Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Oh noes! Just for that...



(I actually wanted to do a facepalm picture but all the ones I found were so MEAN! I wanted to facepalm in jest but didn't have the heart to post those cruel things for someone so adorable as you! So, here's a Friends picture because I know it's your favorite show and this is one of my favorite scenes).

Steven wrote: "Ah, I made a mistake on my adding. How embarrassing for an accountant like me!!! X)"

I guess I wasn't the only one distracted by the uniforms *giggles*

No, you weren't Sonia.

Awww, Teresa, you're so nice! I'm adorable??? *blush*

I LOVE THAT SCENE... probably because Monica is my favorite!!!! "YOU WERE MY FIRST KISS EVER!?!?!?!" hahahahaha

**chuckles** Oh... man-oh-man! Soooooo funny!

~LK

I've found a Harpie book! I've found a Harpie book!!!

Sorry, I had to share that one - actually is a Harpie series, too bad the blue cover one is the third book. I am so gonna read Airborne for the mythical creatures challenge :o)

mythical creature challenge?

Yes, this one

Never saw that. Thought maybe I had missed something to do with the read-a-thon.

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "Never saw that. Thought maybe I had missed something to do with the read-a-thon."

Nope. Please don't feed ideas to the brain when I didn't sleep my usual 8 hours - the RaT is the result from the last time that happened :o)

Gosh, even the mod account has more books read than me :S

Oh! Poor Sonia!

I guess I have so many books I want to read that I start them all and don't finish any.

Well, I got four finished, but two of those were started before the R-a-T. I'm still two books behind my goal; I'm usually two ahead. **sigh**

That sounds like me. I want to read every book at once.

I just realized that I haven't posted any pics lately.

Great picture, Mary!

And yes, I also like to start books because I want to read them all. I've had to hunker down with True Blue, though, because it's the longest of my planned reading for this RaT and it's my uniform book so I *have* to complete it! I'm almost done, though!! It's really good. Then, I'm onto 3 or 4 really fast reading YA novels.

I'm so jealous. I have to wait until the 7th!

I'm almost finished with my blue book. Getting sleepy though so might have to finish it tomorrow.

Ugh, I'm almost done with my uniform book and I'm soooo tired! I fell asleep on the couch already, trying to finish it but then I woke up so I could get to bed but of course I had to come refresh Goodreads first, hehe. Maybe this will give me that boost of energy I need in order to finish. I can't even remember the last couple of pages I read, I was that out of it, lol.

I wonder if you finished yours! Been two hours since you posted about it. Will have to find out in the morning, hehe.

No I couldn't stay awake. Actually I could physically. But I am going to get the vegetable plants with my Mother at noon. After that my friend is coming over to help me make a garden bed, put up the chicken wire fence around it and to dig up some sumac that has invaded my yard. So I wanted to be up early to get some housework done because I won't have the energy to do any tonight.

I'm having my Kindle read it to me while I do housework. According to my Kindle, I only have about 8% left. This one doesn't give a page count but the book is under 400 pages so not much left.

Finished my book this morning. Woo! Next few should be fast reading.

Have fun with all of the gardening, Mary!! I love to garden but we have problems with grackles getting into our veggies so I'm going to wait until I can set up a greenhouse to work on veggies again.

I think I may try to read a blue and/or uniform type of book every month, in honor of our team. Just for fun. We'll see.. I need to set up a shelf for uniforms and I have already started one for blue covers. I'm a very moody reader so I will just check each of those shelves every month and see if there's anything calling to me to read.

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But I finished my blue book. I'll do an update before I go to bed tonight. Going to see if anyone else has finished anything.

LOL!

Yay! Just in time for the Sunday Update! Woohoo!

Yeah, I'm coming to the end of mine, too, Mary: HDLS.

I forgot to mark it read earlier so it might not register on the Sunday update. But I just did it now.

That's good. I can wait a half an hour, since I just "tagged" mine, too. LOL!

