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

TASK UPDATE

World Wheel
WW185 character eats mexican food - claimed Kaley

Food Items
F03 turmeric
F04 ice cream
F05 strawberry
F06 chocolate
F07 gravy
F08 ube
F09 watermelon
F10 paella
F11 kiwi
F12 pierogi
F13 naan
F14 pho
F15 kimchi
F18 bacon
F19 mango
F20 empanada
F21 quinoa

Mini 1
One Medium or hard countries, but none of:
Albania
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czechia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
Guyana
Iran
Kuwait
Mali
Monaco
Philippines
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Sri Lanka
Tonga
Tunisia
Uruguay
Yemen
Zambia

nothing to see here

finished a St Lucia book (it just tipped to 50%)

Tati wrote: "Hey, everyone!

I finished The Thursday Murder Club today, not sure if it works for anything. I'll only be able to add it to the SS later in the week, though."

Added for you!

You've one book left before you hit your cap :)

Just as an FYI, I'll be reading the latest Penric book, which is less than 150 pages, but not until after Towers (I'm in weird and wonderful countries mode now!)

Hurrah!

TASK UPDATE

WW183 Author born in Mexico
WW184 Red, White and Green on cover
WW185 character eats mexican food
WW186 character visits a (coral) reef - Sarah's got one that works
WW187 letters AZTEC in title (any order)
WW188 "Day of the Dead" mentioned or celebrated
WW189 M
WW190 E
WW191 X
WW192 I
WW193 C
WW194 O

WW294 Author born in Argentina
WW295 Blue, White and Gold on cover - claimed
WW296 character goes to a musical
WW298 character is a dancer
WW302 G
WW304 N
WW305 T
WW306 I
WW307 N

Mini 1
Medium or hard countries, but none of:
Albania
Bulgaria
Croatia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
Iran
Kuwait
Mali
Philippines
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Sri Lanka
Tunisia
Uruguay
Yemen
Zambia

Food Mini Scavenger Hunt
F03 turmeric
F04 ice cream
F05 strawberry
F06 chocolate
F07 gravy
F08 ube
F09 watermelon
F10 paella
F11 kiwi
F12 pierogi
F13 naan
F14 pho
F15 kimchi
F16 banana
F18 bacon
F19 mango
F20 empanada
F21 quinoa

So, I did a thing with the data on Mini 1...

Team	Total 	Diff	%diff		Unique 
3P	60	51	85.00%		1
Belem	99	66	66.67%		2
Burj	66	51	77.27%		2
CNT	58	48	82.76%		1
Eiffel	44	39	88.64%		1
ESB	78	62	79.49%		1
Icono	107	80	74.77%		4
Liz	90	73	81.11%		10
Lotus	92	71	77.17%		3
OooA	46	36	78.26%		0
Pisa	68	54	79.41%		3
Sky	92	66	71.74%		2

Little bit complicated, but is showing the total number of books read for the mini (as of 5 Aug) - "Total countries visited". Then I stripped out, for each team, their duplicates, so it shows the number of different countries visited. The percentage figure then shows the percentage of different countries the team has visited, which gives a fairer comparison of how widely travelled each team is.

Widely read teams (i.e. those who haven't duplicated countries much) include:
Eiffel (88% of their countries have been different)
3P (85%)
CNT (82%)

By contrast, Belem have been encouraging group travel, with 33% of their countries being duplicates. Thought they have still visited 66 different countries, so not really homebodies!

The final figure shows the actual number of countries that only one team has visited. And Team Liz is quite the independent traveller, visiting 10 countries no one else has read for (yet!)

The countries only one team has been to are:

Country			Team
Antigua and Barbuda	Liz
Brazil			Pisa
Burundi			Liz
Cabo Verde		Liz
Costa Rica		Eiffel
Curaçao			Pisa
Denmark			Lotus
Djibouti		Burj
Dominica		Pisa
Equatorial Guinea	Liz
Eritrea			3P
Guinea-Bissau		ESB
Iceland			Burj
Kyrgyzstan		Liz
Latvia			Lotus
Libya			Sky
Liechtenstein		Icono
Malaysia		Icono
Micronesia		Belem
Nicaragua		Icono
Paraguay		Belem
Saint Lucia		Icono
Slovenia		Lotus
Tajikistan		Liz
Timor-Leste		Liz
Togo			Sky
Tonga			Liz
Tunisia			Liz
Tuvalu			CNT
Uzbekistan		Liz

* note: another country has visited Antigua since the underlying data for this was pulled, so we don't have that unique destination anymore

Image of the world coloured in....

https://countries-visited.com/?countr...


Looks like we have forgotten Greenland, but of course it's a territory of Denmark....

✿~Danielle~✿ wrote: "Cheese done!"

brill, thanks! :)

The dress looks gold to me. D? Yasmine?

Yes, hope she's feeling better soon x

NEW COUNTRY!

we got Spain!

WW89 church or cathedral on cover

I'm reading Don Quixote (a day from finishing), which will work for either mentions him or Spanish author. Any takers for one of those two?

Other Task
WW294 Author born in Argentina
WW295 Blue, White and Gold on cover - claimed
WW296 character goes to a musical
WW297 letters STEAK in title (any order) - claimed
WW298 character is a dancer
WW301 R
WW302 G
WW304 N
WW305 T
WW306 I
WW307 N

Mini 1
Medium or hard countries, but none of:
Albania
Bulgaria
Croatia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
Iran
Kuwait
Mali
Philippines
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Sri Lanka
Tunisia
Uruguay
Yemen
Zambia

I'm going to pick up Any Trope.... For the moose task

Melindam wrote: "Cat,

If we move your Rizzio book for the page count of Anders Lindbeck OR Dale Pearson, we could finish one of them off.

For the solid colour cover, we could use my book [bookcover:Checkmate|546..."

Of course!

Finished Bad Summer People, with sushi eaten

Mid level I think

I've got a sushi eating book!

Teresa wrote: "Ha! I didn't even realize Starter Villain was set in a hard country!! I need to check closer 😆 It is a fun book, btw, I recommend it!!"

Only knew because one of the other teams had used it (and it's a team with a Mod, so we are pretty safe!)

finished a hard country, and found one that will work for eating sausage :)

for a bit of context: Team Belem asked for a spin, and two of the captains did so independently, both resulting in Mexico - which has never happened before! Even better, Mexico is precisely the destination that Belem wanted, so Judith was very happy with the results of her sacrifices to the Wheel gods!

It's meaning soccer football