Karen D’s Comments (group member since Aug 25, 2015)

Karen D’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

I've got a horror book in the works now, it's a quick read so hopefully will have it done tomorrow!

I just finished Charm City this morning - works for the mystery tasks

I put it down for D10 on the Read Books page. It looks like G6 is still incomplete from our second set of tasks, but Nanci has a spot claimed for that. Does it make more sense to finish out that task first or put this in for one of the newer mystery tasks? Defer to mods on how to handle that!

Completed:
Author: Laura Lippman
#2 in the Tess Monaghan series
Date finished: 6/27
Pages: 304
Task: D10
How it fits: shelved as mystery by 220 people

Finished The Sympathizer! Works for F1, historical.

Completed:

Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Date: June 26
Task: F-1
How it fits: shelved as historical by 24 users
Pages: 371

I'm about to start reading The Sympathizer, that's marked as historical

Yeah i saw that, I guess my question is more about when a ship is officially sunk. Does just making the guess of the right square count or do we have to finish the tasks first? Because let's say for example we don't get both books read for a square that sinks a ship, do we still get the extra guess?

Finished , which can work for the C7/H9 (chick lit)...unless it's better with a new task today!

I've got the day off, going to go read by the pool :)

Completed:
Author: Theresa Rebeck
Date finished: June 23
Pages: 384
3.5 stars
Tasks: C7 or H9 - tagged as Chick lit by 13 users

How do the bonus guesses work? Do we get them right away or do we have to wait until we've completed all the tasks for the sunk ships?

Charlie wrote: "Cecily wrote: "I love your kind of boredom!! Looks like something I would do lol "

It makes me happy :D

3 more guesses, right?"

That's awesome! And shows that we clearly need some guesses in that upper section!

Cecily wrote: "Karen wrote: "I'll go with B7"

I already guessed that but I will change mine to E7 so we can cover both sides"

Oops, sorry about that, I didn't see that!

I'll go with B7

Marguerite wrote: "H9 is marked on the grid but there is no task for it written out."

H9 was the second chick lit task (remember we got two boxes with the same task?). Must have dropped off the front page post, but you can see it on post 857

Finished America's First Daughter - can be a bonus for I9 (romance book). Really well-written, but not necessarily the most exciting, everything was written in a very matter-of-fact way.

Getting ready to start I'm Glad About You, which can be a bonus chick lit book

Author: by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
Date finished: June 22
pages: 624
Task: I9 - romance (15 users)
4 stars

Maritza wrote: "working on for my chick lit book. should be finished by tomorrow."

I'm hoping to get finished today, that'll fit in the Romance category (I9)

Nanci wrote: "Marguerite wrote: "We have gone from 18th place to 12th place with 81 points!!!! Way to go!!!!

top 3 places
Dholes 158
Polar Bears 133
Red Pandas 126"

Awesome! Marguerite, I love how you are giv..."

Yeah this is great! I'm all about watching our progress, but for some reason my office has blocked Google docs, so thanks for sharing this! And it's a marathon, not a sprint, we're well on our way to dominate :)

Oh, I can also do I9 (romance), although my book is on the longer side so I may end up being a bonus reader on that one.

Finished Hammered, which works as another bonus for the fantasy book (D7)