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

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

I was at the hairdresser a couple of months ago and Babies (Pulp) came on just as I was paying and leaving. I had to spin out the process so I could listen a bit longer, boogie with my swish new haircut too! That's a happy song!

excitingly I think we are now at 30 dead monsters! Though I suspect Wheel will slow us down now

Melindam wrote: "Just go on and spin, Cat!! :D"

don't blame me! you were given an out!

Babi Ngepet
1 200 to 299
2 Black cover (>50%)
3 Author initials in SWINE
4 Rich MC
5 Something is stolen

Hello! Welcome to the team and the madness that is always the Wheel-a-Thon challenge!

This time round it's all things music, but music specific elements will be strictly optional only!

I think we are all old hand at the game, so whilst I'll link up the rules etc, I trust you to know what we are up to, namely: READING! and HAVING FUN!

I (she/her) am a big Britpop fan, so was annoyingly whiny at the other mods to get this team name - hopefully you all don't hate the music genius that sprang from across the UK during the 90s - Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Radiohead, Elastica, Suede, et al. Any particular favourite Britpop bands / songs? Or if that's not your cup of tea - what music do you want to promote?

does someone else want to spin? or you trust whtever mayhem I land us in??

Asian wheel:https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Ropen&...

so, I'll be finishing a book that defo works for light source on cover this evening, but have already finsihed:

which has star and lightning shapes on the cover. Do we think this is acceptable for "Light source on cover"?? :D

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Essential Information! - Team Rules!

Read this if you read nothing else!

This is a team challenge, which means we need to work as a team to maximise our fun, and points.
To do this, the number one behaviour is not reading. I know - shocker! The number one behaviour is communication!

All we ask of you is to let us know what is going on:
- When you finish books, for sure - especially if they are good books that you want to push into everyone's hands, and equally if it was a stinker to be avoided at all costs
- When you are not going to finish books you've claimed
- When life throws a curveball that's going to throw you off your game. We are fine (if sad) if you can't play because a tree has fallen on your house so you are focussed on that, or if you won the lottery and are off around the world. What we Do Not Like is if you vanish without a peep. We don't like chasing you (in case it's bad stuff), but we do need to know if you are going to go quiet or have to withdraw. If that happens, drop us a note here or via PM

Other key behaviours:
- Have fun!
- Be kind! In particular, remember that text based comms can land differently to the intent, so please assume things are written with kindness and from a positive place and that any offence taken is unintentional - give everyone the benefit of the doubt :)

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- We'll be checking that books are shelved, so please try and remember to put books on your challenge shelf when you finish them (or when you start), or accept that we'll pester you for a shelving.
- Dates ditto. Though we'll assume GR gremlins strike with date shenanigans!
- We'll be allocating books to letters in a way that makes sense to us. We don't do letter claims in this team. We WILL make a way to use all valid books each round, so you're reading will get us points!

Rules: check out the rules here. If you've questions, read them again, they should cover most questions. Still puzzled? Come here and we'll help.
Key points: books must be 100 pages; they have to be started after the countdown ends, and can only be used in the round they are finished in


Tracking Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
We'll use this for everyone to add their planned, current, finished books, with relevant information, There are some columns that are locked for Danielle and I, but those should be obvious via the medium of colour coding!

BUT, if you hate sheets, are going to be app only or some other reason, you can do a completion post, which should include:
Link to the book edition you read
Date you finished it
List of letters and reasons
Any bonus info

Round One Info
Word: VIOLA POMPOSA
Cover colour: Red (we need 5)
Round One Bonus Tasks: find instruments in the text of books. (max 10)

Well, I thought about a novella or pairing of novellas, but have gone for short stories!



A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life which offer the gimlet eye and delightful social critique that have made Atkinson one of the most lauded writers of our time.

In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a lost man who bets on a horse that may--or may not--have spoken to him. Everything that readers love about the novels of Kate Atkinson is here--the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.

Witty and wise, with subtle connections between the stories, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a startling and funny feast for the imagination, stories with the depth and bite to create their own fully-formed worlds.

343 pages
368 pages
592 pages
150 pages

reporting 1,453

Current total: 1,415,184

I've got a Georges Simenon to read, which is 160 pages & author name.

I suspect MC will go out at night, but can't guarantee as yet.

Doesn't have the letters :(

Finished off a monster and spun us a new one. shockingly, I got a short page count!

Ropen
1 100 to 175
2 Light source on cover
3 Letters in REOPEN in Title
4 Author name starts with PN or G
5 MC goes outside at night

Lene Zander wrote: "Ok, I tried but I'm not sure how to do it? My first time, so sorry"

On the web version, at the top right of the comment book is a link add book. Click that then search for your title. Once you've found it, click the Add button!

Once that's done I just copy & past the blurb :)

Lene Zander wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."

To make Mods lives easier, please can you add your nomination as per the rules, thanks!

I'm enjoying it a lot, though he's a bit of a paragon! Great in the sack, with ethics, a canny businessman and spy and can fight too...

thank you for saving me from the brown!

I'm back from a lovely long weekend n Bruges, the main drawback being the forced socialisation meant very little reading. But I'll have finished with Niccolo this evening :)

Melindam wrote: "Dang! I am listening to The Scarlet Pimpernel, am nearing the end without an effing swashbuckling in sight. Aargh! (it is a reread, but maybe I remember more about the films, hence my mistake in th..."

I thought there was some fighting at the final escape??

I shouldn't be allowed to spin...

Randall Flagg (The Stand)
1 651+
2 Virus, bacteria or fungi important to the plot
3 Black bird on the cover
4 Disappointed in the ending of the book (your interpretation)
5 Good v Email imagery

I can take the other three with
Mystery caper with cocktails and canoodling seems pretty cheesy to me! :D