Challenge Corner discussion

Team Jason Mraz:
Raquel Shah ✔
Ivelisse ✔
Saige ✔
Ashlyn ✔
Jamie ✔
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* ✔
Betsy ✔
Avni :)
PrinzessBookDragon ✔
Vicki ✔
Sheepy✔

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Got you checked in Betsy! Looks like you lost two people so far, so I'll try to add some replacement players.

Adding Vicki and Sheepy to the team everyone!

Team Spreadsheets are available in Message 1 of this thread.

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I added a book to the SS but I couldn't put my name. I guess Alaina needs to do whatever to it. Anyway, I'll start with a novella to fit our theme.

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This round will cover seven (7) days.

Start: January 1st at 12:00 AM (in your time zone)
End: January 7th at 11:59 PM (in your time zone)

Please check in on January 8th by 3:00 AM Eastern. (Midnight in PST)

Welcome to premier night everyone!

This week's theme will only have two tasks, just like all the future theme's coming your way. Friendly reminder, you only need to read for ONE of these tasks. We also need THREE different people reading for this task.

Here are this week's tasks:
*Series title starts and ends with a letter in PREMIER, OR
*Tagged 'Novella' at least 20 times

So, do all three people have to read for the same premier night task? Like we have to pick one and do it three times?

Also, I have a book for the dance rumba: author's name is exactly five letters. Can anyone read for the other rumba task: series title starts with R?

Saige wrote: "So, do all three people have to read for the same premier night task? Like we have to pick one and do it three times?"

No. Individually we only have to read one of the tasks, but at least three different people have to read each task. I'm assuming once we have three different that task is complete.

does that make sense?

I don't think I have an R series, but I can cover one of these with a book I plan to read.

Alan Bersten:
*Published in May (any year)

Samantha Harris:
*Page count has the number '7' in it

Artem Chigvintsev:
*Author's last name as 3 vowels in it

Pasha Pashkov:
*Author has a birthday in May

Jamie wrote: "Saige wrote: "So, do all three people have to read for the same premier night task? Like we have to pick one and do it three times?"

No. Individually we only have to read one of the tasks, but at ..."

Yes, that makes sense to me.

So as a team, which task do we want to read this week? I deleted mine from the spreadsheet, realizing that we only have to read one of these tasks. I haven't found a novella, but I have a series that starts and ends with PREMIER. Since only 3 of us need to read this we should decide which one.

I think we should go for "tagged novella" - I can pick one up for that, and since its novellas it should be a quick read

Jamie wrote: "Saige wrote: "So, do all three people have to read for the same premier night task? Like we have to pick one and do it three times?"

No. Individually we only have to read one of the tasks, but at ..."

Only three different people need to read for the theme tasks. All other tasks can be read by one person.

Ok, I'll see if I can find a novella with 20 tags. I've found some, but of course they are only tagged 4 or 5 times lol

Alaina wrote: "Jamie wrote: "Saige wrote: "So, do all three people have to read for the same premier night task? Like we have to pick one and do it three times?"

No. Individually we only have to read one of the ..."

Sorry, I think my question was unclear. I meant: do all three theme tasks have to be the same? Like, do we have to read three books "tagged novella 20 times" or can we do two books tagged novella and one where the series starts and ends with PREMIER?

Saige wrote: "Alaina wrote: "Jamie wrote: "Saige wrote: "So, do all three people have to read for the same premier night task? Like we have to pick one and do it three times?"

No. Individually we only have to r..."

All three need to be under the same task.

Great, thank you!

I can tackle the Judge tasks this week. I have two books that would work for Len Goodman:
*Features a death
*MC's first name is 3 letters exactly

Does this work for everyone? If not I can find another category to work on.

I also found a novella that has over 20 tags, so I can also read for that as well.

That looks great Jamie! I can read for at least one, probably both, of the Elizabeth Bennet categories

I can do book character/stars category.
Iris Winnow:
*Features a character that goes missing:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Mine works for the other Iris category, so let's do that

I see Vicki has a book for Artem - do we have someone else who can finish his other category? Letters TROUPE in title

I’ll finish up my two current reads for Dance -Freestyle. Feel free to move around The Unmaking of June Farrow. I haven’t written a review yet, so if it can fit somewhere better, that’s fine with me.

I can read for TROUPE! :)

I'm also reading a book that fits a LOT of categories. One of the easier ones to match is its MPG is mystery, so if someone has MC is detective that would cover another book character/star, it has 7 in pg count so to match that one we'd need instrument on cover. Anyway, I don't know how we want to go about deciding how many complete sets of dances and other things we need per week.

I'm going to put my currently reading book down for what I think might be easiest to match, but it fits these:

Swing in text
MC starts with J
MPG Contemporary
Features a death
Author's name 3 words
Page count has 7
Model in text
Published in March
MPG Mystery
Letters SHIRE in title

Plus a couple others but that should be enough to go on if anyone wants to look at those and see if we want to complete one of the categories.

Vicki, if you use your book for MPG Contemporary, I have a book that will fit the other category! Also, it looks like with all the CR books we have all the necessary categories "completed," so if I understand correctly we can just post books for whatever they fit, right?

I would bank books so we can have them for the next few weeks.

Saige, when I get home from having lunch with my husband I will switch that over to contemporary. What I don’t know is if it does us any good to do an extra set for this week or if we want to bank books. If we can do that, that’s fine with me too.

I think we need to consider to bank books if we can. We have to read 13 it sounds like every week so banking books will help us if some weeks we don't have enough read.

Also FYI, I noticed that my novella slot had a checkmark next to it, but I usually check it once I post my links on the review page. I unchecked it, so I know I need to post that one still.

I am starting it now, so it should be done later today, and rechecked.

13 is the minimum - you can always read more.

Each week you need the theme, a judge and a host. That's 7 books right there.

For each dance, you need a professional dancer and a star/book character. That's 6 books right there.

Saige, if you want (or anyone else) I don’t mind if you change my book Bones Under the Ice to contemporary.

@Raquel - You just posted a review for Len Goodman, but I completed that task on 1/1. Is there another task your book works for?

Vicki wrote: "Saige, if you want (or anyone else) I don’t mind if you change my book Bones Under the Ice to contemporary."

I changed it in the sheet for you Vicki.

I would have to check, so everyone has to read a completely different task? Anyone can delete if not needed.

Raquel wrote: "I would have to check, so everyone has to read a completely different task? Anyone can delete if not needed."

I mean we have to complete both tasks for the Judge, so do you have another book for the second task? Or does anyone have another that would fit that?

I completed both tasks for Len Goodman already.

We can do the same one but from my understanding we have to do BOTH tasks in order to get credit. So unless someone else has MC's first name is 3 letters exactly, I don't know that it will count??