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

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

Tricia wrote: "I'm super new to these challenges - did TT for the first time this year. Can someone explain to me how these monster wheels work? I see the wheel and spin it but don't understand what to do next. I..."

If you want a template to copy there this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

And you can copy the tasks from the Master list once you spin for your monsters.

The majority of teams/individuals are working off of a copy of the template spreadsheet. I don't think anyone would mind you taking a peak at some of their sheets. Most are linked in posts at the top of the threads, it may help.

If you still have questions ask here or send me a PM and I'll help get you (or anyone else) going :)

The other Sandy wrote: "Mods, would you consider adding the link to each monster wheel in the header (or somewhere) for its respective monster class in the master spreadsheet? The monster wheel links are getting kind of s..."

I can add the links in the Master task spreadsheet. They are also all in the announcement thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Jenny, I hope I picked an okay monster from Dr Who for the picture. I meant to ask and then forgot. And then I need to get the post up for the link for the newsletter.

So I picked Daleks as I actually recognized them even as someone who has never watched an episode.

Tooth and Claw

Here is a tale of a family dealing with the death of their father, a son who goes to court for his inheritance, a son who agonizes over his father’s deathbed confession, a daughter who falls in love, a daughter who becomes involved in the abolition movement, and a daughter sacrificing herself for her husband.

Here is what sounds for all the world like an enjoyable Victorian novel, perhaps by Anthony Trollope…except that everyone in the story is a dragon, red in tooth and claw.

Here are politics and train stations, churchmen and family retainers, courtship, and country houses…in which, on the death of an elder, family members gather to eat the body of the deceased. In which society’s high and mighty members avail themselves of the privilege of killing and eating the weaker children, which they do with ceremony and relish, growing stronger thereby.

You have never read a novel like Tooth and Claw.

My current 'nominate until I read it or it wins'. If it happens to win for December, I'll swap it out.

The Malevolent Seven

'Seven powerful mages want to make the world a better place. We're going to kill them first.'

Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is, see? Skinny old guy with a long straggly beard. No doubt he's wearing iridescent silk robes that couldn't protect his frail body from a light breeze. The hat's a must, too, right? Big, floppy thing, covered in esoteric symbols that would instantly show every other mage where this one gets his magic? Wouldn't want a simple steel helmet or something that might, you know, protect the part of him most needed for conjuring magical forces from being bashed in with a mace (or pretty much any household object).

Now open your eyes and let me show you what a real war mage looks like . . . but be you're probably not going to like it, because we're violent, angry, dangerously broken people who sell our skills to the highest bidder and be damned to any moral or ethical considerations.

At least, until such irritating concepts as friendship and the end of the world get in the way.

My name is Cade Ombra, and though I currently make my living as a mercenary wonderist, I used to have a far more noble-sounding job title - until I discovered the people I worked for weren't quite as noble as I'd believed. Now I'm on the run and my only friend, a homicidal thunder mage, has invited me to join him on a suicide mission against the seven deadliest mages on the continent.

Time to recruit some very bad people to help us on this job . . .

Works for me too! Yay for extra entries 🙂

Michael wrote: "Awesome!!! I love a good reading streak!!

I’ve added a post at the top of our team thread to keep track of our group’s faves. So if anyone wants to make a post with their faves each round I’ll upd..."

I realized I was a bad captain and didn't respond to this when I meant too. I think one of the better reads I had for Round 1 was Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
I read it because I needed it for a challenge task and my library didn't have it's companion book, Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape which has been on my TBR for awhile. It was just a really interesting read and thought provoking as the mom of a young son whose trying to raise him with sense, compassion, and a strong understanding of consent.

I also read Soul Taken and Portrait in Death which were good enjoyable reads. But both are well into their respective series and I'd recommend reading each series in order.

Judith, Team Jazz, would like to use some tokens for an extra entry.

Judith, Team Jazz requesting an extra entry please :)

Thank you!

It happens to everyone, even me! Lexi had to ping me about one of mine this morning 😬

Stacey,

Can you add The President's Wife to your Wheel shelf when you get the chance?

Thank you!

Alisha wrote: "Just finished

Midnight at the Barclay Hotel
It is middle grade so the word count is 39488"

thank you!

We already have one complete spelling for Round 2!

Good job everyone :)

Melissa wrote: "Is it good if many people volunteer?"

Just poking around to see if the new assignments are popping in and saw this.

Yes, more volunteers from your team increase the chances someone from your team is selected by the randomizer. Also if the person selected can't write DQs for some reason (life happens!) only other volunteers from their team can fill in for them. If there are no other volunteers it moves to the next team on the list and your team loses out on the bonus points.

Hope that helps!

I added additional columns on the bonus sheet so we can easily track when we hit 3 in the same locale.

Hello Team!!!

An announcement from the mods and Team Jazz falls into Tier 2:

As we have a wide spread of points, the Mods have decided to do a remix of the bonus points for round 2, based on three tiers of teams (see bottom).

This is for Round 2 only.

Tier 1: bonuses capped as already stated

Tier 2: 10 colour covers, no limits on locations subject to: - must have 10 different unique locations; after that can only find a location 2 more times (i.e. max 3 Chicagos)

Tier 3: no colour cover caps, no limits on locations subject to having 10 different unique locations

In addition, the location requirements for Brazzaville will be relaxed to allow for books set 50% or more in Republic of Congo (Brazzaville-Congo). Be careful not to use books set in Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa-Congo)!

Now's a great time to sign up. And to everyone on the reserve list that have not been placed yet (I think there is about 5 in total), be on the lookout over the next couple days as we will be assigning people to teams based on how Round 1 went.

Thank you :)

Volunteering for DQs, team Jazz

Volunteering for DQs, Team Jazz

☹️ I’m really sorry to hear that Diane. That just really sucks