Melanie’s Comments (group member since Sep 01, 2014)

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

I was looking at something in the official sheet, and I noticed line 288 in the books tab isn't calculating page points. I'm guessing it's due to columns F & G being blank?

Ora, for your PsyChangeling books that aren't being used in the mini. You currently have them under Anything Goes which gets us no bonus points, but you could move them to Gluttony for Criteria "Books in a very long series (12+ books)". That would get us 1 bonus point per book, not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but hey every point helps.

Ora wrote: "I will have 7 & 8 done tomorrow late afternoon/early evening. I will let you know when I am almost done with 8 since I am doing back to back books I will just update once."

Ok great. I should be able to finish 9 tomorrow night then. 10 I should be able to finish by mid-day on Wednesday.

If no one minds me also taking 10 since I have 9, I can pick up Murder on the Orient Express which should be a quick read. I can have both of these done by Wednesday night assuming 7 & 8 are done by then.

With those 2, I'll be at 3 for the week and then I think I'll put the rest of my attention this week into one of the 800+ page anthologies I have.

Finished my book, so you're good to go Diane.

Completion Post:



Book: The Gift of the Marquess
Author: Darcy Burke
Date Read: 11/24/2019
Page Count: 164
Sin: Gluttony Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: Book 2 in the Love is All Around series
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

I have about 20 minutes left in my book according to my Kindle. Will come back and update when I'm done so you can finish yours Diane.

I have a 9th in series checked out from the library (Hitting the Books). It's a cozy so it will only take me 2 hours to read, so I can pick that up whenever we reach that point in the ladder.

Other than that I don't have a lot of high series number books for series that I'm caught up on.

This week I'll be picking up one of the longer anthologies I have as with Wed-Fri being super busy, it will be easier to read a story whenever I get a spare 30 -40 minutes on those days.

Ora wrote: "I will be finishing my book around 6 EST"

I'll start my book at 5-5:30 and should be done by 6:30.

Alright, finished my last book for this week.

Completion Post:



Book: The Doomsday Key
Author: James Rollins
Date Read: 11/24/2019
Page Count: 526
Sin: Envy Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: S (character Seichan)
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

Completion Post:



Book: A Cowboy Like You
Author: Donna Grant
Date Read: 11/24/2019
Page Count: 287
Sin: Envy Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: O (character Danny Oldman)
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

I have a quick #2 in a series that I can finish within an hour of the #1 book being finished. It's an ARC that's only 164 pages. With your book Ora, my book, and Diane's #3 that would give us an already completed rung. It wouldn't be a lot of points for my book, but I need to read it anyway and it would complete a rung right at the start of the week with the other two books.

Ora wrote: "Is everyone going to be able to finish their books in the SS?"

I will finish both of mine. Read most of Doomsday while I couldn't sleep last night so I only have about 100 pages left. With Cowboy still to pick up that's roughly 4 hours until I'll have them finished, so about an hour before deadline.

Completion Post:



Book: Anyone But a Duke
Author: Betina Krahn
Date Read: 11/23/2019
Page Count: 352
Sin: Envy Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: A (title), S (character Sarah)
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

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Book: Bookmarked for Murder
Author: V.M. Burns
Date Read: 11/23/2019
Page Count: 256
Sin: Envy Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: V (author), B (title), S & W (character Samantha Washington), I (character Irma), R (character Ruby Mae), D (character Dorothy)
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

CiCi wrote: "Melanie wrote: "CiCi, question about one of your books in the spell it out. You have one of your books under the letter i for title but the book doesn't start with an i, it starts with a d. Are you..."

Ok, just wanted to make sure I wasn't reading the rules wrong. Different groups have different rules, so I wanted to double check.

CiCi, question about one of your books in the spell it out. You have one of your books under the letter i for title but the book doesn't start with an i, it starts with a d. Are you using every word of the title for the spell it out? The rules state it's only the first letter of the title (or first letter of the word following an indefinite article).

Just an FYI to anyone interested, I found another anthology that's currently free on Amazon with a good page count (1,078) if you read romance.

Finished my last book for the week.