Ashley’s Comments (group member since Apr 27, 2022)

Ashley’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

I am not sure I'll finish Verity by tomorrow! I ended up getting busy this weekend and didn't get any reading done! I will wiggle things around tomorrow morning and see what we have to work with :)

Second Spell Out Complete!!

First Spell Out Complete!

◈ Books with MPGs Childrens / Kids / Poetry / Play / Graphic Novel / Illustrated / Photography / Art (or which have "Illustrated" in the title or an "Illustrator" contributor in the metadata) must have at least 40,000 words (must be a verified count. sites that provide estimated word counts are not valid sources for verifying word count). ArBookFind is a great site to double check (there are .com, .co.uk and .com.au versions). If in doubt, ask your captain. Another rule of thumb is the audiobook version should be over 4 hours.

I would say you're probably good, but I'll let Deanna have the final say.

I tend to be very generous with my book ratings. I've been disliking my last few books, and still giving them 3 stars...

oh no! I have it on hold at the library, but I don't think it'll be available before the end of the round. Maybe I'm not missing anything!

yep, perks! Uno is so fun! and it is not as difficult as it seems at first glance!

Kirsten wrote: "I just saw that you are on our MM India team! Hooray! We are a nice bunch, I think, with some terrific players. And we definitely don't only read MM."

Yes, I saw that! I was excited when I saw several of you on this team as well, so we could get a good rapport!

Jessica wrote: "Ashley: I updated Red White and Royal Blue to add 2 more characters if that helps at all with arranging things. Unfortunately still no I lol"

Anything helps!

I started a list as well, in case we need more options:

I Titles
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (tagged x49)
Imperfect Illusions
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (tagged x377)
In the Dream House (tagged x820)
I Wish You All the Best (tagged x812)
I Kissed Shara Wheeler (tagged x576)
In Cold Blood
If I Stay

U Titles
Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology
Uglies
Unwind

oh man! that's rough! good luck to you!!

Thank you! I guess message 1 was just too easy! I didn't even think to look there

Are you a teacher Kirsten? Did you say that in your intro? I'm bad at remembering things!

Can someone remind me what can be used for the SKIP post? I assume Title and AFN/ALN, but what about Characters? I tried to search through the posts, but I must keep missing it.

Be on the look out for I books! We need 3 for each spell-out, and they aren't as common as you'd think!

I'm hoping I get The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue from the library before the end of the round.

Jessica wrote: "I was going to try and finish one more for our last spot but I'm home from work sick today and speed reading does not sound relaxing currently lol!

Hopefully someone has something they can quickly..."

Feel better Jess! No worries if we don't manage it. We did pretty good this round! :)

Trio wrote: "it's tagged MM Romance, so if that counts for queer (lol) then I'll save it."

Trio - the tag needs to be EXACTLY Queer to count!

Let me ask in the captains group to be sure. It might not count.

If it has Queer tags or is Pink, save it. If not, we can use it, it doesn't matter which round. :)

About 6 hours to go!

Happy reading!