Moderators of NBRC’s Comments (group member since Jan 22, 2011)

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

Team The Silk Road



Team Members
• Cat (Captain)
• Danielle (Co-Captain)
• Marie
• Sammy
• Sarah
• Vikki
• Sanz
• Saar the Book Owl
• Franzi
• Trio
• Amanda or Mandy


Challenge Status Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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Team Planning Sheet (add your books here!): Planning sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

• Lori (Co-Captain)

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Yemen
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End of September Update

Now only 3 months left! eek!

Name	% Progress to goal
Gabby		102%
Cheryl		100%
Elizabeth	98%
Cindy		96%
Sammy		95%
Melindam	94%
Tricia		94%
Toni		93%
Christina	92%
Marty		90%
Sophie		90%
The other Sandy	90%
Cordelia	84%
Marla		84%
Trisha		84%
Yasmine		83%
Elena		83%
✿Danielle✿	80%
Charlie		80%
Chrissie	80%
Sophie (mod)	80%
Angie ☯		79%
Karen ♐	78%
Carmen		77%
Patty		77%
Keely		76%
Jessica (Goldenfurpro)	75%
Karen ⊰✿	75%

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Eldarwen	73%
KelB	73%
Vicki Willis	72%
Jim	70%
Linda C	70%
MelanieJoy 	70%
Jillypenny	64%
Sonja	60%
Judy	56%
Keli	55%
Annalisa	53%
Cat	53%
Jenny	53%
Lexi	48%
Wendy	47%
Janis	45%
Rocsana	44%
Marie-Eve	38%
Jenner	34%
Melanie	28%
LittleRedRidingHood	27%
Insiyah	21%
Sherri	20%
Jenn 	14%
LaurLa	13%
Roe	12%
Jamie	6%
Denise	3%
Christene	2%
Gwen|| Bookish Blondie	1%

Breakdown up and posted!

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Please nominate an Adult Fiction or a Non Fiction book that you would like to read in the month of December 2025.

Nominations will be open until 27 October, UK evening

***Please pay special attention to the Rules and Guidelines listed below.***

Rules and Guidelines
1. Books nominated after the deadline will not be included in the polls. Sorry.
2. Each person is limited to nominating ONE book per category.
3. Please use the add book/author tool located at the top of the comment box when nominating a book. (Please make your nomination clear because side conversations do happen and we don't want to accidentally miss a nomination)
4. Please add the Goodreads synopsis for the book you nominate; optionally you can include a reason why we should read your nomination.
5. Books that were read as a past BOM will not be considered for the poll. (link to the sheet under the spoiler (view spoiler)[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... (hide spoiler)])
6. Books that are #2 or higher in a series will only be considered if all earlier books in the series have been a past BOM.
7. Books must be published at the time of nomination.
8. If your book is successful in being picked as the BOM you are expected to actively participate in the discussion. This will include writing a set of DQs as well as engaging in conversations.

Also, please be aware of your nomination's genre and list them in the appropriate BOM category.

Genres that DO NOT go here:
Young Adult
Middle Grade / Children's
Erotica

The BOM nominations are for our members to nominate a book they are truly interested in and have no affiliation with. Promotional activity is NOT permitted and nominations that the Moderators perceive to be promotional will be deleted without warning

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Theme Book Of the Month

December World Classics



Rounding off our travels around the world, time to settle in with a classic book, from one of the many countries of the world. We are looking for books NOT part of the Western canon tradition, but we welcome "modern classics" (think, 20th C) as well as older texts.

Nominations will be open until 27 October, UK evening

***Please pay special attention to the Rules and Guidelines listed below.***

Rules and Guidelines
1. Books nominated after the deadline will not be included in the polls. Sorry.
2. Each person is limited to nominating ONE book per category.
3. Please use the add book/author tool located at the top of the comment box when nominating a book. (Please make your nomination clear because side conversations do happen and we don't want to accidentally miss a nomination)
4. Please add the Goodreads synopsis for the book you nominate; you should also include an explanation of how it fits the theme for the month.
5. Books that were read as a past BOM will not be considered for the poll. (link to the sheet under the spoiler (view spoiler)[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... (hide spoiler)])
6. Books that are #2 or higher in a series will only be considered if all earlier books in the series have been a past BOM.
7. Books must be published at the time of nomination.
8. If your book is successful in being picked as the BOM you are expected to actively participate in the discussion. This will include writing a set of DQs as well as engaging in conversations.

