Denise’s Comments (group member since Mar 31, 2021)

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

I'm sort of hoping one of the next minis will bring the return of the Bingo sheet. It was so much easier to say "I'll read the book with the pink cover" or "I've got a book with a hedgehog." I'm trying to keep up with looking up all the tasks, but it is time consuming. I feel bad when it takes me so long to get them updated/entered. I've actually got two other books finished, but haven't marked them as read because I haven't had a chance to compare to the monster tasks. Hopefully this weekend!

If JL's wolves don't work, I just put one on the spreadsheet where the MC owned a dog.

Carrie wrote: "Hi everyone. Just checking in. Looking forward to playing with you all!"

Welcome!

Insiyah wrote: "Amy the book-bat wrote: "I used to live in Savannah, GA and it was unbearably hot in the summer. Often upper 90's into the 100's. ..."

Sophie wrote: "It's been hotter than normal here for the last..."

Oh my! I think we'll see 100 this week, but no way would I function well if it was 122. Every time we hit 100, I think it's time to move. 🥵

It was 97 the day we went to Disney. Miserably hot. It was still fun, but we would've done more if it had been 10-15 degrees cooler.

Flying home today. I'll try to look at all the stuff I've read and see what categories they fit.

I'm reading this now if we need a yellow cover.



I have several books going at the moment. I can work on the others and finish this on the plane ride back to reality.

Insiyah wrote: "I need to rant about how bad a book is, so feel free to skip/not read this.

I'm reading The Client, and wow. Just wow. You know the basic writing rule of "Show, not tell"? Well, thi..."

Grisham is definitely hit or miss for me. I love your book rant!

Hello all-- I'm on the beach for much needed R&R. I'm getting a lot of reading done. It's glorious.

Read. Wade into water to cool off. Repeat. 🌊🏖️

Amy the book-bat wrote: "FML... I just tried to leave to run errands and my back tire is flat as a pancake. I don't know how to change it myself and I don't have enough money to call someone to do it. I hate being stranded..."

Ugh. I'm sorry. Spending money on cars is possibly my least favorite thing to spend money on.

Note: I'm reading the Kindle version of Carrie Soto Is Back. GR keeps switching me to the Hardcover edition. I even tried saving from my laptop. I don't think I've ever had this issue before, but fwiw, I'm reading the 352 page Kindle version.

Sophie wrote: "I can't remember if any of you were children's librarians, or if I need to widen my gr net. My 4 1/2 has outgrown preschooler picture books and we are trying to find new things to read him at bedti..."

Hmm...maybe try Inspector Flytrap by Tom Angleberger or A Beginning, a Muddles, and an End by Avi or The Platypus Police Squad series. My boys all liked the Mr. Lemoncello books and the Platypus Police Squad books. They actually wrote emails to Jarrett J. Krosoczka and Chris Grabenstein and eventually heard back from them!

The Bad Guys and Diary of a Wimpy Kid are extremely popular series with kids, but parents don't always love them...lots of name-calling, burp/fart jokes, etc. My own kids liked them, but were older than your son when they read them. So it depends on what you're comfortable with.

I'll try to look around the children's section this week and see if anything else jumps out at me. Good luck!

Insiyah wrote: "I couldn't bring myself to get into A Little Life for a bit, so I spent the morning reading Redshirts because I decided to listen to the part of my brain that's been trying to lust ..."

I've heard it's a really emotional book to read. I haven't tried it yet.

Steven wrote: "Yes! Any books started after the Towers start date and finished before the Towers end date will still count for the main challenge, just not for the mini challenges that have different date require..."

Thank you! That's what I thought, but wanted to be sure.

So if I started a book today and finish it in June, we can still use it but just not for the maze game, is that right?

Sophie wrote: "I think just the captains and cocaptains will have it to start with - want to minimise the cahnce of anything going wrong."

Probably for the best if I'm involved! 😂 I found the thread for the maze group. I'm honestly just catching up. I'm hoping to be able to help. My reading speed varies so much with my work schedule, but it might work out at some point!

Sophie wrote: "Thanks! Well done on surviving the busiest of times.


There are a lot of individual mazes which people have been working on since March. The one you want to look at is called Trojans and is right ..."

Found it. Do we all need the username and password for the maze or just the captains?

I just finished the busiest of busy times. I'm so relieved.

Added The Fine Art...to my TT shelf. Sorry about that.

I'm a little confused by the maze. It looks like some have already made made progress, but I didn't think it started until June 1. I may have missed something. Actually, there's a very good chance I missed something!

Amy the book-bat wrote: "Right now I just use my library for audiobooks (Overdrive and Hoopla).
I was with Audible for a long time but had to quit since I'm not currently working.
Scribd made me mad because I'd pay my fe..."

I agree. It's not unlimited. Still a decent deal, IMO but I've been bitten by the access thing with them, too.

I can take the 'O' spell it out for The Match. I've finished it already. O- character Oren Carmichael

Edit: it looks like this has been claimed, but feel free to add it to the spell-it-outs if needed.