Delirity discussion

I'll keep updating this spot with points at the end of every month. For now I want to be sure that I have everyone who's participating so far. Let me know if I've missed your name and you've read one of the books of the month or an ongoing challenge. If you'd like to participate just start reading and posting.

As of June 29:


Angela - 10
Carolyn - 7
Carrie - 9
Chakara - 2
Darcy - 15
Heather -17
Jasmine - 8
Jen -6
Lani - 5
Lydia - 2
Paula - 2
Rachelle - 2
Sherri - 4
Steph D - 0
Yulia -4


There's still a day to finish your TBR for this month. Also, try and get the monthly reads covered since each book is 2 points a piece. The TBR is the only challenge that has to be done this month to get the points so make sure you get that covered.

I'm doing better then I thought I was :)

I'm not doing to well, but at least I'm not last!

Hi Heather I have another question for you!
I know you said you wouldn't hold it against us if a book we had a a challenge book was later used as a book of the month so I was wondering because I have choosen Fallen as an ON THE COVER challenge and from the poll it looks like it's got a good chance of winning in August I was wondering if I read it in August if it will count as 3 points or if because I haven't read it yet I need to change my ON THE COVER book to get a whole 3 points...

Look at me making everything complicated!?! Sorry!

Good question, Angela... I was wondering the same thing.

No problem. If you haven't read it yet then I would just pick another Angel book for your challenge. Or blue book. If you had already read it then don't worry about it. That way you get a chance to diversify. The idea was that if you read it in June and then the group picked it to read months later then you wouldn't have to go back and re-read your book from June.

Heather wrote: "No problem. If you haven't read it yet then I would just pick another Angel book for your challenge. Or blue book. If you had already read it then don't worry about it. That way you get a chance t..."

Gotcha... thanks for the clarification.

so what do i do for this challenge and count me in :)

Claire wrote: "what do i do for this challenge and count me in on it"

This is just where our points are posted from the challenges so you don't have to do anything. If Heather misses you when she updates, just post to let her know what you have done so far. :)

I'll add up the points from the monthly reads, the tbr challenge, and the other ones here like Carrie said. I'll update this section toward the end of the month.

so what are the challenges so i can get points

Incentive to Read

This will take you to the discussion on what challenges get you points.

Points as of July 25th, 2010


Angela - 14
Carolyn - 7
Carrie - 18
Chakara - 2
Claire - 10
Darcy - 23
Heather -32
Jasmine - 15
Jen -9
Lani - 5
Lydia - 2
Paula - 2
Rachelle - 2
Sherri - 10
Steph D - 0
Yulia -4


Great job guys. You still have time to read your TBR book. Make sure you get it posted before Aug 1.

I'd like to join in on this

No problem. Just join the different challenges in the Ongoing Extra Challenges section and participate in the group reads and I''ll add you to the list. The Incentive to Read section will help explain how to get the points.

Points as of August 20th, 2010:


Amy - 2
Andrea - 8
Angela - 22
Carolyn - 20
Carri - 2
Carrie - 36
Chakara - 2
Claire - 10
Dana - 2
Danielle - 2
Darcy - 40
Heather -48
Irene - 2
Jasmine - 17
Jen -16
Lani - 14
Lisa S. - 8
Lydia - 2
Paula - 2
Rachelle - 4
Raicheal - 2
Sherri - 14
Steph D - 2
Yulia -4

hmmm 4th place, and I'm never going to beat the 3 people ahead of me....so I'll take it lol :D

Angela, I don't count so you're 3rd place. That's even closer!

As of September 20th:

Amber - 2
Amy - 4
Andrea - 9
Angela - 32
Angelika - 2
Brandee - 2
Carolyn - 22
Carri - 2
Carrie - 42
Chakara - 4
Christy - 2
Claire - 10
Dana - 4
Danielle - 2
Darcy - 55
Heather -59
Irene - 4
Jasmine - 19
Jen - 22
Jess - 18
Joeera - 2
Lani - 19
Lisa S. - 20
Lydia - 2
Nichole - 3
Paula - 2
Rachelle - 4
Raicheal - 2
Sherri - 17
Sooz - 2
Stacia - 16
Steph D - 2
Vivian - 4
Yulia -7

Ooh... I'm doing better than I thought! :)

Brandee... you have 2, not an e. Sorry.

Are the points resetting at the first of the year so people get a chance to catch up at some point if they started late?

I think so because the A-Z doesn't count until next years points. I think, I get confused with different challenges and groups.

Yes. If I can afford to I'll take the top few people and pick a second "winner" out of a hat for those that worked their butts off. I can't guarantee it, but I'd like to since I know that those of us in the group back in June had a serious advantage. Plus, it seems like there should be a chance for more than one person. IF!!! I can do it, it'd be a smaller prize, but it's still something even if it's nothing special.

