Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Team Members
Vicki
Jammin Jenny
Trisha
Morgan

Team Spreadsheet
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Hey girls, this one should be fun! I love our team so...thank you, Jenny!

So let's kill this one!

I've requested access to the spreadsheet! :)

I requested it too.

Me too! Can't wait. Love NBRC team challenges.

Checking in!

I requested access to the spreadsheet!

Can anyone access our SS because I can’t, yet I can access other teams’ SS. Most teams are planning but I (we) can’t because we don’t have the SS yet.

No I have not been granted access yet. You'll get an e-mail in your e-mail address account when they grant you access.

I don't see our team name on the team access sheet either...

I posted a question in the Q&A thread

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I just got the link for access and I'm now in the spreadsheet. Anybody else?

Yep me too

So the way I understand it is we can plan out books we will start reading on or after August 12th that we can finish by August 25th (the end of round one). No books started prior to that date can be used.

that's what I was thinking too!
(I've added round info and a planning thread in our other group)

OHHHHHH, I didn't get it! LOL! I can still do the task I reserved though for sure!

Guys I think we missed the first countdown clock. We need to be finished our top 10 books in a little over 8 hrs. I'm going to see what small books I can find that fit just so we can finish, but if you finish your books please put them back in:

#9 - with at least nine characters (need to have a speaking part, do not need to be main characters)
Queen of Ruin Morgan More than 9 characters
#8 - that has a carnivorous animal on the cover
Tell the Wolves I'm Home Trisha bear on the cover
#1 - which is the author's debut novel
A Nearly Normal Family Vicki

Hi team - When you add books to the spreadsheet, could you please also link the text to the book read? It makes it hard to check things without a link (and we may accidentally penalise you if we look at the wrong book because we have searched incorrectly, for example).

Also, for something like the 9 character task, if the GR listing doesn't show 9 names, in your reason you should have the names of the characters or a link to a character list.

Thanks!

Will do, MODs. :)

We Lava To Read



SZ3 - used two words from a safezone, NOT the Countdown task.
You will have a chance to regenerate in round 4.

Great! Looking forward to regeneration!! Hope it helps in my RL too!!!

Hey the countdown for the safezone stop is up

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

We have about 17 hrs left.

Mods - Jill will be replacing Morgan on our team

Jill's profile: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5...

Jill, for now can you see if you can find one of the books highlighted in green in Zone 2? I'll take what you can't find. If you can't find anything that's okay too. We can use your books for the spellout option in Zone 3.

We are finishing up our safety zone tasks now and will be done with them by the countdown It ends 7 am EST (not sure what timezone you are in).

YAY! Welcome Jill!!

Hi!!!! Ugh nothing I'm reading fits. Both books have yellow writing and yellow on the cover, but it doesn't spell 'poison' :(

Does a book with parenthesis count? (it's part of the percy jackson series)

I think since it says in the title, the letters of POISON have to be in the title (no parenthesis) or in the author's name.

If you can't find anything for that zone, maybe you can read a book that has a title or author's initials that start with one of the letters in POISON?

Jammin Jenny wrote: "I think since it says in the title, the letters of POISON have to be in the title (no parenthesis) or in the author's name.

If you can't find anything for that zone, maybe you can read a book that..."

I have none of that going on, but I can start something. Does nonfiction count for this challenge?

Here are the book requirements and Spell it out rules for this challenge:

BOOK REQUIREMENTS

Books must be 100 pages or more in length. (unless the task states otherwise)

Unless otherwise specified in the task, (some lower point tasks will allow this) the following books can NOT be used:
* Comic / Graphic / Manga
* Cookbooks
* Textbooks
* Travel Guides
* Poetry
* Poems
* Childrens / Middle Grade novels and plays can only be used where you can verify the word count through AR BookFind as 25,001 words or more. If you can't verify it with that site, you can check if audible has the unabridged version as more than 3 hours. If you can't verify either, then you can't use it (unless the specific task says you can)

SPELL-IT-OUT RULES
Spell out the word(s) using the first letter in the book's title, the first letter in the author's first or last name, or the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter of the series name.
As always, if the first letter of a title starts with an indefinite or definite article ('A', 'An', 'The', etc.), you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.
If the first letter of a title is a numerical digit, then you use the first letter of that digit for your spell out (i.e. 1984 is N; 2046 is T; 1Q84 is O)
If you are listening to an audiobook, the first letter in the narrator's first or last name also can be used.
We're also allowing for Translators names, as long as the edition you are reading is a translation version.

Hey, Jill, thanks for joining us!

The main thing with this challenge is coordinating which zone we are reading for first. Each zone has to be completed before another zone can be completed. So, let's say you find a book that works for one of the letters in POISON. You can start reading, but can't finish your book until the countdown stage is over.

If I find a book with yellow and POISON in the title or author's name, I could start my book, but couldn't finish until all the books in Zone 1 are finished,

Does that make sense?

Just went to read the rules. I get the gist of it. I have a book for the spell it out for I.

Vicki wrote: "Hey, Jill, thanks for joining us!"

Yay long time no see!!

Great. Go ahead and put your information in that spot on the SS.

Jammin Jenny wrote: "Great. Go ahead and put your information in that spot on the SS."

I can view only. Can't edit

I guess fate brought us together:)

Jill, you have to request access to our SS. If you did that but still can’t edit, you can post your books & one of us can add them.

Just requested

Great! Let me know if you have any problems. :)

Jill, Trisha removed one of her books do there’s an I book and N book that we need. They have to be from BOM’s and/or books other team members have read during the challenge. Hopefully you can access the SS shortly.

Hey guys. I'm like 90% sure we only need 2 of the six letters in poison to be BOMs or books read by another team. Since we have 3 covered already, the books just need to work for the spell it out option of I or N.

I'll look for books for Zone 2 (the two missing books). I'll update the SS when I find something.

I didn’t know that, Jenny. Hopefully that’ll help Jill find a book. :)

I see that you posted a book for the MPG Crime. I just came on to add the one I read for it tonight. LOL Oh well, thanks Jenny. :)

Go ahead and put yours in Vicki. Mine is just on audio so I'd rather count yours.

I found books for the two open poison spots in Zone 2 so when we get there I can read them. They're both pretty short so they shouldn't take me too long.

Words this Round:

tagged (180) MPG (90) Crime (160)

that (120) has (90) the (90) letters (210) A-R-S-E-N-I-C (230) in (80) the (90) title (160) in (80) any (120) order (140)

that (120) was (100) published (300) in (80) the (90) 1980s

with (140) a (30) detective (290) whose (170) initials (280) can (90) be (60) found (190) in (80) the (90) word (140) poison (220)

set (90) in (80) Scandinavia (380)

that (120) is (50) more (130) than (130) 500 pages (150)

from (130) an (50) author( 210) who (100) was (90) NOT (110) born (140) in (80) the (90) USA (110), Canada (190) or UK (80)

that (120) is (70) #3 in (80) a (30) series (190)

with (140) one (110) or (70) more (130) flowers (230) on (80) the (90) cover (170)

that (120) is (70) on (80) the (90) Foreign (240) Lands (160) list (130)

Currently reading an N book. Do we still need that?

The N also is #3 in a series

Sorry for posting a million times. I think I added my N book correctly. Please let me know if I didn't

What is the deal with Jammin Jenny's post..when do we need to have these done for?