Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Roll the dice and see where you land in this team challenge!

EARN ROLLS
For each book completed, the team must have at least 500 pages read OR 10 hours of audio listened in order to claim the prompt as completed. Your spreadsheet will keep track of rolls earned and used.

CLUE
- A book set in large house or mansion
- A book that includes a murder
- A book with a weapon of any kind on cover
- A book whose cover is predominantly white, green, mustard yellow, plum, peacock blue, or scarlet
- A book with a character that makes some kind of mistake

PARCHEESI
- A book set in India
- A book that contains a royal character
- A book whose page count contains any combination of 2, 3, and 4
- A book that has circle, square, cube, or cross shape on cover
- A book with a two-word title

RISK
- A book that takes place in at least 2 countries
- A book where war is involved
- A book with 2 or more authors
- A book with a character that takes a risk of any kind
- A book with a character who is military or ex-military

GAME OF LIFE
- A book that centers on a family
- A book that's set in school or college
- A book with a character gets or changes job
- A book featuring a wedding or childbirth
- A book with a character of retirement age

TRIVIAL PURSUIT
- A book relating to Science & Nature
- A book relating to History
- A book relating to Sports & Leisure
- A book relating to Entertainment & Arts
- Any nonfiction book

THE TEAMS

TEAM TOP HAT
CAPTAIN: Sophia
CAPTAIN: Sheena
Robin P
Alicia
Thomas
Samantha
Bec
Veronica

TEAM DOG
CAPTAIN: Kat
CAPTAIN: Charlsa
Rose
Roxana
Christene Paula
Sue
Ellie
Caitlin

TEAM SHIP
CAPTAIN: Sherri
CAPTAIN: Erica
Katherine
Edie
Joan
Elizabeth
MJ
Alisa
Jessica

TEAM CAT
CAPTAIN: Emily B
Emma R
LYNN
Magda
Aimee
Abbie
Fee
Irene

TEAM SHOE
CAPTAIN: Traci
CAPTAIN: Nancy
Catsalive
Rachel
Jenn H
Sarah
Brittany
Robin HR

TEAM IRON
CAPTAIN: Kendra
Kathy
Jen K
Ana AZ
Ira
Caitie
Michele
Louise

Question: the group and individual challenges run at the same time but are tracked separately, right? Can the books read in the individual challenge count towards the group tally if they fit? I’m not sure how this works, now that I’ve seen this team challenge thread.

MJ wrote: "Question: the group and individual challenges run at the same time but are tracked separately, right? Can the books read in the individual challenge count towards the group tally if they fit? I’m n..."

Yes and yes - the group and individual challenges are tracked separately, but you can absolutely count the same book for both! We encourage it.

Some people don't sign up for a team but just do the individual challenge or vice versa. That's fine too.

Does this work for the Clue colors (team)? On my laptop it looks blue, scarlet and mustard yellow.


Does this look green enough (individual) ?

This is such a well thought out theme, I love it!

NancyJ, I'd say yes to both! Especially with that peacock blue.

Thanks Ellie! This was all Robin's idea!

I agree! Can't wait for teams so I can start plugging in books!

Robin this was great!

For Parcheesi, to confirm, with the page numbers it can only have 2s, 3s, and 4s?


So 234 would count. But what about

223

or 240 (since 0 is not 2, 3 or 4)

Alicia wrote: "Robin this was great!

For Parcheesi, to confirm, with the page numbers it can only have 2s, 3s, and 4s?


So 234 would count. But what about
223
or 240 (since 0 is not 2, 3 or 4)

Good question - My intention was any combination of those digits, so you could have 222, 223, 224, 232, 233, 234, 242, 243, 244, 322, 323, 324, 332, 333, 334, 342, 343, 344, 422, 423, 424, 432, 433, 434, 442, 443, 444. So 240, 123, etc. wouldn't count.

**To simplify, I will accept it if there is any GR edition with those page numbers, not just the particular printing/ebook/audio you read/listened to**

@Robin is the only way to see other edition page counts by having the book in my shelves and changing the edition there? The new book pages don't show the page counts on other editions for me.

Erica wrote: "@Robin is the only way to see other edition page counts by having the book in my shelves and changing the edition there? The new book pages don't show the page counts on other editions for me."

Are you on the app? I never use it but I understand it can be limited. On the website, when you are on the page for any edition, if you scroll down, you'll see "other editions", and even lower an option for "See all 18 editions" (or however many there are.) If you click that, you'll see a list with all the page numbers for each one.

If it's not easy for you to access it, someone on your team should be able to check for you.

I'm using the desktop and that was the way to do it before the new page layout but I can't find a see all editions. Is there a way to not see the stupid beta pages?

edit: Now I found it disregard and laugh if you want. 🤦‍♀️

Question: I have a graphic novel that was published in 2 volumes but seems to be treated as one work. Do I count that as two books or one?

Erica wrote: "I'm using the desktop and that was the way to do it before the new page layout but I can't find a see all editions. Is there a way to not see the stupid beta pages?

edit: Now I found it disregard ..."

Not laughing at you, I only found what I wanted by trial and error, I'm glad it works for you.

Sophia wrote: "Question: I have a graphic novel that was published in 2 volumes but seems to be treated as one work. Do I count that as two books or one?"

If it's different volumes, like Heartstopper: Volume One, Heartstopper: Volume Two, etc., I would count it as 2. But if there is only one title, just bound in 2 volumes to make it easier to read, I would count it as 1. Are there 1 or 2 different entries in GR?

GR counts it as Otherworld Barbara, Volume 1 and Otherworld Barbara, Volume 2 but I don't think it was serialized, if that makes a difference?

Sophia wrote: "GR counts it as Otherworld Barbara, Volume 1 and Otherworld Barbara, Volume 2 but I don't think it was serialized, if that makes a difference?"

I say that counts as 2, they are listed separately and they are certainly long enough.

Question!

I want to read Rue des Rosiers, which I think fits the group challenge prompt: two word title

translated to English, the title is Rose Street, and "des" is just the article for rosiers so it isn't a word. Does that work? Or is it a three word title because the book is in English and now I feel like I'm overthinking it!

MJ wrote: "Question!

I want to read Rue des Rosiers, which I think fits the group challenge prompt: two word title

translated to English, the title is Rose Street, and "des" is just the arti..."

As a French speaker, I'll reply. Since the book came out in English with that title, it counts as 3 words. If there were a French book with that title and an English translation called Rose Street (literally Rosebush Street), that would be 2 words.

So overthinking, but an original idea!

So The Last Letter, which I'm reading the paperback copy, is 424 pages. Goodreads lists it as 426, I'm guessing it's counting the 2 page author acknowledgements. I have tons of other options for this book but should I have to use it for page count, I don't want it to not count!

Nancy wrote: "So The Last Letter, which I'm reading the paperback copy, is 424 pages. Goodreads lists it as 426, I'm guessing it's counting the 2 page author acknowledgements. I have tons of othe..."

yes, the page count on GR often doesn't match the last number listed as a page. We hope that at least one person in the group will have a book with the right number of GR pages. If I were doing it again, I wouldn't use this task, as I don't want our members to have to spend a lot of time looking up page numbers!

But I will say that there is no one checking your team challenges. If you and your captains decide that you want to use it, it's totally fine. Team Challenge is for fun, not prizes, and we aren't going to tell you that you can't use a book if your group thinks it fits closely enough.

This question comes up every time but I haven't seen it this time. Do we count A, and, or the when counting words for a title? For example would The Kitchen Front work for a two word title?

For two word title, we will count A, An, and The.