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Hi all,

Just wanted to put up some quick links:

Team Mauvelous Spreadsheet
Main Challenge
Sister Challenge
Captains'Chat

Hello :)

Hi Carrie!! Welcome, what shelf name are you using to count the books?

My shelf is called tower team, lol nothing fancy :P

lol...I know mine isn't either. Hopefully more of us will join today.

Here's hoping, but we are doing good so far we we have 3 books read for our team, ha ha.

Carrie wrote: "Here's hoping, but we are doing good so far we we have 3 books read for our team, ha ha."

lol..yes that's what I was thinking...make that 4....I just updated the book I finished this morning. :)

How did you do on the last one?

Carrie wrote: "How did you do on the last one?"

Last round? No this is my first one joining in...JoLene will take the lead as Captain once I hear from her, but I was really impatient and wanted to get everything started. :)

Ah okay.

My guess we will start hearing from more people today, at least I hope.

Hi ladies. I'm calling my shelf tower team mauvelous because I'm really creative. :)

There are so many links. Is this were we post our books and ask questions? Or should that be done elsewhere?

Barbara, this is where most of our general chat is going to be. One of the links shows, all of us participating in our team, and the tracker for the books, while the other one just to take us to the page with our official page, but I am planning to keep up with both, so you can use either/or. I just wanted some short links so I don't have to search and look for the threads. Did that help?

You can use the "sister group" for a while, if it is easier over there. Then come back here. Up to you all.

**waves** Hi, Barbara★.

I sent "friend requests" (FRs) to Valerie & Evil Twin One/Ange. I can't invite them to join the "sister group" unless they are my friend.

I accepted requests from jingles either late last night or very early this morning - I can't remember which.

Hello all, this is JoLene -- one of the Captains, along with Hina. thanks for getting things started. I did volunteer with the caveat that I was traveling from April 12-29 in Europe and of course, things got started on the 12th. Today is my first day with Internet access.

I would say to use this thread for general chat, but use the Captain's chat for questions. Hina and I will maintain the spreadsheet so you will not need to do anything but take your books with your shelves.

I noticed that I seem to be the slow reader in the group. However, I just discovered audio books and so my pace is a lot higher and I might need to adjust my yearly goal.

CAPTAINS/CO-CAPTAINS Please read!

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Hina wrote: "Barbara, this is where most of our general chat is going to be. One of the links shows, all of us participating in our team, and the tracker for the books, while the other one just to take us to t..."

Yes. I was just wondering since in the first round, our team did lots of mini challenges and it would be hard to keep track of something like that if people are posting all over the place.

JoLene wrote: "I would say to use this thread for general chat, but use the Captain's chat for questions. Hina and I will maintain the spreadsheet so you will not need to do anything but take your books with your shelves."

Sounds good.

Barbara,

I will create another one in the other thread, for a mini challenge, I just haven't created one yet since we don't have everyone involved yet. But I want to get some feedback on mini challenges we can do.

How to "Refresh" a Member's Total or Add a Comment to Their "view books" Screen:

We are using ♥Robin♥ on Atomic Tangerine for this example:



• Scroll down to your friends, who are listed first, or down futher to "community."
• Click on either the percent numbers or the words "view books" (red arrow)
• You can enter a comment on this screen (blue arrow), if you desire, or wait for the next one.



• On this screen you can see her total books jumped from 2 to 4.

• If you click on her name (blue arrow), it will hyperlink to her Profile page.

• Pink arrow shows comments by other members.



• If you hit the back arrow to go back to the community page, you'll see she is back to 2 books; just refresh the page.

• The Total goal for all participants may take anywhere from 15 - 30 minutes.

• The cache usually updates every night sometime after 9 p.m. PST.

Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "I sent "friend requests" (FRs) to Valerie & Evil Twin One/Ange. I can't invite them to join the "sister group" unless they are my friend.

I accepted requests from jingles either late last night o..."

Hello new friend! My shelf name is 2013-nbrc-tower-challenge.

Hi Team Mauvelous! I'm checking in. I've been out of town this weekend, and was not online last night, so I apologize for my delay.

My shelf name for Round II will be "nbrc mauvelous". My yearly goal is set at 100 books.

I hope I've done everything right. If not, please let me know.

