The Procrastinators Book Club discussion

RULES
✧ Members will be broken out into up to 3-5 separate teams (or go solo) before the start date (June 1st). You will work together to complete a series of tasks together and complete as many of them as you wish.
✧ Books must be read and reviewed from June 1st through July 31st. Any books or audiobooks started before June 1st or finished after July 31st will not count.
✧ If you read an Audiobook version of a book convert the hours to pages using this site: https://alamantus.itch.io/time-to-page or use the print equivalent on Goodreads.
✧ Graphic/Manga novels are accepted but will only count for half of the listed page count. They have to be on the Goodreads database. (view spoiler)[Recent changes to the Goodreads database rules restrict webcomics from being on the site unless they have a printed edition. (hide spoiler)]
✧ You must post at least 3 status updates OR a review. It doesn't have to be super detailed but try to not just say "this was good" for the book to count.
✧ For prompts: if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit, and it will not count.
✧ Minimum Lengths:
• Books: 150 pages
• Graphic Novels: 200 pages (halved=100 pages)
• Audiobooks: 150 pages (use GR print equivalent length)

POINT SYSTEM
+1 point for every book that has been read and reviewed that correlates with a category
+2 points for participating in a buddy read (must take place in the group)
+3 for one completed category
+4 points for reading/participating in a group read (must take place in the group)
+5 points for every 1,000 pages read
Note 1: Mods keep track of all points in a shared Google Sheets spread to keep everything as organized as possible.
Note 2: You must actively participate in a buddy or group read for the points to count. Lack of participation means no points! This means commenting your updates in the designated thread for that book.

THE CHALLENGES

Stop, Rock, and Roll
1. Read a book with a red cover
2. Read a book written by a neurodivergent author
3. Listen to an audiobook
4. Read a book that won an award
5. Read a book about music

Jazzercise
1. Read a book set in or written during the Great Depression (1929-1939)
2. Read a book with a black and white cover
3. Read a book written by a Black author
4. Read a book with a strong friendship (platonic)
5. Read a book set in a big city

Country Music Is Just Farm Emo
1. Read a book that has 500 pages or more
2. Read a book set in the Wild West
3. Read a book with a horse on the cover
4. Read a book written by an author who identifies as gay or lesbian
5. Read a romance book

I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool
1. Read a book with fewer than 10,000 ratings on GR
2. Read a book whose title takes up the majority of the cover
3. Read a book that merges two or more different genres
4. Read a book written by a nonbinary author
5. Read a banned book

The Return of the Synth
1. Read a science fiction book
2. Read a book that an AI recommends to you (ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.)
3. Read a book that features a scientist
4. Read a book written by an author who uses a pseudonym
5. Read a book with a blue cover

If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It
1. Read a book written by an author who is indigenous to their homeland (Native American, First Nation, Aborigine, etc.)
2. Read a book from Reader’s Digests’ list of classics everyone should read: https://www.rd.com/list/classic-books/
3. Read a dark academia book
4. Read a book set or written in or before the 1800s
5. Re-read a book from your childhood

LINKS TO SPREADSHEET AND DISCORD
To help track your team points, strategize and communicate, we've created individual team spreadsheets and team discord channels. Any errors within it are mine—please let me know if you spot anything wonky.

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Discord: https://discord.com/channels/79136091...

Reminder: Mods will NOT use your spreadsheet to record points. This is for your team purposes only! Please make sure to post an accurate completion post or we will not count it!

PARTICIPANTS
zeenab
mina
Tayjah
Nelson
sera
Abigail
Allyson
Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫
Laura ☾
Ilsen

COMPLETION POST:
The mods are going to be needing this from every participant for every book they finish for us to be able to track everything better. Only books that have a completion post will be considered for scoring points. Here is the template:

Title:
Author:
Start Date:
Finish Date:
Category and task: (only one task per book read)
Graphic Novel? (Yes or no)
Buddy Read? (Yes or no)
Group Read? (Yes or no)
Pages: (if a graphic novel, please post original and halved numbers; ex: 244/122)
Review: [link of your review]

Please ensure you include the category and task number. It really helps us when we input into our master spreadsheet <3

Helloooo all! Looking forward to this

Hello everyone! This is my first time doing this challenge! I’m excited!

Heyy guys this is my first time doing this challenge and doing group and buddy reads. Can’t wait to get started! 🥳

Hi team :)
Looking forward to it too, although I may not be as active because currently I'm without full access to internet, but I'll try my best to read more than my usual.

Welcome to those new to the games, you are going to enjoy them (I really hope you do), and you'll meet amazing people.

@mina - yay! weren’t we on the same team last round too? Or was that the time before ?

And welcome to everyone new!

@laura
😂 i don't remember anymore, but since I participated almost from the beginning of the games every time it's highly possible.

hey!! first time doing this challenge so im pretty excited ;)) due to school i may not have as much free time to read but i'll try my best

Hey everyone! This is my first time doing this challenge. I’ll try to read as much as I can! Hoping this will be fun

I have a questions regarding the buddy read, is the book based on the nomination from the group (the procrastinator book club) or can we have our own buddy read?

