Nanci’s Comments (group member since Jan 29, 2016)

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

Melissa wrote: "Nice ! Read that dragon book! No joke, on the first page of Don Quixote it says “under my cloak a fig for the king!”"

Yay! I can't believe you found fig so easily! Life is good!!

Stacey wrote: "Good grief. Another doorstopper.... I'm only about 300p. into The Stand -- I was hoping to have more time before it was needed. :) ETA: I've found one that will work for 3 of the ta..."

No it's just author's first and/or last name. That's good that you have 3 of the tasks. I put down a book I'm currently listening to for Task T70 "takes a boat trip". If that's one that your book fits, we can always move mine.

Melissa wrote: "Nanci wrote: "Great, Keely!
I requested a new monster and struck out the text on the SS. Melissa, is that all we need to do or do we report it somewhere else?"

We just have to do the little checkb..."

Thank you! Next time I'll know!
Also, how do you get the picture of the monster to copy over to another post?

Our newest monster!

Charybdis



Charybdis has been spotted close to your shores and endangering ships heading for the harbor. If you manage to defeat this monster be prepared to answer "how are you still alive" every time you tell the story. The monster is interested in helping you reach your childhood dream of finding what's in Davy Jones's Locker.

To vanquish this monster you must:
1.) Read a book 800 pages or longer.
2.) Author's name (first or last) starts with one of the letters in POOL.
3.) Read a book where the MC is forced to make a hard choice (your interpretation).
4.) Read a book with "fig" in the title or text.
5.) Read a book where the characters take a boat trip (of any type)

Great, Keely!
I requested a new monster and struck out the text on the SS. Melissa, is that all we need to do or do we report it somewhere else?

Melissa and Heather,
We read My Brilliant Friend for my RL book group. It wasn't something I enjoyed, but everyone else really liked it. It does get a mixed bag of reviews. Hope you enjoy it!

I finished my book, The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland. Adding the read date to monster SS now.

Empusa looks a bit easier. We could almost find one book to cover all the tasks, it seems.

Melissa wrote: "Yeah, I couldn’t get through that one. I’m not sure why though. I really liked one of the characters- Hobie? Something like that? I’ll start The Warmth of Other Suns tonight for the 500-600 page on..."

The Warmth of Other Suns was a fast reading longer book, for me. It really moved me.

Mary C wrote: "It could go either way. Wonderfully interesting or insanely boring.

I have decided to finally read the Goldfinch. Just added it to the spreadsheet that I have enough done to know I'll stick with ..."

I loved the Goldfinch! As I remember it (it's been quite a few years since I read it) there is enough NYC to work as setting. The other setting was Las Vegas, which was the harder part of the book for me, so maybe I'm recalling NY as having most the story since it was the beginning and end that I liked best.

I'm just over halfway through reading The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland. It's due back to my library tomorrow, so I will finish it today.

I'm currently listening to Things We Lost to the Water, so that will be up next. The MC's husband does some farming, but looks like we've got those two spots covered. I'll see if it works for a new monster, once we've earned one.

Eni wrote: "@Heather - Cabin Fever isn't in your tower teams shelf. Could you fix that please?

@Joyce - Witch Please isn't in your tower teams shelf. Could you fix that please?

@Maria Jo - Tobacco Wives and ..."

Sorry about that. It's now on my read shelf and my TT shelf.

Mary C wrote: "Sorry I haven't been much help. Friday night I went to a get together for a friend that's moving away. Then Saturday all day I was working with my Elks Lodge running a fishing derby and drug preven..."

You're doing good things for your community! No worries. Hope you heal fast!

Stacey,
I would say yes to a sheep rancher being a farmer. I'm from the midwest originally and had friends whose fathers referred to themselves as cattle farmers. If others disagree we can take it to the mods.

Keli,
Those BOMS are point winners too and not many choose to read them, so that's very valuable to our team!

For Cyclops, I can take care of T2 "read a book that takes place on an island". I'm just starting The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland. Newfoundland is a large island.

I got a lot of reading time into today and finished my book that works for "cave", if we need it for that.

Also, my book The Broken Girls was listed twice on the SS, so I deleted one of the listings and replaced it with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I added the tasks it works for. Also, the edition I read has a brown cover. I don't think we need that task right now, but if we get a new monster and need it, it would fit.

A book I'm about to start, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate has "cave in the text. Pg 71 "...they can be relied upon to cave in early..."

Melissa wrote: "I was actually wondering if
would be considered a plain?
(then it would be a good 3 for one book)"

Melissa, that looks like the African plain in the background. It's a stretch, but I think it works.

I finished The Broken Girls on June 15. Right now it's in place for T13 for Harpies. It also fits T23 for Sphinx, as the MC was trying to solve the murder of her sister. If you want to move it, Eni, that would complete another monster.

Eni wrote: "i switched a couple of books around and we vanquished the boar!!!

Our new monster:

Minotaur

Hooray! Way to get our monster!

The Minotaur has been seen on your lands, frolicking through fields and enjoying freedom for the fir..."

I would say yes for brown cover.