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

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

Namita wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Alysa wrote: "Jessi wrote: "A Single book can only be used for one thing between the 3 mini games."

Ah, well in that case we may want to strategize re whether to concentrate on Task..."

Haha no worries Namita! We'll help you out provided we don't get confused ourselves. 😂

But seriously we have a few veterans here so we're here to help :)

@Stacey and Jessie - I definitely agree with you both. Like hotels weirding you out Jessi, doll and chestnut like things have me a bit wary of them. I remember thinking in Sun down that the aunty was stuck in the year of the incident and the niece was going to jump through a cupboard (like Narnia) and travel back in time to save her. Needless to say that did not happen haha but it explained how I felt reading the book

Kimber✌ wrote: "I'm still focused on UNO but I was thinking about reading the Discworld books. The witch series looks really good.
So im going to start with those and when I get a chance I need to look over the t..."

I'm going to start with the BOM books and see where they take me. But also just read what my library has already.

I think the consensus is to read any of the books except for Books 1 and 2. The ones people recommend are the BOMs as far as I know :P

Stacey wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "Hi from Team Ventinari

I wondered if anyone can give me a couple of recommendations

I enjoy most genres -
Mystery / thriller, historical fiction, JD Robb and some nonfiction"
..."

Ooh a few of them have been BOMs here. The chestnut man still leaves a weird memory in my head but I liked it. I think I liked it more than the sun down. I think it was more predictable than chestnut man. What do you think?

Celia Buell wrote: "Okay hi I'm Celia I somehow missed any notification about this so I'm here now, sorry. Anyway I'm on US central time zone and my shelf is NBRC Tower Teams

Never read Discworld but my dad likes it
..."

Welcome Celia. Glad you found us eventually! Tell us a bit more about yourself like what genres you like (:

Alysa wrote: "Jessi wrote: "A Single book can only be used for one thing between the 3 mini games."

Ah, well in that case we may want to strategize re whether to concentrate on Tasks (esp the high-value groupin..."

Jessi is correct with her response in message 51. With tineye, it can be helpful but I’m not a complete fan. If we need to verify a colour in the cover, you can use it as a guide and check with the team. Then if we’re divided we can ask the other captains.

And don’t be wary of posting any ideas on how to best utilise our books for points. I love ideas 😆

I like to be a part of teams who are here to have fun but wild also really like to win hehe. I do think we should aim to complete the group of tasks that give us the most points (rincewind, city watch). Aiming for get the story done for jackonary would be good too for the bonus points

Stacey wrote: "I remember feeling that at the beginning of UNO, but now I'm feeling like I have to finish quite a few books quickly before it ends.

I'll have The Foundling from my library (well a..."

It has such a lovely cover. It sounds like a promising read. I couldn't find a copy to read for the BOM so I'm glad you've volunteered for the DQs

Kimber✌ wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Alysa wrote: "Anybody else going through that thing where you want to start reading a new book, but feel like you should wait and save it for TT ?!

I’m reading the cur..."

The tasks list in the the team spreadsheet for now. It would be good if you can have a read through the tasks and see if there is any you think you can read for or would like to read for. Have a look at the 'Tasks' tab, 'Bingo' tab and 'Jackanory' tab :)

Alysa wrote: "Kimber✌ wrote: "I dont see the tasks list? :( can u send a link"

It’s on the Team spreadsheet (Message #1)

Are we going to have a separate spreadsheet we can all edit? I’ve had that in all or mos..."

Yes there's a tracking spreadsheet! I'm just editing it and getting it clear for us to use and will send it out when we're done fixing it up :)

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Alysa wrote: "Anybody else going through that thing where you want to start reading a new book, but feel like you should wait and save it for TT ?!

I’m reading the current April YA BOM but otherwi..."

Wow Lisa! You’re on the mark! I’m still in a Uno mindset

But yay! Our first chosen book

Namita wrote: "Hi Tina!!

Here is the link to my shelf:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."

Thanks Namita! 😊

Alysa wrote: "Anybody else going through that thing where you want to start reading a new book, but feel like you should wait and save it for TT ?!

I’m reading the current April YA BOM but otherwise I will try ..."

Yes! I think we are all like that! It’s also the books that you read after that work for the challenge you’ve just finished

And yeahhh the notifications. Hopefully the fix it soon as it’s getting annoying

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Hi Tina, great to have you as our Captain.

Here's my shelf link - https://www.goodreads.com/review/list..."

Thanks Lisa! I love seeing your name when we find out our team for another challenge 😝

Team Carrot Ironfoundersdon is up and running!

I've managed to find most of our teams book shelves for TT. If your name doesn't have have a tick next to it in message 4, can you please post your shelf here?

Hello everyone and welcome to team Carrot Ironfoundersson!

I am so thrilled to see you've all already started introducing yourselves. Absolutely love it!

I'm your captain from Melbourne, Australia and so a special shout out to my fellow Melbournian Paulette :P This will be my second time captaining TT but I've co-captained a few times in Wheel, TT and Uno which is where I've got to play with quite a few of you. It is always nice to see some new faces and get to know others as well.

I've just started a full time job after finally graduating from my Master of Public Health so hopefully I'll have my self sorted and a routine in place before TT starts.

