Karen ⊰✿’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2012)

Karen ⊰✿’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Ann-Marie wrote: "What if a movie has been made but won't be released until later this year? Because of course I listened to the Tolkien books this month...."

If it has been made (i.e. not just rights purchased) even though it hasn't yet been released I'm ok with that

Start of Month:

Books on Shelf : 4

Books:
published


to be published




Feedback ratio: 97%


FINISHED


ADDED


End of Month:
Books on shelf:
Feedback Ratio:%

Sounds like we may need to do a Brandon Sanderson buddy read at some time through the challenge!

Welcome Jo! ;)

Just movies 😊

Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 6
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2

Books in category:

FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 38 (was 30 end of April)
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 2

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

Amy the book-bat wrote: "Hi
I'm Amy from Ohio. I am a book addict that has little time to read. I work as a caregiver for a young man with spina bifida. It can be challenging at times, but he can do a lot for himself and j..."

Welcome Amy! Sounds like you have your plate full. Don't feel pressure to read more than your sign up. We don't want to add any pressure to your life - this should be fun :)

Nistha wrote: "I am a bit confused about the BoMS (being new to the group). Do we need to nominate now in the threads for participating in the DQs or is it just for writing the DQs? I was planning to read the [bo..."

For points you don't need to nominate.
Just if you are going to read a BOM like The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, then head over to the discussion thread and you can volunteer to write some discussion questions (optional) or just join the discussion by responding to at least 3 days of questions. That will gain us additional points :)

Nistha wrote: "Nice meeting you all, very diverse group, can't wait to start now!

Wow! The mini-challenges don't seem too mini haha."

haha
more like an 'ongoing challenge within a challenge' teehee

Melissa wrote: "Fantasy and sci-fi peeps - I just recently discovered Brandon Sanderson (late to the game, I know....) and James Corey. I'm really enjoying the Mistborn series and the Expanse series."

Branden Sanderson is great. I'll also throw in a recommendation for Michael J. Sullivan as he has a similar style

Welcome Skye, Cindy, Saar and Nikki! Love the diversity of locations and reading we have in our team.
Looking forward to seeing what everyone reads and getting some new recommendations 😊🙌

Oh and can I cash in some tokens for an extra entry? I forgot to in our last team challenge 😊😬😆😊

Delitealex wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Delitealex wrote: "@Karen What was the interesting Scifi you read? I'm trying to get caught up on a few older series by David Weber, Elizabeth Moon and Tanya Huff to name a few. Al..."

I’m up to number 5 in murderbot. Could be a good series to get caught up on for TT!

At this point Jess, just read 😀
We have to make a tower of 223 books each month using a certain number of page counts for that tower. As the month goes on, we will provide updates as to if there are certain page sizes we need to cover.

Otherwise there is a mini running over the whole challenge which was posted today. It is optional but is good for points.

Also if you read for the BOMs and participate in the read that also gets us more points

I’m sure it will make sense as we get started!

Delitealex wrote: "@Karen What was the interesting Scifi you read? I'm trying to get caught up on a few older series by David Weber, Elizabeth Moon and Tanya Huff to name a few. Also I'm about to start the Foundation..."

I’ll have to compare shelves and see what you’ve enjoyed that I can try 😉
I read which was great but the sci-fi element was a small part. I also read a few of the Murderbot series and really enjoyed them

Tati wrote: "Now that I have more time, let me do a proper introduction LOL

I'm Tati, I live in Brazil (I see someone from NYC, just got back from there). I've slowed down in my reading a bit, as adulting has ..."

Haha I understand. Adulting is time consuming!

Welcome Maritza! I’m also doing the BOM for points although it sounds kind of interesting!

Hi Jessica! Welcome to TT. !
Uno was designed to be a bit more relaxed and social , but in saying that, Tower Teams is probably our most relaxed/social challenge at NBRC. We still get some hard core competitors though 😆

And for those playing along at home, this works for MT13 - Shannon read Oct 12 2019 ; and MT16 - Cat read Sept 14, 2018

I've never heard of this either, but it sounds interesting enough. And.. well.. points.

I'll volunteer to write DQs for Team สิบ Sip