Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Cadet Blue, you have a new member. Please welcome Jessica (TheEvangelineLily) (60).

Baroness Blue wrote: "I mentioned that we could roll a virtual die to figure out which state the mod acct is from but then I remembered dice only have 6 pips so there's no accurate way to roll without a 50-side die. Hig..."

Since the steps allows city, state or country, born or living I'd say both: United States (any city or state) and Paris, France :o)

Hi Jessica! Welcome to the team!!!

Uhmmm we need to change the challenge to add Jessica

Sonia wrote: "Since the steps allows city, state or country, born or living I'd say both: United States (any city or state) and Paris, France :o)"

That's what I was thinking.

Sonia wrote: "Uhmmm we need to change the challenge to add Jessica"

Or she could just replace Lisarenee. I think LR is pretty busy.

Hi everyone! :) Thanks for letting me join. Hope to contribute a lot for the team. I'm a premedical student so my reading time comes in bursts. Let me know if there is anything I can do!

Welcome, Jessica! Glad you're with us.

Jessica, for the August Challenge, if you want to participate (you are NOT required to), what is your favorite genre? Where do you live and where were you born?

Favorite genre would probably be historical fiction and YA. (though sometimes YA can get to be a little much) I live in Washington State near the British Columbia border. :P I was born in Newmarket, Ontario. Thank you for the warm welcome!

Jessica wrote: "Favorite genre would probably be historical fiction and YA. (though sometimes YA can get to be a little much) I live in Washington State near the British Columbia border. :P I was born in Newmarket..."

Jessica, since you are new to the team and I'm not sure how much of the tower team challenge you know, you may feel a bit lost.

In addition to our reading, the mods set a challenge a month where we can win book points advantage (BAP) that will count as books read for our total - yes, I know, crazy. Who would think of something like that?

For August, they decided to "take the month off" and the teams had to come out with their own challenge to win the BAP's. On the post below you can see the link to our challenge. You arrived to the team just when we were finishing it. Is not mandatory, but we though to change it a little to include you.

Anything we can help with, just let us know.

I updated message #626, replacing Lisareene with Jessica, since our awesome mod has her platter real full for August - We are still going to use her books since she's our secret weapon *evil laugh*. Plus I'm keeping her for step #9, since the mod account is a generic one I'm not counting it as a "standard" member.

I also added the locations to step #6.

Major changes: We now have historical romance and historical fiction for step #5, and 3 "J" and no "M" for step #9.

Is it done? Anything we should add/change? Or can we submit it to mod approval?

Baroness Blue will you post it on the "AUGUST Challenge for Book Advantage Points: Created by Teams" thread, or do you want me to do it because of the formatting? Either is fine by me. Putting the ideas on paper is the fun part (oh and reading too) and I was able to do those :)

Welcome, Jessica! :D

If anyone is curious about Eastbourne, being a small coastal town in England, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging was filmed here, as was part of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (The Quidditch World Cup was filmed at Beachy Head, which is part of Eastbourne. :))

Aside from that, if you're going to use my location, I vote find a book set in England! :P

Emy wrote: "Welcome, Jessica! :D

If anyone is curious about Eastbourne, being a small coastal town in England, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging was filmed here, as was part of Harry Potter and the Goblet of..."

I think a re-read of HP is in order. Oh wait, I already was planning on participate on the HP read and watch :o)

Plus, we can also use the author's name for all the J's on step #9

*giggles*

Added the rule:

#4.The same book can be used as many times as read by team members

Still regarding the challenge, for those who are thinking in actively participating, for step #1 the spell-it-out, the rules decided by the mods were:

For each letter read books with titles (only the first or starting word will count), series names, authors (both first or last names), character (first or last name), that begin with letters that correspond to letter of the phrase or term you choose. You may ignore the indefinite and definite articles (a, an, the, etc.)

So, using Cold Days by Jim Butcher as an example for spelling CADET BLUE, we can use it as a "C" (title:Cold Days), "B" (author's last name: Butcher) , "T" (series name: The Dresden Files) and "D" (Character's name: Harry Dresden or series name: Dresden Files ignoring the "The")

Lisa Kay, can we use any book character or has to be the MC?

