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

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

A little over 24hrs to go I need to finish off my Clue book then I can start fresh. Remember books cannot be started until the countdown ends.

Sunny wrote: "Here we go, my shelf can be found over here! Just to introduce myself quickly, I'm Sunny, 18, from Slovenia and currently finishing up with my finals this and next week (only have oral exams left s..."

Take a look at the task list, we get extra points for each book that we match to a task, each of us has our own to complete.

Welcome Jeremy, take a look round. You can add any books planned into the planning spreadsheet. This is where completed books will be posted. If you have any questions feel free to ask and we will try and get you an answer.

Official start time is linked in message #6 I will post the link to the end/start here too

Going over our average books p/m we should be able to complete our word 8 times and most of a 9th. To do this we need: Z(8); O(16); M(8); C(8); A(8); L(16) and S(8)

Cat wrote: "

My school had these bottle green colour.
They are thick material that went over your knickers and you tucked your aertex shirt / vest into them.

Disgusting things that I had to wear thru schoo..."

Ours were brown 🤮

Sunny wrote: "hi guys! i'm so sorry for checking in late but i've been dealing with finals for the last week 😅 i'm so happy to start reading when this starts!"

Hi Sunny, welcome to the team. Don’t forget to link you’re shelf. Any questions please feel free to ask.

Cat wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Hey Mods,

Seeing our July BOM is The Sun Down Motel would you consider modifying Task no 11 Read a Book set in a hotel to Read a Book set in a hotel o..."

The joy of being British 😉

Cat wrote: "Randomiser pulled Chris out first, but Christina had put her name down first. I didn't know if Chris was being backup or not so hedged my bets & caused massive confusion! So, unless Christina was m..."

That’s what I thought 😉

BOM- DQ Question setters

The randomiser has smiled favourably on us.

ate Chapters %age MPDQs
14 June Prologue & Part 1 25% Judy
15 June Part 2 - Part 4 43% Cat
16 June Part 5 - Part 6 60% Chris
17 June Part 7 - Part 9 79% MelanieJoy
18 June Part 10 - end 100% Judith

Guidance for DQs are here.

DQs allocated. If you have a problem with your day:
1) see if you have a teamie who also volunteered and ask them to sub with you (MUST be on the list posted) or
2) if you can't then you'll have to sacrifice your spot and it will be given to the next volunteer who doesn't already have a teamie
writing questions or
3) accept your day! ;-P

Congrats Chris a nice bit of points :)

Cat, can you confirm that Chris has been chosen. We have a Chris and a Christina on our team 😊

@Rachel the Captains have come to a condense as Set in the future. Like 2001: A Space Odyssey the intent was a point in the future when it was written.

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.