The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

Team Trouble



❅ Cat
❅ Donna Flynn
❅ Paula Reyes
❅ Jenny Stephenson

Team Name to use for the relevant for the tasks: Alex Cross

Link to team spreadsheet is here

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Should we just get it over with and call ourselves "trouble"?

LOL, well it does fit ...

Any thoughts on how we should approach this? Randomly choose a stream? Actually choose a stream? I am fine either way. My team did a B stream for Uno.

I'm here!

and I'll second "trouble" ;-P

I was B stream in UNO, but happy to be random :)

and of course, the aim of the game this time is to see how many of the streams we can finish...

This starts on the 20th? The first two days I will be still houseguest laden, so I may not be a reading crazed frenzy type player until the 22nd. But, I will most likely make up for it later.

If we get to the "man reclining on bed" or whatever it is prompt, I did find one of those that wasn't a 400 page romance, but a pretty good fairytale/shifter/MM story. Just in case.

I think I read somewhere it was required for Cat to do task 14A1 since it's her favorite prompt.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

My sides? Splitting

;-P

I kind of just assume you started stock piling brown covers for challenges so you'd be prepared. Right next to the yellow covers for UNO :)

To be fair, you're not entirely wrong!

Hola!!
Unlike Jenny I have the 20 and 21 free from work, I won't have to work those days as the 21st is a holiday here in Chile =), and the 20 is what we call a sandwich day, because it's a monday previous to a holiday day haha. So I hope to advance in my book those days.

I like Trouble as team name.
About the Stream, we did B stream too, I suppose we can start with that one.

Your spreadsheet link is now in message 2 :)

yay! so any books we start now can be used for this challenge :)

did we have a plan for how we are going about this? starting with one of the B streams? someone want to toss a coin and pick?

I thought I had a brown book, but TinEye is reading it as green :(

Cat wrote: "I thought I had a brown book, but TinEye is reading it as green :(

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I was really okay kidding about you reading the brown book task. Someone else really should show you some team member love and read it for you if you all do that stream. You've been through enough with brown covers.

Judith, you do realise that all my grumbling about them mean that I typically DON'T have to read brown covers! During UNO itself I found myself reading one, which I'd hoped might be grey, but no such luck. I think that was the first brown cover I'd read in an age! :)

Morning all. Cat, the first book of that series is brown. And really fun.

Shall we pick a stream or just read a few to see how they fit, and go from there?

FWIW, I will definitely be reading The Wolf in the Whale (544p) and This Thing of Darkness (626p) by 6 June, so we could do one of the page count streams.

by the by, I've not worked out: do we have to complete a stream before we get points for the next, or could we have two partials going and get points for both (though obvs not the completion bonus)?

It looks like we have to go in order. So we have to finish A or B before we get points for A1 or A1a, etc.

We should choose which letter we are going to start with.

I don't know about letter, but I'm not a fan of the B1 streams.

I've actually given them code names, now, on our sheet, which might (who knows!) be helpful.

so I'd say that I don't want to tackle Ide or Jay.

Hen looks OK? or Eel (They're A stream)

Let's do Eel, as you are planning some longer books already.

Do we want to add a book reporting/recording tab to our sheet? to catch options?

I mean, I do, but I am a fan of spreadsheets...

Anyway, the books I started today (waiting till after the countdown, never fear!) are:
A Long Day in Lychford - 144pages; characters Judith, Autumn, Lizzie, Stuart / author Paul Cornell. Specific Eel tasks would be 6 & 15 plus spell out options

For We Are Many - 311pages; characters Bob, Milo, Cranston (& others tbc) / author Dennis Taylor. Specific Eel tasks would be 7 & 19 plus spell out options

oh, Jenny, I took your name in vain....
name dropped you in an NBRC BOM nomination thread
feeling a bit guilty now

I like the idea of a reporting tab. Moving stuff around will be helpful.

