MN Lisa’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2021)

MN Lisa’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

We could use both of those, but they are in the 600+ categories. Will we have another 2 to replace those or is it better to wait for smaller books for those ones?

Here is the list for "Won a Booker"

https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/...

@Amanda I'm not Seeing Expert on your shelf. We can use that for X in the title for Chipmunk.

@Apoorv Black Water Sister is on your shelf, but there is no read date. Can you update that please?

Checked in a few Chipmunk tasks. We are down to 29 to get done. Yeah Us!

I picked up a 570 page book that I'm reading now. I should finish late today or early tomorrow. It's a harder read than I thought it would be but its good. It's one I heard was hard to read so I'd been avoiding it, but we need a few more 500 pagers.

I also have two 400 page books that I'm reading for other challenges.

Suzanne wrote: "I'm almost positive not - about the same initial since no letter appears more than once in Romance. If nothing else, my current book fits it (Nora Roberts). I just didn't put it down because I won'..."

We can just wait. We have until the end of the challenge to finish them off (not June Like I had originally thought)

Here is the Goodreads list for Won an edgar (Chipmunk Task# 115)

https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/...

X-Rated - Read a book with author initials in ROMANCE

Do you think we could use an author with the same initial for first/last?

Like Eli Easton or Amy Aslin?

@Vi - I'm not seeing Song of Achilles on your shelf. Can you add it please?

Leslie Ann wrote: "Fyi: I noticed in the ss , it is not adding my bom points. No problem as long as it was added to the official ss."

The problem was your name on the BOM has to match EXACTLY to how its listed on the Summary Tab. I make the Read By a DDL and updated the BOM Tab.

Your points should show now.

OMG. I've been trying to finish out the Chipmunks tasks cause I thought it was a June only mini-challenge, but its available until the end of the challenge. I need to learn to read the rules better, :)

I updated the Tower Team Sheet with the letters and quantities needed.

Column L is how many we STILL need of that letter and if its green, we do not need anymore of that letter.

It is counting completed books, not just claimed

I removed two books from the new Tower Team Spells. they were read prior to the start date of 6/15.

Janeylou wrote: "But its great that lots of other groups have great challenges we can join in 😊
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Keep me in mind if you find any that you think I might like. This is what I do. My husband watches baseball, I join reading challenges. :)

I'm switching out Chipmunk SciFi Corpies being read by Jackie to Warcross that was already done by Andrea.

Janeylou is my captain on the Friends Challenge.

Kirsten wrote: "I get grouchy (because I'm so competitive) when I feel like I'm reading for challenges instead of fun. I love challenges, and ones like this are pretty great, when basically everything counts and I can look for things if I feel like it. Uno was like that too, and SH is a whole month so that's an easy one. But I need to stay away from the intense challenges.."
I really like Potions and would probably do that again. I'm also in a "Friends" Challenge (maybe with you??) that is nice because its similar. you have 6 books that have to fit a few requirements and then anything else as it fits.

I might either bypass hunt next year or maybe just not captain? I don't know. Its just not as enjoyable than years past, but I have found other challenges that i like. i'm always looking for new ones, so let me know if you see any. :)

Kirsten wrote: "Lisa, I was so burned out after Potions I just gave myself permission to read whatever the heck I wanted to, and to quit books if I didn't like them. I hope you're able to do the same.

And I've on..."

I've read the first few pages of my last 5 and I think I can finish them. Postscript is a bit iffy, the writing seems weird to me. So I'm taking a break.

I'm in Regular Bingo and Forbidden Bingo so I have to keep some, but for one I was able to select a comfort read for me and have it work for one of the categories.

I'll be taking a bit of a break this weekend, but I'm going to only read what I want this week.

Cris (The Biblio Blonde) wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "Having a hard time connecting with any book right now...Grr. Not sure what i'm gonna do...."

I hate when that happens! Sometimes when I feel that way, I re-read an old comfortable ..."

I think I found one to re-read that I hope will work. I still have 5 books for my Hunt to read, but have until end of June for that.