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Team Challenge - Book Games
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District 7
Welcome to District 7 source of the lumber.
Please remember this is a game please keep all interactions friendly. We are all here to have fun and work through these challenges together. As life happens, you can find yourself severely falling behind or unable to continue let me or one of the co-captains know as soon as possible and we will work for a solution to make everyone happy.
When reporting please feel free to make a post linking the book on your shelve here and all the potential categories it can fit or if you are comfortable you can put it directly on the tracking sheet
Tracking Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
If you need any help please feel free to reach out to Me, Teddie, and/or Sophie
round 1 - Start May 15 - Ends June 15Reading books over 100 pages that fit into one or more categories.
weapons - weapon on cover, grey or metallic colour on cover, weapon named in the book letters of weapon in title, author or main character initials in weapons, features a character who is a blacksmith, or battle in book
shelter- shelter on cover, red, purple or pink on cover, a character you'd like to shelter with, shelter letters in title, author or main character initials in shelter, features a character who works in construction, or finding / making shelter critical element in book
food- food on cover, yellow, orange or white on cover, food or drink named in the book, food letters in title, author or main character initials in food, features a character who is a cook, or
cover is a "feast for your eyes"
defense- defense on cover, green, blue or brown on cover, books can be heaped into a wall to form a defense, defense letters in title, author or main character initials in defense, features a character who is a soldier/police officer/public defender, or
siege in book
Mini Challenge - Starts June 1 -Ends June 15
Each task can be done 5 times = 70 Books!
1 point task
- Read a book with a orange cover
- "harvest" (plural OK, no other variants) in text
- Author initials in HERACLES
- Word in title is hiding a different smaller word (of at least four letters) inside it (not the singular form or verb tense differences) - examples LimonCELLO; THINg; wereWOLF (or indeed WEREwolf); HUNGer but NOT GAMEs (as that's the singular/plural)
- One of the following food words in text (plural OK, no other variants): corn, grape, ham, bread, cheese, apple, fish, chicken, bread, rice, tomato, pepper, salt, honey, lobster
3 point task
- Horn on cover (instrument or animal equally OK. but not antlers please)
- Book set in Crete
- Book set in Idaho
- Author's name has a diacritic (Cornucopia was a concert tour for Björk. yes, it's tenuous, but go with it anyway!)
- "abundant" or "abundance" in text
- Takes place on a farm (farm meaning somewhere raising plants or animals to be sold for food)
5 point task
- Title (including subtitle) includes all the letters CORNUPIA (no need to duplicate C and O)
- The cover has at least 3 different food items
- Set in Peru, Panama, Colombia or Venezuela (or combination of them to reach the 50%)
round 2everything above except Mini.
Arena Battle
In order to succeed in the Arena you will need to battle with your competing District Tributes.
You have been matched with an opposition and will fight them twice (once in round 2 and once in round 3), switching who strikes first.
The fight will consist of parrying book titles back and forth, by matching the end of your opposing team's title with the start of your own. You can use or ignore articles at the start of the title. There must be an overlap of at least three letters.
Planning
To start the fight each pair will be spun a title by the Arena Masters. The first team must find a book with a title that overlaps by at least three letters, and declare their planned strike to their opposition team, who must then plan their riposte. Each team will plan out a maximum of 10 strikes each this way.
Books can be read in any language, but titles must be in English.
Note: planning must be completed within the first week, and you must NOT start reading any book until the second, fight, week.
Fighting
Once the fight phase starts each team simply reads their planned books!
There's no requirement to read them in the correct order, but if at the end of the week you have missed a planned strike then you will lose the battle, regardless of how many of the rest of the books you complete.
We are fighting against District 9
round 3
Housekeeping!
Finish up current reads and start planning for the next round
Hi and welcome everyone, I am Stephanie the captain of our wonderful District 7. I am most pleased to be teaming up with each of you as we tackle these upcoming challenges.
My reading covers all genres, but fantasy is my favorite and I am a big fangirl for litrpg. Hobbies beyond reading is D&D, video games, and various crafting. My husband works a million jobs so I get to be a Michigan(USA) homemaker and a Kitten foster mom.
Please introduce yourself!
Hello Team Trees! 🌲🌳🌴🌵😊Very excited for Book Games. 📚
I played alongside you in many NBRC Challenges, but not in the same team it seems (apart from Sophie and Lucy), so happy to be a denizen of District 7 with you all.
I am Melinda (Mel for short, she/her) and live in Hungary, in a small laketown with my husband and my 10-year-old son (who registered to GR last month and I am getting him addicted to reading challenges in small doses. He got adopted by/into the awesome Monster-Hunter team I am part of. 🥰) .
