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

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

@Sanskriti - Can you please set a start date for Dark Places?

That's so good Preeti! And you're right - we've been lucky to have DQ for all but 1 BOM! Kudos to everyone who has read for BOM so far. They can take a bit of effort sometimes so thank you!

Remaining tasks

The remaining tasks have been claimed. If someone can't read for them, let us know :)

World Wheel
Sweden
WW35 Author born in Sweden - Preeti
WW36 Yellow and blue on cover - Elisabeth

Food Part 1
F14 pho - Lisa

New tasks

We've got new tasks for the world wheel!

WW47 Author born in United States
WW48 Red, White, and Blue on cover
WW49 "watermelon" in text
WW50 stars on the cover
WW51 character in (or was) the military
WW52 letters EAGLE in title (any order)
WW53 U
WW54 N
WW55 I
WW56 T
WW57 E
WW58 D
WW59 S
WW60 T
WW61 A
WW62 T
WW63 E
WW64 S
WW65 O
WW66 F
WW67 A
WW68 M
WW69 E
WW70 R
WW71 I
WW72 C
WW73 A

I've been house and pet sitting for the past month and have spent the last week cleaning up the place to go back home, so haven't had a chance to check in much. But I have time again to read more

Hopefully everyone has been well!

@Karen, hopefully your husband gets better soon!

We have new tasks!

Iceland
WW309 Author born in Iceland
WW310 Blue, Red and White on cover
WW311 character rides horses
WW312 "volcano" in text
WW313 letters GLACIER in title (any order)
WW314 nature on cover (no people)
WW315 I
WW316 C
WW317 E
WW318 L
WW319 A
WW320 N
WW321 D

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Character (dreams of ) going to St Petersburg.

Does this fit -

MC has to desperately get to St Petersburg to distant relatives to escape the pogra..."

I'd say if they do go to St Petersburg, then yes.

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "The Chipmunks have finally found the source of that stink in Chaos Towers, and have immediately jettisoned it into the nearest handy tower... How quickly can you clear it out?

Stinking Bishop

Lau..."

Yummm that cheese looks delish

Richard wrote: "Will Japan be added to Mini 3?"

yes! Japan is now in the tracking sheet

We have new tasks!


Japan
WW108 Author born in Japan
WW109 Red and White on cover
WW110 character eats Sushi
WW111 cherry tree(s) and/or blossom(s) on cover
WW112 features a geisha
WW113 """temple"" in text"
WW114 J
WW115 A
WW116 P
WW117 A
WW118 N

I will add the tasks to the tracking sheet tomorrow

New tasks

Mini 2
67 Read a book first published in September of any year

Mini 3
Author born in Brazil
Green, Yellow and Blue on cover
character celebrates Carnaval
letters CRISTO in title (any order)
statue on cover
forest on cover
B
R
A
Z
I
L

With the Queijo Coalho spell out, we need a Q. Does anyone have a Q in book that you've finished or are about to finish?

I'm still reading Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking and am not sure if I'll finish before the spell-out gets locked.

@Richard, you're right. The book is really good so far. It's nice to know introverts are being thought and written about

All these cheese challenges have increased my cheese intake. Today's cheese snack was cheddar cheese with salt and vinegar. So good.

Halloumi is great when it's drizzled with something. If it's got lemons on it, it's got me hooked. Honestly, anything with lemons has me hooked
Elizabeth and Richard, I'll keep your recipes in mind come summer in Australia. Halloumi salad does sound refreshing.
And yes, Karen, crispy halloumi... yummm

We have 45 minutes left until the end of month 1 and the start of month 2.
In case anyone is curious, we're coming 6th out of all the teams! Everyone is doing a great job :)

Does anyone have any reading goals for the next month? Any books you're excited to read?

I've finished my last book for month 1. I'm going to try read more BOM in the next month

I'll be finishing one more tonight before the cut off as well

I'll read Thinking, Fast and Slow for - 60 Read a book tagged "Education" at least 10x. I started the book a while ago but never got past chapter 2. I can't remember what I read so I'll start again

I've also started Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking for 61 Read a book that is in the Food for the Soul List

It seems as though we missed out on the O and X for Vieux Boulogne

On to Yeghegnadzor now

Richard wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "no idea how to pronounce it"

Zerk-sees"

Ahhh thank you!

I just finished Psycho Shifters that has a character's name starting with X - Xerxes. no idea how to pronounce it