Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Allison Ann wrote: "NEW GOAL -- Read a historical fiction novel that is based on real events.

We don't have much historical fiction in the goalless books. LaLine - are any of the Enola Holmes novels based on somethin..."

I don't believe so. They are based on some of the characters from the Sherlock Holmes books, but I don't believe any of the scenarios are based on real life events. Unless you are just looking for basic conditions of life in Victorian England - particularly the conditions of a woman trying to live on her own.

I do have a book that would work for that goal (Constantinopolis), but I won't be able to start it for a day or two.

Allison Ann wrote: "So after 5 weeks in the challenge how is everyone doing? Enjoy the group? Finding time to read? Enjoying the books you've read? Any favourites? Any you were hardpressed NOT to throw across the room..."

this is my first time doing the Towerteam challenge and I am enjoying it so far. I have enjoyed most of the books I have read except for a few. As for favorites, I have too many- lol! I am really glad I finally read Gone With the Wind. I have been wanting to read it for a really long time but never got around to it.

Only one group of books is making me want to throw them (I won't because they are on my kindle and I love that thing too much!LOL). I agreed to get a bundle set of books for free in exchange for honest reviews and I am irritated because it is a waste of my time. I read 3 of the 6 and I swear I am reading the exact same book with names & jobs changed. I understand it is a series but it is the same exact plot. The male coworker is in love with the female coworker, the female coworker is in love and sleeping with the boss, the boss is an arrogant prick that nobody likes and he is killed after his wife/fiance finds out that he is cheating on her with female coworker. The only difference is who kills him. One book it is the female coworker and the next book it is the male coworker and I am guessing this time it will be the disgruntled fiance. I am so glad I didn't buy them. I only agreed because I never read her books before and I wasn't sure how I got on her mailing list. Oh well, I'm done venting.

As for holidays, Christmas and New Years are pretty big. My husband's uncle only comes in at this time of year so we are always running around with him doing whatever fun things we can find to do. My youngest son has a bday in there so we celebrate that as well. My reading will definitely taper off the closer we get to Christmas but will pick up after the 1st.

As for snow, it is unusually warm here. We went Christmas caroling today at a nursing home nearby and we left our coats in the car while we were gathering in the parking lot. It is was warmer than usual here. It was 64 degrees and it is usually freezing and snowing by now.

My reading is definitely going to suffer over the Christmas holidays which always end up to be absolute madness !! Seen as my family is half french and half Scottish we have to mix a lot of traditions so we end up celebrating Christmas Eve, Christmas day, Boxing day which is also a cousin's birthday, the 27th is my mom's birthday ... So normally by that time we are all stuffed and fed up of eating ha ha x) !!

Unfortunately, even after that I don't think I will be reading much until the 13th of January ... As I start my exams on the 4th and tend to do nothing else but study up until they are finished :/ !

Hey Donna and Sarah-jane - sounds like you both go all out for Christmas. That's lovely. My family celebrates pretty low-key. We have a bunch of birthdays in December and a bunch in January, so sometimes it's easier to just celebrate Christmas on one of those days. This year my sister has a 12 hour window on Christmas Eve so she is forcing everyone to her house for dinner. ;) I work until dinner so I'll be rolling in with all the work done but I suspect cleanup will fall to me. Also she likes the traditional turkey dinner, when I host at my house we eat anything but turkey. Yuck! :) After dinner we generally take a walk through the cemetery to see the ice candles and visit my dad (if it will even be cold enough this year, with our crazy weather we might have the first non-white Christmas in history) and play board games until the kids finally go to bed. Christmas Day is for relaxing and visiting and then Boxing Day my store is the only one open for 80 km in any direction, so I definitely keep busy.

Allison Ann what kind of store do you have ? :)

A small convenience store and gas station.

Oh that must get really busy then !

We're in a very small town, but it seems like everybody needs milk and gas on Boxing Day. :D

Two very important things in life, especially if you're the only store in 80km !

Allison Ann wrote: "So after 5 weeks in the challenge how is everyone doing? Enjoy the group? Finding time to read? Enjoying the books you've read? Any favourites? Any you were hardpressed NOT to throw across the room..."

