Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Also if we get a bonus guess, and that guess is used and actually sinks another ship, do we then get another bonus guess again?

Read First Frost 320 pages
Works for Task H5 - Nominated 2015 Best Fiction
also works for D3 GR Author
F3 Odd Pages and
F5 Bonus for Contemporary

Do we have 2 books for task H1 (Author who died in 2015-2016)?
If not I will read The Santangelos: A Novel by Jackie Collins who died sept 2015 and is 608 pages.

Yes, we get a bonus guess for every ship sunk, regardless of how many we sink per round.

Read away Beth!

Looks like I'm hanging out in a waiting room tomorrow so I'm packing up some of my current reads so I can get through them

Hope everything goes well tomorrow Erika!

Finished Controlled Burn and Holding Her Hand - both can be used for Romance bonuses. Because Holding Her Hand was sort of short (100 pg range) I'll try to read something else to use that's a little bigger in page count.

I've started NOS4A2 which could be used as a paranormal bonus at least. It's a little over 600 pages.

I've finished January last night, and have started League of Dragons

Tati wrote: "I've finished January last night, and have started League of Dragons"

I hope you like League of Dragons better than January. One star, yikes!!

I almost gave it 2, but decided to give it 1, as a strong discouragement to read it.

Below is a link to our possible next set of guesses. I took into consideration the suggestions from everyone. But I did expand the 4 guesses on the right side. Since we have no hits in that area, only misses, I didn't want them as tightly together as Tati suggested because we have a lot of ground to cover there.

But I'm open to other options.

M = Miss, SHIP = Hit, SHIP in red = Sunk ship, Aqua = new guess squares.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

That's fine with me!

Tati wrote: "I'm just curious/forgetful, how many books did I sign up for?

Just finished . As I'm about to start my drive home, I'll pick something else when I get there."

Did you mean how many books did you sign up for to read per month for the Wobble challenge in general?

I meant the books per week question we had to answer on the sign up form

Tati wrote: "I meant the books per week question we had to answer on the sign up form"

I don't have that broken down by team member, but I'll ask Amanda.

All I know is our monthly team average is 164 books.

Honestly my bigger concern is that you (and everyone else) read at least one book per week and read for the tasks you've committed to or tell the team as soon as you can if life happens and you aren't going to be able to finish whatever task so the team can plan accordingly.

Which all the team members are doing quite well in my opinion. Other teams are having (or had) a whole bunch of issues with team members & participation already.

In all seriousness, high five everybody!

Tati wrote: "I meant the books per week question we had to answer on the sign up form"

You signed up for 4 to 5 books per week.

I am on page 590 of my book only 230 left. I am hoping to be finished tonight I just wanted to let you guys know I am still here.

Judith, possible guesses are fine with me.

Completed Recipe for Treason

Thanks for checking it out :)

Hi five o/\o
I think this challenge made me read a lot more! I'm in the middle of the 3rd book in this last past 7 days and i sign up for only one! So thank you everyone for the incentive (:

Beth: The book that I'm reading right now fits for H-1 :D (also fits as mistery, but I chose it because H1)

And i'm fine with this guesses (:

I am going to start The Vault of Dreamers which can be tagged as a lot of different things. Is there a certain task that needs to be read for? If so I can change direction.

Erin wrote: "I am going to start The Vault of Dreamers which can be tagged as a lot of different things. Is there a certain task that needs to be read for? If so I can change direction."

Nope, you are fine to go ahead as planned :)

That actually looks better (to spread out the guesses in the bottom right). Great job Judith!

Just started Collision Course. We're going to have to use it for a miss task because it hasn't been tagged by 10 people in anything. Currently it only fits in J3 sum of pages is even.

Your choice of shots looks good.

I think the board looks perfect for guesses... ofcourse.

Finished Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang which can fit for Contemporary bonus and Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet which fits for Paranormal bonus. I just love Charley!

Results from Round 3:

3 misses, 12 hits, 5 sunk ships

Ships were sunk:

- I1, J1
- A6
- A1, A2
- D7, D8, D9, D10
- A4, B4, C4

New Hit Tasks:

I-1 - read a book shelved as historical by at least 10 people
A-6 - read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
B-4 - read a book shelved as humor by at least 10 people
D-9 - read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people
F-6 - read a book shelved as mystery by at least 10 people
G-10 - read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people
J-7 - read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
A-1 - read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
D-7 - read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
E-2 - read a book shelved as chick lit by at least 10 people
C-4 - read a book shelved as chick lit by at least 10 people
I-4 - read a book shelved as mystery by at least 10 people

New Miss tasks:

B-2 - read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female/male names in Scotland according to nameberry (http://nameberry.com/popular_names/Sc...)
H-6 - read a book where the first word of the title is The
I-9 - read a book where author's initials are in different halfs of alphabet (A-M and N-Z) Miss

Umm, so I think we have plenty of new tasks to go around. LOL

I'll start logging books for the hit tasks for primary reads and will see where we are.

