Challenge Corner discussion

Team Party:
Andy ✔️
Naomi ✔️
Crystal ✔️
Melanie ✔️
Elizabeth ✔️
Tayane ✔️
Bookworm
Ruthie ✔️
Sharon ✔️
Ipsa
Kade ✔️
Avni ✔️

When posting reviews to the review thread, please post them like the following:


Review: Link
Pages: #
BR: Link (if applicable)
Task: how it fits (MUST post this in every review post)

Team Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Team SS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...



*****Please check in by 12/30/2021*****

RULES:

Once a prompt is started your team MUST post all ten books for that prompt before starting on another prompt.

Prompts can be completed in any order that the team wants. *see next rule*

Prompts cannot be completed one after the other of the same prompt. Meaning if you complete the ‘exercise’ prompt you must complete a different prompt before going back to exercise.

While working on your current prompt all tasks are repeatable. Meaning if your team is working on ‘Lose Weight’ and you have a book that works for ‘MC is plus sized’ but someone else on your team also has a book for that category, you may both post for that category while you’re still working on the ‘Lose Weight’ prompt. This means that your team could potentially post more than 10 books while working on one prompt. **However, as soon as the 10th category is posted for your team must move onto the next prompt.**

For this challenge, all members MUST complete the “How It Fits” when posting their books on their teams review thread.

Prompts and categories:

Exercise

MC works out
MC has a home gym
MC visits a gym
MC drinks a protein drink
‘Exercise’ in text (pg/%)
‘Sweat’ in text (pg/%)
Letters E, X, E, R, C, I, S, E in series title (in any order)
Muscles/Abs on cover
MPG Sport
Author’s first/last name has an X in it

Lose weight

MC is plus sized
MC struggles with their weight
Letters F, I, T, N, E, S, S are in title (in any order)
Cover has someone exercising (Ex: walking, running, etc.)
MC is a fitness trainer
Read a book from Weight Loss Books List
Title starts with a letter in WEIGHT
‘Slim’ in text (pg/%)
Author’s initials in TONED
MC loses something

Start a diet

MC eats healthy
MC starts a diet
MC is already on a diet
‘Diet’ in text (pg/%)
Features a character that is vegan or vegetarian
Food on cover
Author’s initials in DIET
Letters H, E, A, L, T, H, Y in series title (in any order)
Food in title (Ex: Kiss My Cupcake)
Tagged ‘food and drink’/’food’/’drink’

Get a promotion

MC gets a promotion at their job
MC is working towards a promotion at their job
‘Promotion’ in text (pg/%)
MC works for a corporate company
Features a boss/employee relationship
MPG Romance
Features a challenge/competition
MC is the boss and gives a promotion
MC is the owner of their own company
Title ends with a letter in RAISE

Spend more time with family

Features an adoption
MC is an orphan
Tagged ‘family’
Character attends a family event
‘Family‘ in text (pg/%)
Features cousins
MC has 3+ siblings
Read a book from the Found Family Books List
Author’s initials in FAMILY
Features a reunion

Start a new hobby

MC has a hobby
MC starts a new hobby
Character is nerdy
Character makes crafts
Read a book from the Books for Geeky Girls List
MC likes to read books
‘Hobby’ in text (pg/%)
Author initials in HOBBY
Published in the month you were born
MPG Autobiography

Give up smoking

MC smokes
MC quits smoking
‘Smoke’ in text (pg/%)
Smoke on cover
‘Cigarette’ in text (pg/%)
Features a smoking hot person (your interpretation)
Letters S, M, O, K, E in series title (in any order)
Features a fire
Grey cover (75%)
Title has a 5 letter word in it (Ex: White Smoke)

Volunteer

MC is a volunteer
MC adopts an animal
‘Kind’ in text (pg/%)
Features a charity
Read a book from Volunteering Books List
MC’s first/last name starts with V
‘Volunteer’ in text (pg/%)
Features a food pantry
Cover has two people on it
Character makes a donation of some kind

Save money

MC is rich
MC is poor
Money on cover
‘Money’ in text (pg/%)
Author initials in SAVE
‘Bank account’ in text (pg/%)
MC is a banker/investor
Green cover (75%)
Title ends with a letter in CASH
Tagged ‘crime’

