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

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

Janeylou wrote: "Completions

Elusive Relations by Nicky James
429 pgs
14th june

Chipmunk
Solve for X - Read a book with mathematical symbols on the cover
[book:Status Update|261..."

I'm not seeing these on your Tower Shelf. Can you add them please?

Having a hard time connecting with any book right now...Grr. Not sure what i'm gonna do....

Vi wrote: "@Suzanne, Lisa: I had finished Carolina Moon which will work for a standalone book. It's a 500+ er so it can also help with the page requirement."

Whoops. Saw this after I checked in a different book. Its good for the points. Thanks!

I have added this sheet to our planning spreadsheet.

A Note from the Mods

Team Tower Name Spell-outs

As the teams build taller and taller towers, we noticed some additional spell outs might be warranted. A selection of team names from TT's gone by were selected, excluding year of letters.

Books used for either the page towers or Free Choice can be used for these spell-outs. However, only books finished after 9am UTC June 15th are eligible. Teams have until the end of the challenge to complete the spellings. Only one incomplete spelling is allowed for points.

Points: 10 points per letter and 20 points per completed word

Teams are allowed one incomplete spelling each for the Team Tower and the Crayola Tower spell-outs.

SPELL-IT-OUT RULES
Spell out the word(s) using the first letter in the book's title, the first letter in the author's first or last name, or the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter of the series name.
As always, if the first letter of a title starts with an indefinite or definite article ('A', 'An', 'The', etc.), you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.
If the first letter of a title is a numerical digit, then you use the first letter of that digit for your spell out (i.e. 1984 is N; 2046 is T; 1Q84 is O)
If you are listening to an audiobook, the first letter in the narrator's first or last name also can be used.
We're also allowing for Translators names, as long as the edition you are reading is a translation version.

@Jen - The Voyeur's Motel is the last book for Winner's Tower. I have another book that can work for Lust. Are you close to finishing?

Suzanne wrote: "Lisa - we need Dangerous and Three Hears on the Line on your shelf."

Fixed

Would we consider this bone on the cover?

not at a computer, but I can take task 67. character starts with x.

It will be one that I can use for another challenge. ex meridian is the book and the character is xavier.

Checked in a bunch of Chipmunk tasks

Suzanne wrote: "I need to wake up people and be with my company in about 5 minutes - I will get the chipmunk tasks checked in , but I don't have time to put the others on the spreadsheet yet. If someone else does ..."

I'll do it now.

Amanda wrote: "Lisa this was my thought!! She just told us in our other challenge how good it was too lol
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I'm betting for the most part people will read Lisa's selected books. Its those 100 points. I think I have two that I'm not and one is my bonus book since I want to maximize points

Janeylou wrote: "Ive just read Molly Boys where the murderer cut into the skin, peeled it back and went underneath....just off to bed so will.post tomorrow if we can use it ..someone else may also ..."

OMG. Is it super descriptive? I have to read that one too.

We are about 44% done with the required # of books this month.

We are about 50% done with each page criteria, except the 500 page one. We are just barely over 50% for 400 pages.

I would suggests not using 400 or 500 page books for Chipmunks until we meet those pages anyway.

Might want to think about that for 600 pages too.

And remember when new tasks come up, we can go back and use other books not on this mini, but done in June. Cause we can always go back if we have enough in the page categories and the tasks are still available

I will be in the car most of the day tomorrow so I won't be around to post the next call and on Saturday my daughter graduates so I'll basically be MIA until Sunday

Cris (The Biblio Blonde) wrote: "What is the "hunt" challenge you're all talking about with bonus categories? Just curious. :)"

Kirsten, Janine and I are in the MM Scavenger Hunt. Its a 6 month challenge and there are 10 categories that change each month. One book per category, but they also have to be MM and Romance.

Kirsten wrote: "Janeylou wrote: "My problem is that my book cant have the letter E in it"

Ahh. I see. Bound to Him? Convincing Arthur? My Fair Captain? Unnatur..."</i>

[book:Rock Star Baby that has 66 pts.

Janeylou wrote: "My problem is that my book cant have the letter E in it"

Ouch. bad letter. Mine is I or O. I have O now, but the person who has I also has no O so it could be either.

Kirsten wrote: "Ha! Yes. I think some of those are going to get quite a workout here. Because I read pretty quickly, I’m also reading others that fit the categories (I’m always trying to whittle my tbr), but I know I’ll be using those for points."
I glanced at points for most and they are horrible for points, but with the bonus for using the book Lisa selected its makes it worth it to power through the bad points.

When new tasks show up for Chipmunks, remember we can use any book finished after June 1st, even if it was read before the task was available.

So if you see a book that works for one that has already been read, we can use it. Once its assigned and checked in for this mini it can't be moved, but we can move around any other book to this mini.