Jill’s Comments (group member since Nov 15, 2016)

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

Joining

Today is the first day I can actually read! Will finish my first book by Sunday. Hope those extra few days helps you out Carrie!

Sammy wrote: "No problem Jill. Shall we give Alexandra a few more days, then see if we need a hitch-hiker?"

Yeah. I messaged her on the 1st so we'll give her more time and see

So I still cant read much of anything. I'm hoping in the next few days I can start. Right now I'm audiobooking but I don't have one for the first book on the list :( I'm going to need an extension. Also, I haven't heard from Alexandra and she hasn't updated the spreadsheet. I wonder if we lost her..

Rina wrote: "I thought Upside Down was very challenging, especially if going for max points. Almost half of the books I read in these months were not from my TBR but to meet a task. And the BOTM tasks: I don't ..."

Yeah that's true. The tasks were tough and only a specific book could fit them. Wasn't very flexible.

Seraphina wrote: "what's this challenge you guys are talking about?"

It's a challenge that NBRC hosted that was an individual based challenge. There were like 200 prompts with sliding scale points based on Upside Down Summer in Australia and the southern hemisphere

Sammy wrote: "Yep, upside down finished a few hours ago. They're planning a new one for the 21st. Canadian spring themed, lol.

May or may not be joining, as this one was nuts! Read more in the past 2 months tha..."

Really? I was not motivated by Upside down at all lol I did it for fun but found all the prompts not fitting to my TBR and I really want to read from there. I'm in some YA Lovers group that always motivates me to read a lot. Regardless, I will still join the Canada spring one when they open it :)

Do you know if they are hosting any other competitive challenges? Wheel-a-thon was super motivating for me

We rule! Is upside down over now?

We are officially off to travel the world in first class :)

I forgot to message Alexandra to remind her. Doing that now..

Yes, Seraphina :)

Thanks, Sammy. I'm feeling a lot better and should be able to start reading again this weekend! If all goes well, should be back on track and able to finish by the 7th

Glad we're all ready for first class. Still recovering, don't know if I will be able to start reading on the 1st, but will try to speed through it once I can read.

Seraphina wrote: "have we started Honolulu yet? or are we just planning right now? ^.^ still a little lost"

Not sure! No one really answered..

We are still on the second to last stop of our business class itinerary. I'm going to start reading when we "officially" begin, which would be when we actually finish the last stop.

Requested my book from the library and planned all my books..

BTW, will be off Goodreads for a few days. I'll be back soon!

Carrie wrote: "Jill wrote: "Carrie wrote: "Jill wrote: "Seraphina wrote: "will someone let me know when I should start reading for this again? I don't want to mess anything up by jumping right in ^.^"

We are on ..."

Lol!!! Glad your all caught up now! When do we start reading?

Carrie wrote: "Jill wrote: "Seraphina wrote: "will someone let me know when I should start reading for this again? I don't want to mess anything up by jumping right in ^.^"

We are on our second to last stop righ..."

Seraphina is back. She's replacing Heather

Seraphina wrote: "will someone let me know when I should start reading for this again? I don't want to mess anything up by jumping right in ^.^"

We are on our second to last stop right now. We are waiting on Tati to finish up and then we can move on to our last stop. I think we are missing one book from there and then we are done. You can start planning from now!

When can/should we start new itinerary?

Carrie wrote: "Oops I missed the fact that random task has to be first page of tags. That does make it a lot harder to actually find something although I'm sure there are random "random" books out there beyond th..."

Yeah those books end up being 1 star or less if you know what I mean..

Sammy wrote: "I found my published on the 22nd and 31st books!

I went through all of the books I have ordered from the USA over the years, and found precisely one of each! lol."

Yay!! I only had 4 options for 22nd and 3 options for 31st that were on my TBR. Glad I could pick something from there

Glad to have you back!!! Check out the spreadsheet for first class itinerary!

Rina, can you update the mods that Heather is no longer traveling and Seraphina has joined us again?

or maybe US editions? I can see entire publication date