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Mentor: ❀Tea❀

• Eni (Captain)
• Stacie (Co-Captain)
• ❀Tea❀ (Co-Captain)
• Nicole
• Sophie Jackson
• Anita
• RebeccaS
• Turtlecollector
• Tina
• April
• Taryn
• Venecia



Status Spreadsheet
Loki Spreadsheet
Loki BOOKS READ

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The Nine Worlds in Norse Mythology

Little fun for Norse teams

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How to play
There are 9 worlds to choose from.
◈ Each team member that completes a task in world receives 5 points for their team
◈ Team members can complete a task more than once
◈ Any team that completes all tasks in all worlds receives a bonus 10 points
◈ Books read from start of TT till December 15th can be used
◈ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for Tower Teams
◈ Book can be used only for one task
◈ The usual book length rules apply: Books must be more than 100 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com
◈ There will be a spreadsheet for the Captains to update and track the teams points
◈ This is challenge just for fun and does not have any connection with points to Tower Teams. Nobody has to feel obligated to participate.

What you win
Bragging rights ☺

Asgard - home of the gods and goddesses. In the middle of the world, high up in the sky is Asgard. Connected to other worlds with Bifrost (Rainbow Bridge). Part of Asgard is reserved for Valhalla, place where worthy Vikings 'go' for the afterlife.
- Read a book with gods and/or godesses
- Read a book with plenty of sky on the cover
- Read a book featuring vikings
- Read a book with rainbow on the cover
- Read book where all letters of VALHALLA can be found in title, author and/or series (all 3 can be used)

Vanaheim - home of old gods - masters of magic and sorcery and predicting the future. Nobody knows where exactly the land is located, or even how it looks like. According to some versions of Norse cosmology it seems to be poised between the heavens and the earth.
- Read book tagged as magic
- Read a book where main character is wizard/witch
- Read a book set anywhere on Earth
- Read a book with something/someone in between (eg. between jobs, looking new place to live, 'third' in relationship,...)
- Read a book where someone can predict future (eg. visions, tarot, tea leaves,...)

Alfheim - home of the Light Elves set near Asgard in the heaven. The light elves are beautiful creatures. They are considered the "guardian angels" and are minor gods nature and fertility and inspiration to art or music.
- Read a book with light cover
- Read book featuring elves
- Read book with beautiful cover
- Read book mentioning 'guardian angel'
- Read book where main character is artist (any kind)

Midgard - home of the Humans also known as middle earth. Connected to Asgard with Rainbow Bridge. Around Migdard is impassable ocean where huge sea serpent (aka Midgard Serpent) lives.
- Read book set in New Zealand
- Read book tagged as LGBT
- Read book with big body of water on cover
- Read book with snake/serpent in it (can be real, toy, tatoo,... but it needs to be part of the book not just mentioned. eg. someone holding toy works, but someone mentioning they saw toy in shop, won't)
- Read a book where someone bites

Jotunheim - home of the Giants consist mostly of rocks, wilderness and dense forests, so the giants lives from the fish in the rivers, and the animals in the forest, because there is no fertile land. The whole world was created from the corpse of the first Giant. Jotunheim is separated from Asgard by the river, which never freezes over. It lies in the snowy regions on the outermost shores of the ocean.
- Read a book with title starting with G (a, an the can be excluded)
- Read book with exterior on the cover
- Read book where someone hunts and/or fishes
- Read a book set on the farm/ranch
- Read a book where someone comes back to life
- Read a book with snow on cover

Svartalfheim - home of the Dark Elves. They hate sun so they live in the murky underground. They are hideous and can be of a great pain in the neck to the humans many describe them as being extreme annoying. The dark elves are nothing but trouble. Many Norse thought that dark elves were also responsible for nightmares. The dark elves can not be exposed to the sun, if the sun’s beams of light reached them they would instantly turn into stones.
- Read a book with dark cover
- Read a book with troublemaker
- Read a book where someone has nightmare
- Read a book with sun on cover
- Read a book that was annoying to you

Nidavellir - home of the Dwarves and means Dark Fields. Dwarves live under the rocks, in caves and underground. The dwarves are masters of craftsmanship.
- Read a book where author has initial D or F (or both)
- Read book set in underground (partly is enough)
- Read book with craftsman
- Read book with less than 200 pages

Niflheim - World of Fog and Mist also known as "Mist home". That part is darkest and coldest region in the world set in northern parts. In the lands of Niflheim there is located the eldest of the three wells (Hvergelmir) that is protected by the huge dragon. It is said that all cold rivers come from Hvergelmir and that it's actually origin of all living and the place where every living will go back (part of Niflheim is Helheim - home of the dead).
- Read book with weather word in title or series (fog, mist, rain, sun,...)
- Read book set in cold place
- Read book with dragon
- Read book written by author from northern hemisphere
- Read first or last book in series

