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Team DEATH

• Eldarwen (Captain)
• Stacie (Co-Captain)
• Vivi
• Tati
• Nanci Drum
• LaurLa
• Shy
• Vicki
• Patrycja
• Iana Amke
• Rachel
• Kari
• Chandler


Challenge Status Sheet
Team Sheet

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• Lexi Koliner
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RULES of the Game

♕ Team Spreadsheet
♕ Countdown to Finish

Team Shelves
❅ Eldarwen
❅ Stacie
❅ Vivi
❅ Tati
❅ Nanci Drum
❅ LaurLa
❅ Shy
❅ Vicki
❅ Patrycja
❅ Iana Amke
❅ Rachel
❅ Kari
❅ Chandler
❅ Lexi Koliner

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Completion Post Sample
Book cover
Book: Title + Author
Date Read:
Rating: (optional)
Add verified word count where applicable:

Tasks/Bingo/etc the book works for:
- Number: Character (name + surname)
- Number: #... in series
- and so forth

Please add name and surname for characters every time, no matter which part works for the card.

Please add all possibilities for every book you complete in case we have to switch things around on the spreadsheet, unless you're reading for something specific. (This will take some time, I know, sorry!)

For BOMs, please link to your DQ answers, or the sets you have written.

Thanks guys :-)

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Book of the Month Links

May
YA: Dumplin -- starts May 16

Adult/Non-Fiction: The Foundling -- starts May 2

Discworld: Equal Rites -- starts May 22

June
Adult: The Midnight Library -- starts June 2

YA: The Firekeeper's Daughter -- starts June 16

Discworld: Mort -- starts June 22

Back Room: Prickly Business -- starts June 9

July
Adult BOM: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue -- starts July 2

YA BOM: The House on The Cerulean Sea -- starts July 16

Discworld BOM: Guards Guards -- starts July 22

Backroom BOM: Pumpkin Spiced Omega

Recommendations

set outside US/UK/NZ/AUS, from Sammy
From Team Luggage
From Team Carrot
From Team Angua Von Uberwald
set outside US/UK/NZ/AUS, from Melindam
From the Librarian
From Team Cheery Little Bottom
From Team Sam Vimes/Denise
From Team Sam Vimes/Melindam
From Team Archancellor Ridully
From Team Tiffany Aching
set outside US/UK/NZ/AUS, from Michelle, Team Luggage
set outside US/UK/NZ/AUS, from Deanna, Team Luggage
From Team Moist
From Team Rob Anybody
From Team Nanny Ogg
From Team Lady Sybill

Hello and Welcome to Team DEATH!



DEATH is one of my absolute favourite characters, and yes, for those of you who are not familiar with Discworld, DEATH indeed speaks in capitals.

For those of you who haven't followed the conversations in the Mended Drum, do not worry. You do not have to read the Discworld books even if our theme for Tower Teams 8 (eight! can you believe it?!) is Discworld. If you want to, great! There are even some BOMs set up for this. If you don't want to dip your toes into this series, no worries at all :-)

Now, for the important bits.



Read the rules. If you're unsure, please read them again. If you're still unclear, feel free to ask us team captains and we'll happily help you out.

Tower Teams is a fairly easy and straightforward challenge. You read what you enjoy and the longer the books, the more points we'll get :-)

Aside from that, you can participate in reading the books of the month, answering questions to garner even more points.

And then, there are some extra tasks that are there for the fun of it, to make it interesting, add a bit of a challenge and generally get us aaall the points.

Please remember to create your Tower Teams shelf if you haven't already done so. When you swing by, please post a link to it, thanks!

And last but not least, and the most important: HAVE FUN!

Hello teamies, checking in! Here's my shelf:

1-tower

Hello and welcome! :-)

Stopping by from The Luggage to say hi to team Death and some of my favorite people!

Michelle wrote: "Stopping by from The Luggage to say hi to team Death and some of my favorite people!"

Helloooo :-)

Hi Team, checking in.

Here's my self: tower-team-challenge

Checking in!! I might (MIGHT) dip my toes into the Discworld world... if I were to do that, where should I start???


here's my shelf:
nbrc-towerteams-8

Hey everyone! Excited for another round of TT!!

Here's my shelf, E. tt8-death

I've never been more upset to not be able to do all caps in a shelf tag before...

LaurLa wrote: "Checking in!! I might (MIGHT) dip my toes into the Discworld world... if I were to do that, where should I start???"

Oh, now there's a bit of a difficult question haha.
The very first book is The Color of Magic though if you don't know the world and the awesome characters yet, a lot of people say that this isn't the very best starting point.

There are also various story arcs revolving around some of the characters, such as Death, the City Watch, the Witches..

Personally, my introduction to Discworld was via the Death books, my very first was Hogfather and I absolutely loved it.

For ease of things, mods are going to set up Discworld BOMs you could join.

Equal Rites - first in the Witches arc (May)
Mort - first in the Death arc (June)
Guards! Guards! - first in the City Watch arc (July)

Vivi wrote: "Hi Team, checking in.

Here's my self: tower-team-challenge"

Hello and welcome :-)

Stacie wrote: "I've never been more upset to not be able to do all caps in a shelf tag before..."