:)

welcome Valerie!!

jingles wrote: "Hi Team Mauvelous! I'm checking in. I've been out of town this weekend, and was not online last night, so I apologize for my delay.

My shelf name for Round II will be "nbrc mauvelous". My yea..."

Welcome Jingles!!! We are all ready to go since everyone has checked in!!

Team Assignments - Master Copy

New feature coming: link to member's "view books" screen. Blue font indicated there is a hyperlink, as member joined sucessfully; black indicated no hyperlink, as member has not yet done so.

Remember, you can hyperlink to member's Profile from that screen.

To you, with love...from Sonia.

TEAM UPDATES

If you don't want to go from challenge to challenge but still want to know the other teams' results we set a Teams Sunday Update Summary Spreadsheet - Who is in the lead?

Happy Readings!

As a reminder, anything that you finished on April 12 or later counts towards the new challenge so you need to tag it with your new shelf. If you were under a rock like me, I didn't realize Tower Team I had finished :-)

Not bad Team Mauvelous - we are 12 books in according to my count!!

Good morning everyone!! How's it going?

I just finished which was very good - action from start to finish.

I haven't had much time for reading on my vacation since I'm only reading at bed time and not listening to audio books, which I do a lot during the day. My husband doesn't like it when I'm supposed to be spending vacation time with him :-)

JoLene wrote: "I haven't had much time for reading on my vacation since I'm only reading at bed time and not listening to audio books, which I do a lot during the day. My husband doesn't like it when I'm suppose..."

Lol JoLene, after vacation would be soon enough.

Good Morning team,

New News: We have a new member joining us. We should hear from her soon enough since the mods announced it yesterday.

I hope everyone is having fun reading for this challenge!!

I should be done my book today sometime, so we will have another one to add to the numbers. :)

Carrie wrote: "I should be done my book today sometime, so we will have another one to add to the numbers. :)"

YAY!!

I just finished my first book that counts towards this challenge - B is for Burglar by Sue Grafton.

I've been out of touch and not able to read as much as usual the during the last week or so.

Hopefully that will change this week.

How is everyone else doing?

JoLene, I hope you are having a wonderful vacation. It sounds very exciting!

I promise that I'm reading......unfortunately I'm reading so it's taking me a while :-)

I'm reading that too JoLene as a buddy read so it is taking longer than it should. I'm about halfway done with it. I've been reading it at work and reading something else (something I can hopefully finish in a day or so) at home.

That being said, I finished which was rather disappointing.

I have a question. I finally finished Gone With the Wind yesterday, which I started on April 8th (before the currently challenge start date). I read/listened to over half of it after the April 12th start date. My question is, can I count it towards this challenge, since over half of it was done after the challenge start date? Or would I not be able to count it?

On another note, I finished A Bend in the Road this morning, which should count. I should be getting back on track shortly, and be able to do more reading.

Jingles, you can count the books as long as you finished reading on or after April 12th.

Happy Friday Everybody

I hope your week has been going better than mine, but this has been one of those weeks, I knew I should have just spend in bed reading and not going out at all.

Anyone read a good book lately?

I have been reading Laurann Dohner's New Species series and it is awesome!

I have Storm of Swords on my tbr, I would really like to hear how that one is going.

Thanks, Hina.

I've been reading/listening to the most wonderful books the last couple of weeks - Gone with the Wind.

This will definitely go on my all-time favorites list.

The mods seem awful quiet lately. Do you think they are busy reading?
Find out what they have been up to HERE

I am really enjoying A Storm of Swords; it's definitely action-packed. I usually have been reading it along with 2 or 3 other things, but on the trip I've been focusing on it which is nice. I only have about 125 pages left :-)

Gone With the Wind is on my TBR pile for this year too. I had decided at the beginning of the year to try to read some of the chunksters on my TBR list. Not good for these team challenges, but since I've actually started listening to audio books as well, it hasn't fallen me too much.

So Barbara and probably me will be participating in the Read-a-thon. If you need more information, check out Message 47. Is anyone else interested?

READ-A-THON UPDATES:

*Page Goal
Mininum page goal: 600 pages - average of 50 pages a day

*Goal Posting
By team captains on RaT page thread. Tell us the name of participants and their page goal.

*Mini-Challenges
The team Captains must send them by PM to the mod account or to Sonia with the subject: "RaT Mini-Challenge"

*End Date:
Updated to May 12th (Sunday)