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

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

Armitage! Armitage! Armitage!

Welcome to our two new players! We've been told that we can use any books you started after the start of the challenge till now, so do please pop them on the tracking sheet when you get a moment! If you ca post a hello, including your challenge shelf link and maybe your addition to our range of livestock!

To catch you up, we are currently half way through the first mini (books finished after 1 June work), where we are reading for various tasks. Apart from that, all books need to be assigned to one of four resources - so you'll see we are all putting notes as to weapons / shelter / food / defense against our books. You really don't need to over think it - the Resource tab will give you some ideas, but worst case any book can be a weapon (if hurled) or defence (building a wall)

Mini Task Status
Here's where we are at with the mini:

REF	TASK	BOOK	READ BY
	1 POINT TASKS		
C3	orange cover	About a Boy	Pat
C4	orange cover	The Sun Sister	Sarah

	3 POINT TASKS		
C29	horn on cover 	Horns	Christine
C30	horn on cover 		
C35	book set in Crete	The Summer Escape	Sarah
C38	book set in Idaho	That One Night	Danielle
C39	book set in Idaho	Maggie Moves On	Alyana
C40	book set in Idaho	Murder at Mistletoe Manor	Cat
C45	author's name has a diacritic	The Perfect Mix	LaurLa
C54	takes place on a farm	Spun Out	LaurLa
C55	takes place on a farm	
	
	5 POINT TASKS		
C60	title includes all the letters CORNUPIA	Crazy Stupid Bormance	Alyana
C65	cover has at least 3 different food items	Iced Under	Christine
C70 book set in Peru, Panama, Colombia or Venezuela 	Killing Pablo	Alyana

So, hunting for horns, and farm setting!

I know, those horns are pesky!

I've got a unicorn one, but I want to getAmmonite finished before I start that one...

130 pages
385 pages
272 pages
113 pages

reporting 883 pages

Current total: 916,283

finished another diacritical book, and will be starting one set on a ranch. my Ammonite (abundance) is still going, but slowly. a "focused attention" one, like Pat's, I think

Third Supply Drop

Also bad for minis (though I imagine both this and our other have food words in text, but I've not looked for any as we are already abundantly supplied with those)
To Have and to Heist


Shelter: MC lived in a basement apartment
Defense: author's initials (Sara Desai) in SHED/DEFENSE; blue cover;
Weapon: fireworks on the cover
Food: daquiris, margaritas, EAT in title

Second Supply Drop!

Rubbish for minis, I'm afraid, but hopefully useful protection:
Never Saw Me Coming


Weapon: SAW in title
Defense: word WALL in text; it's a decent size book to pile up
Shelter: MC lives in a dorm
Food: pastrami sandwich eaten

we aren't going strictly by TinEye, especially in picking colours, though it can be useful for %ages.

That said, sadly your cover by my eye wouldn't be 50% orange, due to the two people taking up so much room! stupid designer, couldn't they have made them smaller, or put one in an orange top too?!

the BOMs and our wheel spins have been surprisingly cooperative lately :)

Alyana wrote: "I found Crazy Stupid Bromance on my tbr, can I use this for the Cornupia task?"

You certainly can please and thank you!

Jenny wrote: "I can't see Jamie Dornan as anything but the killer in that series with Gillian Anderson. I don't remember the name of it, of course..."

The Fall

True story, Pat, true story!

oh! and, LaurLa, what was Assistant to the Villain like? sounds fun.... I read Hench a while back which was all sorts of fun, involving weaponised admin skillz!


and Natasha - Last Murder at the End of the World?? thoughts? you recommend it?

in other news, we've made our first supply drop to District 5: Sandy's Love Notes & Lifelines, as we shuffled about to give them maximum options.

Basically, as we finish books that we can't shuffle into the mini, we'll assess their use to the other team.

We've decided to ask them to give us resource pile protection, so we don't get free resource points, but do get the protection benefit, whatever that transpires to mean!

Fingers crossed they reciprocate :)

LavenderLane wrote: "Do we need to give supply drop back? I must admit I don’t really understand what the purpose of the supply drops are and what we are trying to achieve with them."

We'd quite like reciprocation! :) (probably just for protection, so books with defense plus another resource reason, or two defense reasons would be ace!)

as for the purpose, it's up to your strategy.

If it helps.... the one we've just dropped was finished on 1 Jun, so it works for the mini if you wanted (so you fill a task with this book, you get the task points but not resource points)

Alternatively you can use it for bonus points in one of your resource piles (free points!)

Finally, you can use it to protect one of your piles (nope, not telling what from) by using a defense reason PLUS another reason for the pile you want to protect (so if you want to protect defense pile you need two defense reasons) you don't get the page points for this either.

Possibilities for the drop:

Bonus points (46) / protection reasons
Food: it has corn on p99
Defense: Becker defends Stella when she's attacked, plus it's a blue cover
Weapon: STONE in title
Shelter: SAFE in title

Mini Tasks
Corn in text (p99)
LIFE hidden in LIFELINES

no worries Ashlee! school is more important!

sorry that all your picks have been a drain :( hopefully your next will be better!

For mini, we are scant on author initials in HERACLES and also letters CORNUPIA found in title and/or subtitle

Incoming supply drop from District 10!
Love Notes & Lifelines which can work for a couple of minis, or for resource protection or simply for some free points!

@Christine: awesome! I wasn't loving that task, definitely worth the 5points hardness level!

@Pat hope the mayhem calms soon! We need your reading, forget about the kids who need to be sucked into reading.... Errr. No, strike that! Getting kids reading ftw!
You got a fun program theme this year?

352 pages

Current total 861751

I quite enjoyed it. it's not action-packed, but I enjoyed the people-pleasing of Pender, generating all sorts of waffle to keep Andy happy. it's much more about the ridiculousness of the late century spy business than actually saving a double agent from the Commies though the armed border