Challenge Corner discussion

I had posted some tasks for The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing, but when I went to add more I saw that someone else had added 3 or 4. I don't mind at all except that what was added had nothing to do with my book. I don't know if someone was posting for their book and didn't realize it had jumped to mine, but they had put LEO down for MC's first name is 3 letters exactly. My MC is Lara. So I just wanted whoever posted that to know in case he/she needs to add it to the correct book.

Also, I'm back from Vegas and have added my reviews for all 3 books I read most recently. Working on another one right now.

This round will cover seven (7) days.

Start: February 5th at 12:00 AM (in your time zone)
End: February 11th at 11:59 PM (in your time zone)

Please check in on February 12th by 3:00 AM Eastern. (Midnight in PST)

Welcome to reputation 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:
*Read a book from Asexuals in Fiction List, OR
*Read a book from Non-Binary (Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Gender-Unspecified, etc) Fiction and Memoirs List

Vicki wrote: "I had posted some tasks for The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing, but when I went to add more I saw that someone else had added 3 or 4. I d..."

Hi Vicki! So sorry, this sounds like it was probably my fault. I'm guessing I was copy-pasting something from one cell to another and accidentally over-wrote your cell with info from another one. Sorry again! I hope it didn't take you too long to put back the right information

No worries, Saige. I had only put a few things down because I hadn't read it yet and I could only put a few things like "in text" etc., but I was concerned that someone else might've needed the info for their book.

Just posting an update for you all. Here is what's claimed/working on and what we need:

Theme task - Read a book from the Best Books to Read for Halloween List, completed/posted

Judge - Carrie, completed/posted

Host - Samantha, completed/posted

Dance #1 - Paso Doble, completed/posted

w/ Brandon (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Katniss (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #2 - Contemporary, completed/posted

w/ Witney (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Iris (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #3 - Foxtrot, completed/posted

w/ Daniella (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Chaol (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #4 - Merengue, completed/posted

w/ Gleb (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Xander (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #5 - Jive, completed/posted

w/ Emma (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Grayson (star/book character), completed/posted

**Remember you can do more than one dance per week, just know that for EACH dance you read/complete - you need a professional dancer and a star. You only need to read for a judge and a host once a week.**

Thank you all for checking in!

I did a random wheel decide to see which Judge would give you extra points IF you read for them AND they gave you a 10. Today's check-in judge winner was. . . .



LEN GOODMAN!

Let's see how everyone did score-wise for EACH dance you completed.

Team Xochitl Gomez:
(view spoiler)[Dance 1: Salsa
Professional Dancer: Alan Bersten
Book Character/Star: Aaron Warner

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 7
Carrie Ann Inaba: 1
Bruno Tonioli: 3
Julianne Hough: 1
Derek: 10

Dance 2: Jive
Professional Dancer: Brandon Armstrong
Book Character/Star: Xaden Riorson

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 9
Carrie Ann Inaba: 6
Bruno Tonioli: 9
Julianne Hough: 4
Derek: 1

Dance 3: Merengue
Professional Dancer: Pasha Pashkov
Book Character/Star: Iris Winnow

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 1
Carrie Ann Inaba: 1
Bruno Tonioli: 8
Julianne Hough: 6
Derek: 6

Dance 4: Contemporary
Professional Dancer: Artem Chigvintsev
Book Character/Star: Elizabeth Benne

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 5
Carrie Ann Inaba: 4
Bruno Tonioli: 10
Julianne Hough: 4
Derek: 1

Bonus Points Total: 97

This will be added to your next score update. You did read for Len, but you didn't get a 10 from him, so no extra bonus points on top of this will be added. Good luck this week! (hide spoiler)]

Team Jason Mraz:
(view spoiler)[Dance 1: Paso Doble
Pro Dancer 1: Witney Carson
Star Dancer 1: Iris Winnow

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 7
Carrie Ann Inaba: 6
Bruno Tonioli: 4
Julianne Hough: 1
Derek: 8

Dance 2: Contemporary
Pro Dancer 2: Brandon Armstrong
Star Dancer 2: Katniss Everdeen

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 8
Carrie Ann Inaba: 3
Bruno Tonioli: 7
Julianne Hough: 9
Derek: 8

Dance 3: Foxtrot
Pro Dancer 3: Daniella Karagach
Star Dancer 3: Chaol Westfall

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 6
Carrie Ann Inaba: 5
Bruno Tonioli: 3
Julianne Hough: 4
Derek: 2

