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

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

Tricia wrote: "Oh wow I never noticed that tab! I also have Starter Villain on my TBR so I'll add that one to my list for later.

The Paradise Problem is being used as Indonesia in case you still want to read th..."

I think Cat just complied the list today.

My hold came available and I pushed it back a week because I was drowning in library audios that are due soon. But I'll certainly listen when I get it again!

Laura wrote: "New Task!

Read a book that is an against all odds / survival story"

@Tricia - would The Watch That Ends the Night fit this task? At least for the ones that did survive.

For those looking for book ideas, or anyone just curious to see what everyone else is reading, the Challenge Status spreadsheet (which is linked in the first comment of the thread) has a tab which lists all the books/countries that all the teams have read for so far (labelled Sheet 3).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

While perusing the list I discovered that The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is included with an Audible subscription, so I grabbed that. And I've been meaning to re-read Starter Villain since I got the audio recently. So I'll add those to my list of possibles for the next 2 months.

Also, someone recommended Conclave for Holy See as a good political mystery.

Aiswyra said something about not being sure if extra books can go toward the cap. So if Jacqueline reads 15 books, which is 5 over her cap and you read 12 books, with a cap of 15, can 3 of her books be used to get to your cap? I wasn’t sure, which is why I used our sign up numbers, not our caps in my post.

New Task!

Read a book that is an against all odds / survival story

If anyone is wondering, on the spreadsheet, the Summary tab shows the number of books that you have added to the spreadsheet. If you go the last tab, Member Info, the number of books for each person shows only the books that have a date read added. So for finished books we are at 105 out of 169 (259 if you include the cap amount). So we're getting close and need to keep an eye on it, but we have a bit of wiggle room.

Aiswrya wrote: "Has anyone read Wizard's First Rule? I'm really struggling with it. 16 chapters in, I'm still not hooked to the story. It's hell'a slow."

I swear I've read it, but it must have been pre-Goodreads. I know there is a show, but the show was less gritty than the books (that almost never happens!). I did finish it, but I didn't finish the series.

Ashley wrote: "@Laura! I'm reading a paperback copy and there's no dates at the chapter start! Not a single one, lol!"

That's probably because I got 2 books mixed up in my mind. The one that I had a hard time following the dates was These Burning Stars. Also good, but harder to follow in audio than Time War.

The thing about Time War is that in the middle it doesn't read like a time travel book. The beginning and the end are a time travel book, but the middle is just a romance. But confusing!

Jacqueline wrote: "I will let everyone know what I am reading until the 16TH that way whatever i am reading if you find a category for it ... I will add it to my Towers shelf.
I also finished The Midwinter Witch it is a 208 page graphic novel....not sure if it qualifies for the challenges..."

It's a no on the graphic novel. They only work if you can find a word count on a site like arbookfind or if there is an audio edition at least 3 hours long.

For the rest of your books, can you please add them to your Tower shelf. If we end up under our cap, it is easier for us to look at your shelf and compare that to the spreadsheet, rather than trying to go back through 2 weeks of posts in this thread. Thanks!

Our cheese points are safe! We had everything we already needed for this spell-out!

Bernadette wrote: "Are you waiting for a response from me? If yes, it's OK with me if you move it."

I just didn't want you to be upset if you picked it up just for that task. :)

Laura wrote: "If we want to move Bernadette's The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt to letters of OLIVE in task for Greece, I'm reading Dire Bound for book club tomorrow night and it's 682 pages. I wasn't sure if that one was picked up specifically for the 600+ pages task."

Reposting this in case it got lost at the end of a page.

Ashley wrote: "@Laura!
I'll let you know for sure! I just started it, and I am struggling a little with what the heck is going on, but I think I'm just tired today! 😂"

You may be tired, but it wouldn't matter if you were better rested! But if I remember correctly, you get an event from POV, and then the last thing that happens in that POV switches you to another POV. That made the audio a little hard to follow. Especially because I couldn't just turn the pages back and check the dates of the events. It says a date at the beginning of each chapter. That helps to place things in a semblance of an order.

Two new tasks!

Read a book published before 1970
Read a book first published in March of any year

Tara wrote: "I'm starting as soon as I'm done with Emilia del Valle (today) which is blue white and gold. I'm sure there will be other places it will fit, but wanted to..."

I'll mark this one down for that task. We don't want the mods to say Tricia's book doesn't count because of the 2 different editions/covers.

@Ashley - I would be interested to hear how you find This Is How You Lose the Time War. I listened to the audio and it was quite a ride.

Ashley wrote: "Laura wrote: "Our new task: "Read a book with one or more trees on the cover"

Anyone else see trees at the very bottom background of Ashley's The Light Pirate?
[bookcover:The Light Pirate|6046833..."

I’m not on my computer now, but if no one else gets to it before, I can put this one in this evening and get a new task.

If we want to move Bernadette's The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt to letters of OLIVE in task for Greece, I'm reading Dire Bound for book club tomorrow night and it's 682 pages. I wasn't sure if that one was picked up specifically for the 600+ pages task.

Our new task: "Read a book with one or more trees on the cover"

Anyone else see trees at the very bottom background of Ashley's The Light Pirate?

Jacqueline wrote: "The Lightening Thief is finished.."

Did you just finish it? The date on your shelf is 5/29.