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

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

Quick question. Do books that are exactly 100 pages count for this challenge? Or is it only 101 and up?

The rules state "Books must be />100 pages" but I don't know what that / is supposed to indicate?

I'm excited for when my team's thread opens up so I can share the fun planning sheet I made. I hope my team likes using a planning sheet. I've found it invaluable in The Floor is Lava and have been happy my team there is okay with my obsessive over-planning.

Definitely not the only one building your TBR already. My husband was laughing at how excited I got when I found books that would achieve a Sin Bingo.

I have a question regarding the genre Guilty Pleasure. Is the plural Guilty Pleasures acceptable? Or is it singular only? I know it varies on the game, so I wanted to double check while plotting out books to read.

Eldarwen wrote: "Totally guilty of this yes.

Last time I was travelling with a friend for a long weekend and we went to a bookstore, she sat down in a comfy chair and I piled up books. When I was done, she just gave me side-eye and reminded me of the size of my suitcase, i.e. SMALL. With a heavy heart, I split up my pile and put about half back on the shelves hahaha."

That seems to happen to me on every trip I go on. Probably doesn't help that one of the first things I do is research bookstores wherever it is I'm going.

Jenny wrote: "I was going through bookcases this weekend looking for sinful and colorful books, and ended up filling 4 boxes of stuff that I plan to drop into a book charity bin. Total self preservation, now I can move the stacks of books from various surfaces and the floor to actual shelves!!!! Of course, now it means there are more surfaces to dust though."

See somehow whenever I clear out some books, more just magically appear for me to fill that empty space. It's not that I have a problem. Nope, no problems here.

Judith wrote: "Someone in this group, Alison maybe?, was using stacks of books as an end table in her living room. Book hoarder level achieved: Supreme Mastery"

Now that is awesome. If it wasn't for the fact that when we bought our house I turned one of the bedrooms into a library with wall-to-wall shelves, that would likely be me.

I don't know anyone from my team (Team Greed), but that's the fun of these challenges. And the team seems perfect as I am certainly greedy when it comes to wanting to have all the books. But I'm sure that's most of us, right? Right!? *Shoves 1,400+ books in my house in a corner.*

Cinthia wrote: "And here's goodreads' version of the audiobook: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

It's not the best, since they have it sideways and with headphones... So..."

If you're reading the audio version from Amazon, I would ask in the librarians group for the Audible version to be added, it looks like it's missing from Goodreads. That way a record with the cover from Amazon can be added.

Yeah I've noticed Tineye can be very picky about colors, particularly when there isn't a lot of the color on the cover.

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Melanie wrote: "For task 8 "that was published in the 1980s", can this include a book that is a bindup of two stories from the 1980's but the bindup was published later?

For example, [book:Once Mo..."

Thanks. I think I got it in my head that it was first published not the pub date of the specific edition. Thankfully I found a different book of hers that I have with a pub date in the 80's, so all good.

Cinthia wrote: "Check here: https://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Time...

That really looks yellow. I'm talking about the author's name, not the book t..."

When you enlarge the cover from that link, it does look yellow to me.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.c...

Alysa wrote: "Would the author's name on this cover be considered yellow?
It's unclear from TinEye whether it's being considered as yellow or some shade of brown.

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The author name looks yellow to me. When you bring it up Amazon where the image is bigger and you can zoom in, it's more clear.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.c...

Any other opinions on if the dress the woman is wearing to be yellow? Tineye says brown, but I have the book in front of me and it's yellow.



Got two yeses so far. Just wanted to get at least another opinion or two.

I'm so excited! This is my first Tower Teams. I've heard about it quite a bit since the last one, so I'm excited to join in this time around.

Would you consider the dress the woman is wearing to be yellow? Tineye is saying it's brown, but I have the book in front of me and it looks yellow to me.

Hi I noticed a formula error related to Safe Zone 1 in the round 3 sheet. It looks like it just missed getting updated from a 4 letter word to a 6 letter word.

The group points formula states =if(sum(G20:G23)=120, 120, "") when it should be =if(sum(G20:G25)=180, 180, "").

The group bonus points also has an error. The formula states =if(J10=160, 60, "") when it should be =if(J10=180, 60, "").

For task 8 "that was published in the 1980s", can this include a book that is a bindup of two stories from the 1980's but the bindup was published later?

For example, Once More for Love: Blithe Images / Search for Love by Nora Roberts was published in 2016 but it is made up of two of her works that were published in 1982. Would I be able to use this for that task?

Will we be getting the round 3 tasks soon?

Hoping this month is better than the last few months. I have a lot of books already published I need to catch up on plus 9 releasing this month.

Start of month:
Books on shelf: 36
Feedback Ratio: 85%

Books (ordered by pub date):





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Finished:
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End of Month:
Books on shelf: 33
Feedback Ratio: 87%