Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "Steadily adding to my TBR as well! :)"

Elli wrote: "I know right!! My TBR mountain is big enough already but I can't resist all these recommendations! 🙈"

Way to go!

The basic information can be found in message 4 and message 5 with the start of the challenge and the rules. Please read them carefully and feel free to ask questions if something is not clear.

There you also find the link to the tracking sheet I have created for our team.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

You can all edit this sheet and if you like planning a bit ahead, please feel free to add your books and claim tags/colour cover.

The initial plan is to claim 1 letter with each of your books and list other letter options in a different column. (Michelle, Sophie and I can play tetris at the end of each round to make sure we have complete spell-outs if possible.)

*If you are not comfortable with spreadsheets, please do a full completion post for your books in the team thread, listing all required details and we can add it for you.

- Link to the right book edition
- Author
- Pages number
- Read date
- Letters your book could be used for listing the character names, etc.
- and please make sure your book is on your Wheel shelf.

Hi everyone I'm Christene from philippines. This is my first wheel here and I'm so excited already. I read mostly after work and my favorite genre are fantasy, thrillers, and romance.

Here's the link to my shelf: Wheel 7 NBRC

Welcome to the Team, Christene! :)

Welcome, everyone!


Just curious...have you read Outlander? If so, what did you think?


It's my favorite series of all time and I'm on my 2nd re-read of the whole series. I also really enjoy the TV show. So, needless to say, I was excited to see Outlander as my team name for this round of Wheel! :)

Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "Welcome, everyone!


Just curious...have you read Outlander? If so, what did you think?


It's my favorite series of all time and I'm on my 2nd re-read of the whole series. I also really enjoy the ..."

I loved Outlander but got a bit bored after the 5th book so that's as far as I got about 15 years ago. I do intend to give them another try some time. Sigh! Too many books, too little time...

If you can't have Sam Vimes then Jamie Fraser is a pretty good alternative :0)

Is this grey enough?

For me it's SAMVIMESFOREVA'. ♡ :)

The grey is promising, but will try and look at it on my laptop & get back to you.

Catsalive wrote: "Is this grey enough?

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It does not look grey enough, I think it has too much white in it. :(

But no worries, it seems we have the required 5 grey covers anyway, so we are good. 😊

Hi everyone! Glad to see all of you and have the chance to get excited together.

My copy of Outlander got ruined in a shampoo explosion when traveling 20 years ago so it's fair to say I'm a long term fan of the books.

I would say that the cover is grey enough. Looks pale grey rather than white to me. 3rd opinion anyone?

Sophie wrote: "I would say that the cover is grey enough. Looks pale grey rather than white to me. 3rd opinion anyone?."

In the meantime I had a look at it on hubby's laptop, as his screen is bigger/better than mine (obviously ;) & the cover showed a very pale grey, so it's OK. 🙂

I see my start time in Sydney is 8am on Tuesday 15/11 - I should be nice & fresh & ready for the off... unless I stay up reading until the early hours on Monday :0)

A list of books tagged space opera.

Melindam wrote: "Sophie wrote: "I would say that the cover is grey enough. Looks pale grey rather than white to me. 3rd opinion anyone?."

In the meantime I had a look at it on hubby's laptop, as his screen is bigg..."

Yay!

Goodie. :) It will be 10pm. for me, so I will only start Tuesday morning. :)

Thanks for attaching the list, Kylie.

I wish I had time to squeeze in a John Scalzi (hubby has all his books and Old Man's War have been on my TBR for some time), but between a new job & interior house painting (yikes, all that mess & packing) it's just not feasible. :(

And to answer Michelle's question:

Despite my love for everything Scottish (I have visited like 5 times) and being aware of the books/TV series, for some curious reason I was not tempted to give it a try.

So maybe this should be the incentive... ;)

We are going to Europe for 24 days next March for our anniversary. The trip was originally planned right when COVID caused the first lockdowns and border closings, so we had to cancel. Now we'll celebrate our 33rd there instead of our 30th. :)

We'll be in Scotland part of the time. We're also going to England, Ireland, and France. We are so excited to experience so many new things on our trip!

Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "We are going to Europe for 24 days next March for our anniversary. The trip was originally planned right when COVID caused the first lockdowns and border closings, so we had to cancel. Now we'll ce..."

Sounds fantastic, Michelle!

Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "We are going to Europe for 24 days next March for our anniversary. The trip was originally planned right when COVID caused the first lockdowns and border closings, so we had to cancel. Now we'll ce..."

Sounds fabulous. Renewal after the lost years.

Melindam wrote: "Goodie. :) It will be 10pm. for me, so I will only start Tuesday morning. :)"

9pm here so might get a few pages in. Bigger problem is that Tuesdy is a work day so might get 30mins reading in all day.

Melindam wrote: "Thanks for attaching the list, Kylie.

I wish I had time to squeeze in a John Scalzi (hubby has all his books and Old Man's War have been on my TBR for some time), but between a new job & interior ..."

Are you painting it yourself or getting a professional in? I want to decorate ours, but so many decisions to be made first.

Good luck with the new job!

Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "We are going to Europe for 24 days next March for our anniversary. The trip was originally planned right when COVID caused the first lockdowns and border closings, so we had to cancel. Now we'll ce..."