It needs to be within the book club! But anyone within the book club can decide to do a buddy read and request for a thread to be made for it

@Nelson: Laura is right! For a buddy read to count for the challenge, it needs to take place in the group. This is just so that we can verify it really happened :)

✨faith✨trust✨pixiedust✨ wrote: "@Nelson: Laura is right! For a buddy read to count for the challenge, it needs to take place in the group. This is just so that we can verify it really happened :)"

Thank you for clarifying

I'm really excited, these are some of the books I am thinking of reading during the challenge.

Stop, Rock, and Roll
1. Read a book with a red cover 怪獣8号 1 Kaijū 8-gō 1
2. Read a book written by a neurodivergent author The Bell Jar
3. Listen to an audiobook
4. Read a book that won an award
5. Read a book about music

Jazzercise
1. Read a book set in or written during the Great Depression (1929-1939) The Grapes of Wrath
2. Read a book with a black and white cover The Stranger
3.Read a book written by a Black author Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
4. Read a book with a strong friendship (platonic) One-Punch Man, Vol. 2
5. Read a book set in a big city

Country Music Is Just Farm Emo
1. Read a book that has 500 pages or more
2. Read a book set in the Wild West
3. Read a book with a horse on the cover The Eye of the World
4. Read a book written by an author who identifies as gay or lesbian
5. Read a romance book Fourth Wing

I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool
1. Read a book with fewer than 10,000 ratings on GR
2. Read a book whose title takes up the majority of the cover Ready Player One
3. Read a book that merges two or more different genres
4. Read a book written by a nonbinary author
5. Read a banned book

The Return of the Synth
1. Read a science fiction book Aurora's End
2. Read a book that an AI recommends to you (ChatGPT, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.)
3. Read a book that features a scientist
4. Read a book written by an author who uses a pseudonym Assassin's Apprentice
5. Read a book with a blue cover Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life

If It’s Not Baroque, Don’t Fix It
1. Read a book written by an author who is indigenous to their homeland (Native American, First Nation, Aborigine, etc.)
2. Read a book from Reader’s Digests’ list of classics everyone should read: https://www.rd.com/list/classic-books/ The Catcher in the Rye
3. Read a dark academia book
4. Read a book set or written in or before the 1800s
5. Re-read a book from your childhood The Lightning Thief

Hi everyone! Happy Memorial Day if you're in the US and you observe 😊

This is my first team challenge with this group so I'm familiarizing myself with the rules and all. Are we able to double up on tasks, i.e. read the same prompts as others on our own team? Or is it one and done? I'm sure this is written somewhere...I'll go back and read again...

Hi Lindsay :D Welcome to the the games

You can read a book for the same task as another member, you can also read the the same task multiple times.

I don't know what I'm going to read because I'm not sure how much in a reading mood I'll be, but I saw some interesting buddy reads going on that I may join.

Hey everyone! So excited to start tomorrow!

Title: Stardust In Their Veins
Author: Laura Sebastian
Start Date: 1 June
Finish Date: 2 June
Category and task: Synth 5
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 576
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Have I Told You This Already?
Author: Lauren Graham
Start Date: 1 June
Finish Date: 1 June
Category and task: Rock 2
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 183
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 1
Author: Naoya Matsumoto
Start Date: June 3, 2023
Finish Date: June 3, 2023
Category and task: Stop, Rock, and Roll 1. Read a book with a red cover
Graphic Novel? Yes
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 212/106
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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SUMMER DAYS update June 4, 2023

We try to post updates each Sunday of this challenge for teams and solo participants. It might not be Sunday yet in some parts of the world but this is for consistency purposes.

TEAMS:
The Awesome Audiophiles: 17
The Vinyl Victors: 2
The Noble Napsters: 22
The Spotify Stans: 3
The Incredible iTunes: 4

The Misunderstood Artists:

Sarah: 1
Eva
Jesa
Josie
Noran
Becca
Catherine
Rachida
EbonyRae
Roxxanne
⚡️Samantha⚡️
Macey

This first week, The Noble Napsters and The Awesome Audiophiles have come in fast and strong! Everyone else is progressing well too though, and I'm excited to see what everyone reads this season :)

Happy reading!

❤︎ From the Procrastinator Mods

Title: Fourth Wing
Author: Rebecca Yarros
Start Date: 1 June
Finish Date: 3 June
Category and task: Country 1
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? yes
Pages: 528
Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Fire Falling
Author: Elise Kova
Start Date: 4 June
Finish Date: 4 June
Category and task:Jazz 4
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 378
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

@Nelson just as a note - please leave the page counts in the sheet blank until you've finished and logged a book - otherwise it counts the page points already. Thank you!

but @ mods there seems to be an issue with out spreadsheet as Nelson's completed prompt is not showing up in the totals for some reason? Not sure what's going on there

Laura ☾ wrote: "but @ mods there seems to be an issue with out spreadsheet as Nelson's completed prompt is not showing up in the totals for some reason? Not sure what's going on there"

hmm I'll look into it! It turns out I messed up the sheets quite a lot this time 😅😭

actually hahah it wasn't me this time! Nelson put 2024 on accident

Oh! I didn’t notice that - thanks Faith!

