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

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

The Raven Brothers
11/6

Thanks, Tammie. And regarding the page count of books and how many U-books we need to read, my brain definitely does not work that way! I get what you are saying, but I never would’ve thought of it myself! 😂

Tammie, this month due to daylight savings, I have to be at my daughter’s house at 4:30 in the morning and once I get the three older kids to school, I just have my three-year-old grandson Julián aka. JuJu. My son-in-law doesn’t get home until 5:30 in the evening, so I have a very long day to be able to read because JuJu is really good about playing by himself and watching his “big show” (tablet) so I can pretty much read all day. And he & Lily take naps once I get her home from her kindergarten class and even if they don’t nap they go to their rooms and they have rest time. I’m just telling you all of this because I am on my phone today and most of the time I can update on my SS, but for some reason I can’t get back to my book section on our spreadsheet. I can only see the right side where it has the author’s name and series etc. So if it’s OK I’m going to just mark my books as I’ve gotten them read because I have three books going right now because I need to finish them up for Turf Wars. I am going to be pushing myself today to get them all read which I can do. I just can’t put them on the SS until later tonight or if I am too tired it could even be Thursday when I don’t watch them. So I am going to add them here as I get them read and if you don’t mind you can add my read date on the SS.

Trial by Fire
Read: 11/6

Thanks and sorry for being such a pain in the you-know-what!

Tammie, I also added book 4 of the Cake series (follows Fiercely Emma) and it has an actual guitar on the cover. As of now, I had to put in in a K spot, but I might find another character for another letter to help fill in some words above.

And Emma has redeemed herself (and so have I) because the cover is 57.4% brown! :) There are a total of 6 books that are marked for brown and I know we can only have 5 but it's there in case we need it, unless you want me to remove the checkmark for brown.

Tammie wrote: "@Vicki a couple of things

I can't see a guitar on the cover for your Fiercely Emma book

also...there's been quite a bit of discussion in the captains thread regarding instrument cases...it's been..."

Oh jeez, I'm so sorry! I must've had a brain fart because Emma has NO guitar! I might've had another book in that spot and moved it because I did switch a couple books around or I simply messed up. And it's too bad that the guitar case doesn't count but OK.

Lol oh good — I love dorkships!

That answers my question with one exception. If round 3 doesn’t start officially until today, how could we finish the book yesterday and answer the questions today? Oh jeez! Never mind! I haven’t looked at anybody’s spreadsheets on any other team or anything but obviously they could have used it for round two. Forgive me for being such a dork! 😂

Tammie, I'm confused about the time frame for reading books. Some people already read and finished Starter Villain and have answered the questions with a rating showing. Can we read books ahead of time like banking them? I know we can start our books prior to a round, but I didn't think we could finish them until the round began, so would you please clarify that for me?

Tammie wrote: "I found these instruments on KU

- KU - U

- KU - K

- KU - K"

Thanks, Tammie, I loved CAKE books 1 & 2 and I am reading book 3 for this next round.

Plus, I posted my last book for this round.

I agree, Tammie! I have added all my books I could find until I get home. We’re leaving for home soon and I am driving, probably the whole way. With no traffic or potty breaks it’s a good 5 hour drive, so obviously I won’t be able to check this thread once we head home. And don’t worry about my last book, Beautiful Ruins., because I have the audiobook too.

Oh my gosh, I have SO many books planned for another challenge that don't work at all for Wheels! Hopefully when I get into them there will be some character names I can use. We're heading home this morning so later tonight or tomorrow I'll look through unplanned books for E and U and whatever else we need. This word is hard!

Tammie, I think it's good now. I had 2 books that ended up not working for anything and I forgot to remove them. And I had 1 book that I forgot to add to the SS, so I hope it's good now.

I added a book that I forgot to mark as read and I read it on Oct 27th lol so I added Nutshell by Ian McEwan and it works for I, E, C, T, R and I placed it on line 114.

OK lol

Tammie, I plan to read Beautiful Ruins on our way home tomorrow. Is that okay or do I need to read it tonight?

Glad you’re feeling better, M!

Thanks, Tammie :)

Tammie, I frequently buy a book if I can’t get it the way that I want it but not for $15 unless it’s a book I really want!

I'm bummed because I read The Violin Conspiracy in June 2022, but I'll re-read it for the points. I did really like it though, so that's good. And I am on a 9 week wait list for Starter Villain so I'll probably get it on audio which I don't mind, but I prefer having the hardcopy or ebook too and not just the audiobook. Hopefully it works out. But I am 37th in line of 159 people waiting. lol

Okay thank you 😊

I haven’t seen the other BOM’s yet.