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

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

I'm honestly not sure - I haven't heard of any. However, I would personally bet there will be more.

Weekly Status Report

Summary: Amazing! There is so much good reading going on! We currently have the most books read of all the teams. The neatest thing about that is every single one of you is reading and contributing - thank you!

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

May Books: Required Tower 141/223: 63% complete
Needed Page ranges - all done except:
400-499 need 9 more books
500-599 need 13 more books
Any other books you read, put in "free choice" (if you remember).
Note: It is fine - and will be great - if we go over that 223 book count! However, never feel pressured to read - have as much fun as possible!

Shelf fixes (I put those notes here because it is easy to miss them in the thread.)
Lisa - need Sheriff's Troublemaker, Virgin Flyer, and Oracle on your shelf

Cris - Need Paper Cuts on your shelf.


Books of the Month
If you want to participate, the last day to answer daily questions is 2 June. Be sure to link three of your answers into our planning sheet.


starts 16 May - Nanci is asking the DQs on day 3 - yay!


(Backroom read) starts 10 May

Upcoming books for June:

Mini-Challenge
If a book cover is more than 50% of any color be sure to record that in the spreadsheet, no matter what mini- you are using it for.
If we need to free up spots in the other minis, we can move these into Rainbow towers - which will never fill up :).
All but one Mod shelf is claimed, and the Winner's Towers are filling in nicely (great creativity team!)
I was going to give numbers, but those are so fluid, and we are doing all that we need to here. If you ever have trouble finding a spot for a book, just speak up! We have lots of great and creative brains on the team.

Other Notes
Tone - an Outlander tour of Scotland - that should be it's own category of earning points. Have a fantastic time!

I love the dog/puppy talk. :)

Happy Mother's Day to you mothers and grandmothers. And way to share by example your love of reading!

Kerri - that mutt sounds adorable - what a neat combination - and speaking of smart.... I adore dogs.

A few books that need to be added to TT Shelves:

@Cris - Paper Cuts

@Lisa - The Sheriff's Troublemaker
Virgin Flyer
Oracle

Cris - I love the puppy pictures - adorable! And with the moving the human - you've been busy!

Keli - thanks for sharing your review! I agree with your thoughts. I really do love reading reviews - even those I DON'T agree with! I didn't like Monique either :)

Kerri wrote: "Sooooo... the book I just finished is 99 Percent Mine and the MC has a chronic illness. Is it too much of a stretch to put the book in the Lupin shelf since Remus has lycanthropy wh..."

I think that would work fine! Be sure to note it has a yellow cover also, in case we end up needing to move it:)

Hello from Moab! We are driving home tomorrow and I'll make more thread comments then. So many good things!
For Winners: if you can make a good connection to the team name it'll likely work. So like Ventinari could be a Discworld book, character who leads a city, character who is manipulative (just a few examples). For Lupin it could be a shifter character, someone who needs medication, a teacher character, etc. I'm kind of wondering if we can use Kings of the Wyld for moonstone since it mentions moonstone in a few places :)

For Rainbow covers have to be at least 50% of a color to be used. And for each rainbow except the first it has to be 10 different colors but we can choose what 10 colors.

I'm so excited to see the spreadsheet and more comments when I get home!

Sounds like a consensus! And looks like an interesting book :)

I will be going on a short jeep/camping trip (The White Rim Trail in Moab if anyone knows where that is) and likely won't have internet especially on Thursday. I'll be back Saturday night, and I'm sure I won't be able to resist checking in on my phone when I can. And reading....14 hours of driving means lots of reading (if I don't just fall asleep).

But if I'm slow to respond, that is why :)

I absolutely love how Goodreads challenges bring together people from all over the world with different professions, ages, and taste in books. It feels very unifying. And I think about 100 times a day how much I like all of you on this team :)

Summary Post: Kings of the Wyld

Day 1: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 2: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 3: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 4: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 5: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 6: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 7:

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS - Day 6

27. We finally get Lastleaf's backstory in full, and his motives become clearer. What did you think of the fact that he is technically one of the human's Gods (not actually a god, but a being that through myth and legend has been elevated to one over time)?
Did you see Shadow's treachery coming?

I hoped he would join the party, but I was suspicious because of the way he initially looked at Gabe's sword. So I wasn't too surprised he tried to get it. I WAS surprised about his method - I expected something sneaky.

28. Another battle, and Clay has a mental dig at Moog for not being much use in a battle. Poor Moog. do you feel that maybe Clay and the others underestimate Moog at times?
Yes! Moog is totally underestimated. He gets things done, and being unorthodox makes him more effective.

