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

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

Silje wrote: "Laura wrote: "Aiswrya wrote: "New task: Read a book with a door or gate on the cover"

Would Rachel's Cold Eternity technically have a door covering this "bed"?
"..."

Agreed, I think that’s pushing it a bit.

@Priya - are you still planning on reading Major Pettigrew's Last Stand? If not, I just finished a book that can fit the task.

New task: Read a book with a door or gate on the cover

Volunteering for Pisa (Last day)

Laura wrote: "I should be done with Zapata tomorrow."

Okay perfect, in which case, no shuffling is needed :)

@Jackie - I used your book for statue on cover.

@Priya - we can find another task for it, if you'd like to use it. Like I said, no pressure to read long books. You could also leave it on your TT shelf for now, and add it to the SS towards the end of month 2 if you haven't hit your cap.

Tara wrote: "I see you're waiting on me to finish the United States Wheel - starting Awake in the Floating City now and should be finished in the next day or so!"

Thank you!

@Tricia - how are you doing with Things We Never Got Over

@Laura - are you going to read the Zapata book soo-ish? Or should we move Silje's Zodiac book to Z and quickly read something for Cristo? I know you have several books on your plate, so just wanted to check.

New tasks

"Read a book tagged ""Fun"" at least 10x"
Read a book first published in July of any year

Thank you all for the recs! Shall definitely check out some of those fantasy books.

Melissa wrote: "I didn't have any stand-out favourites this round. 
But I am happy I finally got to The Way of Kings though my favourite parts were the interludes haha. I don't know when I'll contin..."

Lol I feel like I’m never going to get around to reading way of kings 😅

Laura wrote: "Aiswrya wrote: "My favorite read was the Mrs Pollifox series. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. I love the humor, and wide array of supporting characters!"

I really enjoy Mrs. Pollifax. I will say tha..."

Yeah, I think I’m going to space them out too. I can imagine it getting monotonous after a point.

I would also love to discuss our highlights from month 1. Any books you particularly enjoyed, and would want to recommend to the rest of the team? Any new to you authors? An underrated book? Overrated book? Feel free to talk about anything!

My favorite read was the Mrs Pollifox series. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. I love the humor, and wide array of supporting characters!

I also quite enjoyed LOTR Book 1. I’ve watched the movies several times, but never got around to reading the books. Now I know I’ll never watch the movies again lol!

And Archangel's Ascension sighhhh I don’t want this series to end 😢

Lowlight was Temple. I read this book a decade or so ago, and loved it. Buttttt this time around, I forced myself to finish it for the points! Too much action and no movement in the plot. It felt like watching mission impossible on paper 🤦‍♀️

Tricia wrote: "I'm curious if we were able to use any of our reserve books?"

We didn’t! We managed to read over 200 books, which put us higher than several other teams. There was no reason to dip into our reserves 😊

If possible, we should aim for longer books this month. Nothing insane, but it’d be great to stay away from the <300 page books. No pressure though! Don’t read a book you hate!

Tricia wrote: "When does the month officially roll over?"

We are officially in month 2! Happy Reading :)

Priya wrote: "I put in a book for Sudan in the first sheet for the Mini 1 itinerary and it didn't get copied over into that sheet. Not sure when it does but just mentioning in case something needs to be done."

Fixed :) You had the wrong mini ref populated. It's the letter I and 40. The font sucks, so I can understand the confusion.

Laura wrote: "The cheese is done! We do still have another Q, at least one U, at least one V, at least one Y, and at least one Z. I see a couple of Os in the Other tasks column, but we will probably need Is for ..."

Perfect thanks Laura!

Bernadette wrote: "@Captains - the Mini 2 Traveling Tab needs a number assigned in cell A89 to the task."

Fixed :)

Laura wrote: "Priya wrote: "I just saw that Body at Buccaneer's Bay has been marked for a prompt with reason Dec 1988. The deeds of the Disturber by Elizabeth Peters is the one that was published in Dec 88. This..."

Yes, I definitely had too many tabs open lol thank you for catching that Priya!

New tasks:
Read a book where a character takes the train
Read a book with MPG Contemporary

Jacqueline wrote: "I might have dropped the ball on the U but I found by authors are Meredith Davis and Rebeka Uwitonze.

A quick book but ma..."

We can use this for set on the African continent. And Battle of Lab for U (whenever you finish it!)

Priya wrote: "I logged The Convoy for Mini 1 (Rwanda). That can be switched to Set in Africa if needed."

We get the same points for both tasks, so we'll just leave it in the itinerary task :) Thanks, Priya!