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

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

Sammy wrote: "You can do it guys! Maybe squeeze in one before Book Games starts, in case things go off track? 😉"

I've one in progress at the moment, and will cast about for another before Book Games.

We can get that pesky line, E!

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Supply Drops
Partner team: District 5

Hi everyone! Welcome to Book Games, which promises to be all sorts of new fun :)

Whilst it's inspired by Hunger Games, there is no need to be an expert, fan or even to have seen the films - any book over 100 pages is fair game (lighter text books, like kids / graphic novels / plays subject to word count or audio length checks, as ever)

Full rules can be found here, and any official updates will be posted there too.

As a team game, there are some team behaviour expectations, which can basically be summed up as:
- communicate with the captains
- be kind to each other
- read and have fun!

Communicate
Each team has been balanced by sign up book numbers, so if life serves up a curve-ball do let us know! Post here, PM the captains or even the mod account, just let us know if you need to step down from the challenge, read less or whatever.
Similarly, team games are the most fun when we chat - about books, the weather, pets, kids, whatever! And if you don't want to be chatty, we'd still like at least a "still here!" each week :)

Kindness
We all know how easy it is to misinterpret what people mean when you only have text comms to work with. Please assume the best, not worst, of a message - everyone's playing to have fun, so be generous if someone's message rubs you up the wrong way - it is almost certainly not intentional!

Read and Have Fun!
The most important bit - reading and enjoying!
Any book that meets the page / word count is fair game for the challenge, and if you are contributing 1 book or 15 books, they are all equally important!
During the challenge additional tasks might pop up - these are optional (though captains will try and press your books into any slot they can wrangle) - you can claim a task or not, but do bear in mind that captains will reshuffle as new books come in - and all books will be put to their best possible use.

BOMs
Some more optional reading and having fun in participating in the BOMs each month (starting with May's themed BOM).
Feel free to volunteer to write discussion questions (honestly not as scary as it sounds!) for bonus points, or just answer them (and read the book during the challenge) for points too.


District 10 Livestock

Was chatting to work friend about RA (via the very silly fun TV show he's just done Red Eye). she was waxing lyrical so I had to be stern and tell her hands off! Happily for everyone she deems his sexuality to be too big of a hurdle for her to lay claim :D and we obvs then went on to drool over memories of him in North and South and of course in leather in Robin Hood...

Must pick up Geneva and listen to that soon!

though I have to hope that she wasn't expecting someone to deploy the Baby Shark bomb! that was just vicious, Lisa! :D

Lexi is very much feeling "Mischief Managed!" right now!

the worst earworms are those that are snips of music that you can't quite identify but have taken up residence on loop - like at pub quizzes music rounds, where if they just played the next bit you'd know what the song was.

A lot of the earworms I get stuck with are songs I like, but generally I like them once, completely, not a small snippet on constant rotation.

I used to get regularly afflicted by snips of Any Dream Will Do, from Joesph & His Technicolour Dreamcoat. A perfectly acceptable song, but hell on earth when that flash of light is rattling around your head for hours (days in the worst instance)!

You're gonna Rick-roll us?!

Was very weird recently: I was talking to a work friend about having had a Dido earworm when she said she'd had a Dido earworm that time too! We were both WFH, and I wasn't listening to music, so it was a very strange contagion! (And different songs: White Flag v Thank You)

Earworms are the worst!

I've got the page count and night scene :)

Marty wrote: "Hello, newbie here. I'm Marty. This looks a like a great game for paring down my shamefully large TBR."

Oh, we can tell by that that you are a newbie! I don't want to put you off, but sadly I've never come out of a team challenge with a reduced TBR!
One of the joys (or perils) of a team challenge is the recommendations from your teamies!

finished another one, which was actually very good

Mel, that works for me!

Spun a Dr Who:

The Thames Ice Snake
1 100 to 175
2 Set in London or one of its sister cities (http://en.sistercity.info/sister-citi...)
3 Author initials (all) in THAMES
4 Antagonist not who it first appears (your interpretation)
5 Water on the cover

Oh! I just found a mannequin at the end of my book, just finished it. Like buses, eh?

I'm on my phone though, so will respin (unless Domi gets there first!) tomorrow

Wonderful, thank you Domi! :D

You did not make a mess :) and thank you for doing that! <3

done!

2 doesn't feel long, but it did make me check: we could use Time's Convert - 4 years between #3 and it's publication. plus 8 years since I read #3 and this one.

that good? (unlike the book!)