Rebecca ’s Comments (group member since Sep 03, 2016)

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

Hello everyone!

This is my third or fourth tower teams I think...been on teams with Lexi and Judith before and they are both AWESOME captains we are very lucky to have them.

I am owned by two very spoiled exceptionally needy cats. Ciara an all gray (think Russian blue) and Charlotte an ex-stray, picked me as his pet parent and moved right in all black cat. Ciara tolerates him to a point but finds him more annoying than endearing lol Charlotte loves to read, in fact he owns his own books that he lays on and looks at the pictures. He gets so excited sometimes that he has been known to accidentally tear the page and get very upset with himself. Ciara does not like reading and does like it when I read. She feels it takes my attention away from her lol They are a handful that I wouldn't trade for anything. I also feed about 8 (that I know of, probably more) strays. Clearly I am a borderline crazy cat lady and proud of it!!!

I am an avid baseball fan and so glad the season is in full swing. My team is the Chicago Cubs-Go Cubs Go! If I'm not watching the Cubs then I'm watching the Red Sox or some of my favorite players such as Kyle Schwarber, Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant, Javier Baez and Willson Contreras.

I read pretty much anything with the exception of science fiction but I will try anything at least once. I work afternoons/evenings so the majority of my reading comes either late at night or in the morning.

I'm looking forward to the next 3 months and playing the original Tower Teams challenge and getting to know everyone.

Happy reading!

Thanks everyone for being an awesome team! Also, thanks, to the Captain and Co-Captains for all of their hard work.

I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, a Blessed New Year and Happy Reading!

Eldarwen wrote: "Rebecca wrote: "I’m hoping to as well. This 12 days of cookies is killing me, it’s stealing all my reading time haha"

12 days of cookies??
I am curious - what is that?"

It's a challenge I set for myself. I usually make cookies every year for everyone at work around this time. I used to make multiple types and bring them all in at once but that about killed me on my two days off plus everything else I have going on. I got the brilliant (or maybe not so brilliant) idea last year that I would make a different type of cookie and bring them in for each of the 12 days that I work leading up to Christmas. Last year was a mini fiasco because I wasn't organized and stressed myself out every night after work (I usually work 9-10 hours plus an hour or so commute on either end). This year I knew a little more as to what I wanted to make and what shortcuts to take thank goodness so it's going A LOT smoother hahaha
Cookie list for this year so far:
1. Snickerdoodles
2. ginger snaps
3. peanut butter fudge
4. Christmas toffee
5. Russian tea cakes
6. Peanut Blossoms
7. Sandbakkelse (Norweigan sugar cookies)
This week I'm making:
8. Lemon snowflakes
9. Cinnamon
10. Salted caramel
11. Peppermint brownies
12. M&M cookies (these are kind of like an oatmeal shortbread)

SandyL wrote: "Completion Post


Homecoming King by Penny Reid
Date: 12/19/22
Pages: 358
Letters:
T - TW (char nickname)
H - Homecoming (title)..."

How was this one? I so badly want to read some of her books but I keep starting and putting them down...I think it's me and not the books necessarily

Eldarwen wrote: "Yaay, way to go, Sharon! :-)

Any books not gathering dust on our TBRs is a step in the right direction hehe. I had to lower my goal for this year already, and I'm not sure I'm going to reach the o..."

I set a low goal this year and somehow managed to exceed it but I don't know how. It's hard when you work and have other obligations but I'm sure you'll still make your new goal this year and blow it out of the water next year :-D

Eldarwen wrote: "Here is a little reminder of the countdown for the end of this round, ie the end of the challenge.

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

Wheel..."

It flew by in the blink of an eye

Sharon wrote: "I don't think I'll be able to finish my last book before the end of the round, but if I do I'll be sure to post it. Work's been busy as I'm trying to wrap up year-end stuff so I can take off time b..."

Good luck with work and good luck with your GR goal! You can do it!!!

COMPLETION POST

Scrooge-ish

Scrooge-ish by L.B. Dunbar

Date: 19 December
Pages: 169

Letters:
T:Tam (character)
E: Eva (character)
B: Brock (character)
D: Dunbar (author)
S: Scrooge-ish (title)

4 stars

Blue cover

I’m hoping to as well. This 12 days of cookies is killing me, it’s stealing all my reading time haha

Eldarwen wrote: "Ah yes, that reminds!

A little trick to see the number of tags for books where the new page doesn't show enough tags to get to the actual page with tags.

Here is a note from one of the lovely cap..."

Whoohoo! Thanks for the work around Eldarwen, I appreciate it. It was really bugging me that I couldn't see them. I tried on my phone as well. I thought maybe it had to do with the new page version of Goodreads which it does so good to know for the future

Keely wrote: "I'm not sure if I will get anymore done in time. It's my boyfriend's grandma's birthday today and my birthday tomorrow so we're probably going to be socialising most of today and tomorrow."

Happy Birthday and have fun with Grandma today!

COMPLETION POST



Zombie, Ohio by Scott Kenemore

Date: 17 December
Pages: 240
Letters:
E-Elsie (character)
B-Billy (character)
R-Roger (character)
S-Scott (author)

Two star rating (boring in the middle)

Tagged 168 times Zombie

Sorry I only got two books in this week, I was really hoping to finish at least two more but alas time was not my friend! I barely even got these on here before the deadline.

COMPLETION POST



Date: 9 December
Pages:262
Letters:
O: Overachiever (title)
S: SM Shade (author)
R: Remee (character)
K: Kelly (character)

Color: teal
Tags: Contemporary (but can't see how many times)

COMPLETION POST



Date: 6 December
Pages: 216
Letters:
B/K: Kelly Bryant (character)
L: Layton (character)
O: Owen (character)
E: Easton (character)
R: Remee (character)
S: SM Shade (author)

Color: Teal

Tags: Contemporary (but can't see how many times)

What's the consensus on this being teal? I think it is but tineye says it is 71.5% blue

Sorry, for not posting anything until now...

COMPLETION POST

Triple Cross

Triple Cross by James Patterson

Date Read: 5 December
Pages: 416 pages
Rating: 4 stars

Letters:
J: James (author)
A: Alex Cross (character)
D: Detective Deloia (character)
E: Elaine Parsons (character)
C: Alex Cross (character)
T: Thomas Tuell (character)

COMPLETION POST

The Bookshop on the Corner

The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan


Date Read: 4 December
Pages: pages
Rating: 5 stars

Letters:
J: Jenny (author)
C: Colgan (author)

COMPLETION POST

The Nine Lives of Christmas

The Nine Lives of Christmas by Sheila Roberts

Date Read: 2 December
Pages: 256 pages
Rating: 5 stars

Letters:
C: Mr Carlyle (character)
T: The (title)