Laura’s Comments (group member since Nov 04, 2015)

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

@Priya - can you add a read date to Our Darkest Night on your shelf, please? Thanks!

The cheese is done!

@Sam, if you haven’t started your Sky book yet, Ashley finished one that has Sun in the title.

Go ahead. I was just letting you all know my plans. That train book was way down my list.

I have a book club tomorrow night, so that's today's audio. Then I have an audio that is going out of the free Audible section at the end of the month. After that I will read a Turkish author and I have a book with a train on the cover. I haven't added these to these to the spreadsheet in case someone else picks up a book for these tasks before I get to them.

Meanwhile I'm working on my X author for Mexico, but if anyone else finishes an X before me, go for it.

If anyone is interested, The Silence of Scheherazade is my Turkish author. It is currently free on Audible.
is my train book. It is also free on Audible if anyone is interested.

Also, there was an E in the book I finished yesterday. So if everything else is finished before Bernadette finishes her E, then we can grab a new country and move Storm Sister to the new one.

If you add it to your shelf and put it on the Reserve sheet then we can decide when we get close to filling the current itinerary, based on the team’s reading for the month.

@Priya - can you put Strange Pictures on your Tower shelf, please? Thanks!

Priya wrote: "Laura wrote: "The Boxcar Children one would need the word count verified. Can you link the book? I’ll see if I can find it on Arbookfind."

The Great Reef Rebuild"

I can't find this one on ARBookFind. I tried the Australian and UK sites as well. It is a weird edition, with the "Expected publication date" being in 1979. But I did find it on Audible and it is just under 2 hours. So it isn't long enough to work for the challenge.

The Boxcar Children one would need the word count verified. Can you link the book? I’ll see if I can find it on Arbookfind.

Never mind me!

Google Ai on empanadas:

While empanadas are popular in many Latin American countries, including Mexico, they are not exclusively Mexican. Empanadas are thought to have originated in Spain and were later brought to Latin America, where different regions developed their own variations.

So I think unless they reference them as Mexican it doesn’t work.

For me, a Mexican restaurant works no matter what they eat. Tacos, burritos, enchiladas, or guacamole all also work.

Reefs:

The Reef
Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
The Pirate's Daughter
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals

Laura wrote: "Only 4 teams have had Mexico before us, so there aren’t a lot of already established options."

One of the teams that had it had hidden the rows for ease of use. I figured out how to see the book, though (just searched the books tab for the task ref). The fourth Day of the Dead book is Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble: A Dash of Trouble.

Only 4 teams have had Mexico before us, so there aren’t a lot of already established options.

Laura wrote: "Other teams have had the Day of the Dead task:

Bars and Butterflies
Bread of the Dead
Certain Dark Things"

Bread of the Dead audio is on Hoopla.

Aiswrya wrote: "I think the cover task will be easier to fill than the market task. We are okay to move Greenwich park to the market task. I can do it in a few hours :) Thank you both!"

Done

Other teams have had the Day of the Dead task:

Bars and Butterflies
Bread of the Dead
Certain Dark Things

ETA: Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble: A Dash of Trouble

I had some library audios that I had to move up in my planned reading because they ended up being shorter loan times, so I've had to move Doomsday Book back down my list. If anyone has a K before I get back to it, please feel free to move my book out of that spot and put yours in.

Several banked books have been slotted into our current itinerary, so now we only need one more to finish that set of 11 books. The next finished country book will be moved up as soon as it is finished.

Please note, we can only visit a country 2 times, so we are maxed out on our visits to USA and UK. Non-easy countries that are maxed out include Columbia, Peru, Albania, Bulgaria, and Sudan.

Melissa & Tara - your country/itinerary books have been moved down to the next itinerary and whichever is finished first can be moved back up.

Priya wrote: "Sure. Here is a line from the book where the character visits the market.

'I decide to take my time, do a full loop around the market, gulping in the smells of fresh bread and newly cut flowers, the faded melody of the busker on the steps outside. I linger over the stalls I never buy anything from – the ones that sell silver jewellery, old-fashioned children’s toys, home-made candles, rustling skirts, silk dresses, tie-dyed tunics."

Thank! I'll defer the decision on this one to Aiswrya just in case she has a different opinion on filling the tasks. :)