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

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

Wonderful - thank you! And for the many many X's you contributed this round!

When I uploaded stuff earlier, we were in 3rd place, which is great! I'm pretty confident we won't go down by end of round, and with these last books being input, we may go up!

Great news for both the X and the O's .

XOXOXOXO
Suzanne

Oh it's great to have it this time! Thanks for doing all those locations Janeylou! That was really amazing of you. I have one more I'll finish too because I want to know how it ends :)

Yes that's correct - 336 for the pages on Starter Villain. Thanks so much for bringing that up, Kari!

Wonderful reading everyone! Here is the countdown again:

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

If you finish something before the countdown, try to get it into the spreadsheet as soon as it's done since I have very little time after the countdown before the spreadsheet is closed.

If you finish a book after the countdown, put it in Round 3.

Thanks to Amanda and Nanci's clutch "Y"s, we really can take any letters because there are a bunch I can move, and we have the last Xylophone all filled out except for one letter. That puts us into a very sweet spot :)

Have a wonderful Saturday!

Thanks you two - it is really really great to have the options!

Thanks Annalisa - that IS helpful! And how cool you will be doing some November writing - that's fantastic!

Nanci - we do still need your Y book this round if it's possible to finish it :)

Other than that - we are in a pretty good spot on our Round 2 spreadsheet. It is 100% fine to finish books before the deadline - we will use them. And whatever isn't finished until after the deadline just put on Round 3.

I put the Round 3 planning sheet in. I'm going to try to read the Book of the Month Violin Conspiracy round 3 (even though it'll mostly be discussed next round) because it's red and in the captain's group they said yes to instrument on the cover.
Although if we end up having plenty of those bonuses, I'll wait and read it last of the month :)

Amanda wrote: "I've got one instrument on cover I can save the finish until Saturday! (also V name)"

That's great to have an instrument book all figured out already!

Bobbi wrote: "So question: I'm reading Velorio by Xavier Navarro Aquino for an X. Should I hold off and use it for a V or A?

Also, just FYI, my DQs are up."

It's totally up to you about holding off vs. finishing - I think X is a harder one to cover than V, but either way we will happily use it!

I have about one more chapter to finish on Starter Villain and then I can answer the day 1 questions - yay!

There isn't any disadvantage to the longer words - I wondered the same thing! But we basically only get book points, not points for finishing words. The only reason it is important to finish words is that we can only have one unfinished word at the end.

I fixed it to say "start of round 3/ end of round 2". Round 3 starts right when round 2 ends.

I suspect we will end this round with a pretty high placement because you are all doing such an excellent job reading. So I doubt our bonuses will change - but I could be surprised!

The last month I have read so many books with "V". Now watch and I won't be able to find any :)

4 Nov to 18 Nov
Link to start of Round 3/end of Round 2:
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Word: VIOLA POMPOSA
Color Red (50% or more) - 5 bonus points each, maximum of 5 books

Round 2 Bonus For this round, find musical instruments on the cover of your books (any instrument, just has to be obviously an instrument)

Each found instrument will earn an additional 5 bonus points. Only one instrument per book cover and a maximum of 10 bonus instruments. You can find the same instrument multiple times (not least because no one's got time to decide if it's a violin or viola etc etc)

Note to players: any changes to the standard bonus rules, similar to what was done for Round 2, will not be determined until after the results of Round 2 and the mods see the point spread between teams. A lot can change from round to round.

Janeylou wrote: "I know it looks like i still have lots of bonus books to finish , but will have 1 done today and others will be sorted 👍"

Thanks Janeylou! I wasn't worried about them other than not wanting you to feel pressured.

Nanci - hooray for another Y!

Here is the countdown timer for the end of the round:
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

It's going well.

@Janeylou - are you still ok with those location books or do you need help? Just speak up if you need someone else to read for a location.

We got lots of X's from Annalisa - thank you so much! I can add more words at the end of our sheet if we end up needing them (I'm guessing we will).

Keep reading all of the things, everyone. And keep a special eye out for Y's and O's at the moment. But any letter in XYLOPHONE helps!

as long as you can read it within a month of the group it counts. looks like a fast read!

Oh hmm...I found a long review that mentions the Hera, so we can use it for this week's word too.

book of the month starts this Thursday. I'm going to hold off finishing it until next week, in hopes that it has a letter that will fit our upcoming spellout (which we don't know yet). Bobbi - if you see a letter in it that will fit Xylophone then let us know :) I'm only going from book description, so there may well be something.

I have an X I'm listening to, but it's kind of long so may take me a good part of the week. And a Y I'll start tomorrow which will hopefully be fairly fast.