Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Finished my book with the "U" name. The main character is named Uhtred.

Awesome, both of y'all. That'll finish us up!! I'll go do it now!

We got a total of ~ 1180 ~ points for the January Challenge.

Current Goals



~ Read a book with a bicycle on the cover (M)
~ Read a book shelved as available (Karsyn)
~ Read a book with the phrase "weak at the knees" (or "in") in a book (Karsyn)
~ Read a book where characters celebrate Christmas
~ Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a boat or other ocean vessel

Read a book where a character has lost one of their senses

I can cover this one.

I found the knees goal. Specifically I found ~

"Nothing wrong with the weakness in her knees, either"

It holds the idiom, so it works. I'll get to it after the "available" goal. I needed to spend sometime doing other things yesterday and today, so I'll start the available goal sometime today.

Just finished up our "Sort your "to read" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is within Numbers 150-200 on your list" goal and posted it on the read thread :) This long weekend has been a good one for relaxing and reading!

The book in reading currently has a blind character if we still need it.

Up and about and getting us new goals.

Kerri ~ do you remember what number it was you used? I just like to list everything I can. Glad you've had a good relaxing time of reading!

Jen ~ thanks, M finished it, so we're good there.

I found a book with a bicycle on the cover. Has anyone claimed that goal yet?

M wrote: "I found a book with a bicycle on the cover. Has anyone claimed that goal yet?"

Nope, not yet! It's yours. :D

New Goals


~ Read a book where characters celebrate Christmas
~ Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a boat or other ocean vessel

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We would get a holiday book, after using all them up for the 25 Days challenge. :/

If anyone reads the Cut & Run series, the 3rd book is set on a cruise ship. I just read it and used it for our Poker goal.

Karsyn wrote: "M wrote: "I found a book with a bicycle on the cover. Has anyone claimed that goal yet?"

Nope, not yet! It's yours. :D"

Woot! I found one that sounds awesome.

It was 152 on the list, Karsyn :)

Thanks Kerri! :)

Everyone's been quiet, anyone reading anything good? I'll finally finish up my 1st book of the year today. Slow going, but Hubby had the last 3 days off. Once He's back to work tomorrow, I'll be reading more, gonna try to read a bunch for Bout of Books.

Finished my bicycle book. Will post when I get home.

Crazy busy right now! Grandma's in the hospital :(, my boyfriend moved in, and I leave for vacation to New Orleans on Wednesday! So I haven't been able to read anywhere near as much as I had planned :( I'm listening to an audio book and hopefully will be able to start another book during my lunch break today. I wasn't able to meet my goal for 2015 so that kinda sucks! I hate when I don't have enough time to read!!

I hope everyone else is doing well!!

reading Dirty Lies has humor, romance and a rock star with tattoos. so far so good.

New Goal ~ filled in 6 before this one

~ Read a book with the word teach, teacher, coach or help (plurals are acceptable) in the title

Hi team! Sorry I've been a little MIA. It has been crazy nuts around here, and I was very glad to return to work this morning so things can get back to normal.

I've read a couple of books and working on a few more. I've logged them in the completed thread.

Karsyn - what is Bout of Books?

Just dropping in to say hi! I'm currently super bored at work cause everything is done, so I thought I'd check in here.

I wanted to say, too, that I'm really enjoying the current BOM, A Darker Shade of Magic! Is anyone else reading it?

Also, Cristina, I hope your Grandma is ok!

Thank you Kerri! She's doing much better.

I am also super bored at work :( hope I can sneak some reading in!

Hey y'all! :)

Been getting some reading in today. Finished up the "knees" goal, but spreadsheet isn't updating. Gonna get the guru's onto that for me.

No worries you've been busy, jingles, everyone has been. Glad to see you (and all) when y'all can pop in. Bout of Books is a week long read-a-thon, pretty big among bloggers. It's on their 15th one (they do 2 a year) and this will be my 5th, I think. Usually I read like crazy, but I'm taking it a bit slower this time. I do need to get some reading in and finally finished my 1st 2 books of the year between yesterday and today. Hope to finish this other book today as well.

I'm reading A Darker Shade of Magic as well, Kerri. I'm enjoying it too. I'm 27% into it.

