Christian Fiction Bloggers discussion

Team Sandals
Brittany
writer
Tiffany
Kimberly
Tracy
Monica S
Reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Book Rules:

• Books must be at least 100 pages.
• Cookbooks, Picture books, Manga, Graphic Novels, Poetry books are not allowed for this challenge. Aside from that, any books over 100 pages count for the challenge.
•Rereads are fine, so long as you don't reread the same book during this challenge
•Books must be started after the challenge start date

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Have the “It” Items (word, etc.) been announced yet for this first week?

Monica, yes. I posted on the main thread and in each "review" thread. :)
June 22-28
Genre: Young Adult
Word: Fence
Number: 18

I’ll have my book chosen today, I promise

OK, thank you, Melanie. That helped. I had not realized that the “reviews” hyperlink would have some more instructions.
Can you you explain a bit more about the different “It” factors? (This is just the 2nd contest in this Group since I joined it.) Like: are we supposed to count the # of times we happen to read the specified word of the week in our chosen books, and each time we see the number of the week, etc? And then we’d get a point for each of those times?

You only need to find one "It" for the book you read in order to get the bonus points. Finding it more than once doesn't change anything - you only get the bonus once per book finished during that week that work for the called "It".
If you finish a book that doesn't work for any of that week's called "It", you still get page points, just not the bonus/2x points.

Hope that helps. Happy to answer any other questions. :)

Melanie, that helps a little, but I still confused on how the chosen “It” word & number for the week count. 🤷‍♀️
OK, suppose this 1st book I read is NOT in this week’s chosen genre, does the chosen “It” word count towards double points if I find the word at least once in that book? This seems a bit complicated to me because there is no way to know if a book I’m reading will happen to have the chosen word in it.
And how does the chosen # factor in? It can’t refer to a page number since EVERY book we read for this contest must be at least 100 Pgs., so of course there will be a page 18.

Sorry if this is all really simple. Perhaps I’m over-thinking all of it. 🤷‍♀️. Again, this is just my 2nd contest in this group. The last contest was set up in a totally different way. Have you all done this current style of contest before? Maybe there were more instructions given back then.

Thanks a million for your patience,
Monica (c:

I'll try to explain it better...I'm on a tablet so hopefully I'll be able to do it well enough.

You only need your book to work for one of the called "it" categories. I'll use this week's categories in my examples.

Genre: if the book you read is young adult, it will work for the bonus.

Words: if the book you read has "fence" in the title, author's name, series' name, in the book's text, or a fence on the cover, it will work for the bonus. An easy way to search books is on books.google.com or amazon. If you want, i can always try to check in advance if a book has a certain word for you. :)

Number: if the book you read has the number "18" in the title/series/name, page count, publication date, or setting, it will work for the bonus. Examples: a book is published in 2018 - that works because it has "18", a book has 418 pages - that works because it has "18", a book is the 18th in its series-that works.

Thank you, Melanie!!! Yes, that info helps a LOT! I guess the main thing that originally threw me off is from the original instructions: the part that said the Word could be from “the book’s text.” If the book’s title, cover photo, etc. does not obviously have “fence” I didn’t know if the book counts toward double points if we happen to catch the “It” word somewhere during the entire story. But yes: that’s what it sounds like now. 🤗

And the # part of “It” categories makes a lot more sense now. 👌🏼
Thanx again!

So happy to have helped. Thank you for the questions and if you have any other questions, just ask. :) Have a great evening and happy reading. :)

Do rereads count?

Yep!

Then my first book Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

Hi Sandals team mates !
Melanie wrote: "Team Sandals"
Brittany
Tiffany
Kimberly
Tracy
Monica S

Cheering you on...🙆
Meet you over at reviews 😊 ...
Reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Hi Team! I wanted to check in and let you know that I am working on two books right now for the challenge. I had to finish up reading a couple of other books that wouldn't count for the challenge since I began reading them before everything started. Looking forward to a fun game!

I everyone. I wanted to let you know I have just posted two book reviews for this week. BTW I am making an unexpected journey out to California this week for an unspecified amount of time. Family issues. I will try to keep up but grandchildren can be such a distraction.
HUGS

I should finish my book today. Sorry I haven’t been able to read more this week. I had a dentist appointment and gum surgery.

Tiffany, I hope you are doing all right now.
HUGS

I’m feeling much better today. And the swelling seems to be down. Thank you. 💕💕

Can we read more than one book a week for points? I should finish my book tonight.

yes, Tiffany, you can read as many books as you want. :)

Should finish 2nd book today

Melanie wrote: "Book Rules:

• Books must be at least 100 pages...."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

Q-
Will this 3 book audio set , total pgs 271, count for 1 book ? Thanks..

Sorry I haven’t read more. Work has us working overtime all month. Between both jobs I worked 60 hours this week.

Tiffany wrote: "Sorry I haven’t read more. Work has us working overtime all month. Between both jobs I worked 60 hours this week."

No worries, Tiffany, do what you can and it is all for fun anyway!

*Adding Lara to the team

Welcome, Lara!

Brittany wrote: "Welcome, Lara!"

Thank You Brittany.

Does this count? The first book was labeled sci-fi but this one doesn’t have any tags. Fates Unsparing