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

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

Oh I want to hug the floor and not let go! They've grown so much.

I'd like recommendations for Kindle unlimited books you have read during the challenge please!

I think the worst has now passed in my life - 2 bereavements in a week and a child unwell has not been a barrel of laughs, but things can only go up from here right!?

I've successfully created 3 squares out of our book titles which feels like a real achievement for today.

Mini priorities:

Calliope - team member reads - 9/16 read, 1 claimed and 6 more to go

Clio - 5 currently claimed and being read, 2 more unclaimed.

Terpsichore - Ball - 2 unfinished.

Thalia and Melpomene - Stories from titles - All titles are in (Just waiting on A Carnival of Snackery to be finished). I need to actually write the stories now unless someone else is feeling wonderfully creative.


We've got less than a week left of the challenge so if you've got something on the sheet that you know you won't finish, please let us know so that we can take it out of the mini etc if needed.

Kira wrote: "Hi Sophie, I received my UN and Password but I can't find my maze, I typed in my name in the search field but nothing came up. Could you check please? Thank you so much!"

That's because my brain is mush and I didn't make the actual maze after making the account. It's there now.

Thanks for your patience everyone and to Steven for answering your questions.

I think I've caught up with everything, but if I've missed something, please send me a message - my brain is filled with a lot of real life stuff just now.

Lyndi wrote: "I just finished my maze. That was so much fun!! I want to play again. Can you set me up with another maze, hard level this time? Whenever you get a chance, of course. Thanks!!"

Well done! Your new maze should be up and running with the name Lyndi 2.

I've added a new tab to our planning spreadsheet with the books that haven't yet been assigned to the mini-challenge. Let me know if you see any obvious pairs, squares or good story titles in there! We've made really good progress with this.

Mini priorities:

Polyhymnia - squares - 2 left, think these might be tricky.
Newest square:
TT
T
Waiting to see if there are 2 more books starting with T with the same end letter to complete the square

Erato - DONE

Urania - Series sequence - DONE! Well done everyone

Calliope - team member reads - 4/16 claimed

Clio - 6/16 claimed or read

Euterpe - concert - 2 lyrics left

Terpsichore - Ball - 8 outfits; 1 setting or decoration

Thalia and Melpomene - Stories from titles - Thalia has 20 gaps; Melpomene has 12 gaps (I've been putting stuff in where I can't see a use for them elsewhere).

Keri wrote: "Hi everyone, I’m so sorry I’ve been MIA for weeks on the thread. I have been reading and updating the spreadsheet with the basic book details and my shelf.

My mom had a brain bleed a few weeks ago..."

Keri, I'm so sorry to hear about that. Please don't worry about the thread - you have more than enough going on supporting your mum as much as you can. I hope her recovery from here is as good as possible and that you are allowed in to visit her soon.


I would like the world to stop with the disasters for our team now! I'm amazed we are still going given that there seems to be a new problem every few days.

Want to keep you all up to date with the chaos that is my life currently while I have a few minutes!

My grandmother died this morning, which actually is a relief given how much she'd declined.

My father-in-law isn't expected to live more than another week. As a result Mr Sophie is in Cambridge (roughly 2 hours drive) and spending as much time with his dad as possible. Luckily his mum has come down to help me with the kids for a few days, but life is full on.

Delightfully my 1 1/2 year old then had croup and I've been up with her for at least 2 hours a night for the last 4 nights. I'm more than a little fried. The world needs to stop and give me time to sit and escape into a book!

Yep that's good thanks for searching.

Unfortunately it is children mpg so needs more than 30000 words. It only has 21000 so we can't use it in TT.

Mia if you can link to 15 of goosebumps I can check if it will work.

Sounds like an excellent trip but I'm not surprised you are exhausted!

I'm currently reading 13 of October Daye. Can certainly do 14 but getting 15 finished as well might be pushing it.

Mia wrote: "Saw through the inspired by muses list. Should be able to read quite few of them. Especially the “books read by others in the group”.

I’m sorry I’ve been so inactive, but I’ll try to help more th..."

Wonderful thanks! Hopefully the tasks are reasonably self explanatory.

How was your holiday?

I'd hoped for the books in pairs to have a more creative link, but I'm happy with them having the same author.

I.e. Megan's For 100 Days and For 100 Nights are by the same author, but day and night make a pair.

I'm reading The Diamond Eye and plan to pair it with Behind Her Eyes which is on the sheet already. I'd have used another body part as well.

Audrey Jane wrote: "Regarding Polyhymnia - the squares; I have a start T end T title coming up (The Last Knight) if we want to continue with the T-T titles.

Sophie, if there's any way I can help you, pl..."

Sounds ideal to simplify some of the square construction.

Ideally I'd like one person to join our captaining team to replace Insiyah who unfortunately has real life stuff happening so isn't finishing the challenge with us.

It would involve a mix of checking books on the spreadsheet (are they on the reader's shelf, right edition, allowed by nbrc challenge rules etc), posting occasional updates like mine above (to make up for me being flaky, sorry everyone!) and generally cheerleading! If you haven't been involved in captaining before this could be a gentle introduction, or if you have but wanted an easier challenge and feel you can help that would be awesome.

If someone is keen, I can add you to the captain's group and give you editing access to the official spreadsheet as well.

Hooked seems like it'll work in the story. Don't worry about searching through.

Devann wrote: "could we use and as a pair because they both have red covers with white text?"

Personally I don't think these covers are similar enough, but if you read them both and other people think it works I am happy to be overruled.

Place holder so it is easy to see!

Our captain team is struggling! If any of you lovely people would like to step up and help out, please let me know.

Mini priorities:

Polyhymnia - squares - 2 left, think these might be tricky.

Erato - Loving all the suggestions so far.

Urania - Series sequence - 11, 13, 14, 15 to go

Calliope - team member reads - 2 read or claimed.

Clio - 3 claimed with a couple more queries on the SS

Euterpe - concert - 3 more instruments and 4 more lyrics

Thalia and Melpomene - Stories from titles - bottom of my list, we can sort something with anything that is left over.