Teri-K’s Comments (group member since Mar 16, 2025)

Teri-K’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Toward Zero was narrated by Hugh Fraser, and I've already finished it!

ETA - Sorry, I got all excited there. Congrats on finishing your book, Lucy. Glad you enjoyed it. I love a book that has some humor in it. :)

The link for the audio version is: Towards Zero.

Eldarwen wrote: "Haha yup, I can only agree with Teri on that one. Teacups seem to appear more and more in challenges - so who knows? :) Or we'll get a goal for a J author hehe.

Congrats on finishing, Sarah!

And ..."

That's fine. Whatever works for the group.

I didn't expect to finish it so soon but that thunderstorm kept me up and reading. It had to be with my Kindlefire because the electricity kept going out. In times like that I love having a back-lit reader. Though I have also read by candle light. :)

Sarah wrote: "I finally finished a book for the challenge. :)



I live in hope that it will work for a future goal! Sadly it does not have asparagus in it."

Congrats on finishing your book! Did you like it? Maybe it doesn't have asparagus, but it does have a teacup on the cover. That pops up a lot in challenges, I think. :)

Eldarwen wrote: "Teri, there are 2 ways we can do this:

-either you list both books individually / separately on your read shelf instead of the two-book-combo, and we'll add each book separately onto the spreadsheet as well with the appropriate page number
- or you keep the combo on your shelf and we'll also add the two-book-combo onto the spreadsheet and just take the sum of the page numbers for book 1 and book 2
..."

OK, let's list them separately. I'll want to track them separately so they show up as read when I look at the series as a whole. So I've added Towards Zero to my challenge shelf as done.

Also, last night we had a terrific thunderstorm - lasted til almost 4 AM. It kept me awake so I finished Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh. She was born in New Zealand, for that goal.

Will read some more "asparagus" later today. :)

320 pp

Current Total: 1,635,208

Kathryn wrote: "hi teamies. sorry I disappeared. work has been hectic.

I'm about halfway through Haunting me and about 2/3 of the way through Harry Potter 3. I really want to finish both this weekend.

every..."

Glad to hear things are OK with you. I bet we can all understand a busy work schedule. :)

Mods - I'm listening to Towards Zero / Ordeal by Innocence. It's an audio edition of two Agatha Christie books in one, but there isn't a print edition of these two books combined. I assume when I finish it you can enter them as two separate books. But I thought I'd give you a heads up in case you need to figure out how to handle them.

I finished Romancing the Schoolteacher by Mary Davis last night. It doesn't work for any particular goal.

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I just got a "Y" author book downloaded, before I knew the goals had changed. But it's non-fiction, so I might be kind of slow reading it. At least we know we have several going, whoever finishes first.

Also, I'm listening to a Ngaio Marsh mystery. Marsh was born in New Zealand, if we still need it in a few days when I've finished it.

I always have a bunch of books going at the same time. :) I'll spend some more time reading "aparagus" this evening.

Ashley ♦Sugar & Spice♦ wrote: "I found my answer front and center on the first page of about the games :)

I'm almost finished with The Perks of Being a Wallflower and plan to start a book that has been a NBRC BOM."

Glad you found the answer to your question. Sometimes it's hard to find just what you're wondering about, isn't it?

Congrats on finishing a book already!

ETA - I've started the asparagus book. lol

192 pp

Current Total: 1,630,541

233 pp

Current Total: 1,629,879

Marguerite wrote: "SO you and everyone knows when I rate any book I rate that book by itself on it's own merits.smile"

I do the same thing. I don't expect every book to be a classic, but if it's really good in its genre I think it deserves a high rating.

And it doesn't matter what I thought of the author's other books. Though I confess sometimes I expect a great book from a really good author and it's hard not to be extra disappointed if the book doesn't measure up, even if it's OK in general.

Marguerite wrote: "Just finished
501 pages = 1 point
gave it 5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Just started [bo..."

Hurray! It's great that your book clocked in at 501, instead of 499, isn't it. :) And you gave it 5 stars, too. I'll have to check it out, I like Nora Roberts.

I found "asparagus" in Changes at Fairacre, an old British book I'll be happy to reread. But I haven't started it yet, so if someone else finds it first...

Good job, Emma! Hope you enjoyed the book!

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Finished Ripper: A Novel by Allende, a SA author. It's also 512 pages.

I will now be returning to my regularly scheduled life, so I don't expect to get quite as much reading done from here on out. lol

512 pp

Current Total: 1,611,214

I don't understand why the Master Spreadsheet already has wins and losses on it. I thought we read for 2 weeks and then our scores were compiled and wins/losses tabulated. Does anyone know what's going on with that?