Challenge Corner discussion

Bookbuyer wrote: "C.P. wrote: "Looks good!"

I'v been very impressed with the participation and quick check in this month! ^-^"

It's true! People have been checking in quickly!

Laís, from Team Mermaid, hasn't checked in within the team's thread either.

Within the solo thread, only two participants have checked in so far.

Solo
Sheerley
✓ Circe
Lisa
Natalie
Kylara
Manaswini
Dawnie
✓ Melissa

Let me know if there's the need to send a group message to all members telling them not to forget to check in with their teams :)

The solo people tend not to check in

There's a new particpant that would like to join a team for the October Challenge. To which team could she be added?

Nevermind, Bookbuyer added her to Team Ghost :)

Salha wrote: "Bookbuyer wrote: "C.P. wrote: "Looks good!"

I'v been very impressed with the participation and quick check in this month! ^-^"

It's true! People have been checking in quickly!

Laís, from Team Me..."

O.o I thought she had. Let me double check.

I think my problem was that I was taking it from both the team and the sign up thread. I'll have to double check all of them now to make sure I didn't miss something. :/

Salha wrote: "Nevermind, Bookbuyer added her to Team Ghost :)"

^-^

Bookbuyer wrote: "I think my problem was that I was taking it from both the team and the sign up thread. I'll have to double check all of them now to make sure I didn't miss something. :/"

The rest of the teams are alright, it was only Laís from Team Mermaid :)

@Bookbuyer, would you like to buddy read and ? I saw you were planning to read them during October.

Salha wrote: "@Bookbuyer, would you like to buddy read and ? I saw you were planning to read them during October."

Sure. Me and Maddison are already going to read them so I'll send you the links when I have a second to make them. :)

Bookbuyer wrote: "Salha wrote: "@Bookbuyer, would you like to buddy read and ? I saw you were planning to read them during October."

Sure. Me an..."

Let me know the dates and I'll add the threads :)

Should I make a series thread then? Or an individual thread for each book?

Salha wrote: "Bookbuyer wrote: "Salha wrote: "@Bookbuyer, would you like to buddy read and ? I saw you were planning to read them during Octo..."

The Hunger Games is the 21st and Catching Fire is the 23rd. A series thread should be fine. ^-^

Added The Hunger Games, and Hush Hush threads :)

Salha wrote: "Added The Hunger Games, and Hush Hush threads :)"

TY! :D

We have a lot of buddy reads planned for October! I think next month is going to be the one with the most activity, don't you think?

Here's the link to the planned buddy reads thread, if you'd like to check it out: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Salha wrote: "We have a lot of buddy reads planned for October! I think next month is going to be the one with the most activity, don't you think?

Here's the link to the planned buddy reads thread, if you'd lik..."

There are a lot! I'm going to organize them in a bit so they are bit easier to find. :)

Do you guys have any ideas for the November challenge?

We were thinking of doing a combined challenge for November and December. We were thinking maybe doing a bingo board. Did you have an idea?

C.P. wrote: "We were thinking of doing a combined challenge for November and December. We were thinking maybe doing a bingo board. Did you have an idea?"

I've been trying to come up with something, but being creative is not my forte haha

How does the bingo board work?

I've been coming up with categories. So basically it will be 25 (or 50, of we decide to do two per square) categories that people complete. Completing a line or column will give extra points. Completing ghe entire board will give more bonus points. And once it's completed you can start over.

They are super fun :)

C.P. wrote: "I've been coming up with categories. So basically it will be 25 (or 50, of we decide to do two per square) categories that people complete. Completing a line or column will give extra points. Compl..."

That sounds really good! Let me know if you need help coming up with categories! :D

Once I have the categories I've come up with I will send them to all of you. Then we can adjust things. :)

I love doing bingo! Our team is it just going to complete categories as they go along, or are we doing category calls?

Just as they go along, I think. I know I wouldn't be able to keep up with doing calls.

Okay, just making sure.

C.P. wrote: "I've been coming up with categories. So basically it will be 25 (or 50, of we decide to do two per square) categories that people complete. Completing a line or column will give extra points. Compl..."

This sounds fun! I've never done a reading challenge bingo board before, so it'll be a new experience :)

If you need any help coming up with categories, let us know so we can help :)

Will do. I'll send them to all of you in the next couple of days. I think I've come up with 25. Some may need changing or adjusting in some way.

okay

I am so excited for this!

October or bingo?

Alaina wrote: "October or bingo?"

I'm super excited for both haha

Salha wrote: "Alaina wrote: "October or bingo?"

I'm super excited for both haha"

haha that's true. I'm really excited for the quarterly challenge too. I've never done one.

I've really been enjoying the quarterly challenges lately.

I'm excited for both, but especially for bingo.

I think there are two buddy reading threads that need to be created, but I'm a bit lost with the books.

@Bookbuyer, correct me if I'm wrong, you plan to buddy read The Immortal Rules with Rae from Team Mermaid, and The Evolution of Mara Dyer with Maya from Team Ghost, right?

Salha wrote: "I think there are two buddy reading threads that need to be created, but I'm a bit lost with the books.

@Bookbuyer, correct me if I'm wrong, you plan to buddy read [book:The Immortal Rules|1021534..."

Yes. I just haven't had time to make them yet. Been super busy getting ready to go away tomorrow. :/

Bookbuyer wrote: "Salha wrote: "I think there are two buddy reading threads that need to be created, but I'm a bit lost with the books.

@Bookbuyer, correct me if I'm wrong, you plan to buddy read [book:The Immortal..."

I'll create them in a sec :)

Salha wrote: "Bookbuyer wrote: "Salha wrote: "I think there are two buddy reading threads that need to be created, but I'm a bit lost with the books.

@Bookbuyer, correct me if I'm wrong, you plan to buddy read ..."

TY!

Where are you going? On a trip?

Which date would you like The Immortal Rules to start?

Here's the thread for Mara Dyer #2: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... :)

C.P. wrote: "Where are you going? On a trip?"

Yes. I'm going to visit some family in Ottawa. So I'll be back for the 1st and I'll still have internet so I won't be 'gone'. :)

I have a question: for the buddy reads, the extra points according to how many pages has the book count only for the version we are reading? Or can we use the highest page count even though we're not reading that exact version?

Highest page count. The same one you would use for pages. It's really more that someone in the group *could* be reading the version with the highest page count.

Hope you have a good trip, Bookbuyer!

Hello!

I just did my first update of a scoring template, within Team Shapeshifter's thread. I was wondering if one of you guys could check it up to see if I did the calculations correctly :D

Will do. :)

C.P. wrote: "Highest page count. The same one you would use for pages. It's really more that someone in the group *could* be reading the version with the highest page count.

Hope you have a good trip, Bookbuyer!"

TY! It's been tiring so far but really fun. :)

Yep. Looks good. :) To make the table look a little cleaner, you can add in some html. Just insert <.pre> at the beginning and then <./pre> at the end. Without the periods.

C.P. wrote: "Yep. Looks good. :) To make the table look a little cleaner, you can add in some html. Just insert at the beginning and then at the end."

Thanks!

Should I add that at the beginning and end of each line?