Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Team Kangchenjunga




Team Members
• Lisa - Captain
• Apoorv - Co-Captain
• Melissa - Co-Captain
• Lucy
• Mary C
• Jackie
• Amanda
• Stacey Crudden
• Aimi
• Janine
• Navi
• Cordelia





Team Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Challenge Status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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⛰️ Welcome to Team Kangchenjunga ⛰️



Kangchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world, towering along the border of Nepal and India, and honestly? That feels fitting for us. This climb isn’t about racing to the summit alone — it’s about steady teamwork, pacing ourselves, helping each other over the rough spots, and celebrating every bit of progress along the way.

Our team vibe is simple:
Read what you want. Enjoy the challenge. Cheer each other on. And when the opportunity comes up, maybe make the occasional tiny team-minded choice that helps us all climb a little higher.

No pressure. No sacrificing your entire TBR to the mountain gods. Just cozy competitiveness, teamwork, and a lot of books.

📚 General Info + Rules

🗂️ Team Planning Spreadsheet:

🏔️ Team Kangchenjunga Climbers 🏔️
🦦 Lisa - Captain
Apoorv - Co-Captain
Melissa - Co-Captain
Lucy
Mary C
Jackie
Amanda
🦦 Stacey Crudden
Aimi
🦦 Janine
Navi
Cordelia

Use this thread for:
📖 reading updates
🎯 planning + strategy
✨ cheering each other on
💀 recovering from emotionally catastrophic books
🏔️ gentle mountain-climbing propaganda

One page at a time, we climb. 💙

🏔️ Team Kangchenjunga Planning Basecamp 🏔️



Our Planning Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

This is where we map the climb, stash the supplies, and attempt to convince the mountain gods we are organized.

All books should be entered under the 📚 “Books” 📚 tab.
The main sheet is for captains/co-captains only — so if you find yourself requesting access, you’ve wandered onto the wrong trail.

📖 What We Need From You 📖
We added a few extra columns to help us track challenges, move books around when needed, and prevent complete expedition chaos.

📅 Publication Year
Please include the original publication year whenever possible — it’ll help a lot with ladder planning and future task sorting.

🔤 Series / AFN / ALN / Character Name
These help with spell-outs, searching, and saving captains from manually digging through thousands of entries like exhausted mountain archaeologists.

⛰️ Expedition Status Colors ⛰️
To help track where books are on the climb:
⬜ GREY — Read, shelved, and moved to the official sheet
🟥 RED — Moved, but not read and/or not shelved
🟨 YELLOW — Read, but not shelved
🟩 GREEN — Read and shelved, but not moved

💬 Important Expedition Notes 💬
Please fill in as much detail as possible when adding books. The more information we have, the easier it is for captains/co-captains to rearrange things, cross-check tasks, and keep Team Kangchenjunga steadily climbing.

There may be times we need to shuffle books around to make prompts fit or complete difficult tasks. We’ll always try to make smart swaps, not chaotic goblin decisions.

BUT — if there’s a book you absolutely do not want moved under any circumstances, just let us know and we’ll leave it safely anchored where it is.

📚 BOM Climbing Crew 📚
BoM Details
Joining BOM discussions is a great way to pick up extra points while climbing Kangchenjunga together instead of wandering the mountain alone with a flashlight and emotional damage.

🏔️May
The Will of the Many by James Islington starts on 16 May
Link to BOM Discussion


The Astral Library by Kate Quinn starts on 25 May
Link to BOM Discussion


🏔️June

⛰️ Hello from one of your Kangchenjunga captains! ⛰️

I’m Lisa! I mostly read MM romance, fantasy, paranormal chaos, emotional damage disguised as entertainment, and the occasional book that completely derails my reading plans in the best way.

I love team challenges because I genuinely enjoy the mix of strategy, spreadsheets, cheering people on, and the very specific group energy of “we are all just trying our best against this enormous mountain of books.” My general reading style is somewhere between cozy reader and mildly overcommitted goblin.

For Team Kangchenjunga, my goal is pretty simple:
Have fun, help where I can, encourage everyone along the climb, and maybe — just maybe — avoid being spiritually defeated by the mountain. 😌

I’m always happy to help with finding books for prompts, sorting spreadsheet chaos, BOM planning, or enabling terrible “well technically this fits” decisions.

📚 Please introduce yourself when you check in! A few fun things you can include:
• what you like to read
• favorite genres/authors
• your reading style (carefully planned vs chaotic mountain raccoon)
• your Tower Teams goals
• whether you like minis/BOMs/team strategy
• your current read or next planned book 👀

My current reading mood:
📚 emotionally devastating but worth it
✨ found family
⚔️ fantasy nonsense
🐺 shifters probably
💀 books that make me stare at the wall afterward

Excited to climb with all of you this season! 🏔️

📚 Please introduce yourself when you check in! A few fun things you can include:
• what you like to read
• favorite genres/authors
• your reading style (carefully planned vs chaotic mountain raccoon)
• your Tower Teams goals
• whether you like minis/BOMs/team strategy
• your current read or next planned book 👀
• Link to your shelf or your shelf name