The Challenge Factory discussion

OVERVIEW

Roster:
Teddie
Susan
Krissy
Ariane
Stacey

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

Week 2 tasks
Week 1 tasks

GISH rules

Current Week: 2

TASKS:
Week 2 tasks
(June 17 - 23)
27 read a book where the MC uses the Internet
28 read a book set at a boarding school
29 read a book set in a hemisphere opposite than where you live
30 read a book with a lonely MC (your definition)
31 read a book that is tagged 'Mystery'
32 read a book written by a woman
33 read a book where the MC flies on an airplane
34 read a book with all the letters of LOGO in the title (there must be two Os)
35 read a book with flowers on the cover
36 read a non-fiction book
37 read a book with any type of vehicle on the cover
38 read a book that has more than one cover
39 read a book written by an author whose first, middle or last name begins with C, P, or K
40 read a book from the Books with a Song Name as the Title list
41 read a book from your own personal TBR list
42 read a book set during the summertime
43 read a book where the MC bakes bread or cookies
44 read a book first published in the 1980s
45 read a book where the MC has a tattoo
46 read a 4th book of a series
47 read a book with a title that begins with H, O or A (you may NOT use a title that begins with "The")
48 read a book with a non-rooster farm animal in the book (The animal must have a name. It can be just a mention.)
49 read a book that is on the Girl Power list
50 read a book where the MC is or was a professional athlete
51 read a book where the MC is or was in the military
52 read a book where a president, prime minister, king, or queen is a significant character

Past Weeks:

WEEK 1
Completion post
Tasks

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Hi Team! I love meeting new people and getting new book suggestions with fun GR challenges like this - I always end up reading a book for a task that I probably wouldn't have picked up or known about otherwise.

I know I've played on teams with Stacey and Susan before - Hi again!
Look forward to meeting you Krissy and Ariane :)

I read a bit of everything but especially like fantasy, sci fi, and mysteries.

Please introduce yourselves, and if you have any ideas re: a team name, throw those in!

Hi team! And captain ;)
I love challenges like this!
I mostly read fantasy, sci fi and mysteries too, although I read a bit of everything.
I am in Belgium and sorry if I make mistakes, English is not my first language
I'll browse my TBR to find the book, because it is only one book a week, right?

Hi Teddie! Thanks for captaining us late arrivals. :)

Hello Team! I'm horrible at team names, so I'll leave that up to the more creative of us. I'm in North Carolina, and lean heavily towards romance in my reading, but am happy to read just about anything except cozy mysteries and high fantasy.

I have a book planned that fits about 4 tasks -- should I just pick which ones I want or should we decide which ones we think might be the highest point getters before I post?

And question on the buddy read thing -- can it be just within the team as long as we start a thread? Or does it have to be a group wide buddy read? ETA -- Actually there is one already started for the book I was going to read. Now I'm wondering if I should pick a different book?

Hi Stacey! what is the book you wanted to read and what tasks does it fit? In case someone wants to buddy read it
I can find a book for tasks 6, 7 and 22. Unfortunately, it is in French so I guess no buddy read :)

Hi Ladies!

Stacey, re: the Buddy Reads: if you want to read a book for a Group Buddy Read, you can do so without anyone else on our team joining. Otherwise, we can create a Team Buddy Reads each week for a book - or 2 I suppose, as long as there are 2 people from our team per book. (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...)

Ariane wrote: "Hi Stacey! what is the book you wanted to read and what tasks does it fit? In case someone wants to buddy read it
I can find a book for tasks 6, 7 and 22. Unfortunately, it is in French so I guess ..."

Which book are you looking at? Maybe there is an English translation? :)

I like the idea of trying to get the highest points, basing guess on which tasks we think are the trickiest.. hmm

I guess if I were to pick the top 5 tricky (or most specific) tasks, they would be:
6. 3 Ps in the Title
10. Set in Italy or with Italian character
14. MC is First Responder
18. MC is an immigrant
26. Person's first name in the title

Next 5 would be:
1. Scene happens at a beach
15. Fruit on cover or in title
13. Illustrations or drawing in it
16. First Pub 10 years ago (2014)
24. Hat on the cover

I'd put the list on there, but it's got over 1000 books so...

but who knows really. Maybe a good rule per week would be to make sure your book hits 2 tasks. And maybe we try to have a weekly Buddy Read if no one is reading for a Group BR that week?

Also, I made a tracking sheet for us, but if anyone would rather just post to the thread, that's ok too (I'll just update the ss.) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Ok, looking at the original GISH tasks, and know that is who's setting the difficulty points, (vs the challenge book task)
... wearing a beret made of raspberries while shopping in a secondhand store - practical if you get hungry while shopping.
... the wombat poop one might be tricky - LOL.

Hi team! I am Krissy. I'm excited to play. I have been participating in team challenges on GR for about 14+ years now but I've never played this one before! I'm currently playing 4 at the moment. This will be 5. I prefer audiobooks since I can listen at work. I read everything except anything overly religious or political. My go to is MM romance and my second go to is mystery/thriller. But I'll read from any genre.

