Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

COYOTE




Mentor: Kelly

• Alessandra(Captain)
• Kelly (Co-Captain)
• Alison (Lady Coffin) (Co-captain)
• Katie
• Erika Barrett
• Sunshine
• Jacki
• Rebecca NJ
• Koula
• Shandy Browett
• Aliyah
• Miranda
• Amy



Status Spreadsheet
Coyote Spreadsheet
Coyote BOOKS READ

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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 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 randomize the volunteers to determine those who can write DQs

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

Team Shelves


Alessandra
Kelly
Alison (Lady Coffin)
Katie
Erika
Sunshine
Jacki
Rebecca NJ
Koula
Shandy
Aliyah
Miranda
Amy

Team Check-Ins


✔ Alessandra
✔ Kelly
✔ Alison
✔ Katie
✔ Erika
✔ Sunshine
✔ Jacki
✔ Rebecca
✔ Koula
✔ Shandy
✔ Aliyah
✔ Miranda
✔ Amy

Helpful links you may have missed:

Coyote Team Books Read
Current and Completed Goals
25 Days of Tower Teams

All about Goals FAQ
All possible goals

Reserved

Hello team! I am excited for our challenge to begin.

Once people accept my friend request, I can update our Team Shelves post for everyone to have access to each other's shelves and make it easier for each person to find them.

Hey all :) Very excited for this! Have my shelf set up - its under Tower Team 4 Coyote.

Hey everyone! I'm looking forward to this challenge. :)

Great! I will mark you as check ins and link your shelves once I am on a computer!

Alessandra, accepted your request.
Sent the rest of the team friend requests.
Also changed my profile name, due to the very rare occurrence of having another Alison spelled with one "L" doing the challenge and as a Co-captain for another team. Hopefully less confusion this way.
Also, changed my shelf to: tower-team-coyote-2015
Now trying to read thru all the threads on the "Tower Teams IV Captains Group discussion" to find out what I need to do to help the team and you.

Hi everyone....

Checkin' in

Hi everyone! Quickly checking in. I'm in training this week and have limited access to the computer.

Here's my shelf - 2015-ttiv

I'm looking forward to starting Tower Teams IV!

Hello, Sunshine and Rebecca NJ. Thanks for both accepting my friend requests.

This is looking like it will be a LOT of fun.
I am a little intimidated by a few of the Goals, but hopefully with over 900 of them we will get a lot of the good ones.

Got to run, be back tonight, maybe this afternoon.
In the meantime, hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday

Glad to see so many have checked in and are excited about the challenge. Any questions, feel free to ask and I will do my best to get an answer for you :)

To get started and get to know each other I thought we could answer some fun questions?

What is your favorite genre?
What is your least favorite genre?
Do you have a favorite author?
What is your favorite book?
What is the last GREAT book you read?

And finally...
Is there a character from a book that you absolutely love or loathe?

Hello all :) Just checking in. We're working hard on getting all the spreadsheets up and running.

What is your favorite genre? Romance and Paranormal/SCI-FI/Fantasy
What is your least favorite genre? Non-fiction
Do you have a favorite author? I love F. Scott Fitzgerald's books and for authors still alive I love Jennifer Weiner and Janet Evanovich
What is your favorite book? and
What is the last GREAT book you read? was a great book!

And finally...
Is there a character from a book that you absolutely love or loathe? I love Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby and I love Gideon Cross from Sylvia Day Crossfire Series 4 Volume Boxed Set. Basically I love male tragic characters.
I really disliked Rachel from The Girl on the Train and Ani from Luckiest Girl Alive. Both characters were really annoying as narrators.

Oh! get to know you questions! Fun....

Glad to see we have 7 of our 9 members here, with 8 showing up as friends. Not bad with more than a week to go.

Fun fact for this challenge, "Any goal can only be fulfilled once, but it can be assigned more than once - the randomizer has some personality"..... "Only one book per goal. Meaning only one person per team."

Not something I am familiar to in other challenges I have done, but guess it came about with the Gladiator Games.

One of the group Moderators, aka Bossy Banshee suggests:
Sonia wrote:...Don't worry, my advice? unless the goal is very specific, read what you like and see when you finished if there is a goal it fits... but anybody will define their own strategy, of course...."

Just a little info I thought might be interesting to many of you.

Here are my get to know my books questions.
Oh wait, I me get to know me, and what I read. **grins**

What is your favorite genre? Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Steampunk, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Horror, Romance, Historical Fiction, etc...
What is your least favorite genre? I think I have to agree with Alessandra on this and say, Non-Fiction
Do you have a favorite author? Oh my!! How to narrow it down to just one... Maybe take a look at my Favorites shelf for a better idea, but I don't get all the good ones up there.
What is your favorite book? Again, this is just too hard to answer easily
What is the last GREAT book you read? Let me think.... Oh, at the end of last month I picked this up at the library on a whim and really enjoyed it. Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables they took fables and fairytales and re-wrote them, lots of fun.

