Hooked on Books discussion

Team Challenge
September 2024 - November 2024

Please take some time and choose a team name. You will also need to choose which clown you want to catch first. Choose wisely because some clown require more than others. As such, those clowns will net more points. Let me know when you have made your choices.

Team
Christina T
Amanda
Kat


Important Links
Prisoner Drop Off (Check-in Thread)
Q&A
Collectibles
Feedback
SS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...


Rules
⛓️Each clown has specific chains and/or tasks that need to be completed.
Examples:
1. Create a chain of 3 using titles consecutively (ABC)
-All the Light We Cannot See
-Becoming Mrs. Lewis
-Catching Fire
2. Create a chain of 3 with "dog" in the titles
-Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
-The Dog Stars
-Hot Dog Girl
⛓️One person should NOT complete a whole chain by themselves. This is a team challenge. However, if a clown has multiple chains and a slower reader can only/want to only read for 1 or 2 chains (they must read at least one), then the other two faster readers on the team can complete the other chains between the two of them.
⛓️You may choose which clown from the list to capture first but you MUST complete it BEFORE starting a new clown.
⛓️You may use or drop articles: A, An, The
⛓️Standard Rules Apply
⛓️Since you have chosen to play non-competitively, you will play a self-paced game. You may choose to stop any time you want or continue until you have completed all clowns.

The Clowns

*Sweet Tooth
*Pennywise
*Killjoy
*Kent McCoy
*Stitches
*Art
*Captain Spaulding
*Jojo the Klownzilla & the Klowns
*Violator
*Twisty
*Joker
*Cleaver & LIl Miss Cleaver
*Ribcage
*The Heads
*The Lunatics
*Horny
*The Laugh
*Shivers
*Tickles
*Jack

Submit your team name & your 1st clown choice in the check-in thread.

I’m here!

I’m good with just going down the list

For team names I’ve got:
Bookish Bozos
The Creepy Clown Chroniclers

Hello. Good with going down list too

I like the creepy clown chroniclers

Hi! I'm good with going down the list too. I like Creepy Clown Chroniclers and going based on that I'll suggest Caughtcha Creepy Clowns!!! (with all the exclamation points because why not)

I’m happy with either

Caughtcha works and makes sense with the game! Also I am an excessive exclamation point user lol. I'll get us all checked in with a name and our first clown.

Amanda wrote: "Caughtcha works and makes sense with the game! Also I am an excessive exclamation point user lol. I'll get us all checked in with a name and our first clown."

Thanks

Also, Kat I saw your question about time limits. Christina and I are doing this same challenge elsewhere and we take it at an absolutely no rush pace! I think we average about 1 month per "monster" (which is the version of clown for that one) but sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. Just as we finish books we plop them in.

Amanda wrote: "Also, Kat I saw your question about time limits. Christina and I are doing this same challenge elsewhere and we take it at an absolutely no rush pace! I think we average about 1 month per "monster"..."

No worries. :) that works for me (as I’m also in other challenges haha)

What other ones you doing?

For me the Bachelor Challenge just ended and a few weeks before that Book Games ended. Amanda and I are also capturing Titans in a non-competitive way which I'm pretty sure bugs the heck out of our 3rd partner 🤭

I'm also doing Bookopoly, The Water Balloon fight(but I think that ends today as well), Seasons of Listening:525,600 minutes (although I'm quite behind posting my audiobooks there), The MM Yearly Scavenger Hunt, and Turf Wars.

Christina T wrote: "For me the Bachelor Challenge just ended and a few weeks before that Book Games ended. Amanda and I are also capturing Titans in a non-competitive way which I'm pretty sure bugs the heck out of our..."

Wow that’s lots. So i shouldn’t tell u ones I’m doing most of which start September?

I'm currently in:
MM Scavenger Hunt
Titans
Addicted to the 80s
Disney's 100th Celebration
The Traitors
The Water Balloon Fight
Quote Quips
Bachelor (end today)
HOB Olympics (and I try to fit all these in Ready Player One and/or Birth Flower)
FLOAB Olympics
Candyland University
Club Fair
Turf Wars


...I didn't realize it was so many lol. And then Illuminae and Travel to Sweden start mid month. Plus I'm creating a challenge for October. Oops lol

But Kat, please share! I'm still always looking for more

I thought my load was bad! 😆 I'm still working on moving. It's an ongoing battle. Dad's a hoarder and he's not helping at all. The new house is all ready for us to move we've been moving for months. We've finally sold my sister's house and now to empty the one mom and dad have lived in for 25+years. I had all last week off of work which helped but now I'm back to work and only have one day a week to sort and purge. There's so much stuff!

Anyway, that's taking up a lot of my time and energy so I'm glad 2 of my Challenges are done.

