Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Catherine wrote: "Trinity wrote: "Catherine wrote: "Agnès wrote: "Thank you Catherine :)"


tu habites à Bordeaux??? Je visitais depuis deux l'année passé. :)"

Oh certains français ici! Je suis juste à apprendre l..."

Ce est génial! :D

La famille de mon père est italien mais je ai encore à apprendre cette belle langue.

should we converse only in French and or Italian??!?!?!? then other teams will be very confused if they stop by!!!! lol

LOL we should and then just throw everyone off!!!

Agnès wrote: "Et Esther, tu es française aussi?"

Je suis québécoise.

Je ai eu envie de visiter la France depuis longtemps, je ai l'intention d'aller sur mon année de lycée. Je suis également discuter pour savoir si ou non d'aller au collège en France

Dans toute l'Europe, dans le Maine et tant d'autres. Paris, comme beaucoup d'autres femmes comme moi de se diriger vers la rêverie

Happy Birthday!

Anyone else go black Friday shopping? I feel like I might have gotten run over.

Agnès wrote: "Où voudrais-tu aller? Et dans quel domaine voudrais-tu faire tes études plus tard?"

mais J'ai visité à Bordeaux..la centre de la cité, Marseille, Paris (mais oui!) et Dijon :)

Rose wrote: "Happy Birthday!

Anyone else go black Friday shopping? I feel like I might have gotten run over."

I ordered a laptop from Staples, I went this morning but they sold out so it should be arriving either tomorrow (hopefully!!) or on Monday. But I hope it comes tomorrow.

How about you? Did you get any good deals?

Finished

Hello team!!!

We are on the 4th week!! How about we try to improve our score for this next week? Catherine gave us a mini challenge idea, who else want us to try it for extra fun?

I'll be updating our reads during the day so don't forget to write them in the Lightning Hounds BOOKS READ thread, and to add any links for BR or BOM's.

Thanks you all for the lovely birthday messages. The day was lovely, I met some friends for lunch and then I went to see Mockingjay with my hub. A calm and special day.

A couple of years ago I started to learn French but after moving to Norway and trying to learn Norwegian I can barely remember a few french words, nothing to set a proper phrase. But I found it beautiful.

@Agnès, I need the name of your shelf for this challenge for I can compute your points. Ops, I saw that you already put it on the read thread. Thanks!

@Trinity, did you liked Throne of Glass???

@Rose, I don't usually buy things during the Black Friday, and this year in special I'm paying more attention on my shopping urge, trying some control, lol. Did you get some good prices?

Finished: .

@Juliana - Yes, I really liked it. It didn't really reach my expectations but it was a great book. I'm glad I finally read it!

@Agnès, according to the mods we can count your books read since the start of the challenge, the 8th of November.
So could you put all of them in your tt3-lightning-hounds shelf as well? If I'm not wrong you read 9 titles from Nov 9th til Nov 25th. ;)

I am starting today as a buddy read, thread is HERE

I wasn't sure @Agnès, that's why I checked with the mods before asking you to do it. :)

@Trinity, did you participate in the The Throne of Glass BR discussion? If so, in which message did you start? Are you liking the BR?

Juliana wrote: "



Hello team!!!

We are on the 4th week!! How about we try to improve our score for this next week? Catherine gave us a mini challenge idea, who else want us to try it for extra fun? "

I am all in for a bit of fun but not sure I will be able to improve my score

Juliana wrote: "I wasn't sure @Agnès, that's why I checked with the mods before asking you to do it. :)

@Trinity, did you participate in the The Throne of Glass BR discussion? If so, in which message did you star..."

I started participating in this post https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... :)

@Thanks Trinity! I'll wait until someone replay on of your comments so we can score the points. :)

@Jane I'd be impressed if you managed to read even more in a week. You already contribute a lot. :D

TT3 - Lightning Hounds spreadsheet updated!

TowerTeams - Lightning Hounds (official) spreadsheet updated!

Do you guys want so stats about our performance until now? I'll put some just in case :p


Week | Books reads | Books points | BOM points | BR points | Total
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Week 1 | 29 books | Bp = 810 | BOMp = 60 | BRp = 60 | Total = 930

Week 2 | 25 books | Bp = 770 | BOMp = 0 | BRp = 120 | Total = 890

Week 3 | 30 books | Bp = 710 | BOMp = 30 | BRp = 60 | Total = 800

Week 3 | Extra points from Agnès 7 previous books = 160

Total for the three weeks = 2780


Would you like to see the points per members also?

@Juliana - Okay! :)

I'm confused...I just looked at the ranking spreadsheet...and our score there is only 2720pts...but our team spreadsheet shows 2800pts...did a deadline pass, or did we just add more since they updated?

It sometimes takes a bit for Google spreadsheets to update their references to other spreadsheets. I have something that runs each hour that should update it.

Oh..ok. :)

I've added these to my shelf, but just posted them to the READ thread. I finished -



º The Iron Duke 384 pages - 11/24


º Sworn in Steel 499 pages - 11/27

ºBayou Moon 447 pages - 11/29


Heads up-Sworn and Steel and Bayou Moon are both BRs, but I haven't had a chance to participate in discussion (and Sworn and Steel hasn't started yet).

I'll also be doing the Martian BR (7th) and Name of the Rose (9th)

I did get some good black friday deals, but they were online. Shopping in stores is just frustrating that day. All the things on sale are rushed and sold-out. Everything else is not a good enough deal to wait in an hour check out line. I just browsed to get an idea of what to order, and clicked away at night.