Get organized

MC is organized
MC is messy/unorganized
MC completes a household chore
Author initials in ORDER
‘Sort’ in text (pg/%)
Book has a 1, 2, and 3 in the page count (ex. 123, 312, 231, etc.)
MC procrastinates something
Page count has all of the same numbers (ex. 111, 222, 333, etc.)
Read a book from the Clean Reads Book List
Features a maid/servant

Travel

MC travels
MC takes a plane/train/bus somewhere
Features a tropical place
Features a snow escape
Takes place in Europe
Takes place in Asia
‘Travel’ in text (pg/%)
Book is set in a different country than where you’re from
MC takes a class for a language in school (HS/Uni)
MC can speak more than one language

Drink less

MC struggles with drinking
MC does not drink any alcohol
Character goes to an AA meeting
A, L, C, O, H, O, L in title/series title (in any order)
Drink on cover
Drink in title (Ex: Dandelion Wine)
MC’s first/last name starts with an A
MPG Nonfiction
‘Beer’ in text (pg/%)
Title ends with a letter in SOBER

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Meet new people

MC makes a new friend
MC goes to a bar/club
Author initials in FRIEND
MPG Contemporary
Set in winter
Cover has 5+ colors
Retelling
BR (buddy read) a book with someone you haven’t BR with before (most post name of buddy in completion post)
Title has the word ‘new’ in it
MC attends a party

Drink more water

‘Water’ in text (pg/%)
Water on cover
Author initials in WATER
Characters visit/see a big body of water (lake, ocean, etc.)
Set in summer
Blue cover (75%)
Characters go swimming
MC’s first/last name start with a W
Tagged ‘thirsty’
Book has 500+ pages

New year, new me

MC changes their hair color
MC lives/moves into their first apartment
Features a coming of age storyline
New author (to you)
New series (to you)
New release (2022+)
Book has less than 100 reviews
Book has less than 100 ratings
Set around New Years
MPG Mystery

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Got you guys!

Adding Sharon, Ipsa, and Kade. :)

Adding Avni. :)

Edited the first comment to include your review thread and your SS.

From, this post on I will not be editing teams SS. If you'd like anything changed, you all can feel free to do so yourselves. :)

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Posting some of my potential January TBR in case anyone is interested in buddy reading any of them.

Hey all! I’ve never participated before, so any tips would be helpful. I have no idea what I’m doing. 🤦🏽‍♀️

how do you post the book cover when you're submitting the review? just posting the link?

Kade wrote: "how do you post the book cover when you're submitting the review? just posting the link?"

You click on the "add book/author" link above the comment box, then type the book you want and select "add: cover".

Kade wrote: "Hey all! I’ve never participated before, so any tips would be helpful. I have no idea what I’m doing. 🤦🏽‍♀️"

You just need to post your reviews on the review thread and select a prompt that your book fits within the category we're working at the moment. There's also a spreadsheet to organize our books, so we can complete categories faster. The links to the reviews thread and the spreadsheet are on the first comment :D

***Updated team SS to include a sheet for keeping track of books posted/banked books. :)

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Sharon wrote: "Tayane wrote: "Kade wrote: "Hey all! I’ve never participated before, so any tips would be helpful. I have no idea what I’m doing. 🤦🏽‍♀️"

You just need to post your reviews on the review thread and..."

There is a team spreadsheet. If your book works for one of the categories, just add your book and name in the space. There is a banked book section too, to add any books that may work for the second round of a task. It will make more sense once we get started.

Okay so what happens if multiple people choose a book for a prompt? Can we not do that? Is the goal for us to all chose different prompts? If so - what’s the best way for us to arrange that? I’m sorry to ask so many questions.

Kade wrote: "Okay so what happens if multiple people choose a book for a prompt? Can we not do that? Is the goal for us to all chose different prompts? If so - what’s the best way for us to arrange that? I’m so..."

the goal is to complete as many categories as we can in the next 3 months. We'll use the spreadsheet to track which ones are done. Most of these prompts are broad so it's very easy to move books around.