I'm just doing it for fun, so don't include me in it. I think I said it before, but I can't remember.

Oh, I don't even care about a prize. I'm just competitive.

I second what the others are saying. I know I read a lot and I read for fun, not for anything else.

I read for fun, but the challenges provide an outlet for narrowing down all the choices. It makes it easier for me to decide what's next.

Stacia wrote: "Oh, I don't even care about a prize. I'm just competitive."

Me too...I don't know where it came from either, I don't think I was always competitive, but maybe that's because I'm awful at sports

My family hates to play any sort of board game/trivia game with me. They say I gloat if I win.

haha that's funny!

I want friends that know how to play bonus canasta, or are more like me and willing to stay home and do such a thing.....I am such an old person in a young persons body

I only gloat internally. I try really hard to downplay it if I do. I also try to hid how ticked I am if I don't win. I would even compete in practice for sports. I could never just relax and pitch or swim, I had to push myself to try and be better than everyone else. I didn't always get there, but I was a lot better because of it.

My husband's family is so competitive at Skip-Bo. They've even been known to kick their 90 year old great-grandmother under the table. Although, she kicks back. They cheat like crazy.

I hate when people cheat at games.

I'm pretty competetive. With these challenges, though, I'm more competing with myself. It's also helping me to read books that I own. I'm really not playing for a prize.

I'll post points after the New Release and Delirity challenges end so that I can officially be done with counting them.
Multiple postings make it harder to count so it'll save me some time.

Heather- where do we post the books we've read for the different challenges? is it just for books we have read as part of this group?

I will try to answer since I know Heather said she won't be around that much this week. For all of the challenges we post the books in each individual challenge thread.

For the monthly reads, I think as long as you have read the book and contribute to the discussion, that is all that is needed.

For the different challenges, ie: A-Z challenge, we each have one post where we post all of our books for that challenge. You don't have to decide on every book before hand. Just go back and update your post when you have finished and put the date. Also, put your progress at the top of the post (8 out of 26 finished). Oh, and the books you can use for each challenge have dates on when you have to read the books by. like if the challenge started on July 15 and ends Dec. 31, the books that can count for that challenge have to be read in that time.

If I didn't explain things right, just ask and one of us can try again, lol.

Thanks Carrie. Ariel, she covered it. Just remember that you can't get points for the same book twice.

I need to count points, but I haven't had a chance to go through everything and recount. Sorry guys.

Don't count me anymore for this year Heather! :) I kind of dropped out of everything. =X ahahah

Some of you have jumped more than 20 points! Great job guys.

As of Nove 21st:

Adriana - 2
Amber - 6
Amy - 7
Andrea - 15
Angela - 43
Angelika - 11
Ariel - 2
Brandee - 2
Carolyn - 22
Carri - 2
Carrie - 54
Chakara - 4
Christy - 2
Claire - 10
Dana - 6
Danielle - 4
Darcy - 72
Heather -76
Hillary - 3
Irene - 6
Isamlq - 2
Jami - 2
Jasmine - 23
Jen - 28
Jess - 40
Joeera - 2
Lani - 21
Larissa - 4
Lisa S. - 44
Liz - 2
Lydia - 2
Lynnea - 20
Melodie - 4
Michelle - 2
Mira - 2
Nichole - 8
Paula - 2
Rachelle - 8
Raicheal - 2
Renee - 8
Samantha - 5
Say - 23
Shera - 5
Sherri - 19
Sooz - 3
Stacia - 57
Steph D - 2
Tya - 2
Vivian - 22
Yulia -7
Zuleika - 26

Top 10 so far:

1) Heather (76)
2) Darcy (72)
3) Stacia (57)
4) Carrie (54)
5) Lisa S. (44)
6) Angela (43)
7) Jess (40)
8) Jen (28)
9) Zuleika (26)
10) Say & Jasmine (23)

Biggest Score Jump:
1) Stacia by 41 points
2) Zuleika by 26
3) Say by 23
4) Jess by 22
5) Lynnea by 20

yipeee...

Man I feel like I dropped a aways down thnat list...Must Read More! :)

You were sans books for a while.

I know apparently when my life isn't going well I don't read...sad

I feel like when my life is bad I want to read even more to escape.

I think for me the sad stuff makes me sadder and the happy stuff makes me remember I'm not happy and most books have a lot of one or the other...it's a lose lose :)

Jasmine ☮ ♡ ♔ wrote: "I feel like when my life is bad I want to read even more to escape."

That is me, I use it for escapism.