Michelle’s Comments (group member since Sep 19, 2013)

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

Nice! Maybe we can knock out a couple of cards. I'll work on the idioms one while I watch the Cubs play.

I'm going to dump the cards where we don't even get one XP per book used. Our books are too precious to spend 4 books for 2 XP.

Discarded a few to try to get us another monster in the morning!

We need #6, #10, and #11 to level up again.
#1, #5, #6, #7, #8, #10, #11, #12 for the next weapon.

And for the cards:
Read a book that contains an idiom.
Read a book that contains an idiom.
Read a book that contains an idiom.
Read a book that contains an idiom.
Read a book that contains an idiom.
Read a book first published in 2016.
Read a book with clothing on the cover to acquire a nice selection of fabrics to construct the Queen's new clothing.

Good morning, team!

I have to head to work early--our sprinkler system failed and one of my stores flooded this morning. Plus it's my daughter's 17th birthday. So after I fight this monster, I need to get out of here.

I will be back tonight to update us!

Berit wrote: "Also thanks for explaining that to me, I think it is just something I would actually have to do to completely understand, so I'm just gonna try to forget about trying to truly understand it, LOL!"

It took me actually doing it to get what was happening, too!

I have a #8 I can read next.

Current Needs

Series:
#6, #10, #11 to complete level 13
#1, #5, #6, #7, #8, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14 to complete level 14

Tasks:
Read a book with flowers on their cover to make a bouquet

New cards in the morning!

Berit wrote: "OK, if we kill the animal above can someone explain to me in detail exactly how we do it? Again, please :-)
And I just finished a 12 in series"

So every time we go up against a monster, it compares our attack (the series book levels) to the monster's health.
For this one, it was Attack: 25 Health: 65
Our attack is 22. I added on a damage potion to raise our attack for one hit to 27 (+5 for one hit). I also applied a poison potion to the monster so it took a -3 to its health for each turn as well.

Here's the battle log:
Hero poisons Merely Kats for 3 damage. Merely Kats has 62 health remaining.
Poison hits Merely Kats with 3 damage. Merely Kats has 59 health remaining.
Hero attacks Merely Kats with 27 attack. Merely Kats has 32 health remaining.
Merely Kats hits hero for 25 attack. Hero has 9 health remaining.

Then I healed us with a potion, and we attacked again until the Merely Kat had zero health remaining.

The sewer rat only had 15 health so we killed it with our 22 attack in one hit.

Hey, Mammoths, I can't remember who recommended A Place of Execution to me, but thank you! I listened to the audio and thought it was great.

I had never read Val McDermid before and now I will check out the other books.

Off to fight the monster!

We have 8 days left for WOBBLE. Hang in there! The end is in sight.

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/...

Oh, I might use it for the B in blue!

Done! Cross your fingers for some good monsters tomorrow.

I say dump cards 1, 3, and 4 and focus on 2 and 5.

Any thoughts?

Current Needs

Series
Level 12: #7, #12
Level 13: #6, #7, #10, #11, #12

Cards

Spell-it-out: B
Spell-it-out: L
Spell-it-out: U
Spell-it-out: E

Read a book with "lead" (grey/silver) colored cover.
Read a book with "lead" (grey/silver) colored cover.
Read a book with "lead" (grey/silver) colored cover.
Read a book with a gold colored cover.

Does anyone have a book with TRIANGLE in the title ready to go? If not, we should discard that one.

I lied. I think I will keep the CIRCLE card. I found a book that has circle in the title that I think I can get to this weekend or Monday at the latest.

I am going to discard this one, too. 4 books, only 2 experience.

We will have all fresh cards in the morning! Be ready!

Used 5 of our books for the idioms task. It took a while to comb through them but I think it was worth it to finish another card!

We need a #7 in series and a #12 in series to complete our weapon for level 12.

If you don't have either of those, you can read any series number or read what you want and I'll try to make it fit!

Sam F wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Moved some books around to complete the HEART task!
Read a book with HEART in the title. (Michelle) - A Duel of Hearts
Spell-it-out: H (Sam) - Harry Potter & the Cursed Child
Spell..."

No, Jonah is in C is for Corpse. I double-checked. :)

I like Jonah until Dietz came on the scene. Then I wanted her to end up with Dietz. This is one of my favorite series. I love Kinsey so much!

The big monster is dead! It cost us a bit of gold to keep healing but it was worth it to level up again.

Let's decide what to keep and discard tonight. We won't be able to work on all cards so cast your vote for the easiest, fastest ones to complete.
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