And finally...
Is there a character from a book that you absolutely love or loathe? Yes, no, oh gesh. That is such an in the moment of passion in the book and can change a lot as a series progresses. Off the top of my head I can only come up with Severus Snape.

I'm so indecisive with some of these questions...

What is your favorite genre? Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Paranormal/Steampunk

What is your least favorite genre? vanilla romance (needs to be Historical, Paranormal, etc).

Do you have a favorite author? Soo so many authors I adore. I will buy anything from Maria V. Snyder without hesitation.

What is your favorite book? Just one book??? Really??? Probably Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. But oh so many more!

What is the last GREAT book you read? Ready Player One - a must read for all the nerds :)

And finally...
Is there a character from a book that you absolutely love or loathe? I don't run across a lot of characters that I loathe. If the character is big enough to really annoy I probably wont be able to finish the book. I love many characters - recently Lynn from Not a Drop to Drink, all time favorites include Charley from First Grave on the Right et all and Karigan from the Green Rider series.

Jacki wrote: "I'm so indecisive with some of these questions...

What is your favorite genre? Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Paranormal/Steampunk..."

Hi!
I was the same way with my answers. :-)

Great books, added the two I hadn't heard about to my tbr list. Need to read Mirror Sight (Green Rider, #5) it will be a good one for this challenge at over 700 pages.

Alison (Lady Coffin) wrote: "Jacki wrote: "I'm so indecisive with some of these questions...

What is your favorite genre? Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Paranormal/Steampunk..."

Hi!
I was the same way with my answers. :-)

Great books, adde..."

I've got my eye on Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables :) Can't get enough steampunk!

If you haven't read Mirror Sight yet I would HANDS DOWN recommend waiting until the 6th book is closer to releasing. Although its wonderfully written and a great story, it follows a completely different story line than the rest of the series. I read this the day it was released (after waiting years I couldn't wait another day!) and was SO sad.

Oh, these questions are always so hard to answer!

What is your favorite genre? - Romance, but all varieties of...I read it almost exclusively.
What is your least favorite genre? - Non-Fiction. I rarely find something that I can really get into in that genre.
Do you have a favorite author? Lots! Currently one of my absolute favorites is Ilona Andrews.
What is your favorite book? - I'm not sure I can answer this one. One of my most recent 5 star reads was Vision in Silver.
What is the last GREAT book you read? - Magic Shifts

And finally...
Is there a character from a book that you absolutely love or loathe? - I love Kate Daniels, hence my current obsession with that series and Ilona Andrews. :)

Jacki wrote: "Alison (Lady Coffin) wrote: "Jacki wrote: "...
...I've got my eye on Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables :) Can't get enough steampunk!

If you haven't read Mirror Sight yet I would HANDS DOWN recommend waiting until the 6th book is closer to releasing. Although its wonderfully written and a great story, it follows a completely different story line than the rest of the series. I read this the day it was released (after waiting years I couldn't wait another day!) and was SO sad. "

I would highly recommend that collection, I have been trying to read a bunch of anthologies in Steampunk to introduce myself to new authors.

I am a little bummed to hear that about Mirror Sight, I will think on what you said, but not sure I want to wait another 2 to 4 years to read it. She is a great writer, but one of the slowest also. **grin**



Katie wrote: "...Do you have a favorite author? Lots! Currently one of my absolute favorites is Ilona Andrews.
What is your favorite book? - I'm not sure I can answer this one. One of my most recent 5 star reads was Vision in Silver.
What is the last GREAT book you read? - Magic Shifts..."

I love the team of Ilona Andrews, they write some great stuff. have you read anything other than the Kate Daniels series? I enjoyed the first three of The Edge series, have the fourth and other stuff by them on my tbr list.

As well as The Others, for a few years now. Someday.....
Just not enough time in a day, week, month to read all that I want to, especially with all the new stuff that is constantly coming out.

I really had to put some thought into these questions, lol!!

What is your favorite genre?
I've noticed that this changes a lot but I do rotate through mysteries, young adult, and women's fiction/chick lit.

What is your least favorite genre?
Historical romance.

Do you have a favorite author?
There are a few but the one I really enjoy Darynda Jones who writes the Charley Davidson series.

What is your favorite book?
My favorite all time book is The Lorax by Dr. Seuss. This is the only book I'll willing re-read every year.

What is the last GREAT book you read?
The one that sticks in my head is The Martian. It was well written and such a different topic.

And finally...
Is there a character from a book that you absolutely love or loathe?
It would have to be Charley Davidson. It's the sarcasm and wit that keeps me coming back to those books.

Alessandra wrote: "I really disliked Rachel from The Girl on the Train"

I completely agree with you!! She drove me insane when I was reading that book!

Jacki wrote: "What is the last GREAT book you read? Ready Player One - a must read for all the nerds :)"

This was another book I told everyone I knew that they had to read it. Did you read Ernest Cline's second book yet (Armada)? I saw that this one had a lot of mixed reviews.

