Judith’s Comments (group member since Apr 15, 2015)

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

Oh yay an X character! That will be good to have on hand for a cheese spelling 🙂

And don’t worry about how fast you read, we try our best to balance fast and slower readers on teams so it’s fair and fun for all reader types to participate!

As long as you are having fun and maybe picking up some good book recommendations, that’s what we hope for in putting these together

New Mini 2 Task

Read a book tagged "Time Travel" at least 10x

I would like to use an extra entry please! (Belem)

Canada has been completed (yay team!) and now we are off to Argentina!

New Tasks:
Author born in Argentina
Blue, White and Gold on cover
character goes to a musical
letters STEAK in title (any order)
character is a dancer
"tango" in text
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Linda C wrote: "I finished Under A Namibian Sky on the 29th - used for country, can it be used for Cheese also?"

When you get a chance can you add it to your challenge shelf?

Thank you!

Oh yes! How did we miss that 🙃

The only unclaimed task left in Canada for Mini 3 is the Letter D in the spell out if someone is reading a book that works there :)

New Mini 2 tasks

Read a book that is stand-alone
Read a book with the word highway, road, avenue or street in the title (Plurals are acceptable)

The Survivors by Jane Harper

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets...

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.

The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home.

Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn.

When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away...

My new nominate until I read it anyway or it wins :P



The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale

A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done––and hide their bodies once they’ve killed them

When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she’s more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn’t be fair—not after twenty years of marriage to a truly terrible man. But Sally isn’t the only woman in town reaching the brink. Soon, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group, and among them there are four bodies to hide. Can they all figure out the perfect way to bury their husbands . . . and get away with it?

First to join is former nurse, Ruth, who met her husband as a single mom. Now her son is grown and her husband’s violence builds by the day until an attack on the stairs leads to a fatal accident—for him. A few doors down, Samira’s last straw comes when she discovers her husband is planning a campaign of violence against her eldest daughter, who has just come out. Janey, Sally’s best friend, has just had her first child at forty-two. Sleep-deprived Janey needs a hero to slay the monster in the fairy tales she whispers to her daughter each night . . . and as her husband’s violence escalates, it might just be her.

Together, fueled by righteous anger but tempered by a moral core, the four women must help each other work out a plan to get rid of their husbands for good. Along the way, Sally, Ruth, Samira and Janey rediscover old joys and embark on new passions in work, education, and life. Friendship and laughter really are the best medicine—and so is getting away with murder.

FYI - I added a countdown to the tracking spreadsheet for the end of Month 1/Start of month 2. it's in the top left corner of the book tab.

This really only matters if you end up pressing against your book cap +5 for month 1.

We need 3 medium countries per itinerary

New Mini 2 Tasks

Read a book where a character eats something they have never tasted before
Read a book with a title that starts with one of the letters found in TRAVEL (Articles may not be used but can be ignored)

People tag things in strange ways

Anyone have a U in any book they've read so far? That's likely the hardest letter in this spelling and I'm not sure we have one of those on hand.

Edit: I was able to fill out the spelling for everything but the U with banked books

I'm working on the new spelling to see what letters we may have left after what I can figure out from our available books.

Will report back!

New Mini 2 Tasks

Read a book with the sky on the cover
Read a book that is on the Best Unknown but must be Known books List

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Maria Jo wrote: "Just posted my first completion. I did finish it yesterday, but after Canada opened, so idk if it can be used for one of those tasks because the options are pretty slim! I had to finish it to get i..."

It actually worked for a Mini 2 task, it was tagged Friendship 31 times. So it worked out great :)

Melanie wrote: "Can anyone who has read the current BOM (What the River Knows) tell me if the comparison of "The Mummy meets Death on the Nile" in the description is accurate?

This one isn't my usual genre but Th..."

Umm, no that description is not accurate in my opinion. And I think it is a book that does better when you don't think about it too hard.

Meaning I probably wouldn't of been as annoyed by things in the book if I wasn't answering (or writing) questions about the book and could of just merrily read the book without thinking too hard.

Cathy and Ann have read it though and might have other opinions.

Did some conferring and the main reason itinerary 1 hadn’t been entered was more of a GR issue with not showing a read date.

It can be used for itinerary 2.