Definitely enjoying the group and the challenge, though things are getting busier here (I work part-time in retail but in the run up to Christmas it's much busier!) which is making it a bit harder to get the reading in. I'm currently reading a few different things (Chimera, Fool Moon, Blue Lily, Lily Blue& Red Rising) so getting some reading done but no completions recently!

Nothing making me want to throw it across the room at least! Christmas Eve/Day & Boxing Day we have family and friends over, so things will be pretty busy but lots of fun hopefully! I'm hoping that after the immediate Christmas rush my reading should pick up a little but I'm honestly not sure!

I was searching through free Christmas books on Amazon this morning to see if maybe something with a fireplace or elf or reindeer or sleigh would pop up and I discovered two things. 1) There is a lot of free Christmas porn out there - including erotic gay prison Christmas porn, a subset that is not as small as you might think and B) There is something called a "forever baby" and I'm not sure how it differs from a regular baby, but I don't think I need to know. :D

Evening guys!

I love Christmas so definitely looking forward to it. Plenty lots of fun times. My reading won't slow down much really.

I've read some great books, some good book and some ok books. Nothing that was really bad. Wait I remember one bad read. I pretty much read the things I know I'll enjoy.

I'll have the farm goal done in about an hour. I think I have a ward book too, need to double check.

I also have books that will work for the Christmas goals of fireplace and sleigh in title. These are books that won't be read soon though, so if anybody else can cover them, then good.

I'm almost done a ward book Danielle, so you can read something else if you want.

I kinda want to know what the heck a forever baby is...

Finished my ward book.

NEW GOAL -- Read a book about a group of friends.
Used LaLine's

NEW GOAL -- Read a book with a man on the cover.
Used Donna's

NEW GOAL -- Read a book with a temperature word in the title (e.g. hot, cold, cool, warm, freeze, etc).
Used Danielle's

NEW GOAL -- Read a book with a One word title.
Used Danielle's

NEW GOAL -- Read a book where the title starts with the letter R.
Used Tara's

NEW GOAL -- Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as ebook - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable.
Used Donna's

NEW GOAL -- Read a book with a mask on the cover.
Used Sarah-jane's

NEW GOAL -- Read a book that contains the word chamomile.

Have to go hunt for this one, but a heck of a run of goals so far. :D Yay team!!

Allison Ann wrote: "I was searching through free Christmas books on Amazon this morning to see if maybe something with a fireplace or elf or reindeer or sleigh would pop up and I discovered two things. 1) There is a l..."

I was thinking the same thing! LOL I did that search last night and was surprised as well. I gave up on that but I do have a book with a fireplace.

Couldn't find chamomile anywhere, that was a surprise. I did find one to read this afternoon though. Here are our goals.




ARIANE -- Read a book where someone desires world domination.

DANIELLE -- Read a book where a character visits a farm.

-- Read a book from a self published author that only has one published book on amazon.

LALINE -- Read a historical fiction novel that is based on real events.

ALLISON -- Read a book that contains the word chamomile.


25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS


DAY 12 -- Read a book that has elves, reindeer or a sleigh on the cover or in title for 10 points! -- DANIELLE
DAY 13 -- Read a book with naughty or nice in the title for 10 points!

Faith wrote: "I kinda want to know what the heck a forever baby is..."

An non-returnable one? A baby that the "billionaire bachelor" or the "army doctor" or the "lonesome cowboy" bought on sale?

Good evening, sorry I've been MIA this past week - we had a family vacation to Disney! Whew are we tired (and broke, ha!).

I've been enjoying my time with the Tower Teams challenge. It's been great interacting with all of you ladies. I especially like that it's a low-key, read what you want type challenge. Although I am never going to win any prizes for reading very quickly, I don't feel like I'm hindering our team with my very slow reading pace. Although I do envy those of you who have read more books since this challenge started than I have read all year...

Seems like everyone is doing well. And I am soooo unprepared for Christmas! Eek! I have *most* of my shopping done, but then I have two family members that I have absolutely no ideas for. Ugh. And gift cards are frowned upon in my family.

So hopefully everyone else is doing good and enjoying their reading! Happy reading :)

Tara wrote: "Good evening, sorry I've been MIA this past week - we had a family vacation to Disney! Whew are we tired (and broke, ha!).

