Reading with Style discussion

This thread will be for announcements from your Moderators!

The link to the author file in the Quick Links post has been updated. The file now includes birth/death dates. (And we all wonder why it didn't have them before now.)

Polls are up for the Summer 2016 season. Go vote!

Group Goal polls are up. Go vote!

In case anyone was wondering, we're running a day or so behind on getting the last tasks up. Kate has had computer problems, but we're almost back on track. You know the polls, others will be up as soon as we can get them to you.

Those of you who expect to be task creators and/or group reads designates, please have your thinking caps on with a couple of tasks in mind when Kate contacts you.

Thank you!

Final summer tasks are posted. Enjoy!

We have decided to try out a new team challenge in RwS. For the month of July we will be offering a bonus BINGO challenge for all members of RwS. No prior participation required!

How it works:

Between June 15th and 26th members will be allowed (encouraged) to sign up in the appropriate thread to be assigned a team.

The moderators will assign members to a team and announce the team make up on June 28th.

Every team will be working with the same BINGO card. The final and official BINGO card will be available for viewing on June 28th. In the meantime, you can see what might be in store here .

A team will earn a BINGO by completing the tasks in the squares to complete a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line on the card.

Each member of the team must contribute at least one book to the completion of a BINGO.

Each book read can only be used once for a task square, but may contribute to any/all applicable style squares.

Completing BINGO will offer bonus points for the Summer RwS Challenge.

As you may have seen, Kate got Fall's sub-challenge posted. Half and Half should have you cleaning up your TBR or maybe filling in some blanks of your author challenges.

Polls should be up in a few days. (We're running ahead of schedule this month. One of us - not me - is going on vacation the end of the August.)

Polls are up for the Fall. They will be open until August 23.

Fall 2016 20-point tasks have been posted. Let the planning begin!

I have just updated our Non-Western list of authors and our list of Authors We Have Read in the Quick Links post. Hope this helps in what might just be a very busy season!

A new thread has been opened in Member's Corner for all your book chat discussions Book Chat

Fall Group Goals poll is up. It will close midnight PDT on the 31st.

Many apologies for my slowness at getting our summer season closed. I am hard at work on it and expect to send out messages soliciting tasks and group read ideas over the weekend.

Please keep an eye on your inbox so we can get the new season settled soon.

Not sure everyone saw that Kate did get the Readerboard for summer finalized and posted.

Another congratulations to all participants!

I have shared a link to the Fall Master List in Post #2 of the General Questions thread.

Working on something else, I realized I have failed to update our group statistics the last two seasons. That has now been corrected!

Some group statistics

In case you missed them, Kate has been hard at work getting the Winter 20-point theme tasks and styles posted.

Polls for the Winter Season have been posted. Go Vote!

Time to vote on our Winter 16-17 Group goal!

A note clarifying our process when establishing whether a book is or is not YA has been added to our FAQs.

A single volume that contains multiple titles will not be used to determine YA. In the case of short story collections, omnibuses, essay collections and other multi-title volumes, the volume will be accepted for applicable tasks and styles

The Winter Master List is available as a google doc and can be accessed in Post #2 of the General Questions thread.

Please take a minute to look here for a new request from your moderators.

Polls have been posted. Please go vote to help us choose tasks for the Spring season!

The Non Western Authors list and the entire Author list has been updated today in the Quick Links post.

The Spring Master List has been uploaded to the Tasks Post. The list will be updated as it changes when scoring sessions warrant. The plan is that this is where it will appear every season.

The Summer sub-challenge has been posted. The details of our first group project will also be posted today. I see some book planning in our future...

Polls are up for the Summer Season. Go vote!

Congratulations to Laguallande, the first winner of the Random drawing for the Amazon gift card!

We have made a slight change to our Lexile Rule.

Books with a Lexile score of NP will be accepted for full style points at the discretion of the moderators.

If you think your non-prose YA book should qualify for full style points, please ask your moderators in the current season's challenge general questions thread.

Polls for the Fall Challenge have been posted. Please take a minute to review and vote!

The polls will be open until August 26th.

Congratulations to Karin who is the winner of the Summer Season Random award.

We're celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Muriel Spark this winter (born Feb 1, 1918). Kate has the 20-pointers posted. Have fun!

The Polls for the Winter Challenge have been posted! Please vote for your favorite on each of the three polls.

Congratulations to Cat who is the winner of the Fall Season Random award.

As most of you know, our scorekeeping uses a custom database. I posted a couple of seasons back what kinds of data we have entered about the books and authors you have read. The lists of books and/or authors we post via google sheets come from our database.

Some of you are doing personal challenges, like a 20th century challenge. If you would find it helpful, I can generate some custom lists for you. (Need books pub'd 1936-1944?; authors born 1887-1912? Books pub'd in German?)

A limitation is that the author table just has a single name per entry. Searching for surnames beginning with a specific letter may not provide a reasonable result.

We don't track setting or Dewey Decimal number, but I can get a list of pretty much any combination and subset of what data we do have. If this is of interest, speak up in the socializing thread. I'll be glad to open a separate folder for requests and a place to post links to the lists generated.

Spring Sub-Challenge has been posted. Let the planning begin!

Polls are up! Please take a minute and vote on each of our three polls for the Spring season.

Congratulations to Ed, who is the winner of the Amazon gift card!

Polls for the Summer Season have been posted. There are three separate polls. Please make sure to share your opinion and vote!

Run-off Poll has been posted. It will be open until midnight 5/29/18 GoodReads time.

Congratulations to Heather, winner of the Spring Amazon gift card!

We've done something a little special this season with task 10.8. Please be sure to visit the help thread regarding tasks 10.8K and 10.8R for further information.

The Brooklyn Public Library catalog that we usually use is having some technical difficulties. In the meantime, you can use this link to their "new" catalog.

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/new-catalog

The Polls to help decide the 10-point tasks for the Fall Challenge have been posted: here.

The regular link for Brooklyn Public Library is working again. I'm glad - it was wonky for several days!

I have created a new thread, called "Navigating BPL" for your reading enjoyment. It's in the Rules and Guidelines folder, so will be easily accessible for all challenges.

Cory Day is the winner of the Random Award for the Amazon Gift Card. Congratulations, Cory!

The Author List has been updated in the Quick Links post.

(It will probably be updated again in a few days ... a small surprise is coming your way.)

Polls for the Winter Challenge have been posted. Please vote for your favorites. Remember to vote for all 3 polls relating to the Winter 2018-19 season.