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

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

Elinor - I'm so glad you had fun with your cousin! And thank you for noticing the page count for that BOM!

Kirsten wrote: "I just signed myself up for Double Up, by the coincidentally named
Vanessa North.

I have 3 more direction books <200 pages in my tbr, so I'm up for getting another one."

That's awesome - the author name made me laugh.

And yes I think there are much worse prompts.

Wonderful! Thanks Janeylou and Jen. I'll listen to Down the Hatch.

I think after we complete this second time roll, we can opt to re-roll if we get it again.

Wonderful! But even more wonderful is that trip - I hope you have an amazing time Leslie!

Haha I will take and enjoy that competitive spirit Kirsten. Brilliant idea to read that book too!

Jackie wrote: "I put those two on Wheel.

Started Above Suspicion. It's an espionage novel published in 1941. So interesting as it describes life just as WWII was starting."

Oh that does sound interesting! My parents were very young at that time, and I've always loved hearing what they said about those days.

Yes, it's probably good to use The Fine Print for main tower if we can.

Jackie, if you can do those two, lets go ahead and put them in for that Wheel. I just finished my book and will get it checked in and read a book that will finish off the square (starts with T and ends with S) Unless someone else already has one in progress.

Possibilities that I could read quickly:
Starts with T ends with E
Starts with N ends with E
Starts with T ends with S
Starts with T ends with A
Starts with T ends with D

I'm sure I could find others :)

Those seem like good letters! So then we'd have:
An Evil Heart
Above Suspicion
** Starts with T and ends with #
***Starts with N and ends with #

We could probably choose either of those ** books first, then find the last (hardest since it has 2 requirements)

So for the latest Wheel task - assuming we use my book, we need three books:
1. Starts with A and ends with * (letter that is easy to find as a starting letter for titles)
2. Starts with T and ends with # (letter that is easy to find as an ending letter for titles
3. Starts with * and ends with #

I hope that makes sense :)

Weekly Status Report

Summary: (As of July 9)
Great teamwork with Wheel, pages, and input. Thanks for all of your contributions. We are in 2nd place but are doing so well. I still think we can pull off a win, but even if not, I 100% feel like a winner.

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

July Books *as of July 9, 29% done with the month - :
100-199 9/10 90%
200-299 14/20 70%
300-399 17/30 57%
400-400 10/30 33%
500-599 5/20 25%
600+ 2/10 20%
Free 29/103


Shelf fixes

Books of the Month


16 July is the last day to answer questions

Starts 2 July Fantastic job on questions Kerri!!

Starts 16 July

Mini-Challenges
Rainbow Towers: Keep marking any of your books that have colored covers. At the current rate we will have the TT spellouts done in early July, and this will be our only way besides Wheel to gain points. So that spreadsheet column noting colored cover (when applicable) is super important.

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

Page points: We are slightly behind on the 600+ category (I blame wheel) but things are looking good!

Janeylou wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "Janeylou - were you planning on finishing "Wake Me Up Inside"? If not, I'll try to knock off "Down the Hatch" today. I think unless we end up getting mod permission, we probably sho..."

Thanks Janeylou! I'm so sorry about the confusion on this task! I think so far it is the least clear - at least to me. I'm not thinking too hard about Wake me Up - since it has Up in the title I think we can just go for it :)

Note: I woke up at 4 a.m. because I couldn't stop thinking about "up, down, under, in, left, right, etc." I finally just got up and started the day. Hope I get THROUGH it :)

Good thing is, I had time to do the update. So incoming:

Janeylou - were you planning on finishing "Wake Me Up Inside"? If not, I'll try to knock off "Down the Hatch" today. I think unless we end up getting mod permission, we probably shouldn't use "Under My Skin" since that really feels more like position (the place something is). I could easily be wrong, but I don't want out tasks frozen if someone disputes it :)

I'll put that heron task in now (unless someone already has, which often happens).

I also will start listening to Down the Hatch tomorrow - it should (hopefully) be pretty fast to finish. Just in case :) It will also work for a color cover, or I can stop (if we finish that direction wheel) and finish it if we spin that one again.

I will finish An Evil Heart tomorrow, which could work for top edge. Then the right edge would need to start with T and the left would need to start with A.

Anyway, have a good night. I have a big thing to do in the morning, so will update about one (Mountain Standard Time) tomorrow.

Here's an example
Top Edge: The Man I Never Met Starts with T, ends with T
Right Edge: Tess of the D'Urbervilles Starts with T, ends with S
Bottom Edge: Seven Faceless Starts with S, Ends with S
Left Edge: The seven Sisters: Starts with T, ends with S

Tower Teams 3: Save Christmas - Read 4 books with title start and end letters that connect to make a square.

(Note: my personal opinion is like "Under my skin" is the same feel as "in the land" and doesn't really imply a direction/movement. But it's confusing to me for sure!)

Note: There is still no Mod answer about using "Under My Skin" for our last direction task. Janeylou - I think you are reading a heron book instead? I think they may not want to answer the question and just let us figure it out :) I'm not sure how good my brain is (long day) but I guess we will need either a team consensus or another book :)

I agree - I can't even imagine a better team.

I'll go check on that lemon cupcakes wheel :)