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Moderators of NBRC’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Crazy Chipmunks of Chaos have lobbed cheese into your tower!

Pecorino

Pecorino cheese is an Italian cheese made from sheep's milk, particularly the milk of the Sardinian breed of sheep known as "Pecora" in Italian, from which it gets its name.





Pecorino cheese has a unique and robust flavour that sets it apart from other types of cheese. It has a tangy, saline feel with slight nutty undertones and a distinct freshness. The flavour intensifies as the cheese matures, developing a sharper and more complex profile. The aging process also contributes to an increasingly firm yet crumbly texture that adds to the overall experience of eating Pecorino.

Pecorino

Pecorino cheese is an Italian cheese made from sheep's milk, particularly the milk of the Sardinian breed of sheep known as "Pecora" in Italian, from which it gets its name.





Pecorino cheese has a unique and robust flavour that sets it apart from other types of cheese. It has a tangy, saline feel with slight nutty undertones and a distinct freshness. The flavour intensifies as the cheese matures, developing a sharper and more complex profile. The aging process also contributes to an increasingly firm yet crumbly texture that adds to the overall experience of eating Pecorino.

Say Cheese!

Who doesn't love cheese? Cheese!
Hard or creamy, light or dark, spicy or sweet - we love it all.

And don't say you haven't been warned - you know better than to feed the Chipmunks of Doom!

Chaos can take many forms and flavours, including various types of cheese. Who knows when the NBRC Mods will lob a brick of cheese into your tower window. Will it be today? Tomorrow? Next week? Again, WHO KNOWS!

Teams will have a chance to earn bonuses of 5 points per letter of various cheese varieties. The cheese varieties will arrive at random times and will be added to team sheets.

As with all perishable items, things spoil. Sometimes unexpectedly ruining plans. How long until cheese spoils? Depends on many factors and the whims of nature. The Mods recommend using read books as much as possible to 'consume' the cheese before it goes bad and needs to get defenestrated from your tower.

Books used for the cheese spell-outs can be used for one of the other Tower Teams mini challenges. Yes, you read that correctly. Books can be used for the cheese spell-out in addition to another mini challenge task.

◈ Each book read can only be used for one letter in the cheese spell-out.
◈ 'Banked' books, or books read before the given spell-out is announced can be used, provided they were finished AFTER the first cheese was thrown (20th May)
◈ Each book read can be used for one of the other Tower Teams mini challenge tasks.
◈ Books can be started at any point since the start of Tower Teams XI (17th May 9am UTC), but must be finished after the first cheese was thrown (20th May).
◈ The usual book length rules apply.
◈ The usual spell-out rules apply.
◈ Each cheese spell-out will have its own spell-out completion time that will remain a mystery. Partial spellings are accepted.
◈ Since spell-out completion times are a mystery, spreadsheets need to be updated as soon as a book for the cheese spell-out is finished. Any book not added to the official team sheet by the cut-off time will not count.
◈ You will gain 5 points for each letter you complete.

Team Eiffel Tower, please welcome your new teammate Lindsay singer of stories!

We have starting assigning reserve players to replace no shows. If you haven't been assigned a team yet you may receive a PM from a captain.

Also, once the game gets up and running Mods will likely distribute the remaining reserve players as appropriate so everyone who wants to can participate.

Please be patient, we will do our best to get everyone on teams as soon as we can.

Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Please welcome your new team members Melissa and Jacqueline

bookswithpaulette wrote: "

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and ..."

Sorry! But this book hasn't published yet and isn't expected to publish until June.

From rules:
7. Books must be published at the time of nomination.

Please feel free to switch out your nomination for May.

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List Randomizer
There were 14 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Sky
Liz
Burj
Lotus
Belem
Esb
Eiffel
Esb extra
Icono
Pisa
Ooa extra
3p
Ooa
Belem extra

Timestamp: 2025-06-14 11:14:48 UTC

Volunteers

Nominator: Tammie (??CNT??)

Teddie (ESB)
E (Lotus)
Aiswrya (Pisa)
Jenny (ESB backup)
Fiona (3P)
Erin PBH (Belem)
Cat (Liz)
Lisa AG (Sky)
Amanda (Eiffel)
Carrie (ESB backup)
Lexi (Belem backup)
Angie (ESB backup)
Judith (Belem backup)
Preeti (sky backup)
Logan (Lotus backup)
Rina (Liz backup)
Catherine (Burj)
Christina OoA
Denise (CNT backup)
Melanie Joy (Icono)
Kaley (Liz backup)
Christina (Ooa) extra entry
Angie ESB extra entry
Judith Belem extra entry
Ashley (pisa backup)

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 		MPDQs
16 Jun. 	One - Three. 		Denise - CNT 
17 June. 	Four - Seven. 		Lisa AG - Sky
18 Jun. 	Eight - Ten. 		Cat/Kaley - Liz
19 Jun. 	Eleven - Thirteen. 	Catherine - Burj 
20 Jun. 	Fourteen - Seventeen. 	Eldarwen - Lotus

Guidance for DQ setters
Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!
Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.
Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!
Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?

Want more information about how NBRC runs their Book of the Month discussions? Check out the information here

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.

July 1962. A Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.

In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.

For readers of The Vanishing Half and Woman of Light, this showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time.

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nominator: Tammie
official page count: 307

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Randomised
There were 12 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Judy (OoooA) extra entry
Jenny (ESB)
Lisa AG (Sky extra entry)
Tammie (CNT)
Judy (OoooA)
Kaley (Liz)
Alyana (Icono)
Logan (Lotus)
Fiona (3P)
Catherine (Burj)
Catherine (Burj) extra entry
Lisa AG (Sky)

Timestamp: 2025-05-29 16:04:26 UTC

Volunteers

Nominator: Judith (Belem)

Jenny (ESB)
Kaley (Liz)
Fiona (3P)
Cat (Liz backup)
Lisa AG (Sky)
Lisa AG (Sky extra entry)
Lexi (Belem backup)
Angie (ESB backup)
Preeti (Sky backup)
Logan (Lotus)
Alyana (Icono)
Judy (OoooA)
Judy (OoooA) extra entry
Catherine (Burj)
Catherine (Burj) extra entry
Lousie (3P) backup
Tammie (CNT)
Melissa (Burj) backup

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 	Pages		MPDQs
2 Jun		1 - 7		18%		Judith (Belem)
3 Jun		The Story - 13	36%		Judy (OooooA)
4 Jun		14 - 20		55%		Jenny (ESB)
5 Jun		21 - The Story	71%		Lisa AG (Sky)
6 Jun		26 - The Story 	88%		Tammie (CNT)
7 Jun		32 - end	100%		Kaley (Liz)

Guidance for DQ setters
Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!
Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.
Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!
Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?

Want more information about how NBRC runs their Book of the Month discussions? Check out the information here

Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication

Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.

And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.

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nominator: Judith
official page count: 420 pages

Days have been allocated.

As we are in a challenge, you can't horse-trade your day amongst other teams, but if you have a backup member listed from your team you can swap them in.

If you don't have a backup, or they can't do your allocated day, we'll move to the next team on the randomised list

Enjoy!

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