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

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

New Task

37 - Film 10s - 10 Things I Hate About You - Read a book that shares a title word (e.g. You)

I think we have a book already finished that fits #36. I just need to confer with the other captains. I think that task is written so you can add title and author name together, but I want to make sure.

Here's where we're at with Chipmunk:

6 - Rachel reading Wild North
8 - Keely reading The Wicked Boy
17 - Stacey reading Lick
24 - Vian reading Orphan X
28 - Laura reading China Rich Girlfriend
29 - Chales reading Artemis

31 - 10 Commandments - "Remember the special day" - Read a book with a day of the week in the title
Elen mentioned Tuesdays With Morrie?

32 -Top 10 Books 2020 - Read book from the GR "Best of 2020" list (see https://www.goodReads.com/list/best_b...)
Laura has option, but in the 500-599 page count

34 - Solve for X - Read a book with a fraction in the title (e.g. The Vanishing Half, 7 1/2)

36 - 10 Things the Chipmunks Love - Creativity and Chaos! Read a book with three Cs in the title and/or author name

Chales wrote: "Hi - not sure if I've missed while catching up but the tasks that are purple blanks...I can do Artemis for the 29 - 2017 GR best books. It's shorter and I can have it done in a couple of days I'm s..."

I'll add it. You just have to put the # (in this case 29) in the Mini Ref # column on the main sheet. The other sheets are locked so we don't have a massive mess up!

Elen wrote: "I have seen that we are going to have tasks "Phoenix" and "Clown""

In title?

I've got a Phoenix in title that I've been waiting to read., so we could go ahead with the HP one for the miscommunication task.

I'll put that one in and get us another new task.

Do we think Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix works for the miscommunication task? I think a case could be made for that one.

Laura wrote: "New Task

34 - Solve for X - Read a book with a fraction in the title (e.g. The Vanishing Half, 7 1/2)"

It sounds like a fraction word works. I have Seventh Seal. Yay or nay? Opinions?

But I've already claimed the China task, so if someone else has something, go for it!

Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫ wrote: "Mainly I wasn't sure if it was okay to use it retroactively. It was more a rules question than whether or not I could do the changing. Sorry if this was unclear. I see that it has been fixed now so..."

Anything finished since 6/1 can be used for tasks in Chipmunks, no matter when we get the task. BUT, once a book is assigned to a Chipmunk task, it can't be moved to any other mini-task (Chipmunk or other).

New Task

34 - Solve for X - Read a book with a fraction in the title (e.g. The Vanishing Half, 7 1/2)

Darren finished one with Angel in the title on 6/2, so I'll be right back with another new one.

New Task

33 - X-Men - Read a book with the word Angel in the title

Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫ wrote: "I finished Something Wilder on 6/3. I put it under the 'S' on Rainbow Towers but I think that's pretty easily replaceable. It is on the list for Best Books of 2022 if that can be mo..."

Usually you guys can make these changes yourselves, but we just need to know in case it's already been moved to the official team spreadsheet, so we can change it over there.

Give me a minute to pull out my laptop and I’ll switch it for you.

I have options for both the 2020 list and the 2022 list, but they are both in the 500-599 page range, so we may want to find other options for those.

Tammie wrote: "Still continue to use color cover books as a priority for Rainbow unless it's an obscure task like China or beds on cover...teehee!..."

You actually get beds on cover a lot, especially with Omegaverse books.

I went ahead and got the third book, , which is a lovely green color, but the setting/author is Singapore, and at least one of the towers was in Singapore.

Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫ wrote: "Tammie wrote: "@ALL, let's do a highlight on the books we read that will likely work for a future CHIPMUNK task."

Sorry if I missed this - are we able to see a list of potential future tasks so we..."

The intent is for us to be surprised. It's not impossible to mess with the spreadsheet and see the list, but we're not supposed to. You could check other team's spreadsheets to see what they have already had.

Also, some things it's obvious there will be more. Google top ten towers in the world, and we should get a location/author task for each of them. The Best Of Year lists go back to 1980, so we can assume that the tasks do as well. Probably if you Google movies with Ten in the title, you'll get a pretty good idea of what else to expect.

For X Books, we've had X in title and X in series title. So probably there's an X in author's name coming. For X-Men, we've had Storm and the mobility one is presumable Xavier. So Wolverine, Cyclops, etc still to come.

That Bling task was X Marks the Spot. I would imagine some pirate tasks will pop up.

So we can make guesses, but we can't know for sure what we'll need.

New task: #32. We now also have the "Best of 2020" task. :)

Elen wrote: "10 Commandments - "Remember the special day" - Read a book with a day of the week in the title
Plural counts? I have Tuesdays with Morrie

Or should I prioritize task "2017"."

As Tammie said, plural is fine. As far as which to read, read what you prefer. It's probably best for us to look at this one as a marathon, rather than a sprint. There are 140 tasks, total. So we may finish it this month, but we may not. We still need to make our page towers. That is the priority, as the challenge requires it. Last month we read 111 more books than were required for the pages. So chances are we'll still be Chipmunking in July!

I'm grabbing the audio of China Rich Girlfriend from my library. Someone will probably finish a book for this Chinese task before I do, but looking at the tallest towers, I think we'll get another China task, and/or Singapore. The book is set in China, and the author was born in Singapore.

Tammie wrote: "NEW
28 Ten Tallest Towers 8 - Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre - Read a book set in, or by an author from China"

I was confused until I realized that it's the same task, but a different tower than we already got!