Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

• Deanna (Captain)
• Mary, Mary, Just a Bit Contrary (Co-Captain)
• Ashlee Marie
• Carley
• Erin
• Jackie Freeman
• Steph
• Ora

Team sheet
Status sheet

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Wheel o' Brown (WaT IV): Team Sapphire Flames

Duration: Starts on June 14th and runs 8 weeks

Team Shelves
• Deanna (Captain)
• Mary, Mary, Just a Bit Contrary (Co-Captain)
• Ashlee Marie
• Carley
• Erin
• Jackie Freeman
• Steph

Important Links and Spreadsheets
All About Wheel o' Brown
Coffee, Chai, Cocoa & Chat

Team Status Spreadsheet
Team Sapphire Flames Official Spreadsheet
Planning Spreadsheet

Point System

◈ Books between 160 and 200 pages = 5 points
◈ Books between 201 and 300 pages = 10 points
◈ Books between 301 and 400 pages = 20 points
◈ Books between 401 and 500 pages = 40 points
◈ Books between 501 and 650 pages = 60 points
◈ Books between 651 and 800 pages = 80 points
◈ Books over 801 pages = 100 points

Additional Points Quick Reference
Top Shelves
How it works: (view spoiler)[Each word on the wheel has been paired with a genre. If you read and use a book with the matching genre, you will gain 5 bonus points per book, for a maximum of 10 books / 50 points per team.

Genres must match exactly (though plural/singular is OK), and must be found on page 1 of the "Top Shelves" for the book. There is no minimum number of tags needed, provided it is present on page 1. If it's at the bottom of page, you might want to get approval from the Captains Group. (hide spoiler)]

Word		Genre
Beige		Adventure
Brown		Space Opera
Chocolate	Classics 
Cinnamon	LGBT
Coffee		Suspense 
Sand 		Horror 
Terracotta	Memoir
Umber		Shifters
Walnut		New Adult

BOM bonus:
- Writing a day's worth of discussion questions = 40 points
- Participating in a current BOM (participating in discussion) = 20 points

Breakdown of Points per Page
(view spoiler)[
160-200 pages = 0.025-0.031 points per page
201-300 pages = 0.033-0.050 points per page
301-400 pages = 0.050-0.066 points per page
401-500 pages = 0.080-0.10 points per page
501-650 pages = 0.092-0.120 points per page
651-800 pages = 0.10-0.122 points per page
801+ pages = 0.125 points per page (hide spoiler)]

Countdowns
Books posts are due each week by Saturday 10 pm London time, which translates to 5 pm EST each week.

Countdown to start.
End of Week 1
End of Week 2
End of Week 3
End of Week 4
End of Week 5
End of Week 6
End of Week 7
End of Week 8

Weekly Word
Week 1 - COFFEE (genre - Suspense)
Week 2 - UMBER (genre - Shifters)
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8

Books of the Month Eligible for Bonus Points:

1 player per book can get bonus points for reading and offering to right questions. More might be eligible if not enough people sign up and volunteer.

Starts: June 16, 2019: YA


Starts: July 16, 2019: YA


Starts: July 2, 2019: Adult


Mary has volunteered for this one assuming her library will cooperate and get her a copy on time.

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Hello! Let me know what you need me to do as co-captain. I already have access to the spreadsheet.

Hey team! Welcome to Wheel o' Brown (aka WAT IV - the Cat edition). It's almost time to read! The challenge kicks off Friday 6/14 at 8am London time (3am EST for those of us in the US.)

I'm Deanna. I live in Virginia with DH, 4 kids, 4 cats, a dog, and a few chickens. I love reading a variety of genres; but my favorites tend to be fantasy, science fiction, and mysteries. I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone.

To get started please introduce yourself (only as much as you are comfortable with). If you haven't yet created a shelf for this game (I'm guilty of this), please do so. Then post the shelf link here in the thread.

Challenge rules are linked in post five. If you have any questions after reading them, just let us know.

