SandyL’s Comments (group member since May 11, 2015)

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

Thanks Devann!

How's everybody doing? I can't believe this is our last week - this challenge has gone by very fast!

Welcome back Melinda! What did you do for your birthday? I hope you had a fun day!!

Wow Suzanne - two puppies is a lot of work. How old is Fang now? Sounds like you're doing a great job with him!

I think U books would be the priority since we need them to spell our word. I can get a good number of sports books in this week and I think Melinda has a couple. I've got two I need to post - I'll do that in the morning - and I'm reading another and have a 4th on deck plus a long list of others I want to read. I'm trying to read longer books, but if it gets closer to the deadline I've got a number of shorter ones I can bang out quickly.

Completion Post


Up by Five by Erin Nicholas
Pages: 308
Completed: 8/2/19
Genre: No

E - author - Erin Nicholas
R - character - Ryan
S - character - Sara
U - title - Up


The Unwanted Wife by Natasha Anders
Pages: 248
Completed: 8/2/19
Genre: No

E - character - Elisa
R - character - Rick
S - character - Sandro
U - title - Unwanted

@Suzanne - how big is the puppy now? I hope you have a nice weekend with your family!

@Megan - I'm sure it's nice to have an event-free weekend, right? Enjoy your time with your friend!

@Joanne - I hope you have fun and aren't too exhausted with all the shopping, cleaning and partying!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELINDA!!!

Don't worry @Devann and @Joanne - every week everyone comes through and we do get enough tough letters and genre books, so I know it will all be fine!

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Anyone have any fun plans?

Got it - thanks Joanne! I'm checking us in now.

Planning sheet and Team Spreadsheet updated to here

Great job team!!!

I just realized the book I'm trying to finish starts with U, so I'm going to put off finishing that until after this round ends since we'll need them.

Countdown Clock

Thanks for the updates everyone!! I have one more book I"m working on.

Sadly, Melinda and I belatedly realized her Hitchhiker book was actually a bundle, so we have to use the individual books and their lower points rather than the book as a whole. I still give huge kudos to Melinda for taking this on - she's my hero for the week (and maybe the month!)

spreadsheets updated

Completion Post


Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Pages: 320
Completed: 7/31/19
Genre: No

B - character - Burt
N - character - Prof. Nemurs
O - character - Oliver
R - character - Frank Reilly


Space Deputy by Jenny Schwartz
Pages: 184
Completed: 8/1/19
Genre: Yes

B - character - Thelma Bach
N - character - Naomi
O - character - Owen
R - character - Rudy
W - character - Darlene Whitaker

Got it @Melinda - great job!!!!

I did find This is How it Always Is at the library when I picked up Illuminae, so I'll at least get that BOM done.

I'll get everything updated in a bit - I'm trying to finish my other space opera book right now, and then we can see what we still need.

No glitch - I haven't added our books to the official spreadsheet yet - I'll do it later today.

Sigh.....my copy of Daisy Jones & the Six finally came in from Overdrive and I don't have time to read it before tomorrow. I was really hoping I'd get it in time to use for BOM points!

The Jilly Cooper books look fun, @Melinda - I'll have to see if any are available on Overdrive.

Joanne wrote: "Oh no. No respins? I was going to suggest that we do a respin nexxt round no matter what word we got, just for the fun of it. Well I guess I'll have to look for U books now."

I was thinking the same thing, Joanne. Oh well......

Good morning ladies! Well, I'm not a fan of our word (although it's nice to get a S for a change!), that's for sure. But I do like sports romances, so I can definitely help out there! Unfortunately, there are no re-spins for this last week. I'll get the planning sheet set up a bit later today.

Planning Sheet updated to here