Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Team members:

Bubbles
Jacqueline
Natasha
Rachel
Upton

Blurbs about each wheel

Completion points per monster by Wheel:
◈ Greek, Asian, Urban Legends and Fictional Humans – 20 points per monster
◈ Dr. Who, Vegi-might, Discworld and Holiday – 30 points per monster
◈ Bad Romance, Overly Specific and World Villains -40 points per monster

About this Challenge

◈ Starts on Jan 16, 2026 and runs for SIX weeks (ending Feb 27)
◈ The start / end time for each round will be 9pm UK time
◈ The team with the highest points at the end of the game wins!
◈ Each team will be made up of five players, and each player will get 5 books every two weeks.
◈ You will create your own team and should be of people who can commit to five books over a 2-week period. Other than the 10 shared across the team. People will not be allowed extra books if someone is under-reading. If real life happens, and someone needs to switch out, you need to find your own alternate. There will be a thread for finding teams.
◈ Each team will get an extra 10 books for the two-week period to share between members. One member cannot read all 10 books by themselves.
◈ Teams may make a private group to discuss monsters and planning. A moderator will have access to the spreadsheet to verify that books are being entered correctly, and no one is over-reading.
◈ Each team can have up to five monsters active (on the spreadsheet) at once
◈ Each monster has a set of required tasks that must be completed in order to vanquish the monster. Books can be used to complete more than one task, but only for the same monster. If you can find a single book that meets all five tasks, congratulations, you defeated the monster with just one book.
◈ Monsters are assigned at random and may be repeated by the same team/individual. However, you can request a re-spin if you already have the monster on your spreadsheet or this would be the third time that you would have this monster during the entire 6-week period.
◈ Usual rules hold on location (must be over 50% of the book) and color cover (must be over 50% of the cover).
◈ Only books STARTED after the challenge begins can count
◈ Books must be at least 100 pages in length

I honestly don't have too much of a clue what this challenge is about but it looks fun. I am glad we were able to all team up. Do any of you have team name ideas? Do we need a secret group?

I'm with you Rachel, I think this looks like a hoot from what I gathered on the monster wheel page.

I have no idea what to do for a name, but I will think on it.

I am glad that I am not the only one who’s not sure what the challenge entails. It sounded like fun and I am ready to slay some monsters!…lol

Hello everyone! :)

Hello! Happy to be a on team with everyone!

Welcome everyone!

I like that the Jersey Devil is on the urban legends wheel since I'm from New Jersey.

I loved the Wheel of Bad Romance. So funny.

Do we have a wheel we will want to start with? I wonder if we are able to do a monsters from different wheels at the same time. I might ask in the Q and A unless I find the answer.

Completion points per monster by Wheel:
◈ Greek, Asian, Urban Legends and Fictional Humans – 20 points per monster
◈ Dr. Who, Vegi-might, Discworld and Holiday – 30 points per monster
◈ Bad Romance, Overly Specific and World Villains -40 points per monster

It would make sense if the 40-point monsters are more involved. We might want to possibly knock them out ASAP. I don't have a personal preference if someone else would like to pick a staring place.

Some possible team names:

Monster Mashers
Beast Busters
Creature Killers
Nightmare Slayers
Grim Slayers

Also more than happy if someone else has ideas. I just got these from google.

Also my question was answered: Yes, 5 from any combo you’d like.

All from one wheel or one from 5 different ones. Or some combo in between.

Now that I am looking at the rules a bit closer and see we need to do some strategic planning, maybe we should have a secret group. Rachel suggested it off the bat. Anyone else have a thought?

I think I like Grim Slayers the best, but I am partial to Nightmare Slayers and Creature Killers as well.

Grim Slayers!!

I like Grim Slayers and Nightmare Slayers a close second!
Agree, that we need to plan especially if we would like to do a buddy read.

Question: When it comes to the 12 book recommendations… are they generated from our TBR pile or books we read already and enjoyed?
I ask because the we cannot read the books fom our list only our teammates.

Teammates,
Disregard the question on the recommendation list.
I am participating in another challenge as well.

Grim Slayers is fine with me.

We have 8 days until the challenge starts. Do we want to plan early or wing it? Do we want to have a secret group or plan in this thread?

How soon can we spin the wheel(s)? I prefer planning, especially since I have so many book challenges I'm doing.

I don't see any reason we can't put in a spin request once we decide what we want to do. I don't know how fast we will get the tasks and we haven't gotten a spreadsheet yet.

Because we can have a combo of monsters going from different wheels maybe we should each choose a wheel (listed in message 1) to get a monster from for the start. We can work on all the monsters as a group but I was thinking it would be a fun way to decide which 5 to start with. They can be the same wheel or all different or a combo.