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

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

BOM UPDATE!

For .... reasons ... there will actually be three BOMs in November!

November Adult
book: The Spellshop
start date: 2 Nov

November Theme (Old School)
book: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
start date: 16 Nov

November Bonus Theme (Old School)
book: The Secret History
start date: 20 Nov

Do go volunteer for DQs if you are so inclined (The Spellshop has already been allocated, and I was lucky enough to get a day!), or just put a note in your diary to pick up the book and read & chat along!

and looking forward:
December Adult
vote: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/invite... (closes 7 Nov)

not part of the challenge, but voting for December Theme (Tradition) is here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/invite...

I'll volunteer for DQs - Team Roof :)

with an extra entry

bookshop is perfect! :D

yeah. Hoops, choose, household..... that one will probably be a specific pick rather than a welcome random!

ditto the repeated set of letters in a word

but we do have the rest of the challenge, and if it looks like the lack is holding up completion of a set one of us caps'll shout!

Sadly it needs to be in a word 🙁

An update!

I've started adding books to the official page for our spellout.
Got a few in for the Gardening mini, as well as some food items. Would love a brown and a green cover! and a #2 and #3 :)

Full information on what tasks have been claimed / filled are on the sheet. We can shuffle, of course, if you have a bonus that fits a task already placed - if that's the case shout out here! :)

Fig is an excellent find! any lobster or vinegar to go with it? #everhopeful

The Witches book I read earlier has SQUASHES in it! hurrah!

Sadly, even though the Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion containing coffee table, I can't make it fit one of the admin tasks :(

and whilst Afterlives does have okra in it, it also has piano and could be used for a garden task (prune / colour cover)

I'm reading which has a demonic looking stag on the cover which scares me, but it does have lion in the text too. (though I guess Niccolo will have a heraldic beast mentioned too?)

We good with putting Lamb into "scary thing on cover" ?

Finished the wastelands book, and spun a literary:

Pennywise the Clown
1 350-400
2 Something you are afraid of on cover (your interpretation)
3 Compound word in title
4 Author initials PC or CP (First and last only)
5 Tagged "circus" (5 or more times)

I've finished my last book - a U! - for round 1

That's some really helpful research on the heraldic beasts - thanks Domi!

We've just over a day to go before the end of Round 1. Can everyone check what books are on the sheet and move ones that you won't finish to next round.

It's also super helpful if you could let us know if you'll be finished a book close to the deadline, so we can be ready to leap on it (we need to finalise the official sheet within an hour of the round ending)

Thanks!

Amazing Sarah, thanks! :D

we can do that swap, for sure!

And I'm not convinced about substituting narrator for author

Sarah, if you've a yam and vinegar I'll put mine for Nigeria, no problems!

oooh! that's an excellent pruning!

oh, Red Rising isn't that bad! it does get more annoying as the series progresses, and I'd definitely not bother after #3, but the first wasn't awful!

oh, the things we read for a challenge, eh Keely?!

Hopefully it won't be as bad as all that - and some bonus bonus task points (and presumably publication age points?) might make it OK? fingers crossed!

Ok, Saar's claimed those three!

Don't forget, they have to be finished in Round 2 (or later) to work for the mini :)

and tagged India for Marie :)