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Ummm, I read for each month of the Trim - I got my last one in ON the 31st!!
Barbara M wrote: "Ummm, I read for each month of the Trim - I got my last one in ON the 31st!!"Barbara, I do not have a book reported for you for July. I also went back and double checked the thread.
If I missed it, please let me know what Message # it is in the July reporting thread and I will correct that!
Thought I'd post links to our shelves for each of these challenges, if anyone wanted to peruse. The Expanding our PBT Horizons books are here:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
The Trim the TBR books are here:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
And THANK YOU to Nicole for doing the shelving for these challenges. I did the monthly tags, but Nicole kept on top of the challenge shelving!
Thank you, Cindy, for linking to those shelves!
Fantastic effort everyone - and thanks for giving us such great challenges, mods!
Thanks you Nicole-so many numbers-so much work! You are awesome!And thanks to Cindy and Anita for all your efforts!
Thank you so much for doing these challenges. I really enjoyed both of them.I'm super disappointed that I didn't manage to get November's Horizon finished in November, but I did finish it in December along with December's horizon.
Nicole R wrote: "Thank you, Cindy, for linking to those shelves!"No worries! I always enjoy perusing, so I wonder if others do, as well. :-)
Booknblues, I should add that we had several people who completed the challenge, but not in the months they were assigned. That is still a large achievement and congrats to those people as well!
Congrats! I know I didn't participate, but it's fun to see how it went :)
Congratulations everyone! I really enjoyed both challenges. I was on track with horizons but just had too much else going on in December to finish the last country. Impressive number of books read for both challenges.
I didn't complete Trim, but so happy with the books I got off my TBR as a result of it!
Nicole R wrote: "What a great year for PBT challenges!! Nicole: I did read all 12 of the Trim books in the month designated. I began to doubt myself so I went through all of the Trim discussions to make sure. If you let me know what month you are missing I can let you know the message #. Thanks!
Ellen, I have you down in my spreadsheet for reading all 12 numbers in the month they were assigned, I just overlooked you on the final list! I will add you now.
I would also add that 5 members completed both the Trim and Horizons challenge each month that they were assigned! That is a doubly impressive feat!Amy
Ellen
Linda C
Olivermagnus
Sue
Nicole R wrote: "I would also add that 5 members completed both the Trim and Horizons challenge each month that they were assigned! That is a doubly impressive feat!Amy
Ellen
Linda C
Olivermagnus
Sue"
Hurray for them!
Nicole R wrote: "Ellen, I have you down in my spreadsheet for reading all 12 numbers in the month they were assigned, I just overlooked you on the final list! I will add you now."
Thanks so much Nicole!
I'm so excited to see that Oliver and I read the most pages in the Trim challenge. He can be quite the harsh task master when it comes to reading. Congratulations to all the participants and massive kudos to Nicole R, Anita, LibraryCin, and annapi for all the work they put into making PBT Challenges the very best on Goodreads!
I'm tired just thinking about it - lol! But looking forward to a fabulous year! Started and finished Book One on a flight today...Nicole, if you haven't already (I've been traveling today), can you or someone move the 2020 Trim Thread as well as the planning thread to 2020 Footnotes for us? Thank you so much - and for all you four do! Here's to 2020!
Congratulations everyone! That was a fun challenge. I love the fact that there was 374 unique books. Thank you Nicole for all of you work on keeping up with everything.
Nicole R wrote: "Barbara M wrote: "Ummm, I read for each month of the Trim - I got my last one in ON the 31st!!"Barbara, I do not have a book reported for you for July. I also went back and double checked the thr..."
Well, I went back too. I announced on message #45 that I was going to read In the Company of Cheerful Ladies. Then, it looks like I posted my review on July 25 on my page but not anywhere else that I can find. Looks like I blew it!
Amy wrote: "Nicole, if you haven't already (I've been traveling today), can you or someone move the 2020 Trim Thread as well as the planning thread to 2020 Footnotes for us? ."Amy, we do not have a 2020 Footnotes folder. We just have one Footnotes folder that is continuous. So, no moving necessary!
Just a shout out for how much you and the admins do to make this a special and fun community! You four are awesome! Thank you for compiling all of this Nicole!
Wow! Congratulations to all who doubled down and completed both challenges! *Standing Ovation*
Well done and hurray to all readers and mods. Really impressive efforts!
Thanks for organizing these challenges. They were fun and got me to read cultures I've never read in or read little in before. And got books off my TBR pile. I am continuing with this one, since my New Year's resolution for this year is to concentrate on the oldies on my pile wherever possible.
WOW!!! I am so impressed with all of you who stuck with the challenges for the full year. Really, really impressive. Especially those of you who actually completed all 12 months of either challenge. Such dedication.I won't tell you how I did on my challenges . . .it.was.not.pretty.
I really enjoyed both challenges. Both led to some fantastic books for me.I'm expecting this year's challenges will also turn up some great reads!
Sue wrote: "I'm expecting this year's challenges will also turn up some great reads!"We hope so!
Now, on to a final summary of our collective achievements!
Expanding Our PBT Horizons
We posted an astounding 387 reviews for 258 unique books!
We had 6 members who read for all 12 monthly cultures in the month they were assigned—no easy feat!
Amy
Ellen
Kelly
Linda C
Olivermagnus
Sue
You can check out the final participation point tally, which will be added to your running totals for use on the next monthly tag vote. Keep in mind that the max number books you could count was 12 and the max number of points was 24.
Trim the TBR
We posted reviews for 374 unique books!
We had 17 members who read for all 12 Trim numbers in the month they were assigned:
Amy
anarresa
Booknblues
Cora
Ellen
Idit
Jenny
Joy D
LibraryCin
Linda C
Meli
NancyJ
Olivermagnus
Rachel N
SouthWestZippy
Sue
Theresa
Members who got bonus points for reads the book with the most pages in a month:
Charlotte
Doughgirl5562
Idit
Joy D (2 months)
Kiki McPhee
Olivermagnus (6 months!)
Members who got bonus points for reading the most points in a quarter:
Charlotte
Doughgirl5562
Olivermagnus (2 quarters)
And the member who read the most pages over the course of the year with 7485:
Olivermagnus
You can check out the final participation point tally, which will be added to your running totals for use on the next monthly tag vote.