Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Meg wrote: "I just finished Fairest which works for the 251 or higher shelf sorted by 'date added'"

Meg did you like Fairest? I decided to skip it as I had no desire to read about Levana, but would you recommend it?

Our current Goals are:

°Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the highest number of pages
°Read a book that appeals to your mind ; where you learn something new
°Read a book set in the time period "Middle Ages"
°Read a book where someone tames/befriends an animal
°Read a book where a character gets a makeover

I just finished The Arsonist, which was based on real events, so it should count fot learn something new.

My kindle hates the spreedshhet, I cant even get it to load all the way before it shuts down and knocks me off.

I am headed into work, so if noone gets it in, I can do it when I get to a physical computer.

I tried...no luck.

Also No Place Like Oz , Dorothy gets a major makeover

Thanks Abbie I will update those now.

How are we doing the mini Challenge?
Should we just start filling in letters?

Stacey wrote: "Meg wrote: "I just finished Fairest which works for the 251 or higher shelf sorted by 'date added'"

Meg did you like Fairest? I decided to skip it as I had no desire to read about ..."

It wasn't bad. Gives a lot of backstory. Not required reading before Winter at all. Still no sympathy for Levana.

Abbie wrote: "How are we doing the mini Challenge?
Should we just start filling in letters?"

I say fill in what we got.
It seems like it is worth alot of points.
If we wait, then we have the opportunity to miss letters.

Just my 2¢

Our current Goals are:

°Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the highest number of pages
°Read a book set in the time period "Middle Ages"
°Read a book where someone tames/befriends an animal
°Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as need - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
°Read a book with the word magic, sorcery, enchant or divine (plurals are acceptable) in the title

I have a quesion in to the mods about the Need goal, we have books shelved Need to read soon and variants of that if it is approved I will update.

I know a few of us are reading A Darker Shade of Magic for BOM so that will work for latest goal if no one hits anything sooner.

I will work on the Australia day words in a bit.

OK the need to read was approved so

New Goal

Read a book with minions (Like a vampire who has a seethe, or a person who uses zombies to do their evil bidding)

I went through and I finished updating the January Mini.

Thanks Abbie. You were working on it at the same time I was. I am going through looking for our longest December books. We can claim for 5 at 130 points and 1 at 100.

Oh, I did see some updating.Sorry about that, I just had some free time this morning, work is pretty slow, so I thought I would try to get us some things updated.
I did get with the mods, as the sheet wasnt updating.

Thanks for doing it. Glad you have some time. Yes it has been a bit temperamental lately. I keep hoping it isn't me. I am deleting the books we used off the goalless books list.

No Problem. Its starting to get busy, so I probably wont be able to get on today during work, so Just let me know if they get it all fixed, or if we need to fix anything

Grace, I think I see it, we need to add page cts to the bonus ones, all the others are filled in except those...
Totally missed that.

I'm a little confused.

Concerning the books we use for January mini game when we do the books read in december claimed as double points do these books have to be unclaimed from previous goals? OR can we use books that are claimed?? I assumed we couldn't but I can see the books you've picked have been claimed previously...

Nevermind, I went searching I'll add our page numbers in. Hopefully we've picked the books that have the highest amount of pages just so we get the most points :-)

Well done guys, our points are 1500 for January mini challenge!

Sorry I entered the books but left the page numbers while I double checked I had picked the best books then I had computer issues so I didn't get back to add them.

I have completed the middle ages goal but the spreadsheet is playing up again.

Its ok, I did a quick scan, you were on fire for long books in december lol!

Ahh shocker, it seems to be the same time every night now... Wonder what is going on. probably google updating at the same time each night and its causing issues with the sheets.

I hadn't noticed it was at the same time. I have been reading at least one longer book a week for another challenge. I have a couple started at the minute, I break up the longer books unless they suck me in.


Ellie well done. I wonder if that would count as a book with minions. The death eaters do Voldemort's bidding.

I've just finished 'the One' by Kiera Cass so if we still need it, that might work for 'O' for the January mini challenge?

Thanks Lauren. We have completed it for 1500 points :)

I am sure The one will get used soon enough, it fits lots of the possible goals. The covers for that series are beautiful.

