Melissa’s Comments (group member since May 12, 2019)

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

Thanks Saar. That makes me feel better.
11 exams! What are they all for?
I like the idea of giving myself reading as a reward.

Sorry I haven't been super present lately! It's been a super busy week at school - with a field trip to Boston, and all sorts of after school things.

I have a class both days this weekend, but I hope to dedicate GoodReads time in the mornings.

Next week looks less crazy.

Maritza wrote: "Good Morning. I see some teams are really racking up points on BOM. Just wanted to remind everyone tbat we have one month to read and answer questions. No pressure intended. We are just out here re..."

Good reminder.
I have one of the BOMs finished - I'll have to head on over!

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Finished

which is one of the smaller ones I started as a paperback.

If only this book, and others based on un..."
This sounds interesting. ChatGPT seems to be all the rage - but maybe another way for a certain part of the population to hold onto power.

I just finished for one of the blue slots. It was meh. It seemed more speculative than anything...
But he seemed to have a good time reading it!
I'll check on those mod towers.

Amy the book-bat wrote: "Hi all! Just a quick post before I go to bed (Just got home from work after a particularly busy 12 hour shift)
Had a busy week... Went to the community yard sale when I got off work Thursday morni..."

Happy Birthday!
What do you like to cook? Did you find any cookbook gems?

I'm starting my second book in the Mistborn series The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson - loving it.

I only hear about this Eurovision from you all. I have Peacock (streaming service) and it says that Eurovision is on it, so I'll have to check it out! Being cultural and all...

I hope to start Sunday with some waffles, then I'll go out to the garden for a while. My daughter will cut my hair for my spring shearing, and then we are planning to see the Guardian's of the Galaxy movie in the afternoon. I am hoping for a relaxing day.

I hope everyone has a good weekend!

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Australia has had a funny relationship with Eurovision. Due to our large migrant population it has been broadcast here for 40 years but mostly seen as a bit of a side-joke by many. People would alw..."

Fish and chips by the river sounds amazing.

Wow!
Nice review!!

Just wanna say - we have an awesome team!

Nistha wrote: "Just quickly verifying, I am listening to the audiobook of Nine Liars, so I can use the default 449 pages as the page count right? Its around 11 hours of audio"

Yes. Whatever comes up first as a book for the audio - that's the page number you use. 449 is what comes up!

Tati wrote: "Behold Ollie, the bane of my credit card LOL

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OMG
Your dog is beautiful!!!

Louise, have you read The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells? I listened to it after I read The Daughter of Dr. Moreau. I highly recommend it to everyone reading that BOM!! I thought it was hilarious in a B grade horror sort of way. One of the quotes I love is from Montgomery “I’m going to have a Bank Holiday tonight!”

It's been a good weekend here in VT! We finally have sun after weeks of cold rain.

Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon wrote: "Beth wrote: "Louise wrote: "I’ll take a look at the spreadsheet issues when I’m back in from my pole fit class this evening. 😀"

Pole fitness sounds like a lot of fun!

I'm trying to convince mysel..."

Wow! That's cool! I tried hip hop once, but the whole get up off the floor quickly thing was yeah,,.... not working so well for me.... lol... You will have to let us know how training goes.

Vicki wrote: "Where do I find the list of tasks our books might fit?"

Hello Vicki!
Our tasks can be found on our spreadsheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Our strategy has been to ...
read! There are so many spots where things can fit - it seems like folks are just reading and putting things in the open tab of the spreadsheet. The one that we are looking more closely at right now is the rainbow tower. - called rainbow, not to be confused with Crayola :) as I keep confusing them. Or reading something from the mod's list of books.
I hope this helps :)

I just finished The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. 4 stars! I really liked it. Now I'll need to read The Island of Doctor Moreau to compare it to.

Jessica wrote: "Louise wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Ok guys...I am feeling a little lost..first timer... And not understanding how this works..."

Hi Jessica the main aim of towers is to read books. We have a minimum o..."

Basically, there are a lot of ways to earn points in this challenge. As you read a book, record as much information as you can on the first tab of the spreadsheet.

I'll go through the columns.

The amount of pages gives us ways to complete one tower.

"Spell - outs" give us ways to complete a different tower. (The Crayola Tower)
There are three different columns for spell-outs on our tracking sheet. There, you can write the first letter for:
The title of your book (Note - this is just the first letter of the book. If your book starts with a "the," you can use a "T" or you can use the first letter of the second word.
Series
Author - First letter of first or last Name
Character - First or last name or nickname of a major character - this is usually defined by someone with a "speaking part" and one that has a role in the plot of the story - not the bartender who just hands a drink to the main character for example.
Audiobooks: Here, you can also include the Narrator - First/Last Name - only if you read the audiobook
Translated Books: Translator - First/ Last Name - only if the edition you read was translated.

And then there's the mod tower, and the winners, which is explained in one of the first messages :) But I don't want to overwhlem you!

Focus as much as you can on that first tab of the spreadsheet, and be sure to ask any questions here. We'll help you out!

Hello Jessica!
I’ll explain some of the method to this madness tonight after work! It’s taken me maybe 6 or 7 challenges to understand some of the details:)