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

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

Good morning all. I’ll be starting my first book today, not sure which one though

Enjoy and have fun

A little over 12 hours to go before we begin. Don’t forget books can’t be started until the countdown reaches Zero. To make it easier for us to check please ensure you add a start date to your books and that they are added to your shelf.

If “reading” an audio please make sure the audio book is shelved and use the “default” (the book that comes up first when you search) for page count.

If you’re reading a book with the following MPGs Childrens / Kids / Poetry / Play / Graphic Novel / Illustrated / Photography / Art (or which have "Illustrated" in the title or an "Illustrator" contributor in the metadata) please make sure to verify that the word count is over 30,000

Cat wrote: "ARGH! just realised that at 400 pages long this doesn't get the "over 400 page" bonus points! Curses!
But a pub in 2021 date is good!"

Yep that is frustrating

I’m glad you’re safe Patti.

Louise wrote: "Cecily wrote: "Hello, my name is Cecily

I am excited to be a part of another group challenge!

My shelf "

Hi Cecily the link isn’t clickable 😉"
Can you double check the link in post 4 to make sure I’ve linked the correct shelf

Cecily wrote: "Hello, my name is Cecily

I am excited to be a part of another group challenge!

My shelf "

Hi Cecily the link isn’t clickable 😉

Good morning all and welcome, I can see we are nearly all here. Is anyone planning to read The Road Trip the BOM starting on 16th October. It will be a re-read for me, something I wouldn’t usually do but if it nets us points I will be reading it. I’ve put my name down for DQs 🤞 so potentially it will be worth 110 points

Our word for Round 1 is

HOUSEHOLD BUDGET

Given our book cap we can complete this at least 5 times at most 8 times with 1 partial spellout

Each word requires the following
B - 1
D - 2
E - 2
G - 1
H - 2
L - 1
O - 2
S - 1
T - 2
U - 2

Welcome Brooke and Maria.
@Maria what I enjoy most about wheel is that practically every book can be used.

@Brooke feel free to claim letters we will move books around as needed to complete word sets.

@Fiona and @Nistha don’t forget to link your shelf

Team Noisy Neighbours have their earplugs at the ready

Hi All welcome to this edition of Wheels. I’m Louise and I along with Fiona and Nistha will be guiding you through the drudgery of life. Whether you’re new to Wheels or a veteran please make sure to read the rules, there is a slight change in this edition.

A couple of housekeeping points, when you drop in make sure to link your Wheel shelf all books completed needs to be on this shelf.

Completions can either be on the tracking sheet or for those not comfortable with using spreadsheets please post here, do not post in both places.

Make sure you check in at least weekly so we know you are still here. Above all have fun

Volunteering for DQs Team Noisy Neighbours

Mini Challenges
These are optional and run through Round 2-4
• The Administrative Mini
Bonus Words in text - COFFEE TABLE; QUILT
- the main character works in an office
- the plot revolves around an office romance
- typical administrative material on the cover
- tagged non-fiction / nonfiction (at least 10x)
- tagged office (at least 10x)
- the main character works in taxes
- the main character works in finance
- the clue to solving a murder is found in paperwork
- cover colour is at least 50% grey
- cover colour is at least 50% orange
- someone is murdered in an office
- the plot revolves around white-collar crime
- the main character needs to know how to handle a budget
- letters GREY in title
- letters TAXES in title
- letters ADMIN in title
- author first & last initials in FILING
- author first & last initials in PAPERWORK
- author first & last initials in SHREDDING
- tagged DNF (or direct equivalent)

• The Gardening Mini

Bonus Words in Text: PIANO; VIOLIN
Prep:
Get the garden areas ready, building climbing trellises and the like.
Read two sets of 5 books that are consecutive numbers in series (eg 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
- do not need to start at 1
- do need to be in a continuous sequence (i.e. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 does NOT work)
- do not need to be from the same series
- do not need to be read in order

Tend:
Find books with words in their title (or subtitle) that meet the following.
Germinate: is 6 or more letters long
Plant: is exactly 5 letters
Mulch: contains one of the following digraphs: CH, PH, SH, TH, WH
Weed: contains a double vowel
Water: contains and H and 2 Os
Pest Control: contains two letters consecutive in the alphabet (e.g AB in alphabet)
Feed: contains a double letter
Prune: can be cut to reveal a different word of at least 2 letters (e.g PRUNE - RUNE / AFFAIR - FAIR)
Harvest: that could be a noun or verb (e.g TRAIN)
Deadhead: contains a repeat set of at least two letters (e.g BEGINNING repeats IN)

Bloom:
Read 10 books with colour covers (50%+) to reflect the colours in your flowers.
MUST include 1 brown and 1 green colour.