Hi, everyone! My name is Steph. I live in Illinois with my husband and 3 boys. My boys are 4, 3, and 2, so they keep me on my toes, lol. Reading and video games offer me a way to relax from the chaos that comes with having 3 kids under the age of 5. My favorite genres include Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, and Fantasy. I love team challenges and can't wait to get started!

Here's my shelf: WheelOBrown

Also, Ilona Andrews is one of my favorite authors, so I'm loving our team name!

Hi, everyone! My name is Jackie and I live in North Carolina. I have three grown children. I'm retired but do work some. I'll read almost anything but my favorites are fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction. I'm looking forward to getting started.

My shelf: WheelOBrown

Steph Ann wrote: "Also, Ilona Andrews is one of my favorite authors, so I'm loving our team name!"

Me too. I can't wait for the book to come out in August.

Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "Hello! Let me know what you need me to do as co-captain. I already have access to the spreadsheet."

Great! Have you gotten into the captains' group? The mods should have sent you an invite.

Welcome everyone!

Deanna wrote: "Steph Ann wrote: "Also, Ilona Andrews is one of my favorite authors, so I'm loving our team name!"

Me too. I can't wait for the book to come out in August."

Same here!

Hey everyone! My name's Erin, and I live in the Bay Area in California- currently melting because I'm not used to this type of hot weather anymore! I work in a bakery, and then pick up extra shifts bartending. I like to read a little bit of everything, but mainly fiction- usually fiction, ya and whatever Liane Moriarty would be considered.

My Shelf: Wheel-a-thon-Brown

Good Morning. I'm Mary, I'm in the US in Massachusetts so on EST.

I too am a big Ilona Andrews fan but have not started this series yet. I'm sure I will soon.

I'm lucky in that I can read and listen to audio books at work quite often. I read a wide variety of stuff. Not a big LBGT or New Adult fan so you might not get many bonus points for genre from me if those get called. But I'll do my best to help with the other genres. Although I'll take New Adult of YA so I might do OK with that one.

Getting remarried in October.

And yes, I am in the Captain's Group.

I don't remember what I named my shelf on the sign up so here's the one I just made:
Wheel IV

Also I work on a computer all day and it's pretty easy for me to do spreadsheet updating.

The compulsive planner in me wants to plan out books but we don't have a word yet.

Welcome Erin!

📚Time to scour those shelves for books!📚

Our word for week 1 is COFFEE, which has Suspense for the genre.

Oh yay! We got the word. Now I can see which Right Side Up books I should save for after Friday.

I just looked up the time when it officially starts: 3pm on my time on Friday. I was hoping it would be earlier. I work by myself on Fridays and generally listen to an audio book a large chunk of the day. But I'll use the time this week to finish up any non-Wheel books I have started.

ETA: nice. 4 of my remaining Right side up books work for at least 1 letter and the genre.

Nice! Suspense and memoir are probably the genres I have the most books for

I like memoirs but I don't think I have any on hand. I might be scrambling to find available library books if we get that one. I'll have the same issue if we get LGBT.

I have suspense, classic and shifter books up the wazoo.

Shifter, adventure, and horror will probably be the easiest for me. Memoir and LGBT will be tricky.

Looks like the only letter I don't have is O. Other than that, I can take any letter. As far as page count goes, I do have a 1,000 page book that would work for E and matches the genre as well. That would most likely be the only book for me for the week though, lol. It would be a big point-getter, though.

I've got one for each letter. Unfortunately, 3 of my planned books only have 1 obvious letter. I'm hoping they'll have more once I'm reading them. One has no obvious letters and I might try and get that one read beforehand. Unless I can preview it on Amazon and spot a name that works.

I used to volunteer at this library bookstore, and all the books were so cheap if anything looked interesting I’d get it- so I have all these memoirs sitting on my shelves. No idea if they’re any good!

Almost nothing that fits shifters or space odyssey though

Erin wrote: "I used to volunteer at this library bookstore, and all the books were so cheap if anything looked interesting I’d get it- so I have all these memoirs sitting on my shelves. No idea if they’re any g..."

