Vi’s Comments (group member since Jun 04, 2011)

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

Keli wrote: "I loved both Lightning-Struck Heart and The House in the Cerulean Sea. They are so sweet and, the latter, wholesome. I saw a headline today about some Missouri man sentenced to life for caging and ..."

I liked the House in the Cerulean Sea too. I was thinking about picking up Wolfsong soon.

Good for you Shannon.

I've read a short book for X from KU. I've started a couple of longer books that I'll finish probably on July 1. I'm also going to start my re-read of Vorkosigan saga and complete the series this time around. I started it 10 years back but didn't complete the series.

I finished Lowcountry Boil and I really enjoyed it. I didn't expect it at all. Another series for me to enjoy.

@Lisa: Thank you indeed for setting up the spreadsheet.

@Kerri: Have fun on your vacation.

In general, I found the BOMs this month meh.. but I enjoyed the King more than City of Brass. Anyway, I actually finished my books earlier than I expected (due to unexpected free time) so now I'm wondering what to read. Maybe start a longer book and finish after 1 July..

Can I also use an extra entry for Ashara?

11/22/63 BOM
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

City of Brass BOM
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

Kings of the Wyld BOM
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

Janeylou wrote: "As we cant use these for page count as well , presumining its best to use shorter books ?"

I would think so.. The main tower with the page count requirements will work for the big spell-it-outs. Since they are free choice, smaller books may work better but I'm not sure if the points from reading higher page numbers will make a difference. Lisa, Suzanne, what do you think?

Janeylou wrote: "Is this because we are one of the teams at top of standings or is it random"

No, they've divided into 3 groups based on the performance (or standings). First group cannot bank books and read book specifically for the task. Second group can bank and it's 1 book per task. 3rd group can bank and use 1 book for multiple tasks (I assume the tasks are only in the Wheel mini-challenge and not across like spell-it-out).

Honestly, it might even out the competition and give the teams in group 3 a very fair chance.

I was looking through the tasks and they're a variety. I'd like to applaud the moderators who came up with these tasks (and the chipmunks of course). It's a fun challenge.

Well, we don't have to wait anymore.. The new mini-challenge is up and... it looks fun certainly. More challenging for us and two other teams (Ti and Jeih) as we cannot bank books. But if we finish the Chipmunks, then it'll be good to do the Spell-outs and the new challenge concurrently.

It was down from yesterday night (Europe time) to about 9ish here? so about 10-11 hours? There was talk that a NYT article could have (in)directly caused it.. They haven't publicly acknowledged or given explanation on what caused the outage.. And generally, after an outage, things remain wonky for a day or two till it get stabilized (either because too many people are accessing at the same time after the outage or just working out the kinks?)

@Suzanne, I'm glad my book went through. I've started my other Chipmunk books. Btw, is there a new challenge coming in July? Or is the spell-outs it? It'll be very difficult anyway to finish them off.

Hey everyone, since the 500s are being taken care of, I'll work on chipmunk tasks. I found Lowcountry Boil that will work for 138 with crab on cover. I'm halfway through A Study in Scarlet Women for the China task. In the meantime, if anyone has book that has crab/lobster/shrimp etc on cover, please feel free to take it.

MN Lisa wrote: "Vi wrote: "Thanks for the summary Suzanne!

A question - which should we prioritize? Rainbow tower or Team tower? With team towers do we get 10 points regardless whether the word is completed? Or d..."

Thanks Lisa, that makes sense. I was wondering if we would lose out the individual book point for incomplete word. But we would only miss 20 points which is better than rainbow tower as we get 100 point only if a tower is finished.

MN Lisa wrote: "We have to be done by the 16th? I have it on hold at two librarys and an audio version, so I'm not sure I'll get it in order to finish by the 16th."

No, the BOM read starts at 16th.. They post a breakdown of chapters per day and post questions accordingly. You can start anytime and finish anytime.. just need to answer 3 days of questions to get the bonus 20 points. Since TT ends Aug 1(?) we need to have the questions posted by then to get the points.

Thanks for the summary Suzanne!

A question - which should we prioritize? Rainbow tower or Team tower? With team towers do we get 10 points regardless whether the word is completed? Or do we only know at the end as we are only allowed only 1 incomplete word?

I have 2 Chipmunk tasks as I finally got my hands on the Sherry Thomas. After I finish these two, I'll check and either start a 500 pager or try for another chipmunk task.

Great job team on the finishing up the chipmunk tasks so well!

Jen wrote: "I think Love Hypothesis was her best but this one the second best. It has some of the same tropes and feels like an AO3 fic. I liked it more than I was expecting to."

Resetting my expectation then cos I felt her books were reading similar. Even her novellas. I'm on the queue so we'll see.

Suzanne wrote: "My trip with the 22 was good! One of the older (11 year old) girls was pretty naughty and disobedient, but not awful, more annoying. The rest of them were pretty much perfect - except the whole kee..."

Aww, Suzanne! Lots of rest and hope you feel better soon.

Jen wrote: "Completion post for Love, Theoretically which works for professors.

I’m doing so much reading now that I’m on summer break. It’s so relaxing!"

Oh, how was it Jen? Compared to her other works especially?

Nanci wrote: "Off the cruise ship and back to having wifi. Hoping to be home by tomorrow and then I’ll catch up with everyone. I did finish the King book. Phew! I liked it, and now I know I can read a 800+ page ..."

Welcome back Nanci. Hope you had a great time.

@Suzanne how was your trip with 22 kids?

@Ellinor I have a feeling it'll be good. Let's hope that comes true.

I found a book X Marks the Spot. Seems to be an ok read and it will work for both pirates and title beginning with X. It seems short and available on KU so I can do it over the weekend I think. Is anybody else reading for either?

Elinor wrote: "I've volunteerd for DQs for Carrie Soto is back beginning July 2.

Would love to be backup for Fourth Wing but daren't be the sole candidate as afraid I may not like the book if that makes any sen..."

I feel the other way. I volunteered for Fourth Wing but not Carrie Soto as I'm not sure I'll like the latter. But with all the hype around Fourth Wing, I'm really looking forward to reading it.