Hooked on Books discussion

Team Challenge
September 1, 2022- November 30, 2022

Please take some time and choose a team name. Let me know once you have decided on one.

Team
✔️Vicky
✔️Jess
✔️Ivelisse

Team Spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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

Rules
🧛Each monster has specific chains that need to be completed.
Examples:
1. Create a chain of 3 using titles consecutively (ABC)
-All the Light We Cannot See
-Becoming Mrs. Lewis
-Catching Fire
2. Create a chain of 3 with "dog" in the titles
-Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
-The Dog Stars
-Hot Dog Girl
🧛One person should NOT complete a whole chain by themselves. This is a team challenge.
🧛You may choose which creature to capture first but you MUST complete it BEFORE starting a new creature.
🧛You may use or drop articles: A, An, The
🧛If you somehow manage to incorporate a Formal Buddy Read book into a chain, you will earn 2 bonus points. See the buddy read folder for the current book. They are also listed in the spreadsheet dropdown list (when your team has a thread & spreadsheet assigned to them).
🧛Standard Rules Apply


Scoring
You will get 3 points for every completed book (9 per completed chain) PLUS page points.

While you wait for the game to start... here's a jigsaw puzzle related to the challenge: https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play...

Any ideas for a team name?

Hocus Pocus, Crypt Keepers?

I like Crypt Keepers

I like Crypt Keepers as well.

Ok. I am in for Crypt Keepers. What monster do we want to start with?

Maybe ghost

You guys can pick. I am good with anything

Ghost it is!

That's gonna be tough. I don't have ghost as an option this time around. I do plan to add it for the next time around but it isn't part of this game. Your monsters are in the spreadsheet.

The options are Mummy, Frankenstein, Witch, Vampire and Zombie

Mummy

Mummy

So if we chose the word “mummy” we have to either read a book with the title
Mummy or books that spell out the word?

I think I get it I’m looking at the score sheet

So we pick a leg or arm to do

Don’t we have to do both legs and both arms? I am pretty sure we have to do all of those to capture the creature. Do you want to start on an arm or leg first?

Jess wrote: "So if we chose the word “mummy” we have to either read a book with the title
Mummy or books that spell out the word?"

Books with the word mummy in the title

I saw there were some book lists in the Q&A to help

Thanks I’m struggling finding a good book

Arm 1 should be a little easier. We just need to find 3 letters, for example A,B,C or R,S,T, etc and each pick a title starting with one of them.

Yeah let’s do that

I’ve found books for A,B and C what letter do you guys want?

I can take whichever.

I am good for any letter

I can do Blackmail by Amelia Wilde

That would count for B right?

Yup. What letter do you want Jess?

I’ll pick C

When we do leg 2 for mummy are you guys good if I have book 2 in a series? I plan on reading the second book to the one I am reading right now for the A,B,C one.

I am excited because these first two books will work in my other challenge too.

I have a book 3 pending... I can do a book 3 for leg 2

Okay I’ll start a series then

So do we start reading now and then update the spreadsheet once we’re done ?

Yes we can start now. I am going to do my letter first and then I will do my book 2 in a series. It doesn’t matter if we all work on the same body part as long as we are working on the same monster

The Butcher of the Bay is fine for letter B right?

Ivelisse Colón wrote: "The Butcher of the Bay is fine for letter B right?"

Yes, you may choose to use or drop articles (A, an or the).

Okay thank you!

Just finished arm 1 and am now starting leg 2. I think you would both really like this book.

I just finished Butcher of the Bay. I'm going to start a book 3 for leg 2. Is that ok with you Jess?

That’s work. I finish my letter C book around midnight

Hi team! I have a question for you. I am getting questions about finishing early and redoing tasks for higher points. Would you like an opportunity for a bonus monster instead? The bonus monster would have a couple of extra books required because it is a higher difficulty monster to chain. Thoughts? I want input from all the teams before I go forward with offering the bonus.

I would prefer a bonus monster.

I would also prefer the bonus monster over a redo

How do you all search for books with a pumpkin on the cover?

I just typed in Halloween and then looked at the books that came up.

There is also a link on the Q&A page with pumpkin cover books

Have you guys found any good books with a pumpkin on the cover ?

I found a couple of RH but they are under 300 pages