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

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

Celia wrote: "A few general questions: the requirements for character says "speaking character" but what if you have a character who is deaf or mute, or an animal character who has a pov but doesn't "speak" per ..."

For “speaking characters” who communicate through non-verbal methods and are integral to the story these can be counted. For animal characters if the story is being told through their POV then you can use them.


For titles such as Mr, Miss, father, grandma etc you need to use their name.

Nicknames are allowed if they predominantly go by that name.

Round 3 - DRIVE TO ULURU

Going on our sign up average of 80 books/ round we should be able to spell our word at least 6 times. This means we need:
D - 6
R - 12
I - 6
V - 6
E - 6
T - 6
O - 6
U - 18
L - 6

Happy Hunting

Rina wrote: "Celia wrote: "I put this down as insect on cover: but wanted a second opinion. Is it okay?"

Yes from me :-)"

Yes, they currently laying eggs on my cabbages so the bug killer is out!

End of Round 2 Update
Word Completions: 14 & 1 partial
Books Read: 100

Round 2 Points: 4193
Total Points Overall: 8304
Ranking: 8

Toughest Letters - Round 2 - 44
Total Toughest Letter Count - 77
Ranking: 2

BOM Points - Round 2 - 200
Total BOM Points: 480
Ranking: 1



****Please make sure that when marking a book as complete on the spreadsheet you add a date read. We missed out on one book completion as this wasn’t spotted until minutes before deadline and missed being transferred to the official spreadsheet in time. ***

Great effort team.

Shelby wrote: "Louise wrote: "Books completed after this post count for Round 3"

Louise - I'm just finishing my book so I should be good for R3 right? I purposely waited to finish it until the timer ran out."

Perfect.

Shelby wrote: "Will a wolf count for Cover: Dog or does it need to be domesticated? For right now I'm marking the book I just finished for Cover: Dog, but will change if wolf won't count."

Going on the principle that cat on cover can be domesticated or wild I’d say a wild dog species counts for dog on cover - wolf, Fox, etc

Books completed after this post count for Round 3

Joanne wrote: "So I see that we need a U to complete our partial word. I don't have long left in my U book that I was going to save for next round. Should I finish it this round instead?

ETA: Nevermind I see it'..."

Yes, Rina's working on the final placings. I've had a bit of a nightmare couple of weeks with RL emergencies so Rina has been on top of completions this round

SandyL wrote: "Hi team! Sorry I've been MIA - we are coming up on the deadline for filing taxes in the US, and it has been so crazy at work - I've been working 10-12 hour days. I did not anticipate this schedule ..."

No worries Sandy, hopefully once it's all done things can settle down for you.

✿ Claire ✿ wrote: "Louise wrote: "Christina wrote: "I have two questions about the tasks:

1) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - does Phoenix count as animal word? Phoenix is a bird so no

2) [book:..."
Apologies Christina, normally we wouldn't use Pheonix for an animal but the rules for WAT are relaxed and they are looking for a word loosely based around the "fauna" of "flora and fauna" which in this case includes birds.

Christina wrote: "I have two questions about the tasks:

1) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - does Phoenix count as animal word? Phoenix is a bird so no

2) Two Boys Kissing - it's kind of hard to explain..." Looking at the preview of this it would work for an unusual point of as in the main It is written in 2nd person PoV, which in this instance is the community so yes.

Celia wrote: "Louise wrote: "Celia wrote: "Louise wrote: "Celia wrote: "Celia wrote: "Louise wrote: "Celia wrote: "Also what is NBRC's rule on omnibus books? I have an omnibus of four books where the series star..."

Got a reply back, you can claim the first two novels, please post the default editions :)

We have completed 12 Spell-outs of our word and completed our tag bonus.
We have 1 partial with the following needed to complete:
T, O, U, R, S

Celia wrote: "Louise wrote: "Celia wrote: "Celia wrote: "Louise wrote: "Celia wrote: "Also what is NBRC's rule on omnibus books? I have an omnibus of four books where the series starts with U, but only two of th..."

It basically comes down to the novella tagged on, whether you can use it as two books or one.

Christina wrote: "Also, ULURU! wth! xD
if I'm lucky the audiobook of HP5 will come through next week so there'll be Professor Umbridge at least (;"

And a poison tag

Rachel wrote: "Here I was so pleased to just finish a ‘U’ book, too.

Oh well, at least we’ll have the ‘V’ well covered with Viv in The Sun Down Motel"

I haven’t started that yet, probably over the weekend.

Celia wrote: "Celia wrote: "Louise wrote: "Celia wrote: "Also what is NBRC's rule on omnibus books? I have an omnibus of four books where the series starts with U, but only two of the four are individual books o..."

Having looked at this Celia it looks like the two books that you’ve listed are the only full length novels in the omnibus. The other books of which there are four are short novellas although only three are published seperately. Just checking on whether you can claim the first two as seperate books.

Chocolate Vanilla Swirl 80pgs

In My dreams 50pgs

Hybrids 72pg

Dead Witch Talking has no seperate edition.

Celia wrote: "And what about an author with 2 last names (hyphenated)? Ex. June Eric-Udorie? Can that count for U?"

In an alphabetised list this would show under E’s a hyphenated last name is considered one name.

Celia wrote: "Also what is NBRC's rule on omnibus books? I have an omnibus of four books where the series starts with U, but only two of the four are individual books on Goodreads, the other two are not"

Can you link the book

Celia wrote: "So for tasks do we want to get as many as we can in a certain category or do we want them all completed by at least one person by the end of the challenge?"

If you can complete 200 tasks by the end of WAT I take my hat off to you.
The tasks are bonuses that we can use, each team member can choose within reason what task fits their book. We have sorted the tasks into categories for ease of finding common elements.