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

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

Sunday update
Two bonuses completed, three active bonuses.

Labors 1, 5, 6, 7 & 10 have been completed. Two more needed to increase our bonus potential. Tasks in bold need claimed on our planning sheet.

Closest Labors to completion:
Labor 2 (3/5 submitted)
Journey to Bree - Read a book from a quartet (4 book series) - Lisa
Inquire at Rivendell - Read a book that's over 800 pages - Stacie
Labor 3 (4/5 submitted)
Visit Pemberley - Read a book where the series and title combined contain all letters in Pemberley - NancyHelen
Labor 8 (3/5 submitted)
Find the Copper Key - Read a book with a skeleton on the cover - Sam
Find the Jade Key - Read a book about a treasure hunter.
Labor 11 (3/5 submitted)
Feast - Read a book with food on the cover - Kirby
Listen to Music - Read a book where the main character is a musician.

Two Books Submitted - Can Read For Bonus
Michelle
Stacie
Audrey Jane
Berit
Lisa (Aussie Girl)
Morgan
Sam F
Jennifer
Sally906
NancyHelen
Louise
Shelby

Reading For Main Tasks
Greta (1)
Delitealex
Kirby (1)

Jennifer wrote: "Completion Post

D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths by no author listed
Labours of Bookules - Bonus 4
Travel to Crete: Read a book involvi..."

Looks like we need this one to have a date read added and put on the Wobble shelf. I'll add it as soon as you do!

Berit, do you want me to take Love Letters to the Dead? I've had it on my list for a while so I can do that one for us.

Yes, Sam. Thanks for taking that one!

Ok, all updated except Jennifer's mythology book. It's not pulling into the spreadsheet, so I'll investigate more when I get back from packing.

Full update coming later today!

Nice work, team! You guys are amazing. Thanks for getting everything set up for that tricky title chain.

I am going to update the sheet and then I have to go to the old house and pack more books. We have an entire room of floor to ceiling bookshelves and I have 5 left to pack. Ugh. Love my books but hate packing.

Saturday Bonus Update
Books in bold need to be claimed on the planning sheet.

Currently active
Bonus 3 (1/4 submitted)
Hercules has to slay a lion. Find a book with a weapon on the cover (knife, sword, bow and arrow, etc)
Hercules keeps cutting the heads off a Hydra and they keep coming back. Read a book from a long series (series has at least 10 books in it) - Lisa
Hercules begs Artemis' forgiveness for capturing her animal. Read a book that starts with the letter "A" (not counting A, An or The) - Audrey
Bonus 4 (0/6 submitted)
Travel to Crete: Read a book involving Greek mythology - Jennifer
Put the bull into a headlock- Read a book with “head” in the title or covers where characters are wrestling
Put the bull into a headlock- Read a book with “head” in the title or covers where characters are wrestling
Try not to die: Read a book tagged as horror - Berit
Try not to die: Read a book tagged as horror - Berit
Congratulate yourself for completing the seventh Labor: Read a book that is #7 in a series
Bonus 5 (0/5 submitted)
This is a title relay, and the first book must be humor MP genre.
Read 1st Book
Read 2nd Book
Read 3rd Book
Read 4th Book
Read 5th Book

Saturday update
Four bonuses completed, three active bonuses

Labors 1, 5, 6 & 10 have been completed. Three more needed to increase our bonus potential. Tasks in bold need claimed on our planning sheet.

Closest Labors to completion:
Labor 2 (3/5 submitted)
Journey to Bree - Read a book from a quartet (4 book series) - Lisa
Inquire at Rivendell - Read a book that's over 800 pages - Stacie
Labor 3 (3/5 submitted)
Inquire with Charles Bingley - Read a book with a handsome man on the cover - NancyHelen
Visit Pemberley - Read a book where the series and title combined contain all letters in Pemberley.
Labor 7 (4/5 submitted)
Find a Ballpoint Pen - Read a book where the main character is a writer - Louise
Labor 6 (4/5 submitted)
Escape on a Snowmobile - Read a book that takes place in winter with snow.
Labor 8 (3/5 submitted)
Find the Copper Key - Read a book with a skeleton on the cover.
Find the Jade Key - Read a book about a treasure hunter.
Labor 11 (3/5 submitted)
Feast - Read a book with food on the cover - Kirby
Listen to Music - Read a book where the main character is a musician.

