Bookworms discussion

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I had an idea to make a challenge that requires teamwork. I'm thinking we'll put people with partners or a team. Does anyone have an idea as to what kind of challenge it could be?

Idil [ when nothing goes right, go left ] wrote: "I had an idea to make a challenge that requires teamwork. I'm thinking we'll put people with partners or a team. Does anyone have an idea as to what kind of challenge it could be?"

I'm a member of a group called, "YA Buddy Reads Corner" and every month we have team challenges. I think a simpler may be to read books that have been on your TBR for the longest amount of time but there was a complicated one we did which was scrabble and each letter that the title started with was worth more points and the team with the most points wins. I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but that's what I know of.

Yes, I've also done such challenges, but I do not want it to be as complicated for now. I think I'd like to stick with something simpler. Thanks for the suggestions Katherine :) I'll think about this for now...

yeah, considering this is a new group I think maybe something as simple as which ever team reads the most amount of books over a certain amount of pages wins.

Yep, I'll think about some ideas now... :)

I'm in a group called 'Gotta Have Romance with a Kick' and every month they do what they call a 'Kick and Pick for me' challenge

How it works:
- People that sign up for this challenge will pick a minimum of 3 books for their assigned person to read during the month.
- after you've read your assigned books, you post a short appreciation of each book you've read on the thread.

How people get their assigned partner:
1) during a time period people sign up for the challenge
2) after the due date the list of names will end up on the thread
3) they will pick for the person below them on the list ; the person at the bottom of the list will pick for the person on top of the list.

How people choose their books/have their books chosen:
- if they have a preferred list that their partner chooses from they can leave the link to it while they sign up (on the thread)
- if they dont have a preference, they dont leave a link and the person will choose from their 'to-read'

How to mix it up every month:
-choose a different theme
ex: at least 1 bookcover with an eye on it
ex: at least 1 book has to be in a series
ex: at least 1 book has to have a male lead
etc...

Hope we can do this!

I've also done something like this. It was called pick me a winner! I think it would be a good idea, I'll start this up soon :)

That sounds like lots of fun. Do people talk to the person they pick for before hand so they pick books they think they will enjoy or is it random?

Person 1 picks 3 books from the other persons tbr shelf. Person 1 writes about why they picked each book (the cover is nice, I like the author, I've read it and rated it 5 stars, etc.). Person 2 picks one of those books and reads it and sees how they like it :)

Oh, okay, thanks for clarifying.

No problem

I have a suggestion: You should create something so there could be a weekly of monthly trivia on books. Maybe if it was weekly, you could do it on Friday nights. Different people could host each time. I'm not sure, I was just thinking about that...

Nice idea!

That's a great idea, Madelyn. In addition we could have weekly kind of competition. At a certain time we could either have trivia or like riddle solving. If we had a book the entire group read we could host a discussion/trivia on it.

Katherine wrote: "That's a great idea, Madelyn. In addition we could have weekly kind of competition. At a certain time we could either have trivia or like riddle solving. If we had a book the entire group read we c..."

Yeah! That's a good idea.

We should do some sort of challenge called the "Life Challenge" based on the Game of Life. Each person could choose a number shown on the spinner indicating how many books they want to read. Then, you could make teams Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple (the colors of the cars) based on the number of books they want to read. There could be fewer car colors or more if needed.

This could be an example of the book requirements (the number of books you signed up to read is the number of "challenges" you think you can complete.

1.) Read a book based on a student in college (based on the choice of going to college or career)

2.) Read a book involving love (based on the "getting married" aspect)

etc...

I am still not sure completely of the idea, but that would be it for the most part...

That sounds fun but we will need to work out the details

Yeah, I didn't have enough time to type all of the ideas out. I just wanted to get the gist down.

Some people do something similar but with the game of snakes and ladders

But we would also have to work out the details

we could also host a summer read a thon

Katherine wrote: "we could also host a summer read a thon"

That's a good idea!

Sort of around that idea, we could do an "hours straight" challenge where we need to see how long or how much we can read in 24 hours. I don't know how that would work, but it could be a cool, quick challenge.

I've participated in quite a few read a thons and I think I'd be capable of hosting one. The goal is to read a book a day for a week and we host fun challenges and reading sprints for each day to keep everyone motivated and pumped. We can do an early summer one and if people love it we could do another one later in the summer.

Katherine wrote: "I've participated in quite a few read a thons and I think I'd be capable of hosting one. The goal is to read a book a day for a week and we host fun challenges and reading sprints for each day to k..."

That sounds cool. I did a bunch of read-a-thons as well and they are fun.

I just feel like read a thons are just insanely fun and fast paced challenge.

Katherine wrote: "I just feel like read a thons are just insanely fun and fast paced challenge."

They are really fun and they are sometimes a challenge to keep up with, but that's what makes them fun...

we should also do a few polls to get a better read of the genre that people are reading
that way if/when the group starts adding to it's bookshelf it could be accessible to most of the members

every month of so we could offer around 3 books of different genres and then plan a big group discussion at the end of it

we could also add shelves when the time comes that specify which books are to read for what (games/read-a-thons/etc)

I agree with you, Cleo. When the mods are decided we will need to ask them to put out POLLS and propose our ideas to them because I think these kinds of things are what make groups fun.

David wrote: "agrees with cleo and katherine thats a good idea"

Glad you like the ideas, David!

:) It's great that we have similar ideas and goals

I feel like we have a bunch of new members who aren't active. Do you guys have ideas on how to get members to stay and be active?

it's up to them

honestly when the group is more stable and we have a few polls going to get them interested it should help a bit

That's what I'm thinking. it's just people join and say hi I'm... and then don't do anything else.

it's a bit hard to join in to ongoing disussions especially if you dont want to start reading from the top
So maybe when we introduce new activities that dont require as much reading (like trivia/quiz) people will participate more

Oh, okay, makes sense.

Wow so many great ideas!! I created a thread for suggestions and drafts, so you can develop all of these in drafts and put the final copy on suggestions :D

Thanks! That's awesome :)

that's great!