Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Team Members

Thea
Sarah
Abbie Discosuperfly
Nicol
Kirsty Gray
Saar the Book Owl
Misericordia - The Serendipity Aegis
Stephanie

Your itinerary is here

When you have a team name, just let me know and I'll update this thread name :)

First stop - Kagoshima, Japan

To get you started:

Your first stop is Kagoshima, Japan

You can choose as a team to:
TASK
- Read books set in Japan, or by Japanese authors or
- Do a spell-it-out of Kagoshima or Japan

OR
You can elect to do the detour, which for this stop, means that four team members need to Read a book with someone with black hair on the cover

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Checking in

Hey everyone! Does anyone have any idea of what we should name our team? We also need someone to create a spreadsheet so we can all see where we are at with the challenges and what letters we have next, how many points we have earned etc :)

There might be an addition to the spreadsheet linked above coming... It's the first time I've set up a team as a mod, so am doublechecking that with the others! Have fun exploring the world together.

Hi everyone, So excited to get started on this challenge! 😁 I would be happy to create a spreadsheet for us tonight after I’m off work.

Edit: I started on one spreadsheet idea tonight, but Sheets was not cooperating with my attempts to paste images and I have to work tomorrow, so I'm done for the night. I will happily work on it more again tomorrow evening. There's nothing related to points in it yet, but of course, that will be added. I listed our options for each location and I figured once we decide which to do, we can cross out the two we're not doing, so it will be clear which we've selected.

Of course, please speak up about any changes you would like to see on our spreadsheet. Or if someone else has a totally different idea, I seriously won't be offended. : )

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Nicol wrote: "Hi everyone, So excited to get started on this challenge! 😁 I would be happy to create a spreadsheet for us tonight after I’m off work.

Edit: I started on one spreadsheet idea tonight, but Sheets ..."

Looks good to me!

Team name ideas:

Book-ing It
Traveling Through the Pages
Book & Run
Where in the World is that Book?
World Wide Bookies
Journey to the Center of a Book

I guess I will PM the other members to check in.

***Edited***

Pm's sent!

Team Members

***Thea
***Sarah
***Abbie Discosuperfly
***Nicol

Louise
Amanda
Ann
Jo
Shannon

Great suggestions, Abbie!

Thank you for the pm I don’t get all my notifications on here as I should! Checking in! I am just a reader not a leader lol so I’m happy to go with the flow on any team name ideas.

Thanks Nicol for the spreadsheet, looks good to me! And thanks Abbie for the Team name ideas! I like Travelling through the pages the best, but am happy with the others too! All are great suggestions!

I guess if we dont hear from the others by Monday i will let the mods know

We should hopefully be having some replacement players stopping by

Id love to join!!! X

Im very excited to start this challenge!!! Love all the name suggestions especially journey to the centre of a book!!

Checking in! I saw in the other thread that there was a place open here. Is it still okay to join here? I haven't received a pm or maybe I've missed it?

Saar The Book owl wrote: "Checking in! I saw in the other thread that there was a place open here. Is it still okay to join here? I haven't received a pm or maybe I've missed it?"

I didnt send any PM's yet. The PM's I sent were the people who never showed., I only posted in the sign up thread for you all come and join us since we were short 5 people.

Welcome to the team, we are currently deciding team name

Ah, I've misunderstood :)

I like Journey to the Center of a Book and I also have lots of books written by Japanese autors or happening in Japan.

Hey! Checking in!
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Love the 'Where in the World is that Book?' best but the others ring quite nice as well :)
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Read books set in Japan or by Japanese authors.
Complete a spell-it-out of Kagoshima or Japan.
Detour: Read a book with someone with black hair on the cover.

Can do any of these. I we choose Option 1, I'd use The Great Passage or Fifty Words for Rain for it.

Can I join?

I’d probably prefer the spell it out or the detour, as I don’t have anything I can find that fits Japan, but I’m happy to go with the majority vote! Perhaps we can get going with a task while we sort the team members out and then the new joiners can join in as they arrive?

