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

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

Currently reading Alpaca Lies which works for A, E, I, H and Waiting for Tom Hanks (task MC is a writer)

Then make a star my on Wildfire and
Fierce Fragile Hearts

Weekly Update

We are nearing the end of our first week and we are doing well. Some basic stats for you all:

Book Points: 1507
BOM Points: 120
Total Points: 1627

Books Read: 44
Pages Read: 15058

We are currently in a strong 1st place but this can change.

Don't forget our BOMs:
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Discussion

Wildfire starts tomorrow
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The Book of Cold Cases
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You can still volunteer to write discussion questions.

The Witch's Heart
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You can still volunteer to write discussion questions.

I will let Vicky update you on how we are doing on the mini.

Quick question has anyone read the book of our team name.

Annalisa wrote: "Louise wrote: "@Annalisa can you check A Deadly Fortune the book you’ve shelved and linked is the hardcover at 368pgs. On the tracker you’ve tracked 298pgs."

I read the hardcover b..."

Thank you. I will double check with the Mods how we handle this as all online references to the hb edition matches goodreads. Do you have the isbn number for reference.

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Was just looking at our team's official spreadsheet, and I think an error was made for the justification for mine, The Assassin's dragon. For spell it out of "L", justification was given as Charact..."

Fixed. :)

Good morning all, @Jax that looks super interesting I’m positive we can help you with some prompts.
It’s FRIDAY should be a relatively quite day today with no interruptions to reading other than my own making. Happy reading all.

Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "SIGHS I just got home from picking up my oldest grandson(4 yo). He may have picked up a staph infection at school. DIL took him to ER and he has some type of skin infection but not sure exactly wha..."

Hope he gets through it quickly and doesn’t suffer too much.

@Annalisa can you check A Deadly Fortune the book you’ve shelved and linked is the hardcover at 368pgs. On the tracker you’ve tracked 298pgs.

@Stacey please check The Glass Bead Game the edition and page counts of the one you shelved Is different to the one tracked.

Looks to be a typing error 7(8)

Managed to start and finish The English Patient despite surprise conference calls. I didn't think much of the film but the book was a 5-star read for me. Off to bed with Shopping for a Billionaire.

Tomorrow I think will be Waiting for Tom Hanks

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "I am so tired today again. I got some sleep last night compared to the night before, but have an irritated tooth and, between needing to catch up on sleep, and taking pills for that, and busy work,..."

Hope you feel better soon Erin.

Vicky wrote: "Hey Team! I just did a big spell-it out dump and we're actually in REALLY good shape.

We still need 5 of both O and I but everything else is under 4!

Normally I'd be worried about P, but the MC'..."

That's great news.

Stacey wrote: "Yep, we had a good chance of getting DQs with how many from our team volunteered for the Backroom BOM. Happy to do it, but if someone who signed up earlier really wants to, let me know. Got to love..."

Our team made up a quarter of the volunteers which is great news. Can you double check your and confirm that this works for you in the discussion thread

If you wish to volunteer for DQs for The Book of Cold Cases please do so here

We get 40pts for writing DQs and 20pts for participating.

For those that have played before, Mods are ignoring the order of volunteering in the discussion thread. Every team member who volunteers has equal chance of being chosen.

Backroom BOM
DQs are allocated, well done Stacey
Date Chapters MPDQs
22 May 1 - 8 Truitt_T (Pan)
23 May 9 - 20 Tina (Ajax)
24 May 21 - 34 Stacey (Circe)
25 May 35 - 50 Sonia (Hec)

Kerri wrote: "Louise wrote: "Kerri wrote: "I finished The Travelling Cat Chronicles and, yeah, it definitely had me tearing up at the end. Really enjoyed this one ❤

Edited to ask, do I need to l..."

You should be able to edit any part of the tracking spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

The Team Official spreadsheet is restricted to Captains only

Kerri wrote: "I finished The Travelling Cat Chronicles and, yeah, it definitely had me tearing up at the end. Really enjoyed this one ❤

Edited to ask, do I need to link my DQ answers for this BO..."

There is a tab on the tracking sheet for BOMs for tracking DQ participation. You can either track your DQs on the sheet or post your completion in the thread and we’ll transfer it to the sheet.

Non Spell-Out Mini Tasks Claimed

• MPG Humour - Jenn
• Mask on cover - Louise
• Stars on the cover - Stormie
• Map at the front of the book - Kelsi
• Sword on cover - Kerri
• Tagged Tragedy - Erin
• Letters of HYMN in title - Robin
• Author initials in SACRED - Kelsi
• Poetry quote in the text - Jenn
• MC is a writer Louise
• Royal title in book title - Erin
• 1st in series - Jax
• MPG History/Historical Fiction - Jax
• A celebration in the book - Jenn
• Musical instrument on cover - Vian
• Characters attend a musical performance - Stacie
• Dancing in the book - Trinia
• Letters CLD in title of book - Robin

Found for mask on cover on page 54 of amazon audio/kindle

Managed to finish the BOM which I really enjoyed and The Perfume Collector. Didn't manage to get started on The English Patient had 2 conference calls sprung on me. Should be able to get it done tomorrow, going to see if I can find an audio with a mask on the cover.

Vicky wrote: "RE: The spell-outs, I'm going to do a batch insert tomorrow after work and see where we are and if there's anything we need to really focus on.

If we read on track, we should be just over 100 boo..."

I'm confident that we will complete the May mini. We are on target with 21 books read over 3 full days. We have 13 full days to complete the mini, I will get a countdown posted later.