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

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

I went with Sharon's b/c it was shortest (200 range). Thank you, both. Sharon, it had the words childhood nemesis in the blurb so I think it counts.

Has anyone got a banked book that works for:

X-Men - Read a book that features an arch-nemesis relationship?

Just a reminder that children's books have to be at least 30,000 words and we can't use any shorter than that.

Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee

An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself—in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend.

Legends don’t always live up to reality.

Being reborn as an immortal defender of the realm gets awfully tiring over the years—or at least that’s what Sir Kay’s thinking as he claws his way up from beneath the earth yet again.

Kay once rode alongside his brother, King Arthur, as a Knight of the Round Table. Since then, he has fought at Hastings and at Waterloo and in both World Wars. But now he finds himself in a strange new world where oceans have risen, the army’s been privatized, and half of Britain’s been sold to foreign powers. The dragon that’s running amok—that he can handle. The rest? He’s not so sure.

Mariam’s spent her life fighting what’s wrong with her country. But she’s just one ordinary person, up against a hopelessly broken system. So when she meets Kay, she dares to hope that the world has finally found the savior it needs.

Yet as the two travel through this bizarre and dangerous land, they discover that a magical plot of apocalyptic proportions is underway. And Kay’s too busy hunting dragons—and exchanging blows with his old enemy Lancelot—to figure out what to do about it.

In perilous times like these, the realm doesn’t just need a knight. It needs a true leader.

Luckily, Excalibur lies within reach.

But who will be fit to wield it?

With a cast that includes Merlin, Morgan le Fay, the Lady of the Lake, and King Arthur himself—all reimagined in joyous, wickedly subversive fashion— Perilous Times is an Arthurian retelling that looks forward as much as it looks back . . . and a rollicking, deadpan-funny, surprisingly touching fantasy adventure.

Brittany wrote: "Chemical element like au?"

I think it is the element’s name so gold, neon, iron, nickel etc.

Judith wrote: "Aoife,

Can you add Archibald Lox and Mercy of the Vampire King to your TT shelf when you get a chance?

Thank you!"

Aoife, I was able to use your book for a Chimpmunk task so we can log it once you add it to your shelf, thank you

I’m reading an angel in title book and will add it to the spreadsheet tomorrow.

Next up: 10 Awards - Read a book that won the 10 Awards - Read a booker award

This seems to be a list but like any list, I would check before reading: https://www.bookishelf.com/man-booker...

Brittany, I put The Foxglove King down for Random 10 - Read a book with an X in the title

Also, to help, the unclaimed ones are:

10 Things the Chipmunks Love - Lobsters! - Read a book with a creature with 10 limbs on the cover (e.g. lobster, shrimp, crab)

Film 10s - The Whole Ten Yards - Read a book that shares a title word (NOTE: THE can't be used)

Solve for X - Read a book with MPG Popular Science

Random 10 - Read a book featuring a gymnast (in honour of Olga Korbut's perfect 10)

10 Things the Chipmunks Love - Wacky Ideas! Read a book with MPG Humour

Tricia wrote: "I'm not seeing the new tasks in the chipmunks spreadsheet. Were they hidden? (spreadsheet is locked for me and I can't unhide rows) And it also looks like some books got put on tasks that aren't un..."

It looked fine to me. I checked using my account and a guest account, but both on a mac. I unhid everything so that might help.

And an easier one:
10 Things the Chipmunks Love - Wacky Ideas! Read a book with MPG Humour

Two harder ones up:

Solve for X - Read a book with MPG Popular Science (https://www.goodreads.com/genres/popu...)

Random 10 - Read a book featuring a gymnast (in honour of Olga Korbut's perfect 10)

Laura, yes, we moved yours over to HP for the winners tower and used Bobbi's in 6 since that got more points overall. Thank you, both

Next of the towers is here:

Ten Tallest Towers 1 - Burj Khalifa - Read a book set in, or by an author from United Arab Emirates

Saving that for China as we will need five total for each of the top ten towers. Working on a last now.

Polls for the July BOM are here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/3...

You all are fast - 2 new ones:

Top 10 Books 2020 - Read book from the GR "Best of 2020" list (see https://www.goodReads.com/list/best_b...)

X Books - Read a book where the title contains 10 characters (inc punctuation, exc spaces)

New task - Random 10 - Read a book with MPG Classics

Tricia wrote: "

I just started this book this morning, and I immediately thought the red circle looked like a red balloon. Is that potentially a match for chipmunk task #11? Or not close ..."

Judith agreed and I think it would work for being similar to the movie poster. One person on a white background with a one word title.