Emily’s Comments (group member since Dec 27, 2013)

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

Phew! Summer programs end this week and I'm finally starting to feel better from being sick, so it's all just in time for the TWT. Hopefully this means I'll get much more reading done!

Yay to a new challenge! I will go back this evening (I'm at work right now and can't invest that much time) and add character name letters to the books I've read to see if anything helps.

Makes sense why they’d do that! Just a little disappointed that the books we’ve read and not used can’t be used to help us.

Have they said if they’ll give out any info about what will be happening before the 31st or if we learn what to do on the day it begins?

Bit of a dumb question - what do they mean by “no banked allowed”? As in books we’ve read and haven’t used for spells/classes/etc?

Title: The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
Author: Helen Rappaport
Date Read: 07/23/18
Pages: 464

I can be here till the end of August! This is the last week of summer programming at work, so while I’ve been reading in my time off, I should have more time for even more reading after this week.

Hi, Ines and Shannon!! Glad to have you join us!

Also, I’m super excited that it sounds like the tournament is getting ready to start! I can’t remember - is this going to be as teams or with our whole house working together? Or do we not know that?

I can stick around as long as necessary! I’m excited to learn more about the tournament.

Title - The Cruel Prince
Author - Holly Black
Pages - 370
Date Read - 07/13/18

It’s the calm before the storm that will be the tournament. lol.

Thanks Judith & Silje! I just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed anything and was already behind.

Was there an update on TT? I wasn't sure if it hadn't come out yet or if I completely missed it.

Love the idea of extending it! I always want these challenges to last longer and since I missed out on the first few weeks, I'd love to have more time. (:

Definitely don't mind the idea of changing the time frame! I always wish these TT challenges were longer anyway and especially this one with a HP theme!

I think, also, not everything is updated. I checked our team spreadsheet earlier and it still lists only three books for me when I added two more recently.

I know our captain has been busy this weekend, so perhaps that’s another reason why it seems we are falling behind.

I would be more than happy to help with errands for free food. lol.

Jenny wrote: "So, what we know for sure is that is called the Tri=Wizard Tournament. Helpful? No?
What we have "heard" is that there are three parts, the first two of which will be done by teams, and the third-..."

Hey, it was helpful in the sense that I now know that we TRULY know nothing! lol. I'm just super excited for it because it sounds like it's going to be kind of epic.

Thanks for the update, Judith!

Since I joined a bit late, I'm just curious - what DO we know so far about the tournament? I know it's very little, but I just want to make sure I'm up to date on any tiny details we've been given.

Title - The Darkest Minds
Author - Alexandra Bracken
Date Read - 07/04/18
Pages - 488

Title - Forever My Girl
Author - Heidi McLaughlin
Date Read - 07/05/18
Pages - 237

So, we have no idea when the Tournament will even start, right? The anticipation is killing me, but I'm so excited!

I finished two books over the holiday that I'm hoping to get logged soon!