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

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

On my TBR:

One True Loves
The Ones (my library doesn't have this one, but if someone else can get it, go for it)
One Young Fool in South Africa
One Young Fool in Dorset
One Small Thing
One Shot
One Poison Pie
One Day Like This (there are multiple books with this title)

Second Battle Round Planning Begins!

Hey Team! We have our opening book for the second Battle round. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. We go first this time, so we're looking for a title that starts with One.

Give us your best options. It's the weekend, so hopefully we can get through several rounds of the planning quickly.

@Kari - We have Giles Ashby Needs a Nanny on the spreadsheet for you twice. Is it a series and has a similar name? I'm not seeing anything else on your shelf that this could be.

@Kari - can you please put Giles Ashby on your Book Games shelf? Thanks!

Carrie wrote: "I realized I have The Wishing Game on my kindle so I’m going to read it. Time is up 30 days after it starts?"

Yes. July 16. We have a chart on the BOM tab on the spreadsheet.

MelanieJoy wrote: "Finished Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?..."

That gives us lots of options in case things get busy for anyone!

Claire wrote: "I have Starling House on my shelves too. So if we cannot find a Door book I can read that one."

Great! I saw a copy at my local used bookstore today and almost bought it. But then I remembered that while I enjoyed it, I'll never re-read it. :)

Preeti wrote: "Yay! We got one more DQ set... I am writing the DQs for Day 2 of A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (NBRC Back Room BOTM for July)."

Yay!

Goodreads MPG is Literary Fiction, and that is what the task is looking at.

Carrie wrote: "District 9 Stacy has read Butcher & Blackbird for this challenge.
Thinking about how to make it work for door in a creative way…

There is a scene where the MC is caught by a murd..."

They actually used it for their weapons pile, not their Supply pile. The sheet that is just named "Shelter" is the mini-challenge we're all working on right now. It's a little confusing because of the same names!

So we're looking for a book on the Round 1 or Round 2 tabs that is assigned to the Shelter resource. And we can make fit as a door.


ETA: Multiple teams read it, but most put it with their weapons. One put it on food. And none put it on Shelter. Bummer.

Yasmine wrote: "For The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, how creative can we get?

"A door into a new world opens for Gareth when his father, who abandoned him as a child, dies, leaving him the family title, a ..."

There are trees on the cover, which could be chopped down to make a door?

Carrie wrote: "District 9 Stacy has read Butcher & Blackbird for this challenge.
Thinking about how to make it work for door in a creative way…

There is a scene where the MC is caught by a murd..."

I'll have to ask in the captain's thread. It might be too much of a stretch. :)

Yasmine wrote: "For The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen, how creative can we get?

"A door into a new world opens for Gareth when his father, who abandoned him as a child, dies, leaving him the family title, a ..."

Is this a quote from the book, or from the book's description. If it's a book quote, I think that might be stretching it too far. If it's from the book's description, I say we ask in the captain's group and see what everyone thinks.

Carrie, specifically was it used for their Shelter pile? It’s not just another team read it, but we’re looking for Shelter from our door.

lexie wrote: "The Death of Vivek Oji can be replaced with one we already read - to err on the side of caution. The other one and ACOTAR I will get read on time 100%."

Done

I didn't read it, but can anyone think of a way to connect The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen with a door? I'm sure I can find a team that put it in the Shelter supply pile.

I read The Familiar, and I'm trying to think of a way to connect that one to a door. Maybe the chain on the cover to lock it?

@Carrie - anyway to connect Butcher & Blackbird to a door? I bet someone on some team has read it.

MelanieJoy wrote: "So sorry I won’t be able to finish the young adult book. I’m working on historical fiction…"

Is that the one you have currently reading? Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?? If so, and if you will finish it before the end of the mini, we can move Station Eleven to the open Science Fiction spot and put Kitty Karr into Literary Fiction.

Claire wrote: "Thanks for the recap Laura. When is the deadline to finish the mini?"

It ends with the end of this round. Sometime in the early morning on the 15th. 5:00 am for me. There is a countdown on the Summary tab of the spreadsheet. 7 1/2 days left right now.

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

Quick update on the mini-challenge:

Non-fiction
Need one more

Science-Fiction
Claire reading one
Need one more

Nature
Laura reading one
Need one more

Contemporary
Lexie reading two

Young Adult
Melanie reading one
Yasmine reading one

Literary Fiction
Preeti reading two

Crime
Sana reading one

Horror
Preeti reading one

Walls
Lexie - Court of Thorns and Roses
Claire - Moving Maverick
Keely - Game of Thrones
Sana - Age of Swords
Patti - The Forbidden Door
Patti - The Night Window
Patti - Double Dexter
Laura - Powerful (Window)
Laura - The Echo of Violence
Need one more Window

Doors
Keely reading one
Yasmine reading one
Need one more



If you might not finish your book, please say something sooner rather than later so someone else can fill in for you!


We have 2 books that haven't been used in the mini yet. They both only fit the Thriller or Contemporary genres.

Keely wrote: "Feel free to swap out my The Familiar book with something. I have fallen behind on reading so I may end up leaving that book until Round 3. I've got two other books to get through ..."

It's covered. Sana read one at the beginning that was put down for Romance, so I was able to swap and use one of our recently finished books that didn't have a spot yet. :)