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

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

Just so you know, I'm off in a bit for the evening for our granddaughter's 5th birthday party with family. She's so excited! I love the excitement in young children!

If I'm not back on this evening, I'll check in tomorrow early afternoon.
Good luck with all your reading, team!

@Ann,
We need read dates please for your book, Never Fall Down.

Team,
Jessi says we need some R's and U's read if anyone has time to read something more please look for those letters.
Thanks!

@Kate,
Your book, The Burning Island, has a count of 416 on the planning sheet, but the edition that you read on your shelf has a count of 352 (it's the paperback edition). Could you please check and make sure the edition you read is the one on your shelf?

Now we're all set! The app is horrendous! I'm sure that was the issue. Rereads are nice for challenges...really speed up the reading time!

Zoë wrote: "Hey Nanci, I added Mockingjay last night so it should be there. And I did update The Streets Have No Queen before and updated the page count on the spreadsheet. :)"

Zoe,
I looked again at your shelf and Mockingjay is not on it. I refreshed it and tried some other things, but it's still not showing. I see your other two Hunger Game books, but not that one. Could you please check again?
Thanks!

Zoë wrote: "Hey Nanci, I added Mockingjay last night so it should be there. And I did update The Streets Have No Queen before and updated the page count on the spreadsheet. :)"

You are awesome! Great reading this round!

Brittany wrote: "when does Sandcastles start?"

According to the clock in Post 6, there is 1 day 6 hours until the end, which is Friday 10pm, London time. The clock automatically computes from London time to your time. So for me in Virginia (EST) the end would be 5pm Friday.

Brittany wrote: "I'm not sure if this fits in to this round, bu I had to read this book for school:

[book:How to Make a Living Writing Articles for Newspapers, Magazines, and Online Sources: Everything You Need to..."

Bummer, Brittany, it doesn't fit. The title and author do not start with any of the letters in ROCKY MOUNTAINS and since it's non-fiction, there are no character names. Thanks for trying!

Zoë wrote: "Nanci I meant to do it today and for caught up in an unexpected issue. Sigh. I’ll make sure to get them all done tomorrow! Thanks for the reminder!"

Great!
Also, please add Mockingjay to your shelf and check the edition you read for The Streets Have No Queen, so we can get the page count to match.

Zoe, just a friendly reminder if you can get your tasks on the planning sheet soon, it will save me from a mad dash trying to get them checked off before this round ends. Thanks!

Jessi and team,
Just so you know I will get my books finished in time. I'm mostly done with them, but waiting until Aug 6 to finish them, so they can count for the first round of the challenge in Turf Wars also.
Gotta make these books count double or triple for other challenges!

My book for round 5, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park works for "hiking" tag on page 3.

megan wrote: "Nanci wrote: "megan wrote: "Do we still get extra points for reading The Travelling Cat Chronicles? Mine library finally has a copy available."

Megan, we do not get extra points fo..."

I felt the exact same way, Megan!

That’s great you’re getting the BOM read and answering the DQs. I’ll get thing recorded when I’m back on my laptop.

Ann Sicker wrote: "Nanci wrote: "Ann, I loved Girl With a Pearl Earring! Hope you did too! I'm currently reading another one of her books, The Last Runaway and liking it also."
I really enjoyed the gi..."

It's good, although to me not as good as Pearl Earring. I hadn't really thought much about the connection to Quakers and the Underground Railroad though, so that's been interesting. Also, I grew up in Ohio, so that's always fun reading about an area that is so familiar.

Jessi wrote: "@Nanci, task 32 is for "morris dancing" the variants of dance or dancers is still meant to have morris included so morris dance or morris dancers. does the book refer to any of those?"

I misread that! I didn't realize it needed to have morris included. I changed it to 4 people on the cover. Thanks for catching that!

Ann, I loved Girl With a Pearl Earring! Hope you did too! I'm currently reading another one of her books, The Last Runaway and liking it also.

Brittany wrote: "Finished: The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
Date 8/2/2020
Pages: 400
Characters: Daphne Parrish, Meredith Stanton, Jackson, Amber Patterson, Margarita, Mrs...."

It's on the planning sheet, Brittany!

One more thing, Zoe, as I've been checking your books.
The page count for Olive, Again for the edition you posted is 304 pages, but the page count on the planning sheet is 289.


Thanks so much!