Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

As promised:


Start of Tower Teams VII
The Seven Deadly Sins shall commence at 7am on the 7th October, Sydney Australia (AEDST) !


To see the countdown, CLICK HERE


NOTE: Daylight Savings starting/ending in different areas may make this a different time to what you expect. PLEASE CHECK THE COUNTDOWN! You can also convert your timezone HERE

REMEMBER: Books MUST be started after the challenge to begins to count for Tower Teams


SOOOO CLOSE!!! Can't wait!!

Minx wrote: "@Christina
In regards to your A Stranger in the House book, they decided it wasn't blue or green enough so it would be a no to either color."

aw man, what a bummer! I thought it might be blue, but oh well.

JanEyre9 wrote: "BOM question - does Sorcery of Thorns count for this challenge or are we starting with the upcoming BOM selections? Sorry if I missed this being covered already."

this was a good question since you usually can get coins (or points) until a month after the BOM started, but I remember for wheel-o-brown this wasn't possible either. it did however count for last year's TT I'm pretty sure.

Minx wrote: "As promised:
Start of Tower Teams VII
The Seven Deadly Sins shall commence at 7am on the 7th October, Sydney Australia (AEDST) !
To see the countdown, CLICK HERE ."

there's no need to worry Minx, I just checked another website where you can clearly see that on Oct 5, so before daylight savings, it's an hour later for all of us than it will be on Oct 7 [link]

e.g. if we look at 7am AEST right now it would be 11pm here in Austria - if we check 7am AEST on Monday Oct 7 (super easy to change on the website) it'll be 10pm here.

in short, the timezones in the second link you posted are 100% correct :)

(which couldn't have worked out better for me because I usually finish work somewhere around 10pm and walk my dog right after while listening to an audiobook, so I can start right then!!!)

Minx wrote: "Just FYI on message #811 in Sinful chat they have announced Novembers BOM."

fyi, the books are The Chestnut Man and Two Can Keep a Secret and both of their audiobooks are on scribd in case anybody else uses it (or if you want to get a 60 day trial instead of a 30 day trial just join via somebody else's link - they'll get a free month too! so hit me up if you wanna give it a try ;) lol)

I'll obviously join both because POINTS but if anybody wants to write DQs go ahead :)

[November BOM threads will be set up over the weekend]

Christina wrote: "Minx wrote: "Just FYI on message #811 in Sinful chat they have announced Novembers BOM."

btw, the books are The Chestnut Man and [book:Two Can..."

Nice Christina! Thanks for the info!!

I added the books that I plan on reading for the week of October 07, 2019 to this thread Voracity Books Thread

Minx wrote: "I added the books that I plan on reading for the week of October 07, 2019 to this thread Voracity Books Thread "

Just added mine! Gideon is a little on the long side (17 hrs of audio even though its only 448 pages) so I only put 2 on there to be safe, but if we need me to get a third I can definitely do it!

Question. Is the planned & posted reads Mon-Sun? Because in US it will be Sun-Sat if we go by countdown. How do you want us to plan/post? All the same days or all the countdown?

Also when we calculate points on pages what then we add whether it 7 for sin, 5 for cover color or 3 for genre/characteristic. I get all that. But what does the following mean?

"1 point for each book used for sin specification (EXCEPT for Avarice, which gets 0 points)"

Mamacita wrote: "Question. Is the planned & posted reads Mon-Sun? Because in US it will be Sun-Sat if we go by countdown. How do you want us to plan/post? All the same days or all the countdown?"

Basically, plan the reads before the week starts and post as you complete the books.

Also, plan to have all your books completed before the countdown ends in your timezone because even once you post the completed book Shelby or I have to review it and then re-post it to the official completed thread which takes a little time. So please give me more than an hour to do that, lol

Mamacita wrote: "Also when we calculate points on pages what then we add whether it 7 for sin, 5 for cover color or 3 for genre/characteristic. I get all that. But what does the following mean?

