Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

good morning all finished my minion book last night.

Ok y'all, been putting goals in for a bit. Got 9 in before hitting a wall. :)

Below are the current goals, which except for the parallel worlds one (which I'll still be reading) are pretty crappy. Once Victoria finishes the last Christmas Goal, we'll wipe 'em off and see what we are left with. :)

Let me know if any of you can fit any of these with books already finished ~

Read a book with parallel worlds
Read a book where a character can see or feel ghosts
Read a book where characters has a familiar (magical pet)
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "Temperance" in the text or title
Read a book with the phrase "It takes two to tango" in a book

"Hot Chocolate" goal complete and I posted to my Tower shelf. It may be tonight before I can post on Anubis Read page...

Victoria wrote: ""Hot Chocolate" goal complete and I posted to my Tower shelf. It may be tonight before I can post on Anubis Read page..."

Woohoo! :)

Don't even worry about posting it there, as long as I know things are done, if I'm going to use them right away, then it doesn't have to be on there. :)

Gonna get us some new goals. :D

Going through our goals now. Gonna take some time. If anyone is around, can you look through your recent books for the word ~

annex?

Read a book with the word annex in the text

No annex in my books, so far.

Kerri wrote: "No annex in my books, so far."

Thanks for looking!

New Goals


~ Read a book where a character has lost one of their senses
~ Read a book with a bicycle on the cover
~ Read a book where either the author or a character share your first name
~ Read a book where a character is a tradesperson
Sort your "to read" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is within Numbers 150-200 on your list (the first column before the book cover image)

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I was able to put in 7 goals before getting to 5 that I don't know if we can cover.

I checked my books for each of though, I don't have any of them.

No annex so far

Found annex in
After You| Jojo Moyes


Reference:
Page 96 -
I drove up to the front of the house, grateful, suddenly, that we weren't facing the annex where I had spent so much of my time with Will.

ETA: I finished it on 12/16/15 - and it doesn't look like it's been used yet.

jingles wrote: "Found annex in
After You| Jojo Moyes"


YAY!

New Goal

~ Read a book where a character is a tradesperson


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I wish I knew y'all's books better. I'm sure this is somewhere.

A tradesman or skilled tradesman is a manual worker in a particular trade or craft requiring skill (i.e., the skilled trades).
Tradesmen are contrasted with unskilled workers (laborers); agricultural workers; and professionals
Drug dealer / weapons dealer work, if the one organizing and/or creating/making ~ NOT person selling (laborer)

I don't have anything that will work for the name goal

I'm a little bit confused by the above mention of agricultural workers, so I'm just going to put this out there - though I think it falls more in the category of laborer.

In the book, Necessary Lies|Diane Chamberlain, Ivy Hartis works in a tobacco field.

jingles wrote: "I'm a little bit confused by the above mention of agricultural workers, so I'm just going to put this out there - though I think it falls more in the category of laborer.

In the book, [book:Necess..."

I think that would be a laborer. If he was the one taking the tobacco and making cigars, then he'd be the tradesman (I think).

I just messed up the formatting by trying to make it one paragraph. Fixed that. So, Tradesmen are contrasted with unskilled workers (laborers); agricultural workers; and professionals

Gotcha - that makes more sense.

If anyone likes MG there's a bike on ~



it was a cute series.




was a really great book that will cover for the senses goal. Wish she'd made it into a series. Catherine Anderson has some good books that would probably fit as well.

I have the name goal covered, posted it

M wrote: "I have the name goal covered, posted it"

Great M! I'll get it on the sheet after I finish up this horrid horrid horrid tree book.

M, could you put your new book on your tower shelf when you get a minute?

New Goal

~ Sort your "to read" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is within Numbers 150-200 on your list (the first column before the book cover image)

I could definitely do our newest goal if it isn't already covered. Just finished my last book and Hollow City, which is somewhere between 150-200 on my TBR list, would be a nice, quick read before it's time to dive into the upcoming BOM.

Kerri wrote: "I could definitely do our newest goal if it isn't already covered. Just finished my last book and Hollow City, which is somewhere between 150-200 on my TBR list, would be a nice, qu..."

No one's taken it, and I tend to not read books that far back now (tastes have changed so much) so have at it! :D

The goals that are currently not covered are

Read a book where a character has lost one of their senses
Read a book with a bicycle on the cover
Read a book where a character is a tradesperson

Am I correct. If so I will see what I can read tonight to cover one of them

Read a book where a character is a tradesperson

I have one that will fit this. it is under 300 pages so i will have it done by tomorrow.

M wrote: "The goals that are currently not covered are

Read a book where a character has lost one of their senses
Read a book with a bicycle on the cover
Read a book where a character is a tradesperson

Am..."

Yup, sorry I didn't see it before I went to bed. Sounds good about the tradesperson. :)

New Goal

~ Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as available - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable


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from what I've seen, we are going to have a HARD time with this one. I've asked the mods if anyone else has found a book with it. On the genre page for it, the most people that has shelved it as such is only 18 and it's on popular books that have a lot of shelves (like HP), so 18 isn't going to rate the first page. :( We may need to boon it next week.

There's a lot of romances on the very last page of the "available" Popular shelves page that have it listed on the first page. Mostly because they only have one page of top shelves. I'm not really into romances and I don't know if they would interest anyone else, so using our boon for this one seems like a good plan to me.