I work for one of the EU Agencies and commute on a train 3 days a week (precious reading/listening time) and work from home 2 days. I am CET (Central European Time, UTC+2).
I love reading and reading challenges. Books in any format are my joy, though in the last couple of years 2/3 of my reading have been on audio.
My favourite genres are the classics, history, biographies, fantasy and golden age detective fiction.
I read almost anything if I am in the mood for it and if the team needs it, but horror/thrillers are a No-Go.
My shelf is nbrc-book-games
(I have updated my shelf-link on our tracking sheet)
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District 6 is the district of trees and lumbar which are essential for books which obviously makes us the best team to be on!
I recognise a lot of names here, but after 10 years+ of team challenges and a few of mod duties for the group I'm afraid I'm rubbish at knowing where from exactly!
I live an hour or so south of London, UK with my husband and 2 children, who are too little for reading challenges just yet. The books 6 reads don't meet the word count. I'm enjoying adopting Mel's boy into our monster hunting brigade.
I'm a GP (family medicine Dr) and am changing to a new surgery next week so new challenges there! Will be a 15 mins drive so my audio book listening time is about to vanish.
I read anything pretty much. Horror isn't my forte though and non-fiction is infrequent. Main format is either Libby or kindle app on my phone as it's always with me.
Hello fellow Tributes! I'm Marty (she/her) and I'm Completely new to this game. I'm a university librarian in real life. I live in southern Louisiana (which will probably give some folks an idea about where I work) but am originally from the Midwest. I live with my spoiled black cat, Bagheera, who is 18 lbs with a personality to match. He's leash trained and loves his walkies. He doesn't care if or how much I read as long as he can snuggle up against my leg while I do so.
My most-read genres are historical fiction, horror and mysteries, or any combination of the three. I've had some luck with sci-fi/fantasy, but it's pretty hit or miss. Not a big gushy-romance fan.
I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you during this quest!
Hi District 7 - I'm Teddie (she/her) and am excited to play with you all! I'm happy to see some familiar faces on the team, and look forward to making some new reading pals.I will read just about anything, but especially like fantasy, scifi, and mysteries. One of the reasons I love GR challenges is that I always end up reading something I normally wouldn't have picked up - so reading suggestions are encouraged!
Let the games begin!
Hey, I'm Lucy and I've done a few reading challenges like this before! I love the game aspect and tacking my (thousand strong) TBR. I mostly keep track of my reading on Storygraph but the reading challenges always get me back to Goodreads!
I used to say my favourite genre is SFF but honestly I read a little bit of everything and I'm a big mood reader. I work as a nurse but predominantly do night shifts so may message at very weird times considering I live in the UK.
Looking forward to the start of Book Games!
Hello District 7 Teammates. Following suit, I'm Vicki (she/her/Mrs.) and this is my first time playing with some of you (maybe all of you). I can rarely remember with whom I've played unless I play with specific people regularly.I'm a retired high school teacher of 25 years. I taught English and yearbook. I'm happily married (most of the time lol), I have 3 daughters and 2 sons, 12 grandsons and 10 granddaughters, and 3 great grandsons and 3 great granddaughter...soon to be 4 great grandsons! I live with my hubby and 2 dogs, Rocky (border collie/lab mix 14 years old) and Daisy (AKA Crazy Daisy, Havanese, 7 months old.) I live in California, USA, in the PST zone.
Favorite genres: historical fiction (along with most any sub-genre), mystery, thriller/psychological thriller, romance (not erotica), some fantasy (Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer Armentrout), a few memoirs/nonfiction during the year, but sci-fi and horror are my least favorite...IF the horror is blood and guts or demonic.
I'm looking forward to this challenge. I've never done this one but I think it's new, right? I'm ready to play!
Hi! My name is Suzanne and I'm very excited to be in District 7 with all of you! Like Vicki, I am a retired teacher (math in university). My children are all grown up and currently all out of the house, but that could change any minute :). I'm married and we have an English Mastiff who is pretty convinced that he's another person (he's very spoiled).
Being retired, I'm going to be in Peru the first few days of the challenge - we are leaving May 8th and will be back the evening of the 19th. I'll be sure to keep track of what I read from the 15th on - for sure I'll have reading time on the LONG plane trip - or perhaps sleeping time :) Yay for kindles - I can take hundreds of books and mood-read whatever I want.
I like many genres - although I get impatient with a lot of YA and scared by a lot of horror. I will probably be reading lots of Sci-fi/fantasy the first part of this challenge because I'm intending to vote for the Hugo awards, and I want to vote responsibly :)
My shelf is here: bg24
Hello everyone! I'm Ushashi. I'm really excited about this game, especially because I absolutely love THG series, so this theme is just so good. Also last year was too busy for me to participate in any of the team challenges so I'm really glad to be back here.I'm a scientist working with cancer biology. I'm from India, but I moved to Boston, USA last year for this new job. One of my biggest goals right now is to rebuild my bookshelf in this new place from scratch.