"1 point for each ..."


What that means is that if you read a book that fits no cover color, Genre, or other criteria and you have to designate the book as Sin Criteria Anything goes you only get the book points.

Example: Book 350 pages with Anything Goes: 35 points

Same book but Sin Criteria published in 2019: 36 points

There are no additional points outside of book page points for Anything Goes

In reference to a cut off time for having books finished I would say try and have all books read by Sunday at noon your time each week.

Minx wrote: "In reference to a cut off time for having books finished I would say try and have all books read by Sunday at noon your time each week."

Sounds perfect!

So do I need to add an additional point or did I do my planned books points correct

Mamacita wrote: "Minx wrote: "In reference to a cut off time for having books finished I would say try and have all books read by Sunday at noon your time each week."

Sounds perfect!

So do I need to add an addit..."

It was off by one point, made a comment on the thread :D

Less than 24 hours until we start this challenge!! Can't believe it's finally happening :D!!!

Would this count more as blue or as purple?

Mamacita wrote: "Minx wrote: "In reference to a cut off time for having books finished I would say try and have all books read by Sunday at noon your time each week."

Sounds perfect!

So do I need to add an addit..."

that 1 point you're wondering about is just what we get if we're sorting our book via third criteria (except for for Greed where we get no point for third criteria "Anything Goes") instead of cover colour (first criteria) or top shelf (second criteria)

there's no need to worry about it though - when our captains log our finished books into our official team sheet the points are getting counted automatically ;)

Sophie wrote: "Would this count more as blue or as purple?

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Blue :D Hope that is helpful.

A LITTLE OVER 5 HOURS TO GO!!

Don't know about ya'll but I am ready!!

Once last thing before we start.

1) Make sure all your read books are in your TT 7 folder
2) With BOMs - Make sure you provide the message # or links to where you commented.
3) Read what you want.
4) Keep an eye out for the mini-challenges and participate to the extent you can 🤩


Let's challenge ourselves to read as much as can but to also keep the experience pleasurable 😘

I'm so happy start day is finally here!

Finally. Just trying to finish up my other yearly challenge - 2 books to go.

So I decided last night that I wanted to try to get to 50 books for the Baby Got Book challenge by the end of this year if possible (so 450+) and I'm at like 30 right now I think?? So this challenge is a GREAT way for me to try to do that! :D I'm so excited. All 3 books I picked for this coming week fit that, too!

Sophie wrote: "So I decided last night that I wanted to try to get to 50 books for the Baby Got Book challenge by the end of this year if possible (so 450+) and I'm at like 30 right now I think?? So this challeng..."

That'd great that your chosen books fit multiple challenges, I love when that happens! :d)

If you haven't already, please check in on this thread to let me know how many books you plan to read for this week. Thanks!!

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Happy Reading everyone!!! Lets go kick some butt! I'm about to head to work so sadly won't get to start reading until after my shift tonight, but it's going to be an awesome challenge!

lol, I thought 4 years since I read a book would be enough time to have the "feels like the first time" feeling with a book but I am finding that I remember exactly what takes place in my re-read that I am doing for this challenge. Guess I will have to go back to my rule of it having to have been at least 8 years since I read the book. Damn my memory! ha ha ha

I wanted to re-read because I love this series. I plan to read one book from the series each week until I've re-read them all. They are huge books so they add points :D

Minx wrote: "lol, I thought 4 years since I read a book would be enough time to have the "feels like the first time" feeling with a book but I am finding that I remember exactly what takes place in my re-read t..."

I read that one! I liked it I'm not sure why I never read the next set, I might try to fit one of those into the challenge too. They're so different than most things I read!

I might read Theft of Swords at some point too! I added it to my tbr this year and of course that helps with the other big book challenge too :D

By the way, if you need me to read extra books this week let me know! I have some extra time this week which means extra reading time!

Sophie wrote: "I might read Theft of Swords at some point too! I added it to my tbr this year and of course that helps with the other big book challenge too :D

By the way, if you need me to read..."