Have an incredible time! Glad you've been able to reschedule it all.

Michelle, we had a big trip to the US planned and then Covid hit. We used those savings and kept adding to it. Now we have a deposit after 3 years to buy our first home. We are building and hope to move in 12 months

Melindam wrote: "


COUNTDOWN TO CHALLENGE
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

ROUND 1
: from 14 Nov to 21 Nov
Spellout Phrase: ..."

Question about the bonus points, does the book need both shelf and colour to get the bonus points or is one of the two criteria enough? For instance, I am planning to read Apples never fall. This is over 50% grey, but does not have space opera as a shelf. Would we still get bonus points?
Thanks

Books can count for 0, 1 or 2 bonuses depending on the book. So Apples Never Fall is good for grey.

After we have 5 grey covers, there are no more colour bonus points available. Looking at the SS, we've got 5 grey covers planned already. A couple of backups aren't a bad thing.

Chava's "Apples" might be a better grey than my "Hotel" by the looks

Ok, I've put mine in the spreadsheet just in case. If needed, we can move it to the second time we read the word if required. I can always read another book first if the team would prefer

Thank you, Chava, but leave where it is.

Let's try and fill-in 1 spell-it-out at a time.

Of course, if you have a book that works for one letter only which has already been claimed, just give us a shout here and we can discuss and make swaps, if necessary. :)

Melindam wrote: "Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "We are going to Europe for 24 days next March for our anniversary. The trip was originally planned right when COVID caused the first lockdowns and border closings, so ..."

Thanks, Mel!

Catsalive wrote: "Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "We are going to Europe for 24 days next March for our anniversary. The trip was originally planned right when COVID caused the first lockdowns and border closings, so ..."

Yes, absolutely!!

Chava wrote: "Michelle, we had a big trip to the US planned and then Covid hit. We used those savings and kept adding to it. Now we have a deposit after 3 years to buy our first home. We are building and hope to..."

I'm so about your trip being cancelled but it's awesome that you got your first home out of it!

Hi all,
Sorry for the late check in
I’ve been sick the past week and haven’t been able to do much.

I’ve joined in on a few Wheels before so am happy it’s on again. I’m from Melbourne, Australia and have seen a few other Aussies on these challenges. I’m looking forward to this challenge with you.

I tend to read what I feel like reading more so than anything else. I’ll catch up with that the team’s strategy is and chose my books then (:

Hey Tina
I hope you're feeling better now. I'm in Melbourne too! I hope you didn't flood with the insane rain that came down overnight.

Hey Tina & welcome to the Team.

I hope you are feeling better!

Hey, Tina! Sorry you've been sick and I hope you are feeling better. :)

Hi Team. Sorry to be dense but I looked for this answer but couldn’t find it (my fault). I know we are going by date read within the challenge. But do books have to be started when the challenge starts or if I started a book last week and finish it today — May I use it? Thanks in advance;)

Maddielucy(Patti) wrote: "Hi Team. Sorry to be dense but I looked for this answer but couldn’t find it (my fault). I know we are going by date read within the challenge. But do books have to be started when the challenge st..."

For the first round, we can't start any books until after the official challenge time rolls around. After that, we go by read date.

Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "Maddielucy(Patti) wrote: "Hi Team. Sorry to be dense but I looked for this answer but couldn’t find it (my fault). I know we are going by date read within the challenge. But do books have to be sta..."

Ok great. Thanks so much!!!

Hello Teamies,

We are almost there: in about 6 hours the Wheel rolls off. 😍

As a reminder:

COUNTDOWN TO CHALLENGE
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

ROUND 1 : from 14 Nov to 21 Nov (9pm, UK time)

We will have one week to accomplish the spell-it-out, grey covers and Space Opera tags.

Another hour and we are off. :)

Wheeeeeeeeee ...lathon!

It's time!!! 💃

yey!!!! I've started reading Apples Never Fall I have it on my Kindle and as an audiobook so I don't have to miss a thing all day. I even cleared my day for it :)

Enjoy everyone!

Emerald Blaze has been started and Apples Never Fall isn't going to be far behind.

Sophie wrote: "Enjoy everyone!

Emerald Blaze has been started and Apples Never Fall isn't going to be far behind."

Hidden Legacy is my favourite Ilona Andrews series (plus Innkeeper). :)

But I already (re)read them for UNO and TT9 this year.

I will finish Fugitive Telemetryin my lunch break and then will start on A Memory Called Empire.

Still home on sick-leave due to covid, hopefully I will have some energy to read. I'm starting Cress, as I've just reread the first two in the series. And as it happens, it is tagged space opera:)

Silje wrote: "Still home on sick-leave due to covid, hopefully I will have some energy to read. I'm starting Cress, as I've just reread the first two in the series. And as it happens, it is tagged space opera:)"

Silje, I am so sorry. Fingers crossed you get better soon. (I had Covid twice, first time I ended up at ICU 😪)

But great find about Cress. ❤️

Silje wrote: "Still home on sick-leave due to covid, hopefully I will have some energy to read. I'm starting Cress, as I've just reread the first two in the series. And as it happens, it is tagge..."

I'm sorry to hear you have COVID. I hope it's not hitting you too hard.