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

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

If I have a book with SHADOWS in the title, does that work for "Title Contains Shadow"? Or does it have to be exact? How about SHADOWED or SHADOWING?

I thought the Love Letter was cute and had a fun bonus. Not seriously planning or anything (starts frantically scouring her shelves).

Ladies, you guys are so awesome! I told you my dream of rerolling for the bonus word, thinking maybe we had a shot at filling it once for the bonus, and we filled it FOUR times, including a Milon.

Amazing.

Just so I understand Bingo, and I'M NOT PLANNING anything, we keep the same card for all three weeks (or until we do a Tree), but we keep redoing it with different patterns?

Woot! Yay Nancy -- we are sliding in ahead of the wire!

Or, someone finds some more characters in Miranda's book Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling. That's an unused book. If it has anybody with an R, S, P, or L it could fill out our last word.

Someone figure that out while I read my super-shortie so we have options.

We could use a Milon, I could read Flash Gold which is only 55 pages. It's by Lindsay Buroker, so I take the L, move 15th Affair to P (it's by Patterson), move the P (Shame on Me) to S, and move the S to R (character Robart).

Or we could not finish. I'll go read the short book in case we want to do that.

OK, I finished Sweep in Peace. 50 minutes to go. I will see what I've got.

I'm going to list the book I can finish in the space below the 3rd entry, so you can see all the letters and move stuff around. Should I search for a super fast P word, or can somebody's book move into the P position?

Books are falling off! And did Carmen finish both her books? And now the P is gone! I'm getting so confused.

I'm reading and could finish Sweep in Peace for S. It could also go in A, G, or R.

Looks like I have to not finish my book either. You guys are fast!

(I'm going to keep an eye on the spreadsheet and if I see Carmen finishes her S first I will do my best to put down my book before it ends.)

I'm confused on the rule for double books, books that are two books bundled together. If they are E-books, then they count as separate books (and the page numbering is often all over the place so that makes sense).

How about paper books? I have which are two books. Can I just read one?

All this is because I can read one of your books for E/S, Carmen.

Hmm, actually, I'll put this one back on the shelf since it would also fit a bingo square for the "lord". So I'll read Sweep in Peace. But I'd still like to know if that Balogh book is one book or two.

Brown-Eyed Girl by Lisa Kleypas
Finished 8/19/16
3 stars
Kindle, 304 pages

"A" for Milon (Avery in synapsis, also Joe Travis)
or B, L, K, J, T,

Plethora, I finished Brown-Eyed Girl if you want to use that to get the color bonus on Milon. Of course, you probably haven't the computer so you are off reading your three books!

Plethora, I could read Kleypas's for that "A" spot. Would that take some pressure off?

The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
Finished: 8.18.16
381 pages
3 stars

Works for "Brown" in title cover bonus.

(I like how I just copied from Moonlight :-)

I finished my Man in the Brown Suit. Should I put it in the Milon under "A" so we also get the color challenge points?

I'm back from school business day. Did you miss me and my frantic plotting?

I can finish a brown book tonight (either Brown Eyed Girl by Kleypas or Man in the Brown Suit by Christie, depending on what I'm in the mood for after a day of PTA meetings for two schools and a region. (romance or murder? time will tell!). If I put it in Milon, stealing Carmen's "A" spot, that leaves only one spot to fill.

If anyone has a "Y" character in the synapsis, great, but if not I say let's use a Milon bonus to use "Lily" of "It Ends With Us"for "Y" and find a new "L" character. If nobody else has something I can do Letty but I bet someone has something. In either case I'll be done 12 hours before the end of Wheelathon.

Then somebody who hasn't been in meetings all day can decide if we want to spin a final time and see if we get something that all our books fit. I mean, we might get something worse (longer), or we might get something much shorter!

And did we get confirmation that we can bank Milon credits across challenges?

I was thinking a curriculum book which are informational but tend to make me want to stick needles in my head :-)