Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Grace wrote: "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."

yeah, it's not working properly... bummer

Celeste, she is one of the contestants but also a socialite back at home :)

Celeste, she is one of the contestants but also a socialite back at home :)

Sonia I am always worried I have done something. I am amazed by the spreadsheet wizards, they have done a great job.

Lauren Thanks I will update that when the spreadsheet stops being temperamental.

Our current Goals are:

°Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the highest number of pages
°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 Roman numerals on the cover
°Read a book with a green cover

~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 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.


DOWN
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.

Yuck.
I'm doing an alphabet challenge for another group based on titles starting with every letter of the alphabet. I've only read the K book, so I can volunteer for any we might need. I'm guessing it will be the Os or Ys again.

Ugh. I think there might be an X in there, right?

I have filled in 2 answers with goalless books. 6 Across and 5 Down

There is 1 X of course, I have a couple of Xavier Mayne books, I will get to one of them.

We need 4 O's I can definitely cover one of them.

2 Y's

We need 1 more U and 1 More I and another 2 G's but my current book can cover one of those.

I will finish In Jack's Arms in the next day or two. And I need to read the next book in the Lux series which would give us an O.

Thanks Stacey those will be useful.

I had missed one of Meg's books from yesterday so we only need 3 O's

I have 3 across filled in now.

We will need a H and an E

Are the books not being put into the boxes for the letter until there is a book for each letter? Or can we fill them in as we go?

We can fill them in as we go, I just did the complete word ones first. I can fill in some of the rest of them.

Megan has a couple of books than can do G or H and H or N. I think we should hold on those to see which ones get covered first.

I should have a Harry Dresden book done on audio sometime this weekend if that helps at all.

We can definitely use it Stacey. The audio narrator's initials count too. I need to get back to that series. I said I would get up to date with it and In Death this year but I keep getting distracted.

One of the main characters in a book i read in December, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is Luo, if the L is still needed.

We also need to make sure we have high point number books left for the double points sections.

Thanks Meg, I will use it if we need to, we do have an L author left. It works for S or D too so maybe wait and see which is most useful.

We don't have any of the highest point scorers left read in December but we have 3 80 point books ( including your John Adams book) and lots of 60s so not too bad.

Can we not use the same ones as before? I don't know but I'm not sure?

I assumed we needed different books for the new crossword puzzle's (A) double points slots, than those used in the double points spots in the first puzzle (B).

Grace wrote: "Sonia I am always worried I have done something. I am amazed by the spreadsheet wizards, they have done a great job."

Yeah, Kelly is a genius! And she has it all working fine and dandy again :)

Sonia she is amazing, I get confused by the basics. It is working nicely now :)

Meg wrote: "I assumed we needed different books for the new crossword puzzle's (A) double points slots, than those used in the double points spots in the first puzzle (B)."

Yes that is right I thought I had replied to Megan's post. We need our 12 highest point scoring books read in December, 6 for each puzzle.

Starting an X book on my layover in Atlanta. Hope to have it done today or tomorrow.

Meg wrote: "Starting an X book on my layover in Atlanta. Hope to have it done today or tomorrow."

I have an X finished but it would also work for H . I will leave it unused for now.

Grace wrote: "Meg wrote: "Starting an X book on my layover in Atlanta. Hope to have it done today or tomorrow."

I have an X finished but it would also work for H . I will leave it unused for now."

Maybe my X book could count as the book with Roman numerals on the cover. The little tags on the edges make it look more like a ten in Roman numerals than the X in the title.


And just noticed those are male profiles. Creepy.

This week I finished a book about Jesus, a book about magic, and another with a mostly naked man on the cover. If this combination does not prove how open I am to exploring any genre, I don't know what will.

I've just finished 'Vampire Academy' for the Read a book in a series that you've been putting off goal : )

Meg wrote: "This week I finished a book about Jesus, a book about magic, and another with a mostly naked man on the cover. If this combination does not prove how open I am to exploring any genre, I don't know ..."

LOL Meg that is definitely a diverse selection. I am not sure on your X book for Roman Numerals I will ask the mods. that is an interesting cover.

I finished In Jack's Arms if we still need another I.

Thanks Lauren and Stacey. Goals are updated.

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 phrase "all ears" in a book
°Read a book with Roman numerals on the cover
°Read a book with a green cover
°Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as borrowed - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

Meg your book was approved for Roman Numerals

New Goal

Read a book with a pumpkin on the cover

I have been updating the Australia day

We need

2 Y's
1 U
1 O

The other blanks we have books for but waiting until we get the other letters sorted out. They are all more common letters and the books might be useful for goals.

I finished Fool Moon which has "borrowed" on the first page if we still need a book for that goal.

Good Morning,

Apologies for the lack of communication the past few days had really bad head aches so I've just struggled to read much. Also a little heads up for this week I may be a bit quieter as its the anniversary of my mum's death on Wednesday so I'm not feeling a heck of a lot like reading... I'll do what I can, it may help we shall see.

Onto better things, I've put your book for the goal Stacey so we have a new goal
Read a book where a character is an undertaker

Current Goals
Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the highest number of pages
Read a book with the phrase "all ears" in a book
Read a book with a green cover
Read a book with a pumpkin on the cover
Read a book where a character is an undertaker

Megan sorry about the headaches. I hope they clear up. I suffer from migraines and they are horrible. So sorry about your Mum. Anniversaries are very hard. I lost my Dad when I was 5 and the anniversary still hurts. Look after yourself.

I read a book with a green cover

New Goal

Read a book where a character is a spy/intelligence agent

Awesome,
I read two y's for the January challenge and a U. Also filled in some of the missing dec double point books on the puzzle bits we've finished.
Not much left :)

Wow Megan that is great.

I finally finished the longest book on my TBR

New Goal

Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Horror

I just read Apt Pupil, you can add that as horror, finished it earlier today

Thanks Abbie

New Goal

Read a book where the title starts with the letter O

I have an O character book for the last spell it O is if anyone has an O title it can go to this one.

I don't have an o in the title. Just an author with an o surname. I'll double check for an o title tomorrow when I get a sec.

Thanks Megan, annoyingly I already used my O title. I should have another one. I haven't started my O book yet so I can look for something else.

I finished Red Queen. The main character winds up working for the resistance--setting up shootings, helping people escape, etc--while she is in the household of the King. I'm not sure if this would count for the spy goal, but figured I'd let someone less sleepy than me figure it out. :)

I'd say it's a spy. She was sent in there with a purpose.

Meg wrote: "I'd say it's a spy. She was sent in there with a purpose."

I had been reading a Y book about a spy for the spell ou but it isn't needed for spell out so I used for Spy book and Stacey's book worked for the chess piece in title goal we got again. I also read a book with Pumpkin on the cover.

Our current Goals are:

°Read a book with the phrase "all ears" in a book
°Read a book where a character is an undertaker
°Read a book where the title starts with the letter O
°Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female names in Germany according to nameberry (http://nameberry.com/popular_names/Ge...)
°Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter O

Finally had a chance to check the name list. A book Ellie read worked

New Goal

Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Fool" in the text or title

The Mistake has the fool in it.