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

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

Robin (Saturndoo) wrote: "Laura wrote: "I’ll take all the smut tasks! I read a lot of smut. Reverse Harem/Why Choose is my favorite type of Romance/Romantasy."

🤣 Laura! I'll gladly trade all the smut tasks with you in exch..."

I'm also a bit of smut reader, but some of it is just too much. Switching between genres often makes sure I don't tire of it.

Happy reading today! I'm celebrating Norway's National Day so my start will be slow=)

Welcome=) You'll find link to the planning sheet and important information in the first few posts of this thread.

Hi team!

I'm Silje, 35, from Norway. No kids or husband yet. Working as a dental hygienist, but have worked for a few years in a bookstore.

I love big team challenges and have done a few towers before. My favorite genres are fantasy and romance, but I also read many thrillers. Audiobooks are my go-to these days, but I have a big bookshelf with paperbacks I should have read=)

My shelf

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A couple of notes on the challenge/team (copy of Laura's text)

1. The formulas for the spreadsheet are really quite lovely. When you add a book, and it fits for a mini task, grab the number in column A on the mini tab; put that number in column J for your book on the Books tab and the formulas will automatically pull your book into the mini tab! For an example, see Aiswrya's book The Fellowship of the Ring.

2. Banking books. Books can be banked, but ONLY for mini #2. So if your book doesn't fit any open tasks, and only works for an easy country (more about this in #3), just leave it blank. But if/when it fits a task that comes up later, please say something. You read it, so you know what tasks it fits better than we do. The wording is a little bit confusing, but books started after the challenge starts work. For mini #1 & #3, the books can't be finished until after we get the new tasks/finish the previous itinerary.

3. Mini challenges are worth 5, 10, 20 points currently (that can change whenever the mods decide to throw something new at us!). The Hard Countries in Mini #1 are worth 20 points. Medium countries, tasks for Mini 2, tasks for Mini 3 are worth 10 points. Easy Countries for Mini #1 are worth 5 points. So if we fill our Mini #1 with all available Hard/Medium countries, then we can throw in an Easy country book if we need to.

I've put my last book in the spreadsheet. It's been fun playing with you all!

Found a short book just above 150 pages with a U title, can try and finish it before deadline.

Hey! Slowly recovering from pneumonia and covid. I'm easily exhausted, so haven't read as much as I would like, but I'm well into my second and third book.

Thank you for all the well-wishes, the doctor says I can most likely go home tomorrow.

I completely forgot a little introduction of myself previously. I'm from Norway and work as a dental hygienist, but I had a short period working in a bookstore a few years ago.
I like a variety of genres, but romance, fantasy, and thrillers are my favorites. I do a lot of rereading of beloved books and series and have become an avid audiobook listener over the past few years.

Hey everyone, I'm excited to join the team. I'm currently hospitalised because of covid pneumonia, so I might not read as much as planned.

Here's my shelf

How did I miss this sign-up? Oh well, signed up as a reserve and hoping for the best=)

Gathering Bones work for GOAT in title, will finish it today.

Pretty sure the book I'm reading now, Gathering Bones: A Bailey Flynn FBI Mystery Thriller Book Two, has white text on cover, can hold off on finishing til after mini starts.

Judy wrote: "Gwen, can you please make sure these are on your shelf:

Summer Ever After
A Second Chance Road Trip for Christmas
Legends and Lattes

Silje, can you please add The Wright Brother to your shelf?"

Added!=)

I finished my #5 book on the wall, but #6 and further aren't available for me in audio at the moment unless I buy them, and I can't get to the paperbacks before the end of next week.

Fiona wrote: "Silje, Magic Strikes is missing from your shelf :)"

Added! =)

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Christina wrote: "Teresa you're more than welcome to claim your series books as well since you mentioned them a couple of days ago :)"

Thanks! I'm trying to figure out how they fit into the walls ..."

I love the In Death series. Everand has all the books on audio up until about number 40-something, but the newer ones are sadly only available as ebooks. I'm currently buying the rest with credits on Audible, one each month...

I haven't figured out exactly how Everand calculates when books become unavailable for a reader. I asked once and got some vague answers about how many times a book or author could be read, blah blah.

Sorry for not having read that many books this round yet. I've lost my motivation to pick up a physical book and I haven't had the usual amount of time to listen on audio. Hopefully it will pick up during the weekend.

Challenges like this and Towers where every page counts are the only ones that motivate me to take on the really big books. Always a plus when the page count is just below 1000=P