Trinia’s Comments (group member since Mar 29, 2015)

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

Emily wrote: "Camilla, at this point there are so many tasks available that I think you should read whatever most appeals to you, as long as it fulfills something that isn't already claimed. There are a lot of t..."

yes, it's so early in the game that she can only help move along the main labor completions. Then we can open more bonuses and attack those together :D

FYI- to keep in mind for strategy:

Bonus Scaling
For teams with between 0 - 3 total Main Labor completions, they will be allowed to have 2 Bonuses open.
For teams with between 4 - 7 total Main Labor completions, they will be allowed to have 3 Bonuses open.
For teams with between 8 - 10 total Main Labor completions, they will be allowed to have 4 Bonuses open.
For teams with between 11 - 12 total Main Labor completions, they will be allowed to have 5 Bonuses open.

Emily wrote: "The bonuses seem to be around 10 points per book, so I think since bonus 1 is 100 points that it is actually all 9 books."

I think your right Emily. I've been looking around at other spreadsheets. Our tasks are pretty easy, so I think that balances out the number of them (9). It just seems strange that we get more points by actually doing the main tasks- 10 points per book.

I think since you are a fast reader it may be best for you to work on the bonuses. Will you be able to keep up the pace with work? I've got only one more week of work and then I can get busy with my reading. But I'm still not very fast :/

We should try to complete labors first for the bonus points. That's probably obvious. That's why I picked a Topiary book.

Either way by finishing all the main tasks, all teams end with the same points. I guess the bonuses will allow teams to push ahead.
So, all that said... I'm guessing you'll go for an A book. ;)

Lol! I think we can cover it. I've got a few pink ones in there. I'm guessing Gea will have pink, she loves those Romance books ;)
I'm so overwhelmed and am not sure where to start. I've got a topiary book - Wildalone. Love that Kindle search. Found 20 books with Topiary in it :D

Thank you ;)

I think it might be an error, I've look on other team spreadsheets and they only have 4 or 5 tasks. I'll ask mods.

Perfect ;)

Camilla wrote: "Completion post

Itsy Bitsy Spider
Possible tasks:
Read a mystery book.
Read a book where someone is murdered.
Read a book where someone is mentally unbalanced.
Read a book that was..."

I'm going to enter some of your books, so we can open a bonus. Can you give me details to put as a reason for :
Itsy bitsy spider- Read a book where someone is mentally unbalanced. (character name?)
Alone on the ice - Read a book that takes place in winter with snow. (maybe setting, place ?)
Thank you!
Not sure how specific we need to be, but I just want to make sure ;)

Emily wrote: "Completion Post

Book: Steelheart
Possible tasks:
◈ Speak in Parselmouth to capture the Basilisk - Read a book that's title starts with S
◈ Survive Weathertop - Read a book where so..."

I'm going to enter some books in Labor 6. Can you give me some more details to put under "reason" for - Read a book where someone is murdered. I think we need to put who was murdered.
Thank you!

Anyone know if we can read ARC or NetGalley books? I have a book I'd like to read but it isn't released until September 20th.

Camilla wrote: "Can I reserve the task "Read a book with a title (Mr., Ms, Lord, etc.) in the title."? I'm currently listening to Madame Bovary, should finish it in a few days. I don't think it fit..."

Yes, I'll put your name on the spreadsheet. :D

Poongothai wrote: "I think we can enter 3 books for now and open the bonus tasks. If we get something like a riddle then we can help Camilla solve it and keep getting additional 10 points for it."

Sounds good, I'm going to let you do that. I'm crossed eyed looking at this. More coffee needed!

WOW! Y'all have been busy! let me make some coffee and start plugging these books into our spreadsheet :D

Emily wrote: "Since you can't switch books around once they're submitted and most books fill multiple categories, it may be a good strategy to hold off submitting books until we have an entire labor completed. T..."

Yes, I agree 100%. ;)

Emily wrote: "Have started reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X which is nonfiction and thus will fit a smaller number of tasks. So I would like to reserve one of the following so I'm sure it fits..."

I think
Read a book where someone works at a non-profit.
Would be great. I think that's a harder one to fill.

I believe Poongothai has finished our planning spreadsheets, looking beautiful P!!!!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
I'll put you in for that task.

Good Morning All!

I'd like to stress to the whole group that it will be most important to communicate with each other about which task we are reading for. I would hate to see 2 people reading for the 800 page book at the same time. That is where the spreadsheets are going to be important

It seems that most any book can fit into multiple tasks, so that part is great.
I was thinking we could start by filling in those less obvious tasks first. For example - Read a book with a topiary in it. Will be harder than -Read a book that's title starts with S.

Also, It is my understanding that the books Do Not have to be in the same Genre as the Labor.
For example:
Labor 1 - The Fantasy -
◈ Speak in Parselmouth to capture the Basilisk - Read a book that's title starts with S
This book does not have to be a Fantasy book. It could be a Romance or other genre.

Camilla wrote: "I looked at the rules and have one question: if I understood correctly, we get points for every book read and not only when a labor is completed? I mean, can we read for whatever task has not been ..."

Yes, You are correct. There is a bit of strategy I think as well, completing a labor gets us a bonus. So I don't think we necessarily want to spread across all the labors initially.

Gea wrote: "You two did a great job with bingo :)

Sorry about my inactivity these last days but I've been battling a stomach bug that is currently running through the city and I had little energy to do anyth..."

Thanks G! Sorry to hear you weren't feeling well.

Poongothai wrote: "Bookules Countdown

Rules
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'm preparing our planning sheet for it."

Thank you P!!! I am just beside myself with excitement over this next challenge! Ladies it should be a lot of fun! BUT we will need everyone to try to communicate :) it is similar to the Olympics tasks, which was very specific and required claiming a task. Each task can only be completed once , so it is important that each task is claimed and completed.

Polar Bears- please read over the rules, it is important :) Any questions please ask or message either myself or Poongothai.