NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II discussion

Post your August Finished books here and what category it fits.

This thread was repurposed from an unused thread.

Where do I find out what the challenge is all about. And why would you open a second thread for this.

Mary: HDLS and Vicky, if you would like me to delete Posts #2 onward in this thread to avoid confusion, please let us know.

You can find the August Pewter Blue mini-challenge under this folder of Pewter Blue threads. It's called the Not Quite An Octogon Challenge. When you are on this thread, if you click on the Pewter Blue link it will bring up all our threads in this group. There are a couple of mini-challenges going but the August one is the one we can possibly get bonus points for completing.

We created this thread for finished books only because it makes them easier to find. If people post as they finish in their own personal update threads or in the discussion threads they are easy to miss, especially if people get chatty in the thread and there's a lot of posts. So having a finished books only thread makes it easy to see them and place them in the right categories. Vicky or I, as team captains, have to submit which books were read by who and how they fit our challenge in order to get the points.

Lets leave the posts up for now and then I will probably ask them to be deleted once we get closer to the challenge start.

Roger that.

Pewter Blues Not Quite An Octagon Challenge

Mods approved: minimum of 1 for categories 2-8 but no need to set a limit on them. Members do not have to read a book for each category, as long as the team adds at least 1 book for each category.

1: Spell-GO PEWTER BLUE (12)
2: Beach Reads: books we'd take to read on the beach.
3: 8th in a series, 8 words, 8 letters, published in August etc.,
4: Green covers for Peridot birth stone.
5: Books with Sun, Fire on cover or in title, red or orange cover.
6: Summer Fling: books under 300 pages
7: 19th Amendment: books by female authors in honor of women in the US getting the vote on August 18, 1920.
8: Water, Water Everywhere: books set near water, water in title, water on cover etc..,

Finished Titles and Dates

1. by Nicholas Sparks
Finished 8/2 340 pages
Fits into category #2 or #8

Just finished by Alice Hoffman.
There is only one category most appropriate - #7. This is not only a female author, but a tribute to women.

Just finished
Could fit in female author or "T"

Or 8 in the title.

Finished:

I put it under the short books category but it also works for female author, beach read & water.

FYI: if I don't place a book right away in the update thread, it's because I am deciding where I want to put it. Since we need a minimum of 1 book in each category, I'll be placing books in empty categories until there's at least 1 in each. I have a spreadsheet going for tracking.

Updated to here. Added Michael's book:

4/75 completed

Finished ~



fits in :

1 (B), 2, 5 (red cover), 7 (female author, strong female characters)

updated to here. Added my book:

6/75 completed

Added my first book to message #8

think this makes books read 7/75

Fits ~

1 - (W), 2, 5 (fire and red on cover), 6 (181 pages)

added up to here including 3 books from Nika:



11/75

finished



fits ~

1 (B), 2, 5 (fire on cover), 6 (170 pages), 7 (female author, female lead), possibly 8 (lake predominant in the middle to end of book)

12/75. I'll check the less-active player shelves tonight for more.

Fits:

1: G or R (Robert Graysmith, author)
5: red cover (the picture here is not the same cover as mine but both appear to be red/orange-ish red. The book that shows up here has the same ISBN as mine, yet different covers for some reason)
8: Water: Killer was fond of killing people near lakes

is actually MY cover, but that is an ebook edition, which is not what I read. I read the mass market pb.

Finished by Alice Hoffman fits #7 03 August 2013

I finished .

#1: T(ony)
#4: Maybe? It's a Greenish-Blue, I can't decide if I would call it green though!
#8: The boat on the cover is in water, it's difficult to see but it's in the bottom left corner. I could make a case for it being set on the water. In so much as it has a setting, it takes place in the major settlements of early America which were mostly on the water.

Finished The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman.
Good for Category 1 for L(for title) or T (MC Tom), 2 for a beach read, 7 for female author, and 8 for water in title - ocean

I think I'd like to just keep it to me & Vicky updating the spreadsheet. It might get confusing if people start adding their books. I already have to check here and then the less active players shelves.
eta: updated to here

16/75

Added Code Name Verity from Riya's shelf:



17/75

Finished two books over the last couple days:



Possibly under R in Spell it Out
Red cover



Water on the Cover
Female author

Nancy, you can view the spreadsheet in This Message. It's the link that's there.

Mary said she set up permissions to allow anyone with the link to view it so I don't think viewing it is a problem. In fact, I believe you've already seen it? You made a comment about it in post #55 on the page I just linked.

Also, Mary -- thanks for letting me look at your spreadsheet for inspiration. I like your format much better than the one I had originally started to use. Yours was much simpler. I can't ever seem to do the simple way until someone else does it and I think, "Duh...". I make things too complicated for myself.

Oh yeah I don't care if anyone wants to look at it.

Here's the link again.

pewterbluespreadsheet

Updating to here and adding book I finished late last night.



20/75

Finished ~



Fits ~

1 (T), 2, 5? (some orange on cover), 6 (213), 7 (female author, female lead), 8 (water on cover, lake and swamp in story)

Nancy wrote: "Yes, I now realize that Mary did set up a link for all to see even before I asked this question so now I am wondering why she said she only wanted Vicky and herself to have access (in message #25)..."

I think she just misunderstood your post. There's nothing wrong with everyone being able to look at it!


Finished last night, fits:

#1 B, T
#2 Yes
#3 Maybe? Are we using original publication or publication of the book? It was originally published in February of 2008 but my copy was published in August 2009.
#7 Yes

I thought I was spelling out this clearly. I also came back and said that I don't mind anyone looking at the spreadsheet. I posted the spreadsheet earlier so anyone could have looked at it before you even asked.

ETA: Nancy is staying in the challenge.

Just a reminder that this thread was created to just list the finished books for the August challenge. It's time consuming to do all the tracking and it's much easier for me when there's a separate thread that just lists books.

August-Discussion

finished 08/05/2013

Finished ~



Fits ~

1 (P), 2, 5 (orange cover), 6 (238), 7 (female author)

Got everything up to here plus a few stragglers.

Also added Grimspace that I finished reading yesterday!

Finished ~



Fits ~

1 (E ~ author and main character name), 2, 6 (212), 7 (female author)

Finished:
by Veronica Roth✔ 06 August 2013 ****

Fits: #5 and #7

Just finished


Could go under 'W' or female author.

Books added to spreadsheet up to here.

Also added what I finished today:



1: B for Bond, James Bond.
#2, 4 & 5 green & red cover editions, #6

30/75 completed.

In the last couple of days I finished:

Finished ~




Fits ~

1 (O), 2, 6 (262), 7 (female author)

Finished Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson



Think it fits #2 and #5

spreadsheet updated to here. Also added a book from Holly. Waiting on page count approval for another book from Holly.



37/75

I just finished

Added to spreadsheet up to here plus:

from Michael:
from Teresa:
from Nika:
from Riya:
from Barbara:

42/45. We are rocking this challenge.

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Category 1 (G for Gillian), 7 for female author

Finished:
by Gillian Flynn fits #7 also fits #1 for G(illian), P(atty), L(ibby)✔ 08 August 2013

Finished ~



Fits ~ 2, 5, 7

, John SAndford.

I'd take this to the beach to read, so it fits #2.