The BOM nominations are for our members to nominate a book they are truly interested in and have no affiliation with. Promotional activity is NOT permitted and nominations that the Moderators perceive to be promotional will be deleted without warning

Randomiser
There were 6 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Santiago
Iceland
66
Silk
WAW
Muller

Timestamp: 2025-10-15 08:07:49 UTC

Volunteers

Lexi (nom) (Garden)
Judith (Garden backup)
Lisa AG (Garden backup)
Cat (Silk)
Catherine (Garden backup)
Teddie (Santiago)
Fiona (Santiago backup)
Apoorv (Santiago backup)
Ashley (Iceland)
Jenny (66)
Angie (66 backup)
E (Muller)
Melissa (WAW)
Louise (Muller)
Preeti (WAW backup)

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 		MPDQs
16 Oct		Chapters 1 - 5		Lexi (Garden)
17 Oct		Chapters 6 - 10		Teddie (Santiago)
18 Oct		Chapters 11 - 16	Ashley (Iceland)
19 Oct		Chapters 17 - 24	Jenny (66)
20 Oct		Chapters 25 - 32 	Cat (Silk)

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

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll go to secure her future.

Òdòdó’s hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the the warrior king of Yorùbáland. Already shunned as social pariahs, living conditions for Òdòdó and the other women in her blacksmith guild grow even worse under Yorùbá rule.

Then Òdòdó is abducted. She is whisked across the Sahara to the capital city of Ṣàngótẹ̀, where she is shocked to discover that her kidnapper is none other than the vagrant who had visited her guild just days prior. But now that he is swathed in riches rather than rags, Òdòdó realizes he is not a vagrant at all; he is the warrior king, and he has chosen her to be his wife.

In a sudden change of fortune, Òdòdó soars to the very heights of society. But after a lifetime of subjugation, the power that saturates this world of battle and political savvy becomes too enticing to resist. As tensions with rival states grow, revealing elaborate schemes and enemies hidden in plain sight, Òdòdó must defy the cruel king she has been forced to wed by re-forging the shaky loyalties of the court in her favor, or risk losing everything—including her life.

Loosely based on the myth of Persephone, O.O. Sangoyomi’s Masquerade takes you on a journey of epic power struggles and political intrigue that turn an entire region on its head.

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nominator: Lexi
official page count: 343

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Volunteers

Lisa AG (nominator)
Judith
Cat
Catherine (day 1 - 3)
Alysa (last day)

Chapter Breakdown

Date	Chapters 			%ages	MPDQs
4 Oct	start - Book People		19%	Lisa AG
5 Oct	A Night of Travel - 		39%	Catherine	
		Matt's All-American Burgers		
6 Oct	Izzy Out of Sorts -		59%	Judith
		The Book of Doors Discovered	
7 Oct	The Final Goodbye to Mr Weber -	76%	Cat
		The Woman, After the Auction
8 Oct	Reality Again -			100% 	Alysa
		end

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

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?

In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a book - an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there is a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors, and that any door is every door .

What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows an extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy are exploring all that the Book of Doors can do, swept away from their quiet lives by the possibilities of travelling to anywhere they want.

But the Book of Doors is not the only magical book in the world. There are other books that can do wondrous and dreadful things when wielded by dangerous and ruthless individuals - individuals who crave what Cassie now possesses.

Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is, it seems, Drummond Fox. He is a man fleeing his own demons - a man with his own secret library of magical books that he has hidden away in the shadows for safekeeping. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all . . .

Because some doors should never be opened.

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Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge

Duration: Monthly

How to Participate:

The NetGalley Challenge is designed to not only get you to read your NetGalley books, but to also advertise your reviews for others to see because after all, that's what NetGalley is all about.

Though you may pop in/out at any time, the NetGalley Challenge will run on a monthly basis so you are able to see progress being made.


1. At the beginning of the month, post any/all of the following:
a: How many books on your NetGalley shelf
b: What books are on your NG shelf
c: What your Netgalley feedback ratio is

2. During the month, read the NetGalley books that you can AND update your post with your reviews. (You can do this after each book or wait until the end of the month.)

3. At the end of the month, update your post and with:
a: What books you read
b: Link(s) to your review(s)**
c: Your updated shelf count
d: Your updated books to read
e: Your updated ratio

Then start a new post for the next month!


**When linking your reviews, please link only to the book(s) here at GoodReads. At this time, linking to a personal blog is not allowed. Thank you!