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

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

Looking at your ttx_2023 shelf there are 7 books on it, so that doesn't help figure out what has gone sideways.

The Love Hypothesis
An Ember in the Ashes
A Torch Against The Night
Obsidian
Onyx
A Reaper at the Gates
Opal
Kaikeyi
The Husband's Secret
Eliza and Her Monsters
Eliza and Her Monsters
The Husband's Secret

This is the list I get for you. Let me know what is missing and I'll try to fix it.

And with the 2 copies of Carrie Soto we have a new wheel...

Read a book with title starts with one of letters JEDI (all words count, inc A, An, The)
Read a book with MPG Space Opera
Read a book with a humanoid robot/android
Read a book with a princess and rogue trope characters

Trying work out my priorities as Exit Strategy would potentially cover all of these and the library has just delivered my copy. Hopefully China Rich Girlfriend will be quick then I can get this done, while listening to #13 in a series.

Thanks Lauri, I'll get those added.

Sofie that would be great. I've started China Rich Girlfriend which will fill the other slot.

I'm going to start a 13th in series so that is covered.

2 more chipmunk tasks

X-Men - Read a book with the word Storm in the title
Random 10 - Read a book that is #10 - 19 in a series

I read it earlier this month so need to get to answering the questions soon. The same for Fourth Wing.

My copy of Carrie has already been used in the chipmunks and I can't see anything else on the sheet that would work.

I think it would too. And we only need 2 books rather than 4 to complete the set.

Sorry I didn't update this last night - requested the spin then promptly fell asleep.

Unfortunately they need to be set 50% in the country to count. It also gives us 20 points in the wheel Vs 10 in chipmunks and completes a wheel so we can get 4 more tasks (Vs one chipmunk) so I'd keep it where it is.

Thanks Gem and Alison for keeping everything going!

I think exit strategy is the next Murderbot I have to read. It's got a 2 week wait time at the library though. I've put a request in, but will look out for anything else in the meantime.



UPDATE

1. Page number towers

100-199 6 of 10
200-299 9 of 20
300-399 27 of 30
400-499 7 of 30
500-599 2 of 20
600+ 5 of 10
Free choice 20 of 103


2. Team towers (10 points a book plus a bonus 20 per complete word)
N - seem to need lots of these
I
E
O
U
Y
Please fill out these letters first if relevant

3. Wheel
1. An original and a spin off from it - waiting on Carte Blanche from Jillypenny

2. Heron and zebra in text - Sara reading Perilous Times

3. Title starts with JEDI
MPG Space Opera
Featuring humanoid robot/android
Princess and rogue trope characters

4. Chipmunks

Claimed
Random 10 - Read a book featuring a gymnast (in honour of Olga Korbut's perfect 10) Fallyn
X-Rays - Read a book with MPG Science Mia
X marks the spot - Read a book with MPG Adventure Klare
X-Rays - Read a monochrome cover (i.e white plus a colour, not necessarily black. We will ignore publisher icons only - like those pesky penguins) Fallyn
X marks the spot - Read a book with a treasure hunt in it Jillypenny
Solve for X - Read a book with author initials in SOLVE FOR X Klare
X-Files - Read a book that features a friends to lovers trope Fallyn

Unclaimed
10 Awards - Read a book that won the Women's Prize for Fiction
10 Awards - Read a book that won an Edgar
Ten Tallest Towers 3 -Shanghai Tower - Read a book set in, or by an author from China

And the top is tied again, but not including Garron which is a vote behind.

I'm flying to Switzerland for the weekend tomorrow. I'm leaving the house at 5.30 so am likely to be quiet for a couple of days.

I've got a 155p book that I'm planning to blast through.

Aww that's much nicer than my children telling me to go away!

Steven wrote: "Yes! We did!"

Well I'm back now!! Can't get rid of me that easily.

Gem how has the hen do been?

Fallyn Nichole wrote: "Steven wrote: "If someone has a preference for the back room BOM, let me know and I’ll vote for that for you. :)"

I nominated Garron Park so guaranteed DQ points for us if it wins(I think anyway?)..."

I've voted for it too.

