Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Team Members

Romina

Joanne

Rosina

Apoorv

Lindsay

Stacey

Nikk

Poongothai

Your itinerary is here

When you have a team name, just let me know and I'll update this thread name :)

First stop - Maraba, Brazil

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So just to get you started...

Your first stop is Maraba, Brazil

You can choose as a team to:
TASK
- Read books set in Brazil, or by Brazilian authors or
- Do a spell-it-out of Maraba or Brazil

OR
You can elect to do the detour, which for this stop, means that four of you need to "Read a book with a Military rank in title (Private, Major, Captain, General, etc)"

Hi everyone....

I guess we need to decide which task to do first or would doing the detour be a better option?

link to rules

TASKS
◈ Completing a task will earn the team 10 points AND
◈ If at least 6 members of the team read a book that contributes to the tasks, that is an additional 15 points AND
◈ If ALL team members read a book for the time you are at the stop, that is an additional 10 points

DETOURS
◈ Completing a detour earns the team 25 points AND
◈ If at least 7 members of the team read a book for the detour, that is an additional 15 points AND
◈ If ALL team members read a book for the time you are at the stop, that is an additional 10 points

◈ The most points that can be earnt at each stop is 35 points for a task and 50 points for a detour

Hi all!
We need a team name, I am not creative at all so I will leave that to someone else haha

Here are the stops of the trip with their detours, thought it was a good idea to have them listed here although they are in the spreadsheet as well.
We should do 5 detours for max points!
Also, keep in mind that spell it outs for cities/countries with names shorter than 6 letters would make us lost points as well!


1. Maraba, Brazil.
Detour: Read a book with a Military rank in title (Private, Major, Captain, General, etc)

2. Fuerteventura, Spain.
Detour: Read a book with the word magic, sorcery, enchant or divine (plurals are acceptable) in the title

3. Bilbao, Spain.
Detour: Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as ebook - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

4. Patrai, Greece.
Detour: Read a book where a character can see or feel ghosts

5.Bahrain, Bahrain.
Detour: Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter J

6.Alor Setar,Malaysia.
Detour: Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as 2008 - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

7. Roswell, USA.
Detour: Read a book where the Author has the same first name as an Academy Award winning actor/actress

8. Santiago, Dominican Republic
Detour: Read a book where a character has an unusual sidekick

As for this first week, I dont know many books that would fit the detour category..

Brazilian authors I know Paulo Coelho(author of The Alchemist) and I have around 10 of his books at home so I could do that task.

No idea of books set in Brazil though there must be some

I am not sure how easy it would be for you all to get books by brazilian authors/based in Brazil..My country is right next to Brazil so thats why its a bit easier for me haha

We could also do a Spell it out of either Maraba or Brazil,6 of us should contribute to that!

I am going to go ahead and edit the spreadsheet to add a place where we can add ALL books read during this time to keep them handy for future tasks/detours. So we should all update that when we finish a book from now on or post on this thread and someone will add it if you cant!

Ill also add one for the first stop which we can use to plan out whatever we choose to do!

I hope you all dont mind! Im on summer break and quite bored, feel free to edit anything!

That's great Romina, go for it. I'm still looking around, trying to figure out how this whole thing works.

To me, the easiest detours are:

2) Read a book with the word magic, sorcery, enchant or divine (plurals are acceptable) in the title

3) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as ebook - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

5) Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter J

Yeah I think those are doable, and finding a book shelved 2008 could be as well.

For now though, we need to decide on a team name(ideas?) and what we will do for Stop 1...Detour, Spell or Read book from Brazil/by brazilian author?

Here are some ideas for books set in Brazil

https://www.goodreads.com/genres/brazil

I've read and can recommend

Not sure if the whole book needs to be set there.
In there is a trip to Brazil.

I'm having trouble finding anything on my to-read list that is set there or by an author from there.

The spell-out for MARABA would be easiest, but then we would only get 25 points if 6 of us contribute to that one.

Just depends if we are being competitive or just taking it easy.

Joanne wrote: "The spell-out for MARABA would be easiest, but then we would only get 25 points if 6 of us contribute to that one.

Just depends if we are being competitive or just taking it easy."

We could get 35 if all members read a book during the time we are at the stop.

I think we should do the spell out or read a book by brazilian author or in brasil since I have no ideas for the detour.

for the detour all I could think of is the series by James Patterson - Private

https://www.goodreads.com/series/1321...

There are books with General, Major in the titles....

Team name ideas cant come up with anything right now will think about it and be back later....

I agree the detour is a little tricky, I personally am cool doing it. I will probably have to start another series since I am looking at Private.. but hey, what's one more when I have a list of on-going series :P

But, if we end up not doing the detour, I would suggest let 6 people do the spell-out because that would be quicker and the remaining 2 who can get the Brazil books, do that.

