Vicki’s Comments (group member since May 01, 2018)

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

Ashley, I loved it. Hope you do too!

Thank you, Ashley!!

I was upset because I had one book posted that I was going to read, but I needed to finish it for a challenge that ended on the 11th. When I read it and was looking through our spreadsheet, I realized that I had it on our SS as well. It was 480 pages so that bummed me out a little bit. Does anybody know how long this first round is?

megan wrote: " and are my two favorite so far."

So that's two for

Cathy M. wrote: "That's 2 for so looks like I might need to add that one!"

I absolutely loved it! As I added my favorites on this thread (and there were more lol), it confirmed for me that my favorite genre is historical fiction. I LOVE mystery/thriller as well and consider it a favorite genre, but I don't give as many 5-star ratings.

My favorites:

I must include this one that I read in 2023 and a MUST read!!!

The Women

10 of my favorites read in 2024 but in no particular order:

(probably favorite of 2024)
The Frozen River


A Song to Drown Rivers


The Fountains of Silence


A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire


Five Broken Blades


Clytemnestra


The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi


The God of the Woods


The Nightingale

Take care of yourself, Ashley. It is no fun being sick and your health is definitely your first priority.

Cathy M. wrote: "Vicki wrote: "One more question: I was getting this challenge confused with another one where we have to use the first Kindle edition of the book, which I was using. Now I think I realize that for ..."

OHHHHhhhh, I don't know how/where I missed that. lol I will have to go back now and make sure because I was not looking at that. Thank you. I'll get it together...hopefully! lol

One more question: I was getting this challenge confused with another one where we have to use the first Kindle edition of the book, which I was using. Now I think I realize that for this challenge we use the most popular/first that comes up for page count. What confused me is that The Road Trip comes up as 414 pages when you look at the top one after clicking editions or typing it in the bar, but it's 400 pages for first Kindle edition and that's the page count being used for the BOTM reading. So, would someone please clarify for me which page count to use for sure.

Roe, Jeez, I should've realized. lol Thank you, I found the right one I need. I've never see the SS set up the way this one is so it's different but pretty cool. :)

Roe wrote: "Mine is not in read only. Are you in the tracking sheet or the team sheet?"

The team spreadsheet from msg. 1

Roe, the SS is currently in VIEW mode only so we can't add anyway. I assume that our captain will change that soon.

Ashley or Apoorv, do our X's have to come from the beginning of the title or AFN or ALN or can the be anywhere in the title? The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern is a book I have that I could use for X if it can be anywhere in the title.

Also, will the SS be open to add books to claim soon for the letters?

A reminder to anyone who might not realize or forgot that we need to add the checkmark to the box to "notify me when people comment" so we get notifications. :)

Since I was too tired to read this entire thread last night, here's this:

🌟 Icebreaker Question: 🌟
If you could magically eliminate one boring chore from your life forever, which one would it be and why? 🧹✨

I literally HATE unpacking from vacations and we go on quite a few 10 days and shorter 3-4 day mini-vacays. The reason I hate it is because I simply am lazy, I guess. I just hate having to put everything away! Doing laundry and putting it away is different, but I don't know why. I will leave my suitcase with things in it forever because I hate it...yep, embarrassing to admit. My hubby will verify this because he hates that I don't put it up immediately because HE does! lol

Wow! What a team we have! A fantastic cap and co-cap! *Waves* at Ashley and Apoorv. :) We just won't be able to go wrong with those two as our leaders. Thank you both of you for stepping up to the plate.

I know and am friends with several of you, and I'm looking forward to getting to know the others of you. I'm definitely not new to Wheels and it's one of my very favorite challenges. I'm SO happy to be on this specific team!

For those who've played with me before and have heard it 101 times, I'm sorry not sorry but here goes...I'm happily married, have 5 children, 22 grandchildren, and 7 great grandchildren. Hubby and I live alone with our two dogs, Rocky (lab and border collie mix) who is 14 and CRAZY Daisy who is a 1 year old Havanese and she's just SO much fun! We lost our other two dogs Buddy and Jazzy. Buddy was 12 and he died about 10 years ago and Jazzy died last November 1...both broke our hearts.

I'm a retired English teacher of 25 years. I taught freshman English, multicultural literature to seniors, and yearbook. I'm loving traveling, spending a LOT more time with my grandkids, and yet I absolutely miss having students. I don't miss the red tape!

Can't wait to get to know you all and CRUSH Wheels!

Wheels-9

Melindam wrote: "Vicki,

leave that pita-stuff, please!! :D

It seems the Mods are currently letting the teams know if there are any changes in our points, so we'll have to wait for that but we are doing great any..."

OK, will do, Melindam :)

MelanieJoy wrote: "I’m definitely slowing down on my reading. I had an awesome start to the year and now I want to read pressure free lol."

VERY! Is that how many you've read?

Sammy wrote: "Vicki wrote: "What to do with my down time? Ugh...I have to wait for Turf Wars but I'm ready NOW! lol"

Read all the books that don't work for challenges generally.

And the long books that will be..."

I do have at least one book that's over 600 pages that I am going to start and take my sweet time but I'll wait to finish it until Turf Wars begins. Then even though the page count will only be 611, it'll be a start so I'm hoping it'll fit somewhere other than the .01 multiplier. lol

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Vicki wrote: "What to do with my down time? Ugh...I have to wait for Turf Wars but I'm ready NOW! lol"

Same....

Instead of audiobooking on free time though, I'm going to enjoy hours of music guil..."

That sounds heavenly! lol I'm SO excited though because one of my granddaughters is "coming by" this weekend. She had just gone to Hawaii to visit her twin sister and they're stopping in town before going back to Oregon, so I get to see her family. Sierra, her husband Brandon, and their 3 kids (my great grands) Ashton, 10, Audrina 6, and Cameron 7 weeks. So this weekend I am so thankful not to have any books I NEED to read!!!

I’m a delight, Sophie? Why, thank you. :)

Melindam, thank you for the info. :)

We did an amazing job but more than that we were an incredible team!!

What to do with my down time? Ugh...I have to wait for Turf Wars but I'm ready NOW! lol

I LOVED playing this challenge with THIS team!!! Thank you everyone for your support! Especially Sophie, Teddie, Catherine, and Melindam. I know I can be a PITA but my heart and participation is in the right place. lol Thank you SO MUCH!!!

Do we know where we ended up?