Cat’s Comments (group member since Jan 28, 2015)

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

Sammy wrote: "All I can find in the Plus catalogue for Sri lanka is a 6 minute short story...

I'll grab it if there's nothing else, but I have no money to spend on books right now (seriously... I have less than..."

if we are OK with it sitting there for a while, I think have one in my kindle somewhere, but I'm prioritising hard countries for my team

I've found one that'll cover black cover & assassin task, which I can do next after my current book.

aaaaand.....

I did a hunt through other team sheets for inspo for "First word in text is ONE", and gathered the following list of titles:

Sold / Patricia McCormack
The Last White Man / Moshin Hamid
Runaway Lone Star Bride / Cathy Gillen Thacker
The Metamorphosis / Kafka
Tahira in Bloom / Farah Heron
The Ghost Bride / Yangsze Choo
Omega Secret / Wendy Rathbone
Broadchurch / Erin Kelly

No pressure, but if anyone had a vague intention to read one of these books anyway.... :)

Re BOMs: a reminder that the deadline for answering DQs for The Berry Pickers is coming up at challenge month end too... Do get your three sets answered by then if you are reading it, even if you finish it in month 3 :)

OK, so quick summary of tasks needing books....

Takes place in Sri Lanka (my team has read 2 Sri Lanka books, so I won't be getting around to this anytime soon)

Tagged Fae (at least 10 times)

skull on cover
author initials WS or SW
MPG School

title contains the word "FIRE" - Mel :)
Tagged "assassin" 5 or more times - Cat
Black cover (>50%) - Cat

Just a heads up, with about a week left in this month, that the following people are getting close to their monthly cap - switching to long books might be a winning tactic?!

MEMBER		CAP	READ	LEFT
Cat		30	23	7
Danielle	21	15	6
Christene	17	12	5
Dawn		12	9	3
Rina		10	6	4
Sarah		14	11	3
Tati		10	7	3

And, finally! , my set in Uzbekistan book

finsihed a book set in Vanuatu :)

finished Kuwait book.

Nowe to plough on with more tricky countries so Dawn can finish her Kuwait as soon as possible!

Cool! it also has white, blue and green, so works for the India flag task :)

Do we think this has orange on the cover? The tiles / building colour on top left side?

TASK UPDATE

Mini Two DONE!!

Mini Three
WW274 cow on cover - claimed
WW275 MPG Spirituality (this might be helpful: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...) - claimed
WW278 N

WW248 Author born in Italy - Kaley
WW249 Red, White and Green on cover
WW252 pasta on cover
WW253 letters VESPA in title (any order)
WW258 Y

Mini One
Itinerary just started - needs lots of hard :)

Countries we CAN'T use are:
Croatia
Fiji
Philippines
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Sri Lanka
Zambia

no content - just want the next post!

Huzzah!

I'll be finishing a Kuwait book this morning (Dawn, can you save completion of The Stardust Thief until the next itinerary - 'bout a week on past form? If you can't, not to worry, we'll put it to use somewhere!)
I'll also be finishing an Uzbekistan set book today :)

Mini Priorities!

We really need a book with a statue on the cover, to finish off Brazil, and still looking for a book that starts (main text, ignore epigraphs etc) with the word "One"

After that, for our new India - Spirituality MPG and cow on the cover seem the most niche / tricky, so shout out if you have one of them!

On the food mini, we've not made this a focus, but if you do stumble across an obscure food in text do pull it out (the list can be found on the s'sheet)

Otherwise, we are doing splendidly - we have the most task points, last time I looked anyway - which is undoubtedly due to everyone hunting out tricky countries for Mini 1 itineraries! Thank you, and fingers crossed we can keep that going strong for the next month and a bit of the challenge!

Spirituality MPG...... fun

just finished Vegemite!

Fab work! Well done!

sorry, I was too keen! :)

thank you

@Sally, can you add Pumpkin Patch to your challenge shelf, please?