Emma (M)’s Comments (group member since Dec 02, 2014)

Emma (M)’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

I think my choices will be dictated by the Amazing Race challenge at the start. I'll have at least one more round of that overlapping with TT. Once that is over though, I've got a huge TBR to get to :D

K~Terror wrote: "I just finished The River at Night which was about 4 close women-friends who go on a white water rafting trip together. I always thought that sounded like a lot of fun but I think a..."

I just finished that book recently too. It does sort of put you off white water rafting in the wilderness!

I'd like to do DQ for team Return of the Jedi

Abbie wrote: Right now I am reading In the Woods
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Oh, I've heard that In the Woods is fabulous, it's definitely on my TBR.

Karen wrote: "Whats everyone reading right now. I'm a third of the way through by . An unusual but interesting story, set in London during the Blitz ..."

I love seeing what people are reading, but it usually ends up with me adding even more books to my already heaving TBR list. I'm reading The Mountain Story. It's about a young man who has gone up a mountain with a plan to end his life but gets waylaid by three women needing his assistance,. Unfortunately they end up getting lost and having to survive in the wilderness for 5 days and from the blurb it sounds like not all of them return. So far I'm really enjoying it and I'm loving the author's writing.

I'd ike to write discussion questions for team Return of the Jedi.

Hi Team!

In case any of you are interested in the BOM for May and haven't noticed the threads have gone up, the three books are:

The Circle - starting 2nd May
A Gentleman in Moscow - starting 12th May
Strange the Dreamer - starting 22nd May

The mods have advised that even though the first book starts two days before the beginning of the challenge, points will still be awarded for discussion and participation, as long as you finish the book after the challenge start date of the 4th.

For any of you that may not have played TT before, the BOM are a chance for the team to make extra points by participating in the BOM discussion. If you are really keen you can earn even more points by volunteering to write discussion questions (DQ) on one of the days (although it is restricted to one person per team for the DQ). Reading and participating in the BOMS is certainly not mandatory, but if there is one you fancy reading, it certainly helps to have those extra points. The link below will take you to the first book's thread, which has an explanation how the BOMS and TT work.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Personally, I'm very happy to see Strange the Dreamer in there as I just bought it the other day.. yay!

Loving all these Star Wars gifs!!!

Snowtulip wrote: "Just thought I'd send flowers...before I bring it to your team (with love of course) ;) hehe...

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Ha, ha, love it!

Great intro V!

Hi everyone, I'm Emma and I'll be your co-captain for this challenge
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I'm very excited to get to know you all and having a blast along the way. Given past history, we will be a VERY chatty team.

Let the games begin!!..... in like 2 weeks :)

I am really looking forward to this challenge, I have so many books I can't wait to read that haven't fit other challenge parameters, it's going to be fabulous to just read what I want and still accumulate points!

But I guess that's why everyone loves TT

Yay, we're open for business!!

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Points System

Books between 100 and 160 pages (100 pages or 25,000 words is the minimum) = 5 points
Books between 161 pages and 350 pages = 20 points
Books between 351 and 500 pages = 40 points
Books between 501 and 650 pages = 60 points
Books between 651 and 800 pages = 80 points
Books between 801 and 900 pages = 100 points
Books over 901 pages = 130 points

OMG, Tower Teams is back!!!

I'm going to aim for 5

1001 Books to Read Before You Die - 2017

1. One Hundred Years of Solitude - 3/24/17
2. North and South - 4/6/17
3. Northanger Abbey - 4/14/17
4. The War of the Worlds - 4/19/17
5. Rebecca - 6/15/17

1001 Books to Read Before You Die - 2018

1. Casino Royale - 9/2/18

New Release Challenge 2017


Level: Once Upon a Time

January
- 2/8/17 - 3/31/17

February
- 4/17/17 - 7/8/27

March
- 5/15/17

April
- 5/9/17. - 9/7/17

May
- 6/26/17

June
- 10/14/17 10/28/17

July
- 8/4/17


August

September
- 10/22/17
- 11/11/17


October

November
- 12/12/17

December

Let's see if I can actually get this done this year!

★A little bit of everything
Level Mod rate - 1 from 10 caregories (7/10 categories)

★ Read any combination of books that appeal to you:
Level: Moderate - 20 books (9/20)

Books read before challenge start date:

Fiction

Mystery & Thriller
- 6/26/17 - 7/8/17

Historical Fiction
- 1/6/17 - 5/26/17

Fantasy
- 8/16/17

Romance

Science Fiction
- 10/21/17

Horror

Humour

Nonfiction

Memoir & Autobiography
- 4/28/17

History & Biography

Science & Technology
- 3/28/17

Food & Cookbooks

Graphic Novels & Comics

Poetry

Debut Goodreads Author

Young Adult Fiction

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

Middle Grade & Children's

Picture Books

- 1/2/17

K~Terror wrote: "Emma wrote: "K~Terror wrote: "I'm in too! Below are my current owned books/audios prior to 2016 that I want to have read be the end of next year

You haven't read ..."

Yay! The ending was fab wasn't it! I was so pleased when I found out he was going to write another follow on trilogy as I'm certainly not ready to leave Darrow's world just yet.

K~Terror wrote: "I'm in too! Below are my current owned books/audios prior to 2016 that I want to have read be the end of next year

You haven't read yet!! I'm shocked I tell ya... shocked!! ;)