Jammin Jenny’s Comments (group member since Jan 31, 2016)

Jammin Jenny’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

So, we have to read the book during the reading period in order to earn points. I really liked the book Vicki if you do decide to read it.

Thanks Cat. Not the answer I was hoping for, but I understand.

Still no answer, but if you participate in the DQs you'll earn 30 points, especially since you haven't read it yet. I just read it within the past six months so I can't re-read it yet.

bump question in post #400

I don't think they answered yet. Let me check.

Great! Remember we can't start Round 4 until Monday at 7 am.

And we start with the Countdown Phase books

Great! We'll see what they say. That could earn us 90 points if the three of us that read it participate. Then we could build a ladder of 8 books to get 90 points to get our max of 175 points. Fingers crossed!!

Vicki wrote: "Jenny, I added words for round 4 for us. Only thing is I realized that we probably needed more words with S in them, so I tried adding series with group #7 but it kept not showing the letters. Long..."

I think we'll get burned. We can't have any extra books beyond those that were in there previously. I think your's was a K book and it worked for author. In UK

Yay!

That's fine. Almost done my Cyberpunk book. Will write review tomorrow … it's late and I'm too tired to do it right now.

I want that t-shirt Rina!

She did but Wilder Girls doesn't start until Oct 16th when this challenge is over. So my question on whether it would count for regeneration points still stands.

For regeneration in Round 4, I recently read Recursion (and I believe Trisha did too). I've asked if I can join the DQs without reading or re-reading the book. If we can't do that, and if neither Julie nor Vicki want to read any of the September BOTMs, we should focus on the ladder.

We can get 50 points for making a four-rung ladder, and get an extra 10 points for each extra rung we make. We can only earn back a maximum of 175 points lost, so we can only use 16 or 17 books in this chain max.

We have to read books that end in one number and start with that same number to keep the chain going. All books must be over 250 pages or the chain will break. We can use the same books we are using for our countdown books and safezone books to make this chain.

So, everyone please post your books and page lengths in this thread so someone can see if we can make the start of a chain.

I'll start:

Countdown Stage:
- Ridge, Christmas Caramel Murder too short
- The Phantom of the Opera - 360 (can't use ends in 0)
- The Last of the Mohicans - 384 pages

Safezone Stage:
- On the Come Up - 452 pages

So we could use

Last of the Mohicans - 384
On the Come Up - 452

our next book in the chain would need to start with 2, be more than 250 pages, and not end in a 0.

I took another task from the Countdown stage but still need someone to read for one more task if possible

with a perpetually grumpy/grouchy/bitchy character

To join in discussion in the BOM thread, what if you recently read the book, but not during the challenge or this month. Can you still join the DQs and earn points for regeneration, or do you have to be able to read or re-read the book before joining in the discussion?

Okay looks like we do get an 80 point bonus for doing Zone 1, so let's do it! We need the following letters claimed:

B, W, N

Can be any book that works for that letter (no need to find a prior BOTM or book read by a different team's members).

For Zone 2 we need:

- Read a book with brown writing on the cover where the title contains at least four of the letters in E-C-H-I-D-N-A
- Read a book with a natural setting on the cover and that contains the word ANIMAL in the text
- Read a book with a brown item (something that can be touched) on the cover and that contains at least four of the letters of E-C-H-I-D-N-A in the author's name

I'll wait to see what Vicki and Jill can find before I start my search for books for these categories.

Great! I added it to the sheet. Please check my description of how it fits to make sure I got it.

Assuming Trisha can move her American War book to spot #1, we have these two tasks left:

with a character who lives on a farm/ranch
with a perpetually grumpy/grouchy/bitchy character

Can you do one of them Vicki and I'll see if I can do the other one?

Trisha, can you read for a different book than spiky? It looks like your book, American War, might also work for #1, non-Caucasian main character.

Jill, what book are you using for spiky?

If there's no bonus for doing Safezone Group 1, we may want to consider skipping that group (since the most we can get is 30 points per book), and going straight to Group 2 (worth 50 points per book) and then Group 3 (where books range from 30 - 50 points each).

We can't actually read any new books for Round 3 because we'll be at our max of 40 (Crater level max) when we finish these outstanding books:

C - Charlotte's Web - Jill
S - The Stranger Diaries - Trisha
S - Soul of an Octopus - Jenny
K - How I Walked Away - Vicki

If your book works for S you can take my spot. Otherwise we need to wait to start other books for this challenge until Round 4 begins, and it needs to work for one of the countdown spaces. These are still open:

with a character who lives on a farm/ranch
written by a author from the Mediterranean
that is #7 or higher in a series
tagged MPG Adventure
with a perpetually grumpy/grouchy/bitchy character
with a non-Caucasian main character

If you can hold off starting your other books until 7 am on Monday, and they work for one of the above, put the books in those spots and let us know which ones you took.