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

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

just finished Vegemite!

Fab work! Well done!

sorry, I was too keen! :)

thank you

@Sally, can you add Pumpkin Patch to your challenge shelf, please?

Excellent, thank you Teresa :)

wowzers! I've found a Vegemite in a book I want to read soonish!

I've a couple of longer slower books on the go (for hard countries), so I imagine it'll be Sunday before I get to it.

So: pressure off people to hunt down Vegemite, but I'm happy to be bumped too :)

@Sarah: Yeah, it was very unpleasant travelling to and from work at the start of the week, but has cooled down a bit now. I'm glad it's been nicer for you :)

I'm happily recovered from the lurgee (I took a test and it came back negative for covid, but who knows), which is a relief - it knocked me sideways good and proper!

@Christene, can you add My Friends to your challenge shelf please?

Stephie wrote: "Wayfinder done!"

That looks interesting! would you recommend?

finished Witches Abroad, which features a Mardi Gras carnival, and starting Maskerade for opera visit

An I character super helpful for both spell outs :)

I'm slightly focussing on Brazil over Australia, as we have more of the tasks done, so priorities for statue or forest on cover from people :)

Thanks all!

Lucy, as long as you have your shelf updated we can grab book information from there, so don't worry about the SS :)

for carnaval - it can be any Mardi Gras festival type celebration - the vibe being a big organised thing that is religious adjacent (i.e. Notting Hill Carnival wouldn't work, being as it is a purely cultural thing taking advantage of a bank hol)

and finished Small Gods :)

Teresa wrote: "My book Claiming Marcus has an ocean on the cover (atlantic)

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perfect! thanks for flagging :)

TASK UPDATE

Mini Two
92 Read a book where the first word of the text is "One"

77 Read a book that is in the Food for the Soul List - claimed Yasmine

Mini Three
WW271 Author born in India
WW272 Orange, White, Green and Blue on cover
WW273 character goes to a wedding
WW274 cow on cover - claimed
WW275 MPG Spirituality
WW276 character lives in a busy and bustling place
WW277 I
WW278 N
WW279 D
WW280 I
WW281 A

WW286 statue on cover - claimed

Mini One
Itinerary just started - needs lots of hard :)

Countries we CAN'T use are:
Croatia
Fiji
Philippines
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Sri Lanka
Zambia

No conatent, so I can get top post on the next page

I'm going to read Small Gods for the philosoher task

Ain't that the way?!

We've got a new country!

Australia!

So be on the lookout for Vegemite, marsupial and opera trips.

We also quite need a philosopher character. I think there's scope for this to be a bit wider than just Xeno from Small Gods (though I'm 100% in favour of that too!)
A religious leader (priest, rabbi, iman etc) would work, assuming they muse on philosophical issues at some point in the book.
Other options no doubt exist, so do shout if you have something that might work!