Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Megan wrote: "Abbie wrote: "Okay, I haven't really seen our captains today...
Here are our current goals

°Read a book set in your home state or country
°Read a book with a red, pink, or orange dress on the cove..."

Lol...no problem

Megan wrote: "How do we claim them??"

Pretty much you just say if one of your books meets any of the criteria.

Once you finish your book, just let the captain know if it works for any of them.

You can read any book you want, so you can deside, "hey I am going on read one that fits" or hey, "I am going to read what I want, and if it fits, then it fits"

I had planned to start Angelfall and that's been on my To Read list for at least a year. So I can work on that one.

Book listed on first page in GR? Is there a first page with books?

When you click on a book, on your right hand side towards the top middle, you will see Genre. Click on see top shelves.

What pops up is your "first" page, as most books will have multiple pages which you will locate on the bottom right hand side under the shelves

Megan wrote: "Book listed on first page in GR? Is there a first page with books?"

No... when you select the book on the right side below the genres appears "See top shelves.." is the first page when choosing that link

I guess we were typing at the same time Sonia, sorry

Abbie wrote: "I guess we were typing at the same time Sonia, sorry"

No trouble by my part.. Okay... I'm taking a break to read, back in a couple of hours

Sorry I have been out all day just getting in. I will link my shelf and post my first book soon.

How do I get to the spreadsheet? Abbie? Megan? Sonia? (I must be really stupid since I am the capitain..)

❅Rebecca❅ wrote: "How do I get to the spreadsheet? Abbie? Megan? Sonia? (I must be really stupid since I am the capitain..)"

There is link in first post of this thread to spreadsheet.
To have edit rights you need to PM your email address to mods so we can give them. :)

Here is my shelf

athena-tower-teams

Thanks Grace!

I kinda embraced my inner stalker this morning and entered all Athena's members profiles in search of the shelves... is a *very* important column on the spreadsheet otherwise script won't work

Rebecca, has everyone checked in?

Its pretty quite for it being the first day and all..

All teams are a bit quiet. I think the teams being formed so early on, made for that.

I know my Poseidon is unusually calm for a thread with 700+ posts

Ok my first book is It doesn't meet any of the current goals but my next one has been on my TBR for more than a year.

Grace wrote: "Ok my first book is It doesn't meet any of the current goals but my next one has been on my TBR for more than a year."

How is the Adrien book? I read first one and have the next three on audio...

Ok I am not 100% sure on what this means

°Read a book has has a number in the title, and the series is one higher then that number"

So I need to read a book with say one in the title that is number two in a series ? eg

Grace wrote: "Ok I am not 100% sure on what this means

°Read a book has has a number in the title, and the series is one higher then that number"

So I need to read a book with say one in the title that is numb..."

Exactly that.

other examples are and

Sonia, I am really enjoying it, more Jake in this one. I really want to binge read the series now. The first one is a good set up, I read it yesterday. There is more relationship in this one but still mystery, they don't replace my love of Ty & Zane but Adrien and Jake are good.

Thanks Sonia. I have read your other two examples. I will get to the other one soon.

Grace wrote: "Sonia, I am really enjoying it, more Jake in this one. I really want to binge read the series now. The first one is a good set up, I read it yesterday. There is more relationship in this one but st..."

Nothing replaces Ty&Zane. Nothing. They may be good pairings like Dex & Sloane from THIRDS, but that's it. Good pairings. No Ty&Zane.

My shelf is towerbooks

Going to start with Enders Game as its been on my list a long time.

Sonia wrote: "Nothing replaces Ty&Zane. Nothing. They may be good pairings like Dex & Sloane from THIRDS, but that's it. Good pairings. No Ty&Zane. "

I agree. I love Dex and Sloae too and Tony and Mac from and Evan and Matt from but they don't beat Ty & Zane. I am hoping for at least a little Ty & Zane when comes out.

Grace wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Nothing replaces Ty&Zane. Nothing. They may be good pairings like Dex & Sloane from THIRDS, but that's it. Good pairings. No Ty&Zane. "

I agree. I love Dex and Sloae too and Tony and..."

Me too.. They better be in Part&Parcel. And not by phone only, like they did in

Attention Team!!!!


Since team captains have to deal with a lot of pressure and decision making, it requires a certain degree of maturity, so we prefer them to have at least 20-25 years old.

We the mods were discussing it, and we decided that is better for Rebecca, and for team Athena to have her as a regular member instead of a captain.

Both Grace and Megan are doing a good job at co-captain, Abby has also been a very pro-active member.

Your mentor Sonia will help with team managing, until we decide what the next step is.


Thank you

I added some info into our Athena Books Read thread. If everyone wants to claim spots in the thread please feel free. If you are a faster reader you may want to claim two in order to keep your posts together.

I have the current goals listed and who has claimed them. I will try and keep this updated as regularly as possible. To avoid confusion could the two Megans please give me an initial to use beside their names in this post.

Grace and Megan, do you want us to post our finished books both here AND on the Books Read thread? Or just on the Books Read? I can't quite remember how it went last year.

