Amanda’s Comments (group member since Mar 13, 2022)

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

I'll start. If anyone needs to decrease or if it evens us out with the other teams I would love to increase my average to 40 BPM. My husband picked up reading as a hobby which means I have more time for it lol. I can also stay the same though and just be strategic

Hello all! Some important updates from the mods and changes you'll see on the planning sheet. As well as some information I need from each and every one of you, so please read everything! (And thank you to Tammie over at CN Tower for letting me copy some of her language so I didn't confuse us all)

#1 Captains have been asked to get all books completed to the main...we'll be doing that and likely continue to do that moving forward.
What does this mean for all of us?
- If a change is needed on the SS that affects a finished book, please note that HERE in this thread. We'll need to change both SSs
-While you can't change the main sheet, you can view it. On that sheet anything highlighted yellow has not yet been used for a mini. So if you have something highlighted that can be put somewhere, please let us know! Pay attention to dates for Minis 1 & 3 since we can't bank.

#2 It's time to assign back up players to teams. Captains have been asked to calibrate on books we've each claimed we can read per month vs what we've read.
It's a bit confusing as we started in the middle of the month...but think of it as 30 days. Right now we are 2/3 through month 1.
Here's What everyone Claimed, the max they can read, and where they're at as of 10:44 PM EST


FOR THE FIRST AND LAST TIME, the Mods are letting us say if we need to adjust our books sign ups in either direction. I need everyone to check in if they need that number changed for month 2/3. Please be honest! If you think you're not going to hit your sign up number, we'd love to get a back up (or increase other team members caps accordingly). There's no shame in saying life has happened!

Please ask if you have questions about this. We'll likely avoid making minor changes but if there's a need, we can certainly make requests. We have until 11am central time on Friday ...sorry for the late notice on this! I'll be messaging each of you to make sure you see this message because we have such a short amount of time.

Please let me know if you have any questions! I told our cocaps today that I adore this team so hopefully you're all having a good time too :)

I figured that was the case Shan, thanks for checking in!

But in the positive we already had all the letters for the new cheese!

LOL at me being sure we would have time for our U books. Well at least they will come in handy at some point!!

I've updated Mini 2 and here's what we have unclaimed right now:

- Read a book that is in the Books You Wish More People Knew About List
- Read a book where the first word of the text is "One" (this does not include chapter title)
- Read a book with short stories
-Read a book with the word highway, road, avenue or street in the title (Plurals are acceptable)
-Read a book with the word car, vehicle, bike, bicycle, truck or lorry in the title (Plurals are acceptable)

Last night, while I had a toddler who decided 11PM-1AM was a GREAT time to be wide awake, Instagram decided to suggest a bunch of "around the world through books" posts so I have a lot of countries saved! I'll upload them at some point to an album we can flip through when we need some suggestions


I also found a U book with an Argentine author that is already on my TBR so we will have a bonus extra one the next time we have a U!

Definitely put them on the books tab too!! Everything you read (that meets book requirements) whether BOM, for a mini, or doesn’t work anywhere we can still get page points

I’ll have one tomorrow if nobody else does

I think Friday would be just fine Haley! We usually get at least 2 days for cheese. And even if it doesn't make it these time they keep throwing Us at us so it will be very helpful. Is that Glennon Doyle's book? How is it?

Im trying to do longer books for my last 10ish (Just added a 700+ U book to the sheet eeep) but a trusted friend said this one is very good for argentine author Fever Dream

Also the status sheet -https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... - has all countries completed for mini 1 so far across all teams so a good resource!

So for the current cheese all we have left is 2 U's! Does anyone have one planned?

oop nevermind on Turkey. While she is a "british-turkish" author turns out she was born in france. I saw another though

Audible is having a massive sale so probably going to stock up on some more of the hard countries

I found one for Turkey 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World looks good and the audio is on sale for under $3!

I've found that picking the largest city and googling "City Goodreads Places" has been very helpful for finding books

I have very few books before I hit my cap so am trying to maximize page counts so can look for one if as well if we need!

I think someone’s book worked for it actually!

You can join anytime but I think it's only for 1 month so need to be finished by the end of June!

Also, Haley, what's the first word in "The Woman in Suite 11"? I can't look it up because it's not published yet and we've had a couple tasks for first word in text.

Thanks!

Has anyone already finished a book that works for "Read a book with a character who desires world domination"? That one is harder for me to tell just by browsing blurbs