This was fun as usual. It is not always easy to remember each character in a book in order to spell out a colour. We, as a group, had to spell out different colours using title, author and characters. I read 39 books for this challenge, unfortunately we were nowhere near the winning teams.
About this Challenge
◈ Starts on March 22, 2015 and runs for 8 weeks
◈ The team with the highest points at the end of the 8 weeks wins!
◈ Each week the mods will “spin the wheel" and assign each team a colour name
◈ The team's task is to read books to spell out the colour name for 10 points per letter for books of less than 500 pages and 20 points per letter for books of 500 pages or more
◈ The team will get an extra 15 completion points if all the letters in the colour name are part of their spell-it-out
◈ The team will get an additional 30 bonus points if at least one person in the group reads a book of that colour (the book cover must be about 50% of that colour)
◈ Once teams have read their colour name for the week they can "re-read" the colour name to gain more points (10 points per letter for books of less than 500 pages and 20 points per letter for books of 500 pages or more , but no additional completion points).
◈ BOM bonus: Have a team member write discussion questions for a day of a Book of the Month (BOM) and receive 20 points (limit one BOM bonus per book per team ; that is, if two of your teamies write DQs for the same BOM, you still only get 20 points). NOTE: You can volunteer on the BOM thread to write DQs. If we have more volunteers than days available 3 days prior to the BOM start, then the volunteers will be chosen using a randomizer. If you volunteer and do not write your allocated DQs without notice then you will not be eligible to nominate yourself again for the duration of this challenge
◈ Books must be more than 160 pages in length. Children's books, Graphic Novels, Cookbooks and Poetry books cannot be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 160 pages
◈Only books read during the specified week can be used (“read date” is what counts, not the day you start.) Books cannot be “banked” from previous weeks to use later in the challenge
How a "spell it out" works
Spell out the word(s) using the first letter in the book's title, the first letter in the author's first or last name, or the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter of the series name. As always, if the first letter of a title starts with an indefinite or definite article ('A', 'An', 'The', etc.), you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word. If you are listening to an audiobook, the first letter in the narrator's first or last name also can be used
Colours
We are using crayola colours for the wheel, and the “base” colour this responds to are listed under the spoiler
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Challenge requirements
IMPORTANT: To be a part of this challenge you need to be able to:
◈ Read at least one book per week
◈ Create a special shelf for the challenge for the books you are reading
◈ Check-in on your team's discussion thread at least once per week
◈ Have fun!
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About Team Captains
There will be no "special twists" for this challenge so your role is pretty easy for this challenge and you just need to:
* help motivate your team to complete the spell-it-out each week
* check that the books are posted within the right time frame and submit each week by posting to the captains group (Posts will be due each week by Sunday at noon, Australian Eastern Standard Time - convert this to your timezone here)
List of books:
- Opal Fire by Barbra Annino
- Something to Witch About by Amanda M. Lee
- Three Girls and a Baby by Rachel Schurig
- Got A Hold On You by Pat White
- The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
- Getting Lucky by Katie Graykowski
- Wait for the Rain by Maria Murnane
- Bloodstone by Barbra Annino
- Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
- Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö
- Sing for Me by Penelope Reece
- Louisiana Longshot by Jana Deleon
- Tastes Like Chicken by Johnny B. Truant
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Girl's Guide to Witchcraft by Mindy Klasky
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Maids of Misfortune by M. Louisa Locke
- The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
- THE CHRISTMAS KNITTING BEE by De-ann Black
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- A Little Love by Amanda Prowse
- The One Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
- Dead Heat by Patricia Briggs
- Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
- Hollywood Assassin by M.Z. Kelly
- Witch Hunt by S.M. Reine
- Ovenpå er der Stille by Gerbrand Bakker
- Malicious Mischief by Lora Young
- Raw Deal by Mark Henwick
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Take Three Birds by Jilli Lime-Holt
- Weingarten by J. Davis Bly
- Penelope by Anya Wylde
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- Avram Thief of Catland by James Bjorkman
- The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
- The Synchronicity War Part 1 by Dietmar Wehr
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