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

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

Trinia, Beth, Lauri, Suzanne, Cathy - I've been checking the Five Feet Apart thread for who has the questions and they're not up yet. I'll let you know when they are

Is anyone planning on reading The Motorcycle Diaries or has already read it?

I'm loving all your reading plans team! Looks like we'll manage this challenge well :D

And well done Beth to the first book read!

Suzanne wrote: "Tick tick. We have family visiting so I've used up my waiting-to-read time setting up an ice cream challenge. I put 13 kinds of Ben & Jerry's in numbered cups (they each get a set of 13 cups) and a..."

Omg I want to do that! The tubs here cost so much though otherwise I'd be buying more of that brand. I'm still to try their vegan flavours yum yum

Ashleigh wrote: "Hello hello from Team Around the World in Eighty Days!

Please feel free to come over to our thread and see our book recommendations! Happy reading everyone!"

Thanks Ashleigh!

Beth wrote: "I know someone posted the countdown but I can’t find it now. If someone has the link would you mind posting it again? :)"

Here you go!

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

It's coming up soon! 1 day, 5 hours and 51 minutes as of now

Oh definitely just post the ones you have here! Haha

It would take so much time otherwise :P AND you'd have to think of so many books to recommend

Note to all

I've edited the recommendations from other teams, and recs from out team to posts 9 and 10.

They're a bit vague but it's in the spirit of interacting with all the teams.

I'm still trying to think of my recommendations, honestly. The last time I thought about books to recommend was years ago and I my taste in books has changed

Beth wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Beth wrote: "Cathy M. wrote: "Though to make it easier, do any of you want your own Tab in the Planning Sheet for the tasks?

That way you can also keep track, and write any notes/op..."

Haha all good Beth! :P

Beth wrote: "Cathy M. wrote: "Though to make it easier, do any of you want your own Tab in the Planning Sheet for the tasks?

That way you can also keep track, and write any notes/options you might have, for th..."

It depends on the which completion post you're doing.
Cathy's post gives you two options for completion posts:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

1st option, you want us to add the details into the SS. So, include whatever you can in that completion post.

2nd option, you are adding in the details to the SS. Then you post your completion post here which tells us that you've already done it.

Does that make sense?

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "@ Beth, Suzanne, Lauri and Leslie - I've added your botms to the BOTM tab in the spreadsheet. You can keep track of your participation there :)"

Tina - I think you missed my post - ..."

Oop! Sorry Diane! All added now.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "I've got two Q books ready and waiting, quite a few U's and X's but a bit light on the Z's. I've now started shelves for those letters as well to help out in future challenges. Be prepared... and I..."

Good idea Lisa! I feel like I have too many shelves now so probably won't do that.

Though I've been adding books in Kindle and iBooks into collections to find easier. But with 1000 ish books, I am losing the will to categorise any more

Cathy M. wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Cathy M. wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Tati wrote: "I don't hand out 5 stars easily. Usually, a 5-star book is one that gives me a book hangover, and any book that comes after it is just du..."

Ohh I knowww. I want to know how it ends but I think I'm secretly keeping it for TT. And I think I'm also wary of it possible not having a good ending to the series. That feeling of disappointment is hard to get over. I felt it with the Sookie Stakehouse series and am still annoyed with it haha. Just way too many books.

Cathy M. wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Tati wrote: "I don't hand out 5 stars easily. Usually, a 5-star book is one that gives me a book hangover, and any book that comes after it is just dull in comparison.

When I think ..."

I understand why you wouldn't! The second was better, the 3rd and 3.5 were ok.

I've been waiting to read the last Throne of Glass to fit in with one of these challenges haha. Page count, cover colour etc.

I volunteer for backup DQ for Motorcycle Diaries
I'm kinda surprised my library actually has this. For some reason they never have the adult botm books but always have the young adult botm

I volunteer for DQ for Motorcycle Diaries!

Tati wrote: "I don't hand out 5 stars easily. Usually, a 5-star book is one that gives me a book hangover, and any book that comes after it is just dull in comparison.

When I think about 5 star books, these tw..."

Honestly, I'm still thinking about Court of Mist and Fury and it's been a while since I read that and the other 3 ACOTAR. I have noticed more books written like them though

Lauri wrote: "For my teammies, please feel free to check out my books on my "5-star" reads shelf. Any and/or all of these books come highly recommended! My all-time favorite authors are Isabel Allende, Jean Auel..."

Ooh that's a lot of recs Lauri!
I've been meaning to read quite a few of your 5 stars! I don't have as many

What are your criteria for a book to get 5 stars? (question to everyone else as well). What are your rating systems?

Confirmation with Tags

Tags spun for the wheel - at least 1 tag on any page of the tags

Task tags - found on the main page

Lauri wrote: "Our libraries have just opened up the book drops again, so I can return the 28 books I've finished since lockdown started! Today is the first day of their new "Library Takeout" program. You can cal..."

Oh that's great news Lauri! Just in time as well. I could not check out that many books as long as I have pets. I'd feel horrible returning a book with chew marks on the pages. You really have to hide things for pets not to get to them

My library opened up June 1st but I actually didn't know till now. We have 30 minutes to go in and get what we want and leave. We don't have to book in a session which is nice! :P

I'll try and make time to go when I figure out what books I want to read for Wheel