Sophie’s Comments (group member since Apr 28, 2013)

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

The Queen of the Elves is vanquished!

Wintersmith has come.

350-450
Season in the title
character lives in a palace
someone is under a spell
all letters in SMITH found in the title

It's got unicorns... Just not a singular unicorn.

I'm half way through this which has silver text. Also hits the word count. Will do a text search for unicorn later, but I doubt it.

Yay Sammy!

I've got Chris Carter's The Night Stalker on hold from the library, so if no-one else gets to that, then I can cover the initials in cockatoo.

Argh the bad spin mojo has passed my way now!

Reacher Gilt

500 to 650
Author's initials in COCKATOO
EMBEZZLE in text
money or coins on cover
plot features some kind of bet/betting

Yay! Ticking off things on so many lists!


I've just come across this and had to share:
There’s a rhyming Italian expression for saying “take it or leave it” that goes o mangi questa minestra o salti dalla finestra. It means “either eat this soup or throw yourself out the window”.

Number 28 down. Making steady progress this year.

This one was v thought-provoking and I'm glad I finally got to it.


Also knocked one (Homeport) that has been on my tbr since I did an enormous bulk add of things in August 2014! Still think it will be a miracle if I ever clear all of them.

Welcome Anissa! Good luck! We make no promises that your tbr shelf will actually shrink especially if you get involved with other challenges...

The Sagan Diary by John Scalzi is 3.33. I read it during Book Games so wouldn't reread, but it's 100 pages and I thought was much better than that ranking.

Grendal's Mother has been slain.

Ropen has come out of the woodwork instead:

100 to 175
Light source on cover
Letters in REOPEN in Title
Author name starts with PN or G
MC goes outside at night


The other open tasks are:
Fire on the cover
Goodreads rating between 3 and 3.5 (inclusive)
open plain on cover
10 in page count

Ooof that's a ridiculous amount. I've just admitted to myself that while my mum's paperback copies have sentimental value, the text is just too small and densely packed and I should buy them.

I'll see whether I can talk to Mr Sophie about whether there is a way to share the copies of the later ones (To Lie With Lions on) with you.

I'm about to buy To Lie with Lions to continue to Niccolo spread. I'd be amazed if you guys don't finish the series before me.

I need it! Especially post team challenge.

Wow! A monster every couple of days is speedy slaying.

Yes on the respin.

Will sit and look through books and tasks when I get back from a weekend camping and have Nana here supporting childcare.

Amazing work everyone! You've all been an absolute delight (even those who self identify as PITA).

Teddie, Stephanie and I need to quickly finalise the SS then we'll know for definite where we stand.

Excellent choice of image for the thanks. They are appreciated!

We've had a lot of fun with this one as well.

I'm at work so this is a fly by post to say that we've been given TIDAL WAVES as our last hazard and I'll shuffle things later. We've got 24 hours after the end of the challenge to finalise everything.

Thank you everyone for some incredible teamwork!

Amazing!

I've just asked for another hazard spin on the off chance that we can fit in anything else that gets finished in the next hour. Incredible final couple of days everyone!

Now it's time for me to stop fiddling with this and see if I can get anything else finished in the next 12 or so hours.