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

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

Nanci wrote: "Most of my friends also weren't big fans of the Vegas part for Goldfinch. I do give her credit for describing the area very vividly though.

Movie alert! If you have the opportunity to see "The So..."

Thanks Nanci - I went to that a couple of weeks ago. Hard to watch, but so good.

Thanks Lisa!

MN Lisa wrote: "I just read a book where there is a rogue pack who try to overtake the existing alpha structure. They were not successful. Could that be considered a rebellion?"

I'd consider that a rebellion.

Thanks Leslie - it will for sure fit something. Have fun!

That's good input - thanks! Jen, I'd say for the Unmarked Witch - use it for either astronomy wheel or the pages tower (and the TT mini) - your choice. But for the really long one, lets keep it off of wheel so we can use it for the pages tower. It looks black, which we have a lot of for rainbow, but hopefully there is a letter that will work for Team Towers.

Ok Jen - so for your books - it could go either way! They certainly work for wheel. We're on target with the 400-500 page books, so it seems like we could use that one for sure in wheel. We are ALMOST on target with the 600+ page books. So what do you all think about using Jen's long book to finish a Wheel and get a new one vs. filling up the tower pages? If only I could see the future!

Weekly Status Report

Summary: (As of July 16)
We have been reading so much! The top three teams are all being super competitive. The teamwork on Wheel has been super fun to watch.

Status sheet Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

July Books *as of July 16, 52% done with the month - :
100-199 10/10 100%
200-299 20/20 1000%
300-399 30/30 100%
400-400 16/30 53%
500-599 7/20 35%
600+ 5/10 50%
Free 86/103


Shelf fixes

Books of the Month

Starts 2 July Fantastic job on questions Kerri!!

Starts 16 July - remember to go answer questions :)

Mini-Challenges
Rainbow Towers: Keep marking any of your books that have colored covers.

Wheel: Nice Teamwork! This is a fun mini - and certainly a challenge.

Page points: We are behind or right on with our long-page books (I'm sure that's because we have focused on wheel, and can't count the pages for the tower - they still count for page points!) I know Leslie is reading some long books on her trip, and when I travel the next two weeks I'll be reading some as well.

However - I hadn't realized both of those are so long! Hmm...let me check our page counts before we decide if we should use them for wheel.

Jen wrote: "I will finish two books tomorrow
Beautiful Nightmares has romance as a MPG so it could work for the love muse

The Unmarked Witch isn’t astrology but it’s witchy a..."

Both of those would work fine! I think we could also move one in to cover one of the unfinished muse tasks and move those claimed ones down. I'll take a look.

It's muses again. I will check with you all next time we spin, because we COULD get a respin on that one. But it's a fairly easy one :)

Great - I'm going to update and check in that wheel :)

Thanks Keli - good plans!

Here is a list of post-colonial books:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Kirsten, it's almost perfect - you just need to switch left and right.

Thanks so much for tanking charge of that challenge!

Be sure to say it is MPG Historical, since the description sure doesn't sound like it (except I suppose they mention Regency).

Too bad the prince isn't a poet, musician, or dancer :)

Janeylou wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "We got Muses again. I'm going to say we will keep it (even though we've had it twice) because it's a pretty flexible/easy one for us.

Pick four different muses and read a book that..."

Sure - that'd be great to use My Fair Captain for history.

That would be super distracting! But a deck will be great to have.

I moved Cris's book to cover "Love" (the muse) since it sounds like we have our square tasks planned :)

If Cris finishes before Nanci, we can move Cris's book to Chaser, Keli's book to Beater, and Nanci's book to a muse.

We got Muses again. I'm going to say we will keep it (even though we've had it twice) because it's a pretty flexible/easy one for us.

Pick four different muses and read a book that fits their role:
Comedy, History, Music, Tragedy, Dance, Love, Sacred Poetry, Astronomy, Epic Poetry

I finished my Christmas book a few minutes ago. I need to unload groceries then will mark it as read and get a new wheel thing.