Sounds good to me!! Spell it out would prob suit me better too as i dont have anything to hand to fit japan but againim sure i can find something on kindle to fit japan if the majority vote for that!! X

the book im reading right now wpuld fit the M in kagoshima lol

Well, if we do a spell-out, we need
K - can do (M.)
A - can do (M.)
G - can do (M.)
O - can do (M.)
S - can do (M.)
H - can do (M.)
I
M - Kirsty gray
A

or
J - can do (M.)
A - can do (M.)
P
A
N

of which 2As would be double-purposed
(O or G On Grand Strategy by Gaddis, S - CELERITY - Scott Falcon. A - Fifty Words for Rain Asha Lemme, H or J or K - Her Dark Silence: A Novel).

Japan also +.

Some Qs:
If we do the spell-out, how many players need to do the spell-out? How many letters can 1 player do tops? Am I right in assuming that's 1 letter for each team member (to get everyone doing the task) + any number of remaining letters (to complete)?

From what I see about points, we'll get 35 points max, incl 10 points for task completion, 15 for 6 readers from the team participating (at least 1 letter book or Japan book) and 10 if everyone chimes in (is that possible?) Does that mean that either everyone reads 1 book about Japan or we all spell out KAGOSHIMA? Since if we spell out JAPAN, we'll have only 5 participants and will have only 10 points for completion?

For me the spell it out is also fine. I'm able to choose between the 2 options.
Maybe, we can do the spell out of Kagoshima, like Misericordia suggested? And for the spell it out, it is always the first letter of the word/name, right?
I don't know when the books need to be started or if you can use books that you've allready begun.

If we do Kagoshima:
we need 9 members to do a letter. So, right now, how many is their in our team? If we are 8, there's one book left. Maybe this one can be for a faster reader or someone reading smaller books?
I think Japan is not a good option, because of team participation and low points.
And to read books of Japan or by Japanese authors, not everyone has that.

Kagoshima is the right option for us all?

Definitely!! If everyone starts reading onebookand states the letter they are doing and then whoever finishes their book first can start with remaining letters :-) if that makes any sense lol!!! Ive just started My One Month Marriage so thats what im reading for M x

I'm doing H. I've got 70 pages to read. So I can finish today or at last tomorrow.

Wow, step away from the computer for a short while and the team's off and running!! lol Awesome!

I revised and updated our spreadsheet for our first destination and added Kirsty for M, Saar for H, and me for one of the As. I also added a tab with information about the scoring and rules.

I'm going to go add the rest of the screenshots now, if Sheets will cooperate for me today.

Thanks, Nicol :)
The book that I'm reading is The Darkest Hour: 'Hour' for H.
Normally finished tomorrow.

Hi Saar,

I don't think that book will work for H unless the author's first or last name, the series name, or one of the character's first, last, or nick-names starts with H. It's only the very first letter or the title (or the very first letter after A, An, The) that counts for a spell-it-out.

Spell-it-out rules

Using the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter of the series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter in the audiobook narrator's first or last name. If you are reading a translated version, you can also use the first letter of the translator's first or last name.

As always, if the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.

I will read To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

@Nicol: sorry, my mistake (I've confused myself with a challenge of another group), but it can work for H. The author is Erin Hunter :)

Yeah the spell it out rules are as Nicol suggested, and we would all have to do the same task, with all players doing a letter, and any remaining letters to be filled by someone willing to read more than once. So I think the longer spell it out is better this time as suggested!

Is it ok if I take the S if it hasn’t gone already? (I can’t access the spreadsheet for now until I log onto my laptop!) I’m about to start Yhe Broken Girls by Sophie St. James which will work for S

Thank you, Saar! Updated to show it fits due to the author's name.

Added Stephanie's and Thea's books to the spreadsheet.

Misericordia - If you have read them since August 26, can we plan to use the K and G books that you read?

That leaves O and I, but if those don't work for you Abbie and Sarah, I would be willing to give up A to read an I book instead and Misericordia has read an O book that we could swap for K or G. Additionally, we can still earn full points if up to two people read something that doesn't fit the task, as long as we still complete our spell-it-out, which should be no problem.