Sonia wrote: "Lisa Kay, can we use any book character or has to be the MC?"

Oh, good question, Sonia. I was thinking MC, but maybe one with more than one scene? What do you think?

I'm going to try and revive the uniform of the week. Since is an "oldie" I'm going to start with my old favorite uniforms.

So for Thursday in Uniform we have Maverick and Goose



You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Whoa, that lovin' feeling,
You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Now it's gone...gone...gone...wooooooh.

I had 13 when I first saw Top Gun.. it was one of my teenager movies, OK, don't judge me!

BTW, I think the challenge looks great, Sonia! Woohoo! Let's start now. ☺

Sonia wrote: "I had 13 when I first saw Top Gun.. it was one of my teenager movies, OK, don't judge me!"

Hey, it was a good movie. LOL!

Lisa Kay wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Lisa Kay, can we use any book character or has to be the MC?"

Oh, good question, Sonia. I was thinking MC, but maybe one with more than one scene? What do you think?"

I think a major character could be allowed, or one that plays an important part. So for instance in Dead Until Dark, we could have Sookie, Bill, Sam, Eric or Pam but not Arleen or the other vamps that appear only for a few scenes.

Lisa Kay wrote: "Sonia wrote: "I had 13 when I first saw Top Gun.. it was one of my teenager movies, OK, don't judge me!"

Hey, it was a good movie. LOL!"

Specially the volleyball part *giggles*

Who am I kidding, I loved the flight scenes and Tom Cruise ridding that bike. I even consider going to military academy for a few years BUT I'm 4 cm shorter than the minimum height *sigh*

Lisa Kay wrote: "BTW, I think the challenge looks great, Sonia! Woohoo! Let's start now. ☺"

I already lined up my books... only the usual 5, but I'm still lacking a uniform book, but there is a new Kate Daniels coming. Swords and kick-ass gear can be consider uniform right? Hell, Curran will sure change to the beast form, so I'll use him as uniform!

Can't go wrong with Tom Selleck in uniform! From Blue Bloods...


Technically, not a uniform but who can forget that smile and those dimples from his Magnum, P. I. days?? I can't...my mom would never forgive me, haha! We used to watch Magnum together and she really had a thing for Tom Selleck.

Sonia wrote: "Lisa Kay wrote: "Sonia wrote: "I had 13 when I first saw Top Gun.. it was one of my teenager movies, OK, don't judge me!"

Hey, it was a good movie. LOL!"

Specially the volleyball part *giggles*
..."

LOL!! Don't forget that other scene and that other other scene...you know...all of them, haha!

Love that the movie inspired you to consider the military academy.

I like your criteria for a character to use, Sonia. I'll post it in the Captains' Group.

And I like your idea of a uniform. After all, I think Harry's duster in The Dresden Files is his investigative wizard's uniform, right?

Lisa Kay wrote: "I like you criteria for a character to use, Sonia. I'll post it in the Captains' Group.

And I like your idea of a uniform. After all, I think Harry's duster in The Dresden Files is his investi..."

Yes! Remember Teresa's Rule of Uniforms! It still counts here. ;)

Lisa Kay wrote: "BTW, I think the challenge looks great, Sonia! Woohoo! Let's start now. ☺"

One more week!! Seems so far away but I already know it'll be here faster than I would like. Going out of town for 3 days is going to eat up well...3 days, lol. I haven't done much reading in the past couple of days, thanks to headaches and sinuses (grr), now I'm not even sure how much reading I can do over the weekend. Going to visit family and they tend to frown on me reading the entire visit, haha.

Lisa Kay wrote: "I like you criteria for a character to use, Sonia. I'll post it in the Captains' Group.

And I like your idea of a uniform. After all, I think Harry's duster in The Dresden Files is his investi..."

Exactly!

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Lisa Kay wrote: "Sonia wrote: "I had 13 when I first saw Top Gun.. it was one of my teenager movies, OK, don't judge me!"

Hey, it was a good movie. LOL!"

Specially the volleyball p..."

