Aiswrya’s Comments (group member since Mar 30, 2020)

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

Bernadette wrote: "I completed 2 of the Travelling Tasks"

Thanks! Taking a look

Jacqueline wrote: "@Laura finished First Days of School. Concentrating on Percy Jackson....feel free to put it wherever you like."

If it doesn’t fit a task, let’s not add it to the SS yet (unless high in page count). We’ll save it as reserve for later.

I’ll take the character goes to spa task. I feel like a chill read today. I can’t seem to bring myself to start my weighty tomes 😅

We’ve finished our first itinerary!

They end when the next cheese is announced. They are getting shorter!

Laura wrote: "I can re-listen to The Princess Diarist for Diary. I have 20 books on the spreadsheet, so I have some wiggle room before I get close to my cap. Just let me know if you want me to"

Oh yes, if you don't mind, I think that would be great! Thank you so much 💕

Ashley wrote: "yes! I'll try and finish today! I only started last night and it's very short"

Awesome thank you!

I'm trying to recall if any of my books had a Q

Does anyone know of an easy way to check if a book is in a list?

Laura wrote: "Aiswrya wrote: "Laura wrote: "We have a new task:

Read a book that is in the "The Worst Books of All Time" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...)"

OMG h..."

Yeah, I've read quite a few books on that list too. Trying to see if either Kulti or The way of kings is on there.

Laura wrote: "We have a new task:

Read a book that is in the "The Worst Books of All Time" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...)"

OMG how did they find these lists? 😂😭

@Robin, any chance you would be willing to read a book for Diary? This is the list of books that would work - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

No worries if not. Just trying to keep Jackie going till the end of the month without hitting her book cap :)

Jackie, feel free to hold off on Diary till we hear back from Robin.

Jacqueline wrote: "@Laura ok... I can listen to one as I work. I have the education tag and Diary. I have a Haitian novel on my desk ..150 pages. Is that a set 10 points regardless of pages?"

Yes, we get 10 points (on top of points for pages read) for mini 1 and 3, regardless of page count. Mini 2 would be 20 for a hard country, 10 for mid, and 5 for easy.

We're off to Greece next

Oh yay! Will get us as new spin shortly.

Laura wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Can someone remind me of the rules around BOM read date timing. Like, if my hold pops up for The Berry Pickers before the BR begins, and I read it, before the BR begins, then answer ..."

Same! I rescheduled my book to be delivered in June. But yes, you can read it now and answer questions when the BOM officially starts.

The only challenge is if we are picked to write DQs, it would be hard to write DQs for specific chapters without reading them again.

Laura wrote: "Laura wrote: "I could be mistaken, and Aiswyra might yell me at me for misinforming everybody, but for the book cap here's what I believe is what happens..."

She wouldn't really yell at me. Just i..."

😂 LOL thanks for clarifying :P

And yes, that's how we'd evaluate what books we end up using. I've honestly never had a so many people approaching their caps, so this is going to be a new experience.

Silje wrote: "Aiswrya wrote: "I’m getting started on my author born in India book - The Immortals of Meluha. Has anyone read it? New to me author, but my aunt has great things to say about this se..."

Finished The Immortals of Meluha. It was alright. I thought the author had a good imagination, and it was an interesting twist on Hindu mythology. However, the prose was very simple — I’d say it should be an MPG Children, if it weren’t for the two completely unnecessary sex scenes. As curious as I am to know how the story ends, I don’t think I can put up with 1,000+ more pages of mediocre writing.

Jacqueline wrote: "@ Aiswyra Awww... I have at least 10 books on my desk that need to go back to the school's library by June 7th that would fit challenges.
When I signed up ..I lowballed the my reads... as to guaran..."

I knowww, I feel like I might have low-balled mine too.

I don't know about banking reserves across months, let me find out.

New task: Read a book set in the time period "Post Modern"

Post modern time period would be anything post-WWII but pre-2000s.