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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 current BOM (Book of the Month) discussions
Writing a day's worth of discussion questions = 40 points
Participating in a current 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 - 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)
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~Mummy Movie Moments~
~ an Egyptian Quest
brought to you by the Tower Teams Egyptian Teams ~
This is an OPTIONAL min-challenge for our Egyptian teams
Karsyn (Team Anubis) is a Mummy Movie fanatic and has put together the following quest!
How to Play
There are 15 quests to choose from.
◈ Each team member that completes a quest receives 5 points for their team
◈ Team members can complete a quest more than once
◈ Any team that completes all 15 quests receives a bonus 10 points for their team
◈ Books read between November 7 and December 7 count for this mini-challenge
◈ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for Tower Teams
◈ 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
What you win
The ongoing praise and adulation from your fellow Egyptian team mates!
This is just a challenge for fun and does not contribute points to Tower Teams
The Quests
Are detailed in the message below, or under this spoiler is a re-cap of the 15 quests for easy review
(view spoiler)
Current Goals~ Read a book set in the time period "Prehistory" (M)
~ Read a book whose author died 2-5 years ago (Michelle)
~ Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as modern (Kerri)
~ Read a book that contains the word parsley (Victoria)
~ Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a bus, train, or other road based vehicle
~ Read a book with cookies on the cover for 10 points! (James)
~ Read a book with a Holiday in the title for 10 points!
Important Links
* All About Tower Teams
* All About Goals
* Anubis Spreadsheet
* Anubis BOOKS READ ~ post books read with following :
- number of pages
- date completed
- goal it fits (if any)
- if it's a BOM you are participating in
- if it's a BOM you wrote questions for
- if it's for Mummy Quest / which quest
Welcome! Team Anubis is open.If anyone wants to change their shelf name to reflect the team, just let me know, otherwise I have what y'all signed up with. If you haven't set your shelf, please do so. I'm looking at not seeing a shelf for ~ jingles & Maritza.
I've sent out friend requests to each of you. I'm working on my own basics of a spreadsheet, so I'll be back in a bit. Just to warn you, I'm chatty, so feel free to talk as much as you want.
Looking forward to playing with y'all.
Karsyn wrote: "Welcome! Team Anubis is open.If anyone wants to change their shelf name to reflect the team, just let me know, otherwise I have what y'all signed up with.
I've sent out friend requests to each o..."
Hey Karsyn... we're going to give one with the scripts (as we did in tower teams III) plus the goal tabs... still on the making though... but, feel free to use your own
Sonia wrote: "Karsyn wrote: "Welcome! Team Anubis is open.If anyone wants to change their shelf name to reflect the team, just let me know, otherwise I have what y'all signed up with.
I've sent out friend req..."
Oh, I'll wait on that for my main one, since y'all do such a great job on making them. :) I'm just setting up parts of mine (I do multiple tabs) with the shelves of team members, so I have everything in one place.
Karsyn wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Karsyn wrote: "Welcome! Team Anubis is open.If anyone wants to change their shelf name to reflect the team, just let me know, otherwise I have what y'all signed up with.
I've sent ..."
Ah, okay, sorry... doing a bunch of stuff at same time and working :D
Chip'n Dale are going to sleep well today :D
No worries, I'm just eager, and overly prepared. LOL!
Hi Anubis team! Glad you have you join us here. I have to say a big thank you to Sonia again, who gave me Team Anubis after learning that The Mummy (and The Mummy Returns) are my absolute FAVORITE movies! So excited! :) My name is Karsyn, and I'm your fearless captain. :) I'm in my late 30s, married to my High School Best Friend. We've known each other over 23 years, and have just celebrated our 11th "together" anniversary. I'm in a small town in NC and can't wait for our first snowfall!!
I'm blessed with a ton of time to read, so when the challenge gets going, I'll likely be a book of day (or more) type person, though I'm going to TRY not to push myself too much. I tend to get burnt out after about 70 books in a 4 week range, and I don't want to get burnt out this time. We'll see how great we are doing though, that will make a difference! :D
I'm virtually always online, or can be. Except for when I'm sleeping, I'm pretty much always right next to my computer. That means you can get in touch with me at anytime, either through this thread or by messaging me.
