You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

Link to questions and rulings

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

Spreadsheet link

http://1drv.ms/1JPZRDi

So, are you ready for your Mystery Date? Who will it be?



A famous actor?
A brainiac?
A drama queen?
Or, God forbid, Justin Beiber?
This Toppler is one week long, and will begin on February 7th at noon EST and end at noon EST on the 14th.

A few rules:
1. Books must be started and finished in this time period to qualify.
2. You may read any format - paperback, hardcover, ebook, or audiobook. For the last two use the page numbers on the first edition that comes up on the GR page.
3. Each book must be at least 175 pages.
4. Toppler books can count toward the monthly challenge, the group theme read, and the yearly challenge if they qualify.
5. You may plan ahead and choose books for the challenge, but you are not restricted to those books. You may swap them out at will..

So, let’s see who your mystery date is, and learn a few things about them.

What does your date look like? (For these books, the item must be on the cover.)

Read a book with a human head (or a human looking alien). Mostly the head, as little of the body as possible)
Read a book with a pair of eyes
Read a book with a torso, a frontal view
Read a book with a pair of legs
Read a book with a pair of shoes (you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes)


You never know where your Mystery Date might be from, your own neighborhood, across the country, or halfway around the world.

Read a book set in Africa
Read a book set in South America
Read a book set in Canada
Read a book set in an alien world or on some type of spaceship
Read a book set on an island


What does your Mystery Date do for a living? Do they have a job, live on family money, or sponge off of others?

Read a book where a main characters has a job that you’d like your date to have
Read a book where a main character has a job that you don’t want your date to have


What are you date’s hobbies?

Collecting comic books – Read a book that’s part of a series
Shooting – Read a book with some serious gunplay, or some type of weapon being used
Reading – Read an author that’s new to you
Clubbing – Read a book from another participant’s tbr
Role Play Games – Read a book with a geek as a character, or where gaming takes place
Crafting – Read a book with a main character does some type of craft for a hobby


There are plenty of well know couples. Is there one where you’d like to substitute yourself for one person and keep the other to be your date?

Adam and Eve – Read a fable, fairytale, myth, legend – can be original or retelling.
Samson and Delilah – Read a romance
Royce or Hadrian and Janice – Read a nonfiction
Romeo and Juliet – Read a YA book
Bonnie and Clyde – Read a crime thriller
John and Lorena Bobbitt ( If you’re not familiar with this couple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and... ) - Read a book that takes place during a war and the war has a large impact on the characters.
Barbie and Ken – Read a chick lit book
June and Ward Cleaver – Read a post-apocalyptic book
Mickey and Minnie Mouse - Read a book where an animal is a main character
Shrek and Fiona – Read a book with a royal character
Johnny Depp and Debra – Read a sexy book
Claire and Jamie Fraser (Outlander) – Read a book with time travelling, or where the perspective changes between the present and the past
Shaggy and Scooby Doo – Read a murder mystery
Will Arnett and Amy Poehler – Read a humorous book
Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett (Star Trek) – Read a science fiction book
Gomez and Morticia Addams – Read a paranormal book with ghosts, witches, or wizards
Daniel Craig and Connie – Read a magical realism book
Bella and Edward (Twilight) – Read a horror book
Lois Lane and Superman – Read a biography, autobiography, or memoir
Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet – Read a historical fiction book
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark (Hunger Games) – Read a dystopian book
Buffy and Angel – Read a book with vampires or werewolves
Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund (Casablanca) - Read a classic
Robin Hood and Maid Marian – Read a fantasy (no vamps, werewolves, witches)
Brokeback Mountain’s Jack and Ennis – Read a book with forbidden love, because of gender, race, class, religion…
Hazel Grace and Augustus – Read a tearjerker
Almeta and Kermit - Read a book where a human and other life form interact. (Vampire, werewolf, witch, robot, alien)

Points

Points are going to be easy to calculate.

10 points -> Each book read

Bonus:
25 points -> Complete all "What does your date look like" tasks
25 points -> Complete all tasks for "Where your date is from"
30 points -> Complete all tasks for "What are your date's hobbies?"

*Each section may be completed more than once, but bonus points will only be given once.

There are 25 secret bonus points that will be awarded to one team at the end.

Team A:

Annette
Camilla
Cherie
Dominique
Kazen
Lanelle
Lynn
Sarah Jigz
Stephanie
Travis
Roz
Jessica
Daniel

Hi fellow team mates! Looking forward to reading with you.

Hi, Camilla :-)

If anyone has an idea for a team name, shout it out and I can edit the thread once we agree upon a name.
I'm excited for the toppler team :-)

I've thought of these names for our team so far:




The A-Team
All-Stars
Team Awesome Sauce

Hello team A! Can't wait to start reading!

Hi, Annette!

Just joined. Hi guys!

Hello everyone, and huzzah topplers!

Hi, Roz and Kazen :-)

(((((waving))))) hi team!

Hi, Cherie!!

Hey, team! I'm so excited for another toppler.

My daughter and I tried to do some brainstorming for a team name. The best we could come up with was aHarmony. You know, like eHarmony, but with an 'a'. Sad. I'll keep thinking.

I'm old school. I like A-Team!

