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

that's what being a team is - helping each other out :)

we've now got a whole new round of food and places to read for - post up top is up-to-date!

Little Siberia by Antti Tuomainen



The arrival of a meteorite in a small Finnish town causes chaos and crime in this poignant, chilling and hilarious new thriller from the King of Helsinki Noir

A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland, when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the unexpected treasure is temporarily placed in a neighbourhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel.

But Joel has a lot more on his mind than simply protecting the riches that have apparently rained down from heaven. His wife has just revealed that she is pregnant. Unfortunately Joel has strong reason to think the baby isn’t his. As Joel tries to fend off repeated and bungled attempts to steal the meteorite, he must also come to terms with his own situation, and discover who the father of the baby really is.

Transporting the reader to the culture, landscape and mores of northern Finland Little Siberia is both a crime novel and a hilarious, blacker-than-black comedy about faith and disbelief, love and death, and what to do when bolts from the blue – both literal and figurative – turn your life upside down.

Fits: set in Finland, Siberia in title

I finished a Sherlock Holmes / Cthulhu book for "out of comfort" - I'm not a fan of tentacular horror, not - it turns out - of double pastiches (of Conan Doyle & Lovecraft)

Still working on my ENVIRONMENT author book

Mini Task Status!

Relax Claimed
R7 tagged puzzle at least 5 times - Keely

Feeding Unclaimed, set 3 finish on or after 3 Dec
F91 potato in text
F92 rice in text
F93 pasta in text
F94 bread in text
F100 broccoli in text
F104 yam in text
F105 bean in text
F106 corn in text
F107 okra in text
F108 tomato in text
F109 onion in text
F110 lettuce in text
F111 cucumber in text
F112 apple in text
F113 peach in text
F114 fig in text
F115 grape in text
F116 banana in text
F117 salt in text
F118 pepper in text
F119 sugar in text
F120 spice in text
F121 China (at least 5 tags)
F122 Mexico (at least 5 tags)
F123 Italy (at least 5 tags)
F125 India (at least 5 tags)
F126 Greece (at least 5 tags)
F128 Thailand (at least 5 tags)
F129 Korea (at least 5 tags)
F130 Turkey (at least 5 tags)
F131 Nigeria (at least 5 tags)
F133 Bangladesh (at least 5 tags)
F134 Hawaii (at least 5 tags)
F135 Southern Gothic (at least 5 tags)

Feeding Claimed
F132 Jamaica (at least 5 tags) - Sarah
F99 lentil in text - Sarah
F97 chicken in text - Saar

Admin Unclaimed
A41 the main character works in an office
A42 the plot revolves around an office romance
A43 typical administrative material on the cover
A44 tagged non-fiction / nonfiction (at least 10x)
A46 the main character works in taxes
A47 the main character works in finance
A48 the clue to solving a murder is found in paperwork
A50 cover colour is at least 50% orange
A55 letters TAXES in title
A56 letters ADMIN in title
A57 author first & last initials in FILING
A58 author first & last initials in PAPERWORK

Admin Claimed

Gardening Unclaimed
G94 Trellis (series sequence) 7 - #4
G95 Trellis (series sequence) 7 - #5
G96 Trellis (series sequence) 8
G97 Trellis (series sequence) 8
G98 Trellis (series sequence) 8
G99 Trellis (series sequence) 8
G100 Trellis (series sequence) 8
G105 Water: word in title contains and H and 2 Os
G112 Colour Cover: Brown

Gardening Claimed

We do want Xs, to get those completed words done! :D

all the FaF tasks are now claimed and in progress, so that's fine.

And that means we are onto set 3 Admin tasks!

A41 the main character works in an office
A42 the plot revolves around an office romance
A43 typical administrative material on the cover
A44 tagged non-fiction / nonfiction (at least 10x)
A45 tagged office (at least 10x)
A46 the main character works in taxes
A47 the main character works in finance
A48 the clue to solving a murder is found in paperwork
A49 cover colour is at least 50% grey
A50 cover colour is at least 50% orange
A51 someone is murdered in an office
A52 the plot revolves around white-collar crime
A53 the main character needs to know how to handle a budget
A54 letters GREY in title
A55 letters TAXES in title
A56 letters ADMIN in title
A57 author first & last initials in FILING
A58 author first & last initials in PAPERWORK
A59 author first & last initials in SHREDDING
A60 tagged DNF (or direct equivalent) (at least 10x)

I'm going to focus on my orange cover this evening, and then will hunt down a yam, I think.

For other tasks: we've all the garden ones available, which is good, but relatively niche for the other sets, until we flip them. The post up top is current as of now.

I'm prioritising Feed, Relax and Admin over the next garden where possible, so Crooked Street went for bananas.

Food items still left:
yam (apparently the sequel to Cerulean Sea has yam in it!)
broccoli
pepper
cucumber

I think that's one step too removed :(

Whoop whoop! We are crushing that garden!

Christmas wreath making sounds lovely! Have a fun afternoon/evening!

Agreed 👍

It popped up in my office romance / human/monster smut! The Gargoyle from General Management

I was very pleased, and had no compunctions about pushing Sophie out so we could get shot of the Dementors!

a reminder to those who read Spellshop: We are into the last few days to get the bonus BOM points for answering 3 sets of DQs!

If you haven't yet, it'd be great if you'd pop over and do the necessary - 20 lovely bonus points await..... :)

Update to the Electric Vehicle task!

It was less easy than expected (vehicle power sources not often mentioned, who knew!) so it's been relaxed to allow futuristic vehicles provided it's clearly not petrol based power.
Specifically, the vehicles in the In Death series will work!

I bumped Sophie's faceless, finished the Dementors with one final book and spun us

Judoon
1 100 to 175
2 MC is in law enforcement or equivalent
3 Stars on cover
4 "hospital" in text
5 First book in a series

I'm finding pants all over the place!

Is and Xs will be very welcome all challenge! :)

oh! Saar, Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs won't work - none of the letters (T/R / S/B) are in our word :( sorry

Marie (UK) wrote: "My current book
Babylonia
R 16 has a page number containing a 4= 400 pages
R21 title begins with letter in Comfortable"

R16 requires the pair of numbers: [3 and 6] or [4 and 7] - it's linked to Sophie's kids ages <3

final food words (for this set) we are after are:

YAM
broccoli
cucumber
banana
pepper

eyes peeled! :)