I'm a Kindle and audiobook person. My Kindle is always within reach, and I love to listen to audiobooks before I go to sleep at night. I read most genres, if the book sounds good to me. Genres I won't read are a smaller list and include ~ New Adult, Chick-Lit, religion, Classics, and most Non Fiction. I don't tend to read the same books everyone else is reading. I won't be taking part in the BOM or BR threads, so it's perfectly ok if y'all don't as well. I just am not into most popular books.
Besides a reader, I'm a big gamer. I built my own gaming PC in Feb, and if I'm not reading, I'm playing games. I hope to find a good mix of reading and gaming, so I'm not missing out on my games. :) Currently I'm back on another Skyrim kick.
And that's me. As you can see, I'm VERY VERY chatty. So if y'all talk to me, I'll be chatting right back. :) I do get quiet if I have quiet team members, hopefully y'all won't mind my chattiness.
On one last note, if you need to leave the team at any time, please just let me, or a NBRC Mod know, that way I'm not chasing after you all the time to put books on your shelf. Things happen and come up, so just keep us updated, is all I ask! :D
Hi, I'm jingles. I participated in the last Tower Team challenge and really enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to getting started.I did set up my shelf - sorry about that! I thought I had taken care of it already. Here is the link:
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I usually read a lot; however, due to some changes at work and some things on the home front, I've really slowed down the last few months. I, too, am an audiobook lover. I listen at work when I can. At night (usually late) I read from my Kindle.
I'm really glad to be part of the team, and looking forward to chatting with you all about all these wonderful books.
Welcome jingles! Glad to meet ya! Thanks for the shelf, I got yours all marked down!
Looking forward to playing and chatting with you.
Hello, I am M (aka Mary) I live in the lovely Vancouver BC with my husband creature and 2 cat overlords. I am also a book a day person. Currently I work overnights, so most of my postings will be vary early in the morning Pacific time. I have a shelf set up already titled Tower. Can't wait to start and glad to be here with all all of you.
Haha! I like your "husband creature" description, M!Nice to meet you both.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...Hi guys thought I had a shelf set up but not. I love this team name it reminds me of a character on Star gate. I live in NYC and i'm kind of in a reading funk right now even though I have a couple of library books I need to get through. I look foward to clearing up some kindle books with this challenge. Above is my shelf name.
Welcome Maritza! Thanks for the shelf, I'll get it added right now. All shelves have been added, well except for Michelle, still waiting on her. WOOHOO!!
Hello, teammates! I'm Kerri and I live in Ohio with my husband, two kiddos, and three cats. I'm more of a book a week type of gal, mostly because of work and kids. I love reading and just recently got back into it more full force. I'm excited for this challenge because I think it'll push me back into reading even more! I have quite a few books on my bookshelf that need to be read.
Anyways, I look forward to getting to know everyone and to kicking butt at this challenge :D
Welcome Kerri! Nice to meet ya!Any book helps, so we'll appreciate anything you are able to read. I do hope the challenge helps you get to more. They always make me do more, and I have a bunch coming up. :)
Hello everyone! Deedee here. I live in Georgia with my husband and my medically fragile son. I also have 2 daughters who live nearby and whom I see at least weekly. My children think they are southerners because we raised them here in Georgia. Husband & I think we are transplanted northerners because we lived the young parts of our life in the Maryland/Pennsylvania area. (youze guys instead of y'all)I've kept records of my reading since December 2000. I average 14 books a month, sometimes as many as 19 books in a month, sometimes as few as 10 books in a month. 30-40% of my reading is fantasy / science fiction; 20-30% is non-fiction (mostly history); 20-30% "literary" fiction (Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, and so on). The remainder of my reading consists of mysteries, chicklit romances and other lighthearted contemporary novels. The past 2-3 years I've added "young adult" novels -- mainly the fantasy young adult novels but a few of the mainstream ones as well. I am usually reading 2-4 books at a time --- after 60 or so pages I'm usually ready to go and "visit" another story.
Anyways .... hello everyone! Looking forward to getting to know everyone better :0)
Welcome Deedee, nice to have you here.I've lived most of my life in the south (FL) but still consider myself a northerner (West PA). But "y'all" is one thing I have adapted, I never was into the whole youze or you'ens. I think I was too young when I left there (13) to have picked it up, thankfully. :D
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Hi everyone!
great to see some familiar faces and new ones!