Muspelheim - land of Fire. It was created far to the south of the world. Muspelheim is a burning hot place, filled with lava, flames, sparks and soot. It is the home the of fire giants, fire demons that will fight against gods in Ragnarok and turn Asgard into a flaming inferno.
- Read hot book (interpret it at will ☺)
- Read book set in southern hemisphere
- Read book tagged as war
- Read book with fire on cover, title or series name
- Read book with demons (hide spoiler)]

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• Goal: Reach 25,000 points
• Starts November 7, 2015 at 7 PM (GMT Time)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Points ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

For reading books
Books between 100 and 160 pages (100 pages or 25,000 words is the minimum) = 5 points
Books between 161 pages and 350 pages = 20 points
Books between 351 and 500 pages = 40 points
Books between 501 and 650 pages = 60 points
Books between 651 and 800 pages = 80 points
Books between 801 and 900 pages = 100 points
Books over 901 pages = 130 points

For BOM (Book of the Month) discussions
Writing a day's worth of discussion questions = 40 points
Participating in a BOM (participating in discussion) = 20 points
NOTE: We will accept one team member per book per team for writing a days DQs. If, by three days prior to the BOM starting, we don't have enough volunteers to write all DQs, then we will let more than one team member per team write questions. If we have more people than days sign up (prior to 3 days before start date) we will randomise the volunteers to determine those who can write DQs

For completing goals
For each book read That completes an open goal = 5 points

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Winner Categories ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

♔ Winner - First to the post (first team to reach 25,000 points)
♔ Winner - Alternative (team with most books read, but individuals capped to 150% of goal)
♔ Winner - Page Turners (highest page numbers read)
♔ Winner - Books of the Month (highest % of team members participating in BOMS)
♔ Winner - Most improved team (% to goal improves week to week)
♔ Winner - Goal Achiever (more goals completed)

• Countdown until the challenge start is here

• All About The Tower Teams

• Loki BOOKS READ

• Team Members:

✔ Eni (Captain) - tower-teams-iv
✔ Stacie (Co-Captain) - tower-round-4
✔ ❀Tea❀ (Co-Captain) - tt4
✔ Nicole - tt-challenge-books
✔ Sophie Jackson - tt4
✔ Anita - tower-team
✔ RebeccaS - tt4
✔ Turtlecollector - tower-team
✔ Tina - tower-team
✔ Taryn - tower-teams-2
✔ April - nbrc-tower-team
✔ Venecia - slu-towerteams

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Boons ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


- Week 1 and 2 - (view spoiler)[7th November - 21st November (hide spoiler)]
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- Week 3 and 4 - (view spoiler)[22th November - 5th December (hide spoiler)]
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- Week 5 and 6 - (view spoiler)[6th December - 19th December (hide spoiler)]
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ November BOMs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- NBRC BOMs --

• The Child Thief, by Brom (Adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy BOM) - Start Date 2 November 2015 - No DQs

• Pretty Girls, by Karin Slaughter (Anything Goes BOM) - Start Date November 12, 2015 - No DQs

• Six of Crows, by Leigh Bardugo (Young Adult BOM) - Start Date November 22, 2015 - RebeccaS signed up


-- NBRC Back Room BOMs --

• Bound (Mastered #1), by Lorelei James - Start Date November 17, 2015

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ December BOMs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- NBRC BOMs --

• American Gods, by Neil Gaiman (Adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy BOM) - Start Date 2 December 2015 -

• Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng (Anything Goes BOM) - Start Date December 12, 2015 -

• Uprooted, By Naomi Novik (Young Adult BOM) - Start Date December 22, 2015 - RebeccaS signed up


-- NBRC Back Room BOMs --

• The Paper Swan, by Leylah Attar - Start Date December 17, 2015

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Yay! Welcome everyone =)

and so we meet again Tea =D

I have no idea what Sonia was thinking to put us together :P

Looking forward to this!

Eni wrote: "Yay! Welcome everyone =)

and so we meet again Tea =D"

HI HI HI

*waves to everyone*

@❀Tea❀: Okay, here he is safe and sound. Sorry it took me so long, but, I had to make sure everything had a quality stamp.

❀Tea❀ wrote: "I have no idea what Sonia was thinking to put us together :P"

Clearly I wasn't. Not only that, I also added a turtle to the mix.

Only explanation was someone was holding Chip'n Dale as hostage

Sonia wrote: "@❀Tea❀: Okay, here he is safe and sound. Sorry it took me so long, but, I had to make sure everything had a quality stamp.

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So what? You want C & D back now?

All this concern about people being together really appeals... suggests there's going to be mischief!

Sophie wrote: "All this concern about people being together really appeals... suggests there's going to be mischief!"