Catherine wrote: "Oh..ok. :)"

Just went and checked since I got back to a computer and it was cutting off your last member so I changed the spreadsheet. If you look at the tabs along the bottom you can see your team's tab and check what's wrong more easily from there.

Finished buddy read thread is HERE

cool....thank you for checking :)

@Catherine and @Kelly thanks for noticing what was happening with the spreadsheet. I've just finished to update the last books reads and made our weekly submission.

Right now we have 3020 points. Well done team!!!

@Agnès, I saw that this BR has a thread and you are already interacting with other readers. So, when you finish the book you just have to remember me that you participate in a BR and let me know in which message your participation began (or give me a link).
That way I can confirm and put the correct data on the spreadsheet.
Both BR and BOM participations are credited with 30 points.
I hope I have explained what you wanted to know. Any other question just bring it to us.

@Rose thanks for the updating.

Great @Trinity!! I've counted your two BRs. :)

@Juliana - Awesome! Thanks. :)

Update (11/30/2014)

Finished,

1st to Die | James Patterson | 30Nov2014 | 462 Pages | 50 points

Buddy Read : Link here | 30 points

By Blood | Ellen Ullman | 30Nov2014 | 378 Pages | 20 points

I understand the need to start buddy reads at intervals....but is there any reason to not start early if you've already read the book (within the last month) and don't want to have to re-read it?

Catherine wrote: "I understand the need to start buddy reads at intervals....but is there any reason to not start early if you've already read the book (within the last month) and don't want to have to re-read it?"

You can do buddy reads off schedule but you won't get credit til there's some actual discussion going on for it so you may be waiting a bit to claim the points.

You also have to have read the book during Tower Teams since reading the book is the trigger for getting points.

ok...just wondering :) because I want to participate in other buddy reads...but wasn't sure about the timeframe..so as long as it was finished during Tower Teams...it's good :) thanks :)

Hi guys!!!

So inspired by Catherine I thought we can use some themed weeks. For the next 5 weeks I'll give us a ideas about what to look for in your reading for the next days. And we can compete among ourselves to see who will gain the most amount of points.

This isn't mandatory and you can participate in one or all of the themes. The idea is to have fun and stimulate us to keep reading.

For count to the challenge the team member has to explain why he/she thinks that the book meets the requirement for that week. That can be based on the plot, title, setting, cover, feelings, characters, ...
Each book read gains the same amount of points sets for the Tower Teams challenge.

So who wants to participate??
Any questions???

First theme (Dec 01 to Dec 07):

December has just began! So we have to read book(s) about December. It can appears in the title, in the story or that you feels it's a great reading for this month (tell us why).

To inspire...

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I am in. though I am not sure I am going to read a lot of books for the December theme as I will be reading to finish a lot of different challenges.

I'll give it a try :)

I'll update the spreadsheets tomorrow. ;)

I have finished my first book for week 4:

Sun Kissed by Skyla Madi

This completes 2 challenges ( now only 7 left to finish)

finished ..:)

Late Update (11/30/2014)

Finished

Can You Keep a Secret? | Sophie Kinsella | 30Nov2014 | 416 Pages | 20 points

Spreadsheets updated until here!

Did you guys see the mini challenge that the mods created? Quest to save Christmas!

I was drawn to it even before a realized that was inserted also in the Tower Teams Challenge as a team quest.

Since we have now a official mini challenge I think I'll suspended my little one (at least for now).

So go check it out the rules and mini quests and we can start working on it.
Any quest? Just send them in...

Juliana wrote: "Did you guys see the mini challenge that the mods created? Quest to save Christmas!

I was drawn to it even before a realized that was inserted also in the Tower Teams Challenge as a team quest.

S..."

You can use ones you contribute to the team challenge for your own personal one as well.

The French section really tested my memory of school level French! Think I just about followed what was being discussed...

Sorry I've been quiet this week - start a new job on Thursday so things have been a little busy. Haven't had much reading time as a result and not sure when it'll pick up again.

I like the look of the mini-challenge. Am very tempted to see how far I can get with it as an individual challenge. Obviously anything I read can be used on here too.

That's awesome Sophie, congratulations for the new job!!!!

Thanks! Is one of these things where I rotate jobs every 4 months to learn something new. Get to meet new people in a new place which keeps things interesting. This one is the area I want to end up in so fingers crossed it goes well.

Just finished which I enjoyed. Had forgotten a lot from the last one of the series, but this is pretty separate so wasn't too disastrous.

Start which is BOM this month. Will get going with the discussion later.

Sorry all. I am having a rough fall. one of my aunt died (2 weeks of besides evenings and all the funeral things. Then last week one of my cats died.

On top of working like a mad woman, I have a class in university. (chinese, not easy for me). And my term exam is next week. With all the above I am not up to date. So I am in study mode. I am still reading but I have not much internet time.

My virtual self will resurrect next week. In the meantime, I will be updating the read thread but no much more. If I have a minute I will post in my buddy reads to get these points in asap. :)

Esther wrote: "Soryy all. I am had a rought fall. one of my aunt died (2 weeks of besides evenings and all the funeral things. Then last week one of my cats died.

On top of working like a mad woman, I have a cla..."

I am sorry about your aunt and your cat :( it's sad when a pet dies...(and when a relative dies too)...but I have loved and lost a multitude of pets....and it is hard :(