Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

I’m planning to use “awakening”, as in Spring Awakening.

When you google “spring words” that’s one of the things that comes up. Which is good because there are so many book titles that use it. Maybe not associated words like “wake” or “awake” since they are more generic and therefore don’t fit, but definitely “awakening”

ETA: I may use "spring" in the title instead, unless the book that I found is a DNF. Then I will just fall back to "awakening" 🙂

I have access to my spreadsheet. Is there anything I need to do to make it shareable? I thought we were supposed to make them visible to other players but I can't see anyone else's. (not that I really need to at the moment, just wondering what to do with mine)

Countdown to the start of the challenge is HERE

Yay! That’s 8:00am for me. Can’t start until after I get The Kid to school, but afterwards... that is what the subway is for 😄

I totally missed rose on the original question. gah! Thanks for the help everyone.

I have view only access to my sheet. When will I be able to start editing?

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OMG! I used the wrong email address for my google sheet. That's why I can't edit. Doh!

Brooklyn wrote: "I totally missed rose on the original question. gah! Thanks for the help everyone.

I have view only access to my sheet. When will I be able to start editing?

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OMG! I used t..."

Fixed. See PM!

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "I have access to my spreadsheet. Is there anything I need to do to make it shareable? I thought we were supposed to make them visible to other players but I can't see anyone else's. (not that I rea..."

Please be patient while we fix this:-)

There are some spreadsheets mixed up in the wrong locations (under the wrong name ) and the Master Spreadsheet needs to be tidied up. Have fun reading (once the challenge starts) while we sort everything out!

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Fixed. See PM!"

Thanks!!!

Would a book with 'poppy' in the title work for the bonus task?

Ashleigh wrote: "Would a book with 'poppy' in the title work for the bonus task?"

Isn't a poppy a late summer sort of flower? Like sunflowers?

Cat wrote: "Ashleigh wrote: "Would a book with 'poppy' in the title work for the bonus task?"

Isn't a poppy a late summer sort of flower? Like sunflowers?"

That's what I thought too. I'll play it safe and use a book with Daisy instead :)

No worries. I just wasn't sure if I need to change a setting on mine. I looked and it says it's viewable to anyone who has the link. But it was like that automatically.

Now I have to decide how quickly I want to populate my spreadsheet. Or if I will do my usual of planning a bunch of books out and then reading totally different books.....,

Another question: for the wind instrument on cover/title task, I've found a book which has a variety of instruments on the cover (saxophone, guitars, drums etc). Can I use this book for this task?

The book is .

EDIT: Never mind, this book is written in verse as I don't think it works anyway.

That wind instrument task is proving hardest for me so far...
Luckily there are plenty of instruments classified (on wikipedia) as wind instruments that one would not think of straight away, stuff that's not as obvious as clarinet or flute or whatever.
So... hope is not lost :D

Alysa wrote: "That wind instrument task is proving hardest for me so far..."

I didn't find anything with instruments among my kindle books that would have been less than 300 pages (that's the usual cut-off point I use when looking for books to read), so I'll probably won't do those tasks. Neither will I do the BOM task and probably not the South Africa either. But I found a beaver, LOL!

Camilla wrote: "But I found a beaver, LOL!"

On the cover, or in the text?! I found a bunch of books with "beaver" in the text but I'm having a hard time with the Canadian Animal on Cover task. (Unless we're allowed to use wolves; or, more specifically, wolves that aren't easily identifiable as Canadian Gray Wolves... )

Alysa wrote: "On the cover, or in the text?! I found a bunch of books with "beaver" in the text but I'm having a hard time with the Canadian Animal on Cover task. (Un..."

The beaver was in the text.
Re the wolf: I sort of assumed any wolf would do. As long as it's approximately grey and not green, LOL!

Hmmm. Maybe the Mods can clarify re Wolf.

Alysa wrote: "Camilla wrote: "But I found a beaver, LOL!"

On the cover, or in the text?! I found a bunch of books with "beaver" in the text but I'm having a hard time with the Canadian Animal on Cover task. (Un..."

I was going off this list for animals:

https://workingholidayincanada.com/10... and this one: https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/blo...

Stacie wrote: "I was going off this list for animals:

https://workingholidayincanada.com/10..."

I was using that one too.

@Laura: So in other words, we can use any wolf?
That makes it much easier :)

Stacie wrote: "I was going off this list for animals:

https://workingholidayincanada.com/10... and this one: https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/blo...-..."


Don't mind me, I forgot there was a separate wolf task and thought we were talking about something else. I'm going on vacation soon and not all here.

I don't see a wolf related task or am I missing something?

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "I don't see a wolf related task or am I missing something?"

9. Read a book with a Canadian animal on the cover

Stacie's post made it sound there was a separate one for wolf. But maybe she meant to type beaver. Because there is a beaver task.

