Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Cathy M. wrote: "Hahaha that's great Amy! I joined it last June & have loved it ever since! It may be a little confusing at first, but the veterans/mods playing are always up to answering questions. And it's nice t..."

Yeah, That's been really helpful and everyone is so nice. I've just been using everyone one's threads to make sure I 'm doing things right. Plus all the other players are really helpful when I have questions.

Shanna_redwind wrote: "Amy: Are you from Northern Ontario? Just guessing with the mining.

Cathy: Yes I joined the NRPG last March and then faded a bit for a year, rejoining it this past Feb/March. I'm having a lot of f..."

No, I'm near Wasaga Beach. The company I work for makes mining equipment and ships all over the world. I'm at the central hub so to speak. My department creates all the manuals for operating the machines, so I do a lot of proofing and editing.

Rachel wrote: "I Think is time for me to do a proper introduction (:

I'm Rachel and like Tati, I'm Brazilian (: I'm 28 years old, Architect, Capricorn and work with sales (Lately everyone asks about my sign).
I ..."

I think I've seen you around as well in the NRPG, are you enjoying it, I know I am.

First task assigned to you by your captain:

I put links to everyone's Wobble shelf in one of my reserve posts. Make sure I linked to the shelf you are planning to use for Wobble. Most of you had the word 'wobble' in the title so it made it easy to figure out.

Shanna, I think for you I grabbed something called 'for-challenge'. It was a sticky shelf and currently empty so I figured that was your wobble shelf.

But for anyone, if I linked to the wrong shelf please let me no and provide the link to the shelf you want to use for the challenge.

Thank you :)

The shelf you linked for me is the right one :)

It's the right shelf for me as well.

That's the shelf. I use it for challenges then depopulate it when I'm done.

Yes that is the right shelf.

Yep, that's the shelf (:

Thats my shelf all right! Wobble Wobble

Judith wrote: "Make sure I linked to the shelf you are planning to use for Wobble. ..."

Yes, that is my shelf to be squirrely in.

Cathy M. wrote: "Love all the intros! I kept meaning to respond earlier but kept getting called away by work :/

Rachel - that picture is AWESOME :D You just know I HAD to look up other pictures on the net and they..."

This is why a challenge like this is fantastic! Gives me a little escape time from this crazy thing they call life ;)

Sarah wrote: "Erin - GOT is my favorite series - but I have yet to read the fifth book. I want to wait for the next book release... if that ever happens."

I'm just starting the second book. I love his writing style but it takes me forever to get through chunkers like that. Worth every page though.

My shelf is correct!

My shelf is also correct.

The big move is scheduled for Monday, so will probably be offline part of Monday and Tuesday while all the lines get connected and the electronics set up. By Tuesday evening I hope to be back up and with a faster connection, so they say.

I am planning on getting the rest of the house organized while this is being done, so we can spend Wed doing a final cleaning at the old house for the new buyers walk through on Thursday. Closing is Friday but we've already done our paperwork so the lawyers will handle the transfer. And I can be online ready to start Wobbling!! That's the plan!

Thanks for checking everyone!

Good luck with the move Linda, it's not something I overly enjoy.
I kinda of have a love-hate with it although the worst part for me was always settling on picking/finding the new place as opposed to the moving itself.

And with buying/selling houses all that paperwork. I felt like I was signing my life away. Glad you have that all taken care of :)

Before I forget, I think I should let you know that, reading-wise, weekends tend to be slow for me, as I don't have much free time for reading. I do look at Goodreads throughout the weekend, but my reading speed is really compromised.

Tati wrote: "Before I forget, I think I should let you know that, reading-wise, weekends tend to be slow for me, as I don't have much free time for reading. I do look at Goodreads throughout the weekend, but my..."

Okay! I don't see that as being a problem. We can work that into our team plans for the various games.

I think as long as everyone can either complete what they committed to for given task or let us know when there is an issue so the team can adjust, it'll all be fine.

Looks like I'm late to the party!

Yes that is my wobble shelf

At 23 it looks like I'm one of the youngest members of this group, I graduated from university recently and I am trying to catch up on reading. I read next to nothing during my 4 years in uni but did not cut back on the amount of books I bought, I had 56 unread books on my shelf when I graduated! This was obviously unacceptable so I signed up for the 2016 challenge and now I'm doing this one.

you all seem really nice, I look forward to doing this challenge with you all!

Hey Storm!

What was your degree?

I have over 400 books on my Kindle, waiting for their turn... But I'm a bit of a hoarder when it comes to books

Welcome to the group!! I wouldn't call you late, just maybe that the rest of us need to work on improving our patience :)

Make sure you check out the All Air teams chat. We'll be doing a pre-wobble mini challenge for fun. It'll probably be up in the next day or so, I think the captains may have settled on the tasks.

And now we are all checked in, so thank you everyone for not making me or the co-captains hunt you down. Lol

I am moving over 50 boxes of books to our downsized condo and I gave about the same amount to our local library for their spring book sale. I have about 250 on my kindle.

I'm hoping that I'll have something on hand for everything in this challenge and will be able to ween my pile.