I've been enjoying my time with the Tower Teams challenge. It's been gre..."

Hope Disney was awesome Tara, very jealous ;)

I have absolutely loads left to do for Christmas too - lots of shopping that has to wait until after pay day Monday/for my day off on Tuesday, so that could end up being a somewhat frantic day! I at least know what I'm getting for pretty much everyone, just two peoople left to figure out ideas for.

First chance as being able to get online today. I didn't manage to finish farm book last night. My sister came home and we ended up watching episodes of Person of Interest.

Nice run of goals that got completed yesterday. I've done the farm book now, so I'll get us a new goal.

Tara wrote: "Good evening, sorry I've been MIA this past week - we had a family vacation to Disney! Whew are we tired (and broke, ha!).

I've been enjoying my time with the Tower Teams challenge. It's been gre..."

Sounds like you've had a fab time. I like to be prepared pretty early for Christmas, so all gifts were bought and wrapped before December got here.

Allison Ann wrote: "I'm almost done a ward book Danielle, so you can read something else if you want."

Great, I just saw.

NEW GOAL: Read a book with black text on the cover
Used donna's The Order of the Golden Dragon


NEW GOAL: Read a book where there is a rebellion or resistance to a regime

I don't see anything in the notes of the goalless books, but do think any of the books you've read and are unused work?

I don't have anything that will work for that goal, but a couple of Donna's sound promising. Could Revenge of the Castle Cats be resistance to a regime or could Five-Seven-Five be a rebellion? What do you think Donna? Or maybe Kenéz' The Lost Hero?

If not, Faith is reading Red Rising which should definitely work.

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❂ Read a book where someone desires world domination (ARIANE)

❂ Read a book from a self published author that only has one published book on amazon

❂ Read a historical fiction novel that is based on real events (LALINE)

❂ Read a book that contains the word chamomile (ALLISON)

❂ Read a book where there is a rebellion or resistance to a regime

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25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

☃ Day 12 - Read a book that has elves, reindeer or a sleigh on the cover or in title for 10 points! (DONNA)

☃ Day 14 - Read a book that has snowflakes or snow falling on the cover or in title for 10 points!

Allison Ann wrote: "I don't have anything that will work for that goal, but a couple of Donna's sound promising.

Revenge of the Castle Cats is kind of like Buffy vs fairy tale characters. Fairy Tale characters have become corrupted and Alice is trying to eliminate them.

Five Seven Five is about people who were shrunk and started their own colony in the basement of the building they were shrunk in. The MC learns that she is really only 6 inches tall and her people were shrunk.

The funny thing is that the very last book I read before this challenge started would fit that goal perfectly - Uglies. LOL

I am currently reading which would cover the day 12 Christmas goal.

Donna wrote: "I am currently reading which would cover the day 12 Christmas goal."

Great! I wouldn't be reading mine until much later, now it's not something I have to try and fit in.

Finished my chamomile book and two others today, mainly because my internet was down all day. :D

NEW GOAL -- Read a book in which a suicide or murder takes place.
Used Danielle's

NEW GOAL -- Read a book set in the time period "Modern History".
Used LaLine's

NEW GOAL -- Read a book where a girl dresses up as a boy.
Used LaLine's

NEW GOAL -- Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female names in Spain according to nameberry (http://nameberry.com/popular_names/Spain).
Used

NEW GOAL -- Read a book with a body part in the title.

Checking to see if hands or feet would work.

ARIANE -- Read a book where someone desires world domination.

-- Read a book from a self published author that only has one published book on amazon.

LALINE -- Read a historical fiction novel that is based on real events.

FAITH -- Read a book where there is a rebellion or resistance to a regime.

-- Read a book with a famous landmark on the cover.




25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS


DAY 12 -- Read a book that has elves, reindeer or a sleigh on the cover or in title for 10 points! -- DONNA
DAY 14 -- Read a book that has snowflakes or snow falling on the cover or in title for 10 points!


What does everyone think about booning the self-published goal?

Hands was okayed!

NEW GOAL -- Read a book with a famous landmark on the cover.

Donna wrote: "Allison Ann wrote: "I don't have anything that will work for that goal, but a couple of Donna's sound promising.

