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

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

Hunger Game Buddy Reads

Informal buddy reads will be held for the original trilogy of the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. One informal buddy read for each month of the challenge.

Informal buddy reads means there will not be formal discussion questions as with our groups BOMs.

However, in order to earn the 20 points for participation, players need to post at least 3 posts that provide a reasonable contribution to the discussion of the book. You do not need to provide a school worthy book report, but the posts need to be more than "Katniss is awesome" or "I love this book" to count for participation points.

The Buddy Reads for each book will run as follows:
The Hunger Games: May 15th to June 15th
Catching Fire: June 15th to July 15th
Mockingjay: July 15th to August 15th

That's because somehow that got skipped from the rules. The countdowns on the SS (where we did include it) is for a 9am GMT start.

Lauri wrote: "@Vicki - Sorry! I missed your question earlier. Yes, I was born & raised on the island of Oahu. I live in the small town of Kaneohe. It’s kinda a suburb of Honolulu. We’re about 13 miles away from ..."

If you make it to Europe there will be plenty of friendly book people ready to offer recommendations of places to visit.

Ushashi wrote: "And we are onto the planning stage! I love it. Shifting through my tbr for prompts are so much fun.

@Captains, is there any over-reading penalty this time?"

Nope, just read to your heart's content.

Cecily wrote: "Okay! It is pretty broad. I am going to get out a notebook and everything in case things come up in the book.
I'm an audiobook listener mostly so I need something class when I hear something."

I can understand needing that! I never can remember stuff from audios when I need it.

My approach would probably be to try to keep the 4 resource piles evenly balanced, but I don't know how easy that will turn out to be. I think most books will cover 2-3 piles and there's always the cop out of I'm using the book to build a defensive barricade/throwing it as a weapon approach if needed.

It's the first time this challenge has been done so it'll be interesting to figure out the best tactics and Stephanie, Teddie and I are open to ideas!

Marty wrote: "Teddie wrote: "@Lucy - I'm with you re: an unwieldy TBR - seems like every time I try to go in and clear books out, I'm like "Oh, but I do want to read that ONE of these days." At this point, I jus..."

Aww that sounds like a fantastic way to keep him active and out of trouble if he's mainly an indoor cat. I suspect that it would take a while for people in our area to adapt if someone had a cat on a lead rather than a dog.

Melindam wrote: "BTW, I am so very envious of the UK & US library systems, piecing together the info from team members in all these challenges.

I am starved in Hungary, as books I am interested in mostly never fin..."

If you decide you need a UK address to get kindle books, let me know.

Library systems seem so variable even within countries, but I feel v lucky that mine does ebooks and I can normally find something I want to read. It is better for the kids.

I bet they find it fascinating to see what you come in and ask for (and to then see if any of those appear within the next 6-12 months).

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Teddie wrote: "Melindam wrote: "As an aside, but an important piece of info: I nominated the Extra May BOM Book, Salt & Broom, so I get to write DQs for those precious extra points. :) But good t..."

I've got Malevolent Seven, but haven't found Salt and Broom yet so might be skipping that one. I'm really not great at reading to schedule along with everyone else which makes the BOM tricky for me.

Teddie wrote: "Sammy wrote: "Hello tree people (ohhhh, ents! Wait, it looks like mostly females... I FOUND THE ENTWIVES!!!! 😁)

That should totally be our team nickname - hahahaha :)"

Entwives works for me!

Teddie wrote: "Sophie wrote: "Do you think we've bombarded enough questions and comments to individuals yet?"

Never! lol

I just realized you and I were on the wobble leafy seadragons team together! I think that..."

That was a bonkers challenge!

TT2 was my introduction and I've been hooked since.

Melindam wrote: "Sounds you and the kids (mostly 🤭) had a nice time, Sophie."

It was so nice to get outside and play after the cold wet spring we've had so far.

Suzanne wrote: "Sophie wrote: "That's a good variety! Peurto Maldonado in the Amazon was where we ended up. I hope you get to see the giant river otters." I hope so too! Wow that is so cool you spent 6 weeks there..."