Man, I feel bad for dropping the ball on our Sunday update. I got the spreadsheet all updated this afternoon and in the process, our team page was updated but still! I've had a headache lingering all day long, then got wrapped up in 3 hours of season finales on TV in the other room so doing the update completely slipped my mind until I came to the computer at 10 PM and saw that the updates were, well...updated (hehe).

Congrats on all reading that has been accomplished this week!

Going to bed a little bit after I check around Goodreads for more updates of any sort. Adieu!

Not a problem, Teresa. Rebecca and I had it covered. ☺

Thanks!! :)

I thought you went to sleep, Teresa! LOL!

After I finish up some stuff. :p And I got wrapped up in a thread I'd forgotten I was participating in, LOL! I'm tired but not tired. My headache is starting to ease up so I figured I should get a little more Goodreads out of my system before retiring. Shhh! Pretend you don't see me, LOL! *sneaks off*

I see nothing!

OK guys. The good news is that we are no longer in last place. The bad news is that we are still in the bottom half.

I'll try to finish unwind today. Promise! I even will stay away from mu computer before finishing the last 69 pages.

Since I already pre-ordered Dead Ever After and will stop everything I have pending and jump right into it as soon as I have it on my kindle.

Maybe I should call sick tomorrow? *giggles*

Haha, Sonia... I'd totally do that if I had some time built up. :D

Well work has been so demanding/stressful lately that I already put on 4 more pounds - I tend to overcompensate with food as most overweight people do.

*sigh*

:(

Oh well... I'll have to hit the gym more often after the RaT.

And stop eating junk.

I know the feeling. :(

Yes, as an accountant I believe you do!

I'm a database programmer, but now I was send as a task force to a big project testing set. It is crazyness installed.

I've decided to (finally) landscape my place and I've lost 3 lbs. My friend has been helping me though so no listening to audiobooks while I work. But I get more done when she comes to help.

Congrats, Mary! It's nice to have someone around to help keep you motivated and help you get things done so a little bit of reading sacrifice is probably worth it.

What I hate is when I work my 8-hour shifts with big groups of people (like when we do over-nights, such as tonight and tomorrow night) and we all go to lunch at the same time. I have a hard time reading because they all want to talk and I would really just rather read because 8 hours is a long time to go without my reading, LOL! Plus, while I enjoy them all in general, I feel TOO stimulated from all the chatter (I'm an introvert and I crave my solitude if I'm working with people for long periods of time). It's hard sometimes to get my reading in and not feel like I'm snubbing them all but I liken it to everyone playing on their cell phones --reading is my pleasure, and I don't pester them while they are playing their games. When I read, I want to get lost in the story, not keep getting pulled out to respond to something someone else said. Bad enough I only get 30 minutes to read. During the day, I can escape to the bench outside the workplace, or even to the coffee shop at the book store. During the night, we keep the doors locked.

Reading at home is a different story. I don't mind family obligations and interruptions, naturally. But, when I'm "forced" into a social situation (lunch at work), it really irks me to have my precious time stolen from me.

Anyway, going to walk to the library. I've been putting it off because I have a book on hold but it's taking forever to get from downtown to my branch so I'll just get it later tonight or tomorrow.

Yeah, Mary: HDLS, I lost weight when I remodeled my house, too. It is a lot of work; you can see why people in the olden days didn't need to go to the gym!

Yes, I can understand that, Teresa. Plus, you spend all day with them - and lunch too? It isn't really a break then, is it?

While I have been tracking people who have posted NO book at all, I have NOT been tracking those who have NOT posted books since first joining. It is important that you give me this information, as I believe we have one or two bogus accounts.

Thank you.

Deadline for changing goals or join the Read-a-Thon ends in 15 hours

I added a new member to your Team. Please welcome Jackie (150).

Welcome, Jackie!! Hope you like being on Cadet Blue. If you have any questions, feel free to post them in here!

Thank you! I'm looking forward to being part of the team.

**waves** Hi, Jackie!