#THEREADINGQUEST is being hosted by the amazing Aentee @ Read at Midnight. The STUNNING ART was created by CW @ Read Think Ponder. It’s a bingo-style readathon with a video game twist. Instead of just picking out a line you choose a character’s (Knight, Bard, Mage, Rogue) path to follow. It’s running from Sunday 13th August to Sunday 10th September, 2017. You get points for books, pages and completing quests and have an overall level – THERE’LL BE PRIZES!! IT LOOKS LIKE SO MUCH FUN! Definitely go check out Aentee’s Sign Up post (you can sign up until 13th August) because she goes into a lot more detail about all the rules and information!
(Want your own character card? Aentee has templates in her sign up post!)
As you can see I’m choosing to be a Rogue because I like pretending I’m a rebel. There are optional challenges and you can complete more than one quest, but because I’m participating in like 48292 readathons this much I just have a TBR for the main quest I’ll be doing.
So I’ll be (HOPEFULLY) reading the following books:
Banned book: Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers || 246 Pages
Book cover with a partially covered face: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas || 438 Pages
A book with under 500 ratings on Goodreads: Vigilante by Kady Cross || 260 Pages
A book published by a small press: The New Human Beings by Beau Taplin || 80 Pages
A book with a one word title: Release by Patrick Ness || 287 Pages
If I complete every book I’ll finish with a total of 130 EXP, 142 HP and be LEVEL 3. It’s nothing massive, but I don’t want to put too much pressure on myself it’s why I chose such short books. I’ll be updating my progress along the way on Twitter so be sure to follow me there if you want to see how I’m going!
DOWNLOAD: .xlsx file // Google Sheets
The past few days I’ve been working on a ridiculous spreadsheet that automatically calculates all the points you earn for the readathon. It started off as just covering one quest and the optional challenges, but then I eventually got it to covering ALL QUESTS and the optional challenges. Did I need to do this? No. I wanted to try and prove to myself that I could though. It’s been a while since I’ve really challenged myself or used my Digital Media certificate lmao so. It’s still not 100% perfect, but I feel pretty smart for figuring out the majority of the formulas for everything. A couple people expressed interest in Twitter so I thought I’d share the final version here too in case anyone was interested.
HOW IT WORKS
Unless you’re familiar with Excel then please DO NOT do any of the following:
- Change the position of cells
- Modify the Calculations page
- Rename the Sheet tabs
MANUAL INPUT REQUIRED
YOU NEED TO INPUT THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IN ORDER FOR THE SPREADSHEET TO WORK CORRECTLY:
- Book Title
- Pages Read / Total Pages
- Whether the book is a Book (B), Graphic Novel/Manga ect. (GNM)
- If the book is written by a marginalised author “Y” or “N”
- When you’ve read ALL BOOKS for each individual quest you need to input “Y”
- The number of times you mention #THEREADINGQUEST on social media (MAX 20!!!)
- All the HP and EXP will calculate automatically and your Level will update every 50 EXP.
If there’s any errors lmk and I’ll do my best to fix it.
Are you participating in #TheReadingQuest? What character are you choosing?
Would love to hear your thoughts on any of the books I mentioned.
I hope you’re all having a fantastic day!
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Woah thinks so much for the spreadsheet! I haven’t had to make one since high school back in computers class. Lol I don’t remeber how to do any if it! I’d totally have to take a refresher!
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Haha, no worries!! I only remember/learnt the basics which is thankfully all I needed for this spreadsheet, haha. I did have to do some googling though 😂
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You’re the best! ❤
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Haha, I try 😎 Thank you ♥
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That’s an awesome spreadsheet! I’m considering signing up for this one too, but I’m not sure if I’ll have enough time this month to really devote to it. Good luck!
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Haha, thank you ♥ Ahh that’s understandable! If you decide to join in, good luck 😀
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Thank you!
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I’m doing TheReadingQuest too ! I’m a mage, since most of what I read is fantasy x)
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Yay! I notice a lot of people are choosing mage 😀 As much as I love Fantasy sometimes too much of it can put me in a slump so I went down the safe route 😂
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It happens to me too! Sometimes I’ll be like ‘You know, I feel like reading a thriller or something…’ 😂
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OMG I am in absolute awe of the spreadsheet ❤ Thank you, and good luck on your readathons!
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Awww, thank youuuu ♥
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Holy, that’s amazing! I have no idea how to use Excel to it’s full potential, so kudos to you for putting this together! 😀
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Haha, thank you! I only know the basic functions because there was an entire unit dedicated to it in my Digital Media course. I did have to do some Googling though 😂
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Still it’s more than I know so that’s pretty awesome! 😀
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Good luck with the challenge, looks rather cute. 🙂
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Thanks Carrie!!
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I will be part of the #TheReadingQuest as a marge. I also wrote a little back story for my character (https://lifeofaboredgirl.wordpress.com/challenges/thereadingquest/) and I am really hyped for this challenge.
I really want to read “The Hate U Give” but this book is only on my wishlist, I don`t have it *sad*
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Aw, I love that!! Going to go check out your post now Ahhh I hope you can get it soon.
