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

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

Challenge Description and Rules

Team Spreadsheet (only editable by Captains) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Team Rankings https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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

Mini-Challenges
Original: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Chipmunk: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Planning sheet (claim tasks and let us know your planned/finished books): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

If you don't want to use the planning spreadsheet, you can leave a completion post for your finished books in the team thread.

Sample Completion Post
Book:
Author:
Pages:
Date finished:
Any comments you'd like to make about the book.

If the book is for a mini challenge, please list all tasks it will work for, including reasons why


Team Shelves and NBRC Comments:
✔️ Suzanne TTX Comments
✔️ Lisa 2023-ttx Comments
✔️ Shannon O'Flynn ttx Comments
✔️ Nanci Drum tt2023 Comments
✔️Apoorv Moghe challenge-nbrc-ttx Comments
✔️ Jen Sabo tt10 Comments
✔️ Kirsten ttx Comments
✔️ Jackie tt-x Comments
✔️ Amanda tower2023Comments
✔️ Janine ttx Comments
✔️ Vi tower-teams-x Comments
✔️ Tone B ttx-2023 Comments
✔️ Andrea tower-teamsm-10 Comments
✔️ Cris towerteams23 Comments
✔️ Kerri McDonaldtower-teams-x Comments
✔️ Nicole towers-x Comments
✔️ Leslie Ann Towerx Comments
✔️Elinor 2023-towerteams Comments
✔️Keli ttx Comments


(Please try to remember to add your finished books to your challenge shelf - that makes your captains' lives so much easier!)

IMO the chat, support and friendship are the most contributions to any team. And the book recommendations :)

@Mods - would it be possible to lower my books/week to 15? I think that will be less stressful for me and allow me to read longer books.

Well done, Keli! I love murderbot - I think that is my book alter-ego.

I finished my first book of the challenge too: Cosmos. It was written in the 80s and I enjoyed thinking about what has happened since then, but mostly just thinking about the immensity of the universe.

That's wonderful! I'd love to be on a team with all of you! Fingers crossed.

It is a fun, very low stress challenge. Pretty much any book you read fits somewhere.

This has been an eye-opening challenge for me - I realized that the number of books published in the current year vastly outweighs the number on my TBR from years ago - yikes! Although I have to blame Netgalley for some of that.

But...
1. I finished The Camel Club series (on my list since 2012)
2. Read 15 books from 2015. A standout for me was The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - I was very surprised to like it so much.
3. Ironically finished "The Finishing School series" from my 2016 list
4. FINALLY read The Pillars of the Earth, A Memory Called Empire and Super Powereds: Year 1 - some long tomes that have been on my list froever.

I am definitely going to try again next year.

I am almost done (resumed with Part 2 in late November) and thought I would check in here. My feelings have been well expressed by Karen - the writing is so good, but I'm so frustrated with the bad guys and I just want them to be dead. And I got very tired with the war.

I hope to finish this today - we'll see.

I want to keep trying to read some of the oldest books on my TBR. I'll go with 50 this time as I need to also catch up on Netgalley and I'm not reading as much.. Any books I've had on there from 2012 to 2019 will count.

52/50

2012:

2013:

2014:

2015:
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion February
Mother Earth, Father Sky - August
The Shop on Blossom Street - September
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - October
The Privilege of the Sword - October


2016:
Beauty and the Beast February
The Bookshop on the Corner February
Split the Party - April
The Devil You Know - April
The Wednesday Sisters June
Furiously Happy - August
Enchanted - September
Rosemary's Gravy - September

2017:
Cosmos January
West with the Night by Beryl Markham February
That Wintry Feeling - February
Where'd You Go, Bernadette - March
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror - April
The City of Brass - June
Side Jobs - September
A Fall of Marigolds - September
La Belle Sauvage - October
Wishin' and Hopin' - October
A Plague of Giants - November
Fierce Kingdom - November
The Visitor - November
Fated - December

2018:
Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones - May
Maids of Misfortune April
Zoo July
A River in Darkness - August
Whose Body? - October
Romancing the Werewolf - December

2019:
Assassin's Honor by Gail Martin - February
99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne - February
The Three Fates - February
The Other Queen - April
Broken Homes - May
Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch July
11/22/63 June
Thrawn: Alliances June
Strange Dogs: An Expanse Novella July
City of Thieves - August
Her Body and Other Parties - August
Fairest - September
Foxglove Summer - September
Wicked and the Wallflower - September
Invasive - October
You're Going to Mars! - October
The City Baker's Guide to Country Living - November
Vox - December
Tunnel of Bones - December

I think we did as well as we possibly could. Im proud of us! Thank so much for all the work!!!!

we don't get points (just satisfaction) from those anyway. and I have to say I LOVED your descriptions!

thanks Rebecca! you've put in so much work this challenge!!

oh Lynne I'm so sorry you are sick. I hope you recover quickly!

And oops! I'll do Alias Emma right now.

I think I am done with what I can finish this month. I am sure sorry I am not home on my computer to help with transferring things!

Thanks Rebecca for the reminder!

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

I have two completed books to make meals for, and I linked in the books I'll have finished by the end of the month - just doing things ahead of time that are hard to do on a phone or tablet :)

I listened to a book that is audio only (asked about this in the questions area). I THINK it may need to be unverified pages, but since it was a bit over 7 hours I wanted to ask just in case - then I'll get it put in.

I swear most of the books I need/want to read this month are in the 400 -500 page range - the worst efficiency range for this challenge.

If a book is audio-only (7 hours and 18 minutes) what page count do I use? Is it the minimum number?

Sorry if this has been answered already - I searched all these pages for "audio" and didn't find it.

I think they were fine!

I hope you had a great weekend too. Boy time just speeds by. I finished The Green Mile and need to put it in - maybe today! It was on audio, and I don't remember really hearing any bonus romantic items. But people did eat :)