Apoorv ’s Comments (group member since Mar 26, 2014)

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

Laura wrote: "Vicky, what's the plan for tomorrow? When do you need us to have things updated in order for you to have time to do the spreadsheets?"

If Vicky is unavailable, I will have the main spreadsheet updated by 3 PM EST, and then update last minute books before the 5 PM deadline as they come along.

How many of you are ready to read some Z books? :P
Dust your shelves and start hunting...

Steven wrote: "Just ask Sonia, but I am completely incapable of thinking straight. LOL!!!."

You don't say, Steven! :P


P.S. Yes, I am squatting visiting here.

Oh girls, you've got my mind racing at the speed of knots with options if this feast of startling dudes on cover work!

I guess I have a busy afternoon in front of me! ;-)
*pushes aside work, pulls laptop closer*
*rubs hands*

Completion Post
Week 2

Book Read: A Potion to Die For | Heather Blake
Pages: 337
Finished on: 07-Nov-2018
Letters:

P: Title
N: Character - Nelson Winston

Bonus:

Word as Genre: MPG: Magic - 47 users
Word in Text: ... owner of Little Shop of Potions, a magic potion shop... - Page 5

Abbie DiscoSuperFly wrote: "OMG YOU ALL ARE A BAD INFLUENCE....I just saw that you made Sophie read Cut & Run......."

Random Spectator Alert!
But, I can't help it - I see Cut & Run, and I click! :P

DO READ THE SERIES! It is just *melts*! <3

Laura wrote: "Author is Bill Clinton, so it works for the B right there."

LOL! I can't even!

Spreadsheet updated till Post 224, except Post 217 since Week 2s post will not be added till the end of Week 1.

We can use it for Week 1, so Nanci if there are more character letters that fit O, B, E, or W - please post them. If not, we can use it for C for the author, although we have more Cs at this moment, and we need to complete a spell-out completely to get credit for the incomplete one! Never mind, I had a dumb moment!

Also, please don't forget to add all the books read by you during this challenge, into its respective folder.

Completion Post
Week 1

Book Read: Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King
Pages: 436
Finished on: 31-Oct-2018
Letters

C: Character - Cray, Janice
O: Character - Odenkirk, Auggie
B: Character - Bill Hodges
W: Character - Wharton, Elizabeth
E: Character - Elizabeth Wharton

Cait S wrote: "Can someone take me off of the O spot on the spreadsheet? I just dropped that book because it was awful haha"

Done! :)

Spreadsheet updated till Post 202!
We have completed 4 spell-outs and covered 2 special bonuses so far! Great job everyone! :)

P.S. Please ensure that all the books you have read are added to the respective shelf that you would have created for this challenge. The books won't be counted to our final tally, if they are not added to the shelves.

The spreadsheet should be updated till Post 161, with all posted books so far. Do check if there are any discrepancies.

I will let Vicky come work her magic to get Week 2 added to the spreadsheet. No hurry on that just yet!

Laura wrote: "Provided Apoorv rolls properly for us in Challenge Factory's Super Series, I will continue with the Firefly Hollow series. On of the MCs is named Owen. ."

LOL! The dice really needs to favour us there.
I hope you get to keep reading that series. I can't for the life of me fine a quartet of a series that I would either like or get books in time from the library! So, you are going to be the savior! ;=)

The spreadsheet is updated till Message 125!
Tammie, I have added Crazy Rich Asians and NOT added An Unkindness of Magicians from your list (Msg. 118) - we can obviously move things around when we start.

Let me know if I am missing anyone or anything!

Alysa wrote: "*waves*
*is nosing around in other teams*

You know you only get completion points for the first spell-out, right? :D"

*goes to a corner and starts singing a sad song*

Why did you have to be right, Alysa?
It felt nice for a while to live in a bubble of extra points.
*wipes a stray tear*

LOL! Thank you for catching that though! :D
But, still...

ALSO, if a majority of us can participate in the BOMs (and it would hardly be two sets of BOMs since the challenge runs for only 6 weeks), either writing those DQs or answering them would give us loads of extra points!

Laura wrote: "What’s better? Longer books/fewer letters, or more letters/shorter books?"

For once, I am going to err on the side of getting more books in instead of getting bigger ones done. If we can complete as many spellouts in a week as possible, we have the chance to get the bonus completion points and they add up for sure.

But then, I would definitely recommend being in the 400page range because that is a nice cusp to get an extra 20 points for just a few extra pages. (I liked it when it was 350 pages though - a lot of books fall in the 350-400 category and it used to help a lot just getting those additional points)

But but but, if you are a super speedy reader, I highly encourage you to hit the chunksters - your speed can gain us more points. Relatively slower readers can squeeze in an extra book if they read comparatively smaller books.

Cait S wrote: "I'm the same. I'll fill in whatever is necessary. I have about 20 challenges going at once so whatever I can make fit in more than one spot is a bonus so I'm going to wait and see what we need when..."

Oh, I hear you!
Finding that one book that fits multiple challenges can be both fun and frustrating, all at the same time! :P

I am going to keep myself open for selections as well.
I will read whatever spot we need to fill, plus I am beginning to collect a bunch of CBOWE books as well.

Hey! Hey! Hey!
Welcome Barrelers,

So glad to be part of another iteration of Wheelathon!
I love this game, it's so much fun! :D

Great to see so many known faces in the team as well. I've had great fun with a lot of you in many other challenges across GoodReads, and I'm ready to add this to that list. :)