That way, we have a definite shot at 35 points in a week, atleast.

The private series looks good to me!
Must we all read different books or can they be repeated?

I will look into other books that could work for the detour in a little bit when I get home!
I would like to do it since some of the others are a bit difficult.
EDIT: not really finding a lot! :(

I think we can read different books as long as they fall into the criteria of the detour.

I have a feeling we may find more books with 'Private' than any of the other three words. We basically need 7 books, at the max, to read for the detour.

But we should just buddy up and read the same book(s) if finding books becomes difficult and/or the subject matter/genre doesnt interest anyone.

I searched my books for the words: captain, general, private and major. I found 2 books, both of which I've read unfortunately. But I'll post them here in case anyone is interested.



If we choose this option, it looks like I will have to go with something not already on my TBR. I'll take a look on Scribd and see if anything pops.

So, I think we should all agree as to what we are doing..
Detour? Im up for it, sure I could find something to read

Also,if we do detour we can use some other ranks as well: Colonel,Lieutenant, dont know anymore..

I can do detour or spell-out.

I can do detour or spell out.....I have Private sitting on my shelf and it looks like a quick read....

here is a link for Brazil books

https://www.goodreads.com/places/18-b...

I quickly scanned and nothing pops out to me to read....

Found a book I am interested in reading if we do Detour!
El general en su laberinto
(Ill be reading the spanish edition)

Thats 4 of us that can do detour(25 points), we would need at least 7 to get 40 points and then the 8th member could read anything they want for the max points(50)

Ok,came up with some name ideas..Im not too creative haha but I just went with something relating to traveling although they may be cheesy xD

Bookworms Boarding
Flying Pages
...and thats it xD

Hi guys,

Just checking in

my preference would be the spell it out as a quick scan through my books is not popping up with books to do with brazil or with the detour words

I asked and if we all wanted to read the same book for the detour...we could....there is no limit on how many people can read the same book.

I like bookworms boarding....

all I can think of is
Soaring to new heights
Sky's the limit

I quite like bookworms boarding also

also maybe ( again quite cheesy):

Worldly readers
bitten by the book travel bug
globetrotting bookworms

If 7 of us cant do Detour then we should just do the spell it out and save the Detour for another time.
Because spell it out could give us 35 points and Detour with less than 7 people would give us the same number of points.

If 7 of us cant do it, I would rather save that detour for a time when we can go for all 50 points!

that makes sense Romina...good idea....

Here are some I thought,

- 'Book' the Tickets!
- Booker Bikers
- We're Bookin' It!
- Paperback Backpack

Backpacker Bookworms?

I'm liking

we're booking it.

I like We're Bookin' It! as well :)

Wow, we've been busy here today, lol. I love it! Group names I actually really like 'Book' the Tickets and Paperback Backpack....but in the end I'll go with whatever!

I kind of like Paperback Backpack!

I vote for paperback back pack also :-)

Paperback Backpack is good to me also!

So... What are we going to do? XD spell it? Detour?

I agree we should only do the detour if at least 7 of us can commit to it.

So far the people who have said they can read for the detour:
Apoorv
Romina
Joanne
Rosina

Doesn't want to do detour:
Nikk

Still waiting to hear from:
Lindsay
Stacey
Poongothai

Sorry everyone! I was at work and didn't get a chance to respond. I would probably lean towards the spell it out--but I haven't had a chance to really look for any of the detour words. I agree I would struggle with the Brazilian location or authors option.

Question: Can we do all the detours, or is there a limit?

And I kind of lean towards We're Bookin' It! But whatever the group decides is good for me!

Let me look real quick and see if I can find any privates or majors in my TBR. :)

5 detours is the limit! So we should only go for the ones were we can get the max 50 points!

I think I prefer the spell, actually.

That being said, though, I need to read the instructions again. Do we *each* have to spell it out? Or just all read within the word and get it covered? This challenge is challenging my brain already, lol!

I found a few with "Officer" in the title, but not sure if that would count. Some of the other detours would be easier for me, but I can probably figure something out for this one if we decide to do this one.

Does 'soldier' count as a military rank? (is this a silly question??) There are lots of books with soldier in the title. None that I am *dying* to read or anything but hey, broader horizons, right? If not, I'm pretty stumped on this detour, guys. There are way better ones to use, I think. :/ I'll keep digging in the mean time....

Lindsay we all spell the word together! So 6 members would be needed to spell Maraba, one letter each!
The other two members would also need to read a book, any book and we get the 35 points

Nice! Well that is my vote, but I am game for anything so...let's get it hammered out and finalize the name and get started! :)

I'll firm up my vote for spell it out. (I have a Z book if we need it)