So life is slowly getting back to normal for me. Still waiting on the MRI report for my son, but he's well enough to be back at school. I just need to get my head sorted for a job interview this evening now, then I'm off to Basel for my cousin's wedding at the weekend.

We're off to a good start for July, so please keep the reading going and let us know what you've read. Well done for getting started on the wheels without me.


1. Page number towers
As ever checking we hit these numbers is key. Current totals for this month are:

100-199 1 of 10
200-299 3 of 20
300-399 7 of 30
400-499 0 of 30
500-599 0 of 20
600+ 1of 10
Free choice 1 of 103


2. Team towers (10 points a book plus a bonus 20 per complete word)
X - if you are reading Fourth Wing please use Xadon for X in the spell outs if not needed as a chipmunk book.
N - seem to need lots of these
I
E
O
U
Y
Please fill out these letters first if relevant

3. Wheel
1. An original and a spin off from it - only need 1 set and then we can duplicate them for the 2nd set

2. Book with diamonds on the cover or a night sky that looks like diamonds

3. Title starts with SITH
Post colonial tags at least 10
Featuring aliens


4. Chipmunks

Claimed
Ten Tallest Towers 4 - Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower - Read a book set in, or by an author from Saudi Arabia Melissa
Ten Tallest Towers 10 - China Zun - Read a book set in, or by an author from China Trinia
X Books - Read a book where a character name starts with X Gem
10 Awards - Read a book written by Nobel winner Jillypenny
X-Rays - Read a book featuring a character working in the medical profession Klare
10 Things the Chipmunks Love - Creativity and Chaos! Read a book with three Cs in the title and/or author name Klare

Unclaimed
Random 10 - Read a book featuring a gymnast (in honour of Olga Korbut's perfect 10)
X-Men - Read a book featuring a professor
Film 10s - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings - Read a book that shares a title word (e.g. Legend) NB - can't use THE, AND or OF
X-Rays - Read a book with MPG Science

Thanks everyone for pulling together for the end of this month!

I've spent the week taking my son to the hospital every day for IV antibiotics while they organise scans to try to check he hasn't had a stroke/got a tumour/got an infection in his brain which has been stressful to say the least. His mouth is now moving 95% of the way to normal and he's getting back to his normal monster self so we seem to be past the worst.

We are 1 500p book short for the page number tower! I think that is incredible work by everyone so thank you. I can try to finish Fourth Wing before 9am tomorrow unless any one else has one coming in sooner.

We had 11 600page books, but one of those fitted for a Booker prize winner so that has been swapped in as a chipmunk book.


So our current set of chipmunk tasks are:

65 Ten Tallest Towers 4 - Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower - Read a book set in, or by an author from Saudi Arabia
76 Random 10 - Read a book featuring a gymnast (in honour of Olga Korbut's perfect 10)
81 X marks the spot - Read a book with MPG Action Nothing to Lose Sophie
86 Ten Tallest Towers 10 - China Zun - Read a book set in, or by an author from China
94 X Books - Read a book where a character name starts with X Fourth wing Gem
97 10 Awards - Read a book written by Nobel winner
98 X-Men - Read a book featuring a professor
99 Film 10s - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings - Read a book that shares a title word (e.g. Legend) NB - can't use THE, AND or OF
100 X-Rays - Read a book featuring a character working in the medical profession
101 10 Things the Chipmunks Love - Creativity and Chaos! Read a book with three Cs in the title and/or author name

Quick pop in, should be back more properly tomorrow - if anyone who has finished 11/22/63 could put together some DQs for the final section (or to give impressions of the book as a whole) and post them, I'd be v grateful.

Leave it be now it's done!

Gem ~ZeroShelfControl~ wrote: "Sophie - please can you add Rebel Magic to your TT shelf so i can check it off? TIA"

Oops! I've done that now. Proof that we all miss it sometimes!

Gem ~ZeroShelfControl~ wrote: "I can see some books on the SS that will fit some of the new chipmunks so Ive added the task number. Ive also moved some things around to get another rainbow, so things might not be exactly allocat..."

What did you move into the rainbow out of interest? There are more points per book if they are used in a spell out.