Challenge Corner discussion

Team The New York Times:
Ivelisse Colón
Cindee ✔
Catsalive ✔
BabyLunLun ✔
Melanie ✔
Jotsmar M
Vi ✔
Ashlyn ✔
Tesseract ✔
Celia ✔
Kimber~☆♡Love of Books♡☆ ✔
Vicki ✔
Kira

Q&A: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hey everyone! My first challenge here so please bear with me :)

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I wont be able to join this challenge. Im so sorry! Hopefully you can get a replacement for the team.
Thank you

Adding Vicki to the team everyone!

Hello Team New York Times! :)

Vicki wrote: "Hello Team New York Times! :)"

Got ya checked in!

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Vicki wrote: "Hello Team New York Times! :)"

Thank you!:)

Kimber~☆♡Love of Books♡☆ wrote: "Vicki wrote: "Hello Team New York Times! :)"

Thank you!:)"

You're very welcome :)

Hi team, I've added another sheet where we can note down the books based on the word. It should help us with more clarity. I've shifted most of the books (completed) to the sheet. Could you please help to take a look and correct if there is a mistake? It would also help if we could add our books there so we know what letters are needed.

@Catsalive: I'm not sure how Murder at the Dolphin Hotel fits as we are supposed to look for title/series/author name only. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Hey team!

I see that a couple of people haven't checked in yet. Since it's a long holiday weekend, happy 4th to everyone that celebrates it today, I will send out friendly reminders to everyone who hasn't checked in yet tomorrow morning.

Hello team!

I have sent a PM to Celia, Jotsmar & Ivelisse.

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@ Vicki: You can use Anti-Stepbrother for the A

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Catsalive wrote: "@ Vicki: You can use Anti-Stepbrother for the A"

Cool, thanks...I just added it :)

@Vi, I used the A (as Catsalive said in message 23) but see that you had a book planned for it...The Fine Print. I don't want to step on any toes, so I didn't remove your book on the Note Books tab yet. I wanted to let you know and when it's removed I'll add mine.

Hey Vicki, you could remove mine and add yours. Mine can be banked if needed for later. Sorry, I didn't connect the message to the alphabet.

No worries, thanks :)

Hey, so I can really only go on Goodreads and write reviews/post in the review thread once a week, so if anyone sees one of my books that fits somewhere, feel free to post it.

Adding Verity to the team everyone!

Just a reminder to look at the puzzle on the spreadsheet - where letters crossover, one book works for two words.

We need

E E U Y Y

Tesseract wrote: "thank you for posting for me! it's always the vowels left :(
I just noticed that Ashlyn's A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young should work for one of the Ys."

Cool. We're down to

E U Y

Korean food that Peter loves is not yakult, apparently, so we've been working on the wrong letters. Maybe it's YOGURT instead, although YAKULT is Korean yoghurt.

Don't put any more books for review until we get this sorted out with Alaina, otherwise we'll be completely muddled.

Hmm, well onward we go.

E O U remaining

O U in yogurt remaining

O remaining

Did we see that we can use the first letter of any word in the title?

Yes, we can use first letter of any word in the title.

I should have time this weekend to finally review the books I've read recently and then I'll get them added to the spreadsheet.

Due to a weird bug in GR, thank you Melanie for letting me know, please do the following to figure out your page count:

Q: Here's an example with 11/22/63 by Stephen King.

https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...

Sorting by Number of Ratings shows the most popular edition is a German Paperback edition published by Heyne (with 315 ratings) which has 1,055 pages.

But the actual most popular edition is the US Hardcover edition published by Scribner (over 421k ratings) with 849 pages.

The correct amount of points would be 8 points (for 849 pages) but right now it would be awarded 10 points (for 1,055 pages) because the sort is broken.

A: Using the same book in your example, when using the search bar for '11/22/63', you click on the book, the book page comes up - let's use that number instead.

So, the number that came up was 928 pages.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

I've posted all my books that I could do the Review thread and added the rest of my banked books to the spreadsheet.

I have been without the Internet since Friday (10 days ago) and finally have it back, but not sure for how long.

I have books to review and add, but most letters are claimed but on the review thread it shows letters we still need, so I posted 2 and then saw somebody else claimed them: Vi (2D letter A) and Ashlyn (2D letter R).

If you've read your books already, I can remove mine. I didh't see them in the review thread but could've overlooked them, plus I don't want to step on anyone's toes.

If I haven’t posted, free to remove mine. I didn’t claim any, and thought I had all the books that worked added.

Ah just now I sync our spreadsheet with what Alaina posted in the review thread. Some books are on the review thread but its not updated in the spreadsheet

Should be ok now

I’ve also finished and reviewed these ones if they fit anywhere:

OK, thanks, BabyLunLun, sometimes I get confused because of conflicting posts, etc.

Ashlyn wrote: "I’ve also finished and reviewed these ones if they fit anywhere:
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I’ll be camping this week, so won’t be able to ad them to the spreadsheet until I get back.

Vicki wrote: "OK, thanks, BabyLunLun, sometimes I get confused because of conflicting posts, etc."

I actually completely forgot that this wasn’t a monthly challenge, so just put whatever doesn’t fit for the current puzzle in the banked tab.

I'm sort of confused.. because I posted after I checked the spreadsheet and then posted in the review thread. It's hard otherwise to keep track of the books. I'll also add the books I finished in the banked sheet in a couple of days.

Hey everyone , make sure you include the location of the word when you post the review. So that its easier to track

If not Alaina will put at whatever position in the crossword puzzle.

Don't worry haha, I will make sure its both sync at the review thread and spreadsheet each time