I will sit down later today to read over the tasks in more detail

Sorry, everyone -- notifications weren't working for this thread.

I was looking at which works for Hat on the cover, spicy, 3 in the page count, read when I was younger, MC under 30 and paperback. There is a BR already set up for 2 other readers -- but I wasn't sure if I could just hop into that?

Teddie, drinker of the bitter invention of Satan wrote: "Ariane wrote: "Hi Stacey! what is the book you wanted to read and what tasks does it fit? In case someone wants to buddy read it
I can find a book for tasks 6, 7 and 22. Unfortunately, it is in Fre..."

I doubt it, it is on KU, I guess self published: Loup, Gargouille & Prophéties (Le Monde de Draven Vixen)
It has the 3P's, which is, to me, one of the trickiest.

Hi Krissy!

Stacey - if you see a Buddy Read already there, you can join it - just add the link to the tracking sheet (or post if you prefer.)

Ariane, I agree that the 3P in the title is one of the tougher challenge tasks - the corresponding GISH task (where the difficulty points are assigned) is: 6. Re-enact the experience of your birth, using only shadow puppets.

I would say you want to read the book and can find another weekly task that it works for - go for it! :)

I'm looking at:

just came off hold, and will work for
7. MC is Grandparent OR under 30
18. MC is an immigrant

or


3. All letters of ART in the Author's Name
25. BOOKS THAT WON'T WASTE YOUR TIME list (#160)

Thinking about a team name - our initials anagram to TASKS - seems auspicious.

TASKSmasters

or, because of 13: Bakers Dozen

or...?

Hi there, I'm Susan and I lived in Las Vegas, NV my whole life and then packed up and moved to Reno, NV a year ago. I've been married for 38 years and we have 7 kids (6 boys and 1 girl) we also have 12 grandkids.

I've been on Goodreads for 16 years (I had to look it up but I knew I've been on for a long time) I have been a long time addict to challenges. Challenges have helped me expand my love of different genres.

I love fantasy, mystery/thriller and rom-com. I also like sci-fi that doesn't go over my head.

I'm really excited for this challenge

Do we each read a different prompt or can multiple people read for the same prompt? I'm making sure before I start any books tomorrow

Susan wrote: "Do we each read a different prompt or can multiple people read for the same prompt? I'm making sure before I start any books tomorrow"

Hi Susan!

You can read for any task regardless of what others are the team are reading. Try for a book that hits 2 tasks (max per book.) You can also join an existing Buddy Read or do a BR with at least 1 other team member.

Tomorrow I'm starting

It will cover the #14 First Responder prompt

Teddie, drinker of the bitter invention of Satan wrote: "Susan wrote: "Do we each read a different prompt or can multiple people read for the same prompt? I'm making sure before I start any books tomorrow"

Hi Susan!

You can read for any task regardles..."

Thank you Teddie

After reading the synopsis I think it will cover the spicy prompt (#17)

We're off!

Here's what it looks like we're reading this week:

Ariane: Loup, Gargouille & Prophéties - 2 tasks
Krissy: Worry - 2 tasks
Stacey: Heartless - 2 tasks - BUDDY READ
Susan: Grumpy Next Door Firefighter - 2 tasks
Teddie: The Crystal Cave - 2 tasks

I've filled in the basics on our tracking sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
but please update anything as needed.

Happy reading!

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Book #1

●Worry by Alexandra Tanner
●Tasks it Fits: #3 (ART in the author's name), #7 (MC is under 30 years old), #15 (read a book with fruit on the cover), #19 (read a book where the MC has a pet)
●Eta: also fits scene at the beach

I'll figure out the final 2 after I see what tasks have been used 🙂🙂

Krissy wrote: "📚🎧📚🎧📚🎧📚🎧

Book #1

●Worry by Alexandra Tanner
●Tasks it Fits: #3 (ART in the author's name), #7 (MC is under 30 years old) & #15 (read a book with fruit ..."

Sounds good! You can pick the two tasks you think might get the most difficulty points (anyone's guess though) - tasks can be repeated across the team.

So, as I have a bit of a sugar craving this am, our new name is:

Baker's Dozen

and every delicious name deserves a banner:



(edit: I can't get over how badly GR is compressing images at this point - just a blurfest - arg.)

Great name, that you Captain!

Book #1

Grumpy Next Door Firefighter by Blair Brown
Date Read: 6/10/24
Pages: 189 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Task #1- 14. MC is a first responder (MC was a firefighter)
Task #2- 17. read a book that some might consider spicy (it was spicy alright)

Do we only read one book a week or can we do more?

I have Heartless I could Buddy read if we're allowed to do more then one book

By the way I LOVE the team name. Awesome job on the picture too

Susan wrote: "Do we only read one book a week or can we do more?

I have Heartless I could Buddy read if we're allowed to do more then one book"

Glad you like our name and banner!