Rebecca NJ wrote: "What is the last GREAT book you read? The one that sticks in my head is The Martian. It was well written and such a different topic."

Have you seen the movie?? They did a FANTASTIC job with it :)

Is there a character from a book that you absolutely love or loathe?
It would have to be Charley Davidson. It's the sarcasm and wit that keeps me coming back to those books.

Yes!!! I listened to the first book on audio book and it was one of the more enjoyable audio books I've encountered because of the humor.

Did you read Ernest Cline's second book yet (Armada)? I saw that this one had a lot of mixed reviews.

I haven't - I'm wary. I'll probably give it a try though, especially if i can get it from my library.

Alison (Lady Coffin) wrote: "Jacki wrote: "Alison (Lady Coffin) wrote: "Jacki wrote: "...
...I've got my eye on Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables :) Can't get enough steampunk!

If you haven't read Mirror..."

Yeah, I've read almost their entire backlist! I'm eagerly awaiting White Hot and am looking forward to reading Sweep in Peace when it's ready. :)

Jacki wrote: "I'm so indecisive with some of these questions...

What is your favorite genre? Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Paranormal/Steampunk

What is your least favorite genre? vanilla romance (needs to be Historical, Para..."

I absolutely loved Ready Player One and recommended it to everyone after I read it! I haven't read his new one yet, but I definitely want to!

Jacki wrote: "Have you seen the movie?? They did a FANTASTIC job with it :)"

Not yet - wee ran out time last weekend so it's on the "to-do" list for this week. Who can complain about the list when going to a movie is on it, right?

Rebecca NJ wrote: "Jacki wrote: "What is the last GREAT book you read? Ready Player One - a must read for all the nerds :)"

This was another book I told everyone I knew that they had to read it. Did you read Ernest ..."

I liked Ready Player One too. I have Armada on my to read list but I've heard it's not as good.

What is your favorite genre?
I like pretty much any genre...

What is your least favorite genre?
... except horror and sometimes biography type books.

Do you have a favorite author?
Raymond E. Feist or Cherise Sinclair

What is your favorite book?
I don't know how to choose that anymore. I read so many of them :P

What is the last GREAT book you read?
probably Ready Player One for recent books.

Is there a character from a book that you absolutely love or loathe?
I've always loved The Rowan from The Rowan. I read it in highschool and am re-reading them now. It's a neat universe.

So after after reading that so many of you have loved Ready Player One I have added it to my December TBR list, as it doesn't fit for November in another challenge I do.
However, so not sure about the follow up Armada those reviews are all over the place, but SO many of them are three or less, I am not so sure. Crazy thing is the description sounds interesting. Like you said Jacki, maybe if I can get it from the Library, then not too big a loss if it is just down right bad.

Hey Coyotes!

Please welcome your new team member, Koula!

Welcome Koula! Nice to have another Team Coyote member.

I have sent you a friend request, and I am sure you will also get them from Alessandra our team Captain and Kelly the other Co-Captain.

As you read thru the thread I am sure you will see the questions we have all been answering about our favorite books, authors, etc.... Look forward to hearing your answers.

And again WELCOME!

Hi Koula!

Hello Koula! Once you check in I will update your shelf on our shelves post.

Hello!

Hey Team Coyote ~

Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend.

So I have a question for you all, if you choose to answer.
What are you going to dress up as this Halloween? Are you going traditional? Movie or TV related? Literary character? etc????


PS: If anyone knows Erika or Koula, or sees them in a chat we would love to have them check-in here. Thanks!

I'm not dressing up this year, but my daughter is going to be the cutest ladybug you've ever seen. :)

Katie wrote: "I'm not dressing up this year, but my daughter is going to be the cutest ladybug you've ever seen. :)"

Love to see a pic if you want to share.

Happy Monday everyone!

We don't really dress up but do sit outside to hand out candy to all the trick-or-treaters. This year since Halloween falls on Saturday, it will be 6 hours of handing out candy. I'll have to make sure the kindle is charged for those off times, lol!

I'm a Children's Librarian so I will be dressing up for work. I am going as Little Red Riding Hood and then taking my niece out at night and changing into Little Red Riding Wolf.

Alessandra wrote: "Glad to see so many have checked in and are excited about the challenge. Any questions, feel free to ask and I will do my best to get an answer for you :)

To get started and get to know each other..."

Alessandra wrote: "Glad to see so many have checked in and are excited about the challenge. Any questions, feel free to ask and I will do my best to get an answer for you :)

To get started and get to know each other..."

My favorite genre Paranormal Romance

Least favorite genre Non - Fiction

Favorite Authors Dianne DuvallDianne Duvall,Tina Folsom Tina Folsom, Jackquelyn Frank Jacquelyn Frank, Laurann DohnerLaurann Dohner, Theodora TaylorTheodora Taylor just to name a few.

My favorite Book Its hard to choose i have read so much, the book of Life The Book of Life, also the Ghost Walkers series by Christine FeehanChristine Feehan are among my favorites