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

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

Kimber~☆♡Love of Books♡☆ wrote: "finished 5/19/21
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle"

What did you think of it Kimber?

Alysa wrote: "@captains — can you ask someone to add an Audible edition of Cuckoo Song ?

Here is Amazon’s listing of Audible’s version:
https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoo-Song-Fr......"

Shall do Alysa

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Finished - 5 stars. Great series with horrible crimes but the developing character relationships are awesome.

** This one fits 90 - Author initials AM but have us..."

Sounds good! Thanks Lisa

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "So regarding Other Team Recommendations. If a book is recommended and is in a series, does it have to be the ..."

Okie dokies! :]

Jessi wrote: "Sorry I've been silent the last few days. Busy busy weekend.

Also, finished this one last Thurs.

I really enjoyed it.

So last Friday my rommate/best frien..."

Oh my gosh Jessi! I hope you're ok and everyone else is too! That sounds like an emotional weekend and it looks like you're due for a quiet weekend for the one coming up. Did your kid like their birthday celebrations?

Kimber~☆♡Love of Books♡☆ wrote: "The BOM for July Firekeepers Daughter is not available for another 16 weeks from the libby app. (my library) :(
So I'm not sure if I'll get to read it for the challenge."

Oof! That's a lengthy wait! Another library might have it. Otherwise don't worry about it. I doubt the holders will get through the book before the BOM ends

Alysa wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "I didn't know you could do that. That's pretty nifty and great if you need to double check someone's edits. Thanks for the heads up Alysa. Also is very considerate of you think think..."

Oh yes. Definitely agree that non-Amazon books are hard to verify. I use Apple ebooks and sometimes it's a bit of a weird one to verify the page count or publisher. It's a bit trippy trying to figure out if the publisher added, is self-published or not. And yes, I think there's always drama with TT but it's still worth it :P

Alysa wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Alysa wrote: "If it helps any, there is a book I plan to read in June (it was not on the spreadsheet yet) that is on the satire list — and although I’m sure it’ll work for a spell-ou..."

Oh! She's a stealthy book ninja. Thanks Melanie (if you're reading this)

I didn't know you could do that. That's pretty nifty and great if you need to double check someone's edits. Thanks for the heads up Alysa. Also is very considerate of you think think of conflict of interest with these challenges :)

Celia Buell wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Celia Buell wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Celia Buell wrote: "I read . On spreadsheet for frying pan bingo.
It was okay, better than the first in the..."

Alysa wrote: "Celia Buell wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Celia Buell wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Celia Buell wrote: "I read . On spreadsheet for frying pan bingo.
It was okay, better t..."

I don't check all of the editions - just what's on the SS and in your TT shelf. Also, seeing someone's review in the 'friend reviews' section of the page can show the correct version of the book if the incorrect version was linked in the SS. So that's another way to find it. I think when I was looking at your shelf, I just didn't comprehend the information there fully or I just muddled a few books together lol. Apologies for that. I'm trying to stop doing GRs updates when I should be sleeping but it's not happening haha

But it is weird though... On the page of the book, I can see what shelves you've adde din the friend review section. I can see a lot of shelves too, as Alysa said. When I click on 'more' to get more of the review, I assumed that it would extend to show all the shelves you've added for the book. But I couldn't see yours which is what I think threw me as I hadn't come across it before. Maybe it's also the length of the shelves which stops all your shelves from showing. Maybe Alysa has some ideas. I add a lot tags for some of mine as well but they all get shown. In the end, I guess it's just another thing to consider when captaining as Alysa mentioned :P

bookswithpaulette wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "bookswithpaulette wrote: "2 books read and added to spreadsheet
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Paulette, you put #77 - Features a..."

Ahh yes. I forgot about him. I remember not liking him for some reason... can't remember why lol

I'll pop the book down for task 77 as 133 and 134 are easier to cover than #77

Thanks Paulette!

Alysa wrote: "If it helps any, there is a book I plan to read in June (it was not on the spreadsheet yet) that is on the satire list — and although I’m sure it’ll work for a spell-out or an mpg task, I am only r..."

I clicked on it Celia, and it looks like the page count is already there https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... 🤔

Celia Buell wrote: "Finished . On SS for footnotes task for now, but debating between three tasks or two bingos listed. If it makes a difference, I plan to read..."

Yep, perfect! I agree with Lisa and Celia and think putting it for book with footnotes / endnotes is best as it's harder to find a book for it than the Satire list. So we'll keep it there. That's a good find as well. I haven't come across that many books with footnotes in a while

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "So regarding Other Team Recommendations. If a book is recommended and is in a series, does it have to be the actual book or any book in the series? Thank..."

Yes it does give that vibe. I'd be happy to suss out who recommended it and see what they say, if you'd like :) Let me know if you're keen

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Finished this and added to spreadsheet

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I read the blurb for that Diane. Do you think it's worth a read? It seems like an ..."

Hmm ok. I'm moving on from the YA high school drama but I think it's important for me to keep in touch one way or another with issues in high school. It was published in 2019 so it shouldn't be that out of date. Meaning, teachers should have caught on to issues - as you said. If I can get a copy, I may give it a read

bookswithpaulette wrote: "2 books read and added to spreadsheet
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Paulette, you put #77 - Features a superstitious character for Dead Until Dark. Who is superstitious? Is it Sookie or someone else? I can't remember the book very clearly. It's been a long time and there's 11 books to remember ._.

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Finished this and added to spreadsheet

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I read the blurb for that Diane. Do you think it's worth a read? It seems like an interesting book

Stacey wrote: "
Finished. 5 stars, which is something from me for a non-fiction book.

I'm curious about scribd. When comparing I read info on how it has a smaller..."

Woohoo!A 5 star book!

That's a good point. I'm still debating whether I pay for audible, KU, scribd. I ruled out Kobo books at least. I just want to pay for one as all of them is too much

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Quick Update

We're tracking really well with our books. Hooray! I've added all our books read to the main sheet. We've read a total of 77 books so far with a total of 3175 points.

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Thanks Lisa :)

Haha yeah I thought it was getting a bit unclear and muddled the more books we read. But glad it's easier to understand now.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "So regarding Other Team Recommendations. If a book is recommended and is in a series, does it have to be the actual book or any book in the series? Thanks."

This was asked in the captains group and the answer given was:
"you do know that I look with extreme side-eye at all these generic recommendation lists, right? the intent being that you go and ask for a specific rec, maybe with some constraints or guides. lesson learnt: be clearer in the task text.

that also means I'm not gonna answer that, and instead suggest that you should ask the team that made the rec if they are recommending a specific book or a generic series. (and to leave it to you conscience if you use the generic rec anyway ;-P )(in practical terms, you aren't gonna be penalised for doing so)
eta: comedy moist-themed lists get less side-eye, to be fair"


I would say that if we read a discworld book, we can most likely use it in the books recommended by other team tasks as there has been a quite a few recommendations

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

Finished 5/12/21

Didn't get posted on the complete ss. Fyi"

Yep. Got it now Kimber. Thank you