Thanks! If there is a book you'd like to read then feel free to read it. I think this week there is leeway for some extra reading :D

I love the Riyria series because the dialogue with Hadrian and Royce is so hilarious and yet deep because despite their snarkiness they care for each other. Hadrian reminds me of a happy puppy. I also like that there is a creative and enjoyable overarching plot to enjoy :D

Minx sorry but I can't write a book of books that I plan to read this week since I don't have it. I usually have 50 and more books on my Kindle and then pick the next book when I finish the current one.
Especially since I don't know how much time it will take to read the first book, so depending on that I might choose some short one or thick one...

Just started the audio for my first book, I am so excited for this challenge!

@Dragana that’s fine. Just read what you want when the mood strikes you. 😀.

@janeyre I am excited too! I am hoping I can finish all the books I wanted to read.

Started the first one! Mintha nővérek lennénk Very soon I am starting my second one (in audiobook format).

Kinga wrote: "Started the first one! Mintha nővérek lennénk Very soon I am starting my second one (in audiobook format)."

Nice! I hope you are enjoying your reads :D

I don't know how but I'm 47% through the audio of Prizoner of Azkaban already!

Christina wrote: "I don't know how but I'm 47% through the audio of Prizoner of Azkaban already!"

lol, probably because the Harry Potter books are so well written. I loved reading them :D

And Prisoner of Azkaban is the best book in the series :)

Just as a FYI from the Mods:

It has brought to our attention that sins change name depending on the place they are in (example: Pride/Vanity)

Although we love the Wrath inducing effect, we also love consistency, and for some members, the lack of it is an important factor of stress.

That been said, the Seven Sins are:

Avarice (aka Greed)
Envy
Gluttony
Lust
Sloth
Vanity (aka Pride)
Wrath

All the teams are named after a name variation of those sins. So, there are tasks for your "Sin"

Just so you don't get confused :D

What do you mean there are tasks for our sin? Like other than the cover color, genre or criteria items?

Mamacita wrote: "What do you mean there are tasks for our sin? Like other than the cover color, genre or criteria items?"

If you follow this link:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

and look at message #7 you will see Sinful prizes.

For example: Highest number of books read by the end of the challenge will get the Avarice prize.

Some teams are reading strategically to win one of those prizes and that note from the mods is for readers who were seeing different sin names in different places.

I included it because the SS that Shelby had set up has Greed listed instead of Avarice but the SS I set up has Avarice listed instead of Greed. Terms just depended on where we gathered the information from and I wanted everyone to be aware and not get confused.

Minx wrote: "Mamacita wrote: "What do you mean there are tasks for our sin? Like other than the cover color, genre or criteria items?"

If you follow this link:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Ah. Now I know what you meant. I totally forgot about those.

Hi, I have finished my first book. Honestly, I was so confused about the book reporting process. I have a couple of questions:

1) I made an entry in the Team spreadsheet in the Book reporting tab. Is that the correct place where we should enter the books we have read?

2) Also, my book fulfills 2 out of 3 requirements for Pride/Vanity. Does it get points for both of them, or only for one?

3) If I finish reading a book on the weekend, is it too late to report it as read on Monday?

Dragana wrote: "Hi, I have finished my first book. Honestly, I was so confused about the book reporting process. I have a couple of questions:

1) I made an entry in the Team spreadsheet in the Book reporting tab...."

1) What you did was perfect!

2) You only get points for one and we would choose the cover color for Pride since it is worth more points.

3) I will ask Shelby about this and get back to you.

Thanks!

Just finished book #2 and I am about halfway through book #3, woohoo!

Nice! Hope you are enjoying your books 😀. I am particularly pleased with Capturing the Devil that I am reading now.

When I get home tonight I’ll fix the spreadsheet so it accurately reflects the mods finalized term choices. 😁. Let’s avoid any confusion in that area. And it’s an easy fix when I’m back at a computer.