Suzanne’s Comments (group member since Aug 13, 2015)

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

Thanks Amanda - I don't remember childbirth very well (thank goodness) but I'd say this was worse. No cute baby at the end either. I'll see about getting you on the list. It would be good to have a third updater, because clearly emergencies happen. I swear - I've enjoyed updating every morning, then today of all days....

I think for the primary spreadsheet, just request edit permissions, and the mods should grant them.

I told the mods what happened. I had a kidney stone - didn't even take my phone, so couldn't contact anyone, not that it really crossed my mind anyway. Came in and was going to lie down and remembered - rushed to the computer and 30 minutes too late.

Anyway - if someone wants to take over as captain or be put in as co-captain or something - just speak up. I'm so sorry that happened!

I think it would be fine - we can use nicknames.

BUT crap - you guys - I had a trip to the hospital at 3 a.m. - didn't get home til just now - and because of the stress I totally forgot about updating or messaging - walked in the door, remembered the update, but it was too late. I'm pretty sure there are no exceptions, but I am SOOOO sorry.
I'll try to read like a fiend these next two rounds - and maybe we can get yet another co-captain or if someone wants to captain - I'm such a fail!

That's a lovely green book! I'm sure glad we have a great bunch of planners!

Does tin eye add the "grey" of his shirt and face and come up with more than 50%? His shirt looks green to me too. I'm not positive the cover is over 50% green though? What do others think?

I stuck those on the spreadsheet so people would know what we have.

Wow Amanda - nice finds! You as well Janine!

I found 3 in books that I'm already planning to read this coming round, and then I stopped looking :) So I have Polka, Baroque, and Motown covered. On is "A" (but has a green cover) and the others are U and V. Score!

I do have the round 4 planning sheet up - I'll try to get the pulldown menu for the above genres sometime today (but it's a busy day so we'll see!)

The tricky part is finding the words in books that can be used for VUVUZELA.

Here is the bonus for the upcoming round:
It's time to explore the many varied musical forms from around the world.

Find these musical genres in your books! You need to find the exact word (see below and yodelling caveat), and you need to find ten different genres.

Each genre you find in the text will earn an additional 5 bonus points. Only one bonus word per book and a maximum of 10 bonus words.

Genres
[Baroque
Bhangra
Bluegrass
Calypso
Electronica
Fado
Folk
Grunge
K-Pop
Mambo
Mariachi
Merengue
Motown
Noh
Polka
Rautalanka
Reggae
Salsa
Shashmaqam
Ska
Spiritual
Sufi
Tango
Yodeling (or Jodeling) (Note: either English or US ll / l variant acceptable)
Zydeco

Note: you must find the words exactly (so you can't find "electronic" - it has to have the -a ending), but if you find an exact match that isn't talking about the music genre (e.g. "he was a spiritual person" you can still claim it). And yes, we mean you can't use plurals, possessives or verb ending changes (bad luck if you find "he yodels" but no yodelling!)

Thank you LaurLa - I'll update everything soon!

I found I have a bunch of V and U books, so I'll focus on those.

And - I updated the spreadsheet and we are tied for first place! That doesn't happen often with all the randomness of points. Anyway - well done readers!

And U's! Amanda at least you know what they are - haha I guess I'm also getting educated!

I JUST looked at the Goodreads Choice awards - and I sure didn't recognize many of the books. I was especially surprised by Historical Fiction, as I've read a lot of that this year.

Yes - four weeks left after Saturday! Given the time of year, I suspect it will zoom by!

And EEEK - our word for next round (Starting Saturday at the countdown timer) is VUVUZELA! I don't even know what that is, but I DO know it's a challenge. They'll be announcing the bonus task soon.

how fun to see your Grandson! yay!!

Thanks LaurLa!

@Bobbi - can you put Archangel's Kiss on your shelf? Although...given my fuzzy brain, I may have just missed it! So...I stopped for now - although I did move over to the main spreadsheet first.

Looking at current top 3 teams - we are only separated by like 100 points from each other. Wow - what a lot of reading is going on with this challenge. Keep up the great work!

Thanks Kari - I was just updating and thought - wow I was already wrong with my red cover count!

Yes we need one more person/book for instruments - looks like we are fine with red covers (given the planned ones).

And geez - I counted both incorrectly. My cold has come back with a vengeance this morning and I thought "well I can at least do an update" - but....you all see how well that went! I'm so glad you ladies can count and track better than I can!

And given that we just talking about the countdown - looks like we still need: (Edited because I couldn't count this morning!)
2 more Red covers (We have 3 still planned on the spreadsheet - 2 of them are mine)
3 more Instrument on cover (we have 2 planned on the spreadsheet - one of them is mine)

Boy time sure goes by quickly!

Thanks Kari - that is for sure the easiest one to find! Here is the webpage countdown:
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

I'll try to put it at the top of this thread too.