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

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

One Sentence Audio wrote: "You bet! I have 10 more books to go in the series!"

I bet you could also cover the Chocolate task with one of them? I'll have my 2 for this set done tonight.

We actually just got Chocolate Cupcakes again!

"Read a book with cake or cupcake in the text
Read a book with chocolate in the text
Read a book featuring a baker
Read a book where someone eats a sweet food item (cake, pudding, ice-cream)"


So I'll put the one I was about to finish back in for the cake task!

Benita, do you have another Hannah Swenson for Baker?

One Sentence Audio wrote: "Laura wrote: "One Sentence Audio wrote: "I am finishing Lemon Meringue Pie Murder which has "cake." Pg. 90 "“I’ll have the chocolate cake,” Delores declared."

If Captains would like t..."

If we run out of letters we can shift some color covers to rainbows. They are unlimited, but no bonus. So we get more points for the spell-out. And there are more letters, just still hidden because they bonus is for completed words, so we don't want to get the books to spread out.

One Sentence Audio wrote: "I am finishing Lemon Meringue Pie Murder which has "cake." Pg. 90 "“I’ll have the chocolate cake,” Delores declared."

If Captains would like to use it, it would finish the 4th of a WH..."

@Benita - can you mark this one as read and put it on your Tower shelf, please? Thanks!

One Sentence Audio wrote: "I am finishing Lemon Meringue Pie Murder which has "cake." Pg. 90 "“I’ll have the chocolate cake,” Delores declared."

If Captains would like to use it, it would finish the 4th of a WH..."

I have about an hour left in my cake book, but on the off chance it will fit a task in a new set, I'll go ahead and update and get us a new spin using your book.

Using books in the spell-out is preferable to using them in a rainbow. We don't get a bonus for the rainbows like we do for each word completed. If you're struggling to find letters you can use it for, I can open up a new word.

Benita, I'm going to change your cozy mystery and put Lory's book in that spot. The task is "someone eats a sweet food". Lemon Meringue Pie in the title isn't a reason for that. Someone probably eats sweets in the book, but the title doesn't work for things that happen in the text.

Sounds perfect!

Alright, team. We get to find the Elf again!

New Tasks

Tower Teams 3: Find the Elf
Read 4 books with a direction word in the title (e.g up / down / east)
The words can be repeated

Remember, when asking if a word is a direction word, Cat says:
how about thinking about it like: can the title words answer a question like "which way did the elf go?!"

One Sentence Audio wrote: "And, I think it helps us finish that group of 4 on WHEEL. Yeah!..."

Yep. Give me a minute to update the main spreadsheet and then I can request another spin for us.

I have about 2 hours left in my audio, so I’ll probably finish by tomorrow morning.

Benita, your quotes from the book helped, and the consensus among the captains is that necklace works. I was afraid at first that it was too much like gold beads, but we can use it!

Laura wrote: "Here's another, "Does this work?" question: Diamonds in between the pearls on this necklace?

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Benita, I'm not sure those are diamonds, so I'd like the rest of the team to weigh in on it, too.

Here's another, "Does this work?" question: Diamonds in between the pearls on this necklace?

Thank goodness! I hated that book in high school. And there are less than 50 books on Goodreads with at least 10 post colonial tags!

On our planning sheet for this set of tasks:

Keely, you put down Inheritance as a possible for the first task. But it's in the 600+ page tower range, so if you'll still be finishing it this month, we should probably leave it in the spell-out to use for the page tower.


Benita, you put down Heart of Darkness as possible for the Post-Colonial task. Are you still good to read that one?

Stacey, are you good for Eclipse the Moon for the aliens task? If not, I can start an audio in the morning that works for it.

Tammie, are you good for Picture in the Sand for the rebellion task? If not, if anyone is close to finishing Fourth Wing, it works for that task.

New Tasks!

Tower Teams 5: Star Wars - Sith
"Read a book with title starts with one of the letters SITH (all words count, inc A, An, The)
Read a book tagged Post-Colonial at least 10 times
Read a book featuring aliens
Read a book featuring a rebellion"

Hey team!

When you're putting a book into a spell-out, please double check that you have the correct code in the Mini Ref# cell. I've found a few lately that I've had to move to different spots because they were in spots already taken by another book.

I've opened up the Nymphadora Tonks spell-out so we would have some more common letters to select from.

Stacey wrote: "I have . I was going to check on the words Lemon Cupcakes task, but would it be better to save it for the second time we get this group?

Also, does anyon..."

DQ selections have been announced. Our team didn't get selected.

I’ve got them both placed in the wheel tasks. On my phone now, so I’ll add links and reasons later.