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

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

Greetings from Team Carrott Ironfoundersson!



With much discussion, our team has collated a few book recommendations for you! We've created a listopia for you which we are adding more books to.
We also have a comment section for books our team members have posted.

If you haven't already, we'd love to receive some recommendations for books your team has.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Alysa wrote: "ETA: Have I mentioned anywhere lately how much I love that challenges have been starting based on UTC times? Because I do love this so much. It means TT will start Friday night at 8pm..."

I must say, I did enjoy when the challenges started in our timezone Karen. It made life easier when due dates were approaching for challenges.

But I think it's fair to us all now that UTC is being used. I don't get mad and super confused with US time zones. I never realised that the USA had so many until I started doing these challenges with you all. I don't know how you guys keep track of them all with 50 states!

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Team - I created a listopia for our book suggestions so people can see all the books in one place. I only added my suggestions currently as I didn't want to add others unless they requested it.

ht..."

Love it Diane! I'll add to it when I've thought of some new recommendations.

Alysa wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "I forgot to mention that if anyone wants a tab on the SS to track their own books for this challenge, then feel free to add a tab for yourself and organise as you would like. Otherwi..."

No worries! I've got you a tab up now with a few headings :)

Alysa wrote: "Countdown is here:
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

:D
Am I counting??? No............

I really have been taking thi..."

That's for that Alysa!

I'm not sure if this is helpful to anyone but I've collated all our timezones here for 1st May https://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...

It's so close!! Hurry up and finish your current books everyone 😂

Deanna wrote: "

Hello Team Carrot Ironfoundersson!

The Luggage is on a strict books only diet at the moment, so please don't let our sudden appearance worry you.

We've put together a buffet of recommended book..."

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "

Hello!

Lady Sybil dropping by with some suggestions compiled in our Listopia here - enjoy!"


Thanks Erin and Deanna!

Jessi wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Jessi wrote: "Yay!! Go Stacey!!

So I had to have a tooth pulled yesterday. Dang wisdom teeth. So now I’m all puffy and sore 😞

But I’m excited for TT to start!!"

Oh gosh! Oh no! I..."

Oh that's good then... minus the diet coke haha. I haven't heard of no spicy foods whist recovering so hopefully it's not too bad for it?

Kimber~☆♡Love of Books♡☆ wrote: "Added my May books! Can't wait to start!! 🙃✌"

Looks good! Some of your books I've been meaning to read for a while. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is definitely a book I enjoyed as well

Kimber~☆♡Love of Books♡☆ wrote: "Hi
Can anyone let me know how to link a book to the spreadsheet please? Thanks!!"

Sure!
- Open up the page for whatever book you want to add in.
- Copy the URL for the book
- Go onto the spreadsheet
- Enter the book title in the next row and press enter
- Right click on it and select 'Insert link' and then press Done
- OR on the top left, click on 'Insert' and move your curser down until you see 'Insert link'

You can use the keyboard shortcut if you want as well

Hope that helps!

Jessi wrote: "Yay!! Go Stacey!!

So I had to have a tooth pulled yesterday. Dang wisdom teeth. So now I’m all puffy and sore 😞

But I’m excited for TT to start!!"

Oh gosh! Oh no! I hope you're okay Jessi! That's never a fun thing to deal with. Are you on a liquid diet for a bit? When I got my jaw surgery and wisdom teeth removed, I had smoothies to last me lifetime which I'm now off them

May BOM Page Counts:

The Lost Orphan/The Foundling = 400
Equal Rites = 288
Dumplin = 400

I forgot to mention that if anyone wants a tab on the SS to track their own books for this challenge, then feel free to add a tab for yourself and organise as you would like. Otherwise I can create a tab for you and set up some organised thing for it.

I tend to track my books in my own spreadsheet as well as a team one which is helpful to keep track of my books and challenges

Namita wrote: "I added my books to the Spreadsheet. I might add more depending on how fast I get through them."

Looking good Namita!

Stacey wrote: "I'm doing DQs for The Foundling! (Or Lost Orphan, whichever way you want to think about it. I love the fact that my copy has some questions at the end to help me too."

YAYYYYY!! That's amazing Stacey! :D

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Here's another book for our recs. It was my favourite book from last year.

by V E Schwab. It was so imaginative and a killer ending."

Ooh yeah! I love V.E. Schwab's books! I'm happy she's done an adult book now. I did binge read her Poison Study series

Kimber~☆♡Love of Books♡☆ wrote: "Hi!
In June ill be out of town I just found out.
So I wont be able to sign in all the time. Once a week I can probably do and Im not sure how many books I can bring and really read. (Maybe 2 or 3)
..."

Checking in once a week is fine Kimber! It's the minimum requirement but if you're away, I'll understand why you may not have checked in with us. 2 or 3 books in June is also fine Kimber. If you're away, I'd hope you would spend more time enjoying yourself :)


Kimber~☆♡Love of Books♡☆ wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Update

I have some more information in messages 5 and 6 on our thread, including the book recommendations. I will keep updating it as more recommendations come out.

We will use the..."

Sent you a message now about it!

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Morning everyone, (or evening... )

My library has the BOM so I've volunteered for back up for Stacey for the DQ's. I'm guessing different readers can still use ..."

I'd say yes to your question Lisa. It's what we've done in previous TT :)

And I had no idea they adapted Good Omens to a TV show. I should really try and read it, then watch it... David Tennant and Michael Sheen are good fun though!

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "some book recommendations:

- mystery; interesting format as the main character refers to footnotes on previous "cases" all the time

[bookcover:Midnight at t..."

They look great Diane! I'll add them to our list

@ Kimber - Bugger! Hopefully one of the books will magically appear between now and then at your library! One is perfect though :)

@Alysa - That sounds great! Hopefully Equal Rites is as good as you remember it being (if you liked it)

With BOM, The mods decide on a set page count for each BOM closer to the date. I normally add them into the SS and a few other places when the page count gets decided

Stacey wrote: "For anyone who wants to read the adult BOM this month, please note that this book has a different name/title in some locations. These are the same book:
[bookcover..."

Thanks Stacey! Maybe I'll be able to find the book by searching both covers and join in the BOM

Is anyone else interested in any of the May BOMs?