Are we supposed to log it in the sheet as well or just here?

@Ilsen that depends on what your team decided to do

Ok thank you. I’ll just log it in here for now

I would say both is great! But if you don’t feel like putting it in the sheet that’s fine I’ll log it later!

Ok thank you. I can do both!

Title: Legendborn
Author: Tracy Deon
Start Date: May
Finish Date: June 03
Category and task: Jazz 3
Graphic Novel? N
Buddy Read? N
Group Read? N
Pages: 280 (the 50% mark)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...

Laura ☾ wrote: "@Nelson just as a note - please leave the page counts in the sheet blank until you've finished and logged a book - otherwise it counts the page points already. Thank you!"

Gotcha, I don't usually used spreadsheets and really sorry if i made some changes to it.

@Nelson that’s absolutely fine! Just pointing it out and I just blanked out the page numbers for the ones you hadn’t marked finished! ☺️

Title: The Children on the Hill
Author: Jennifer McMahon
Start Date: 6/1/23
Finish Date: 6/3/23
Category and task: I Listened to Alternative Rock Before It Was Cool #3
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 338
Review: Review

Title: When Life Gives You Mangos
Author: Kereen Getten
Start Date: 6/3/23
Finish Date: 6/3/23
Category and task: Jazzercise #3
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 208 pages
Review: Review

Title: Something Wilder
Author: Christina Lauren
Start Date: 6/1/23
Finish Date: 6/3/23
Category and task: Stop, Rock, and Roll #3
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 384
Review: Review

Tayjah wrote: "Title: Legendborn
Author: Tracy Deon
Start Date: May
Finish Date: June 03
Category and task: Jazz 3
Graphic Novel? N
Buddy Read? N
Group Read? N
Pages: 280 (the 50% mark)
Review: https://www.goodr..."

Hey Tayjah! Sorry, but you can only count books you finished reading for this challenge! I'm sorry you didn't like the book though!

Also, you started reading it in May, so it wouldn't have counted anyway 😅

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Title: Paddle Your Own Canoe
Author: Nick Offerman
Start Date: 2 June
Finish Date: 7 June
Category and task:Rock 3
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 340
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Malevolent Seven
Author: Sebastian de Castell
Start Date: 6 June
Finish Date: 6 June
Category and task: Synth 5
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 384
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Awakening
Author: Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Start Date: 5 June
Finish Date: 6 June
Category and task: Alt Rock 3
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? yes
Pages: 436
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Ruthless Fae
Author: Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Start Date: 6 June
Finish Date: 7 June
Category and task:Alt Rock 3
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 475
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: Daisy Jones and the Six
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Start Date: June 6
Finish Date: June 8
Category and task: Rock 5
Graphic Novel? No
Buddy Read? No
Group Read? No
Pages: 355
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life
Author: William P. Green
Start Date: June 1, 2023
Finish Date: June 8, 2023
Category and task: Synth 5
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 303
Review https: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Title: normal people
Author: sally Rooney
Start Date: June 2
Finish Date: June 10
Category and task: (only one task per book read) Jazz 5
Graphic Novel? (Yes or no)no
Buddy Read? (Yes or no)yes
Group Read? (Yes or no)no
Pages: (if a graphic novel, please post original and halved numbers; ex: 244/122)161
Review: [link of your review]

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: The Reckoning
Author: Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Start Date: 7 June
Finish Date: 7 June
Category and task: Alt Rock 3
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 561
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Shadow Princess
Author: Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Start Date: 8 June
Finish Date: 8 June
Category and task:Alt Rock 3
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 724
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Cursed Fates
Author: Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Start Date: 9 June
Finish Date: 9 June
Category and task:Alt Rock 3
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 886
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Fated Throne
Author: Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Start Date: 10 June
Finish Date: 10 June
Category and task:Alt Rock 3
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 823
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Heartless Sky
Author: Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
Start Date: 11 June
Finish Date: 11 June
Category and task: Country 5
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? no
Group Read? no
Pages: 989
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Tayjah wrote: "Title: normal people
Author: sally Rooney
Start Date: June 2
Finish Date: June 10
Category and task: (only one task per book read) Jazz 5
Graphic Novel? (Yes or no)no
Buddy Read? (Yes or no)yes
G..."

Hey, unfortunately as I said last time, only books you read from start to finish count for this challenge

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SUMMER DAYS update June 11, 2023

We try to post updates each Sunday of this challenge for teams and solo participants. It might not be Sunday yet in some parts of the world but this is for consistency purposes.

TEAMS:
The Awesome Audiophiles: 54
The Vinyl Victors: 64
The Noble Napsters: 82
The Spotify Stans: 61
The Incredible iTunes: 37

The Misunderstood Artists:

Sarah: 1
Eva
Jesa
Josie
Noran
Becca
Catherine
Rachida
EbonyRae
Roxxanne
⚡️Samantha⚡️1
Macey
♛primadonna♛

Wow! The Noble Napsters maintain the lead this week! But a ton of progress in every group, so excellent job all around :)

Happy reading!

❤︎ From the Procrastinator Mods