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

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

Victoria wrote: "I added just one book, Elantris, which works for both B and E to the planning sheet. I'll probably read at least two books during the first week but will hold off deciding on another n..."

hmm..interesting.. I know what I have down is realistic for me. I guess after mid week, we can try to fill in gaps if there are any. We also have to start pre planning for week 2. We get our second word about 2 days prior to start date

Victoria wrote: "Jill wrote: "Yay! Also, the challenge starts for me 5pm my time and I'm attending a Halloween party that night, so I will already be a half-ish day behind. Ughhhhh

But one of my books, I can finis..."

Ugh same. That's why I'm starting with my measly 187 page book lol

Sammy wrote: "We can move on again from tomorrow whenever Alexandra is ready to go :)"

Ok! Alexandra, how are you doing on your US book?

Sammy wrote: "Seraphina wrote: "Jill wrote: "Kathryn wrote: "I have no books with rope on the cover :("


It's kind of hard. Check out this list for some book ideas. Then see what your local library has or Kindl..."

I think so too!

Seraphina wrote: "Finished my US book and added it to the schedule"

Yay! How are we all doing in Eugene? Is everyone done?

Kathryn wrote: "I have no books with rope on the cover :("


It's kind of hard. Check out this list for some book ideas. Then see what your local library has or Kindle Unlimited.

Seraphina wrote: "'m almost done mine, RL got in the way this week so it's been I've been a bit slow.

But I already have my Rope book ready to go :)"

Yay, I hope it's good! That was the toughest one out of this challenge IMO. I got lucky with mine

Yay! Also, the challenge starts for me 5pm my time and I'm attending a Halloween party that night, so I will already be a half-ish day behind. Ughhhhh

But one of my books, I can finish in one day prob

Yep! I’m 2 books away from finishing this challenge :) I will most likely finish by the end of next week. I’m having fun with It so far and have enjoyed my books!

Since we only have this word for one week, I think I'm set with the books I plan to read. If I can squeeze more in, I will!

Sarah wrote: "Just a little humor: Kate, when I saw your book “Astray” my sleep-addled brain read it as “ashtray” and I thought “what the hell kind of book is that I wonder?” Ha!! Working nights already has me g..."

I do that all the time when I wake up in the morning :P

I'm bad at planning too. I'm trying to find 2 more longish books that fit. I'm glad our bonus books are all sorted though!

Sarah wrote: "So the book has to be started and finished within the week? Guess that’s where my confusion is at the moment - I read so often I don’t always know when something will be stopped, so I didn’t know h..."

The challenge starts Saturday 27 October, 10pm, Lisbon time. So you have to wait until then to start reading your planned challenge books.

The challenge Ends Saturday 3 November, 10pm, London time. You must finish your books by then.

Since we all live in different time zones, I linked the countdown to the challenge as well as a link for a time zone converter. That way, everyone knows exactly when their books are due.

You can guestimate what and how much you will read. Try to read a long-ish book so we get a lot of points.

Cathy M. wrote: "Figured that would be one of the easiest!"

Yup!!!

Sarah wrote: "Thank you both very much! Great explanations. Sorry, I did warn you I was a confused newbie!!"

Sarah, if you scroll up to my first few posts, you can see the genre thing

No one has it written down, but one of our planned books has gotta have bones in the text lol. If you come across it, put it in the planner

Sarah wrote: "I have no idea how to do the genre search. And I’m not sure why we get points for bones + bones + bon - isn’t bon still an incomplete word? So how does it count then but not in your other example?
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For the genre search, I put the link above. Just type in "bones" and if it is on the first page of shelves it counts. I will insert a graphic when I get a chance.

bones + bones + bon ; this bon counts because all the previous bones are spelled out completely.

bones + bon + bo ; bo does not count because bon is not spelled out completely.

Rina wrote: "Jill wrote: "Rina wrote: "Has anybody messaged Travel Agent our points for the first stop? Or should I do it?"

Hi Rina, I haven't messaged them. Did you end up doing it? We got 35 pts"

Yes, I sen..."

That would be great, Rina! Thank you!

Kate S wrote: "That is a pretty big change.

I read fairly fast and don't mind picking up longer books."

So you get bonus points for one spelling only, but you still have to spell it out to get book points. But it's still beneficial to read longer books since it's only 5 letters to spell out..

By the way, they changed one of the rules which will effect our strategy. We get 15 points for spelling BONES, but no points for any subsequent spelling. So if we spell BONES 100 times, we are still only getting 15 points. Therefore, the best way to rack up points is by reading longer books. Thoughts? Are you guys fast readers?