Dance 4: Merengue
Pro Dancer 4: Glab Savchenko
Star Dancer 4: Xander Riorson

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 3
Carrie Ann Inaba: 2
Bruno Tonioli: 1
Julianne Hough: 6
Derek: 4

Dance 5: Jive
Pro Dancer 5: Emma Slater
Star Dancer 5: Grayson Hawthorne

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 4
Carrie Ann Inaba: 6
Bruno Tonioli: 8
Julianne Hough: 1
Derek: 3

Dance 6: Freestyle
Pro Dancer 6: Emma Slater
Star Dancer 6: Sherlock Holmes

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 2
Carrie Ann Inaba: 7
Bruno Tonioli: 4
Julianne Hough: 2
Derek: 4

Bonus Points Total: 138

This will be added to your next score update. You also didn't read for Len, or get a 10 from him, so no extra bonus points on top of this will be added. Good luck this week! (hide spoiler)]

Team Ariana Madix:
(view spoiler)[DANCE 1:
Dance: Merengue
Dancer: Emma Slater
Star: Iris Winnow

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 2
Carrie Ann Inaba: 4
Bruno Tonioli: 8
Julianne Hough: 3
Derek: 10

Bonus Points Total: 27

This will be added to your next score update. You also didn't read for Len, or get a 10 from him, so no extra bonus points on top of this will be added. Good luck this week! (hide spoiler)]

Hey team! Did we decide on a list we'll read from this week?

I don't think so! I probably won't have time to read for the theme task this week, so I figure others should decide

Ok, I can do a book from the Non-Binary fiction list if that works for two other people!

I selected a read from the Non-Binary. It happened to be on my TBR and available through my library.

Sounds good! I'll be curious to see what you think of that one - Rivers Solomon is a favorite author of mine

I really enjoyed The Deep!

Yes! That's a good one! My favorite of theirs so far is An Unkindness of Ghosts

I don't know if I have time to read one from the list this week. I went through it, but I don't have any of those on my TBR so hopefully there's someone else that can pick up one.

Unfortunately, I'm in the same boat. I went through it on the day it came out but didn't find anything I have or want to read. I'll go through the Non-Binary list again today and try to find something if nobody else can. I'll let you all know later in the day. BUSY day today and I have my grandkids all day Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, so those are difficult days to get a lot accomplished.

Can the same person read 2 or does it have to be 3 different people?

It has to be three different people. I found Love & Other Disasters on the list and it’s available at my library, but I doubt I’ll be able to read it by Sunday and post a review since sun supposed to go camping this weekend.

OK, I found a book on the binary list that I can get the audiobook of via Libby.

That’s great news Vicki!!! Thank you! I’ll post my review tomorrow… I finished it earlier.

Just posting an update for you all. Here is what's claimed/working on and what we need:

Theme task - Read a book from Non-Binary (Genderqueer, Genderfluid, Gender-Unspecified, etc) Fiction and Memoirs List

Ivelisse - Sorrowland [marked complete, not posted]
Saige - The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard
Vicki - The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

Judge - Bruno, completed/posted

Host - Erin, completed/posted

Dance #1 - Salsa, 1 completed/posted

Saige - Dune, Tagged 'Popular' at least 10 times

w/ Brandon (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Chaol (star/book character), 1 completed/posted

Ivelisse - Pucking Around, MC has brown eyes

Dance #2 - Freestyle, 1 completed/posted

Jamie - Shift, 'Free' and 'Style' in text (pg/ % & quote)

w/ Sasha (Professional dancer), 1 completed/posted

Saige - Woman on the Edge of Time, MC has never won anything

w/ Aaron (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #3 - Paso Doble, completed/posted

w/ Daniella (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Xander (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #4 - Contemporary

Ashlyn - Tempting the Best Man, MPG Contemporary
Ashlyn - Counting on a Cowboy, Features an independent character

w/ Daniella (Professional dancer)

Ivelisse - Kings & Chaos, MC's first or last name starts with D
Raquel - Breaking the Ice, Published in December (any year)

w/ Xander (star/book character)

Ivelisse - Kings & Carnage, MC is considered a leader
Ivelisse - Starlight, 'Dragon' in text (pg/% & quote)

**Remember you can do more than one dance per week, just know that for EACH dance you read/complete - you need a professional dancer and a star. You only need to read for a judge and a host once a week.**

Ivelisse, do you have a review for Pucking Around? There isn't one in the SS, but you filled out all the category details so I'm guessing you finished it?

This round will cover seven (7) days.

