Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

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Oh this looks like fuuuuun! so excited!! :D

I'll have what she's having!

What are we drinking?

This challenge sounds incredible ! Can't imagine how much work you put into it, mods. I'm so excited !!!

It's amazing how the challenge is build up! I'm going to sit here in the bar with a glass of wine and wait untill I've found a team in the other topic.

Stacie wrote: "What are we drinking?"

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm hitting the 18 year old Macallan ;)

I'm with you

Is having Bruichladdich for breakfast a bad thing? No? Set me up. With a coffee chaser.

Jenny wrote: "Is having Bruichladdich for breakfast a bad thing? No? Set me up. With a coffee chaser."

Totally acceptable. Tust me, I'm a Scot, lol!

This looks like something I need to try.

Have you tried the Glenmorangie 14? Currently my favorite bottle.

I can only stomach whisky on irish coffee... if that's not heresy, count me in.

Jenny wrote: "Have you tried the Glenmorangie 14? Currently my favorite bottle."

You can never go wrong with a Glenmorangie. The Macallan 18 is my favourite, though not one I get to drink often IRL (£250 a bottle!), or at all these days since alcohol does not play nice with my migraine meds :(

I'll take a rum and pineapple, please. :D

Mojito please, nice and refreshing.

FYI - For teams that have signed up with no team name yet, your thread will be created with a generic team number and the name of the first person from your team list. Example: Team 2 (no name) - Saar the Book Owl. This should make it easier for people to find the proper team thread.

Once you've decided on a team name, we'll update accordingly :)

I'll join Leslie with a mojito please!

Damn it! Once again, I forgot to buy tonic water. I was so looking forward to a G & T.
Oh well. Wine it is.

I'm a Vermonter, so it's craft beer for me :)
The spreadsheet is amazing.

I'll take a frozen margarita. A nice cool drink to combat this heat we've had the past few weeks.

Oooo I like Melanie's thinking. Frozen margarita!!

Can someone please send some of their nice weather over here already? It's bloomin' august and the heating is on!!!, and this from a person that overheats very easily. When is summer going to start? :(

Sammy wrote: "Can someone please send some of their nice weather over here already? It's bloomin' august and the heating is on!!!, and this from a person that overheats very easily. When is summer going to start..."

We’ve had our 5 days of summer already.

Please, take some of our heat. We're being on the 30ºC - 35ºC range since Monday, and I can't take it anymore. With a few exceptions, it has been a very hot summer. And not in a good way.

Forecast is for 112 degrees F in Phoenix today. I will happily send some of those degrees over the pond. How many do you want?

Note to self...figure out how to transport heat.

Just a small sharing snippet... I blew another fuse. It's the third one in less than two months. Because I think my air vent is starting to malfunction due to overuse.

*shudders*

Yeah Sonia but you're 350 km from me and the weather isn't that great.... It's 25ºC at most but the northern winds are roaring and they're damn cold.
Beach only in the mornings and if it's not that cloudy

Sammy, where do you live?

I'm not doing too well with heat, but luckily we only had a couple of days that were 33+ degrees celsius this summer. I much prefer days that are 26-28 (or lower, but I understand that summers are supposed to be hot /swimming weather)

✿~Danielle~✿ wrote: "We’ve had our 5 days of summer already.."

I'm in Yorkshire. we've only had two.

and they were back in March :D

In the house right now, with the heating on, it's 16 degrees C. Outside it claims to be 13, but feels colder (probably because of the rain) I'd be happy with just a measly 10 more please.

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "FYI - For teams that have signed up with no team name yet, your thread will be created with a generic team number and the name of the first person from your team list. Example: Team 2 (no name) - S..."

Do we also need to give you an alert that we filled out the form in the find a team thread or just fill out the form?

Plethora wrote: "Moderators of NBRC wrote: "FYI - For teams that have signed up with no team name yet, your thread will be created with a generic team number and the name of the first person from your team list. Ex..."

Just filling out the form is fine!

And then when you decide on a team name PM the mod account and we'll get your thread and spreadsheet name updated.

Lau Maia wrote: "Yeah Sonia but you're 350 km from me and the weather isn't that great.... It's 25ºC at most but the northern winds are roaring and they're damn cold.
Beach only in the mornings and if it's not that..."

Yeah, northern winds are not friendly.

I'm only complaining because I'm not at my place, which is waaaaay cooler. It's the price to pay for having fresh air and lots of space for the kid to play and run and still being safely behind walls.

HOT NEWS- Customer Bonus

For every team member that participates in a Book of the Month (BOM) (by joining the discussion and/or writing discussion questions) they will be able to swap out one assigned customer for another of their choice.

Limited to one customer for each team member per BOM. (i.e. you can't get the customer bonus for writing DQs AND participating. But if you join 2 BOMs in October, you can get 2 bonuses).

This bonus will be available for BOMs that start after the challenge begins. That means Chain of Gold will be your first opportunity to earn the bonus.

Less than 24 hours to go.

How are everyone’s kitchens looking?

We're counting down the hours and ready to go!

Are you getting the next round, Karen? I'll get a mojito please!

I may watch an episode of Kitchen Nightmares to prepare myself.... ;-)

Very excited for it to start!

Looking forward to this new challenge.

Kitchen is currently clean, we will see how long it stays that way. lol!

Well, my kitchen was clean but now I am annoyed at the universe, so I am going to bake something. (This has happened a lot this year to be fair).

Sorry and anger baking. What a good idea. I am going to look for complicated recipes that I usually don't try for, and see what happens.

Jenny wrote: "Sorry and anger baking. What a good idea. I am going to look for complicated recipes that I usually don't try for, and see what happens."

I am making this one but you need sourdough starter: https://littlespoonfarm.com/chocolate...

Oh Lexi, those sound goooooood!

I'm bloomin' starving! Ready to start cooking! lol.

I've been re-watching masterchef's S9, so I'm good to go

Do we start soon? I want to begin my first audiobook!

You and me both Jenny, but just over an hour to wait, and then it's bedtime, lol.

*is not good at the being patient thing*

gonna go find something to watch.

Sammy wrote: "You and me both Jenny, but just over an hour to wait, and then it's bedtime, lol.

*is not good at the being patient thing*

gonna go find something to watch."

I just lost a year of my life watching a Strictly special.

Wait! Hour. Felt like a year, mind. And I was helpless in the thrall...

Sometimes I am very glad I don't own a tv, lol.

What I do have is an awesome PC, a huge monitor and spoilt for choice between 3 different streaming platforms and about 1000 or so DVDs.

And I still don't know what the heck to watch!