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

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

Wow, Alisha just eliminated about 1/2 of her maze from consideration! :O Am I the only one who looks at other people's progress? LOL

✿~Danielle~✿ wrote: "First task and I think I’ll be going the way of skipping.

Task: Read a book that is in the Amazon 2004 bestsellers (http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/...)

There is HP 5 & 6 on list, but..."

There are some good ones on there but you definitely have to look hard. lol... Tipping point was actually quite interesting. Five People You Meet in Heaven was good and short if I'm remembering correctly. Life of Pi is excellent if you haven't already read it. Could always read the Lemony Snickett for a quick and easy way to get through the task. lol

Oh, there's a Stephanie Plum! Those are super entertaining and a fast read.

Jenny wrote: "I would take that to be three letters in the same order as they appear in the alphabet.
"I Made Fun of Myself"=DEF in the title.

But I could be wrong."

That's how I read it also.

I know this challenge is new so I wanted to suggest that the north/south conditions get randomized in the future? The way it is now we're almost always going south so I can never pick titles from A to M. It means half of my TBR is almost always ruled out. If it flipped randomly that would give those titles a chance!

#2.

Finished this and really liked it. Wish it hadn't taken me so long to read it.

Really struggling with most of the other titles on my list, though. Clearly there's a reason they have sat for so long. I want to read about 7 of them. The other 10 or so I feel like deleting, but feel like I SHOULD read them as they are all highly rated and popular. It's a stuggle!!!

Not sure if anybody is still monitoring this challenge, but it sounded like fun. Here's my list!

Reading University Challenge
Duration: January 1, 2022 - May 2, 2022
Progress:
Associates Degree - COMPLETED
Bachelors Degree - COMPLETED
Masters Degree - COMPLETED
PHD - COMPLETED

Associates Degree: **COMPLETED**
Science (Earth): Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Literature (American): Theodor Seuss Geisel
History (American): The Four Winds
Social Science (Psychology): The Lathe of Heaven
Art (Art History): The Song of Achilles
Language (Niger-Congo): Her Name Is Knight
Athletics (Any Sport - Hockey): Bear Town

Bachelors Degree: **COMPLETED**
Major: Social Science
1. The Rook - Political
2. The Witches Are Coming - Political
3. The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II - Different Country
4. Ring Shout - Political/Different Culture
5. Firekeeper's Daughter - Different Culture/School
6. Show Me a Sign - Different Culture
7. Don't Call Us Dead - Political
8. Legendborn - School
9. Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess Book 1: Captain Raven and the All-Girl Pirate Crew - Different Culture
10. The Jackal - Different Culture

Minor: Art
1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Film
2. The Iliad - Ancient Greece
3. The Keeper of Happy Endings - art/gallery

Masters Degree: **COMPLETED**
Degree: Literature
3 books from North America
1. The Orchard: A Memoir - USA
2. Live and Let Chai - USA
3. People We Meet on Vacation - USA

3 books from Europe
1. Hamnet - England
2. Anxious People - Sweden
3. The Spanish Love Deception - Spain

3 books outside of NA and Europe
1. Leviathan Wakes - Space
2. Wonderful Women of the World - World
3. Aniara - Space

3 books Graphic Novels
1. Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës
2. Gender Queer
3. Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind

3 books Mix and Match
1. This Place: 150 Years Retold - Canada/Graphic
2. Stories of Your Life and Others - World
3. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 - North America

PHD: **COMPLETED**
Masters Subcategory (Literature - North American Novel)
1. The Maid - Canada
2. Bittersweet - Vermont
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Florida
4. Storm Front - Illinois
5. Ugly Love - California
6. Vicious - Ohio
7. A Breath of Snow and Ashes - North Carolina
8. Leave the World Behind - New York
9. Every Heart a Doorway - Author from CA
10. The Girl Who Drank the Moon - Author from MN

I feel like I am completing this challenge unintentionally! LOL
Start date: 1/1/22
End date: 12/21/22
Level: Book Embraced: 25 or more books
Total completed: 30!