I also messaged the mods and asked them to update our team member list to:

Thea
Sarah
Abbie Discosuperfly
Nicol
Kirsty Gray
Saar the Book Owl
Misericordia - The Serendipity Aegis
Stephanie

Can we include books we have been reading for about a week or does it have to be books that began as of yesterday? Also how does the rule work for character names? I’m reading a book with a baby who was born named Olamide so could use O, but she doesn’t speak or anything so I don’t know if she’s considered a main character?

To be fair the book is all about the fertility issues of a couple and so the baby is a huge deal lol. Let me know!

Book is Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo so I could definitely use an A if you want to switch, Nicole, and the O doesn’t work.

The rule is that books started on or after our group thread was created (so on or after August 26) can be used.

The baby’s name probably would count, but since we have the option to use A instead, I will put your book under A and I’ll take either O or I, since I have books in my to-read pile for all of these letters. 🙂

Abbie: Do you have a book for O, I, K, or G that you want to read? If not, we can also use all three of Meisercordia’s books and you can read any book you want.

Nicol wrote: "Misericordia - If you have read them since August 26, can we plan to use the K and G books that you read?"
Hey! All read since Sept 2.
But you're totally right, I should take the reads from August 26. But that's Ok, since we can bank those books for the future threads, right?

PS I added dropdown lists of team members to our SS for convenience. I think I'll add further a countif thingy to do an automatic check of our points, ok?

Thanks for adding the drop-down. 🙂 And yes, anything you read since Aug 26 can be saved for later in the challenge.
And ok on the countif. I had put in a formula earlier to tally our points up in the corner, but it was showing #Value since we didn’t have any points yet, so I took it out until later so it wouldn’t look like a mistake. 🙂 I work with Excel for a living, but I’ve hardly used Sheets at all. I was surprised how much trouble it gave me and how the If statement I would usually use to hide the #Value didn’t work. lol

Nicol wrote: "Thanks for adding the drop-down. 🙂 And yes, anything you read since Aug 26 can be saved for later in the challenge.
And ok on the countif. I had put in a formula earlier to tally our points up in t..." Uh-huh, it seems that sheets need to be restarted before the formulas start working. I experimented a bit on Petropavlovsk sheet :)

Love the color scale and the layout you created!

Played a bit more around: -> our detours are calculated basing on the flag near the detour line on each sheet (as soon as any of detours are flagged to TRUE, the detours will flow to all the sheets following it and the completion points below set to 25 -> checks for 6 members / 15 points and 8 members / 10 points happen on their own.

Looks like we're almost done with this week's tasks! We need just 1 entry. Wow!

Nicol wrote: "The rule is that books started on or after our group thread was created (so on or after August 26) can be used.

The baby’s name probably would count, but since we have the option to use A instead,..."

I can take G, no problem:
Reading The Graveyard Book

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "Nicol wrote: "The rule is that books started on or after our group thread was created (so on or after August 26) can be used.

The baby’s name probably would count, but since we have the option to ..."

...nevermind, the spreadsheet shows G tsken, I will look for an I book

I've finished my book for letter H: The Darkest Hour by Erin Hunter
Do I need to report somewhere or is this okay?

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "Nicol wrote: "The rule is that books started on or after our group thread was created (so on or after August 26) can be used.

The baby’s name probably would count, but ..."
Abbie, I've just finished an I book (I Spy) as well, can take that one and you would take G, if you like it?

Abbie, I put The Graveyard Book on the spreadsheet for you and listed I Spy for Meisericordia. I tried to PM you yesterday, but at least from my phone, the button was missing.

That means, as soon as everyone has finished reading the listed books and lets us know, we’ll be ready to move to our second destination. (We need to stay at each destination for at least a week, but since this first one technically started August 26, we’ve done that.)

☘Misericordia☘ ~ The Serendipity Aegis ~ wrote:

Thanks for adding all the fun bells and whistles to our spreadsheet. 😁