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

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

We're nearly there with the mini! We've got 2 tasks left to finish (diacritic and horn on cover) and have back up options for both of them which is a wonderful place to be.


Thank you everyone for how much you've engaged with both the main task of building our resource piles and the additional challenges the mods have thrown at us with the mini challenge, the supply drops and now the battle with district 9.

Shemar Moore

It's going to be a balance depending on what letters get shuffled back and forth.

Verse and Vengeance is on the spreadsheet and has been sent to district 9's captains as our first title so maybe we can just keep this in mind going forward!

Suzanne wrote: "I found Ersatz Krieg: A True Story of Men Captured, But Not Conquered on Scribd that I could read also. If the game doesn't use subtitles, then I think IEG would be hard to match. B..."

We try to include whether subtitles can be used when we write the tasks and in this mini we have been exclusively saying title not title and subtitle. So for this particular book we'd have IEG as the letters.

I'm not convinced there's any benefit to making it harder for the opposing team.

1. It'll mean they send us back things that are harder to link to.

2. The points on offer for winning the battle are 5 i.e the same as a mini challenge task or 50 pages.

Damon

I used a dictionary to find words that started with Ers and it was basically ersatz or erstwhile... My library didn't have an erstwhile title surprisingly!

It might be helpful to know a couple of people who are willing to read the books in the chain as a backup because life has a habit of happening!

Marty wrote: "Hi everyone, the move is completed and I'm back. I will get right on reading now. I apologize for being inactive for so long. I was supposed to have a friend help me, but they had a family emergenc..."

Yay well done on getting all that done after being let down. Cleaning to that standard is one of my worst nightmares - can never manage it.

The Ersatz Elevator

Overlap of ERS
No books committed for battle so far

I can read this, but would be equally happy if someone else wants to.

ETA we can ignore The, A or An in titles as per the rules.

I've seen a book with a door shifter...

Excellent work on the back up books, thanks everyone!

Mel that basically matches. We might be able to start planning in the next 72 hours a little earlier than stated in the rules.

With the overlap letters, one way to think about it that made more sense to me was that each letter counts as a point and the winner has the lowest number of points at the end of the round.

Happy birthday! Sorry no pretty pictures along with my message.

Stephanie is going to let us know the book and the strategy she'd like us to be following as a team for this.

We've got a few things that haven't been started yet and with 3 days left, time is getting a little tight.

If you happen to have:
Horn on cover
Authors name has a diacritic
Harvest in text
One of the food words in text

That we can use as back up, that would be wonderful.

You could, but a shorter overlap is worth more points so we want to avoid doing that where possible and stick to 3 letters where we can.

Cecily wrote: "Now that I think about it she runs away from the farm but it can be replaced with Brother. Over 50% for sure takes place on a farm"

Thanks I've swapped that on the main sheet.

Yeah, during week 1 we should plan for all 10 of ours and then read them all in a week. If people have signed up for more than one book it probably makes sense for them to read them in the order they come in the chain as the later books only count if the earlier ones have been read.

Cat wrote: "Sophie wrote: "I'm half way there with The Tailor of Panama then will see what gaps are left.

For those of you who haven't been on a team with me before, I will read some pretty abys..."

Oh no! That needs to be avoided if it's worse than Miss Fix It.

Unfortunately for you I have found a KU series (Paradise Idaho) that is actually readable.

Cecily - does at least 50% of hired help take place on the farm? If it less than 50% we can't use it for that task in the mini.