Are we going to try and fit the unused books for the new tasks?

EDIT: Eh, never mind LOL

woah, lots of hits this time. I better get reading :p

Looks like were reading lots if fantasy!

fantasy is my favorite genre so I am excited for these ones

Okay team, so we had a blitz of hits as you can see.

I went through all of the previously unlogged books (either those read with bonuses in mind or just because) and found a primary read spot for all of them except for 1. That can easily be used for a romance bonus or if we get a romance task on Monday.

We have 2 hit tasks needing a second primary reader:

I1: tagged by at least 10 readers as historical
D7: tagged by at least 10 readers as fantasy

I'm a primary read on both of these so I can't be the second reader for either one.

Every other hit square we have is wide open for bonus reads since others 'ear-marked' for bonus reads were all used as primary reads.

I can be the second reader for the historical task. The book I'm reading right now, and that I hope to finish today, fits

I'm reading fantasy right now (:

Well I can't read as many books as everyone, but I am good at battleship. I am still working on a historical and a mystery. That may be all I have time for. I need to figure out the board right now and see where we are at. So exciting.

The one I am reading is fantasy or mystery it can also go down as sci-fi. It can go down as I9 or H6 as well if we have to read those.

Sarah wrote: "Well I can't read as many books as everyone, but I am good at battleship. I am still working on a historical and a mystery. That may be all I have time for. I need to figure out the board right now..."

Haven't begun to think about the last set of guesses. But as we have our last round of guesses Monday, I made a new tab and updated our board so the team's battleship masters (YOU) can start thinking about our last set of guesses.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

What I don't like is how G is pretty much empty of guesses.

Also, I think I4 is missing a hit on our spreadsheet

Tati wrote: "What I don't like is how G is pretty much empty of guesses.

Also, I think I4 is missing a hit on our spreadsheet"

Thanks for catching that, fixed!

We still have 9 ships to sink! Quite a lot

Judith wrote: "Results from Round 3:

3 misses, 12 hits, 5 sunk ships

Ships were sunk:

- I1, J1
- A6
- A1, A2
- D7, D8, D9, D10
- A4, B4, C4

New Hit Tasks:

I-1 - read a book shelved as historical by at least ..."

WOW!!! That is FANTASTIC!!!! :)

Finished The Fall. I really liked it. Lots of excitement and destruction and I'm very much looking forward to finishing the trilogy.

Shanna_redwind wrote: "Finished The Fall. I really liked it. Lots of excitement and destruction and I'm very much looking forward to finishing the trilogy."

Shanna, is this book on your challenge shelf? It isn't pulling into the spreadsheet and the date is right so I think it's the shelf.

Thanks!

Shanna_redwind wrote: "Finished The Fall. I really liked it. Lots of excitement and destruction and I'm very much looking forward to finishing the trilogy."

I read that trilogy a couple years ago and really enjoyed it. I thought the last one was the best in the series so hopefully you like that even more!

So don't we have to have two books read for each missed spot also?
Are we going to try and fill them the last week?

We can read for the miss tasks if we want to but we get more points if we use them as bonus books. We get the page count points plus an additional bonus point.

Judith wrote: "Shanna_redwind wrote: "Finished The Fall. I really liked it. Lots of excitement and destruction and I'm very much looking forward to finishing the trilogy."

Shanna, is this book on ..."

Sorry, got it where it belongs now.

I'm going away camping July 5-15. I'm pretty sure I will have limited data there, but not positive. We also keep an electronics ban while we are camping except for reading. I think I can stay true to the intent of our electronics ban (and avoid having my kids saying 'why do you get to use your phone when we can't use our ipods?') by just updating my finished books in my challenge shelf.

I'll try to scope out a bit of a plan before I go, and then hopefully you can fit the books in where ever seems to be the best fit. Is that alright?

That's fine Shanna. We'll be in the next game by then but the rules will be out a few days before you leave.

This is a long challenge, a seriously long challenge and I'm quite sure other vacations will need to be worked around as we go.

Just let us know what's going on and then enjoy yourself:)