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

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

I finished the religion book, so that card is ready to go, I think.

Tomorrow I'll read my weird word book, and then see what needs finishing -- maybe a vampire book to finish the weird word card or a GOODREADS choice award book or work on the Triangle book.

If I click on "Add a book" on the link in the Currently Reading feed section of the goodreads home page and then search through the pop up, it adds a new book instead of changing a book marked as "Want to Read" to "Currently Reading." That's how most of my duplicate books got added, until I started always searching the book directly instead of using that hotlink.

We're going to need at least three more #4's (I hope), so if someone else finishes one there are spots for it.

We're officially at Warrior Level 6 now! Tough Team Tapirs!

We've got the XP to reach experience level 6. From there we need 80 more points to get to level 7.

Our current plan is to alternate XP level and weapon level, so we'll finish up the next weapon level, then back to getting XP.

Our current cards would give us 35 (minus the 3 we need to level up). I'm hoping we get some monsters again for more fast XP. We're close to finishing one 10 pointer, and the other one is straightforward (if lengthy). Go Tapirs!

I finished my religious book too! That means we level up, and are supposed to get our weapon level up next, which means that number 7 book. So Sheila, can you put another 7 book on your list? Than we can steal all the prime numbers and submit that as well. You have convinced me that we need more cards :-)

Carmen, Moonlight and Paula, you guys have the other books for Weapon Level 9. Carmen, I know you are reading that thousand pager -- do you want someone to pick up your book series # 4? Or do you like having something to switch around with? Moonlight and Paula, are you enjoying your books for #8 and #9? Speak now if you want to dump them!

I will put my weird word book on top of my nightstand and go to sleep.

I'm putting this here again so we don't have to hunt back pages:

PRIME NUMBERS between 100 - 1000:


101 103 107 109
113 127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167
173 179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227
229 233 239 241 251 257 263 269 271 277
281 283 293 307 311 313 317 331 337 347
349 353 359 367 373 379 383 389 397 401
409 419 421 431 433 439 443 449 457 461
463 467 479 487 491 499 503 509 521 523
541 547 557 563 569 571 577 587 593 599
601 607 613 617 619 631 641 643 647 653
659 661 673 677 683 691 701 709 719 727
733 739 743 751 757 761 769 773 787 797
809 811 821 823 827 829 839 853 857 859
863 877 881 883 887 907 911 919 929 937
941 947 953 967 971 977 983 991 997

I'm a little hesitant to pull from the next weapon level; that will be of use before the PRIME card. I don't mind grabbing from levels 10 and 11, and also it's fairly easy to find third and even fifth books; series with seven are a bit thinner on the ground.

We don't have any other #7s to replace it.

I don't remember the PRIME card being that hard last time around -- didn't we have extras (which have been used elsewhere)?

☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ wrote: "Hey team. Sorry for being MIA but I've been suffering with a migraine all day. No fun :( I'll catch up with you tomorrow. Nice work by the way :)"

Hope you feel better soon, Carmen. Migraines are awful!

How about if anyone else reads an E before we finish that card they bump you back to Weapon Level 12, but in the meantime you leave it on the spell-it-out card?

The rock dinged us :-). Everything else was a one-shot.

OK, strategy rethink, because we got that lovely run of monsters. Now we can level up with 4 points of XP. I'm going to switch to my religious book (I found a shorter one, about a priest), and when I finish it, assuming Sheila finishes her John Puller book, we'll level up and be all healed.

So we turn our attention back to our weapon level 9, where we only need 3 more books. Carmen, Moonlight and Paula, are you all good there?

Power to the Tapirs! No Plush Zombie can stop us!

Sheila wrote: "I certainly think the indian theme at chimney rock would work for that but have no idea how to word that for submission."

I filled in the SS for you (so check it -- beware my curse!) with "The place is an important theme (fire threatens ancient ritual spot)" as reason it fits.

A book club book for me is all about a young girl figuring out how to live the life she wants, so I'm putting that in for "Acceptability - the quality or state of meeting one's needs adequately" -- that's basically the theme of the book -- meeting one's needs both physically and emotionally.

Sheila, It looks like all the action takes place in one big area, with conditions changing as the fire zaps around. The setting looks like a big part of the plot, and the sense of history in that setting as well. Do you think that would work for

Ubiety - the quality or state of being in a place?

Strategy talk here -- The Idioms challenge is 7 points, and we'll get that as soon as the spreadsheet aligns and all the boxes are ticked. Both Cards 21 and 22 are ten points; finishing one of those will get us to the next XP level. So we should concentrate on one -- I suggest Card 21 (the weird word one) because we already have 3/7 books and the other one needs 9 books.

Any other ideas for ways to fill that card?

Anyway, we want to get 17 points, and then we'll go look at the weapons page again, which I think has been cooking nicely.

I'm also hoping that we get a monster when we turn in the idiom card, because we don't mind getting hurt (as long as we don't die) since we are so close to leveling up and getting a full heal. In fact, I warn our captains to be chintzy with the heal potions during a fight, remembering that we always hit first and we only need 1 hit point at the end. Of course, it's better to waste heal potions than to miscount and die! Expiring is very inconvenient.

Rachael Ray's book has an introduction and then discusses each recipe before presenting it -- where she got the idea, why it works, how cute her husband is while eating it, etc. That's why I like her books -- they are similar to her show where you get some of her personality and love of cooking while she presents the food.

And I'm reading the recipes, so I think we are OK.

Dark Witch by Nora Roberts
Paperback: 342 pages
Finished: 10/24


Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
Hardback: 160 pages
Finished: 10/24

See that cemetery in the book cover? One of the graves has a cross on it, which is a religious symbol.

I finished the religious item book, and I think I'll read the Rachael Ray recipe book for the new card -- the whole point of her book is to make things acceptable to your mouth. I was brainstorming for ideas for the rest of that card:

CARD 1

Read a book where the plot, a main character, or other large aspect of the book reflects the words definition.

Tasks:
•Ubiety - the quality or state of being in a place: travel book? book about somebody trying to get somewhere, or being stuck in their home town?
•Perpetuity - the state or quality of lasting forever: a romance where someone finds True Love?
•Palatability - the property of being acceptable to the mouth: cook book!
•Acceptability - the quality or state of meeting one's needs adequately: wilderness survival story? any survival story?
•Isotropic - having a physical property that has the same value when measured in different directions
•Uniformity - always the same, as in character or degree; unvarying: a series where the main character doesn't change (Agatha Christie book, for ex.), or a book about identical twins (someone should read a Sweet Valley high book for a two-fer!)
•Adaptability - capable of being adapted: book where someone is ingenious, or becomes a shapeshifter

Um, I thought I snuck the info for Plethora's book way off on the side when I bumped her spot, but I can't seem to find it. I've marked mine as wobble and done if we want to use it in the meantime.

My spreadsheet curse strikes again! Sorry...

Plethora, mine was the first in the series, so if we make it to level a zillion we can use it there. You can use yours. I had to read mine for a book club, so it wasn't wasted time :-)

I found and there's a cross in the background of the cemetery, so that should work for religious symbol. I'll read that first, and then see what is up.

It's up to Carmen. I am avoiding classics and giant books, so I can't help there, but Rachael Ray is fun to read and recipe books are quick, especially if I'm not hunting for ideas for dinner.