Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Two quick questions

1) Can my category be changed from Leaf to Bloom? I read more than I thought I would (and fingers crossed I'll keep that up for two more months!)

2) For the "character has lost one of their senses" task, would the Mistborn series work? One of the characters becomes an Inquisitor, which means they have metal spikes through their eyes. They can't see anymore, though the spikes do allow them to use magic to sense their surroundings. Since they've lost a traditional sense, does it count for the challenge, even if it's made up for with magic?

Would this count for a red/white cover

I recently asked to move down a category to Bud, but I've now read enough to be in Leaf. Can I be changed back to the Leaf category? Sorry about that!

For April bonus- you read two books as usual? Or it is just one book? Sorry if this has been addressed already.

Cathy M. wrote: "Would this work for red & white cover?




And for night sky like diamonds?

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Yes & yes

Lauren wrote: "Two quick questions

1) Can my category be changed from Leaf to Bloom? I read more than I thought I would (and fingers crossed I'll keep that up for two more months!)

2) For the "character has los..."

Yes, we will change you from Leaf to Bloom.
This was Karen's original task so lets wait until she weighs in for this answer.

Sunshine wrote: "Would this count for a red/white cover
"

Tin eye says this one is brown not red:-(
Maybe one of the approved suggestions meets your fancy?

June wrote: "For April bonus- you read two books as usual? Or it is just one book? Sorry if this has been addressed already."

The April bonus is just one book; we like to change it up sometimes :-)

Hi Mods, I think message #330 re: red&white cover was missed.
What say you?

As I was entering in my books to the spreadsheet, it reached midnight, and the tab locked. I have the book titles and dates in, but while I was checking the tasks, it locked. Is there anyway I can add in those points? I didn't realize it closed right at 12 AM as the first month said it went until April 21, not to 11:59 PM of April 20 :(

Marissa wrote: "As I was entering in my books to the spreadsheet, it reached midnight, and the tab locked. I have the book titles and dates in, but while I was checking the tasks, it locked. Is there anyway I can ..."

Huh, that’s weird! I haven’t edited since midnight (EST) anyway but the countdown clock still says there are 7.5 more hours. :/

Marissa wrote: "As I was entering in my books to the spreadsheet, it reached midnight, and the tab locked. I have the book titles and dates in, but while I was checking the tasks, it locked. Is there anyway I can ..."

Marissa sorry I didn't check the countdown clock before I went in to lock the April/May tab. ( Ugh... check clock first. Rookie mistake. You have editing rights now. Go back in and edit)

I just came to post the same, I was like, wait it says I have more hours, but my S/S is locked.

Send your books to the mod account or mine with read date/task number and reason it fits task before Month 2 starts and I 'll update your spreadsheet for those of you who have the April /May tab locked.

Don't we have until the countdown ends / new month starts to add our March books into the spreadsheet? I was adding and it is locked now but it's still 7+ hours until March ends.....

Angie ☯ wrote: "Don't we have until the countdown ends / new month starts to add our March books into the spreadsheet? I was adding and it is locked now but it's still 7+ hours until March ends....."

Yes you do. However as stated above I messed that up unintentionally... Solution is also posted above. Scroll up and read :-(

Alysa wrote: "Same Red & White cover question:



TinEye doesn’t seem to be reading the lettering as white, but it looks white to me."

Thanks for letting us know we missed this query; according to tin eye its not white so unfortunately won't work for the red and white cover task.

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Yes you do. However as stated above I messed that up unintentionally... Solution is also posted above. Scroll up and read :-( ......."

Oops! Sorry, I must have had the thread open for a bit before I posted. Thanks!! (my tasks/books sent)

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Sunshine wrote: "Would this count for a red/white cover
"

Tin eye says this one is brown not red:-(
Maybe one of the approved suggestions meets your fancy?"

Thank you

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Thanks for letting us know we missed this query; according to tin eye its not white so unfortunately won't work for the red and white cover task."

Thanks! No problem, I have a back-up plan :)

I can't make heads nor tails of when a book will qualify for the red & white task or not, lol.
I finally found the tineye you're all talking about (at first I was just getting reverse image search things, and couldn't for the life of me figure out how that would help, lol), and I am struggling to find the difference between ones that have been approved and turned down.
Any more guidance? As I've spent far, FAR too long on trying to find something, and I'm losing the will to live :D

Could someone provide he link to tineye?

Sunshine wrote: "Could someone provide he link to tineye?"

Here you go:

Tineye Link

Thank you

red and white cover?

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Marissa wrote: "As I was entering in my books to the spreadsheet, it reached midnight, and the tab locked. I have the book titles and dates in, but while I was checking the tasks, it locked. Is the..."

Thank you! :)

The mods are probably sick of this question but more red and white cover clarifications! I'm mostly confused because sometimes the color name will be Lily White but it's in the gray family or Half Dutch White but it's in the brown family and I'm not sure how strict y'all are about those distinctions.

What are we counting for the year on the dead author is it may 2018 of last year to may 2019 this year. I looked at who died in 2019 who are authors there where 3 so far this year in 2019. All write either children's book or poems which I do not think qualify for this challenge.