1. Theodor Seuss Geisel - READ 1/8/22
2. Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës - READ 1/31/22
3. A Spindle Splintered - READ 2/5/22
4. 84, Charing Cross Road - READ 3/5/22
5. The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II - READ 3/9/22
6. The Library of Babel - READ 4/13/22
7. Every Heart a Doorway - READ 4/30/22
8. Sea of Tranquility - READ 5/16/22
9. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - READ 6/13/22
10. Murder at Pirate's Cove - READ 6/23/22
11. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - DNF 7/9/22
12. Book Lovers - READ 7/10/22
13. The Fault in Our Stars - READ 7/20/22
14. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History - READ 7/26/22
15. Station Eleven - READ 7/27/22
16. A Mirror Mended - READ 8/12/22
17. Love Me Whole - READ 9/22/22
18. The Hating Game - READ 10/5/22
19. The Picture of Dorian Gray - READ 11/6/22
20. Blankets - READ 11/12/22
21. On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessie - READ 11/13/22
22. The Book of Form and Emptiness - READ 11/18/22
23. Doors Open on the Left - READ 11/19/22
24. All That's Left in the World - READ 11/21/22
25. Featherbed - READ 11/27/22
26. The Heartstopper Yearbook - READ 12/4/22
27. Boyfriend Goals - READ 12/11/22
28. Hopelessly Bromantic - DNF 12/13/22
29. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder - READ 12/15/22
30. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - READ 12/17/22

Sammy wrote: "Yeah, I'm a "read as close to 1000 page books as possible" kind of person. I'll go as high as 1150 or so with the cap, because the extra 100 pages doesn't take me long to read, and I only have so m..."

Oooohhh, I see now. The team has a cap on the number of books they are allowed to read. So yes, it makes sense to make them as close to 1000 pages as possible then. Got it! I'm nervous about signing up. I have no idea how many books to sign up for. Is it useful at all to sign up to be a small number person or does that just handicap the team?

hi! I'm totally new here and have been hearing about TT but don't really understand. Can you read more books than you sign up for and just leave them off the special shelf? What about reading books that don't count? I guess I'm asking if you can have a selection of books just for this challenge but then also doing other reading for yourself or other challenges on the side?

Also don't understand the points. Why read huge 1000+ page books when it seems like you'll get more points by reading under 1000+ books. It seems like reading a bunch of smaller (100-999) books would be better. What am I missing?

And finally, what if you don't participate in BOM? As I said I'm new here and haven't figured that one out yet either. lol

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Second After by William Forstchen
One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

It's my first time doing a maze challenge, and I realize that I was just single mindedly trying to make it from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. Am I right that this is the goal, or are we supposed to be revealing our whole maze?

You're at a dead end. You need to go back to the start and then go south.

Sophie wrote: "Tricia wrote: "I am absolutely loving this maze challenge, and am having a lot of fun finding books that fit my tasks, but this one has me stumped. How in the world do I go about finding a book tha..."

Oh yes, that's MUCH easier! I assumed since it explicitly mentioned the Tarot card, that the reference had to be specific. I have loads of choices if it just needs to say The World in any context. Thanks!!

Steven wrote: "Tricia wrote: "Jenny wrote: "I just typed in cozy mystery tarot on Amazon, and a bunch came up.
Chances are one of them has The World in it."

How do I know which one? Or do I just randomly start r..."

Unfortunately, I don't have kindle unlimited.

Jenny wrote: "I just typed in cozy mystery tarot on Amazon, and a bunch came up.
Chances are one of them has The World in it."

How do I know which one? Or do I just randomly start reading and hope for the best? Doesn't seem like an efficient system! Lol

I am absolutely loving this maze challenge, and am having a lot of fun finding books that fit my tasks, but this one has me stumped. How in the world do I go about finding a book that meets this requirement?

