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

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

It’s not a new book. Is there a movie coming out? That always seems to make the library line longer.

New Tasks

104 - 10 Things the Chipmunks Love - Spreadsheets! Read a book where someone uses a computer

105 - Top 10 Books 2014 - Read book from the GR "Best of 2014" list (see https://www.goodReads.com/list/best_b...)

I just finished my gymnast book, The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down. I'm not sure if I want to cry or scream right now!

Open Tasks

89 - X-Men - Read a book with the word Wolverine in the text
(If you like hockey romances, this one is free on Amazon. I haven't read it, but it does have Wolverine in the text, and is only 128 pages: Scoring Chance)

99 - X-Men - Read a book that features an arch-nemesis relationship

100 - X-Rated - Read a book with three people on the cover

101 - Ten Tallest Towers 1 - Burj Khalifa - Read a book set in, or by an author from United Arab Emirates

103 - X marks the spot - Read a book with a map in it

Rachel wrote: "I finished A Legacy of Spies which is about spies during the Cold War between Great Britain and the USSR. Would that count as an arch-nemisis relationship for #99?"

I think so. Let me check with the other captains.

I’m not at home right now, so I’m not sure on task specifics, but we’re going to need about 20 more books in the 400-499 page range!

New Task

99 - X-Men - Read a book that features an arch-nemesis relationship

One Sentence Audio wrote: "Tammie wrote: "@Benita...fyi

Books that are used for Chipmunk must be listed for 'free choice'
They don't count towards our page minimums"

Oh... sorry...did not know. I will try to remeber to li..."

Yes, that's why we keep mentioning needing the 400 range and the 500 range. If we use one of those in the Chipmunk challenge, it can only be used as Free Choice in the page Tower. So we need to make sure we hit our minimum there. We are smoking through the Chipmunk challenge. But that's why I don't even check the books over 400 pages for Chipmunk tasks, unless they are read specifically for the task.

New Task

98 - X-Rated - Read a book with MPG New Adult and NOT Young Adult

We've probably already got one that works, so I'll be right back with something new.

CB wrote: "Great! Also, if no one else has a book #11, I’m up next at my library for #11 in the Mercedes Thompson series. Someone else may have one that they may get to faster though."

Benita has one for #11 in series.

@Benita - just in case you only picked up The Bone Witch for that task, wanted to make sure you saw that we are putting CB's book in for bones on cover.

It would! And I think we have extra brown covers, so I’ll get that updated.

@Dawn - were you able to find a verified page count for Hellblazer? If not, we can't use it because it is MPG Graphic Novel. It must be verified at least 30,000 words, or have an audio edition at least 3 hours long.

Tammie wrote: "Laura wrote: "I switched 10 Trends to Seduce Your Best Friend to the new Movie 10 task, and we had Daisy Jones and the Six, so:

New Task

93 - X-Rays - Read a book with bone(s) on the cover

96 - ..."

I already put Dawn's Indefinite in there. Now we're looking for a #11 in series.

I switched 10 Trends to Seduce Your Best Friend to the new Movie 10 task, and we had Daisy Jones and the Six, so:

New Task

93 - X-Rays - Read a book with bone(s) on the cover

97 - X-Files - Read a book that is 11th in a series

New Task

91 - Random 10 - Read a book featuring a gymnast (in honour of Olga Korbut's perfect 10)

92 - Solve for X - Read a book with an ordinal number in the title (e.g. The 5th Wave, Second Foundation)

Yes, we currently have tasks for both cardinal # in title and ordinal # in title.

One Sentence Audio wrote: "Laura wrote: "@Benita I was going to use Starfish for the Woverine in text task, but I noticed that it's MPG Middle Grade and Poetry, so I ran it through arbookfind. It has 25,879 w..."

Kylie has it linked in Post 4. It's arbookfind.com.

I am asking in the captains group, because the audio is long enough, so I'm not sure if we can use it based on the audio or not use it based on the word count. But I think the word count trumps the audio.

@Benita I was going to use Starfish for the Woverine in text task, but I noticed that it's MPG Middle Grade and Poetry, so I ran it through arbookfind. It has 25,879 words. The minimum for this challenge is 30,000. Unfortunately we won't be able to use this one for this challenge.

@Benita, regarding Street Food Asia: Saigon, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, if a book has a MPG of Cookbooks, that's another case where we have to verify word count or Audio length. This is pretty difficult with cookbooks, poetry, graphic novels, etc.

@Benita, as I suspected, you are good to go on the Orange Prize/Women’s Prize book!

@Rachel, good to know!