I love shifter books and space opera but would have a harder time finding memoirs. I tend to go with YA books if I need something tagged horror. It's been awhile since I read the All Creatures Great and Small series, so I could use those for memoir. LGBT would be hardest for me.

A lot of urban fantasy is tagged horror. I have a couple horror audio books if needed. Or read a Stephen King. He's not my favorite but my fiance loves him and it makes him happy when i reead him.

Memoirs are not my favorites either. I tend to read YA books for horror as well, Deanna.

I've got books scheduled to read next that work for C, E, and F. Only one has the suspense tag on the first page though.

We can only get the bonus points for genre on 10 books anyway. So we should be good most weeks unless we hit a genre that no one on the team reads but we can always vote about doing a new spin.

I actually feel really lucky with this call. Because of Right Side Up, I have my next 6 books planned out so this is my least flexible week. After that I will just read according to the calls for the most part. Hopefully any long waited library books and my real life book club books will fit in

So just started an audio book. Within first 5 minutes a name that works for this pops up. I use Amazon search and the character is in there a lot. So cool. Of course it's been shelved like 20 variations of "suspense" but not once as just "suspense".

I'm going to put it aside anyway and start a different one that is shelved for suspense but has no obvious letters.

Do we have to wait until the challenge begins to start a book? I'm currently reading two that fit the letters.

Yes we do. That's why I stopped that one I started where the name popped up right away. I don't mind restarting it after only hearing a few minutes.

Once it's started, if you start a book for one word and don't finish in time, you can finish it the next week and use it for any letters it works for the new word. We just can't bank any books like they've allowed in previous rounds.

Shoot. I have to check my books again for genre. I just double checked and it has to be in the top 100.
ETA: still good. Only the one I had just checked to see doesn't have it on the first page. But it works for F so I'll save it for this game anyway.

Gah! I don't know what to listen to today. All my upcoming books have at least 1 letter in them. I have 7 lined up. 4 work for suspense.

I guess I'll just listen to the historical romance one. Only 1 obvious letter and no genre.

I finished a book this morning and felt lost, not wanting to start something new in case it would work for a letter, lol. So I'm reading since it's short and will at least give me something to read for today. I can't go the whole day without reading something!

Hi Team! I am Ashlee and I live in Pennsylvania. I am a special education teacher who is loving having the summer vacation to read, read, read.

My shelf is https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

I'm going to have to spend some time today updating my books read, since I haven't updated since April . :/

I am going to be starting and on Friday. Both of these books have suspense as a tag.

I have a question about this book that I plan to start tomorrow.

Magic Graves

It's 162 pages so it fits the page count. It contains two novellas, one by Jeaniene Frost and one by Ilona Andrews. Since there are two authors, I'm assuming that either one can be used for the spellout, and Jeaniene Frost is listed first. So I should be able to use it for F, right?

I know I feel like I am wasting a letter with the historical romance I just started. But since it doesn't have the genre, I figured I'd sacrifice it over the others. Plus I have 7 books to finish by the 21st if I want to keep my Right Side Up ranking. I can't waste a day.

You can use letters from both authors and stories as long as you read both. Obviously we only use the book once per read, but you can get the letters from anywhere in the book. Just list whichever ones apply when you finish and we'll find a spot for it.

All right team. The planning spreadsheet is ready for books. Sorry it took so long. My parents are up visiting through tomorrow.

Planning Spreadsheet

Anyone comfortable with spreadsheets can enter their own books. If you don't have access to Google spreadsheets, just post the books here, and Mary or I can transfer them over.

When completing books if you are adding to the spreadsheet, just post a quick note here (ie. Finished xyz - spreadsheet updated). If you'd like someone to add the book for you, we need the following information in your post.

Book:
Author:
Date read:
No. of pages:
Genre or BOM:
Possible letters:

For example:
Book: Chains of Command
Author: Marko Kloos
Date read: 6/15
No. of pages: 386
Genre or BOM: Suspense
Possible letters: Title C, Series: Frontlines

Let me know if you have any questions. I'll check the thread first thing in the morning and then should be around more after my company leaves around lunch time.

Happy Wheel Day!