Sonia’s Comments (group member since Feb 10, 2012)

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

Filipa wrote: "Claire wrote: "Sonia, I've recently decided to try the challenge of reading a book per country. I haven't read anything from Portugal yet, so if you have a good recommendation that can be easily fo..."

I never read a book from Fernando Pessoa. But then again, my parents were Circulo de Leitores agents, so they stocked on all the classics, I even have the complete works of Ferreira de Castro somewhere, and ditched anything that on their opinion, wasn't worth it. My first issy fit about books was when they refused to buy the Lord of the Rings trilogy because it wasn't worth the price.

I have forgiven them, but as you can see I didn't forget. I ended up owning the trilogy, but not from the limited edition with the pretty hard covers.

Claire wrote: "Sonia, I've recently decided to try the challenge of reading a book per country. I haven't read anything from Portugal yet, so if you have a good recommendation that can be easily found in english ..."

I haven't read the Tomás Noronha series yet, it's on the list for towers since books are around 500-600 pages, but I know they're translated to English. They call him the Portuguese Dan Brown, and like Dan Brown, it seems that the books can also be read out of order. But again... Haven't tried yet. Even if I have A Fórmula de Deus aka The Einstein Enigma on my shelf since it was published

Hi team!

I'm Sonia, a tower team veteran, and I'm looking forward to play with all familiar and new faces.

I'm from near Lisbon, Portugal - Filipa we're finally in a team together!

My favorite genres are MM romance and Urban Fantasy. But I'm usually open to try new genres, even if I shy away from horror or classics.

After years talking about it, I finally joined a library, and since I discovered that reading translations sucks, I'm in a quest to explore the contemporary Portuguese authors - I hated all the classic ones during school years.

There's more about me, but let's not share all in a day.

Tomorrow I'll send friend invites and talk about captain stuff!

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June's BOMs

Sonia		ttix_hector
Sammy		myths-and-magic-and-muses-oh-my
Sehrish		2022-nbrc-tt-ix‎
Paulette	tt-22
Karen ⊰✿ 	towerteams_ix‎
Filipa		tt-muses
April Raimond	tt-muse
Tone Bardal	tt9-2022
Lucy		tower-nine
Zoe		tower-2022
Queenie		tower-teams-9
Eldarwen	tt-ix-hector
Claire		challenge-tower9
Lauri Saplad	nbrc-tt-2022
Namita 		towerteam-muses
Laura Crumpets	tower-team-2022
Rosaline	challenge-tower-teams-9

Planning Spreadsheet: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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Completion Post



Book:The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
Date Read: 1st May
Pages:461

Spelling
T - title
H/S - character: Hawthorne Swift
I/C - character: Ivy Crow
N - character: Jupiter North

Tasks
56 - #1 in series

She also made me promise not to let her read 25 books a month so I'm being nice and let everyone knows so, we can all help Sammy not to burn.

In our defense, I think we both slept around 10-15 hours total in the 3 days that took us from the team making to the challenge being up and ready.

Time-zone difference was a bit blurry and all (not the only thing blurry, if I recall correctly)

Steven wrote: "Yeah, Lisa and I go way back. Not as way back as you and me Sonia! But still way back to Mango Tango!"

You know, you were the first not-in-the-same-page conversation I had with LK... something in the lines of:

- Why are you making Steven captain? He said he wasn't ready for it
- No, he said he would be captain
- No he didn't. *checks threads* Oh, he changed his mind, sorry, just me being a mother hen to my A-team chickadees

Steven wrote: "Yeah, Lisa and I go way back. Not as way back as you and me Sonia! But still way back to Mango Tango!"

You mean the whole 2-3 weeks more of you being on the amazing A-Team?

LOL

Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "Thanks for all your responses!!! It helps a lot : ) I'm not a huge fan of the doorstoppers because it just doesn't work out for the other challenges/groups I participate in. I'm just going to take ..."

Sign ups are open till the 30th. So you'll still get assigned to a team if you do it till then.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Thanks Mods. As someone who has done quite a lot of TT's (and loves them) the over reading cap definitely works to keep the playing field even. And as you mentioned it usually works out because som..."

A few? I'm pretty sure your name has been one of the regulars through the years. If memory serves, you were one of Steven's Mango Tangos, for towers 2. I can't remember if you were on the first towers... But hey, the teams were so big on that one that I can't say for sure who was on my team. I had a lot of fun organizing the teams readathon, and we didn't win, that was team C, but that's it.

Oh hon, I was just kidding. Being in pain is terrible business, I sure hope nothing is broken or worse.

*keeps fingers crossed*

Sophie wrote: "Sammy wrote: "Linda C wrote: "Do we use the edition we read for page number or what?
I see audio refers to using the 'default'.
Is that it and what is considered 'default'?
first on the list of '..."

No stealing my Sammy you missy :P

Sammy wrote: "Being stuck in a chair because I've messed up my foot has got to be good for something, lol."

Ouch. That doesn't sound good. Wishing for a speed recovery.

Although I must confess I'm slightly disappointed... Stuck in a chair all day and not a single eye candy picture?!

Tsk tsk

I feel like I should resemble that comment

Cat wrote: "I had to go see.

luckily I didn't have a mouthful of coffee or it would have been all over my computer!
hahahahaha"

I took a screenshot for posterity, because it is funny.

Vaidehi wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Sophie wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Wait... is "pet name" the name of the pet... or the "pet name" given to someone?

Because that changes things."

A pet is a domestic or tamed animal kept..."

Right? Even my 9 y.o. niece was giggling at it.

It is going to change soon. After a ton of research because let's face it, read a 50 shades type of book it's so 2010s...

*giggles*

I'm mostly kidding. But I'm a darn mood reader and not finding something I felt like reading, it would cause me to fight it every. single. page.

The problem was the odd number of pages, which is harder to find that it should be.

Luckily, the maze seems to really like my favorite MM series, so, I am happily re-reading the boys. I didn't realize I missed them so much. Of course, first time (fine, timessss) I read Touch & Geaux it destroyed me, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this time I don't get as affected.

Good thing I already hit my UNO quote and Towers only starts in 3 weeks because it might take some time to recover.