Beth’s Comments (group member since Aug 12, 2014)

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

I've been reading two books at once, so I hope to finish both today. The first one is done:

All the Little Liars by Charlaine Harris 9/19/19
Characters: Aurora, Robin, Philip.

Oh, they just posted the deadline for this round:

Count down

I hope you and your kids feel better soon, Chava. This is the off week, so if we finish anything great, but no worries. I'll amuse myself by trying to fit whatever we come up with into the short words.

Started an A.

Yeah, I’m always nervous when someone goes quiet on the Internet.

Oh well, maybe he won a lottery and has been busy shopping for mansions! I don’t know why I always go to the worst case first.

Well, Chafic never showed up, but Chava and I managed to finish the countdown.

So I guess we'll take some damage for not fulfilling requirements; I hope it's only ten points but I don't know. Chafic, since we're going to start reading in the Safezone, please don't update the COUNTDOWN. We'll just have to take the loss of points for not following instructions.

In the meantime we can start reading for Safezone 3, I guess?

Easy Words with good points:

ANY
ON
ONE
IN (can do repeatedly)
FOUND

AN
IS

CAN

Finished I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban.

Chafic, if you've read anything just grab that spot for your book.

Here's the link to the countdown again:

COUNTDOWN!

I finished the Irish book.

Chava, did you send Chafic a message? If he isn't checking in he probably thinks he has a few days left for this, but this round is ending early.

I've got I am Malala on my shelves. I could read that in case Chafic read something other than the two remaining picks. I don't see anything that could work for both. It's unlikely that I'll finish by the deadline though.

Chafic, if you show up, we only have a few hours left until this round is over. If you finish one of the remaining spots, great! If not, everyone else has read multiple books, so if you've got anything that fits just put your book in where-ever you can. The rest of us will try to finish up the Countdown and then work on Safezone 3. We can't start the Safezone books until the Countdown is done, and we need you to read one of the Countdown books before it is done.

You guys are heroes, Chava and Maritza. I think I'll finish the foreign author today, so we'll only be missing the book from the Foreign Lands list. and the Scandinavia book.

Chafic, do you have something from either of those? Are you there? Is everything all right?

Wow, Chava, I just noticed you read a Morrigan Crow book for the 500+ page task. How was it? I read the first one last year and I just saw the second one in the library and plan to grab it soon.

I finished my 1980 book and chose my next book by it being the skinniest of the possibilities. So I'm reading Season of the Witch by an Irish author for Task 4: Author not from US, Canada or UK.

It's still a slow reading week but I'm hoping to finish it before the FLOOR IS POISON!

(Good thing we are Molten -- the other levels got poisoned yesterday!)

Chafic, are you there? If you are playing we need you to read one book on the countdown. If something came up then we need to know that.

We read as much as we can before we get zapped by POISON. Go team!

Then we decide whether to finish the countdown anyway (there's a 50 point bonus for completing it) or to move into the other zones. My instinct is to finish the countdown unless there's nothing you want to read on the list.

Safezone one is really long this time, so I'm thinking maybe we should skip it. Safezone two is usually beyond us. So we might as well get the bonuses for finishing the countdown and then skip to SafeZone three and try to spell out a short word like "in" "an" or "one".

What do you think? I'll finish the 80's book today or tomorrow and at least start something else, I think you are on the flower one, and I'm hoping Chava is a hero and also gets to the detective one. If Chafic is reading something, we'll be almost down with the Countdown. And maybe we'll get lucky and regenerate in Round IV -- we healed up our Round 1 damage last week.

Chafic -- have you started a book? Do you want me to update the spreadsheet for you?

Finished book, started 1980's book.

Realized The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was actually published in 1980 so switched to sequel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Uh oh, they announced the countdown. It's in 3 days and 4 hours.

I think we are in trouble this round!

Tati wrote: "I think Chris Hemsworth is also to be blamed for this."

Wait -- Chris Hemsworth is in the Star Trek movies? Where? Who?

I blame Abrams, myself.

Yeah, I'm moving slow too. I'm working on my crime book and I have a fast 1980's book lined up and possibilities for all the rest (except detective!) but things aren't moving too quickly. Since I'm moving so slowly I don't want to block things off in the spreadsheet since Chafic hasn't picked his first book yet.

I've been getting an extra book in from an audio but this week I'm barely even running errands so my car / audio time is limited.

I brought up Stephanie Plum yesterday and was shot down. Apparently she’s a bounty hunter and finding criminals isn’t enough to make someone a detective.

I haven’t read mine yet so I can’t really have an opinion but my team gave the task to someone else rather than risk me and my Plum book. It’s a shame because I had pulled it out for its cover last week but it didn’t work then either.

Perfect!