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

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

Sally906 wrote: "Couple of questions

Can we just read a book for the page count but it won’t fit a task - or must it fit a task?

If it needs to fit a task can we ‘bags’ tasks that we know a planned book will work..."

You can read a book for the page count Sally. I'm sure that we can slot it in somewhere as well. Most likely the Jackonary tasks if nothing else fits. We can also shuffle other books around to accommodate yours.

You can definitely 'bags' a task! But see if it fits anywhere else as well. I think having at least 2 or 3 other options than what you've chosen will be helpful.

With your books, you can add in a new 'date read' for the book and the edition.
If it is the same edition of the book:
- Click on the book
- Scroll to the heading 'My Activity'. To the right of it you will see 'edit' in gray.
- Click on 'edit'
- Scroll down to 'dates read'
- Click on 'Add read date'
- Enter your new dates
- Scroll down and press 'Post'!

Et voilà! You have a new date read for the book!

If it's a different edition for the same book then it should be as normal.

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 following for our books:
1. Completion posts on this thread
2. Tracking spreadsheet (ss)
3. Main team spreadsheet - for captains only.

1. Completion Posts
When completing a book, you can use this format:

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

Other options:
Tasks:

Bingo:

Jackonary:

* Not entered on SS

I have an example in message 5.

2. Tracking Spreadsheet
I have sent you all a message about it!
Use the "Books" tab to enter information about your book. You can add in all your books at once or you can do it book by book. It's up to you. The way Jessi and I will know that your book is ready to be entered into the spreadsheet is when you've entered the 'date read' for your book.

I have a book there as an example of how you can enter your book on the sheet.

But basically you can enter as little or as much details as you want on it. Use columns G-I to enter information about Tasks, Bingo and Jackonary. Use the 'Used For' column to select where your task is chosen to go. You can enter it in the relevant tab as well and add a link to it if you're really keen (not necessary at all!!!). I have done it so you can see how I've entered my book in.

3. Main Spreadsheet
Jessi and I will enter the details in it :)

I hope this clears up the knowledge gaps for everyone!

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

You can list the books for the month if you know what you’re reading. I tend to put my book is once I’ve read them as I change my mind a lot with which book to read.
I’m tweaking the last few things in the spreadsheet we’ll be using which will help with book allocations. Your book counts for either Task, Bingo or jackonary. If it’s a BOM then it counts for that too

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Helo Carrot!

Team Moist has compiled some books in a listopia. Dive in, bring a towel...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

If you ha..."

We could do that! I think it would be fun. I think it would be good if you still posted some recommendations on the thread so we know who has recommended what book. Saturday night is my down night so I’ll collect our recommendations and put them in one place for us and for other teams to find

Hopefully I can get the tracking sheet up and running too. I have a long weekend coming up which is nice! Note sure if my fellow Aussie’s have ANZAC holiday on Monday as well

It’s much needed though!

Jenny wrote: "Helo Carrot!

Team Moist has compiled some books in a listopia. Dive in, bring a towel...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

If you have any recomme..."

Thanks Jenny! We sure will!

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Hi team, sorry I've been quiet. It has been a busy week at work and goodreads is awful on email notifications again.

Hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to the start soon!"

All good Diane! Hope everything is ok and manageable 😊

Jessi wrote: "Kimber✌ wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "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 an..."

Agreed! Generally, if you have the book or can get the BOM book, discworld themed or not then it’s a super help and boost for our points!

Celanchia wrote: "Hello everyone!! I'm Celanchia from Auckland New Zealand!! I'm so excited for this challenge, and it's awesome to see some team members I did a wheel-a-thon with a while back. I've not read discwor..."

Welcome Celanchia!
I’ve always wanted to go to NZ. There’s so much to experience there.

Have a look around and see if everything is clear to you!

Jessi wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "@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 t..."

Oh gosh! Clowns! I feel the same as you but with Marionette dolls... ugh I just can’t
They are freaky

Christina T wrote: "Hi team! Just a quick hello because I work Grave Shift and have to get going to work soon. I'm ChristinaT from the center of the States, Iowa. This puts me at CST time zone like Celia. I'm new to t..."

Welcome Christina!

To start, I'd suggest for you to have a look at the rules and familiarise yourself with them. Then to have a look at the Team Spreadsheet and read through the tasks, bingo and jackonary and see what you can read for or would like to read for.

Please also post your shelf for this challenge here when you get a chance

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