My favourite genres would have to be fantasy, new adult, adult fiction and biographies. I try to read any book now thanks to all the challenges I'm in, to expand my range. I haven't read any Discworld books before but I shall for this challenge. I've requested a few of the Discworld books from my library so we can get some extra points.

Please don't feel pressured to read and Discworld books if you don't want to. I'm hoping you will all enjoy yourselves and get a bit challenged with this TT!

Res

Recommendations

From our team:
Our Listopia

Alysa


Lisa
Murder Mystery:
- DI Kim Stone murder mysteries by Angela Marsons
- Kendra Elliot
- Anything Sandra Brown
- Jane Harper
- Kate Mosse or Aussie Writers Kate Forsyth or Karen Brooks


Stacey

Anything by Tana French

Paulette

Books by Kristin Hannah

Diane

Christina

Kimber


Historical Fiction
Diane, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Karen, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Lisa, https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

From other teams:
Team Angua von Uberwald
Team Archancellor
Team Cheery Littlebottom
Team Lady Sybil
Team The Librarian
Team Moist
Team Nanny Ogg
Team Rincewind
Team Rob Anybody
Team The Luggage
Team Sam Vines
Team Tiffany
Team Lord Vetinari, Alyana

Where Will My Book Fit

Tasks
Each Discworld book has had 6 tasks assigned to it. As a team, you can fit your books to the tasks for an additional 5 points. Excitingly, each Discworld book belongs in a sub-series; if you finish all the tasks for all the books in a sub-series you will get bonus points! There's 246 tasks in total. Let's aim to complete these in order of tasks that give us the most points.
R - Rincewind 40 points
CW - City Watch 40 points
W - Witches 30 points
IR - Industrial Revolution 30 points
D - DEATH 25 points
TA - Tiffany Aching 25 points
O - Others 15 points

If you’re book doesn’t fit any of the above we’ll try for

Bingo
We can be as creative as we like with the spots as long as we can justify it. Cover items, title/ series names, plot elements can all be used
E.g Sock - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Dobby is given a book from Lucius Malfoy in which HP has hidden a sock, essentially freeing Dobby from servitude.
Marking off a square is 5 points
Completing the card gives a bonus 40 points.

Jackanory
We are basically writing a story with books. We can use titles, cover items, text, plot, authors and of course genres to write our story. If we can’t get your book to fit any of the above then we can fit it in here. :)

Completion Posts

Template
Book:
Author:
Narrator/Translator: (if fitting)
Date Read:
Used for: (Tasks/Bingo/Jackonary)
How it fits:

Eg.
Completion Post
Book: An Offer From a Gentleman
Author: Julia Quinn
Date Read: 01 May 21 OR 01/05/2021
Used for: Bingo
How it fits: E2

Other options:
Tasks:
- 21 Romance MPG
- 101 word in the title can be made into an anagram = from -> form
- 113 Spell out CLAY = A for An in title
- 153 Historical Fiction MPG

Bingo:
- E4 free space!

Jackonary
What genres describe your story? romance, historical fictions
Describe the setting of your story - Regency Era
Describe your protagonists (max 2 characters) - Sophia Beckett is a maid, sneaky, cheeky, lady like, mistreated, caring, long haired, in love


* Note: If the book isn't on the SS, then write a comment saying it isn't on and Jessi and I can add it in for you :)

🥕 Books must be started after the start of the challenge to count towards the challenge. Countdown to the start of the challenge 1 May 2021 at 00:00 UTC. The challenge ends on 31 July 2021
🥕 Books must be />100 pages
🥕 Some genres (including Children, Graphic Novels, Photography, Illustrated etc) require a minimum word count of 25k words
🥕 Rereads are OK, provided it has been at least 6 months since the last read

Book Points
🥕 Books less than 100 pages = 0 points
🥕 Books between 100 and 1000 pages = 0.1 points/page
🥕 Books over 1000 pages = 100 points

🥕 Points will be rounded up/down from 0.5 as per standard maths
🥕 For audio only books, the page count will be set as 100, no matter how long the audio is.

Book of the Months
20 points = Participating in a current BOM
40 points = Writing a day's worth of discussion questions

*Participation means answering at least three of the DQ days over the course of the BOM discussion.

BOM Schedule
May:
1. The Foundling by Stacey Halls Starts 2 May, pg count 400
2. Dumpling by Julie Murphy Starts 16 May, pg count is 288
3. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett Starts 22 May, pg count is 400

June:
1.
2.
3. Mort by Terry Pratchett

July:
1.
2.
3. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

Each team will get 8 bonus points for each Discworld book they read, to a maximum of SIX over the whole challenge. Note that this is for the whole team, not each member. You can use the BOMs to claim this bonus.

Links
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Team Shelves
✔️ Tina (Captain)
✔️ Jessi (Co-Captain)
✔️ Kimber
✔️ Diane
✔️ Paulette
✔️ Lisa - Aussie Girl
✔️ Sally
✔️ Alysa
✔️ Christina T.
✔️ Namita
✔️ Karen ⊰✿
✔️ Stacey
✔️ Celia
✔️ Celanchia Espin