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

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

Bernadette wrote: "Laura, I saw the page count for the Red-Haired Woman but the most popular with 195 pages is in Turkish so I used the highest English since I don’t speak or read Turkish. Change the page count if yo..."

Yeah, we use the default top edition, no matter what language it is.

@Bernadette - you shelved an audio edition of The Red Haired Woman. You put 274 as the page count, but the default edition is 195 pages. Did you put the wrong page count, or shelve the wrong edition?

We're going to Spain!

Author born in Spain
Red and Yellow on cover
features a bull
church or cathedral on cover
mentions Don Quixote
character eats seafood
S
P
A
I
N

Bernadette wrote: "Turkey in completed!"

I'm on it.

Jacqueline wrote: " has less than 100 pages left can we use that for "I"?"

Yep. Just use the Mini Ref Code from Column A of the mini #3 tab. You put it in column N for your book on the Books tab. And the reason it fits (in this case you can just say 'Title') in column M. You can do this for your D book, as well.

Some of the formulas on the mini sheets have been overwritten a couple of times, so we locked the formulas so that doesn't happen again.

The cheese is completed! But I think we might need some more Os for the next one. That one nearly wiped us out!

@Priya - for Dragon Mountain you put O as the possible spell-out letters. Do you remember what the character's name is?

We're going to Iceland!

Author born in Iceland
Blue, Red and White on cover
character rides horses
"volcano" in text
letters GLACIER in title (any order)
nature on cover (no people)
I
C
E
L
A
N
D

I'll get us a new country, and then I'll work on this cheese.

Jacqueline wrote: "I can start Gracie Under the Waves. It has 32,500 words and I probably can squeeze it in this morning. It will free up Mexico."

I was going to add this to the spreadsheet, but I don't see it on your shelves. Did you end up picking it up to read?

Namita wrote: "Edit:
Fixed it. IT works for Wheel 1"

Yes. I had already added it to the itinerary. I think you managed to delete the Mini Ref code and remove it. I'm re-adding it now. :)

Sam wrote: "Laura wrote: "Sam’s book has an author born in France according to Google."

True, I think she's considered Turkish-British but I guess it all works"

When I was looking at the Turkish authors shelf I saw your book. The bio said Turkish-British, so I googled and saw France. We're just going by birthplace for the authors.

Sam’s book has an author born in France according to Google.

Has anyone read Wayward Son? I just picked up a copy at my local used bookstore last night (got a hardcover of this and Carry On!) and it looks like the whole book is a road trip, so it might work for the Set on a Road Based Vehicle task?

Here's what I did:

1. Several "banked" books were moved to the itinerary as easy countries. (banked in quotations because we don't have tasks we can use them for anymore.) - Increase of 20 points

2. Sam's There are Rivers in the Sky moved to itinerary to make room to use a "banked" book for the task - 15 points for the 2 books instead of 10 for only Sam's

3. Bernadette's E book (Turkey) moved to itinerary to make room for another "banked" book - 15 points for the 2 books instead of 10 for only Bernadette's.

Several books were moved down to the next itinerary. We now need to finish only a midlevel (Ashley) and a hard (Laura or Melissa, whoever finishes first) to finish the current itinerary.

Hey team, just a heads up. A little bit of shuffling on the spreadsheet is about to happen in order to maximize some points. As soon as the dust clears I'll be back to explain what all I did. :)

I think Jacqueline is going to read it.

Priya wrote: "@Laura Done!"

Thanks!

@Tara - can you please add a read date to Wide Sargasso Sea? Thanks!

@Namita - regarding the countries (mini #3, World Wheel). We can only work on 2 countries at a time. When we finish a country, we get a captain from another team to spin for the wheel for us and get us a new country. The books used for the countries can not be banked. Meaning they can not be finished before we spin the country.