Chava’s Comments (group member since Dec 19, 2013)

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

Sonia wrote: "So, are we ready to leave Great Britain? I love all the green fields, but some sun & heat would be welcomed :)"

Agreed, my brolly is getting a bit too much of a workout ;)

Off to Saudi Arabia we go. Let's see how we go with the sand :)

Suzanne wrote: "No word from Becca yet . I hope we hear back from her, but should we maybe set a time limit then look for a hitchhiker if needed? She can always get onto another team as well if/when she feels the ..."

Yeah, maybe we give her until tomorrow or day after tomorrow?

I would hate to leave Becca behind if she is still with us. Maybe someone can tell her it's okay to bow out if it's too much? That way she can choose without losing face. Life can get in the way sometimes

Suzanne wrote: "I was just wondering that. I've had a hard time finding books whose pages add to 20 - I could TRY that - but I think I'd rather do setting or spell it out."

I'd prefer spelling it out as well. I have a book that fits the G :)

Do we want to start talking about the next stop and what we're going to do?

Hubby is from London, he can't stand the heat in Australia, but doesn't stop complaining when it's raining...go figure for a Pom! (Pom = prisoner of Mother England, Aussie slang for anyone from the UK)

Sonia wrote: "

Hello Raiders!

So, even if it is a rainy day I'm in a very good mood. Finished Country Mouse for the detour - and started City Mouse too, because I need more Owen & Malcolm

Also, the awesome bo..."

For me it's Friday in an hour. Time for bed I think :)

I've updated the spreadsheet with 2 more books :)

LOL that reminded me of when I showed up at work on a national holiday I wasn't aware of as an immigrant :).
Good luck with you exam!!

Re moving on, I think someone private message Becca maybe to see she is still part of the travel group or if she has taken a day trip by herself :)

352p
34p

Total: 386p

Current total: 240,686

Wow!! This is amazing!

Great! Happy to wait as long as we need, I'm loving it in Spain ;)

I hope are all feeling better soon!!
I'm at work trying to stay awake (and it's only 12pm!!), so tired!

Have we flown to our next destination yet?

I can't edit the spreadsheet on my iPad. Could someone add Five Get into a Fix as either a cold book (winter in Wales) or can be used as set in UK. 200 pages
Thank you

Yes, I think UK is easy to read author/place

Gassim: we can do spell out (although I am quite interested in Saudi books as I've never read anything from there!!)

Russia: I think I'd prefer a detour here

India: I have a book set there that I'm reading for another challenge, but happy to go with whatever the group decides

Australia (aka home): loads of books I can read from here :)

NZ (my former home): I don't know many authors or books set there, so I would assume we do a detour as the spell out is quite a lot :)

Brazil: don't know many authors or books set there, but we could spell it out or do a detour.

I guess as a detour gives us the most points, we'd do those for places we aren't sure about?

I'm hoping to finish my cold book later tonight (it's 10pm here now). I only got about 2 hrs reading done today, we had visitors all day :) My book still has about 100 pages to go, I hope to report back tomorrow with a finished book :) This one could also go for the UK place one if we have enough people for stop #1 already.

Cool (no pun intended), let's go for cold books!!

Sonia wrote: "Sara wrote: "Either the detour or spell is fine to me! But, tell me if I'm wrong, if we want to go for the spell-it-out we can decide to spell Santa Cruz De La Palma (instead of Spain) for more poi..."

Someone asked about spell out and points in the airport lounge, this was the answer:
NBRC Travel Agent | 56 comments No problems.

Spell-it-out rules

Using the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter of the series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter in the audiobook narrators first or last name.
If you are reading a translated version, you can also use the first letter of the translator's first or last name.

As always, if the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.

You can check out the example under the spoiler tag here

Only books read by members of the team since challenge started are able to be used for the spell it out? Or must books be read that week?
As soon as you are assigned a team, books STARTED from then count for the whole of the challenge (min. 8 weeks)

Also, am I correct that if the country/city is less than 6 letters long then the max number of points the team can get for that spell it out would just be 10?

Points

TASKS
◈ Completing a task will earn the team 10 points AND
◈ If at least 6 members of the team read a book that contributes to the tasks, that is an additional 15 points AND
◈ If ALL team members read a book for the time you are at the stop, that is an additional 10 points

--so you would not get the additional 15 points. Just 10 and 10 if you did the spell-it-out and all read a book. So some teams have already worked out not to do the spell-it-out for countries like Japan or Spain as they want maximum points :)

So are we doing the detour?

Karen wrote: "could be....
*grin*"

hehehe.

okay with Book Raiders as the name.
Happy to do the detour - now to find a book set in the cold :)

Do we want to allocate someone to do the communications with the Travel Agency?