Rebecca’s Comments (group member since Nov 01, 2011)

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

Devann wrote: "hey mary i think your comment that you put over in the sinful chat thread was probably meant to go here

How much effort to do we want to put into the new mini-challenge? If I'm reading it right, e..."

I totally agree with this.

Good luck Trinia!

We only had 11 trick or treaters last night and I don't know if that's just my new neighborhood or because of the torrential downpours we had.

Book: We Were Killers Once
Author: Becky Masterman
Pages: 320
Mini challenge: 10. Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Ecclesiatic Mystery"---So one of the main characters is a retired priest and this plays a big role in the plot
Read: 10-31-19

Book: Death of a Dustman
Author: M.C. Beaton
Pages: 226
Mini challenge:48. Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Blackmailed"
Read: 10/28/19

10. Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Ecclesiatic Mystery"

---So one of the main characters is a retired priest and this plays a big role in the plot

48. Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense that also meets the criteria for "Blackmailed"

Ok so when it says meets the criteria for "xxxx" is that just like a common sense criteria?

I'm reading both Death of a Dustman and We Were Killers Once which are both crime/mystery so I just want to make sure I place them correctly before "claiming" a task.

Book: Never Have I Ever
Author: Joshilyn Jackson
Pages: 352
Sin: MINI CHALLENGE
Read: 10/23/19

Mini challenge - Angelfish 62% through "Over the deck of a wrecked schooner, playing my light over a pair of angelfish to make their sunshine-yellow sides flash."Easy - Piranha, crab, Barracuda, Octopus

Finished and posted my book Out of Darkness, Shining Light ( let me know if I did it wrong for the mini). IT WAS PAINFUL. Ugh I wish I had read a better book I definitely would have finished faster.

Book: Out of Darkness, Shining Light 
Author: Petina Gappah
Pages: 320
Sin: MINI CHALLENGE
Read: 10/23/19
Mini challenge - EASY- Donkey Chapter 8 "Muanamuzungu gave us a cow and a donkey."Other easy - Lion, cow

My tricky book is Angelfish

Hi team, I may only get 2 books done this week (1 tricky and 1 easy). 2 big things have come up at work and Thursday and Friday will be 11+ hour work days, so that basically has taken away my reading time. And then we have visitors coming Friday-Sunday morning. Ughhh don't they know I have reading to do!

I should at least be able to start a new book for next week, maybe I'll shoot for a longer one.

Thank you! SO far my book has lots of easy animals, but according to my kindle there will be angelfish SOMEWHERE. Just hoping it wasn't back in the part where the women were talking about their spirit animals and I just totally missed it.

Also it had a nurse shark which is like the only shark not on the list haha.

Vicki wrote: "Rebecca, you could just quit your job! Lol"

You know that's looking better and better lately.

It seems like if we were very motivated we could do a collection of easy and a collection of tricky. If people would leave me alone at work I could get more audiobook listening done hahah

Trinia wrote: "Rebecca- I just finished Never Have I Ever, I hope you enjoy it too!"

Awesome! I'm excited to read it.

Yes it would definitely be better to read books with 7 different tricky animals. We would get 7 x 7 points AND we would get 20 bonus points for the collection:

You can create collections of 7 unique animals (tricky or easy, you can't mix & match)
◈ for each collection of 7 unique easy animals found you will get 10 bonus points
◈ for each collection of 7 tricky animals found you will get 20 bonus points
◈ multiple collections are possible, but there can be no overlap (i.e. if you claim two collections of easy animals you can't have the same animal in each collection)

I'll be reading Never Have I Ever which has "angelfish" and also will start Out of Darkness, Shining Light which I think will have some animals. I also plan to read Winter in Paradise which has "basking shark".

Trinia wrote: "So does that mean we get 1 point for every different animal we find in one book?
Like in the Whale there are easily 7 different tricky/easy animals..."

No I think it's one animal per book, no matter how many times it's mentioned or how many different there are.

Yeah I thought that was as a team we could only find the animal 7 times. I think it’s only 1 mention per book and the if other people find that same animal in their book it’s an extra 1 point. I think it encourages people to find different animals.

For the mini challenge - should we try and decide if we will try and make an easy or tricky collection?