Tina ❣’s Comments (group member since Mar 09, 2016)

Tina ❣’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Most of our books now are going to jackonary. I'm going to sort through them and find a place for each book then post an update.

We're on our last month for TT8 so we are nearly done!

@ Kimber - all done

@ Diane - sorry to here that! Interesting though considering the book has won quite a few awards

@ Alysa - Yay for vacation! I hope you have a blast :P Hopefully the sun looks down and is nice to you haha

Namita wrote: "I haven't really read anything this week as I've been trying to stay alive in this heat-wave across Vancouver. I swear I melted. 40 C + temps. Yikes!!"

I hope you're okay Namita! I understand the feeling of when you can't too anything when it's too hot. Australia gets a few of those days in summer and often it's either you go to the beach/pool or go to shops with air-con. My ice cream intake sky rockets during these times

updated books to here!

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "I've started a re-read of the Innkeeper Chronicles. Not sure if they fill any open items. Details on spreadsheet.

[bookcover:..."

Bugger! oh well

Christina T wrote: "Haven't added any of these...


Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs
Started 6/20/21
Finished 6/22/21
pages:352

I have no idea where this..."

Is there a cat shifter in the plot Christina?

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "I've started a re-read of the Innkeeper Chronicles. Not sure if they fill any open items. Details on spreadsheet.

"

Are there 3 witches in the plot or an elf archer? If you think of anything, let me know (:

Kimber~☆♡Love of Books♡☆ wrote: "@Tina
Finished

Pg 192
Task#238 MPG "politics""

Got it! Thanks Kimber :D

Thanks everyone! All books added to here

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Thanks for the update, Tina!

I finished which is a Discworld book (I decided to read the City Watch series this year) so I've put it down for Bingo where I think it ..."

Good idea Karen! I'm liking these black covered DW books

@Sally - I've popped your name down for both

@Kimber - Yes it works for MPG Time travel and I'll add your books in :)

@ Stacey - Yay! Our science MPG. Thanks Stacey

HTineye is odd.

It says 22.9% brown, 19.7% grey (but looks light brown); 19.2% brown, 2.7% brown (but looks green). Then other colours.

So the browns equal 44.8% brown.

I kind of like the idea of using this book in jackonary with Death. Even Death can't resist pie

As always, you are all doing a great job! We're doing super well and I'm happy with our team and our progress!

So here's an update with how we're tracking.

We're currently sitting at 15th on the leader board (2nd last) which I think it still a good effort. We're down 1 player and I know we all have had life impact our reading abilities therefore our book count is down. So, I think we're doing super. There's always players on other teams that just exceed our (and maybe their own) expectations.

At the moment we've read 273 books whilst two teams have read more than 370 books and quite a few have read more than 300 books. An easy way to increase our points is to get our BOMs up. So if you haven't already, have a look and see if you can participate in any of the BOMs. You typically have a month from the start date of the BOM to read it and answer DQ (unless it starts in July). We need a minimum of 3 answers to the discussion questions to be able to get the yummy, extra points

We're tracking well with all our tasks. An update is below of where we are at with them all.

Tasks
Unclaimed (24)
1 trunk / suitcase on cover
5 camera on cover
9 Features a barbarian
17 Book set in South Africa
57 MC is an actor / aspiring actor
69 MC is a cat shifter
70 MPG Holiday
74 hs the word "GOD" in the title or series title. Plurals / possessives OK
75 MPG Mythology
87 title has all the letters in G-U-I-L-D
91 Music MPG
92 musical instrument on cover
98 Set in China (may you live in interesting times)
128 set in one of the places listed: https://www.tentree.com/blogs/posts/1... Note: if the place listed is a town, then the region/country will be acceptable i.e. Siberia, Greenland, Tibet; for islands, it must be the island. 50% or more should take place in the location
155 MC uses horse(s) as a mode of transportation
174 Time Travel MPG
178 cover has only men (one ok) PLUS something blue
179 cover has only men (one ok) PLUS something blue
207 title includes a season name (Spring / Summer / Autumn / Fall / Winter) in it. Can be embedded like Wintersmith
220 set in a university
235 Steampunk MPG
238 MPG "politics"
242 crown on cover
243 fossil / skeleton on cover

Taken (17)
18 From Against Discrimination Listopia - Jessi
38 Science MPG (not Science Fiction) - Stacey
43 repeated 4+ letter word in title - Alysa
60 sausage on cover - Stacey
90 author initials AM - Lisa
104 mask on cover - Tina
117 MPG Espionage - Lisa
164 Young Adult MPG - Alysa
165 Rodent on cover - Celia
183 Feminism MPG - Lisa
192 Spell out Sky - Y - Tina
193 on epistolary novel list (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...) - Alysa
198 recommendation from diff team - Lisa
216 economics in text - Alysa
232 MC goes on a holiday - Tina
233 brown cover - Celia
239 celebration spirit of enquiry reading a book from https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2... listopia - Alysa

Bingo (23)
A3 Wooden trunk
A7 Golden footbal
B2 Eagle
B6 laughing emjoi
C4 "anthill inside" logo
D1 sheep
D3 water/rimfall
D4 Sir Pterry's hat
D5 the Great A'Tuin
A3 Wooden trunk
A7 Golden footbal
B2 Eagle
B6 laughing emjoi
C4 "anthill inside" logo
D1 sheep
D3 water/rimfall
D4 Sir Pterry's hat
D5 the Great A'Tuin
G5 elf archer
G7 movie clapperboard
H4 moveable type
H7 ankh
H8 cheeseboard

Jackonary
I have put a few more books here. Please have a look and see if what I've written for your book matches up. If you want to change it for whatever reason (what I've said is incorrect or you can think of something better), please highlight it in a bright colour so I know to fix it :) Please also feel free to start adding any future books to Jackonary :)
I'd love to know all your thoughts on how you want or think the story should go. I'm not a natural story teller but I'm enjoying this so far!

@ Karen and Lisa! I hope you're both okay with lockdown! Hopefully it resolves itself quickly so you can get back to happy family and normalcy.

Stacey wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Lisa, we managed to get DQ for the July BOM!
You’ve got The House on the Cerulean Sea and I got The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Not bad!"

Lisa also got DQs for the Backroom BOM! (..."

Thanks Stacey! I'll keep it in mind :)

Christina T wrote: "I'm still here y'all but have had crazy work stuff, mom was really sick, and to top it all off my laptop letter R quit working. I got myself another keyboard as a temporary fix but I will probably ..."

Thanks Christina! I've added that book in and popped your other 3 books onto the spreadsheet. Once you've checked the dates, page numbers and what they can fit, let me know so I can add them to the main SS

Celia wrote: "I just finished . On SS for 233 brown cover."

I'm a bit torn on this one for the brown cover task. For me a brown cover is to have more than 50% of it in that colour but this looks like less than that.

What is everyone's opinion's on this?

Sally906 wrote: "Completed and added to SS:

Mort by Terry Pratchett - 20/06/21 - 4★s

Participated in the BOM June Mort discussion:
Day 1 responses: https://www...."

Can you please add the date started and finished for this year for this edition? :)
It's on your TT shelf so you don't need to add it

Updated all books to here!