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

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

Laura wrote: "@Priya - Can you please add Things in Nature Merely Grow to your Tower shelf? Thanks!"

Same request for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Also, you have Rogue Protocol on your Tower Shelf, but not on the spreadsheet.

@Priya - Can you please add Things in Nature Merely Grow to your Tower shelf? Thanks!

Jacqueline wrote: "@Laura The Poppy War has temple throughout it…
I am 75% through it and … maybe we can find another
P for Japan."

I think I found the shuffle we need to move Poppy War to temple.

Moving Tricia's Rose in Chains to the P.

Moving Bernadette's My Friends from the Food spell-out to the Red/White on cover for Japan.

It was a little more difficult to figure out because I didn't want to move any of the tougher letters from the spell-outs.

Also, when you guys give us the additional letters for spell-out purposes, if you could put character names in there that would be helpful. We have to have a name to put in the reason field. :)

Jacqueline wrote: "I have been reading both books for so long…. I forgot to put them on the shelf."

That's why I always put them on the shelf when I start reading. :)

Hey team!

Tara's book that had Temple in the text also has an I author, so we could put it down for the I in Italy if anyone has Temple in the text of one of their books.

Alternately, of course, if anyone has an I we could add it to Italy and just leave Tara's book on Temple. :)

Perfect! I hope you enjoy it. It was a book club read for me in July, but I wish I had read Not In Love first.

Here are all the books tagged/shelved Italian Authors.

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

ETA: Ali Hazelwood was born in Italy! I can get Under One Roof audio from the library right away (most of the others have wait lists). It's only 112 pages, but at least it would be a U for another cheese if needed.

Unless, of course, someone else has an Italian author they want to read?

@Jackie - same request for Dream Country. Please add it to your Tower shelf. Thanks!

@Jackie - can you add Holocaust in Congo to your Tower shelf, please? Thanks!

Also, the edition you shelved is not an English edition. Just checking if that was the edition you read? It doesn't have a page count, so we'll need to use the page count of the first listed edition which is 465 instead of the 472 you put on the spreadsheet.

The cheese is done. Great past reading, everyone!

China and Russia are both easy countries, so they would only get 5 points there. Better to put them in a food or country spell-out.

Forget the 165 page book. I found Lasagna Means I Love You which is 368 pages, Middle Grade, and only 8 hours in audio.

I have a book I can read for the pasta task, but it’s only 165 pages. So I’ll wait to see if anyone else has something.

Great. It’s due back to the library in a few days, so I’ll be starting this audio next.

Does the text up at the top of this one look white? I see a red flower and green leaves, but I'm not sure about the white.

We're going to Italy next!

Author born in Italy
Red, White and Green on cover
character uses their hands a lot (your interpretation)
character is religious
pasta on cover
letters VESPA in title (any order)
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Jacqueline wrote: "@captains Finally finished my Democratic Republic of the Congo book but the spreadsheet is having trouble recognizing the value."

Fixed. I had to do it manually. Several teams have had trouble with this country.

I’m not reading anything I don’t want to! I hope no one is. I like the challenge of the countries and seeing if we can get them all. They’re all the same points, so we don’t lose anything by doing the country tasks.

Jacqueline wrote: "@Laura It’s done."

Thanks.

Aiswrya, don’t stress it. I’m finishing up another audio then back to Monte Cristo. Done by Monday at the latest.