6 weeks on a student budget! We were eating meals that cost less than a pound wherever we could get away with it and staying in some pretty ropey hostels - electrocuted myself in the shower in one place. We did splash out for the Amazon and did a cheaper variant of the Inca trail (up over Salkantay).

Melindam wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "- I loved Project Hail Mary. It 100% appealed to my inner math and teacher. "

I am nearing the end of the book, and while I am enjoying it, all that math and physics is way over my..."

I ended up skimming some of the maths based stuff but enjoyed the story and some of the psychology type stuff from it.

Suzanne wrote: "@Teddie - I loved Project Hail Mary - I hope you enjoy it! It 100% appealed to my inner math and teacher. For Peru, we spend 2 days in Lima, then 3 days in the Amazon and 4 at Machu Picchu and the ..."

That's a good variety! Peurto Maldonado in the Amazon was where we ended up. I hope you get to see the giant river otters.

Melindam wrote: "As an aside, but an important piece of info: I nominated the Extra May BOM Book, "Salt & Broom", so I get write DQs for those precious extra points. :) But good to have back-up, in case a brick fal..."

No bricks to heads please. They are awfully messy to tidy up.

Sammy wrote: "Hello tree people (ohhhh, ents! Wait, it looks like mostly females... I FOUND THE ENTWIVES!!!! 😁)

Greetings from District 1. Please keep us supplied with much paper for books, we're gonna need it...."

Hi mischief! We can supply the paper for some books, but will be keeping lots of it here. I can't have this team running out of reading material.

For those of you that do decide to travel to District 1 when the challenge starts, please remember that Sammy is aiming to distract other teams to give hers an advantage, so please don't dally too long.

Been out for the day at a local castle so not on top of saying hi to everyone as you arrive. They had a variety of events for May Day including a maypole so the kids (3 & 6) have been entertained. Despite it only being 18deg C they were all about the water maze. Little miss was too light to set off the pressure pads that caused the water to spurt so she ran round dry while big bro got soaked.


@Marty I'm with Teddie on not having leash-trained cats about. How did the decision to train him like that come about?

@Lucy - you've reminded me that I have a storygraph account.... I found some of their tracking interesting, but found tracking things on both got cumbersome for me and I take part in too much stuff here and have too many friends to want to leave GR for storygraph.

@Vicki that sounds like a very busy family to be part of. I hope you get to see them all regularly and the 4th great-grandson arrives without complications!

@Suzanne have a fabulous time in Peru. I spent 6 weeks there about 15 years ago travelling all over the place and it was fantastic. There is so much variety to the landscape and the cultures there.

@Ushashi that's a huge move! Hope you have settled into Boston and have a community there for you. Very happy to see you back to team challenges again.

@Lauri why would anyone ever have only one book on the go at a time? I tend to have 2 or 3 at least, normally in different formats so I read one depending on what is convenient at that moment. Fingers crossed we can find some time overlap with you so you get to join in the chatting.

@Cecily I love the list of your furbabies! Good luck with the English major and fingers crossed that creative writing is all you could dream of.

@Teddie Do you think we've bombarded enough questions and comments to individuals yet?

Hi everyone!

District 6 is the district of trees and lumbar which are essential for books which obviously makes us the best team to be on!

I recognise a lot of names here, but after 10 years+ of team challenges and a few of mod duties for the group I'm afraid I'm rubbish at knowing where from exactly!

I live an hour or so south of London, UK with my husband and 2 children, who are too little for reading challenges just yet. The books 6 reads don't meet the word count. I'm enjoying adopting Mel's boy into our monster hunting brigade.

I'm a GP (family medicine Dr) and am changing to a new surgery next week so new challenges there! Will be a 15 mins drive so my audio book listening time is about to vanish.

I read anything pretty much. Horror isn't my forte though and non-fiction is infrequent. Main format is either Libby or kindle app on my phone as it's always with me.