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

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

Task: Read a book recommended by someone in a different team
We have this task 8 times each. Although some teams have dropped in with links to rec’s the Mods want us to venture out into the great wide world to get our rec’s. Please feel free to visit other times to ask for a recommendation that is specific to you.

Welcome Rachel, there are still a couple more to check in so you’re by no means last. I’ll need to check you’re book as it is one of those that could be interpreted either way. @Chris with hyphenated surnames it is the first name in the hyphen that counts (this is how GR sorts them alphabetically)

All our recommendations are linked up here

Chris wrote: "@Louise, thanks for catching that! I’ll find something else to replace it. Also, what did you mean by Max 10 Books for Genre Tags. Is that 10 books per tag or ten books total for all tags? And is t..."

Each round we are given a word to spellout, the aim being to complete the word as many times as possible. Each word has a number of tags associated with it, as a team we can submit 10 books in our spellout that are tagged with any of the matching ones for an extra 50 points. Doesn’t matter which of the tags we use as long as 10 of our books is tagged appropriately. :)

Thank you Claire

@Chris your book Cosmicomics is only 153pgs, minimum Page count is 160 :)

Rina wrote: "Louise wrote: "Task List: Read a book recommended by someone in your team
This is available 3 times. Can you all submit 3 books that you would recommend to the team, bearing in mind the 160pg minim..."

@Rina, that’s right, although of course we can read as many of the rec’s as we like and slot into other tasks. 😉

Christina wrote: "✿ Claire ✿ wrote: "Here are three books I'd like to recommend

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch - One of my all time favourite fantasy books. I lo..."
The word count comes into affect if children is on the main page. :)

Welcome Celia and Shelby.

There are some great recommendations here, I’ll put a master list on the first page to make it easier to find.

Joanne wrote: "Here are a few recommendations:

by Ilona Andrews. Honestly I could just recommend every single Ilona Andrews book I've read so far. They are all exc..."

I love Ilona Andrews, although I don’t think I’ve read any of the hidden legacy series. Now I’m wondering why?

Into the Light is actually on my TBR, I Added I And shelved it as Kindle In 2016. Going to need to check on that

Brigia wrote: "I'll go with these three:

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is a sweet, funny and sometimes heartbreaking historical novel that really stuck with me.

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I’ve got The Chestnut Man on my TBR I started it ages ago and didn’t get very far. Might be time to re-visit

Keely wrote: "Oooh, I have a hard time picking favourites so I'll just choose three that I remember really liking.

The Letter by Kathryn Hughes was one I really enjoyed a few yea..."

I’ve read and enjoyed The Hunger Games. I may pick up The Book Thief I have it in book, audio and e-book form I’ve just never got round to reading it. It does have an M,Z and an L. So maybe. The Letter looks interesting, from the précis it reminds me of The Last Letter from Your Lover

My recommendations:

This was a RL book club read which I listened to this week. Lots of mythology and world building in this fantasy novel. If you are familiar with Greek mythology it will help with the characters.

This was the first book I read by this author and I was blown away. I even cried in parts which is unusual for me. A 2nd World war tale of how two sisters deal with life in occupied France, heart-wrenching.

I picked this up for a challenge and was pleasantly surprised by this psychological thriller.

Task List: Read a book recommended by someone in your team
This is available 3 times. Can you all submit 3 books that you would recommend to the team, bearing in mind the 160pg minimum.

Chris wrote: "Question: am I able to add books to tags I know would fit before we start? Or is that considered cheating?"

Ooh controversial. The general rule of thumb is it needs to be tagged by at least one person, but you cannot claim the tag if you’re the only one who has tagged it. Hope that makes sense :)

Louise wrote: "Christina wrote: "I added a new tab to our planning sheet with the task list put in categories to have a better overview. hope that's okay. I would have made a list for myself anyway so I thought w..."

I’ve organised this, put some Color and definition in and tracked it back to the main task list.

Christina wrote: "I added a new tab to our planning sheet with the task list put in categories to have a better overview. hope that's okay. I would have made a list for myself anyway so I thought why not share it wi..."

That’s fine I was going to have a play about with the list today to arrange into categories for ease.

MPG is main page genre. So this is the book’s main page. If you’re Tag is showing as the last one on the main page I would screenshot it and post it here. I have had tags drop off the main page before know.

Christina wrote: "so if I got this right we can read as many tasks as we want each round which means in order to get as many points as possible we should also fulfill as many tasks as possible, right?"

That’s right, as the challenge progresses we will black out the tasks that have been used.

✿ Claire ✿ wrote: "Ah cool! I didn't realise Tasks were already available. I'll have a look to see if any of the books I choose fit any of the "obscure" ones

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That's great. I've added your books to the first tab on the planning sheet. The spellout tab is for Rina and Myself to complete and move as necessary. Can you add your alternate letters :)

Hi Joanne I'm sure we've been on some team challenges together. I forgot about cutthroat, that was fun.