Bernadette’s Comments (group member since May 28, 2020)

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

Ashley wrote: "An exciting announcement from the NBRC Mods!
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

Of course, I have recently read both November BOM's☹️

Jessica wrote: "I'm on my phone currently but I made my shelf. It's just "Wheels 7" lol

Are we filling out the team sheet with what we're going to read or do you enter that (sorry this is my first wheels challenge)"

Jessica, you can enter your books on the team planning spreadsheet in message 4 and the captains will decide how best to use it.

Kirsten wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Deanna wrote: "Trio wrote: "Is this one of those challenges where we actually get extra points if we find the thing on the cover... are we trying to find a book with a Blue Skinned G..."


Each week teams can gain 5 bonus points if a book used in the spell out is:
- at least 50% the colour cover associated with the team's word - to a maximum of 25 points
- that has at least 10 shelvings that matches the week's shelf. The same shelf will be used for all teams. There is no maximum points for the shelving.

So we only need five blue books but can use unlimited space opera tagged (10+) books

My first 2 books will be U is for Undertow and Our Missing Hearts - both have blue covers🥳

Hello fellow Book Thieves! I'm Bernadette and I see a few names I recognize from other teams I've been on.

I live in a suburb of Philadelphia with my husband and his cat. My daugher got engaged two months ago so we are planning a wedding for December 2023.🥰 During the day I'm a part-time CPA (tax accountant) at a national accounting firm.

I'll read almost anything if I have to for the team, but my favorites are Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery and Thriller. I'm not a fan of SciFi but I do like Fantasy.

I really liked The Book Thief but did not like the movie.

Here is my shelf https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

This has been a wonderful Tower Team. Thanks everyone for all of your reading. We finished 10th out of 13. You are all winners to me though🥳😉

Check out Homer's Campfire for the stories. Here is the link https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...Ashley, I posted your stories.

Hope to run into you in another challenge.

Team Agamemnon Tragedy - thanks to our author Ashley

In a world Lost in Time lived a beautiful, but Shattered Princess by the name of Clarissa. Her mother and her sisters, known as the infamous Pretty Dead Queens created a spell called The Virus of Beauty. The Ruthless Queens did not like that Clarissa had such beauty, and sought to destroy it so that she would never find a Prince and take away their throne. The Queens lured Clarissa through The Path of Thorns to The Phantom Tree by the River of Shadows where she noticed Something in the Water, a beautiful rose. Curious, she reached for it and immediately began to transform. "I Must Betray You" the Queen yelled, “for you are too beautiful to exist!” Clarissa managed a last plea, “Please, don’t Break Me!” before she was frozen in stone, sealed with The Magic of Eternity.

The village the Queens ruled over mourned the loss of their beautiful, Missing Clarissa, but no one dared accuse the Queens, though they knew they were Traitors.

Many years passed and ivy grew over the statue of Clarissa and the stone crumbled, until she began to disappear, The Vanishing Half of her face hiding her expression of hopeful, but Fractured Freedom.

One day a handsome Prince came and saw the statue of the Princess. He was so moved by her sad beauty that he asked in the village about the statue. The villagers, fearing the Queens’ wrath, lied and said it was just an old statue with no significance. But the Prince knew the truth, having heard the stories and rumors of the past. The Prince, angry that the villagers had lied, transformed into his real form, a Dreadgod and that's when The Violence began. First, earthquakes shook the ground, and then a fire engulfed the village, slowly spreading to the statue, Igniting Ivy and exposing the crumbling statue. The villagers, fearing their stone Princess would be destroyed began to cry out, "We Were Liars!! Please, don't destroy our beloved Princess Clarissa!" But it did no good and soon the statue was only dust.

Books Used:

The Phantom Tree
The Path of Thorns
Something in the Water
Ruthless
Igniting Ivy
River of Shadows
I Must Betray You
The Violence
Lost in Time
The Vanishing Half
We Were Liars
Fractured Freedom
Dreadgod
Shattered Princess
Pretty Dead Queens
The Virus of Beauty
Break Me
The Magic of Eternity
Missing Clarissa
Traitor

Team Agamemnon Comedy - thanks to our author Ashley

Meet Bridget Jones and Dakota Dawn, two stepsisters who are Book Lovers! Bridget's dad, known affectionately throughout the neighborhood as the Single Dad Next Door, started dating The It Girl, Dakota's mom. Everything in their lives was "normal" until a stranger appeared in their lives.

Matilda began working as their housekeeper about a year after their parent's marriage, or as Dakota liked to gossip, "Faking It as the Maid", since she always did a terrible job. One afternoon, Bridget noticed Matilda polishing a strange-looking lamp. Once Matilda finished cleaning, Bridget noticed a still very noticeable smudge on the lamp and picked it up and wiped it off. This was enough to engage The Magic of the Lamp and soon a giant phoenix appeared, hovering in midair.

"Hey there, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, the name is Klutz: Phoenix Heat, and I'm here to grant 3 wishes! Tell me all your Pretty Secrets!" the phoenix roared, then promptly tumbled to the ground, no longer floating.

Stunned, Bridget blurted out the only thing that came to mind. She'd been reading a book about werewolves earlier that day called Wolf Pact and decided she'd love to be a werewolf.

"Granted! Until Next Time!" Klutz yelled and disappeared in a wave of water and soaked Bridget instantly.

"What the heck!?" she thought. Confused, and not at all hairy (though strangely smelling of wet dog), Bridget retreated to her room to write about the odd experience in her diary.

