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

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

Kerri wrote: "Question: how prominent does the musical instrument on the cover have to be to count? Because I was planning on picking up ([book:The Ballad of Black To..."

I would say that the instrument needs to be visible, I don't think this one will work as you cannot actually see the guitar.

A little under 24 hours to go. Got 1 book to finish before we start tomorrow Other

Safe travels Annalisa

Mini Tasks to Claim

• MPG Humour - Jenn
• Mask on cover
• 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
• Musical instrument on cover - Vian
• Characters attend a musical performance - Stacie
• Dancing in the book - Trinia
• Letters CLD in title of book - Robin

Backroom BOM
Late May poll is up
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

Vote for your favourite (in the loosest sense of the word)

Mini Tasks to Claim

• MPG Humour - Jenn
• Mask on cover
• 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
• 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
• Musical instrument on cover
• Characters attend a musical performance - Stacie
• Dancing in the book - Trinia
• Letters CLD in title of book - Robin

Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "Louise wrote: "Mini Tasks to Claim

• MPG Humour
• Mask on cover
• Stars on the cover
• Map at the front of the book - Kelsi
• Sword on cover - Kerri
• Tagged Tragedy - Erin
• Letters of HYMN in ti..."

Sorry about that Robin, I’ve corrected the post.

Vicky wrote: "I just realized when looking at the countdown timer that the 15th is SUNDAY - I totally thought it was Saturday!

What is everyone currently reading/trying to wrap up before the challenge starts? ..."

That’s alright it wasn’t until I put the countdown clocks up that I realised it was 9pm and not 9am, like the last couple of NBRC challenges. I may start a couple of chapters of a physical/ebook Sunday night if I manage to get my final book that I’m currently reading Other done

Put some books on the tracker that I am going to try and read in the challenge. My first audio that I’m going for is Jane Eyre I’ve also got The Travelling Cat Chronicles ready to go.

Jenn wrote: "Louise wrote: "Mini Tasks to Claim

• MPG Humour
• Mask on cover
• Stars on the cover
• Map at the front of the book - Kelsi
• Sword on cover - Kerri
• Tagged Tragedy - Erin
• Letters of HYMN in ti..."

Humor or Humour is fine :)

Countdown to the Start

15 May 9pm BST London, UK

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

Other cities:
Sydney, Australia - Mon, 16 May 2022 06:00
Athens, Greece - Sun, 15 May 2022 23:00
Athens, GA, USA - Sun, 15 May 2022 16:00
San Francisco, CA, USA - Sun, 15 May 2022 13:00

Kelsi wrote: "Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Just did my time zone conversion, and looks like it starts for me this Sunday at 4:00 pm. Now back to the waiting game..."

Sunday at 1pm for me, seems so far away!"

4 days 3hours and 49 minutes

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Just did my time zone conversion, and looks like it starts for me this Sunday at 4:00 pm. Now back to the waiting game..."

There is a countdown in msg 6 I’ll see if a city cheat sheet has been posted

Stormie ~ Book Dragon ~ wrote: "Good morning!
I live in Southern California and I love to read! I currently work in lodging on a military base. Besides having a regular day shift of 3 -1130 PM, I am also the back-up for the Midni..."

Welcome Stormie, don’t forget to post your shelf link.

Found a book for MC is a writer Waiting for Tom Hanks

Good morning all. DQs have been assigned for The Travelling Cat Chronicles


Official page count: 288 pages

Chapter Breakdown
Date Chapters MPDQs
16 May Prologue & Audrey Jane (Cass)
The Husband Without a Wife
17 May The Unsentimental Farmer Claire (Hec)
18 May Sugi and Chikako's Hotel for Pets &
Between Friends Judy (Helen)
19 May How Noriko Learned to Love Nanci (Jason)

No DQ points for us this time but plenty of opportunity for BOM points. Don’t forget that to claim BOM points you will need to link 3 DQ sets in your completion. If using the tracker and you are unsure how to do this give a shout out and we can help you out.

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "As for planning, I always way overplan, so with themed challenges can usually fit one of them in --- or else will just keep adding to the growing pile ;)"

I used to be like that and ended up with loads of books on trackers that I never got round to because they didn’t fit with other challenges I had ongoing. Now I “try” to only plan a week at a time.

Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "Hey everyone!!! Just a couple of things to mention here lol

I'm not real savvy yet with tracking sheets, I get nervous I'm going to mess someone else's stuff up. I'm not real familiar with them, ..."

No worries Robin up to you whether you want to use the spreadsheet, you can post in here if you wish. There are sections of the spreadsheet I’ve restricted for Captains only to edit.

We get 0.1 point/page for each book and it’s rounded down: e.g
100 - 10
200 - 20
300 - 30
400 - 40
500 - 50
600 - 60
700 - 70
800 - 80
900 - 90
1000 - 100
Over 1000 - 100

There is a cap on our team books/month and we are penalized for going over it. Don’t worry we’ll let you know when we are close. I will post a weekly update on a Saturday/Sunday with these figures in.

Morning all, love all the pre-planning, I’ll get the mini updated with what has been claimed.

I see there are lots of big books planned, I tend to only plan out the BOM and will pre plan books a week in advance as challenges arise.

Mini Tasks to Claim

• MPG Humour
• Mask on cover
• 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
• 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
• Musical instrument on cover
• Characters attend a musical performance
• Dancing in the book - Trinia
• Letters CLD in title of book - Robin

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Louise wrote: "Please take a look at the May mini and let us know if you can cover any of the tasks - Spellout Tasks do not need to be claimed. We have 2 weeks to complete the May mini.
."

I can c..."
There's a section on the tracking sheet for this to save swapping between the sheet and the thread.

A Little Housekeeping

Before the challenge starts just a couple of reminders.

- Books cannot be started until 9pm (UK time)
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

- Make sure that books are marked as read and on your Tower Shelf

- Books can be posted either here in the thread or on the spreadsheet, whichever you prefer.

- Please check into the thread at least weekly to let us know how you are getting.

- If you are going to be away or have any RL issues crop up let myself or one of the Co-Caps know

Above all - Enjoy