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

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

Yay! the whole team is here

keep any questions you may have coming :)

With the chaos of getting this up and running settling down, I'm getting excited about the challenge starting!!

Suzanne wrote: "Question: For the travel Itinerary mini - it has this sentence: The next itinerary can only be started once the previous itinerary has been completely finished.
Does that mean we need to watch fini..."

There's no banking books for Mini 1, so yes, coordination on the books is important

Judith's BOM Tracking

Day 1: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 2: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 3: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 4: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 5: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

DQ Set 5: XXV: Deconstruction to
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18. In a game of "two truths and a lie," Volos claims that the moment when Fox tells Brandt, "I would not have gambled you," was actually the lie. Do you think Volos could be right? Could there have been a scenario where Fox would have risked everything—even Brandt—for a chance to win?
It's certainly possible, it would just be a matter a figuring out Fox's tipping point. Most people don't know what that is until it's staring them in the face.

19. Tom Parker won his game and gained everything he thought he wanted: success, money, prestige. But eventually, it wasn’t enough, and he wanted to play again. In your opinion, how many people would have made the same choices if they were in his position?
More than I want to think about to be honest. Most people would do a lot more than he did for considerably less. And people tend to know what they think they want, more so than what they actually want. And I can see that bring people back to gamble more and more because they still aren't satisfied.

20. Do you think Isis will be able to keep Volos under control, or will she eventually let him go? What factors might influence her decision?
He'll get out eventually and a new round of chaos will begin. that's just how it works :)

21. By the end of the story, we see three happy couples: Mayra and Cal, Viola and Tom, and Fox and Brandt. Did you expect such a positive resolution for all of them? Which couple's happy ending resonated with you the most?
I wasn't sure what was going to happen, but I thought it was a nice end to the chaos they all went through. I liked them all and that each was different and appropriate to their circumstances.

Bonus: Now that you’ve finished the book, are you interested in reading more from this author? Why or why not?
Sure, I'd give her books another go but not going to run out and preorder.

Lexi has put together a lovely tracking spreadsheet for the team to use. I will also have this linked in a top post.

You will only really need to edit 2 tabs, the books tab, and the BOM tab (if you participate). The mini challenge tabs auto populate from the Books tab.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

please let us know if you have any questions.

Also if you are not comfortable using spreadsheets or are having access issues, please post the relevant info the thread and one of the captains will log the information for you.

Thank you Lexi!!

Maria Jo wrote: "Hi team! I'm excited to jump into another Tower Teams!

I live in Kansas with my husband, and we are currently expecting our first child. I didn't get much reading done in the first trimester, so I..."

Congratulations!! That's very exciting

Ann wrote: "Hi team! Looking forward to getting this game started!"

Hello Ann! Do you have a challenge shelf?

Our first 2 countries for Mini 3 are:
Spain, Japan

Author born in Spain
Red and Yellow on cover
features a bull
church or cathedral on cover
mentions Don Quixote
character eats seafood
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Author born in Japan
Red and White on cover
character eats Sushi
cherry tree(s) and/or blossom(s) on cover
features a geisha
"temple" in text
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I'll do my best to have these up to date in post 7. And like with mini 2, as we get new countries, we'll post here in the thread.

Here are our current tasks for Mini 2:

Read a book where the first word of the text is "One"
Read a book with short stories
Read a book where a character packs a bag (overnight, luggage, suitcase, with the intention of being away for at least one night)
Read a book first published in December of any year
Read a book that is an against all odds / survival story
Read a book with MPG Contemporary
Read a book first published in July of any year
Read a book first published in June of any year
Read a book which has several locations, none for over 50% of the book
Read a book written in first person narration


I will try to keep these updated in post 6. And as captains log books and we get new tasks, we'll post new tasks in the thread.

You are on Sky Tower (with most of the other Aussies)

Mini 2 has a lot of tasks that aren’t directly tied to countries.

Only 10 of those tasks are currently known. Well unless you are bored and go look at other teams. Each teams’ tasks will pop up in a different order, but are the same 100 tasks.

For those that haven't already done so, if you are playing Tower Teams this year, please edit your post to include your team name.

THANK YOU!!

Flying Squirrels forever!! haha :)

Please remember to make a shelf for TT and please link it here if I don't have it linked above.

Sandra wrote: "Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Teams are up! Information about mini challenges has been added to the about thread!

Getting close to starting our world travels :)

Here's a spreadsheet of team distribu..."

Sign ups after May 3rd went on a reserve list. Though some already made it on a team.

If you just signed up today, you'll likely still be put on a team but it will be a few days as teams get sorted and players get replaced.

The captains of Team Belem Tower all happened to be around this morning, so we are ready for team check in :)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hello members of team Belém Tower!

Most of you are familiar from around the challenge circuit, but for those that don't know me I'm Judith and captain of the team for around Tower Team trip around the world! I'm also one of the moderators of this group and partially responsible for this crazy challenge.

I hope everyone is looking forward to a fun few months together!

Over the next couple days Lexi, Erin and I will be getting everything sorted and ready to go for the start of TT next Saturday, including a tracking sheet. But since we seemed to be ready, we figured we'd leave the thread open and let people start to check in.

We have a few mini challenges happening, all which run the length of the challenge, so don't forget to check those out as well.

Happy Reading everyone!

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Current Countries and open tasks for Mini 3: Korea, Canada

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Red, Blue, White and Black on cover
character goes to the spa
letters SEOUL in title (any order)
MPG Science
character works in technology
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Current Unclaimed Tasks for Mini 2:

Read a book where two people with different religions interact
Read a banned book
Read a book set in the time period "Post Modern"
Read a book with the sky on the cover
Read a book with an unearthly mode of transportation on the cover (i.e., spaceships allowed)
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)
Read a book that is stand-alone
Read a book with the word highway, road, avenue or street in the title (Plurals are acceptable)