Who us?! Never!! After all we are in Loki team :P

Had forgotten the trickster god :D

Hello team *waves*

For some reason - I don't understand the Loki hype. Sorry.
Having grown up with a lot of the tales (I'm from Denmark), Thor has always been my favorite. I'm open to changes however.

I think I've teamed up with all of you before at some point, except Sonia and Sophie?
Although, I might be wrong with the last round of Gladiator challenge.

We are only going to try and live up to our team name. And Sonia (who btw is only spying here) put few of us known troublemakers together :P

You'll have to educate us on the tales!

I recognise a few names, but I don't think I've been on a team with anyone here... Might be wrong though.

Anita wrote: "Hello team *waves*

For some reason - I don't understand the Loki hype. Sorry.
Having grown up with a lot of the tales (I'm from Denmark), Thor has always been my favorite. I'm open to changes howe..."

Have you read the gospel of Loki? Is the Norse myths told by Loki. Specially the ones he has a finger on it.

Loki!!!!!!

We are missing Nicole, RebeccaS and Turtlecollector. RebeccaS please let me know when you create your shelf =)

Let me know if you want something to be under Mod's posts :)

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Let me know if you want something to be under Mod's posts :)"

ok =)

*yawn* is it the 7th yet? xD

Any minute now... :P

I enjoy trouble making

Hi all!!! Sorry I'm on the stupid Mobil app and I couldn't figure out how to make a shelf, so I'll have to log in on the internet app. Will have it up momentarily!

Ok it's there and it's called TT4.

I don't know anything about Loki, but now I'm so curious!!

RebeccaS wrote: "Ok it's there and it's called TT4.

I don't know anything about Loki, but now I'm so curious!!"

ty =D i'll make a small post tomorrow about Loki. Or if anyone else wants to go right ahead xD

Sonia wrote: "Anita wrote: "Have you read the gospel of Loki? Is the Norse myths told by Loki. Specially the ones he has a finger on it."

I haven't no.
Actually I haven't read anything about the Norse mythology since I was in school. I just bought this book which is supposedly about Odin and his horse that's injured and they end up on this island.

I'm also going to check out Rick Riordan's new book so maybe my way of seeing Loki will change after reading that.

Also I really like Chris Hemsworth as Thor.

Oooh I'll have to check out RRs new book then too. I know absolutely zero nothing about Norse gods or myths so I'm so curious!

RebeccaS wrote: "Oooh I'll have to check out RRs new book then too. I know absolutely zero nothing about Norse gods or myths so I'm so curious!"

Simple, Loki did a bunch of pranks - caused for Thor's hammer to be stolen, dressed Thor as a bride, shape-changed into a mare to seduce some horses, tricked a blind man into killing Balder, caused Ragnarok (that's the norse armageddon). The End.

LOL

Oh so no big deal really. Just the usual stuff.... HA

Exactly.

Just stopping in to say hello to my fellow Spartans (I'm still stuck on GG in my mind)! How are you all on the same team?! No fair :( I'll miss you this round but hopefully we'll still see each other around!

Can remember looking at and adding to tbr shelf. Hasn't happened yet! Might have to read it once we start.

How was GG? Didn't take part with that one.

I think it was a pretty awesome challenge, but the last round got a little too overwhelming for my taste. I had fun though, and read a lot of books.

I agree with Anita! GG was really fun, but by the end with so many people and so many goals to keep track of... It was like a frantic scramble and became a little too stressful for me. But I love the idea of the challenge being different than any others we've done.

Didn't realize teams were made yet. I was a little surprised to be with Tea again, but this will be fun. Just have to wait for the start now.

I plan to read RR's new book so maybe I will make it the first one for this

Sophie wrote: "Can remember looking at and adding to tbr shelf. Hasn't happened yet! Might have to read it once we start.

How was GG? Didn't take part with that one."

We did it as a BOM, last year, I think. June 2nd. It was my BOM theme takeover :D

So, if you want to skip it and just see the highlights, go there.

Btw, after the glossary, it has the creation of the world, almost made me gave up, but is a chapter or two. The book gets better after that.

Anita wrote: "I think it was a pretty awesome challenge, but the last round got a little too overwhelming for my taste. I had fun though, and read a lot of books."

That's how I felt. For the last round, I just read books and hoped they fit in somewhere!

Hmm not sure how I missed that! I've enjoyed others of her books so might have to pick up a copy rather than just looking at highlights.

From what I could see of GG from the outside it looked like the end became v chaotic - don't know how you all managed to keep track (or how on earth the mods even began to manage it!)

Sophie wrote: "Hmm not sure how I missed that! I've enjoyed others of her books so might have to pick up a copy rather than just looking at highlights.

From what I could see of GG from the outside it looked like..."

Did we mentioned already how amazing Kelly's coding skills are?

When she started talking goodreads api's and spreadsheets I almost build her a statue.

Good thing I didn't because now nothing short of a piece of Saturn's rings would fit.