Tricia’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2022)

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

Skipping this task:
Read a book set in the time period "Contemporary history"
Direction is East, so even number of pages

S - The Mother in Law by Sally Hepworth - 340 pages
K - These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant - 288 pages
I - Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy - 258 pages
P - Loveless by Alice Oseman (C: Pip) - 432 pages

ExtraOrdinary by VE Schwab - 112
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - 378
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff - 97
Sapiens: A Graphic History by David Vandermeulen - 248
The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin - 314
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 - 432
Show Me a Sign by Ann Clare LeZotte - 288
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - 238
A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon - 980
The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas - 487
Storm Front by Jim Butcher - 355
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover - 337
The Witches are Coming by Lindy West - 260
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - 245
The Iliad Graphic by Gareth Hinds - 272
Beartown by Fredrik Backman - 418
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges - 39
Bittersweet by Sarina Bowen - 348
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang - 281
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin - 176
The Rook by Daniel O'Malley - 496
Her Name is Knight by Yasmin Angoe - 389
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam - 256
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire - 173
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill - 400
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson - 117
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez - 369
Caliban's War by James Corey - 633
The Butcher of Anderson Station by James Corey - 24
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley - 360
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy - 128
The Odyssey: A graphic novel by Gareth Hinds - 256
The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman - 362
Hearstopper Become Human by Alice Oseman - 128
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel - 255
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant - 288
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave - 307
These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan - 448
Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant - 128
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 73
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy - 258
Drive by James Corey - 30
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch - 389
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar - 209
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson - 266
Heartstopper #1 by Alice Oseman - 278
One Second After by William Forstchen - 352
Heartstopper #2 by Alice Oseman - 320
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab - 444
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood - 356
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - 294
Normal People by Sally Rooney - 268
Heartstopper #3 by Alice Oseman - 384
Murder at Pirate's Cove by Josh Lanyon -240
Hearstopper #4 by Alice Oseman - 384
The Cheat Sheet by Sara Adams - 306
Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick - 275
Loveless by Alice Oseman - 432

My total: 17,379

Challenge total: 1,093,196

Sorry!!! I'm pretty new to book challenges and was just trying to help.

So when the prompt says first page it means essentially the second page. Not the page directly on the book's main page, but the first page where it lists all the book's tags. As long as Started is listed somewhere on that main tag page, it counts.

The higher the book is on the search list, the more likely the tag will be on the first page.

Louise wrote: "Tricia wrote: "Do you know how to easily search for that tag?"

https://www.goodreads.com/genres/started"

Yeah exactly. I was on my phone and couldn't do it easily, so thanks for posting that for Alysa. Hopefully that helps!

Do you know how to easily search for that tag?

I just finished Normal People last week. I also rated it 3.5 stars. Some parts were excellent. I didn't like the ending. I plan to read one more Sally Rooney at some point.

Finished which has been on my list since 2015. I gave it 3 stars - didn't love it but it was interesting. Glad to have finally read it.

Finished #9 on my list:

I didn't love this book. I gave it 2 stars. I think the concept of a post-EMP country was probably more unique when he wrote it in 2009, but I didn't think that at this point it had anything special to say.

I've read over 75 books so far this year, but so many of them were newly added and I keep adding more that I feel like my TBR is going in the wrong direction. LOL... And I'm struggling with reading these older titles because there are just so many new books all the time that pull my interest more.

The posts at the top mentioned this issue and said you should read a book with the author last name of B and make the title work for the direction you want.

Can we use Series Titles for these tasks? I'm having the hardest time finding a book title that spells out Scrabble.

Sophie wrote: "

https://www.goodreads.com/group/invit...

Please come joi"

What is this for? I clicked the link but it said it was invite only.

Ashley wrote: "I know I know, I'm LATE... but it is still something we can sign up for? .. because it looks FUN! If so, I'd love to sign up at Hard!"

It is so much fun! I'm doing 12 challenges at the moment, and this is my favorite!!

Karen ♐ wrote: "I got my first task also and at the bottom of the page for the Maze, you can check a box if the title is N-Z. Does it have to be those letters or if you don't read a book starting with those letter..."

If you want to move in a particular direction, you must complete the correct requirements. So if you want to move South, the title of the book you read needs to start with the second half of the alphabet. If you want to move east or west, title doesn't matter, but number of pages does. Does that help?

And if it starts with A, An, or The, you can use those as the first letter or not, depending on what helps you out. Up to you!

Cat wrote: "being a UNO player (Perks hosts it with signups in January each year), I can turn to their handy-dandy lists:
use the genre search function for uno-green / uno-blue / uno-red / uno-yellow for books..."

How do I sign up to get notified of the challenge next year?

♞ Pat wrote: "tineye color extraction is usually pretty reliable. LOL If you get a 50/50 or relatively close ratio, then I'd say you're in the right ballpark for teal (more green), turquoise (more blue)

Tin Eye..."

I will check out the Water Keeper. I also found a few others but none available at my library at the moment. I was hoping to make it easy, but it just doesn't always work out. ;)

♞ Pat wrote: "tineye color extraction is usually pretty reliable. LOL If you get a 50/50 or relatively close ratio, then I'd say you're in the right ballpark for teal (more green), turquoise (more blue)"

Oh awesome! Thanks!! One on the left came up all blue - no green at all! The one on the right came up about 45% green but it turned out it was filtering out the main background color. Once I added that in, it was pretty much blue. So the hunt continues! ;)

What do you guys think? Is it green or blue? I'm having the hardest time with teal books! lol

Cat wrote: "Tricia wrote: "My next task is to read a book with a green cover, but I'm not clear on how much green counts? Do any of these work? Or am I looking for a plain green cover? "

Tricia, assume the no..."

Thank you! It's my first year doing challenges so I didn't know the rule. :)

My next task is to read a book with a green cover, but I'm not clear on how much green counts? Do any of these work? Or am I looking for a plain green cover?