Later that day, Dakota felt sneaky and picked up Bridget Jones's Diary and was astonished to read about her stepsister's experience. Hurt that she didn't tell her about it right away, she decided to get Her Revenge! She ran off to find the lamp, rubbed it, and just as before, out popped a giant phoenix.

"Oy! I'm Klutz: Phoenix Secrets, and I'm here to grant 3 wishes!" Klutz attempted to face Dakota but kept spinning as if in a tiny tornado.

Confused, but determined, Dakota said, "Hello Klutz! I'd like to be a Princess!"

"Wish Granted!" Klutz roared and he tumbled in midair.

Suddenly, Dakota found herself trapped in A Court of Wings & Ruin, Guarded by the Soldier of ReDawn. But it wasn't all bad since the inhabitants, frightened by her sudden appearance, instantly worshipped her as a Goddess.

Hours passed and Bridget realized that her sister was missing and decided to ask the phoenix to show her where she was.

After rubbing the lamp, Klutz appeared and yelled, "Oh! Not You Again!"

"Where is my sister?" Bridget demanded.

"Oh, in the Court of Wings and Ruin near The Phantom Tollbooth, probably destroying Her Villians and doing princessy things," Klutz replied, as though it made perfect sense.

"Well, bring her back!" she yelled. "She's not supposed to be a princess!"

"Well, you're not supposed to be a werewolf either, but here we are. If you want me to bring her back, I will have to undo all the magic and no one will be ANYTHING interesting!"

Bridget mulled this over and decided that maybe being a werewolf wasn't the best idea she'd ever had and demanded that Klutz bring her stepsister back.

"Ok, fine, but that's final! Don't bother me again!" Klutz said, wobbling in the air yet again and finally tumbling back into the lamp.

Dakota appeared and Bridget explained what she'd done to get her back. Dakota was a bit annoyed, but was honestly happy to be back.

Books Used:

ReDawn
The Magic of the Lamp
Bridget Jones's Diary
The It Girl
Not You Again
Faking It as the Maid
Klutz: Phoenix Heat
Until Next Time
Pretty Secrets
Single Dad Next Door
Dakota Dawn (Dakota Plains, #1)
Book Lovers
Her Villains
Guarded by the Soldier
Her Revenge
Klutz: Phoenix Secrets
Wolf Pact
Daughter of the Moon Goddess
A Court of Wings And Ruin
The Phantom Tollbooth

Alaina - any other books to add? We have a day to finalize the team SS.

Anyone else have anything to add to the tracking SS?

Rokkan wrote: "How are we doing on the over-reading stakes? I just realised I have 35 books on my tt9 shelf, and I think I signed up for 9 books a month? Which would take me to 36 total - but I have 4 more books ..."

We're doing fine on the over-read. We are currently at 103% and can get to 109% before we lose points. Translated - we can read at least 40 more books before we have a problem. Two more days to go,

Mama - is Love Another Day your Battleship book? Their looking for it on the Completion page. Also, it's not on your TT shelf or the SS.

Yasmine wrote: "Ohno, I just saw that Goodreads changed the book page to the beta version officially now :( personally I don't like this view at all and prefer the old one, what do you guys think?"

I prefer the old one as well, but I guess we'll get used to it☹️

Ashley wrote: "Bernadette - I saw you're reading "Rainbow Sprinkles"... just .... prepare yourself. I thought I was getting something MUCH different than that I was ACTUALLY getting. Thankfully, it's short."

Ashley - I picked this one because it was short and the cover (and finally completes!) another challenge. Thanks for the warning 🤣

Yasmine wrote: "Bernadette wrote: "Yasmine wrote: "Bernadette wrote: "Yasmine wrote: "Bernadette wrote: "Happy Tuesday team😀- six days left! Here's what we could use if you can help with the tasks....

6 Read a bo..."

It's good - Ashley used the book for the story.

WOW! Thanks to Ashley's amazing writing skills she has completed our two stories and we now only need seven (7) books to complete the Inpired by Muses mini challenge. She posted the stories in messgaes 1338 and 1344 and on the tracking SS, so please try to find some time to read them.

I moved a few books around and her is what we need:

4 Read a book read by a team member during the challenge. Paris and Alysa are currently working on 2 of them

2 Read a book that has be on your tbr longer than a year

1 Food and drink items in text

Ashley wrote: "Would in be insane if I wrote the Comedy too? 👀 So... yeah. It's only moderately funny...

Comedy??

Meet Bridget Jones and Dakota Dawn, two stepsisters who are Book Lovers! Bridget's dad, known a..."

You were made for this🥳😂🙂😉

Alysa looks like Paper Dolls was used for Battleship so we can't use it for Muses😭

Yasmine wrote: "Bernadette wrote: "Yasmine wrote: "Bernadette wrote: "Happy Tuesday team😀- six days left! Here's what we could use if you can help with the tasks....

6 Read a book read by a team member during the..."

You can with the description - which book was it?

Alysa wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Hmmm... I don't mind giving it a shot! Do we have any other titles we haven't used yet? Anything at all might work."

Dunno if anyone saw that part of my post earlier today re the bo..."

I can move a food & drink book! Use Q13.

Ashley wrote: "Ok.... so I did a thing. It's bad.... not at all a great story, but I tried! Will it work?? I pulled books that hadn't been used yet and created a "TRAGEDY!" HAHA - Don't laugh.... I did laugh at m..."

Wonderful!