I am open to reading all genres, though my favorites are literary fictions, dystopia and thrillers. I'm trying to read a little more non-fiction this year, but haven't been particularly successful at it yet. Only managed 2 so far. Fictions are just so tempting all the time!! I've also started a little bookstagram @biblio.banerjee this year which is pretty fun. I'm convinced that reader community is the most wholesome place one can find on any social platform.
My shelf: nbrc-book-games
Hello teammates of District 7! My name is Cecily and I live in Alberta Canada. I used to work with children with various needs as an Education Assistant but stopped as now I am a student at the University of Alberta. I had originally planned to become a teacher but now that I am a few years into my education, the politics involved in education, and some personal struggles, I have lost my passion for it and was just accepted to Major in English and Minor in Creative Writing. This is something that I have always wanted to do but have not had the confidence to be in a creative forward career.
I am the fur mama of 2 dogs and 3 Cats:
Sookie - Black cat - 13 years old
Zarco - ginger and black dog - 6 years old
Nova - mixed orange black cat - 2 years (thursday!)
Brooklyn - sister kitten to Nova - 2 years (Thursday!)
Nakita (aka Booper) - lab pitty mix dog - 8 months
I am pretty open to all genres but I would say paranormal and fantasy are my least favorite and Mystery/Thriller/Suspense and Romance would be my favorite.
I am horrible for judging a book by its cover. I am getting better over the years but that's usually what still gets me! Haha.
Happy to get to read for fun again after my first break from University in about 2.5 years. Let's Do this!!
Aloha! I’m Lauri from Hawaii & I’m ready to play! I am a serial book starter especially on Saturdays! I am a mood reader & always have several books going simultaneously. I don’t really know why that is! My favorite genre is historical fiction followed closely by romance , chick lit & mysteries. I will try anything, just about! I find I’m losing my capacity for epic fantasy, although I quite enjoyed when I was younger. Too involved and confusing! Hopefully at least some of you will stay up late with me to chat. I often find myself alone even in a big group because of the time difference…
I can’t do a link to save my life, but my shelf is nbrc-book-games
I look forward to playing with all of you!
Oh man - I love playing with a team full of interesting people!@Cecily - you go girl! I have 2 kids in college right now, and the choices and options in front of them can be overwhelming. I sometimes think trying and finding something you know you don't want to do is just as valuable as finding something you do.
@Lauri - One of my closest friends lives in Maui. As I get up early, I often catch her at the end of her day. Otherwise, it's chatting over coffee at 1pm my time :)
@Ushashi - I'm so glad you are able to play again this year! I agree with you re: book communities being generally wholesome places online. Even on the often-jaded reddit, the /r/fantasy subreddit is great (for fantasy readers.) This post is a hilarious summary of the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comm...
@Suzanne - I have been listening to Project Hail Mary this morning and thought of you when I heard: "That would mean there's a ridiculous amount of IR light coming out the back of the ship right now. Like, enough to vaporize a battleship or something. I'd have to do the math to know for sure but - I can't help it- I want to do the math right now." haha. And Peru - so exciting!! Will you be making the trek to Machu Picchu while you're there? Oo, and the Rainbow Mountains?
@Vicky - I know you and I have played on a team together before, but I can't remember which challenges :) How is Rocky dealing with the young pup Daisy? We recently introduced a feisty tuxedo kitty into our single dog household. After a couple days, the cat realized the rottweiler couldn't care less, and things settled down a bit from there :)
@Lucy - I'm with you re: an unwieldy TBR - seems like every time I try to go in and clear books out, I'm like "Oh, but I do want to read that ONE of these days." At this point, I just leave it be for the most part. I'll have to check out Storygraph tho - more TBR for the fodder!@Marty - Speaking of adding books to the TBR: your shelves are a treasure-trove of new books for mine - I love having a librarian on the team! I don't have any leash-trained cats in my neighborhood - so cool - did you start Bagheera on that when he was just a kitten?
Hello tree people (ohhhh, ents! Wait, it looks like mostly females... I FOUND THE ENTWIVES!!!! 😁)Greetings from District 1. Please keep us supplied with much paper for books, we're gonna need it. thanks! 😉
We can swap paper for your luxury -ahem-.... Go(o)ds. Denizens of the Tree District, FYI, Sammy will launch the highly exciting Thirst Games, so it'll be worth our while to visit their thread. ;)
I'll slap a reserved sign on Hiddleston for you 😆
Sammy wrote: "I'll slap a reserved sign on Hiddleston for you 😆"Yes, please, Sammy. Thank you. :))
Just take care where you slap that sign. ;)
As an aside, but an important piece of info: I nominated the Extra May BOM Book, Salt & Broom, so I get to write DQs for those precious extra points. :) But good to have back-up, in case a brick falls on my head or something. :))
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@Marty I'm with Teddie on not having leash-trained cats about. How did the decision to train him like that come about?
