of great vocabulary words.
nice, i'll look that up! :D
Hi all 👋 I’m excited for another round!!!
Rachel Anne wrote: "Hi all 👋 I’m excited for another round!!!"hheeeeyyy girl! <3
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I know, but I always feel really guilty reading a shorter book when there are ..."
I get it!
We decided to remove the book cap for this challenge based on this kind of feedback. Doesn't mean it is gone for good for other future challlenges, but we are back to basics for TTX :)
Hi everyone I’m sort of new here so this will be my first time doing the challenge. I love reading mostly psychological thrillers suspense and horror. But I’ll read anything to be honest lol
Carol wrote: "Hi everyone I’m sort of new here so this will be my first time doing the challenge. I love reading mostly psychological thrillers suspense and horror. But I’ll read anything to be honest lol"hheeeyyyy ggiirlll! <3
Jenny wrote: "I want to start a movement to get rid of the book cap and replace it with a page cap. I'm picturing t-shirts, buttons, baseball caps, banners, marches down small town main streets, the whole works..."
I'll start on the banners! :D
Sammy, you could do cards as well. Like "Best wishes for you b'day, may your reading challenges be full of page caps." ;P
Abir wrote: "when will the sign ups be open??"April 15, it's in the "all about" thread ;)
Christina wrote: "Abir wrote: "when will the sign ups be open??"April 15, it's in the "all about" thread ;)"
thanks, I'll set my alarm
I just checked and I’ve done the last 4 years! This has got to be one of my favorite big challenges! Can’t wait!
PrinzessBookDragon wrote: "😂🤣 your word defenestration was used as the vocabulary word for the week for my 21 year old-- SO THANKS!"Heck, I used defenestration on my English B1 level class... teacher was quite impressed. But hey, I still feel ashamed every time people ask me what the class level was, because everyone and their mother know I'm a C1 *pouts*
Karen ⊰✿ wrote: " but we are back to basics for TTX :)"Our dear mentor must be so proud of you right now!!!
*virtually hugs LK wherever she is living her current adventure*
X-chromosome lol female writers? Prob not the thing X is most associated with though.
Sonia wrote: "PrinzessBookDragon wrote: "😂🤣 your word defenestration was used as the vocabulary word for the week for my 21 year old-- SO THANKS!"Heck, I used defenestration on my English B1 level class... tea..."
lol, it's a great fave word to have. it sounds fun and makes most run to dictionary.com when used i'm sure. 😂🤣
PrinzessBookDragon wrote: "it's the 10 highest towers in the world😂 that's the theme"
I think you got it!
Ugh! I hate this time...the waiting is interminable! Not to mention I have the hardest time choosing books to read right now because I don't want to read something and then have it be perfect for some piece of this challenge. :-p
Edit: Ohhh... I just saw post 112 on this thread. Let me read through that. I participated last year, but I'm not remembering exactly how the page numbers fit in. I vaguely remember feeling guilty because I mostly read standard length books (like around 300 pages) and feeling like longer books would be better. Is it more beneficial to the team to have people that read the long ones? I might read Fairy Tale, so I guess that's one long-ish book. :)
Carol wrote: "Hi everyone I’m sort of new here so this will be my first time doing the challenge. I love reading mostly psychological thrillers suspense and horror. But I’ll read anything to be honest lol"Hello! I participated last year, but don't remember much. 🥴
Your genres are usually my go-to books as well. Although, I read a lot of cozy mysteries while at home over Covid and I have stuck with several of those series.
Denise wrote: "Edit: Ohhh... I just saw post 112 on this thread. Let me read through that. I participated last year, but I'm not remembering exactly how the page numbers fit in. I vaguely remember feeling guilt..."
Hey Denise, reading a 600 page book or 2X300 page books give us same amount of points.
It hasn't been always like that, but I tend to go on the same range, and I always participate. In the past I have been on the bottom half, in the middle, and on the top 5 - One year my team even won!!! - BUT, no matter the place we ended up in, I ALWAYS HAVE FUN!!!
And if there is a challenge where you can read whatever your heart dictates, it's Tower Teams.
Christina wrote: "Is it April 15 yet??"i was just coming here to post should we start a count down for sign ups!??!
9 more days! 🤭🤭
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Sonia wrote: "One year my team even won!!!"And they won't let us all be on a team together ever since, lol
I'm coming with a bit of a random question but does anybody have (access to) a physical copy of Murder on the Orient Express and can confirm that it has a map/floor plan from their train compartment in it?
Christina wrote: "I'm coming with a bit of a random question but does anybody have (access to) a physical copy of Murder on the Orient Express and can confirm that it has a map/floor plan from their train compartmen..."No maps in my copy, sorry!
Christina, I have a Hungarian edition and as far as I remember, it has a compartment plan, but cannot say for sure as am away from home.
Christina wrote: "I'm coming with a bit of a random question but does anybody have (access to) a physical copy of Murder on the Orient Express and can confirm that it has a map/floor plan from their train compartmen..."The ebook I borrowed from my library has a map of the layout of the Istanbul-Calais coach in Chapter 1.
This is the edition: Murder on the Orient Express
The map is available on BookRiot in an article called Grounds for Murder: Maps and Floor Plans in Mystery Novels.
https://bookriot.com/grounds-for-murd...
8 more days! 🤭🤭✨🌟🎉📚💃🏽
Thanks all!I had come across the floor plan Preeti posted but was a bit hesitant since I couldn't find it anywhere else so I wanted to make sure it actually is in at least some editions (although it's weird that it isn't in all??)
Jenny wrote: "How could I forget The X-Files??????Bonus points for reading a book by David Duchovny."
Ooh I love this. I think Gillian Anderson writes books too.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Hamnet (other topics)Murder on the Orient Express (other topics)
Fairy Tale (other topics)
The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate (other topics)