I always tell myself I'll read my TBR into submission, but then Tuesday comes around and dumps a lot of shiny new releases on my laps.

my degree is engineering, and will will check out the chat thanks!

Linda C wrote: "I am moving over 50 boxes of books to our downsized condo and I gave about the same amount to our local library for their spring book sale. I have about 250 on my kindle.

I'm hoping that I'll hav..."

Good to know I'm not the only one who tends to collect books...I have a hard time resisting the library sales. I'm hoping to find a lot for this challenge in my existing pile too.

I'm not even sure how many books I have but I have bags and stacks everywhere and two overstuffed shelves annnd a full kindle

Yep, my piles of books are huge. I don't count ebooks because they don't take up more physical space. At least that's the line of bull I tell my husband.

Luckily he loves me and is rather indulgent of my book habit

Also check out the All Air team chatter the mini challenge and related things are posted. Feel free to participate as you desire.

Remember this is just for fun and for people to get to know one another

Storm wrote: "Looks like I'm late to the party!

Yes that is my wobble shelf

At 23 it looks like I'm one of the youngest members of this group, I graduated from university recently and I am trying to catch up ..."

you almost are, I'm 22. Though I am turning 23 in a few months. Congrats on graduating!

HI TO THE WHOLE FLYING SQUIRRELS TEAM!!!! I AM JANET FROM THE BURNING FIREBIRDS AND WISH YOU ALL THE BEST OF LUCK IN THE WOBBLE GAMES AND HAPPY READING TO YOU ALL!!!!!

thank you janet! :D
good luck for you firebirds too! we'll have a lot of fun :D

We are heading into the final countdown towards the launch of Wobble.

Remember books can only count if you start them after Wobble kick off.

Any book started after June 17th will count for whichever Wobble game you finish it in. Example: you start a book during Battleship but don't finish it until we are in the middle of Wheel-a-thon. It can be used for Wheel.

In a couple days we should have rules and spreadsheets for Battleship and then we can start our first plan of attack :)

Happy Reading!

Thanks Janet. Good luck to the Firebirds as well!

I am ready for our plan of attack and I can't wait to start!

Yay!!! Excited!

Well, we have completed our move, but the place is a sea of boxes. I hope I can find the books I need when the time comes!

That's great Linda! The rules & stuff for the first game Battleship will be posted tomorrow so once that's out we can start planning for our reads! And we just have 2 more days (+4 hrs) to go until the start! In case you haven't seen it - here is the Countdown Timer.

Have family visiting from out of town so I will check back in late tomorrow night!

I patiently wait to start planning and waiting to start several new reads.

Aaaaaaaaaah, it's today!!!

Rules are up!!

Tati wrote: "Rules are up!!"

Where? Where? I can't find it /o\ *lost

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My computer broke this week, but it's easy for me to check here with the team on my work (:
If anything goes wrong, I still have my phone (Can I PM the captain and co-captain if is dificult to post here?)
Next month I'll have a new computer and life will be easy again (:

Here are the rules: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

thanks Tati for posting the link. I just read them and this is going to be awesome!

Looks like a lot of fun!

I have a few doubts about the rules:
The group will made 10 guesses. How we do this? we have 13 members, so how do we made those 10 guesses? almost-everyone will make one? The group as one will chat and decide the best strategy to make the guesses? or the captain and co-captains will make the decisions?
And if we make those decisions as a group, we talk on this topic? or we'll have another goodreads group/off-goodreads chat (like line or something like this)?

And let me see if i got this right:
We'll have to make 10 guesses, so we'll have 10 tasks? and if we have to read 2 books per task, that means that 13 people will have to read 20 books? (at least 1 per team member)

I think that's all my doubts.
i'm reeeeally exited for this chalenge to begin :D I'm one a reading slump for +- 15 days and wobble will cure all my problems ;D

I was thinking a strategy of some sort and least for the first round of guesses. From there I think we'll base it off of any hits we received.

Angela suggested something on diagonals to cover a lot of ground.

We are open to suggestions and would like a general consensus from the team before I enter our guesses tomorrow.

Rachel, I'll address some of your other concerns in another post when I have a bit more time. But I wanted the team to start thinking and tossing out ideas if they decide to

I think that our guesses should be made in a way to cover as much of the grid as we can. Alternating squares and lines should help

I agree with Tati, we should make sure none of our guesses touch so we cover more space for our first round of guesses, then when we see how many hits/misses we get we can do so accordingly.

So we are going to need to read a certain book or theme once our grid comes out? I am so much better at doing once I see something if that makes sense.

Rachel, let me know if I missed a question/concern.

Since each team is playing on their own card and each card is unique to each team, we can just chat in this thread instead of setting up a separate chat. So there isn't much to be gained copying another team because the hits, misses, and tasks will be different.

Yes, we'll start off with 10 tasks, meaning 20 books. Until we make our next round of guesses and add to the list of tasks. We may not finish everything by the end of battleship and that's okay. But some people read a crazy amount of books so you might be surprised how much we can get through. Everyone on the team needs to finish AT LEAST ONE BOOK. As long as that happens, we are golden.