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

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

Shifted a few books around and our first spelling is complete!

Great job everyone :)

Finished off another!

Dragon King of Arms
500 to 650
Text mentiones a heraldic beast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor... )
a character gets poisoned
letters GOLEM in title
a family tree is included in the book

Lisa, I'm going to move your doorstopper to the 801+ category. Not sure how many of those we are going to have and I think challenge will pop up more often in text/title.

I can add those, no worries. The letter references come from the Round 1 tab (or in future, whichever round we are on).

Mini ref comes from whichever mini tab the task comes from.

There's a lot of moving pieces on this one, it's a bit to figure out!

Denise wrote: "Lexi wrote: "I'll add this to a top post, but for the square, I added Vi below:

The Book of Doors - I plan to read this one
The Diviners
[book:Six of Crows|23437156..."

The books for the ladders and squares can be read in any order and during any Round (Mini 7 is one that runs the length of the challenge).

For titles though, they have to be former NBRC Books of the Month to be able to be used for those tasks. Each of the minis ties back to a former wheel-a-thon as this is the 10th wheel. The 7th wheel-a-thon was inspired and celebrated book mobiles and our Books of the month. Hence the requirement.

The list can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

The ladder that is series numbers don't have to be former Books of the Month.

I have a 5th in series currently down for Brown Cover but can be moved if we think it's better used in the ladder.

I'll be reading a #12 in series after I clear my current reads.

Notifications might finally be working again, fingers crossed!

FYI - If you look on the Summary tab there are countdowns built into the spreadsheet for the start and ending of each round.

Just over a day until we begin!

Steven wrote: "Judith, question about the ladders: does each book have to be read and finished before the next one? I looked through to see if I could find an answer and didn't see that tidbit (but might have mis..."

No, they can be completed out of order and don't even have to be read in the same Round since this mini runs the length of the challenge.

The squares and ladders connected by letters I thought were hard enough!

Steven wrote: "I'll look back through former BOMs and see if there are any I'm itching to read. I'm definitely down to help with the series ladder, as I'm a big series reader. :)"

and I decided to be nice and make it easier so they don't have to be consecutive series numbers just higher than the one below :)

Yes, there is a ladder built with series numbers as well

Denise, yes if you read the large print you should use the page numbers from the GR default.

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'S - DAY 5 Reality Again - end

18. Who else thought that Izzy really had been killed and was very upset about it?! Did you like how the fake-out was handled? Do you think it worked as a narrative choice?
I was so glad when she turned out to be alive and it was more believable to me that it happened by accident since she happened to have the book on her.

19. We finally found out how Mr. Webber got the Book of Doors. Were you expecting that? Did you have any other ideas about how that would play out? Did his “final” final scene change your feelings or interpretations of the earlier ones?
It was a surprise but made a bit of sense too. At a certain point with all the time traveling, just let it go in trying to figure things out.

21. The ultimate stories of Hugo Barbary and the Woman are… interesting. And rather unexpectedly intertwined! What did you think about all of that? Had you predicted anything along those lines?
Again, I just let things play out and stopped trying to puzzle it all together. It was a good explanation of why she was so cray-cray though. all that pain and hurt into such a young person. it would break any young mind.

22. What with how this ends for the remaining characters — not to mention a few loose plot threads — it seems to me like the author is leaving the door open (no pun intended, lol) for a sequel. Does this book feel like a complete story to you? Why or why not? In fact it looks like his next novel is set in the same world, even if it’s not a direct sequel. Would you read it? Why or why not?
I think the story is complete. But enough to make you wonder a bit, I don't think you always need to know the complete ending to all the characters in every story you read. I might read another one though if Brown writes one.

I thought same for a hot minute too!

The time travels make your mind go to all kinds of places!!

Notifications are wonky for everyone right now, hopefully GR gets it fixed soon because it’s really annoying.

Feel free to add away to the tracking spreadsheet!

I tried good ole tineye, which gave it 42% black and smaller percentages from there. sorry :(

Steven wrote: "

What color would you say this is? :D"

I'm not sure it's 50% plus of any one color.

We could always use it in the story to call Cat a Wretch (I'm kidding, we love Cat. but we could do some fun things with that in the story.)

DQ Set 4: The Final Goodbye to Mr Weber - The Woman, After the Auction

14. Mr Weber! So good. How do you feel about the characterisation in the book? Do they feel real? Any particular thoughts on our main players?
Mr Webber was such a kind man. The people feel real enough, no one was overly perfect. Maybe THE WOMAN was the only one that seemed a bit too much over the top but I think that was the point of her character.

15. In all that we never really saw how Mr Weber got the real Book of Doors, given the one he found wasn't the one he gave Cassie. Do you have thoughts on how this will be solved?
I've read ahead and finished the book at this point so I know and it was interesting how it worked out.

16. Lots of action in the auction. Did you enjoy the auction scene? Did you expect that sort of action when you first started the book?
Enjoy it? Not really it was a bit gross and horrible what happened to some of the people. But it was certainly eventful and was more graphic than I expected at the start of the book. That happened a few times.

17. The Woman, honestly she's a caricature at this point, but pretty effective at bringing the horror! Do you think we'll get a backstory to humanise her or will she remain a nameless horror?
Again, I've finished so know the answer to this and it was a bit surprising but fit somehow. And I agree with Lisa's assessment of The Woman's role. Evil and what can happen with power in the wrong hands.

Welcome everyone! Almost have the whole team already which is great