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

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

Vi wrote: "Oh, I have another question - SO I started Wind and Truth on May 1 but didn't get too far. Only till Chap 10.. If I start over again, can I use the book for TT? It will take me a m..."

I'm leaning towards no on this. I've got a book that I'm 3 chapters into which is having to wait.

Melindam wrote: "Sophie,

I listened to an audiobook The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax earlier and I think it possibly gets away with 50% Albanian setting, if you'd prefer to give up your present book."

I'm over half way through and the app reckons it'll take 45 mins to finish from here so I'll power through.

Congratulations on the new horse! I hope it settles into its new home well.

I'm enjoying my audio on Brazil, but struggling more with The Dictator Calls for Albania. Normally I'd prefer fiction to non-fiction but that's not working for this one.

At least we were both saying the same thing!

KayLynn wrote: "Melindam wrote: "N*E*W T*A*S*K
Mini 2 - Travelling Around the World
Books can be banked for this Mini and this Mini only!
11. Read a book with a title that starts with one of the letters found in..."

Banked books are ones that were read before the task appeared. It's more relevant for the mini 3 where you can see which tasks will come up for every country, but we can't just read them all now and store them for when the country comes up.

For mini 1 we would just move books so the ones finished first are used in the earlier incomplete itinerary.

I'm reading an Albania ATM so Egypt could be switched.

I've got a bicycle book from my library but it'll take me at least a week to get to with the other books I've got planned.

In the hopes of avoiding panics - as books are finished and moved over the official spreadsheet, I will be using the filter at the top of column S to hide them. If you want to see them, please use the triangle shape at the top of the column to unfilter it.

Happy birthday to the big kid.

Enjoy Eurovision to everyone watching

It can be used twice in the same itinerary. But once we've used it twice we can't use it in any other itineraries.

As we complete tasks in mini 2, new task will appear as if by magic. Once a country is complete in mini 3, then we will ask on the captain's group for another country to be spun for us.

The first column of each of the minis has a code that looks like A1 etc. if you enter this into the mini code column on the main books page, the formulas will enter it into the mini tab. Please don't enter anything on the mini tabs or it all gets confused.

If you aren't sure, please post in this thread where you think a book will fit into the minis and someone else can enter that info into the sheet.

So many recommendations that sound excellent! This is not what my tbr needs!

Andy I have the same view with a variety of children's books. Sometimes they need a selection of books that have absolutely no meaning at all beyond characters.

Denise wrote: "I do have several books that I want to read fairly soon that aren't from a hard country. I am finding that while I enjoy reading books from other countries, most are from the other easier countries..."

They'll all fit somewhere and even if they don't it's not a problem at all! Main thing is to keep reading and enjoying your books.

KayLynn wrote: "Sophie wrote: "Glad I'm not the only one! I'm enjoying it too much to want to leave it until the end of the challenge but will feel guilty reading it and not getting points."

I'm sure you could fi..."

Unfortunately not as we can only count books that we start reading after the start of the challenge i.e. 9am GMT tomorrow.

Glad I'm not the only one! I'm enjoying it too much to want to leave it until the end of the challenge but will feel guilty reading it and not getting points.

I've got murderbot in my head as more female presenting so have no interest as it's going to miss my images either way!

argh for 24 hours to go! I have mistimed one of my current reads horribly - Dorothy Dunnett takes me too long to read and I'm at 30%.

Tomorrow I've got a work meeting all morning (no rest for the wicked!) before both my munchkins have a kickboxing assessment. They last an hour and there is an hour gap between the end of one and the start of the next, but the location is 40 mins from my house. Going to be a lot of hanging about trying to keep smaller humans entertained.

Enjoy your world travels Sammy! I need to look at the SS and see where I might be able to fill in some gaps.

Thank you everyone! I haven't yet read The Man in the Brown Suit so that's a target for this challenge.