I am your moderator mentor (i.e. go to person) if there is anything your captains can't answer or need help with, so I'll float around, but my team is Bastet. The other Egyptian teams are your "sister teams" so feel free to go and visit them and share book recommendations, memes, or just chat!
Good morning all. Off to work with some reading in between.
Good morning, Team Anubis! I'm glad to see you all are as excited about this team challenge as I am. I can't wait to get started!!!I'm off now to check out the goals. Has anyone else looked at them yet?
Karsyn - I'm kind of worried about my team shelf. I thought I had set up my team shelf when I signed up for the challenge, but I guess I didn't. My concern is that the shelf I have set up now - that name might not be the same name as that I put on the google sign up sheet. So the moderators might be seeing a different shelf name for me. Am I making sense?
jingles wrote: "Karsyn - I'm kind of worried about my team shelf. I thought I had set up my team shelf when I signed up for the challenge, but I guess I didn't. My concern is that the shelf I have set up now - tha..."You are. Don't worry. When Team Anubis spreadsheet is up, we can change the name there. And by we, I mean mods or captains :D
Okay, great! Thank you, Sonia. I just couldn't remember what I had originally put on my sign up sheet for a shelf name. LOL
Morning y'all!Nice to wake up to some chattiness! Just so y'all know, I'm a late riser, so you'll start to see me in the mornings usually in between 9-10am EST.
I understand ya, jingles. No worries. You can make it whatever you want and if it's wrong on the main sheet for the automatic stuff, I'll change it. So you're covered. I also changed mine. If you (or anyone) want to change it again before we start, just give me a heads up so I can change it. No changing after we start. :)
Yeah, I looked over the goals briefly last night. Crazy how many there are. I'm looking forward to those, rather than the points from the BR, that stuff got a little out of hand last time! :)
Morning Maritza, enjoy work! Does everyone here work? What do you all do? Do you enjoy your work?
Lovely to have you as a mentor Karen!! :D
Yup, what Sonia said. :) That's me and my LOOOOOONG posts, I'm typing away.
jingles wrote: "Okay, great! Thank you, Sonia. I just couldn't remember what I had originally put on my sign up sheet for a shelf name. LOL"I have it as TT4, but I may be wrong :D
Good morning, Karsyn! I like the idea of the goals. I'm just not sure how it all works. Do we get points for each goal our book meets? I browsed through the info again, but didn't see anything about it other than there would be goals. I may have missed it though.For work - I work for a small company doing accounting work. I like it a lot. Through parts of the year it's very slow, and then other times, it's utter madness around here. Right now, I am focused on end of year stuff, so it's kind of busy. This is the part of my job that I don't particularly like, but it's a necessary evil. Lol
It's a little after 9am in my part of the country (southern US). What time is it where you are?
Here's what we know about goals, so far ~ ◈ There will be 5 open goals for each team, when one is submitted on the spreadsheet, another will be automatically generated a short time after.
◈ Some goals are harder to get than others. So, every two weeks we will grant a "boon" to trade for a goal to each team.
◈ Boons are not required to be used, but they are not cumulative. Meaning, it will only be valid for two weeks.
◈ For completing goals
For each book read That completes an open goal = 5 points
◈ Since goals are randomized, we cannot prevent repetition. The moderators will keep adding new ones on a regular basis, also, any goal that occurs more than 2 times the number of teams participating, will be removed from the goal pool.
Okay...I remember now. I must have skimmed right past it this morning. Thanks for posting it here.
So, we'll always have 5 goals going, random ones. We can't just pick and choose a goal, we will get goals given to us. From there, as we complete a goal we will get a new one, always having 5 open or 5 that will be open if we have finished the goals quickly.It's just after 10am here, I'm in North Carolina. I am usually up by 10. I go to sleep late, I have a hard time falling asleep, so while I may go to bed with my Hubby by 11, I'll be awake until 2 or sometimes 3. Thankfully I've been sleeping better the last two days since I did a 24 hr Read-a-Thon. It's been nice to fall asleep at a normal hour. :)
I'm glad you enjoy your work, for the most part, that's always a good thing!