Two Books Submitted - Can Read For Bonus
Michelle
Stacie
Audrey Jane
Berit
Lisa (Aussie Girl)
Morgan
Sam F
Jennifer
Sally906
NancyHelen
Louise
Shelby

Reading For Main Tasks
Greta (1)
Delitealex
Kirby (1)

We are doing great! Now that we have completed our 4th labor, we can have three bonuses active at a time.

Bonus Scaling
For teams with between 0 - 3 total Main Labor completions, they will be allowed to have 2 Bonuses open.
For teams with between 4 - 7 total Main Labor completions, they will be allowed to have 3 Bonuses open.
For teams with between 8 - 10 total Main Labor completions, they will be allowed to have 4 Bonuses open.
For teams with between 11 - 12 total Main Labor completions, they will be allowed to have 5 Bonuses open.

Kirby, if you want to take food on the cover I can move Louise's book to mystery. That would work out great.

Getting us updated with your new books now. Louise, slotting in your shop find. Good one! I love browsing for used books. It's a bad addiction for me. :)

The mods are looking for some feedback on how you are all feeling about this challenge. Feel free to add your thoughts here or send me a PM and I'll add to the thread in the captain's group.

1) Are things too hard?
2) Are things too easy?
3) Is your team getting bored?
4) Is your team really enjoying something?
5) Any suggestions for improvement.

Good! Those have been harder to fill and the snow task will give us our third labor completed. Going to update now.

Shelby wrote: "Ok so I just posted my other 4 books and their potential use spots. :)"

I think we posted at the same time! Would they work for snow or vampire?

Shelby, I have been trying to figure out your books. From the sample on Amazon, it looks like Shield of the Dragon is set in winter with snow, because they are talking about the snow outside literally on the first page. And I slotted Submerging Inferno in the MC is a vampire task.

Let me know if both of those work.

Friday update
Two bonuses completed, two active bonuses

Labors 1 & 5 have been completed. One more needed to increase our bonus potential.

Closest Labors to completion:
Labor 2 (3/5 submitted)
Journey to Bree - Read a book from a quartet (4 book series) - Lisa
Inquire at Rivendell - Read a book that's over 800 pages - Stacie
Labor 7 (4/5 submitted)
Find a Ballpoint Pen - Read a book where the main character is a writer.
Labor 6 (4/5 submitted)
Escape on a Snowmobile - Read a book that takes place in winter with snow.
Labor 8 (3/5 submitted)
Find the Copper Key - Read a book with a skeleton on the cover.
Find the Jade Key - Read a book about a treasure hunter.
Labor 11 (3/5 submitted)
Feast - Read a book with food on the cover.
Listen to Music - Read a book where the main character is a musician.

Two Books Submitted - Can Read For Bonus
Michelle
Stacie
Audrey Jane
Berit
Lisa (Aussie Girl)
Morgan
Sam F
Jennifer
Sally906
NancyHelen
Louise
Shelby

Reading For Main Tasks
Greta
Delitealex
Kirby (1)

Let's do that, Lisa. I'll slot Shattered into the 3 parts task and then you can finish Breakpoint for the quartet task.

Just updated our planning sheet. Shelby has three books that can cover the S, so she has that one for us. Just need to see what else her books can cover.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

I'm awake again. I'll get us all updated.

Hey Shelby! The two books you just posted. I can use one for title starts with S. For the other one (either, since they both start with S), does a murder occur, or does the book take place in winter with snow? Just trying to find categories we can use for them both.

Or do either of them have three parts?

Just got home from a 15 hour shift. Going to quickly update and then try to sleep for a bit.

WOBBLE planning sheet