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

That's the page if anyone wants to check it out.

Kerri wrote: "There's a lot of romances on the very last page of the "available" Popular shelves page that have it listed on the first page. Mostly because they only have one page of top shelves. I'm not really ..."

Thanks for that, Kerri. I don't do just plain romances either. I had clicked through a bunch of pages and tried all kinds of different books but didn't go all the way to the end, that was a good idea. Maybe someone will like something.

First page, number 11. 1984 by George Orwell. I will have it done by next year. Love that book!

M wrote: "First page, number 11. 1984 by George Orwell. I will have it done by next year. Love that book!"

Sorry M, it doesn't work. It's on too many other shelves. It has to be on the 1st page (at the book) and with it only shelved 12 times it's on page.... 10. :(

New Goal

~ Read a book with the phrase "weak at the knees" in a book

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"weak IN the knees" is also acceptable

It always works that way.... I found "annex" in the book I'm reading. :) Guess I won't use it for an easy goal, hold onto it a bit, maybe we'll get annex again. :D

For "available" goal, anyone want to read:

Everyone has been quiet today. Whatcha all up to tonight?

I'm finishing up my last book of the year. I'll be two over my yearly goal, which was initially a lot lower and I raised it twice. Did y'all meet your goals? Will you make your goal for 2016 more or less than this past year?

Hope everyone is having a good night.

goal 150 read 213. i don't think i will be reading as much next year. sitting hear drinking some coquito and watching tv and catching up on my messages. Happy New Years All. May the New Year be filled with Good Health, Many Blessings and much Reading. ooh and new challenges.

Hope you all have a happy new year.

Wooohooo!!! Found an "available" for one of the books I wanted to get to soon. I'll likely start it this (Fri) evening.

~Australia Day Mini Challenge~

This is an OPTIONAL mini-challenge for our Tower Teams which will run from Jan 1 to Jan 31, 2016

Australia Day is the official National Day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales

How to Play
◈ Your team will be given a crossword puzzle with 6 facts about Australia.
◈ We have created three different puzzles with varying levels of letter difficulty for the teams at the top of the overall leader board, (puzzle A) middle (puzzle B)and lowest (puzzle C)
◈ Once you have the 6 answers, these become the words your team needs to “spell-it-out”
◈ For each word completed, you can choose a book read by your team in December to claim DOUBLE POINTS for (page points only, not goal points)
◈ A book can only be claimed for double points once. (i.e. you can't use the same book of 130 points to keep doubling)
◈ Each spell-it-out word can only be completed once for double points
◈ Books read AT ANY TIME during the challenge can count for the spell-it-out , but DO need to be separate books from those you claimed for goals.
◈ The usual book length rules apply, Books must be more than 100 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com
◈ Spreadsheets will be updated for the Captains to update and track the teams points

Spell-it-out rules

Using the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter in the audiobook narrators first or last name.. As always, if the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.
Example under spoiler
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If an answer to your crossword was "lovers" ; you could spell this out as follows:
L Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
O Once by Morris Gleitzman
V Vampire Acandemy by Richelle Mead
E The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
R The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
S Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
(hide spoiler)]

Puzzle A






ACROSS
1. The first Australian of the Year award was awarded to Professor Macfarlane Burnet who had won the Nobel Prize in the same year of 1960 for his groundbreaking _________ research.

3. Surprisingly Australia is the most _______ country in the world as of 2012 with a 26 percent obesity rate.

6. 80 percent of Australians believe Australia has a strong _______ and identity characterised by being down to earth, mateship, honesty, sports and multiculturalism.


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2. Today's Australia is very multicultural with ________ peoples and migrants from some 200 countries.

4. Australia is the _______largest country in the world.

5. Australia is the only place in the world where you can still find the ______ fish which is a living fossil from the Triassic period 350 million years ago.

Got our words. We have a BUNCH of books we haven't used for goals (specifically a lot from M), so hopefully I can fill in a bunch of words from the start.

Gonna go do that and be back with where we stand after I use what I can. :)

I have already done one word with my books.. Most of them are unsued, i will send it to you

4 Down and 5 Down complete

1 Across and 3 Across complete

Y'all, let me know if you have character names with U's. Could use 'em. Just gonna work with titles/authors for now, til I get as many as I can, then I'll start needing character names, if y'all can let me know character names for your unused books. (view spoiler)[See Books Read thread for unused books as of now (some already used for this, didn't want to delete them all I've used so far) (hide spoiler)]

Ok y'all.

We need just TWO letter "U"s and we're done! :)

If anyone has a character or narrator with the letter U, please let me know ASAP. Otherwise I know that M will be reading a U book so we'll need just one other. :D

I added characters to the book posts on Anubis Read but no characters with U

None of my unused have characters that start with a U. I do have some with a U in their name, but I'm assuming it needs to be the first letter?

Yup, Jen, first letter of the First or Last name.

Thank you both for looking. M's doing a U, so we'll just need one more to be done. So far, we have over 800 bonus points. Unfortunately, we didn't have a ton of big books read in Dec, so we won't get the maximum amount of points, but we'll still get a bunch. :D

My book A Kiss of Shadows has a character named Uther in it, if it hasn't already been used.

That's the only one I found among my books.