It was that one and Officer and Gentleman. I couldn't decide between marines or pilots tough :o)
But, when it was time to go to college, I considered the navy officials school, because it only required a math exam while the air force required math and economics. But then I saw the 1,60m requirement on the physical exam... I was really mad. Took math as a major instead and even considered being a civil air controller for a while but statistics was more appealing by then.

Sonia, you might be the first person I have ever known to say that statistics is appealing, LOL!!!

Well...more appealing than something else, at least.

Hay, I got an A in statistics. Loved it. However, I'm not as good in it as Sonia or Turtlecollector.

You did read that I took math as a major right? That should be a clue

*giggles*

Yes, I like statistics. I also like making models and predictions and data analysis.

Too bad I'm not doing that for a living, but I also enjoy database programming so.. is my second love. Third, since first love is reserved for books :D

LOL, Sonia - yes I saw that. One of my friends who has a degree in math said she really hated statistics, then a few other friends who had to take it for some degree or other griped about it, too. So, it just amused me that I now know someone who actually loves it! Plus, now LK added to that.

Math is probably my weakest subject. I just have no grasp beyond the basics, sadly. I think it's fascinating how it ties in with so many aspects of life and I like to watch that show, "Numbers", about the math professor who helps solve crimes. I rarely understand what he's going on about, but his analogies for the layman are fascinating to me.

LOL

My math area was Operational Research, that is mostly finding models and strategies to optimize resources (or minimize costs) using statistics and other math theories. It was develop during WW II for submarine placements (yes, it is used a LOT in the military area, see a pattern here?)

My less favorite areas are geometry and trigonometry.

I liked geometry, but never took trigonometry; I'm not that smart.

Lisa Kay wrote: "I liked geometry, but never took trigonometry; I'm not that smart."

I think trigonometry is easier than geometry.

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: " I think it's fascinating how it ties in with so many aspects of life and I like to watch that show, "Numbers", about the math professor who helps solve crimes. I rarely understand what he's going on about, but his analogies for the layman are fascinating to me. "

I used to watch numbers too. I think sometimes they "mix" things that weren't supposed to be mixed but maybe that is because I pay more attention to the hot math teacher (mine weren't that eye candy) than to the variables he's speaking. See, there is nothing wrong with me after all.

Yes, I always watched Numbers, too. And not just because of the eye candy. ☺

The show had a good plot. Plus it used math and physics to solve crimes!!!!

I also liked the character played by the actor of Dear John (can't remember the name) the father.

And both brothers were hot :o)
I also liked the dynamics of the FBI team.

Richard Jenkins???

No. Judd Hirsch

Well, I though you meant him, but then you said the father in Dear John.

Judd Hirsch is the father in Numbers but he was on Dear John. :)

I like him, too, on Numbers (and other shows). Love how he would butt his nose into the cases to help his sons solve them!

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Judd Hirsch is the father in Numbers but he was on Dear John. :)"

He was? Well, it would probably help if I had seen the movie. LOL! I just looked at the movie credits and didn't see his name.

I was thinking about Dear John the TV series. He was John.

I didn't see the TV series either!

LOL, I forgot there was a Dear John movie! I meant to look up Dear John titles to see what Richard Jenkins was in, oops..I got distracted, hehe.

Yep, Dear John was a therapist, I believe...tv show from the 90s, if I recall correctly. I thought it was cute, though it didn't last long.

Dear John Wikipedia

Oops, I was wrong! He was not a therapist but he was in a self-help group, which is why I had therapist in my head. That is the show where I first saw Jere Burns act. His character was such a jerk! Kirk the Jerk, LOL. Loved him in that role.

Thank you for letting me know about the challenge would you like Mr to post the books I'm doing? And just so I'm correct you want each of us to try and read 9 books in the month of august? :) I am new but I've been trying to catch up by reading posts.

More or less. We have different reading speeds, I'm not sure if Jex or I would be able to read 9 books in a month. Plus we are 10 reading members :-)

Baroness Blue created two threads for the challenge in the sister group. I'm on my kindle, so giving links is not a practical task, I'll give them to you later. Basically, during August, for every book you read, you update your spot saying the book and which steps it can be matched.

Our team captain then will assemble all our books in order to complete the 9 books per category.

Did I make sense?