@Lucy - you've reminded me that I have a storygraph account.... I found some of their tracking interesting, but found tracking things on both got cumbersome for me and I take part in too much stuff here and have too many friends to want to leave GR for storygraph.
@Vicki that sounds like a very busy family to be part of. I hope you get to see them all regularly and the 4th great-grandson arrives without complications!
@Suzanne have a fabulous time in Peru. I spent 6 weeks there about 15 years ago travelling all over the place and it was fantastic. There is so much variety to the landscape and the cultures there.
@Ushashi that's a huge move! Hope you have settled into Boston and have a community there for you. Very happy to see you back to team challenges again.
@Lauri why would anyone ever have only one book on the go at a time? I tend to have 2 or 3 at least, normally in different formats so I read one depending on what is convenient at that moment. Fingers crossed we can find some time overlap with you so you get to join in the chatting.
@Cecily I love the list of your furbabies! Good luck with the English major and fingers crossed that creative writing is all you could dream of.
@Teddie Do you think we've bombarded enough questions and comments to individuals yet?
@Teddie - I loved Project Hail Mary - I hope you enjoy it! It 100% appealed to my inner math and teacher. For Peru, we spend 2 days in Lima, then 3 days in the Amazon and 4 at Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley. I'm getting excited!
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Greetings from District 1. Please keep us supplied with much paper for books, we're gonna need it...."
Hi mischief! We can supply the paper for some books, but will be keeping lots of it here. I can't have this team running out of reading material.
For those of you that do decide to travel to District 1 when the challenge starts, please remember that Sammy is aiming to distract other teams to give hers an advantage, so please don't dally too long.
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No bricks to heads please. They are awfully messy to tidy up.
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That's a good variety! Peurto Maldonado in the Amazon was where we ended up. I hope you get to see the giant river otters.
Suzanne wrote: "- I loved Project Hail Mary. It 100% appealed to my inner math and teacher. "I am nearing the end of the book and while I am enjoying it, all that math and physics goes way over my head. My inner sucks-at-math-student (had a terrible teacher in high school who made me feel hopeless) wanted to run away. 😁
Sophie wrote: "That's a good variety! Peurto Maldonado in the Amazon was where we ended up. I hope you get to see the giant river otters." I hope so too! Wow that is so cool you spent 6 weeks there! I feel like you had the 9 course meal and we'll be getting the hor d'oeuvres. But they will be delicious :)
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I am nearing the end of the book, and while I am enjoying it, all that math and physics is way over my..."
I ended up skimming some of the maths based stuff but enjoyed the story and some of the psychology type stuff from it.
Sounds you and the kids (mostly 🤭) had a nice time, Sophie.
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6 weeks on a student budget! We were eating meals that cost less than a pound wherever we could get away with it and staying in some pretty ropey hostels - electrocuted myself in the shower in one place. We did splash out for the Amazon and did a cheaper variant of the Inca trail (up over Salkantay).
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It was so nice to get outside and play after the cold wet spring we've had so far.
Sophie wrote: "Do you think we've bombarded enough questions and comments to individuals yet?"Never! lol
I just realized you and I were on the wobble leafy seadragons team together! I think that event cemented my love of all things GR challenges.
Melindam wrote: "As an aside, but an important piece of info: I nominated the Extra May BOM Book, Salt & Broom, so I get to write DQs for those precious extra points. :) But good to have back-up, i..."Yay! I'm def reading for that BOM but none of my libraries have The Malevolent Seven so I'll probably miss that one. I and hear there is no Backroom BOM this month - the books are usually trash but the discussions are amazing :)
Sammy wrote: "Hello tree people (ohhhh, ents! Wait, it looks like mostly females... I FOUND THE ENTWIVES!!!! 😁)That should totally be our team nickname - hahahaha :)
Teddie wrote: Yay! I'm def reading for that BOM .."Well, with your very similar profile pic to that cover
, you're bound to. 😉I just spent my last audible credit on
. Hope I'll like it. 🙂
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Never! lol
I just realized you and I were on the wobble leafy seadragons team together! I think that..."
That was a bonkers challenge!
TT2 was my introduction and I've been hooked since.
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That should totally be our team nickname - hahahaha :)"
Entwives works for me!
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