Start: February 12th at 12:00 AM (in your time zone)
End: February 18th at 11:59 PM (in your time zone)

Please check in on February 19th by 3:00 AM Eastern. (Midnight in PST)

Welcome to Motown 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:
*MC is a POC, OR
*Character plays a musical instrument

Sorty Saige. It’s in the spreadsheet now

I can do the POC…

Saige - posted my review for Sorrowland

I can definitely also do a POC one!

Yay! We only need one more!

I have a book for either.

Also, do we need one for non-binary? I can probably finish one today if we need it :)

We might need another one? I'm not sure about Vicki, but my non-binary book will be posted in a few hours

Just to make sure, I have until midnight PST, right? Because pretty soon we're heading over to my daughter's for the Super Bowl and I still need to finish reading it. But IF someone else (Betsy?) has one finished, please feel free to post it.

UPDATE: I just found the answer to my question and I do have until 11:59 PM my time tonight. I won't be that late posting it though since I have to get up at 4:00 AM to watch my grandkids. lol So as I said, if anyone already has a book to post and makes it before I do, that's fine by me.

I'm so sorry ya'll - I'm partway through but I won't be able to finish it tonight. I should be able to post a little more this next week though.

It's ok! I think Vicki will finish hers and we'll be alright

Thank you all for checking in!

I did a random wheel decide to see which Judge would give you extra points IF you read for them AND they gave you a 10. Today's check-in judge winner was. . . .



BRUNO TONIOLI!

Let's see how everyone did score-wise for EACH dance you completed.

Team Xochitl Gomez:
(view spoiler)[Dance 1: Freestyle
Professional Dancer: Witney Carson
Book Character/Star: Xaden Riorson

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 6
Carrie Ann Inaba: 1
Bruno Tonioli: 7
Julianne Hough: 5
Derek: 7

Dance 2: Contemporary
Professional Dancer: Artem Chigvintsev
Book Character/Star: Sansa Stark

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 5
Carrie Ann Inaba: 7
Bruno Tonioli: 7
Julianne Hough: 2
Derek: 8

Dance 3: Freestyle
Professional Dancer: Daniella Karagach
Book Character/Star: Chaol Westfall

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 4
Carrie Ann Inaba: 9
Bruno Tonioli: 3
Julianne Hough: 5
Derek: 4

Bonus Points Total: 80

This will be added to your next score update. You didn't read for him, and you didn't get a 10 from him, so no extra bonus points on top of this will be added. Good luck this week! (hide spoiler)]

Team Jason Mraz:
(view spoiler)[Dance 1: Salsa
Pro Dancer 1: Brandon Armstrong
Star Dancer 1: Chaol Westfall

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 5
Carrie Ann Inaba: 6
Bruno Tonioli: 1
Julianne Hough: 1
Derek: 6

Dance 2: Freestyle
Pro Dancer 2: Sasha Farber
Star Dancer 2: Aaron Warner

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 8
Carrie Ann Inaba: 2
Bruno Tonioli: 8
Julianne Hough: 7
Derek: 6

Dance 3: Paso Doble
Pro Dancer 3: Daniella Karagach
Star Dancer 3: Xander Riorson

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 9
Carrie Ann Inaba: 10
Bruno Tonioli: 7
Julianne Hough: 2
Derek: 5

Dance 4: Contemporary
Pro Dancer 4: Jenna Johnson
Star Dancer 4: Xander Riorson

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 3
Carrie Ann Inaba: 7
Bruno Tonioli: 6
Julianne Hough: 1
Derek: 1

Dance 5: Freestyle
Pro Dancer 5: Brandon Armstrong
Star Dancer 5: Grayson Hawthorne

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 9
Carrie Ann Inaba: 7
Bruno Tonioli: 5
Julianne Hough: 8
Derek: 1

Bonus Points Total: 131

This will be added to your next score update. You did read for him, but you didn't get a 10 from him, so no extra bonus points on top of this will be added. Good luck this week! (hide spoiler)]

Team Ariana Madix:
(view spoiler)[DANCE 1:Rumba
Dancer: Emma Slater
Star: Chaol Westfall

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 10
Carrie Ann Inaba: 6
Bruno Tonioli: 10
Julianne Hough: 10
Derek: 8

DANCE 2: Freestyle
Dancer: Artem Chigvintsev
Star: Elizabeth Bennet

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 8
Carrie Ann Inaba: 4
Bruno Tonioli: 6
Julianne Hough: 2
Derek: 8

DANCE 3: Freestyle
Dancer: Lindsay Arnold
Star: Elizabeth Bennett

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 8
Carrie Ann Inaba: 9
Bruno Tonioli: 8
Julianne Hough: 2
Derek: 5