Revenge of the Castle Cats is kind of like Buffy vs fairy tale characters. Fairy T..."

Thanks Donna. It was worth a shot. At least someone is reading something that will work even if we don't have it right away. You have intrigued me with Buffy vs Fairy Tales. :) I may have to get that series someday - when I become independently wealthy and can buy all the books I want. ;)

Alrighty team, I'm going to head to bed now and read a book that doesn't work for any of our goals. Yet! Have a good night.

Allison Ann wrote: "Donna wrote: "Allison Ann wrote: "I don't have anything that will work for that goal, but a couple of Donna's sound promising.

Revenge of the Castle Cats is kind of like Buffy vs fairy tale chara..."

LOL I know the feeling. I cheated though. I paid for the amazon kindle unlimited membership and can get most books I want without actually buying them. I get way more than $10 worth of books every month (I just don't own them) and no due dates like the library. I believe those books were ones I got on that membership. Still have a few left to read of The Grimm Chronicles but I wanted to mix it up a little and then I will finish the series out later.

Allison Ann wrote: "What does everyone think about booning the self-published goal?"

That's what I was thinking, I tried finding one this morning and no luck. I was waiting to see if anyone come up with something, but no luck so far.

NEW GOAL -- Read a book with a famous landmark on the cover."
Just so happens I finished a book least night that will work.

Looks like LaLine's latest book works for where there is a rebellion or resistance to a regime.


NEW GOAL: Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Hierophant" in the text or title
I searched some of the goalless books I could and didn't find it.

NEW GOAL: Read a book where a character is a fae

I agree on booning the self-published goal ... that's a hard one !

I just finished Unwind and am feeling pretty disturbed right now. :(

I will go add it to the read file

The read file shows this as an open goal:

**Read a book where there is a rebellion or resistance to a regime**

If this is actually still an open goal, This book fits!

Thanks Kari - We filled that goal just before you posted. :) So close! Sounds like a crazy book though. Any chance it has the phrase "the Hierophant" in it?

I'll update the goals post right now.

ARIANE -- Read a book where someone desires world domination.

-- Read a book from a self published author that only has one published book on amazon.

LALINE -- Read a historical fiction novel that is based on real events.

-- Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Hierophant" in the text or title.

-- Read a book where a character is a fae.


25 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS


DAY 14 -- Read a book that has snowflakes or snow falling on the cover or in title for 10 points!

I just finished off my latest read. I searched Kindle and I have one book with "The Hierophant" in the text.

Danielle - if you can do "the Hierophant" then I definitely think we should boon the self-published. I checked through all my books too and did an Amazon search and couldn't find a single one.

Donna wrote: "Allison Ann wrote: "Donna wrote: "Allison Ann wrote: "I don't have anything that will work for that goal, but a couple of Donna's sound promising.

Revenge of the Castle Cats is kind of like Buffy..."

I keep looking at that Kindle Unlimited thing but I really like real books made of paper and hate reading on a screen. So far I've managed to talk myself out of it. :D

Finished Fae book

NEW GOAL: Read a book where the title starts with the letter N
used Donna's

NEW GOAL: Read a book where the first word of the text is The
Used donna's

NEW GOAL: Read a book that was originally published between 2011 and 2015
Used

NEW GOAL: Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as for-review - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
Going to have a look at goalless books. Used Donna's


NEW GOAL: Read a book where the first word of the text is One

Allison Ann wrote: "Danielle - if you can do "the Hierophant" then I definitely think we should boon the self-published. I checked through all my books too and did an Amazon search and couldn't find a single one."

I posted a bit ago on the boon for that goal, just needs to be granted and we'll get a new one. One that's easier I hope :)

And yes, I can do "The Hierophant" goal. It won't be starting it for a few days and it's quite a long book.

Goodreads is looking a little different

Allison Ann wrote: "Thanks Kari - We filled that goal just before you posted. :) So close! Sounds like a crazy book though. Any chance it has the phrase "the Hierophant" in it?

I'll update the goals post right now."

Darn! No Heirophant in the book. I will go update my post in the Read file

✼Danielle✼ wrote: "Goodreads is looking a little different"

I thought it was me. My add author hasn't worked all day either.