Sorry everyone's having a boring work day. Hope y'all can sneak some reading in. :)

New Goal ~ filled in 6 before this one

~ Read a book with a cemetery on the cover

Current Goals



~ Read a book where characters celebrate Christmas
~ Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a boat or other ocean vessel (M)
~ Read a book with the word teach, teacher, coach or help (plurals acceptable) in the title
~ Read a book with a cemetery on the cover
~ Read a book shelved as asia (Kerri)

Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a boat or other ocean vessel.

Dibs!

New Goal

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

Good morning, everyone!

I can cover the "asia" goal if we don't already have a book that works. I've been meaning to read The Kite Runner and it's listed on the first page of it's top shelves.

All yours, Kerri.

New Goal

~ Sort your "to read" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is within Numbers 1-50 on your list (the first column before the book cover image)


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If any of y'all keep an eye on the spreadsheet, don't be alarmed if you don't see your books right away. Spreadsheet is working about twice a day, if that. Mods know about it, it's nothing on our end, it's the hosting of the sheet site.

I can do this goal. I am almost finished with my current book.

~Australia Day Mini Challenge~

We never said you would have only one puzzle :)

So, here we go!

Same rules apply, but before you start this puzzle, you must have already completed your previous puzzle and spell-it-outs. (and remember, once done those books are locked in and can't be moved).

This time those teams that were at the top of the overall leader board as at Jan1 receive puzzle AA, the middle puzzle A and the lowest puzzle B.
Good luck!

Puzzle AA



ACROSS

2. Although called a ‘bear’, the ______ is not at all related to bears, but is related to the kangaroo and the wombat

4. The ___________, is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia

6. Snakes such as the Taipan, put up a ferocious defence when surprised or cornered, “________”before hurling themselves forward to bite

DOWN

1. Dangerous Australian animals are include sharks, ______/_________, crocodiles, snakes and spiders (answer is two words, 3letters/9letters)

3. One of the animals on the coat of arms is the ________

5. Australia has many ________animal species

Alright ladies (and gent), I'm gonna get going on this one. Here's to hoping we can fill it in same day, like we did last time. :D

I have a non goal book that I finished last night. will post when I get home.

We're gonna need a lot of vowels and hard letters. This one's gonna take some doing, I think.

Unfortunately, we're not going to get many points. We have to use Dec books again and we don't have any left that were 100+ points, I don't think there are even an 80 point ones. Ah well, we'll do the best we can and get whatever we can outta it.

If anyone is around and you haven't already given me character names, please let me know if any of your books have letter names we could use.

Until I start getting this more filled in, lets say any vowel as well as some more obscure letters like K, Q & X.

Can the letter be the characters first or last name. If you haven't used Fall of Icarus one of the main character is Yen Xiao

First or last. Thanks for that one, haven't used it! Will put a full list of unused (for now) into Read Books page again if you wanna look for others.

Once I've filled in all I can, and set apart the highest book points (40 & 60) for Dec that we can use, we will be quite literally WITHOUT any goalless books left! Might have less than 5, but right now, it's definitely not many.

I just posted one a few minutes ago if that helps

M wrote: "I just posted one a few minutes ago if that helps"

It does! It gave us our Q. Thanks!! :D

Final tally y'all ~

We need 1 O
We need 3 U


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I have one U covered, will finish it today or tomorrow. Can get started on another after that one. If we have any of those letters already, That'd be great.

Sorry, I have been MIA. I have been working long hours this week. I just posted to my shelf the audiobook I just finished this morning-- Ozma of Oz (Oz#3). I am working in the BOM A Darker Shade of Magic too.

No worries Victoria. You covered our O, so YAY!!

We just need 2 U's, after the one I'm listening to right now.

I am reading a book with a "U" character. Will have it finished by morning

Awesome M! I finished mine a little while ago and in the Books Read thread, Michelle said she'd read one as well. If she gets to it, we'll be all done. :)

I'm in New Orleans so I won't be posting for a few days! Happy reading everyone!!

If no one gets to it sooner, I have a "cemetery" book I can read this weekend.

Current Goals



~ Read a book where characters celebrate Christmas (Karsyn)
~ Read a book with the word teach, teacher, coach or help (plurals acceptable) in the title
~ Read a book with a cemetery on the cover (Victoria)
~ Read a book shelved as asia (Kerri)
~ Sort your "to read" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is within Numbers 1-50 on your list (M)

Crossword letters needed:

O Victoria completed
U Karsyn completed
U ~ M
U ~ Michelle

Finished World After with the character Uriel.