Alysa wrote: "Hmmm. Maybe the Mods can clarify re Wolf."

Also, similar question but with Deer:
Are any deer Canadian enough?

Stacie wrote: "I was going off this list for animals:

https://workingholidayincanada.com/10... and this one: https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/blo...-..."

Both those lists work.
I wouldn't accept a green wolf or a shape shifter wolf for the task #9.

would Butterfly be a spring word.
thanks

Darn, no shape shifters? Back to the drawing board then.

What was the final word on flower names? Can I use Zinnia and Orchid. I think orchids bloom multiple times a year and at varying times based on location and variety. Here in Massachusetts, Zinnias are an annual that are usually sold in the garden stores in spring after being started inside.

I just don't want to be told afterwards that they don't work.

Just ignore me. I'm getting challenges mixed up. I needed a wolf for a different group. Like I said, almost to vacation and not all here.

Laura, when you have time, could you take a look at my ISBN question in msg #39?

Yeah I get that, my brain is already on my upcoming honeymoon to Disney in October. It's going to be a long spring and summer.

Camilla wrote: "Darn, no shape shifters? Back to the drawing board then."

I had found some shitty-looking Bear-shifter books w/grizzlies on the covers. I'm actually kind of glad we can't use shifters, as it saves me from these books, LOL.

Bummer about wolves though, since so many wolves used on covers represent shifter characters in UF and PNR :(

Yay, I have a wolf on cover book that is not a shifter! *happy dance*

Camilla wrote: "Laura, when you have time, could you take a look at my ISBN question in msg #39?"

I put it to the mods already; just waiting for a response.

Leslie Ann wrote: "would Butterfly be a spring word.
thanks"

Yes

Alysa wrote: "Alysa wrote: "Hmmm. Maybe the Mods can clarify re Wolf."

Also, similar question but with Deer:
Are any deer Canadian enough?"

Yes but no shifter deer. Is there such a thing?

Side note- deer populations are decreasing because of coyote populations.

Laura wrote: "Camilla wrote: "Laura, when you have time, could you take a look at my ISBN question in msg #39?"

I put it to the mods already; just waiting for a response."

ISBN 10 would be the 13 less the first 3 digits (978, which is the code for bookland)

Cat wrote: "ISBN 10 would be the 13 less the first 3 digits (978, which is the code for bookland) "

That's not quite true, you also need to recalculate the final checksum digit using the ISBN-10 algorithm. There are web pages that do that for you, e.g. https://www.isbn.org/ISBN_converter

Laura wrote: "Yes but no shifter deer. Is there such a thing?

Side note- deer populations are decreasing because of coyote populations"

Huh! I think it's different in U.S., though we have different problems. :/

Re wolf/deer on cover, I think I'll play it safe and go with non-fiction. There's lots of that for both animals :)

I noticed that the sign up category is wrong on my personal spreadsheet (says Bloom but should be Bud) -- can I just go in and change that? It's correct on the master/leaderboard spreadsheet, so I'm guessing it was just typed in wrong on mine.

Just wanted to ask first instead of just making the change myself so I didn't mess anything up :)

For task #2 (a character has lost one of their senses) - does it have to be a permanent loss? Or, say for example, could someone be reacting to a trauma and have a psychological short-term response? (Thinking specifically of Black-Eyed Susans, where the MC went temporarily blind after escaping from being kidnapped. Her vision came back eventually)

Camilla wrote: "Even after looking at the goal FAQs google sheet I'm still confused about the task "Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 6 odd numbers". The goal FAQs sheet states " numbers only, ignore..."

So the way I read that is...

I have a Kindle with an ASIN ; let's say https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

because the rule is "if no ISBN listed for the version you are reading, use GR default"
That means that I need to check the default for the ISBN which is:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
and ISBN 0008272115

I hope that makes sense

Kaley wrote: "I noticed that the sign up category is wrong on my personal spreadsheet (says Bloom but should be Bud) -- can I just go in and change that? It's correct on the master/leaderboard spreadsheet, so I'..."

sorry, fixed
we had about a zillion spreadsheets to do yesterday and I think I may have gotten some mixed up with children running under my feet ;)

Karen wrote: "For task #2 (a character has lost one of their senses) - does it have to be a permanent loss? Or, say for example, could someone be reacting to a trauma and have a psychological short-term response..."

yes, I'm going to go with permanent. I've updated the FAQ spreadsheet

For ISBN10 odd and even what do you count zero as?

Stephanie wrote: "For ISBN10 odd and even what do you count zero as?"

Even

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I hope that makes sense."

Yes, it does, thank you Karen! And if the ISBN-10 is missing, I'll just convert and add it. I was just confused because the goal FAQs also stated "it does need to be the version you are reading that has the ISBN".

Not a question as such. I think I put the wrong email address in my form who should I PM to correct it? Or shall I fill out a new form?