Just 1 book per team member per week. We'll have a little more time to plan for next round - perhaps a couple of us can settle on a good buddy read book to do :)

Completion Post

Book and Author: by Elsie Silver
Date Read: 6/12/24
Pages: 432
GISH task: #24. Hat on the cover
2nd GISH task: # 21. 3 or 0 in the page count
Buddy Read: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Week 2's tasks have been posted in the GISH II info, rules, and tasks thread.

Completion Post

Book #1

Book: Loup, Gargouille & Prophéties
Author: Draven Vixen
Date Read: 6/14/24
Pages: 251
Task #1- 6. Read a book with 3 Ps in the title
Task #2- 22. Read a book a mythical creature in it. Plenty of them: werewolf, witch, vampire, familiar, etc...

Hi, I have found two books that I coul read for next week, if someone is interested in a buddy read:
A Great and Terrible Beauty: strong girls list and boarding school
The Kingdom Over the Sea: two "o" and type of vehicle on cover or more than one cover

Those look good Ariane - I'm going to poke around next week's tasks and maybe throw out a couple options too - I'll keep a list here. Then we can decide on Buddy Reads before the next week starts.

(The spreadsheet is also updated with next week's tasks.)

WEEK 2 OPTIONS:

Ariane: 49. strong girls list 28. boarding school

Ariane: 37. type of vehicle on cover 38. more than one cover

Teddie: 49. on Girl Power list, 52. President Snow is character, 39. author last name begins with C

I'm going to throw Catching Fire out there as a buddy read idea (49. on Girl Power list, 52. President Snow is character, 39. author last name begins with C ) - need to read it for Book Games buddy read as well.

I'm also looking at Hexed for the 45. tattoo and 47. starts with H -- its #2 in the series, but wouldn't be hard to read without reading #1 - standalone plots with background / character continuation.

COMPLETION POST

Book #1

●Worry by Alexandra Tanner
●Completed: 6/11
●Tasks it Fits: #7 (MC is under 30 years old) & #15 (read a book with fruit on the cover)

Week 1: June 10 - 16

Book: Loup, Gargouille & Prophéties by Draven Vixen
Read by: Ariane
Completed: 06/14/24
Page Count: 251 pages
GISH Task: 6. 3 Ps in the Title
How it Qualifies: louP, gargouille and ProPheties
GISH Task: 22. Mythical Creature in it
How it Qualifies: Plenty of them: werewolf, witch, vampire, familiar, etc
Points: 0

Book: Worry by Alexandra Tanner
Read by: Krissy
Completed: 06/11/24
Page Count: 304 pages
GISH Task: 7. MC is Grandparent OR under 30
How it Qualifies: MC under 30
GISH Task: 15. Fruit on cover or in title
How it Qualifies: fruit on the cover
Points: 0

Book: Heartless by Elsie Silver
Read by: Stacey
Completed: 06/12/24
Page Count: 432 pages
GISH Task: 24. Hat on the cover
How it Qualifies: hat on cover
GISH Task: 21. 3 or 0 in Page Count
How it Qualifies: 432 pages
Buddy Read: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 50

Book: Grumpy Next Door Firefighter by Blair Brown
Read by: Susan
Completed: 06/10/24
Page Count: 189 pages
GISH Task: 14. MC is First Responder
How it Qualifies: MC is a firefighter
GISH Task: 17. Some might consider spicy
How it Qualifies: book is definitely spicy!
Points: 0

Book: The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
Read by: Teddie
Completed: 06/14/24
Page Count: 494 pages
GISH Task: 25. BOOKS THAT WON'T WASTE YOUR TIME list
How it Qualifies: #160 on list
GISH Task: 3. All letters of ART in the Author's Name
How it Qualifies: mARy sTewart
Points: 0

Weekly Points: 50
TOTAL POINTS: 50

Great job donuts! ;)

We are all checked in for Week 1 - next we'll see how we do for points.

We can't start week 2 books until Monday - here are the current contenders for a team Buddy Read next week.

Here's where other Buddy Reads are going - totally cool to join one of these as well.

What's everyone reading for GISH this week?

I'm going to read One Dark Window. It's due at the library at the end of the week and fits a few tasks -- so win/win.

Do you know when the points will be added to our tasks?

I'm not sure about when we'll see points per tasks - I'm just seeing "You won't find out each task's points until after every team has reported their Completion Posts."

One Dark Window looks good - I added that to my tbr.

@Ariane - I'm up for doing A Great and Terrible Beauty Buddy Read if you still want to read it this week?

Teddie, drinker of the bitter invention of Satan wrote: "I'm not sure about when we'll see points per tasks - I'm just seeing "You won't find out each task's points until after every team has reported their Completion Posts."

One Dark Window looks good ..."
I can do that :)

Ok, I requested the set up of the buddy read - I'll post the link here when its ready.

Anyone else can join!

Here's the Buddy Read thread for A Great and Terrible Beauty: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Points are in for our Week 1 - I've updated the spreadsheet, and you can see the full list here.

Seeing the points, I guess they are quite random.
So buddy reading is what will make the difference?