Basically, just read what you're going to read and when you finish a book we'll find it a spot.

Good afternoon! Happy New Year y'all. Looking forward to this challenge with everyone. I added a book section to the SS, so we can see who is reading for which prompts. If your book fits for a prompt that is already completed for a round, no worries, it may fit for a different category, or you can add it to the banked books for the next round!

I messed with the spreadsheet so it's easier to track which books everyone has posted

Andy wrote: "I messed with the spreadsheet so it's easier to track which books everyone has posted"

Much better. Thank you :)

No problem, I love spreadsheets haha

I think I misinterpreted the rules. We can only do one category at a time. I was thinking it was anything on round 1, sorry. I will edit my posts. Which one do y'all want to start on?

Naomi wrote: "I think I misinterpreted the rules. We can only do one category at a time. I was thinking it was anything on round 1, sorry. I will edit my posts. Which one do y'all want to start on?"

I think if you can find one category that works for the books you've posted so far, we can all go with it.

Yeah I have a feeling this is one of those ones where we'll have a lot of books finished but not posted right away.

I can move the two I finished yesterday to fit into the Get a Promotion category if we want to start with that.

Also if someone finishes something before we move on from a category, just post all the details in the banked books and someone will post it.

It looks like we're almost done with the Get a Promotion category. I'll finish Little Bird tonight and can try to finsh a country of ghosts asap, otherwise I'm totally okay with moving that one somewhere else if someone has a book that fits.

I think once we finish this one we should go to Start a Diet.

Andy wrote: "It looks like we're almost done with the Get a Promotion category. I'll finish Little Bird tonight and can try to finsh a country of ghosts asap, otherwise I'm totally okay with moving that one som..."

Agreed with doing that one next.

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Finishing up with A Lot Like Adios likely tonight and writing the review tomorrow. If someone has a book that fits "promotion text/%," I'm okay with mine being banked.

Elizabeth wrote: "Finishing up with A Lot Like Adios likely tonight and writing the review tomorrow. If someone has a book that fits "promotion text/%," I'm okay with mine being banked."

that should be fine I still have 100 pages of A country of ghosts. I only have a physical copy so this one is a lot slower to finish. Should be done by tomorrow as well tho

Hello hello!

For books tagged 'Thirsty' here is a list to help you out, https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Sorry it took me a little longer.

What's the next category we'd like to do?

Start a Diet is next as all tasks are done except for 1 (which I will have finished/reviewed later today). I'm not sure what we're going with after that. Maybe Drink More Water since that has the most tasks claimed?

okay, i promise i'm not trying to be useless here. but i'm SO confused. I just finished a book that i can make work for a prompt we aren't working on, and it's not yet claimed on that prompt spreadsheet, do i put the book there and claim it with my name for when we do get to that prompt like others have done? and then we are on that prompt i post the review?

Kade wrote: "okay, i promise i'm not trying to be useless here. but i'm SO confused. I just finished a book that i can make work for a prompt we aren't working on, and it's not yet claimed on that prompt spread..."

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but yeah. You can claim a book if there's an empty space and then check the boxes when you finish reading. You just wouldn't be able to post your review into the review thread until we're working on that prompt. But you can place the details of that book and the prompt it fits in the "banked" tab of the spreadsheet.

Kade wrote: "okay, i promise i'm not trying to be useless here. but i'm SO confused. I just finished a book that i can make work for a prompt we aren't working on, and it's not yet claimed on that prompt spread..."

Yep, just fill in the info on the spreadsheet next to the task you want and check the first checkbox to mark that you've completed the book. Then you can add all the info to the banked books tab so when we get to that section if you aren't on then someone else can post the book for you.

Melanie wrote: "Start a Diet is next as all tasks are done except for 1 (which I will have finished/reviewed later today). I'm not sure what we're going with after that. Maybe Drink More Water since that has the m..."

Yep that's my plan currently. I'll post my stuff for start a diet in a minute!

Okay right now this is the order I'm thinking based on the books in the SS including the ones I'll finish this weekend.

Start a Diet
Drink More Water
New Year New Me

Sounds good to me