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I am really excited to read your review of this book. Until now I always saw good reviews…
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I’ve heard great things about The Hate U Give! I am dying to read it. Hope you enjoy it!
http://www.thesmalladventurer.blogspot.com.au/
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Yes same!!! I can’t wait to get to it 😀
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Woah awesome job with the spreadsheet!!! I didn’t do the readathon, because, don’t judge…but I thought it looked too complicated for my brain hahahaha. Good luck with your readathon though, and I hope you love THUG (I haven’t heard anyone who hasn’t loved it yet).
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Thank youuu!! Haha, no judgement here. It’s the reason why I made the spreadsheet because there’s no other way I’d be able to keep track 😂 I’m so excited to read it!!!
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Good luck with the readathon, this one sounds like so much fun! Oh and I wish I hadn’t forgotten all about my Excel classes :p
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Thank youuuu ♥ I did have to do a decent amount of Googling 😂
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I’m going to be participating in this too! It’s just too cool of an idea to pass up. I really hope you enjoy Release if you get to it! I read it recently and really liked it 😊
Honestly I’m so grateful to you for making that spreadsheet!! I was wondering how I was going to track points, and since I spend like my whole working day looking at spreadsheets I was not looking forward to the prospect of making one myself 😂😂
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Right??? It looks like so much fun! Ah yay, glad to hear you enjoyed it.
Hahaha, no worries!! It was honestly a result of me having too much time on my hands and wanting to prove to myself that I could do it 😂
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Your spreadsheet is absolutely amazing! This will save me so much time, and miscalculations!! ❤ And I just love filling in spreadsheets 😀 Thanks so much for publishing it!
I don't know any of the books you're going to read, but I hear Patrick Ness is a great author. Hope you'll enjoy them all! I'm participating as a Mage 😀
Here's my TBR.
have fun!
xxx Yasmine
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Aw, no worries! I’m glad you’ll find it useful ♥ I love filling in spreadsheets too, haha!
Yeah, I loved A Monster Calls so i’ve been wanting to read more of his books for ages and I’ve heard good things about this one 😀
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Wow this sounds like it will be a lot of fun. I hope you get through the books on your list for this readathon Lauren, and I hope you have a lot of fun with it too because I guess that’s the whole point of readathons right? 🙂
I’m definitely in awe of the spreadsheet and the amount of work you’ve put into this. I use spreadsheets to organize everything I do so in my opinion the spreadsheet will only help you succeed when it comes to this readathon! 😀 ❤
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Aw, thank you so much Beth 😀 I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out! I’m terrible with Maths so I needed something that was going to add everything up for me 😂
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YOUR SPREADSHEET HAS SAVED MY LIFE, THANK YOU 💖
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😘😘😘
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I am participating and I will be a Mage (as you would have seen earlier). I freaking loved The Hate U Give, it was honestly so moving! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! I hope you smash your TBR and I definitely will keep up with your progress!
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Thank you, Bex ♥ I’m so excited to read THUG because I already know I’m going to love it! Kinda mad at myself for not having read it already, but it worked out perfectly for this readathon so 😂
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I can’t wait to see what you think of it! Keep me updated!!!
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Of course ♥!!
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I’ve been thinking about participating in a read-a-thon for a while now, as I’ve never done that before! I always thought they’re not my kind of thing, but this one isn’t a super quick one that just lasts for a day, so I’m kinda curious. I also like the quest theme! 😀 I get home from my vacation on August 11, so the start is perfectly timed as well. I think I might sign up! 😝
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YES!!! IZZI DO ITTTTTTTT!!!!!! 😂😂 I love that it’s not like a week long either, haha. It really helps take some of the pressure off. Readathons are so much fun too!!
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I WILL omg hahahaha. I just left a comment on the sign-up post and I’ll put together a TBR as soon as my laptops gets over itself and stops updating 😂 I’m really excited now??? Like I had no plans for August-September and now there will be challenges and Twitter hashtags and I’m PUMPED. I feel like a real adventurer.
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YES!!!!! Ahhhh, I’m so happy you’re joining in ♥ I can’t wait to see your TBR omg 😀
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I think I’ll have to be a mage cause half of my TBR pile that I could use for the rogue quest is in England and I’ll be back in Spain during the read-a-thon, so the only path I can take is the mage one 😂😂 What a mess
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HAHA!!! At least you’re still participating! That’s the main thing 😂
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Yeah I’ve signed up now so that’s something at least 😂 I’m trying
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Great TBR and so great that you’re participating in this challenge! I couldn’t resist myself and I’ll be the mage – will probably post my TBR sometime tomorrow… Also, thanks so much for sharing the spreadsheet! I was already so worried about making this and was actually already kind of giving up on keeping score but thanks to you I’ll be in full control over my points 😉
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I literally just read and commented on your TBR post haha ♥ So glad the spreadsheet will be helpful for you! One of the main reasons why I made it is because I’m so bad at keeping track of things (and maths 😂).
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I’m participating in this challenge too, but I will be the knight. I am so excited! You’re actually the first rogue that I have seen; it seems as though literally everybody is the mage. Good luck with your TBR!
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Yay!!! Ahh I know!!! I’ve seen NOTHING but Mages hahaha. Nice to see someone else changing it up 😂
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