Challenge Corner discussion

Alaina wrote: "Read a book from a series that has at least 4 books in it.
Read a book that has a page ending on a lucky number."

Those are good! What is a lucky number? 7 right?

Felicia wrote: "Alaina wrote: "Read a book from a series that has at least 4 books in it.
Read a book that has a page ending on a lucky number."

Those are good! What is a lucky number? 7 right?"

Google gives: 1, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, 21, 25, 31, 33, 37, etc.

Also, I can put up the review threads later today, like around 7pm?

Question. Can someone tell me how to turn off commenting on the January BOTM suggestion thread? I tried figuring it out and can't. We just got another suggestion so I figured turning off comments would be best since we're not taking anymore.

Yes. Go the the top of the thread and click edit next to the title.

In edit there will be two check boxes. Click the bottom one that says close and no one will be able to comment on it anymore. :)

Thanks Bookbuyer! :D

Felicia wrote: "Thanks Bookbuyer! :D"

NP. :)

C.P. wrote: "Ok, here are categories that I have thought of so far for March. Let me know what you think and if you want to change some or have more to add.

*Read a book first published in March (of any year)..."

I love these categories!

I was thinking that maybe the leprechauns on the cover was a bit hard? Or did you mean that there were leprechaun characters within the book?

Just in the book. I will clarify that. :)

I updated the list of March categories with the new ones suggested by Alaina and clarification on leprechauns.

Looks good to me!

Sweet! And I'm thinking that for now we should probably stick with letting categories be repeated. Thoughts on that? It will make it easier for multiple people to keep track of scores and such.

Agreed. Repeating categories is just easier for the mods as well as readers.

Good good. So we'll stick with that for now, I believe. And then we can always add in more strict rules for certain challenges. Like when we do bingo, having repeats has not worked well in the past.

I have a question about a category from March. Can a book with Native American rituals and omens be used for the "Read a book with a religious theme" category?

I'm trying to plan ahead the books I'll be reading :D

Yes, I think that would be fine.

Created a review thread for the quarterly challenge.
Here it is: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

and I have created the review threads for the resolutions challenge

So I just noticed that category 11 in the release date challenge makes no sense. Lmao.

When you get a chance, Alaina, could you adjust the resolutions for the team that Jamie and I have been commenting on? Can't remember what team it is, haha.

What is number 11?

Ha, just looked at it. Just add in commas if you want it to be the letters.

C.P. wrote: "When you get a chance, Alaina, could you adjust the resolutions for the team that Jamie and I have been commenting on? Can't remember what team it is, haha."

done :D

Did you want it to say: Read a book with a title that starts with the word: Love, Luck, or Spring?

Thanks!

I honestly don’t remember. I tried thinking of what I meant and just couldn’t come up with it. So I dunno. Lol.

Alright, so February we have the Love and Hate challenge ready to go. March the Luck of the Irish. And we have the Superhero challenge ready for whenever we need it. Any ideas for other challenges?

Well we could think of the next quarterly challenge. I figured we could the superhero challenge for April. So that way we can figure out what may and June can be about as well. Maybe a summer sort of vacation for one of the months? Like a lot of vacation books. Maybe.

Good idea. I keep forgetting about the quarterly challenges! Ugh.

And our group anniversary will be coming up in May, so having a challenge around June to celebrate that would be good.

Vacation books is a good idea. We could even do it so that you kind of map out a vacation for yourself, where you can visit real or fictional places and read books that go along with them.

I have no idea what the quarterly challenge will be about but maybe we could come up with the vacation challenge for May and the anniversary challenge for June? Or just switch them? And the anniversary challenge could just be a super random and fun challenge. Maybe help people branch or and read different genres? Or different authors that they are used to? Then the summer one would be the vacation step: places they want to go or have been.

Oh man I think my comments aren’t making sense! Sorry I’m on my phone because my laptop is charging in a different part of the house. I definitely meant people branching out and reading new genres. Sorry if I confused anyone!!

I'll think of some ideas for quarterly challenges.

I think having the anniversary challenge be easy and fun is a good idea. Maybe just do a few categories that encourage people to try some new things, but have it mostly be just page count or something. So if we want it to be pretty simple (maybe with a few "special" things I come up with like in the past) we could do that in May.

And for June we could do the vacation one.

Maybe we could bring back a series challenge for another quarterly challenge. People really liked that one this year. Maybe we could do that over the summer or something.

I’m down with that. I mean the summer is all about fun so we should just make it something that a lot more people want to sign up for and enjoy. 😉

Exactly! Alright. I will get some things down over this next week. I figure if I have a lot of the main challenge stuff done for the next few months it will be easier to keep up with when I go back to work. :)

Oh yes that would be! I like us being ahead of everything because then all we have to do is post everything.

Exactly! I love being ahead, haha.

Hello awesome mods! :D
I don't know where to say this so...

I thought of an idea for a challenge a couple days ago. The Fairy tales challenge, I thought of categories and I think it would be pretty fun 😊😅

RainsySun should totally be a mod 😊

She totally should! :D But seriously, if you're interested let us know. And feel free to post your idea for the challenge here or send me a message. We love getting ideas!

A fairy tale challenge sounds amazing! I LOVE reading retellings! I've already read so many and have so many more on my TBR! That sounds great.

Also, what if we did another challenge that wasn't monthly. like how we did bingo and it was two months long. I did a lot of participation in the bingo challenge in the beginning but kinda fell off because the not allowed to repeat categories really slammed me. But I liked the idea of having a team challenge go longer than one month.

And CP, I really really liked the series quarterly challenge. 95% of the books I've read were series. So that is right up my alley! Lol.

We could definitely do another two month challenge. Maybe over the summer? And I think the series one works really well, so we should definitely do that again.

Or we could even do the Superhero Challenge over two months. It's a pretty long one. I need to look it over again.

Why not do a series challenge for our quarterly challenge. Superhero for April and May. Then our anniversary challenge for June. Summer challenge for July? Or summer challenge as our next quarterly challenge after the superhero one.

Oh and a fairytale challenge for July?

Yes! That could work. So monthly:
Superhero in April-May
Anniversary (pagecount or something) in June
Fairytale in July
And then we can start brainstorming others.

Quarterly Challenges
Series April-June
Summer/Vacation July-September

This is great!

The schedule Alaina put out there sounds good to me. Everything fits together well.

Woohoo

Well damn! We are ahead of the game! Lol. :D

It's great!

C.P. wrote: "She totally should! :D But seriously, if you're interested let us know. And feel free to post your idea for the challenge here or send me a message. We love getting ideas!"

Omg 🙈 I would love to be 😀 Im pretty active and would love to help in anyway I can 😊 Ok awesome, I'll let you guys know of any ideas I have 😊

RainySun wrote: "C.P. wrote: "She totally should! :D But seriously, if you're interested let us know. And feel free to post your idea for the challenge here or send me a message. We love getting ideas!"

Omg 🙈 I wo..."

It'd be great to have you as a mod RainySun! ^-^