29. Moog rigs up a magical "telephone". If you were in Rose's situation, would you want to know of the rescue attempt (unlikely as it seems it would be successful), or would you prefer not to know? (a very slight hope vs the knowledge that your loved ones are putting themselves in danger because of you)
Oh boy - good question. I think I'd want to know, even though I would worry. And it was neat to see Rosie.

30. Owlbear cubs! What mythical creature do you think would make a good pet? Oh geez these were so cute - I was cooing last night as I was reading this part. And laughing at Moog transferring porridge from his mouth to theirs. I don't know that a mythical creature would make a good pet, but if they bonded like in some fantasy, I'd want a dragon.

31. "You're a hard man to kill, Clay Cooper"
"But I'm easy to hurt"
I think it says a lot about clay that he can plummet from a bridge, spare a moment for a dying fiend, show incredible endurance catching up with Larkspur and still see the humanity in the woman that cut off his hand. Superman or just plain stubborn? Truly good person, or in denial about how the world really is?
I think Clay is the best kind of person - and I'm so glad you included this quote. I really love him and I hope he sees his wife and daughter again!

I have tons of color covers, so I'll try to gravitate to those. I have one right now that I put in for Lupin since it is set at a school of magic - but it is dark blue so may end up getting moved.

I'm listening to a Star Wars book and have another (also Star Wars) that will work for Palpatine. I was on that team, so I should at least fill in a couple of those :). I was on Elektra too, but I haven't done anything with that yet.

That's just fine Kirsten. I think it's important for everyone to read whatever works for you! (And goodness Nicole - I hope you start having better book luck!)

I noted a lot of color covers that we've used already in the spellout - and if our spellout options get tight, I'll move those books to rainbows. But we certainly don't need to do all color covers - we'd miss too many great books that way!

Also, since I'm thinking about color covers: - we can have as many rainbow towers as we would like. And each tower after the first can use any of the 18 listed colors - I got confused because the colors under the mini-task #s are specific, but there is a drop down menu and we can use whatever colors we want for each tower - they just have to be 10 different colors. That is cool because if we finish the other mini-challenge tasks we can still do rainbow towers.

It also means if we get close to finishing the spellout, we will move colored-covered books from that to rainbows. So if your book is ANY color (more than 50%) please note it on the spreadsheet.

That's a wonderful birthday celebration Nanci! It sounds great :)

Lisa, the color covers have to be at least 50% the color we are looking for. So I think the first orange and green ones you linked aren't enough of the color to be able to use.

The one with the red on it could be used for a white cover but not red.
Forgiving Thayne does have enough green that I think you could use that for bright green.

Apoorv wrote: "Thank you Shannon, Suzanne, and Kerri.
I was surprised to not find a Violet in our main rainbow though.
LOVE that color and most of its shades. :)"

I love violet too! Guess we both have good taste :)

Apoorv wrote: "Question:
Do you folks think this shade of violet is the closest to the Rainbow tag RT20/38/56? We don't really have a "violet" prompt in the main 18-book tower. So was curious if this fits anywhe..."

I agree with Shannon - I think that works great!

DQ Day 5
Chapters 31-37

22. The band choose to land to search for Matrick and eventually find Matrick, Larkspur and a Witch Doctor. Did this surprise you? I was expecting them to be reunited - well except for the witch doctor. I loved him!! Just so good natured and funny.

23. Larkspur in her fall has lost her memory and now goes by the name Sabitha. After her drug induced sleep she recounts her dreams to Clay of snippets from her past. Does this put her actions in a different light? When she recovers her memory do you think she will revert back to her how she was before the fall?
I HOPE she doesn't revert back. It was good to learn reasons why she because so cold and cruel, but I hope she decides to be a better person (I'm almost sure she'll regain her memories.

24. We meet Gregory and Dane during our visit to the Cannibals. What are your thoughts on how Gregory describes events to Dane?
I'm glad you mentioned this because I thought it was so incredibly sweet. And I was glad it touched some of the Band members' hearts too. My dad was saying last week that in his childhood they had some tough financial times, yet as a kid he never realized there was a problem. Gregory and Dane kind of reminded me of that.

25. I’m loving the magic bag in this section. What meal would you have it magically produce?
I want one! I'd have a variety of food - oh man - all the things. But probably it'd be Mexican food the most :)

26. It seems there is a cure for Rot. How do you think this will effect Moog in the long term? How devastating to realize that it was an easily available cure! Poor Moog! He obviously won't die of rot in the long term, but I hope he doesn't become too depressed!

It was super fun this morning looking at all the books read in just one week and thinking about how you are all are not only good readers, but such interesting people :) I'm glad I get to play with you!

Note: I forgot to add the Mini-challenge progress in there, but they are all progressing very well, especially when considering all of the claimed tasks. I'll add that next week :)