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

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

Kathryn wrote: "I finished Monsters Of Men today :) 603 pages"

Awesome, Kathryn! That's a great beginning for us!

I'm 64% of the way through my South America book. I also started re-listening to an audio book, Lion in the Valley by Elizabeth Peters. It's one of my favorite series; I enjoy listening to the audios a lot while I'm driving or working around the house. I need to go add it to my challenge shelf, I guess...

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Current Total: 1,546,254

Marguerite wrote: "Question on the book I am just now starting they have the start date as Aug 1 - 2015 because I am in FL is that ok or should I change it to Aug 2 2015?"

In the previous challenge I did for this group you could start start with the clock and didn't need to worry about what the time stamp for your book said. They took that into consideration. If that makes sense.

In other words - read away and don't worry about it. :)

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Current Total: 1,583,026

Hurray! Off to start reading! Have fun everybody...

Alyssa wrote: "Karen wrote: "Check those Wizard of Oz books on arbookfind.com as I know from previous challenges many of them are too short (example book 1 is only about 15,000 pages) and won't count"

"only 15,000 pages" ?!?!? uh, I may have joined the wrong challenge here..."

But you only have to read one every two weeks. lol

Marguerite wrote: "Hi Teri-k, TN is beautiful, I lived in NW TN in 82 and 83 and loved it there.
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Where in NW TN? It can't have been far from here, TN isn't very tall. lol It is nice and green around here. I'm not crazy about the summers, though our highs dropped from 100's last week to low 90'2 this, so that's a big relief.

Congrats on the house. That's always exciting.

Eldarwen wrote: "And what do you know?
Thanks to a nice catch from Lucy, our first three goals will already be taken care of with the first three books that have been mentioned in the thread.

Very nice work and we..."

Good work, Team!

(Of course, I always feel funny calling reading work.)

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Current Total: 1,559,166

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Teri-k wrote: "ETA- I have a question about the rules. "Only books read during the current round may be applied towards goals, once the round has ended those books may no longer be used for a goal...."

Makes sense, yes. That's how I'd understood it, but I wanted to be sure I had it right.

Thanks.

I have a book I've been wanting to reread that's set in Ecuador, South America. I can plan to start it tomorrow if that helps the group out. There doesn't seem to be any sense in having several of us reading books for the same task. It won't take me more than a few days to read it.

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ETA- I have a question about the rules. "Only books read during the current round may be applied towards goals, once the round has ended those books may no longer be used for a goal."
In another thread I was sure I read that a book you started after the games begin but didn't finish during the first two weeks could be used whenever you did finish it. This seems to say the opposite. Could I get a clarification? I usually read a lot of books at once. If I can't start them in one two-week period and finish them in the next I'll have to change my reading strategy a bit.

Thanks

Eldarwen wrote: "Thanks Teri!
Oooh, yes, wheel-a-thon wasn't easy sometimes to keep track of everything but this spreadsheet is a little easier. There's less juggling from the looks of it hehe :-)

A trip to see th..."

Wheel-a-thon: I spent every Saturday night juggling books trying to maximize our points. Go Fire Opals!

Grandsons are in Va, I'm in TN. So they're too far away for me. :( Wish they were closer, but I'm blessed to have them at all.

Hi, I'm Teri. I live in the US, out in the country not too far from Memphis, TN. No, I'm not an Elvis fan. :) I'm originally from a farm in Colorado, but I've lived all over.

I read a lot, fiction and non-fiction. But I especially like anything related to history. I love my e-readers, as they let me check out lots of books that I could never get through my tiny local library. I'll be reading less than usual due to several big projects and a trip to see my grandsons. But a couple of books a week shouldn't be a problem.

Hats off to our Captains. I captained a Wheel-a-thon team last time, and it was a lot of work. (We came in second.) I appreciate your willingness to take on the job! Here's the link to my challenge shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

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Kelly wrote: "Challenge starts Sunday. We'll get some timers up soon since it will probably hit mid saturday for some."

Shoot. I knew that. My brain just skipped a day.

Sorry. :)

Can we start reading at midnight tonight our local time? I'm an insomniac and get a lot of reading done after midnight most nights. :)

375 pp

Current Total 1,552,314

Greetings, everyone!

Captain(s) - Somehow in the process of cleaning up my GR shelves I eliminated the one for this game. I've put it in again as "2015 glad ch", but I'm not completely sure that's the name In said I'd use when I signed up. Let me know if I got it wrong. Sorry. :)

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