• Feeding the Family Mini

Bonus Words in Text: VINEGAR; LOBSTER

A: Cooking from Scratch
Find the listed food items in the text of a book; plural variants are ok, and the word found doesn't have to mean the food (e.g "it's a bit of a squash to get everyone in")
- potato
- rice
- pasta
- bread
- beef
- lamb
- chicken
- fish
- lentil
- broccoli
- carrot
- pumpkin
- squash
- yam
- bean
- corn
- okra
- tomato
- onion
- lettuce
- cucumber
- apple
- peach
- fig
- grape
- banana
- salt
- pepper
- sugar
- spice

B: Let's Just Get a Takeaway!
Read books with country tags (at least 5) (yes, we know Hawai'i isn't a country anymore):
- China
- Mexico
- Italy
- France
- India
- Greece
- Japan
- Thailand
- Korea (South Korea and North Korea will also work)
- Turkey
- Nigeria
- Jamaica
- Bangladesh
- Hawaii
- Fried Chicken - needs "Southern Gothic" tag

Round Information

• Round 1
HOUSEHOLDBUDGET (15)

• Round 2
MORTGAGE RENEWAL (15)

BOM Information
🎃🎃October BOM🎃🎃

The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary

Starts 16 October

Discussion Thread

🦃🦃November BOMs🦃🦃

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

Discussion Thread

Starts 2 November


The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Starts on 16 November

Discussion Thread

Countdowns

START OF CHALLENGE/ROUND 1
12 October, 9pm, UK time

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

END OF ROUND 1/START OF ROUND 2
26 October, 9pm, UK time
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown....

END OF ROUND 2/START OF ROUND 3
9 November, 9pm, UK time

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

END OF ROUND 3/START OF ROUND 4
23 November, 9pm UK time

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

END OF ROUND 4/END OF CHALLENGE
7 December, 9pm UK time
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

All About the Boring Wheel of Life - The Rules

Spreadsheets
Team Sheet (Only Captains can edit this): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Challenge Status: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Tracking Sheet (add books to this sheet): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...



🔊 Louise (Captain) - 12 Wheel of Life
🔊 Fiona (Co-Captain) - 15 Wheels Nine
🔊 Nistha (Co-Captain) - 15 Boring Wheel of Life
🔊 Maria Jo - 8 - Wheel Boring
🔊 vian - 8 Wheel 2024
🔊 brooke - 23 Wheel24
🔊 Patti - 18 Wheel 9
🔊 Joyce - 6 2024 Wheel
🔊 Cecily - 30 BoringWheelnbrc


Points System
◈ Books less than 100 pages = 0 points
◈ Books between 100 and 1000 pages = 0.1 points/page
◈ Books over 1000 pages = 100 points
(points will be rounded up/down from 0.5 as per standard maths)

Bonus points
To brighten your multi-tasking lives a tiny bit, each book used in the spell-out might also work for bonus points:

- 5 points for books published more than 2 years ago
- 10 points for books published more than 50 years ago
- 20 points for books over 100 years old
- 5 points for books over 400 pages
- 10 points for books over 600 pages
- 20 points for books over 800 pages

Yes, these points stack (published in 1963 & 605pgs = 30 points).

BOM
Writing a day's worth of discussion questions = 40 points
Participating in a current BOM discussion (3 sets min.) = 20 points


Sample Completion Post

Bookcover (please add especially for the colour cover tasks)
Book: the edition you have actually read (for audios, use the default)
Date Read:
Pages:
--> and (!) for any books tagged Childrens' or Poetry etc, please indicate that you have verified the wordcount
https://www.arbookfind.com/UserType.a...
Rating: optional

Bonus: (not needed if your book doesn't work for these)
- publication date
- etc

Spell-Out:
- please add name AND surname every time (unless one of them is not mentioned)
- please add ALL options the books work for (this will allow captains to move things around if necessary)





IMPORTANT
New for this version of Wheel everyone has a PERSONAL CAP per round based on what you indicated on sign up. These are indicated above

I’ll try and log on before my physio appointment this morning 🤞

Apologies all for being quiet the last couple of weeks. Currently recovering from a broken ankle. Although I’m able to work from home, it’s quite exhausting, thankfully I’ve got a few audiobooks to get me through. Going to get all my books updated tonight.

@Melis finished my bomb book this afternoon.