Just the detailed post in the Books read thread but feel free to state here that you have finished and updated your post. This thread is chat, book discussion etc. Hopefully we will liven up now we have started :)

Megan and I will try to keep up to date. Please bear in mind we are both in GMT time zone ( I should be in bed right now as it is almost 2am here)

Grace wrote: "I added some info into our Athena Books Read thread. If everyone wants to claim spots in the thread please feel free. If you are a faster reader you may want to claim two in order to keep your post..."

Awesome Grace, looks good!

Grace or Meagan, mine works for the To -Read goal, so you can add my name to that.

Good morning team! So excited the challenge finally started. I will read and this week. Unfortunately, they don't fit any current goals.


My shelf is NBRC Tower Teams IV.


❀Tea❀ wrote: "I was about to post that :)

Anyway... link"

Hi Tea :)! Thank you.

Hey Audrey

*waves*

Tea keeps track of all scattered hobbits. I think she spent too much time near Mordor which cause some stalkerish habits

Hi guys, writing this on the mobile app (god I hate this) but it is rememberance day today in England so I've been out paying my respects.

okay so Grace has been pretty good last night with her updating everyone. I was sleeping haha. i understand some people don't have access to a computer so they just use an app? pretty sure someone said that in here. I think because of that, if we could keep up to date on here about books being read, and goals we want to go for just incase the spreadsheet doesn't launch on their phone/tablet. Hope that makes some sense.

As Grace said we are both on GMT but i do do night shifts, so some times I will be awake and active during the night which i guess will be the day for some of you. Just if I am on night shift, I will have to put my concentration on work and not on goodreads, sadly. ;(

Also I suppose you could use R for me.

Sorry for any spelling and grammar mistakes, for some reason the app doesn't show me if I spell something wrong. and doesn't do auto caps after a full stop, so frustrating.

Megan my boys were in the Rembrance parade this morning too and I am cooking the roast dinner so not much chance to update.

Since we have no reserved posts at the beginning of this thread I put important stuff on the Books read thread. You might want to reserve a few spots there in case you need them later.

I am going to link the main goals lists and the BOM threads over there later.

Our current Open Goals

°Read a book set in your home state or country
°Read a book with a red, pink, or orange dress on the coverMegan R.
°Read a book has has a number in the title, and the series is one higher then that number Grace
°Read a book that has been on your "too read shelf" for more then 1 year Stacey
°Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as to-read - plurals and spelling acceptable Abbie

Remember books read and not already assigned to a goal can be used for any uncompleted goal at any time. Books read this week and beyond can still be used for goals we receive later.

let me know if you want to put any info on the mod reserved ones

Sonia wrote: "Hey Audrey

*waves*

Tea keeps track of all scattered hobbits. I think she spent too much time near Mordor which cause some stalkerish habits"

Hi there Sonia!

Haha, I thought so, in the end hobbits always find each other . She's welcome to visit but of course we won't divulge our secret plans and schemes :p

Yay! First book!!!!

I still have 30% more to go, hoping to finish today as well, but I do have a few things I need to take care of today.

*runs to remake spreadsheet*

First 25 points to Athena!

Weeeeeeeeeee

waiting for new goal

Okay, current open goals:



Read a book set in your home state/country
Read a book that has a number in the title with a series number one higher than that number
Read a book that has been on your "to read" shelf for more than 1 year
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as to-read - plurals and spelling acceptable
Read a book that starts with the letter W

Hello all, I am SO sorry for my late response - I have had a manic two days at work and the notifications from the thread only just came through!
My bookshelf is: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... (tower teams)

I was planning on reading Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch (390 pages) for my first book which works for one our goals as it is set in England and I am from England.

Looking forward to seeing what other people read and chatting about the books! :)

My bookshelf is https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... (tornihaaste)

To Lauren: Oo Rivers of London. I really enjoyed the series. It is just the style of urban fantasy that i like. I hope you have good time with it.

My next book is The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood. My edition of the book is 608 pages but the goodreads page says 528 (it is quite large font so i get why the difference) Which will i use?

Laventeli wrote: "My bookshelf is https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... (tornihaaste)

To Lauren: Oo Rivers of London. I really enjoyed the series. It is just the style of urban ..."

This has been on my TBR list, let me know how it is!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Hopefully this link works. I have the two books I am currently reading already on there.

And I go by Meg in real life, so we can ahead and use the nickname to make the two Megan thing easier.

OK I have finished two books and I managed to updated the spreadsheet without breaking it :) It will be updating the ones with goals that will be more challenging. We have 50 Points :)

OK thanks Meg that will make life easier.

One thing I am guilty of a lot is when a book is on my TBR I rate it and forget to change it to Read. Your books need to be on your challenge shelf and marked as read to be counted by the spreadsheet.

Please try to use the edition you read unless that one doesn't list a page count then go with one that has the same or closest to your page count.

Megan wrote: "And I go by Meg in real life, so we can ahead and use the nickname to make the two Megan thing easier."

You can change it on the spreadsheet too, if you want. Just make sure you run the remake members script after

Sonia wrote: "Hey Audrey

*waves*

Tea keeps track of all scattered hobbits. I think she spent too much time near Mordor which cause some stalkerish habits"

I have to when you guys keep putting my Hobbits in wrong different teams.
You know, I think you have a list of Hobbits somewhere so you make sure we don't end up together again :P

On the other hand, this way I manage to recruit new Hobbits ;)