I am in the same situation of having two books I was entering and the thread/spreadsheet was already locked. I am unclear as to how to get the two books credited. I will try sending an email to the mods.

Susanne wrote: "What are we counting for the year on the dead author is it may 2018 of last year to may 2019 this year. I looked at who died in 2019 who are authors there where 3 so far this year in 2019. All writ..."

I'm sure there's more than 3... Vonda McIntyre for one :(

Sammy wrote: "Susanne wrote: "What are we counting for the year on the dead author is it may 2018 of last year to may 2019 this year. I looked at who died in 2019 who are authors there where 3 so far this year i..." I was going off of memory there where 5 but 2 where poets. One person was the creator of paper back books with her husband. the author you mentioned who wrote star trek novels and then one who wrote futuristic novels. Betty Ballantine who created the Bantom and Bellantine paper back books. Could we read one of the bantom and bellantine paperback books then even though she was not the author.

There’s a pretty exhaustive list on Wikipedia of authors/book people who died, by year.
Besides Vonda McIntyre, there’s also Gene Wolfe and Warren Adler, among others.

It's slim pickings for the author's dead in 2019 with it being only April. Rosamunde Pilcher died. (I am personally not into her type of romance) I saw lots of poets as well.

The only wikipedia list I found had lots of non-authors on the list.

If anyone is a fan of the movie Argo, Antonio J. Méndez (Ben Affleck played him) died and he wrote several books including Argo.

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/year...

Several poets, a couple of sci-fi writers, a couple of spy novel type and I think I saw a mystery writer on this.

Gene Wolfe too? Awwww :(

Nicole wrote: "I recently asked to move down a category to Bud, but I've now read enough to be in Leaf. Can I be changed back to the Leaf category? Sorry about that!"

Yes, but only because your request was made before the start of Month 2.

....ureka

I hope
Would this count for a red/white cover


Tineye
- 45.1 % Valencia (Red)
- 23.3 % Sundown (Pink)
- 22.9 % Light Coral (Red)
- 8.4 % Wewak (Pink)
- 0.3 % Hopbush (Violet)

Thank you

Thank you everyone for being so patient today while we spent Easter holidays with our families and friends instead of on Goodreads answering your questions!

We will get back to answering those red cover tasks ( and the other ones) tomorrow:-)

Winners for Month 1 will be posted in the next couple of days while we finalize s/sheets.

Lauren wrote: "Two quick questions

1) Can my category be changed from Leaf to Bloom? I read more than I thought I would (and fingers crossed I'll keep that up for two more months!)

2) For the "character has los..."

Yes, they have still lost their sense of sight so it works

I have sent a message to the Mods about my receiving credit for task #1 for Month #1's tasks. I tried to enter in the completion date of the 20th onto my spreadsheet, but the thread was already locked...earlier than I though it would be. Could you all please give me credit for having completed the task. I did do it in time and you can see that I did questions on the BOM. I will not press up to the deadline for the remainder of the challenge since I am not sure of which time zone is involved for the close. Thanks for your help and hope that you had a wonderful Easter holiday!

Does this work for diamonds in night sky?



or this?



(I asked about this one before but since I'm asking cover questions again, I'll add it here too)

red and white?

For the task where “the main character has the same name from this Shakespearean list of names”:
If a book has 2 main characters, with alternating POV, and one of them has a name from the list, is that okay? Or does it have to be a book with one single “main” character?

Camilla wrote: "So for the task "Read a book whose author died this year" it means that the author must have died between January 01 and April 21, 2019? Anybody got any idea whether any lists of deceased authors e..."
there is a list using google

Red and white cover questions

* The red and white cover is to represent the Canadian Flag which is only red and white so no other colors are allowed for this task.
* If you are unsure of if the cover is red and white, you can use Tin Eye to check

If posting in this thread for confirmation of a cover, please post specifying why you are asking.
Because it has a colour other than red or white on the cover? Then no, it doesn't count.
Are you unsure if the colour is red? Check tineye. Do you disagree with tineye? Post here and tell us why

It will be much quicker and more helpful for the mods for you to post the cover AND why you are asking about it.

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "Does this work for diamonds in night sky?



or this?



(I asked about this one before but since I'm asking cover quest..."

The first one just looks like stars. I think Haunted on Bourbon Street gives more of that diamond sparkle

With the coloured cover question, please see above (I'm pretty sure that cover has another colour on it)

Sunshine wrote: "....ureka

I hope
Would this count for a red/white cover


Tineye
- 45.1 % Valencia (Red)
- 23.3 % Sundown (Pink)
- 22.9 % Light Coral (Red)
- 8.4 % Wewak (Pink)
-..."


I agree with tineye and think that one has quite a bit of pink

Have any covers been approved for red and white? I can’t find anything that doesn’t have a third color.

There have been a couple that were approved in this thread.

Link to approval

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Stacie wrote: "There have been a couple that were approved in this thread.

Link to approval

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Link to approval"

I see more than red and white in these books, according to tineye.

I'm beginning to think the red and white task is impossible. Found a bunch that look only red and white to me but Tineye has an issue with them all either adding black, brown, grey or even orange. *sigh*

In TinEye, is everybody unchecking the ticky box that excludes background?
Thought I’d mention it, just in case. :)