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

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

Karen, we'll have it relaxed - just have break points where we post our thoughts and the random ones as we usually do.

Awesome, Sheila! Welcome to Forest Green!!

The shelf setting doesn't have custom date parameters. So here's one way of doing it:

1. Click on the "date read" so that the books are displayed in descending order (books you finished recently will be at the top)
2. Display 30 (or any number you prefer) books per page. You can select this at the bottom of the page.
3. Select batch edit and click select all so that all 30 books in that page are selected. Now add it to the tower team shelf. Repeat this until you reach the date read of April 12.

This is the only way I know that is less tedious.

Sheila: here's the link - http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...

Hey Sheila! Welcome to Tower Team!! I'm not from Forest Green though I often pop by other team's thread.

Regarding your question, tag all the books you've finished on/after April 12 regardless of the start date. You'll have to batch edit and move to your tower teams shelf.

Good Morning, Team!! Hope everyone's having a great weekend! I went to movie which turned out to be just blah. Totally not what I wanted :(

On the book front, I took a break from and read . It was good revisiting Eve & Roarke.

How's everybody doing with their reading?

You put it way better than I could, Chris! That's true. I can see them both learning from each other. But, the thing was Brian was already sort of programmed or should I say, inclined towards this path. Take his dream worlds and such. Of course, he might not have walked this path if not for the events happening as they had but he had all inclinations for it. And that along with their difference in age has lead them to the present situation. If you can understand what I'm saying.

It's interesting.. this contradiction. It'll probably have even more play if the other brothers survived. They were more moldable than Mahon.

The other interesting thing in the book - Christianity vs Druidism and the Norse religion. Interesting how religion is being played.

No, nothing else that you need to do now, Judy.

The thread is HUGE so you don't really have to go through it all. I'll give you the important things you'll want to know:

1. The mods had a challenge that runs from June 1- July 19. We've pretty much completed it so it's just FYI for you.

2. From July 8 - July 21, we are facing off Leather Jacket Black (LJB), another Tower Team. The challenge is to read 100 books in 2 weeks. That's coming up in 2 days.

3. For the August month, we have to come up with our challenge. The mods are taking a break that month. The captains have come up with some 17 categories. Could you head over here to vote the top 10 categories you would like?

I think that summarized pretty much everything. If I've missed anything, I'm sure the team will jump in :)

Oh, starting date doesn't count. As long as they are finished between July 8 - 21, they count.

I re-read earlier today. It came in at the library after a long, long wait and the second came in just a sec earlier. I'm tempted to re-read the second as well. I like Eve & Roarke's romance.

I'm halfway through with Leslie & Chris and thinking about reading . It is due at the library soon.

QOTD: Do you mainly read thin books, medium length books or do you read a lot of chunksters 500 + pages? Or is it a mix

It's mostly a mix but I'm probably averaging about 400+ pages with atleast 2 800-1000+ pager thrown in every month. Chunksters are really a time-investment but their enjoyment factor can't be denied :)

OK, I finally caught up. I finished Part 1. Some thoughts: (There are MILD SPOILERS ahead)

1. (view spoiler)[I agree about the marriage. Talk about a disaster!! I wish Deirdre would have been more forthcoming. Brian's unexperienced as well so they're not a good combination. (hide spoiler)]
2. The battle with the Northmen was interesting in many aspects:
- It really highlighted the difference between Mahon & Brian. I wish Brian would imbibe some aspects of a diplomat.
- Brian's study of the other war generals - I was impressed when I first read about and I was still impressed.
- The conversation between Mahon & Brian regarding the wounded: I'm torn in between. I can't exactly accept Brian's decision. I wish there was a middle ground.
- The conversation between Mahon & Brian when they are back at the Castle from the battle: that was really illuminating.
3. And the Aw! moment - when Brian hands over the 3 Norse Babies to a couple for them to raise. It was good to see he still has his conscience.

And Gormlaith is kicking ass so far. She might be my favorite h in the book so far. Even Fiona is paling in comparison to her but I can help but wonder how/when she'll turn up again.

So, up till this point, with the latest developments of the battle, I can't say I'm liking Brian much. I was rooting for him at the start but his decisions at the battle aren't something that I can stomach easily. Oh, I still admire him but like? I still have half the book left to go so that might change.

Hey Judy!! Welcome to Moonstone! We are teamies again, yay! :)

One of our members read - an awesome book with lots of illustrations/drawings. Can I know if it'll work for this challenge?

Ooh, I loved a too. It was awesome and I really loved the illustrations.

@Gwendolyn: We could just do it as a Tower Teams Event. Anybody interested can join. It'll be fun and we can have more inter-team interactions. As for using it as a challenge for all teams - It's hard to see it work as not everybody'll be interested in doing it. But we could have it as a game for everybody who participates instead of just WBY. Whoever gets the most points, gets to brag to be the biggest HP Fan :)

If you all like the friendly inter-team idea, then we could just invite all the teams.

Baby is doing great! She was just not cooperating for the scan. I had to get it done 4 times before it was acceptable.

I just got past the scene of (view spoiler)[Deirdre's rape (hide spoiler)] I really felt for her.

@Leslie - Glad you're enjoying DA.

@Karen - I've heard the same about Kate Morton too. I will try her once soon hopefully.

I think I'm at 30% ish so I'm not clicking the spoiler yet. I had a doc appointment that lasted ALL day yesterday and I'm still recovering. I didn't manage to get any reading done at all. *Sigh*

Aw. Is this mini going to be open for only WBY? If not, I'd love to join in.