Louise’s Comments (group member since Aug 29, 2015)

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

New 2 U Authors 2021
Duration: January 1st - December 31st
Come What May = Let's see how many I read.

Going to give this a whirl and because I don’t like odd numbers going to set this at 36.

TBR Tackler 2021
No Suspension: 27 + books

2881
1952
1236
724
1645
4475

5492
954
2499
4109
3210
5122

419
3170
1693
3814
3440
1135

3077
1851
2485
2903
1006
1834

5872
1811
1984
1363
4590
2721

1276
1204
6489
4667
832
1122

2021 Serious Readers Challenge, Level One
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Cleaning Out The TBR Closet 2021
My current TBR stands at 6573 books. I joined GR in 2012.
I'm going to try and read 10 books added each year from 2012-2020 . Total 80 books

2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

I've completed my target of reading 52 books added before 2019.

Quest idea from apprenticeship team Lady Natasha and Lady Louise

Plague Protection

The plague that has attacked the Novel Kingdom is still attacking our heroes. Queen Skye has decreed that to protect themselves hereos need to wear a mask, wash their hands reqularly for 20 seconds at a time and keep a distance of 6 feet apart from each other.

Your mask needs to cover your mouth and nose. To make your mask:
Read a book where only eyes are showing on the cover.
Collect 2 bat wings and sew together with 2 rat tails to make your mask.

To wash your hands for the required length of time first read a book with water on the cover, then sing happy birthday by spelling HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Keep your distance by reading a book that has a lone person on the cover or 6th in a series.
Gain 15 Experience + 1 Major Heal Potion

Natasha wrote: "The quest looks fine now."

Thanks Natasha, I'll post to the melting pot

Natasha wrote: "And I give you 1 heal potion and 1 major heal potion. Let me know if you want anything else."

That’s great thank you.

Natasha wrote: "I like the quest. Very relevant for today. I have a couple of questions. Are the bat wings and rat tails being used to make the mask?

And do you think spelling out happy birthday would take too lo..."

I’ve amended this to make it clearer. I’ve made the XP15 points to reflect the length of the spell-out and a major heal potion.

The only thing remaing after the spell-out and create a challenge is
9. The experienced player gives a gift to the newcomer to help with a quest (e.g. potion/egg/magic item)

8. Visit the melting pot and suggest a quest idea that you have worked on together

For this tasks I've come up with.

The plague that has attacked the Novel Kingdom is still attacking our heroes. Queen Skye has decreed that to protect themselves hereos need to wear a mask, wash their hands reqularly for 20 seconds at a time and keep a distance of 6 feet apart from each other.

Your mask needs to cover your mouth and nose. To make your mask:
Read a book where only eyes are showing on the cover.
Collect 2 bat wings and sew together with 2 rat tails to make your mask.

To wash your hands for the required length of time first read a book with water on the cover, then sing happy birthday by spelling HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Keep your distance by reading a book that has a lone person on the cover or 6th in a series.
Gain 15 Experience + 1 Major Heal Potion

Let me know what you think.

The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
Date Read: 15/12
Rating: 4*
How It Fits: Author initial EP

I used my E book for U in the Christmas special. I’ve got another E up next

Spreadsheet looks good Stacie, looking at the overall sheet we are currently in a respectable 5th place

This was definitely a harder challenge than anticipated and one that made me continuously hungry. Thank you Stacie for your hard work, I had a really enjoyable day with my brother and his wife yesterday which was the first I’d seen my brother since my OH’s funeral in August.

Good job Stacie

Stacie wrote: "Louise, I sent you a message. I don't know what I did wrong but two of the books I used are just not registering that I used them."

I fixed the one, love from A to Z; which is the other one. It’s generally a formula that is looking in the wrong cell that’s at fault

Stacie are you ok to help on completing the s/sheet. My brother plans on visiting on Saturday for a few hours so am not sure how much time I’ll have before deadline on Saturday

10. Both partners read a book that involves a teacher or student, or that has a link to a video game (i.e. Ready Player One or The Last Wish)


Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward
Date Read: 12/7
How It Fits: Paradise and Craeg are students in the brotherhoods new training program.

Louise wrote: "I can't find the answer to this; if we are scavenging curry items and need saffron can the author name on the cover of a book work?"

Bump