September Challenges
Hooked on books: Name Game, September & October, Bookopoly July to September, Monster Hunt, Killer Clowns, Olmpics August to October
A Million more pages: GOTM(Genre of the month)
Game Night - TURF


Monster hunt and name game are both on hooked on books and start September
Amanda that’s a lot!
Christina good luck with the move

Sweet Tooth



Marcus "Needles" Kane, commonly known as Sweet Tooth, originally appeared in the Twisted Metal video games series before making his debut on the Twisted Metal television series. He wears a clown mask and carries a machete. He is notably missing his trademark flaming hair for most of the series, although it does appear at one point.

Sweet Tooth escaped from the Blackfield Asylum when the apocalypse started. He settled in Lost Vegas with his best friend Harold, an inanimate paper lunch bag. He rides around in an ice cream truck and rides around the city as a notorious serial killer feared by many. He is psychopathic while having a sense of humor. He likes to perform but expects total honesty from the crowd. He will murder those who betray or cross him.


Complete the following tasks
Arm 1: Read a chain of 3 books set during an apocalypse
Arm 2: Read a chain of 3 books with ice cream on the cover
Leg 1: Read a chain of 3 books tagged humor
Leg 2: Read a chain of 3 books with a flame on the cover

There is a nonscoring spreadsheet in message 1 for you to track your books

Thanks Donna

I’ve found a set of Apocalyptic books for 99p https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B... I know yous live elsewhere from U.K. but just in case

Christina T wrote: "I thought my load was bad! 😆 I'm still working on moving. It's an ongoing battle. Dad's a hoarder and he's not helping at all. The new house is all ready for us to move we've been moving for months..."

Good luck with that Christina! It sounds really tough

Kat wrote: "Thanks Donna

I’ve found a set of Apocalyptic books for 99p https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B... I know yous live elsewhere from U.K. b..."

Thanks Kat!

Completion Post
Sweet Tooth
Leg 1: Read a chain of 3 books tagged humor


Dire Straits and Entwined Fates by Alice Winters
Pages 368
Finished 9/5/24
Rating 5 Stars

This poll ends tomorrow night. Come and have your voice heard.

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/3...

Completion Post
Arm 1: Read a chain of 3 books set during an apocalypse


The Omega Shift by Tamsin Baker
Pages 117
Finished 9/7/24
Rating 2 Stars

Christina, I think for this one we use the spreadsheet (happy to fill it out for you though if needed)

Also I'm reading that one soon so not excited to see the 2 stars lol. I added it to the TW list, I'm assuming that's what you're using for. Luckily it's short!

Amanda wrote: "Christina, I think for this one we use the spreadsheet (happy to fill it out for you though if needed)

Also I'm reading that one soon so not excited to see the 2 stars lol. I added it to the TW li..."

Lol I didn't see that SS link. I got them on there now.

Yes I read The Omega Shift for TW. It was short. It also didn't have much in the way of world building or character development.

I’m nearly finished mine too. Liked characters but not plot involving zombies yawn

Kat I’m reading one right now that I feel the exact same way about. Like the MCs and the romance but zombies are always meh to me

Amanda wrote: "Kat I’m reading one right now that I feel the exact same way about. Like the MCs and the romance but zombies are always meh to me"

lol. 😂 we definitely don’t like zombies

What u reading for it

I'm reading Monsters within Men what about you?

Amanda wrote: "I'm reading Monsters within Men what about you?"


Contamination Zero finished it before going to sleep.

Sorry it’s taken me so long had a tough month and being back to work. Tryin to juggle many books for many challenges too.

Kat wrote: "Sorry it’s taken me so long had a tough month and being back to work. Tryin to juggle many books for many challenges too."

No worries Kat.... this is the super laid back team!

I’m not done either Kat! Can’t find an ice cream book

Amanda wrote: "I’m not done either Kat! Can’t find an ice cream book"

I've found a couple but have to finish my Scavenger Hunt books first. I'm looking to see if I've read a second book with humor to fill in that last one but I've got none with fire just yet. I'm super duper struggling to find spider legs for the Titan one.

Amanda wrote: "I’m not done either Kat! Can’t find an ice cream book"

I recommend The Guncle that’s my read

Christina T wrote: "Amanda wrote: "I’m not done either Kat! Can’t find an ice cream book"

I've found a couple but have to finish my Scavenger Hunt books first. I'm looking to see if I've read a second book with humor..."

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Here’s some spider covers https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

How come all the books with spiders that are KU and 1st on the series are all 500+ pages lol ?

So I now am somehow reading 2 books with ice cream on the cover in the near future so if either if you don't want to do one I can take two

I haven't started mine yet. I'd go ahead and if I start one I'll post here too let you both know I got one.

How yous getting on? I’m on last book

I’m done! If we need any spots filled (except ice cream because I already did two) just let me know!

I have a short fire one I'm starting soon. I can't find the two ice cream ones I had set aside though so I'll have to find them again. Kat if you have an ice cream one available go ahead and read it.

Checking in. Is everyone still with us?

Lol our meandering game play is more non play but I think we're almost done with Sweet tooth lol.

I’m reading an ice cream one but if you’ve done two does that mean none are needed

We need three total so yes we still need it ☺️

Amanda wrote: "We need three total so yes we still need it ☺️"

Ok cool.