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

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

Hi all,

I love how everyone is reading for mini 1 and countries. We (captains) will be moving books around between itinerary 2 and 3 depending on finish dates so keep an eye on the thread if you are reading a hard country because we will still need 3 medium countries per itinerary. We will post here if I need everyone to pause hard countries if needed.

Lexi wrote: " New Mini 2 Task

Read a banned book"

We also have a new task:
Read a book tagged "Friendship" at least 10x

Thank you, Erin and I fixed it Suzanne.

Hi Everyone, we are off to Canada next. Have you always wanted to read a book with a moose on the cover, well now is your chance.

TASKS
Author born in Canada
Red and White on cover
"maple syrup" in text
character plays ice hockey
moose on cover
character works in the film industry
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A
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A
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Thank you, Linda. Susan is currently reading an Iraq book so whichever is finished first will go in the first itinerary and then the other in the second. I will finish my Cameroon one either today or tomorrow. Once both are done, people can start finishing books for itinerary 2.

Please watch here for when we say itinerary two can be finished so we don't waste any hard countries. Thank you all

Suzanne wrote: "My next Hugo listen is Annihilation - the four characters in it aren't named - just always (100% of the book) called by their professions: The Biologist, The Surveyor, The Psychologist, etc. So I p..."

That is a title or author kind of book. I would not use a charecter name. I have read the book and hope you enjoy it.

We get more points for everything other than a easy country so transportation is perfect, thank you

New Mini 2 Task

Read a banned book

Erin, thank you for the update.

Linda, how are you doing on your Kenya book? I will finish my last book for the first itinerary today and wanted to see where we were. We cannot finish any books for the 2nd itinerary until the 1st is done.

Suzanne, I moved your unfinished book off of the J to try to get Japan turned over soon. If you finish before we get a new country, I will move it back. Thank you

I thought I would finish a book tonight, but instead, I spent 2.5 hours fixing my citations by hand since the journal removed all my links for the citation software. It is a small thing compared to most since it meant the journal article was accepted, but really, not how I wanted to spend my evening. Now deciding if bed time or going to bake something after all...

Edited: I should be able to do this one in 30 min (https://littlespoonfarm.com/sourdough...)

Cathy M. wrote: "For the spell-it-outs, is it title, series, author, narrator and character names?"

◈ Spell-it-Out Rules: Use the first letter in the book’s title, series name, author’s first/last name, character’s first/last name, narrator’s first/last name (if listening to an audiobook), or translator’s first/last name (if reading a translation). You may ignore (or not) “A,” “An,” or “The” at the start of titles.

Happy Reading, everyone

In honor of TTs starting, I spun the World Wheel for our new one:

Sayyida al Hurra (Morocco)
500 to 650
Takes place in Northern Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Western Sahara)
boat or ship on cover
"queen" in text
character speaks more than one language

Finishing up my last one before bed tonight, 40 minutes to go so excited to start tomorrow.

Melanie, hope you feel better

Seconding what Erin and Judith said (maybe thirding then, is that a word?)

Also, I have 35 books on my TBR world shelf. Most are under 35 pages but hard countries so I will be mixing up books over 400 pages that work with Mini 2 and 3 and my world books. I'm excited. I think we are going to have fun.

Also, some links for people looking for books in different countries. I will note that you will still need to check author or over 50% of the book set there to still qualify.

1. https://readaroundtheworldchallenge.c...

2. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/list_... - This group has lists for every country by continent.

3. https://strongsenseofplace.com/ - more for fun but has some lists as well (thanks to Susan for this one)

Discussion Threads for the June BOMs are up if you want to volunteer for discussion questions. No worries if you don't want to write questions as answering them gets an extra 20 points as well.

June 2 - Great Big Beautiful Life - Discussion is here
June 16 - The Berry Pickers - Discussion is here

Volunteering for DQ's for Team Belém Tower

Volunteering for DQ's for Team Belém Tower

That is a great idea, Maria Jo. We seem to working on Japan first as a team if you have any that would work there. Also, we do need one more midlevel country for our first itinerary.