Lexi’s Comments (group member since Jul 27, 2016)

Lexi’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Cat wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Here is a list of classic monsters. I'd love to help out with the tasks.

Any particular ones you'd like me to do.. PM me. 😁

https://thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctor......"

The Master might be showing up earlier than that and I did not know that since I have not watched any of the newer seasons. Note made.

I try not to specify mode of reading for people with auditory or visual limitations on format, but I like the picture.

That would be great. Thank you

New tasks and words to check for in books:

Tower Teams 2: Lemon Cupcakes
Read a book with a (cup)cake on the cover
Read a book with flour in the text
Read a book with eggs in the text
Read a book wtih lemon in the text

This is our 2nd time with these tasks so I used Death by Chocolate Cake, Kingdom of the Wicked, Big Gay Wedding, and Weyward for the 1st round.

Aoife, can you check your books when you have time? I think some should work.

Usu rule, no books over 400 pages and no hard letters - esp N, L, G, and vowels

I was correct. We got a new task and it is the 2nd round of Sloth. Please add all animal words to the planning sheet. I'll move the zebra rug over.

Tower Teams 7: Sloth
Read a book with the animal "platypus" in the text
Read a book with the animal "zebra" in the text
Read a book with the animal "chipmunk" in the text
Read a book with the animal "heron" in the text

Aoife wrote: "I have Almost Adults and it mentions zebra and chipmunk. It has heron in it but it's a mean girls reference to Cady Heron - not sure it counts? I should have it finished later anywa..."

Thank you, please mark both zebra and chipmunk. Also, can you add three of your books to you TT shelf: Surrendered in Salem, The Perfect Brew, and Seduced in Salem? Thank you

We might need a 2nd round for this task as well. Why don't you take the zebra one for now and I found a children's book for platypus I can read today.

Michelle wrote: "Let me check real fast. I might have a quick cozy to read or something. I'll see what I can find."

Do you have one you want to grab? I have a book that works for both zebra and heron that I will add to the spreadsheet and can switch animals if one works for you.

Wheel please. We have one extra 500 already planned unless someone removes one from the spreadsheet.

I got auto approved for two new books, which is great fun, but not helping me catch up.
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Tricia wrote: "I have books on my TBR that I can read for chipmunk or zebra. Let me know if we need it."

Pick whichever one is shorter or you want to read more, and that would be a great help.

I have books on my kindle that work for all 4 animals, so I will check after work to see if anyone has some covered before claiming one.

The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atypical physicist, along with his best friend Horatio and artist ex-fiancée, Lia, are caught up in the otherworldly events surrounding the death of his father.

Meet Ben Dane: brilliant, devastating, devoted, honest to a fault (truly, a fault). His Broadway theater baron father is dead--but on purpose or by accident? The question rips him apart.

Unable to face alone his mother's ghastly remarriage to his uncle, Ben turns to his dearest friend, Horatio Patel, whom he hasn't seen since their relationship changed forever from platonic to something...other. Loyal to a fault (truly, a fault), Horatio is on the first flight to New York City when he finds himself next to a sly tailor who portends inevitable disaster--and who seems ominously like an architect of mayhem himself.

Meanwhile, Lia, sundered her from her loved ones thanks to her addiction recovery, and torn from her art, has been drawn into the fold of three florists from New Orleans, seemingly ageless sisters who teach her the language of flowers and whose magical bouquets hold both curses and cures--for a price.

On one explosive night, these kinetic forces will collide, and the only possible outcome is death. But in the masterly hands of Lyndsay Faye, the story we all know has abundant surprises in store. Impish, captivating, and achingly romantic, this is Hamlet as you've never seen it before.

How it fits: Many students have to read Hamlet in school

The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are willing to believe—some of which may actually be true—from the Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of Blackout and All Clear

When level-headed Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate’s UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer bridegroom—she can’t help but roll her eyes at all the wide-eyed talk of aliens, which obviously don’t exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she is abducted by one.

Odder still, her abductor is far from what the popular media have led her to expect, with a body like a tumbleweed and a mass of lightning-fast tentacles. Nor is Francie the only victim of the alien’s abduction spree. Before long, he has acquired a charming con man named Wade, a sweet little old lady with a casino addiction, a retiree with a huge RV and a love for old Westerns, and a UFO-chasing nutjob who is thoroughly convinced the alien intends to probe them and/or take over the planet.

But the more Francie gets to know the alien, the more convinced she becomes that he’s not an invader. That he’s in trouble and she has to help him. Only she doesn’t know how—or even what the trouble is.

Part alien-abduction adventure, part road trip saga, part romantic comedy, The Road to Roswell is packed full of Men in Black, Elvis impersonators, tourist traps, rattlesnakes, chemtrails, and Close Encounters of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth kind. Can Francie, stuck in a neon green bridesmaid’s dress, save the world—and still make it back for the wedding?

Repeat tasks:
Read a book with MPG Space Opera
Read a book with a humanoid robot/android

While waiting on a TT spin, I got us a new moster:

Bakekujira
100 to 175
Author initials in WHALE
Birds or fish on cover
ghost important to plot
Setting is costal or on the ocean

Sharon wrote: "Lexi wrote: "New task:

Pick four different Muses, for each Muse, read a book that fits their role
Thalia (Comedy); Clio (History); Euterpe (Music); Melpomene (Tragedy); Terpsichore (Dance); Erato ..."

Added, thank you

New task:

Pick four different Muses, for each Muse, read a book that fits their role
Thalia (Comedy); Clio (History); Euterpe (Music); Melpomene (Tragedy); Terpsichore (Dance); Erato (Love); Polymnia (sacred poetry); Urania (Astronomy); Calliope (epic poetry)

I have found books that work for MPG Music, MPG Romance, and MPG Historical Fictions so we would need one for:
Thalia (Comedy), Melpomene (Tragedy), Terpsichore (Dance), Polymnia (sacred poetry), Urania (Astronomy), or Calliope (epic poetry)

DQ Tracking
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Repeat tasks again:

Tower Teams 3: Find the Elf
Direction word in title
Direction word in title
Direction word in title
Direction word in title