Right?? That would've been so awesome haha.

Hey team DEATH

Just going to leave this here:



*runs for safety*

Hi Teammates! Nice to meet you all. Here is my bookshelf:

tt-viii

I've done a few TT challenges and I'm looking forward to reading with you all!

Hey hey :-)

hello everyone! here is my bookshelf:



tower-teams

hello, everyone!

this is my shelf:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Hello people! :-)

Hey!!! I sent a friend request to everyone on the team in case anyone is wondering who the weird random girl who sent them a friend request is!

Thanks Stacie!

Hello all! :) This is my first Tower Teams challenge and I can't wait for it to start!

Here is my shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Hi there! This is Team Rob Anybody dropping in!!



Can you all provide some book recommendations? We'll supply some in return if you wish.

Iana wrote: "Hello all! :) This is my first Tower Teams challenge and I can't wait for it to start!

Here is my shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."

Hello and welcome!
Tower Teams is a lot of fun, you'll see :-)

Hello teammates!
Here's my shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Excited for the game to begin!

Hey!!!

I've just requested the BOM The Lost Orphan from my library and it will be available for pick up in two days. I'm going to volunteer to write DQ for it.

Eldarwen,
I see you signed up to write DQs for . It should come into my library as an audio book within a week, so I'll read it also!

I'm hoping to also read for the BOM my first Discworld book! I'm going to claim it on the BOM thread for the DQs. I'm #1 on the waitlist at my library.

That BINGO card is crazy! I'm not sure about some of the symbols, but space 5F brings back memories! My friends and I were obsessed with those trolls growing up and I must have collected about 100 of them. We would play with them for hours in elementary school!

I think I'll be reading my first Discworld book soon too!

Nanci wrote: "Eldarwen,
I see you signed up to write DQs for . It should come into my library as an audio book within a week, so I'll read it also!"

That's awesome!
Hopefully it'll be a good book.

And I hope you'll enjoy the other one as well.

Kari wrote: "I think I'll be reading my first Discworld book soon too!"

Cool!

Are you going with the May BOM or a different one?

Nanci wrote: "I'm hoping to also read for the BOM my first Discworld book! I'm going to claim it on the BOM thread for the DQs. I'm #1 on the waitlist at my library."

I actually still need to get my hands on a copy of that one. I've only read very few of the many Discworld novels and this is not one I have sitting on my shelf.

Eldarwen wrote: "Kari wrote: "I think I'll be reading my first Discworld book soon too!"

Cool!

Are you going with the May BOM or a different one?"

I was thinking of what you suggested above, I kinda like reading in order (unless the first book is AWFUL) so I'll grab The Color of Magic first and then join the May BOM for Equal Rites. That's the plan so far...

Haha, no it isn't awful, but keep an open mind, and remember that other books are ever so slightly better ;-)

You do get a good sense of what the Discworld is like and Pratchett's writing style and humour.

Eldarwen wrote: "Haha, no it isn't awful, but keep an open mind, and remember that other books are ever so slightly better ;-)

You do get a good sense of what the Discworld is like and Pratchett's writing style an..."

I'll give it a shot, if I don't like it I'll jump to the next one. I have low expectations but I'm glad to hear it's not awful, lol.

Alright, Team DEATH!

Let's talk a little business here ;-)

If you look at the spreadsheet, you'll see various tabs with tasks, bingo and jackanory. Have a browse through, get familiar with the different things we're going to have to hunt down in books.

If you're a planner, go nuts!
If you read as you please, most books tend to fit various tasks without you having to try very hard.

One thing we need to do though:
5 of the tasks require us to read books that have been recommended by members from other teams. (5 tasks, 5 teams)

Other teams are of course also hunting for recommendations, so if you see an invite like the one from team Rob Anybody above, feel free to jump over to that thread to give them some recommendations!

And while you're there.. no harm in jumping in on some of the conversations either if you're of the chatty kind :-)

HELLO THERE TEAM DEA... *cough*

Sorry, I meant, hello there Team Death!

I thought I should come share my favourite Grim reaper with you all, it being perfectly themed and all... ;)



(in case anyone is wondering, Karl urban plays a character called John Grim in "Doom", and his call-sign is 'Reaper' ;) )

Do you know I still have not seen Doom??
I really have to remedy that... *dreamy eyes*

I haven't played TT before, so here's my first question (I'm sure I'll have others).
On the Task SS with the Sub-Series grouping, do we read just for the DEATH categories, or do we read for all of them, like Witches, City Watch, etc?

Karl Urban is dreamy...

Nanci wrote: "I haven't played TT before, so here's my first question (I'm sure I'll have others).
On the Task SS with the Sub-Series grouping, do we read just for the DEATH categories, or do we read for all of ..."

Eldarwen can correct me if I'm wrong but we can read for all of them :)

Eldarwen wrote: "Do you know I still have not seen Doom??
I really have to remedy that... *dreamy eyes*"

Yes, yes you really should. There's a scene where you get a beautiful close-up of those lovely eyes... after that, the movie could have been the worst thing ever made and I wouldn't have cared, lol!