I like the A-team, too. But that was our team name for the toppler last summer, and poor Travis ended up being Mr. T.

ROFL!!! Poor Travis. I remember that. Ok, A-Team is history.

Checking in :) ::waves::

RE Name, I'm rubbish at that kind of thing but wouldn't it be good to tie it in with the theme, mystery date? Not that I can think of anything, told you I was rubbish .....

I do like All-Stars!!

How about A is for Alibi?
I've never read this mystery series but just remembered the title of the book :-)

I was wandering around the internet last night looking for ideas that would match the theme, and I found out the AARP has a dating website. I didn't know that.

Anyway, it got me thinking about letters and I came up with AAA Readers for a team name. It doesn't go with the Mystery Date theme though. Hopefully someone will come up with something soon.

If not, I'm okay with the All-Stars.

I actually like the aHarmony idea. It's. clever and fits the theme.

I thought A is for Alibi was pretty good too. Fits the mystery part. What if we changed alibi to something more dating themed....like alluring? A is for Alluring maybe?

I like the whole "A is for (something)" idea! From my crazy I-really-ought-to-go-to-bed brain:

A is for Alluring (awesome, Annette!)
A is for Awesome
A is for Alliteration
A is for Affinity
A is for... is for-

~Kazen falls into bed~

-zzzzzzzzzz.

I like the A is for Alluring, also. Or any A is for...

Hello. Ooh I'm looking forward to another toppler. *waves*

I like All-Stars and aHarmony hehe =]

I usually stay out of team names as I just don't care. But aHarmony gets my vote. Clever and fits the theme

Should we go with aHarmony, then? Seems like the majority likes it :-)
I will edit post #1 if this is the name that is agreed upon :-)
Just let me know. GR is having issues on my end and we are off to fish so I many not be on again till later..

aHarmony is good with me.

How about A is for Annoying, or A is for Ancient...

I like aHarmony! I vote yes.

I like aHarmony too!

Awesome! I will edit our team name in post one then :-) should we have a team leader or do we wait until the rules are announced? I'm jumping the gun and nominating, Lanelle :-)

Stephanie wrote: "Awesome! I will edit our team name in post one then :-) should we have a team leader or do we wait until the rules are announced? I'm jumping the gun and nominating, Lanelle :-)"

Ha! You're doing great so far. I was going to nominate you!

Thank you :-) this is only my second toppler so I'm not ready to be a leader yet :-)

Other than getting things started, lol!

I second - I was going to nominate Stephanie too! :D

Stephanie - If you don't feel ready then don't feel you have to do it, however if you feel like getting your feet wet then share the responsibilities with a second person and that way you won't feel overwhelmed.

jaxnsmom wrote: "How about A is for Annoying, or A is for Ancient..."

I see what you're doing. -_^

Thank you, Lynn :-) i could share some responsibilities :-) my only concern is that I don't have access to a real computer a lot of the time (my husband is doing some schooling on-line so he is on the computer a lot) so I am mostly on goodreads on my phone, which is why I don't hit the reply button most of the time :-) why oh why is there not a reply or edit button on the app? :-(

Ah right, well yes from experience you do need access to the computer quite a lot to keep track of what's going on and updating the inevitable spreadsheet :)

How about you be cheerleader / counselor ie keep everyone motivated and help with any problems / questions and get someone else to keep track of the books?

I could definitely do that!

So who would like to do the tracking?

I can do it if no one else wants to but will happily sit back and let someone else if they want they want the job. Anyone?

This is my third team toppler. The first team toppler I participated in, there were 2 or 3 people designated to be cheerleaders. At first I thought it was silly.

For the second team toppler, no cheerleaders. Wow, what a difference. Although my team won, there was something missing. Those cheerleaders made a bigger impact than I imagined they would on our enthusiasm.

Um, no pressure, Stephanie. If someone else wants to assist Stephanie, I think it would be good for everyone.

Lynn wrote: "I can do it if no one else wants to but will happily sit back and let someone else if they want they want the job. Anyone?"

Lynn, if you could take care of the spreadsheet, that would be great. I lack the knowledge and equipment to do that. (Tablets are great, but limiting.)

Does anyone want to be our fearless leader?

Lanelle wrote: "Does anyone want to be our fearless leader?"

Well I kind of saw it as whoever took the two roles would be the combined leader.

One person would be a cheerleader but also who would be the one to deal with any problems, questions, need to go to Jmom to work out what on earth was going on. Which Stephanie seemed to be up for.

The other would keep track, do the spreadsheet etc.
That can be me if you want.

Do you think we need someone else? Is there another role to fill?

I think the leadership roles the way Lynn explains them sounds perfect. Lynn and Stephanie seem like the leaders we are looking for.

I guess we'll need to have Stephanie let us know what responsibilities she thought she agreed to when said she'd be a cheerleader.

It's a good thing we have time to work all this out before the toppler begins :)

Oh I can be the cheerleader person that says YAY! Way to go:-) I can also go to jaxnsmom if our group has questions and such! I love finding pictures to post that are positive (via photobucket). I have the app on my phone, woohoo! Last toppler, Almeta taught me how to copy and paste from photobucket :-)