This zombie just got home from work and is heading to sleep. I am up around 4-5 pm pacific time.Is anyone else so excited that they have created a TBR for this already. I have an actual tower of books next to my desk. I have decided to branch out in my reading. If you know of any good mysteries/crime thrillers please send me the titles.
Have a good day
Wow M, what do you do that you work through the night? It's around 8am for you right now, right?I'm super excited, but I don't plan out my books. I'm what I call a "Fly-by-er". I pick books as I go. I can never plan, just doesn't work for me. I always have a big TBR in general though, we'll see what catches my fancy as we go along!
Oh man, you HAD to ask for mystery/thrillers? You've come to the right person. Gonna check your books. Be back. ;) (Mystery/thrillers are my favorite genre, if I had to just pick on!)
Hope you get some good rest, M! I've not created a TBR for this challenge yet, though I'm very tempted to :)
Karsyn wrote: "Wow M, what do you do that you work through the night? It's around 8am for you right now, right?Yes it is almost 8 am. I am receiving and stock clerk for a book store. I mainly read sci-fi and fantasy so this will fun to read new stuff
M wrote: "Karsyn wrote: "Wow M, what do you do that you work through the night? It's around 8am for you right now, right?Yes it is almost 8 am. I am receiving and stock clerk for a book store. I mainly rea..."
Awesome, that sounds fun! Well, as I said, you came to the right person about mysteries! :) I'm just trying to not make my list TOOOOO long. :D
Hmmmm, M. We have just a few books in common and the ones we do, our ratings aren't very similar. So, you may not like what I do. But here are some of my favorites for ya (no particular order, except perhaps first few) ~ The Shadow of the Wind & series ~ a mystery about books!
The Great Zoo of China ~ thriller about dragons, Jurassic Park style
The Crucifix Killer & series ~ about a homicide cop, some of the craziest serial killers I've seen in books
Naked in Death & series ~ futuristic NY cop ~ one of the best long running series out there (in my opinion)
Lock In ~ a sci-fi fan and haven't read this yet? You gotta! Description is soooooo lacking, it's a FANTASTIC sci-fi mystery!
Close Your Eyes & series ~ about a previously blind woman who helps solve crimes. To first "meet" her, you could read the Eve Duncan series starting with The Face Of Deception
Sleep with the Lights On & series ~ previously blind helps cops, touch of paranormal
Sweetheart & series ~ female serial killer (a lot of people have been reading this lately)
I Hunt Killers & series ~ son of a serial killer wants to not be like father
The 13th Hour ~ time travel mystery, man can go back an hour each hour to try to save wife
Think of a Number ~ detective type stalking serial killer
Man in the Empty Suit ~ time travel mystery
The Naturals & series ~ teens help FBI solve cold cases
Huntress Moon & series ~ female serial killer
Go to authors with long running mystery/crime/thrillers ~
Catherine Coulter ~ FBI series, some paranormal stuff
J.T. Ellison ~ Taylor Jackson (homicide) & Samantha Owens (medical examiner) series
Kendra Elliot ~ multi series
Matthew Reilly ~ thrillers. multi all action (military type stuff) series, recommend everything he's written!
Nora Roberts ~ especially Blue Smoke, The Witness & The Collector
Ok, making myself stop! I could go on all day. :D
I love the Naked in Death series but am seriously behind.I am a Registered Nutritionist working on losing weight myself. I just have to engage my will power (which I have but have to keep to the on position).
As for the challenge. I don't like the writing of questions so I won't be doing that. But I love the challenge of completing the goals so am open to reading what fits the goal. Lately i've been reading alot of series and trying to keep up with those. I love the action packed mysteries like Angels & Demons
The Naked in Death series definitely is a long one. I've kept up with it, I'm actually only missing the last novella that was just released. A majority of the books I read are series, so I pretty much stay current on the ones I love, try to keep close with the ones I like, and just ignore the ones I ended up getting bored with. LOL!No worries about not doing the BOM questions. I won't do 'em either. As long as we are reading and doing goals, that'll be what matters!
I love the In Death series as well. I've been listening to the audios, and I think I'm up to book #13, which my library doesn't seem to have in audio format. No worries though, as I can read it on my Kindle. It just happens to be one of those series that I love in the audio format.
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