New Goal

Read a book that contains the word parsley

Grace wrote: " New Goal

Read a book that contains the word parsley"

Oh my god. Really? That is a goal. Laughing right now. That'l be fun to find a book that fits that.

And Well done Ellie, Is this the first time reading the HP series or are you re-reading?
Every book counts. If I can I'll try to add books to the goalless book tab but we'll see.

I know. I searched my Kindle and a few I have read in the challenge had it but they have all been used for goals. There is one I might read.

Do you think we should use the Potter book for the minions goal ?

I did start adding some of the goalless books but with the spreadsheet playing up I stopped. If you can add some that would be great. I wlil put more on tomorrow.

Megan you should look at the possible goals list some of the words in the text are really silly, mint, strawberry, watermelon and then things like twitterpated ( we have an used book for this at the minute, the unidentified redhead. ) aggregate and annex.

I vote HP works for minion goal.

Oh god, I don't want to look, to be honest we'd probably be shocked at how many of the books we read have these words in... I doubt we notice because they're not exactly shocking words.

How would HP work for Minions? By House elves is that what you mean? Or by having pets like the cat, owl and rat?

No I meant the death eaters being Voldemort's minions. They do his bidding.

I need to go to bed. Goodnight everyone.

Grace wrote: "No I meant the death eaters being Voldemort's minions. They do his bidding."

Ahh I see, ok that would work then.

Night Grace :)

New goal
Read a book in a series that you've been putting off

Ah pffft, glad we've finished the January challenge but trust me to miss that! I can't believe some of those words we'd have to find, I'll never remember if I've read some of them or not!

I will see if I can start a book for the put off series goal as I own a few if no one else has one in mind? :)

Actually, I was planning on starting Vampire Academy as I've borrowed it from the library and that is a series I've been putting off for years, I can start it today :)

That is great Lauren. I hope you like it.

Our current Goals are:

°Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the highest number of pages
°Read a book with the word magic, sorcery, enchant or divine (plurals are acceptable) in the title
°Read a book that contains the word parsley
°Read a book in a series that you've been putting off Lauren
°Read a book with the phrase "head start" in a book

The book I finished last night: The Deal, has the phrase 'head start' in it's text.

Thanks Meg.

I have updated the goalless books.

New Goal

Read a book with the phrase "all ears" in a book

Our current Goals are:

°Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the highest number of pages
°Read a book with the word magic, sorcery, enchant or divine (plurals are acceptable) in the title
°Read a book in a series that you've been putting off Lauren
°Read a book with the phrase "all ears" in a book
°Read a book with tattoos on the cover

Did we finish the Australia challenge?

Yes Meg for 1500 points :)

Even though we got the Mega-boon, do we still get our normal one? I have a feeling no one will be reading the longest book on their TBR list.

We have a normal boon that expires on the 16th Jan. I should have my longest book read before then, I am reading the one before it now.

The "all ears" one is annoying.

The goalless book list is up to date.

Our current Goals are:

°Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the highest number of pages
°Read a book with the word magic, sorcery, enchant or divine (plurals are acceptable) in the title
°Read a book in a series that you've been putting off Lauren
°Read a book with the phrase "all ears" in a book
°Read a book where a character is a socialite

If the elite or the one by Kiera Cass have not already been used for goals, could they count for the socialite goal? The 'twos' have a few different socialites and both have events mentioned in them where socialites attend events with the royal family? Not currently on a computer so can't easily see our goalless books!

I just finished A Darker Shade of Magic for BOM and the Read a book with the word magic, sorcery, enchant or divine (plurals are acceptable) in the title goal.

Thanks Meg. Did you like it ? I haven't read past today's section.

The spreadsheet has it's knickers in a twist again so I will update when I can.

Lauren wrote: "If the elite or the one by Kiera Cass have not already been used for goals, could they count for the socialite goal? The 'twos' have a few different socialites and both have events mentioned in the..."

Lauren neither have been used yet. Are the socialites named characters that are part of the plot ? Can you give me the name of one for the spreadsheet so I can put X is a socialite.