Should we claim spaces, or list how books fit on the reporting tab, and assign one of us to fill out the official one?

Cat wrote: "oh, Jenny, I took your name in vain....
name dropped you in an NBRC BOM nomination thread
feeling a bit guilty now"

Brain-meltngly weird? That sounds about right.
I just finished the sequel to that book, and it is just as good.

Jenny wrote: "I like the idea of a reporting tab. Moving stuff around will be helpful.

Should we claim spaces, or list how books fit on the reporting tab, and assign one of us to fill out the official one?"

Created a tab.

I think a mix? certainly, we'll need some of the specific ones to be claimed, like the "phone on cover" / "police officer on cover" etc, but leave the flexible ones (spell out) unclaimed so we can flex books in?

I'll check on my options for the 1- 5A tasks when I get home

Thanks Cat.
I will add books later as well.

Ok, I am guest-free now, so I can get back to reading. I will be posting some books and reading a bunch this weekend.

Cat, if you can leak some info, is there going to be a NBRC team challenge in June or July? I am trying to figure out what other challenges to try this summer, but if there is one from NBRC, then I will keep it light.
If you can't say, I understand.

We're hoping to, yes, but are working out the logistics and mod resources.

So, we've a couple of books read/planned that fill some specific tasks, shall we put them on the board?

Specifically:
Pink cover - Jenny
Full person on cover - Cat

I also thought that we'd use Paula's Obsidio for the 450+ pages

Fill in some slots! Go ahead! It's Thursday, so what other madcap hijinks will rival that action today? !!!!!

Also, I just found a book with Telephone in the title, so I will add that to our list shortly.

coffee. coffee. need coffee.

Cat wrote: "We're hoping to, yes, but are working out the logistics and mod resources."

I will keep the other challenges to a reasonable amount then. Thanks.

Great minds! I've just started reading one with Call in the title.

Any chance yours has a phone on the cover too? :)

Coffee: I'm low on that today, but that's probably for the best as I was bouncing yesterday evening, I made my last coffee that strong!

Yup, mine has a phone on the cover! We are good.

YAAAAASSSSSSS! :)

Hello!
I'm advancing pretty fast on Obsidio =), I hope to finish that one an another this weekend, I'll check what I can fill

Paula wrote: "Hello!
I'm advancing pretty fast on Obsidio =), I hope to finish that one an another this weekend, I'll check what I can fill"

I really enjoyed that series, and flew through it :) I listened to the audio, which was so good, and who doesn't love AIDAN?!

I'm on hols next week, but it's a busy one with niblings rather than a lazy one, so reading levels will be lower than normal :( but I've been listening to books at work to distract from the very noisy building site behind me - the drilling is SO annoying!

Construction must be in the air. A 5 story office building across from my shop is being converted into condos. Lots of annoying sounds coming from there everyday. It's amazing how I get used to traffic noise, but the drills and hydraulic hammers make me cringe.

I have found books to cover "Heart on cover", "Red writing on cover", and I am looking for a "Kissing on cover book". I think we will probably finish the first stream soon. Should we choose the next one we will tackle?

Yep! You make the call :)

Oh... I'm reading
One of those two will work for sexy on cover, you think?

Let's do Dog. Teehee.

Cat, there is a brown cover in Dog. You make the call- want it? Give that task to someone else?

Also, do we need to redo the 1A through 7A tasks every time we start a new stream?

Cat wrote: "Yep! You make the call :)

Oh... I'm reading
One of those two will work for sexy on cover, you think?"

I have sexy man on cover book, so use the woman for that one?

I just looked at the claimed but not used books, and knowing that these can be tweaked, we need

Text begins with H
M
A
251-300
Love at first sight.

I finished Obsidio and used it for the 450+pages.

Now I'm reading a book that works for couple kissing on cover, heart on cover, love on text.

I lieeeed they're almost kissing u.u, but it will work for heart on cover 😬