Chafic’s Comments (group member since Jul 22, 2014)

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

Updated the spreadsheet with the link.

I've been a little MIA for a few days. Sorry for the late reply :) I'll check in later tonight to figure out what my next reads are.

Sorry fr the late update team - been treavelling back and forth between cities.

I do have a copy of Alice in Wonderland somewhere, I've been meaning to read that. I'll probably take it with me and have it as a backup in case I feel myself faltering.

But we have enough time I believe before the floor turns acid

Edit: I pretty much stayed up all night and now I can't sleep - this book is too good. Will finish it by today.

Beth wrote: "Chafic, I'm pretty sure we aren't allowed to start books for Round two until the countdown ended. Are you sure you started your books at the right time?

From the Lava rules:

"Books for each round..."

Shoot you're right. I completely forgot about that.
I'll remove the book. Started it on the 24th.
I got a book I started that I can use for either 500+ pages / Black Cover.

So I'll just remove the date and if you have a book for either then I'll just move mine to the other.

My apologies team! Real Life has caught me at a really weird time and I've been behind on updating all my challenges q.q

I've updated the spreadsheet!
I'm just seeing your mail now Ambi :(

I should probably give you guys my instagram/whatsapp contact since that's the best way to get a hold of me as of late.
I've started training for a few international tournaments which has eaten up nearly all my evenings and weekends - and I've been stuck updating all my challenges during work :(

Spreadsheet's updated!

Beth wrote: "Chafic, are you still there? The last time I thought I heard from you it was actually Chava. Do you have a U book?"

Still here, I'm way behind in updating my challenges. Yes I have access to the spreadsheet.
I've got quite a few books done already but they don't work for FOUR.

I've got The President Is Missing , Daughters of the Lake and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz done for this week.

None of the characters fit any of the higher scoring letters though.

Since all the tasks are already assigned, I can read for Stage 2 or 3?

I have a book that works for Red Writing on Cover! Need abt 2-3 days to finish it. My other current reads don't fit for it just yet - but I think I can get another thats 50% red color.

Woo, my apologies guys - I don't get enough sit downtime with the computer to update the challenges.

I've finished a book for M ^_^. Updated the spreadsheet!

Beth wrote: "Chafic, do you want me to put it in the spreadsheet for you?


Beth that would be wonderful if you could, for some reason I'm stuck with 'view-only' on the spreadsheet and can't edit it :(

Ah woo sorry, long weekend has me going a bit slow.
I finished abook, but not a Stephen King book - but it still works for the same task

Completion Post

Book: His Last Bow
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
FInished: 8/14
How it Fits: He's written a lot, but there's 9 Sherlock Holmes books alone!

Hey all! Sorry for the late check in - we have a long holiday here in Dubai and I've been travelling ina nd out.

I'll take M ^_^ - got a perfect book for it

Chava wrote: "Can you please take #7 away from me? I had to start the book as it has to go back to the library soon. I'll stick with the other 2 though."

Actually... I could do this task - definitely have a few Stephen King books I wanted to dive into

I know it's a week to start... but I can't seem to figure out what I would want to use...

I'll probably fill for whatever remaining task is when the day comes

I'm the hitchhiker from the other thread ^_^ - I already replied to NBRC Travel Agent saying I'd love to join you all!

Chava wrote: "Chafic wrote: "Oh these are all good choices xD - but you know what - Team Not Yet is actually a really funny name that I feel connected with =D.

Just me? Probably.

Calcifer's Cronies gets my vot..."

Oh you'd love it ! It's also a book by Dianna Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle - definitely underrated but great reading ^_^


As for the books, that's going to be tough - I don't normally pick my reads ahead of time and rather just let them call to me - but I'm assuming we can't read for the same tasks can we :P ?

I'll probably pick up a book closer to the date.

Oh these are all good choices xD - but you know what - Team Not Yet is actually a really funny name that I feel connected with =D.

Just me? Probably.

Calcifer's Cronies gets my vote!

Hey Everyone!

In 2 weeks I'll read about 4-6 books, might be a bit more than that if my schedule lightens up. (Might be a few rounds in September I can do 7-9).

My Goodreads ID is: 31459172-chafic-rello

Just a headsup , I travel a lot and don't have access to my laptop/computer as much so might not be very active on the team discussions - but I do read them regularly (more obsessively, to be honest), and I do keep calendar deadlines on when to notify/check-in.

^_^

Hey all! Hitchhiker here!

Name's Chafic, but you can call me Rello.
Fun fact: I've lived in over 12 different countries.

So if any team is looking for an extra player who's in it for the long-long run, I'm here ^_^

Decades Challenge -2019 Melennium Level
Progress: 70/190

2001. (1)

2002. (2)

✔️2003. (3)


1. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
2. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
3. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

2004. (4)


1. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
2. Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
3. Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer

2005. (5)

1. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling

2006. (6)


1. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
2. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

2007. (7)


1. The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

2008. (8)


1. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
2. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

2009. (9)


1. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
2. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

2010. (10)


1. The Passage by Justin Cronin
2. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
3. American Assassin< by Vince Flynn
4. The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin

2011. (11)


1. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
2. Darkhouse by Karina Halle
3. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
4. The Death Cure by James Dashner
5. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

2012. (12)

2013. (13)


1. Vicious (Villains #1)>by V.E. Schwab
2. Written in Red by Anne Bishop
3. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
4. Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger
5. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
6. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

2014. (14)


1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
2. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
3. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
5. All That Is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon
6. Adam's Cross by Elizabeth Wixley

2015. (15)


1. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
2. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
3. Poets and Piracy by J.S. Morin
4. To Err is Azrin by J.S. Morin
5. Alien Racer by J.S. Morin
6. Retro Version by J.S. Morin
7. Moon of Odysseus by J.S. Morin
8. Armada by Ernest Cline

2016. (16)


1. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
2. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam M. Grant
3. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
4. Paper Girls, Vol. 2 by Brian K. Vaughan
5. Adventure Capital by J.S. Morin
6. Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
7. Collusion Course by J.S. Morin
8. You, Robot by J.S. Morin
9. Stowaway to Heaven by J.S. Morin
10. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
11. Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
12. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

✔️2017. (17)


1. The Power by Naomi Alderman
2. The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1) by S.A. Chakraborty
3. Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
4. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
5. Warcross by Marie Lu
6. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
7. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
8. Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
9. Red Sister by Mark Lawrence
10. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
11. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
12. Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen
13. Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown
14. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
15. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
16. Mission Inadvisable by J.S. Morin
17. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

✔️2018. (18)


1. Sadie by Courtney Summers
2. Vengeful (Villians #2) by V.E. Schwab
3. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
4. Us Against You byFredrik Backman
5. The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
6. Elevation by Stephen King
7. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
8. Circe by Madeline Miller
9. Saga, Vol. 9 by Brian K. Vaughan
10. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
11. Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
12. Becoming by Michelle Obama
13. Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen
14. His Banana by Penelope Bloom
15. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks/Sarah Pekkanen
16. Educated by Tara Westover
17. Normal People by Sally Rooney
18. Wildcard by Marie Lu

2019. (19)


1. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
2. Blindsided: A Mystery by Kate Watterson
3. The Last Days of August by Jon Ronson
4. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5. The Missing Wife by Sam Carrington
6. It's Not You It's Him by Sophie Ranald
7. Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

I'll go for one cup now and see if I'm in the mood for seconds.

Time for Tea - 5/5
Duration: 1st January - 31st January


My Tea:

Step 1 - Boil the water
Read books that are a bit "steamy", set in a hot climate or make you feel warm inside. Or books where the author's name or title begins with B, O, I or L.
bOil - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens [January 26th]

Step 2 - Choose your tea
Read books with a color on the cover to match the type of tea you choose.
Green - The Maze Runner by James Dashner [January 18th]

Step 3 - Steep the tea
Read books with page counts to indicate how strong you like your tea
Strong - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling [870 pages] [January 24th]

Step 4 - Sweet?
Read books to indicate how sweet you like your tea.
No Sugar - Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz [January 23rd]

Step 5 - Black or white?
Read books to indicate what else to add to your tea
No Milk - Us Against You by Fredrik Backman [January 26th]Lemon - Non fiction genre book

I'll keep track in my member's corner and I'll update when I can:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oh man, I would love to join.
I joined Goodreads in 2014 and have so many books still in my TBR.
Let's see if I can clear off all my 2014 this year. I'll start off with the first two months and 25 books but I'll most likely increase it depending on progress

Books from 2014:

May 2014

*The Help by Kahtryn Stockett
*Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
*The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
*The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
*My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
*The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
*The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman
*Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
*Sabriel by Garth Nix

July 2014
*Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. Games
*Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
*Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
*Fall of Giants (Century Trilogy #1) by Ken Follett
*Diary of a Yong Girl by Anne Frank
*Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
*Lord of the Flies by William Golding
*Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
*The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai
*California by Edan Lepucki
*Midnight Thief (Midnight Thief, #1) by Livia Blackburne
*The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
*The Legacy of the Key (Ancient Guardians, #1) by S.L. Morgan
*One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
*The Stranger by Albert Camus
*Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
*The Trial by Franz Kafka
*Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
*The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
*The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
*The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
*The New York Trilogy by Paul Aster
*The Magician's Apprentice (Black Magician #0.5) by Trudi Canavan
*The Magician's Guild (Black Magician #1) by Trudi Canavan
*The Novice (Black Magician #2) by Trudi Canavan
*The High Lord (Black Magician #3) by Trudi Canavan
*Thief's Magic (Millennium's Rule #1) by Trudi Canavan
*Dragon Wing (Death Gate Cycle #1) by Margaret Weis
*Storm Front (Dresden Files #1) by Jim Butcher
*The Unwritten Vol 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey
*Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
*Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1) by James Patterson
*Kiss The Girls (Alex Cross, #2) by James Patterson
*1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1) by James Patterson
*The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1) by James Patterson
*Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
*Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1) by Neil Gaiman
*A Discoveery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1) by Deborah Harkness
*Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy, #2) by Deborah Harkness
*The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy, #3) by Deborah Harkness
*Pandemoniium (Delirium #2) by Lauren Oliver
*Requiem (Delirium #3) by Lauren Oliver
*Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
*The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
*Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
*The Pearl by John Steinbeck
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (#1) by Douglas Adams
*The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
*Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates
*The Round House by Louise Eldrich
*Dear Life by Alice Munro
*My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels #1) by Elena Ferrante
*Canada by Richard Ford
*Arcadia by Lauren Grof
*The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir by Claude Lanzmann
*The Scientists: A FAmily Romance by Marco Roth
*Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
*The Program (#1) by Suzanne Young
*Janey's Girl by ayle Friesen
*I Capture the Caslte by Dodie Smith
*My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1) by Jean Craighead George
*Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
*Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
*The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus #1) by Rick Riordan
*Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
*The Republic by Plato
*The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
*For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
*The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
*How To Win Friends and Influence PEople by Dale Carnegie
*The Call of the Wild by Jack London
*The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
*The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
*The Dharma Blues by Jack Kerouac
*The Iliad by Homer
*The Odyssey by Homer
*Walden by Henry David Thoreau
*Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

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I'll keep track in my member's corner here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I'll update this post when I can!