DANCE 4: Contemporary
Dancer: Sasha Farber
Star: Sherlock Holmes

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 6
Carrie Ann Inaba: 5
Bruno Tonioli: 3
Julianne Hough: 1
Derek: 3

DANCE 5: Contemporary
Dancer: Alan Bersten
Star: Iris Winnow

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 7
Carrie Ann Inaba: 10
Bruno Tonioli: 8
Julianne Hough: 7
Derek: 9

DANCE 6: Contemporary
Dancer: Daniella Karagach
Star: Sherlock Holmes

Judge's Scores:

Len Goodman: 10
Carrie Ann Inaba: 9
Bruno Tonioli: 10
Julianne Hough: 8
Derek: 5

Bonus Points Total: 205

This will be added to your next score update. You didn't read for him, but you did get a 10 from him, so no extra bonus points on top of this will be added. Good luck this week! (hide spoiler)]

I noticed on the spreadsheet that for this weeks Judge, the same prompt was used for both book selections. I'm not sure this is correct.

You're right Jamie. Sheepy, it would be great if you could add those books to the banked tab instead of directly on the weekly board! We can definitely use one for the award once you're done with it, and there are other books on the banked that will fit Derek's other task

Got it! I will remove my books from this week's judge. I have just begun learning about the spreadsheet and its tasks at week 6 of the challenge ;^; Until I get the hang of it I'll leave my books in the banked tab

No worries!

I’m going to add some books to the banked tab. I’m on my phone, so I can’t add what they go with. But if you have questions about where it might fit, just ask.

Sounds good! Thanks for adding them

Just posting an update for you all. Here is what's claimed/working on and what we need:

Theme task - MC is a POC

Saige - The Salt Roads
Ivelisse - Party of Two
OPEN - TBA

Judge - Len, completed/posted

Host - Brooke, completed/posted

Dance #1 - Contemporary, completed/posted

w/ Witney (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Elizabeth (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #2 - Samba, completed/posted

w/ Jenna (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Grayson (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #3 - Contemporary

Jamie - Until Fountain Bridge, MPG Contemporary
Raquel - First Lie Wins, Features an independent character

w/ Emma (Professional dancer)

Jamie - What Moves the Dead, Features twins
Ashlyn - An Affair with a Notorious Heiress, Set in England

w/ Katniss (star/book character)

Ashlyn - Face the Night, Features a poor character
Vicki - Hidden Pictures, 'Volunteer' in text (pg/% & quote)

**Remember you can do more than one dance per week, just know that for EACH dance you read/complete - you need a professional dancer and a star. You only need to read for a judge and a host once a week.**

Is there anyone that can finish another book for the theme task? We need three separate people, so Ivelisse and I can't fill that last one

POC is person of color, correct?

Jamie wrote: "POC is person of color, correct?"

Correct.

I will finish my prompts for the other reads this afternoon ... sorry for the delay.

I just read one. It's only 134 pages, but it will work since the once MC is black. I'll add it to the sheet.

Ok I posted on the review tab, added to the spreadsheet and checked off that it's posted. So we are covered for the week on the theme task.

Wonderful, thank you Jamie!

Just posting an update for you all. Here is what's claimed/working on and what we need:

Theme task - MC is a POC, 1 completed/posted

Saige - The Salt Roads
Ivelisse - Party of Two

Judge - Len, completed/posted

Host - Brooke, completed/posted

Dance #1 - Contemporary, completed/posted

w/ Witney (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Elizabeth (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #2 - Samba, completed/posted

w/ Jenna (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Grayson (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #3 - Contemporary, completed/posted

w/ Emma (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Katniss (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #4 - Freestyle, completed/posted

w/ Artem(Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Inej (star/book character), completed/posted

Dance #4 - Merengue, completed/posted

w/ Emma (Professional dancer), completed/posted

w/ Iris (star/book character), completed/posted

**Remember you can do more than one dance per week, just know that for EACH dance you read/complete - you need a professional dancer and a star. You only need to read for a judge and a host once a week.**

This round will cover seven (7) days.

Start: February 19th at 12:00 AM (in your time zone)
End: February 25th at 11:59 PM (in your time zone)

Please check in on February 26th by 3:00 AM Eastern. (Midnight in PST)

Welcome to guilty pleasures 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:
*Read a book from the Guilty Pleasures - Crap You're Embarrassed to Love List, OR
*Read a book from the Don't Judge Me! List

If needed this next week, I can read a book from either list, but have more from the Don't Judge Me list that I could read.