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

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

How to Participate:

The Audiobook Challenge is designed to not only help you to read your audiobooks, but to also find out about other great audiobooks from other challenge participants!

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

There are no minimum page requirements, and you can read abridged or unabridged audiobooks!


1. At the beginning of the month, post :
a: How many audiobooks in total you want to read for the month
b: How many audiobooks in the monthly category you want to read
c: Post the audiobooks (as you decide on them) by linking them to Goodreads in your post

2. During the month, read the audiobooks 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) - note: can only be linked to Goodreads and not an external site
c: How many audiobooks you have read for this challenge this year


Then start a new post for the next month!


FORMAT YOU CAN COPY AND PASTE:


Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read:
Audiobooks in monthly category to read:

Books in category:

FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year:
Audiobooks in monthly category read:

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

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EXAMPLE : (under spoiler)(view spoiler)[

Start of Month

Total audiobooks to read: 6
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2

Books in category:


FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 9
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 1

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

Great story about women, culture and love set in Nigeria. I loved the characters and the setting, and the audio narrator was great with the different voices and bringing the story to life (hide spoiler)]

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Participation Verified

Judith
Cat
Angie
Jenny
Elinor

DQ Volunteeers

Nom:Judith

Jenny
Angie
Cat

Chapter Breakdown

Date		MPDQs		%age	Chapters 			
2 Aug		Judith		25%	ends "know where she'd gone."
3 Aug		Jenny		49%	starts "Today his father doesn't say anything..."
					ends "There was no curfew yet."
4 Aug		Cat		74%	starts "It started slowly at first..."
					ends "mirrored letters tattoed on her cheek."
5 Aug		Angie		100%	starts "As she gathered more..."

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 novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.

Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.

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nominator: Judith

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Participation Verified

Judith
Angie
Jenny
Cat
Elinor

Volunteers

Nom:Judith

Angie (weekend date for preference please!)
Jenny
Cat
Teddie

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 	%age		MPDQs
16 Aug		1 - 7 		20%		Judith
17 Aug		8 - 14 		38%		Jenny
18 Aug		15 - 22 	59%		Cat
19 Aug		23 - 31 	80%		Angie
20 Aug		32 - 38 	100%		Teddie

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

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.

The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.

Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?

Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.

In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.

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nominator: Judith

Days have been allocated. As ever, if you can't do your day, a listed backup can cover you. If you have no backup then the next unique team will step up.

Elinor wrote: "I'd like to volunteer as backup for Team Ashara if still possible please.

I'm a bit curious about extra entry, because I thought I used it for Carrie Soto but it's still in the sheet (perhaps I've..."

absent-mindedness during busy times. you have used your entry, and the sheet's updated.

June update
We are now 50% through the year!
:o

Name		% Progress to goal
Sammy		95%
Truitt_T	94%
Carmen		87%
Gwen|| B	87%
Jessica (Gold)	86%
Elena		84%
Sophie (mod)	83%
Tricia		83%
Melindam	81%
Cordelia	78%
Karen ⊰✿	75%
Jenner		71%
Sophie		70%
Snowtulip	68%
Judy		68%
Linda C		68%
Jillypenny	65%
Tari		63%
Trinia		62%
♞ Pat		58%
Karen ♐	56%
Sarah		56%
Yasmine		53%
Cat		52%
Gabriella 	51%
Annalisa	50%
Chrissie	50%
The other Sandy	50%
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Jenny		49%
Christina	48%
Roe		44%
Angie ☯	44%
Heather		41%
Keely		40%
Laurie B	40%
LiteraryCat	40%
Keli		37%
Alisha		33%
LittleRedRidin	33%
Amanda		32%
Lexi		31%
Rocsana		27%
Janis		26%
Insiyah		24%
LaurLa		23%
Laurie (Toledo)	22%
Melanie		22%
Suzanne		22%
Briana		20%
Charlie		20%
Jennifer	20%
Pandamunky	20%
Vicki Willis	19%
Eldarwen	18%
Natasha		17%
Jamila		15%
KelB		13%
Jenn (tel)	13%
Aeia_auia_aaia	10%
Gem ~Zero 	8%
Karen (libr)	8%
Beth		8%
Jodie (JT)	5%
Ricka		5%
Kat		2%

Are we ready for the June line?

"here comes the line... here comes the line...." hmmm reminds me of something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h8Nm...

Teddie wrote: "Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Teddie wrote: "I'd like to put in an extra entry for Damara:
City of Brass: day 1 day 2 day 3

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau: day 1 day 2 day 5

The Red: day 1 day 2 day ..."
Recorded Dr M participation now.

You have two participation tokens on the sheet (CIty of Brass & Dr M). For an extra entry you need a third, from the main group, NOT backroom. Feel free to hunt up links from 2022.

We'll do the randomisation closer to 16 July, so you've 10 days or so to dig them out if you want

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Theme Book Of the Month



Each month we have a themed BOM. September's theme is Back to School

Your book could be set in a school, be about education or a text often found on school reading lists (or maybe that should be on lists in the future?!)

Nominations will be open until 27 July, 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