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

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

B, L, T to go to complete the second spell-out !

Oh yes ! Oh yes !
I had voted for the Gladiator challenge. I have never seen teams getting merged after each round anywhere else and I totally loved it. Will be fun to see how that works out.

I am so gonna sign up for that and I want all you of on my team ! :D

Okay, I know I am going to bang my head against the wall as soon as I post it, but which is the challenge you guys are talking about ? I remember voting for a couple of challenges, but I cant recollect the names.

When are we starting ? Where am I signing up ?
Please take me along with you. Please ! *puppy face* :P

I know, Cait !

.. but I must be really a masochist, coz I am already into the first week of another challenge which is more or less on the same lines as this challenge.. and what more, we have to reach 20000 points in there.. that is going to take some time. :O

But, I LOVE this group of ours.. it has been truly fun 7 weeks for me.. and I both want and dont want the challenge to end. :P

Cait, I did log in your book.. but why did I log it in for the 7th instead of the 6th ?

Guess, I am actually burning out.
Phew, always happens with Wheel-a-thon with me.. amazing challenge but I end up reading twice, thrice as much as I ever read in the said period.

But we have one more week to go after this.. and we have done fantastically so far.. so lets end with a flourish ! :)

Did I miss anything ? Coz for the first time we have no books logged in, in a day, 06May2015.

Guess, real life is getting in the way for everyone. Or is it just a burn-out coz I know this challenge by the end of it really takes its toll on me.

Update


Evil Under the Sun | Agatha Christie | 05May2015 | 320 pages

B : Characters (Major Barry, Horace Blatt, Emily Brewster)
L : Character (Linda Marshall)
E : Character (Emily Brewster)
O : Character (Odell Gardner)

Fantastic !
.. and we complete our first spell-out ! :D

So, to complete our first spell-out all we need is that cute, little U who is running around being naughty and just hard to get. :P

Update


Sleeping Murder | Agatha Christie | 05May2015 | 303 pages

B : Character (Mrs. Bantry)
L : Character (Lily Kimble)
E : Characters (Richard Erskine/Edith Pagett)

Update


No Night is Too Long | Barbara Vine | 04May2015

B : Author
V : Author
I : Characters (Ivo, Isabel)

Kelly wrote: "Read 4/3/15
Empire of Night Kelley Armstrong (432 pages)
E - title
T - character Tyrus"


Kelly, you love Kelley, dont you ? ;) :P

Kelly wrote: "K. I mentioned it. It shouldn't affect us though since it's not the last week."


Well, yeah. But I dont understand why should we be penalised for what we rightfully earned !

Moreover, it in a way affects us as the team ahead of us is exactly and only 10 points ahead. We can jump one whole position up coz of those 10 points !

Kelly, could you check.
Our spreadsheet clearly showed 2050 points at 9:55 pm (EST) which is 5 minutes before the deadline.

The weekly results are up and we are showing 10 points less.

Another stoically played week, Bloodstoners ! :)
We continue to pave our path through the toughest of the words.. we all should pat our backs once for that ! :)

Here are both the spreadsheets for everyone's reference :
Official Spreadsheet
Team Spreadsheet

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Weekly Tally

Total Points : 355
Total Books Read : 27
Total Complete Spell-outs : 2

Awesome ! I just dont want us to lose points just because of that. I am gonna use Annie for that A. Thanks, Cait ! :)

Cait wrote: "Finished 336 pages

Will work for:

C- author last name (W. Bruce Cameron)
H- character first name (Hannah Montgomery)
A- title (A Dog's Journey)
G- character f..."


Question : I was hoping to use Cait's book for A, as I wanna make sure our last spell-outs cover more vowels which have been a pain for us. But then I am not quite sure if we can do so, as it is an article in this case (we dont use A, An, The right ?). Does the same rule apply to series names as well ? I kinda blanked out.. can someone please refresh my memory ?

Is it wrong that I was more concerned about missing our deadline than going out with friends on a Saturday evening ?

I literally called off the evening early just so that I can be here. What has this challenge done to me ? :P

Kelly, I will probably be out for most part of the day.
Can you kindly update the official spreadsheet with any additions after this post ?

I plan on being being back before the deadline.. but I dont want to hold us on that. Thanks ! :)

I will get everything updated on the team spreadsheet as soon as I get a chance to do so.

I have to say we end up getting some really tough words each week and I am so proud of the team's work in sailing through them with repeated aplomb ! :)

So far we have read through/will read for next week, all this :

EEEEEEEE
AAAAAA
IIIII
LLLLL
NNNNN
RRRRR
BBB
GGG
MMM
OOO
CC
DD
HH
TT
UU
YY
S
V
W
Z

Every painful letter (multiple times) in the alphabet series, except maybe X.