Moderator Chat ONLY!

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Hey Ana! I have brought a new idea to the group. So it's going to be Song Of The Month. So every month we will have a group song and our 2 BOTM's. It will work just like BOTM but will be different because you can't tag songs on here. But we have alot of people in the group that listen to music so we can also get a taste of everyone's music style. I am posting the thread now.

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Hey Ana! I just wanted to let you know that I already created the BOTM threads to help you out and we need to start bringing the group back to life again but I think everyone's been so busy lately it's hard with time zones and etc.....

[Ana]

Hey V! Thank you so much for doing that, I’ve been super tired lately because I went on a road trip this past weekend and im just now getting back into routine again.

Yes we really need to get people to be active again because even on the BOTM nominations no one really participates and the polls are also not very active. What do you want to do about it?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Ana wrote: "Hey V! Thank you so much for doing that, I’ve been super tired lately because I went on a road trip this past weekend and im just now getting back into routine again.

Yes we really need to get pe..."

Your welcome! I am glad you had a wonderful time on the trip and I don't know if we need to go through and kick out inactivity but I don't even know what would bring the group active again. This is probably my most laid back group.

[Ana]

Yeah I also don’t know what we could do to get the group more active again 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

We can go through and remove people who haven’t been active but I don’t know……

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

March's BOTM nominations have been made!

[Ana]

Yeehawwlovesbooks wrote: "March's BOTM nominations have been made!"

Ok great! Thanks V :)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

March's BOTM poll has been made for 2025, but I am going to need you to send more invites. I could only send 196. I will let you be in charge of April's BOTM 2025!

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...

[Ana]

I’ve just sent the remaining invites.
Sounds good, I’ll post the April BOTM nomination thread on March 1st :)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Sounds good like I said your more than welcome to post that when your ready since your in charge! Ans thank you! Excited to see the results.

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Hey Ana!!! I thought of an idea/concern... So for future BOTM's I feel like we allow time for people to get the book but for those who have the book and want to start early... What do we want to do about that?

I don't want people to be in different areas of the book and it get spoiled for anyone... I also feel like a month just goes by too fast and if we allow more time maybe more people will join?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Hey Ana!!! How are you doing? Book slump went away?

[Ana]

Hey V! I feel like yes my book slump is mostly done, thank goodness :) and I’ve been pretty good, how about you?

Also about the BOTM, I don’t think we’ve had any issues with people getting spoiled even with them reading at different speeds no? Or do you think there have been spoilers?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

No I don’t feel like we have had issues it’s just I know people are getting antsy waiting to start the new BOTM and just time flies so I figured people who want to start early can and also since we have people that read at different speeds.

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

I’ve been good just been busy.

[Ana]

I think we should keep the BOTMs as they have been because even if the month passes by a little fast people can still join in and read whenever throughout the month. And since we haven’t had issues with people getting spoiled then I think we should stay the same :)

Hey do you know what happened to the alphabet book nominations? Are we not doing that anymore?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

I would like to do that but to me it doesn’t seem like people are interested or commenting so we can either do another reading challenge to get the group active, and then after do that or we can start and get people to join that alphabet read and no reading challenge…… what do you think?

[Ana]

I think we should do another reading challenge, I feel like more people tend to join that. I'll start brainstorming some ideas for it today and tomorrow, what theme do you want to do?

We can try to do the alphabet challenge once people start to be more active no?

I just posted the April BOTM nomination chat, hopefully people will nominate books!

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Okay sounds good I will also think of some ideas and I say spring or summer challenge

[Ana]

I'm working on the reading challenge and I have some name ideas: Bloom, Book and Dine, Spring Blossom, Spring Serenade, Primavera Parade, Bloom Book Ball. Do you like any of them or not really?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

I love Bloom Book Ball!

[Ana]

Yeehawwlovesbooks wrote: "I love Bloom Book Ball!"

Me too! I was hoping you would too :)

[Ana]

Here is the link of the googledoc for the challenge so that wwe can add our ideas for team names and prompts:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11...

[Ana]

I was thinking that for the team names we could do ball theme ideas like Masquerade, Great Gatsby, Starry Night, Hollywood Glamour, Casino Royale or something like that? What do you think?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

I will do either Hollywood Or Starry Night.

[Ana]

I will do Masquerade :)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Yay!!!!! Long or short term challenge?

[Ana]

I think maybe more long term? Maybe start it from March 20th to April 26th? That’s a little over 5 weeks, what do you think?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Perfect. Plenty of time to give people to log books!

[Ana]

Okay great! Later today I’ll create a photo for the challenge and if you want I can post the thread right after? So we give people time to sign up

Do you want to be in charge of putting people in the teams?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Yes, I can be in charge of putting people on teams. I think that’s fair if you’re gonna create the photo and the thread. I did have a comment about people subtracting page numbers before the challenge, to me that is confusing so can I just have my team not do the subtracting points?

[Ana]

Yeah that rule is a little confusing so I think we should just remove it :)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

I know in the cozy book nook we have that rule and every time I go to log points, it completely throws me off.

[Ana]

Yeah I get it. The only thing I think we should keep is that you can start logging books on the day that the challenge starts and not before cause I feel like that can confuse a little too no?

[Ana]

I've created the challenge sign up page!

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

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Yes i think we should keep logging books just the day it starts.

[Ana]

Okay sounds good. I think we should create the team chats a couple of days before the challenge starts no? I was going to do it now but I thought wait it's a little too soon :)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

I am going to go ahead and create mine so people can chat and get to know teammates before the challenge starts.

[Ana]

Okay then, I just did mine too :)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Ana wrote: "Okay then, I just did mine too :)"

sounds good!

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

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

May's BOTM nominations are made!

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Hey girl! I hope your doing well and I just wanted to give you a heads up that I am suppose to be getting really bad weather tonight so I might lose power depending on how bad this storm is, I am charging my phone so I will at least post on when power will be back on but will be on phone version.

Like I said I might lose power we will see. I looked at the radar and it looks like it's going to be bad so I have 4.5 hours till it stars.

[Ana]

Hey V! No worries and stay safe!

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Thank you girl!

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Hey Ana! Girl I keep forgetting we have a reading challenge for this group, do we want to extend the dates on the current one or when this one is over just start fresh?

[Ana]

Hey V, I think we should just start fresh with another challenge after this one ends because the girls in my team are active but sadly the ones on yours aren’t so maybe whoever signs up for the next challenge will actually be active in both teams no?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

Okay we will just start fresh then but I don’t know what to do to being the group alive again. I think with different time zones and everyone busy with life it’s hard.

[Ana]

I think the group has been a little more active since a few people did participate in the challenge as well as the BOTM so that’s good. Hopefully it will become more active too

[Yeehawwlovesbooks]

I hope it continues to get active. Are you gonna stay in the cozy book nook? That group used to be active, but we got so much inactivity in that group. I miss it, but I don’t know what to do.