Challenge Corner discussion

Team Pinocchio:
Michelle ✔
Jessie (Saffity) ✔
Bubbles ✔
esther ⭐️ (in school) ✔
Trisha ✔
Ashley ✔
Jax ✔

Q&A: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hello! checking in!

Trisha wrote: "Hello! checking in!

Game planning books:

Dwarves List - The House in the Cerulean Sea (on page 12)
Royalty (if no one else has a book) maybe Lord Edgware Dies (#363..."

Got you checked in! I'll let you all know what three characters you will be starting off with tomorrow morning!

yay! thank you!!

Hello team! Checking in :)

Hello Everyone..Checking in

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Checking in!

Got you all checked in!

Hello team!

Your spreadsheet, Round 1 tab, has been updated with your first three characters: Aladdin, Pocahontas, & Quasimodo! Please remember that the challenge begins on 8/1 and that you only need to finish 4 tasks (out of the 8) before getting a new character.


FYI —this will be what the colors mean for the same round.
Light Orange will be a new character.
Light Purple will be when you complete the first 4 out of 8 tasks.
Dark Orange will be the new character you have but need to complete the remaining 4 tasks.
Dark Purple will be a fully completed character.

okay, I'm going to try to tackle the tougher tasks each round so we have an easier second round!


so for these first three, I'll try to tackle:

Aladdin -
Undercover book shelf - Creation Lake DONE

quasimodo -
Letters E,S,M,E,R,A,L,D,A in title (in any order) - The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective DONE

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Pocahontas -
author initials in SMITH - The Retirement Plan (author: Sue Hincenbergs)
gold cover - The Original Daughter


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but, of course, if anyone completes books first and we get done with a character - then I'll save my books for round 2!!

I'm just going to read the books I have on my list and see where I can fit them! Right now I'm mid summer with two kids 5 and 2 and I don't have the brain power for strategy XD

Yes, that sounds perfect! That's why I figured I'd try to take a few tough ones and plan them out - I have the books and the free time to try to get books of my shelves! lol

I have so many ARCs to get through right now... I may have gone a touch overboard on NetGalley... oops.

If it is okay, I am going to put my planned first read on the spreadsheet so no one else does the same one lol

Adding Ashley to the team everyone!

Alaina wrote: "Adding Ashley to the team everyone!"

Welcome Ashley!!

Bubbles wrote: "If it is okay, I am going to put my planned first read on the spreadsheet so no one else does the same one lol"

of course!

Hello Ashley!

Hiya!

Ashley wrote: "Hiya!"

Got you checked in!

I have to dive back into spreadsheets and remember how to play lol

I never knew finding an author with initials in genie would be so hard lol

Ashley wrote: "I never knew finding an author with initials in genie would be so hard lol"

Right! so many look easy but are actually really tough!

Ashley wrote: "I never knew finding an author with initials in genie would be so hard lol"

Wow, no kidding. I'm looking through my books and it is not looking good lol

I did end up finding one sorting my want to read list alphabetical I had 2 whole choices ! I'm going to start with that I have to see if my next audio fits into anything in those categories too

I found a few options if you can't find any Trisha. They are all on my TBR so they work for my challenges this month :)

Bubbles wrote: "I found a few options if you can't find any Trisha. They are all on my TBR so they work for my challenges this month :)"

YES! Grab any and all you are hoping to read! especially if they are already on that TBR! lol I hope they are good reads!

I have a bunch of buddy reads and books from publishers that I need to get to so hopefully I can fit them somewhere on there!

Okay, I have already gone off track. I jumped to another book instead of the disfigured list lol. Sorry, I am such a mood reader that I really should just read and shove it somewhere it fits :P

I did log and put it in the review log so working on 2 now.

If anyone has a book for anything I put down and finishes first go ahead and change it lol I am only 5% into book I also keep getting distracted

Adding Jax to the team everyone!

Welcome Jax!!

Hello, looking things over now. Happy to join the team. If anyone wants a buddy read for something let me know.

Hello Jax!

Jax wrote: "Hello, looking things over now. Happy to join the team. If anyone wants a buddy read for something let me know."

Got you checked in!

Jax wrote: "Hello, looking things over now. Happy to join the team. If anyone wants a buddy read for something let me know."

I've posted your banked book - but if you want credit for the BOTM, you'll want to leave at least 4 comments on the BOTM thread!

You can post new comments or you can respond to others. Otherwise, no worries, I posted it without the extra points!

I think we finally have a character done - and we'll get a new one! I'm trying to put my completed books all over the spreadsheet - especially if they are tougher tasks. I'll post them as soon as we have that character assigned because the books are already read.

If you are working on a task AFTER we have the character done for the first time, you can save your book and wait for us to get it assigned for a second time OR you can move your book to an active character.

But the first round, we can only post 4 tasks per character until we get them a second time (reminder just in case anyone didn't know this challenge!)

Trisha wrote: "I think we finally have a character done - and we'll get a new one! I'm trying to put my completed books all over the spreadsheet - especially if they are tougher tasks. I'll post them as soon as w..."

I forgot this lol so only the ones that are "blue" are assigned then the rest we do next round?

Ashley wrote: "Trisha wrote: "I think we finally have a character done - and we'll get a new one! I'm trying to put my completed books all over the spreadsheet - especially if they are tougher tasks. I'll post th..."

the ones that are peach - all the way to the left - are assigned.

the only way we can tell if someone has posted the book is the boxes to the left - the "completed" box and "reviewed" box

only click those if you're done and have posted your book in the review thread

Trisha wrote: "Jax wrote: "Hello, looking things over now. Happy to join the team. If anyone wants a buddy read for something let me know."

I've posted your banked book - but if you want credit for the BOTM, you..."

I've got 2 responses in the BOTM thread already, once I get two more do I just update the spreadsheet?

Jax wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Jax wrote: "Hello, looking things over now. Happy to join the team. If anyone wants a buddy read for something let me know."

I've posted your banked book - but if you want credit fo..."

We both read the same book Jax, and finished the same day. I'm under racism, you're under June publish date.

And yes, 2 more responses and you get extra points, just let Trisha know and she'll update her post.

Also HI! Welcome to the monthly challenge!

Jax wrote: "I've got 2 responses in the BOTM thread already, once I get two more do I just update the spreadsheet?"

typically yes! If you'd like, I can delete the post I did for you and, once you have 2 more responses, you can post your own post?

my brain is melting now lol I just posted for Pocahontas SMITH initials but if we only have to do 4 that was done should I remove review for later? or leave it.................

It is already marked as completed so I would say leave it. It is okay!

I forgot too and thought we had to fill them ALL up lol.

Ashley wrote: "my brain is melting now lol I just posted for Pocahontas SMITH initials but if we only have to do 4 that was done should I remove review for later? or leave it................."

Um, up to you! Alaina just won't add it yet, she'll put it on hold until we get the character again! We'll make it back, so it will get used! We just got to get moving through them and we'll get back!

i should have genie author done tonight/tomorrow

I think we are doing pretty good!

Jessie (Saffity) wrote: "Jax wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Jax wrote: "Hello, looking things over now. Happy to join the team. If anyone wants a buddy read for something let me know."

I've posted your banked book - but if you wa..."

I saw that as soon as I posted it. Got confused but it all worked out.

Congrats! You have completed the first four tasks of Pocahontas! Your new character is Hercules!