Task: Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The World" in the text or title

I'm reading Little Fires Everywhere for my next task and I'm struggling so hard. I find this book horribly boring so far. It has amazing reviews so I'm not sure why I'm having a hard time, but I'm just not clicking with this book on any level!

April's Scrabble Challenge 2022
Duration: April 1, 2022 - 6/23/22 - COMPLETED
Level: Expert: 32-47 books
All book formats. Minimum 120 pages.

Option 1: Read books that spell out the letters in the words "SCRABBLE", "HASBRO" & "MATTEL":

S - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang - 4/16/22
C - Charlotte McConaghy - Once There Were Wolves - 5/28/22
R - Ryan, Lexi - These Hollow Vows - 5/20/22
A - Alice Oseman - Heartstopper: Volume One - 5/10/22
B - Barnhill, Kelly - The Girl Who Drank the Moon - 5/2/22
B - Bittersweet by Sarina Bowen - 4/14/22
L - The Lathe of Heaven by Usula Le Guin - 4/20/22
E - Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire - 4/30/22

H- Her Name Is Knight by Yasmin Angoe - 4/27/22
A - Alam, Rumaan - Leave the World Behind - 4/29/22
S - Suzanna Clark - Piranesi - 4/3/22
B - Bear Town by Fredrik Backman - 4/13/22
R - Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant - 5/22/22
O - The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel by Gareth Hinds - 5/13/22

M - The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth - 5/23/22
A - Alice Oseman - Heartstopper: Become Human - 5/14/22
T - These Silent Woods by Kimi Grant Cunningham - 5/16/22
T - The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley - 5/9/22
E - Emily St. John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility - 5/16/22
L - The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave - 5/18/22


Option 2: Read books that fit the scrabble tasks below:

Read a book that has a title with all the letters in the word "scrabble"
✔️[[book:Murder at Pirate's Cove|49090387] by Josh Lanyon - 6/23/22

Read a book that has a title with all the letters in the word "bingo"
✔️The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman - 5/13/22

Read a book with a title that has all the letters in the word "bonus"
✔️The Butcher of Anderson Station by James Corey - 5/8/22

Read a book that has a blank cover (just a title)
✔️ The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West - 4/1/22

Read a book that has 2- 4 characters
✔️The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy - 5/13/22

Read a book that has the word "square" in the text
✔️Caliban's War by James Corey - page 160 - 5/7/22

Read a book with a red cover
✔️ Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez - 5/6/22

Read a book with blue cover
✔️ by Amal El-Mohtar - 6/1/22

Read a book with a pink cover
✔️ Heartstopper: Volume Four by Alice Oseman 5/11/22

Read a book that is 2nd in a series
✔️Heartstopper: Volume Two by Alice Oseman -5/11/22

Read a book that is 3rd in a series
✔️Heartstopper: Volume Three by Alice Oseman - 5/11/22

Read a book with the word "tile" in the text
✔️Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch - page 47 - 5/29/22

Read a book with a board game on the cover or in the text
✔️ The Rook by Daniel O'Malley - 4/24/22

Read a book in which a character wins
✔️The Iliad by Gareth Hinds - 4/7/22

Read a book with a title that has all the letters in the word "dictionary"
✔️The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter Margareta Magnusson - 5/5/22

Read a book with the word "fun" in the text
✔️Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - page 31 - 5/22/22

Read a book with the word "strategy" in the text
✔️[[book:One Second After|4922079] by William Forstchen - page 409

Read a book that is 7th in a series
Read a book with the word "turn" in the text
✔️Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng - page 2 - 4/11/22

COMPLETED

Not yet but it's definitely on my TBR list.

Jenny wrote: "I went through a favorites list, and found some that are good.I found them from adding isbn13 to settings...(Of course the editions will be different isbns, but the ones on my list work.)

[bookcov..."

Migrations was a fantastic book. Probably my top read from last year.