Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Heehee, I take shameless advantage of it, too! My husband swears the delivery guy must hate us because between me and my kids, we always get a huge stack dropped off.

Anyway, my day was long and full of dumb irritations. Nothing horrible, at least, but it kept things from running smoothly. I'm off to bed now, but I'll check in again tomorrow. Hope you all are doing well and enjoying your books!

Wow -- I also didn't hear of a library that delivers. We can get books delivered to whatever library we want within the county. I can find most things except some graphic novels (I'm in a graphic novel bookclub).

We have a lot of libraries within our county. One of my particular rants is that the library in our city, which was recently remodeled, is actually the worst looking of them all. Almost all of the other libraries that I've been to have lovely seating areas and gas fireplaces. One has views the Bay Trail (San Francisco) along the back. Ours looks more like a school library. Oh well!

Well, our libraries are hideous, so I guess that's the trade off!

Oh, and I have Six of Crows coming, and hopefully it will be here in time for me to join the BR. Anyone else thinking of joining?

Hum....I might do that one....let me check to see if it's possible to get a copy of the book from library. When does it start again??

Question for the mods.....
do we still get extra points for reading the BOM after the discussion.

I just checked and all copies of 6 of crows are out at my library and there is a waiting list of 10 (of 13 copies). Most are due back after the start date. If I can't get the copy until after the discussion is finished (by the date of last questions), but I still answer the questions can it count?

I believe the start date is the 22nd. I'll have to get on the computer to know for sure.

Hello everyone --- we are a week into the challenge and it seems our team is having a slow ramp up. If you did NOT post a book this week, please check-in here. We need to hear from you every week or so to make sure that you are still playing (it is fine that you don't read a book in a week).

If you haven't been reading, have you been doing anything else exciting?? If you don't want to be social that is fine too --- just reply with a "checking in"!

I can start since I didn't finish any books this week. I was finishing up some lingering reads and didn't have much time or brain power for reading.

My excitement has been nursing my dog who had surgery on her ligaments (knee) last Thursday. I also started a new job on Monday. I do have 3 books in process though :-D

Hello everyone,

So I'm back. I have one short announcement to make: from now on, I will post some questions or mini-activity every week on this thread on Tuesday (my time), which I think is Monday afternoon for people who are living in North America.
Everyone, please visit this thread and check-in once every week. Like JoLene said, if you don't want to be social, that is totally fine, but you need to check-in so we know you're still with us.
Great! Now, the question for today is:
Name a hobby of yours that you or people think is bizarre

I'll start first: I really enjoy remembering dates, especially birthdays or anniversaries. Also, I am really good at memorizing schedule. So I remember the birthdays of most people in my grade, and schedules of most of them too.
People think it's creepy, but well...

Happy reading!!!

Umm, most people seem to think my obsession with book challenges is bizarre, does that count?? Lol, my husband DEFINITELY thinks I'm crazy ;)

is is weird to collect vampires and bats?

Amy "the book-bat" wrote: "is is weird to collect vampires and bats?"

Literally? OMG that's so cool. A bit creepy though :D

Most of my hobbies are run-of-the-mill, but I am always doing some type of challenge, but especially reading challenges. My husband also things it's crazy because I stress myself out doing it :-D

IMPORTANT!!!

In order for your books to 'count' for the challenge, you must do a couple of simple steps.

When you start a book
1) Change the status to 'currently reading'. This will set the start date in GR.
Make sure you find the edition of the book that you are reading.
2) You also need to chose the shelf name that you indicated when you started the challenge. This will help us track the challenge books easily. "Shelf names"

When you finish the book
1) Mark it as read, which will set the date read on GR
2) Post a thread in the Khnum books read thread

Hi captains! I know you're busy, but if you get a chance can we update our books and goals? :) Sorry, I'm just a bit antsy to see what the new goal will be since we got a book to cover that angsty one!

CassieV wrote: "Hi captains! I know you're busy, but if you get a chance can we update our books and goals? :) Sorry, I'm just a bit antsy to see what the new goal will be since we got a book to cover that angsty ..."

I actually asked one of the mod to check it but I don't know why nothing has been updated...

Okay, thanks for looking into it, Sam!

Sam wrote: "CassieV wrote: "Hi captains! I know you're busy, but if you get a chance can we update our books and goals? :) Sorry, I'm just a bit antsy to see what the new goal will be since we got a book to co..."

Actually, the book isn't shelved as angsty on the first page of Top Shelves.

Nooooo!

Sigh, and I was so hoping to get rid of that one ;)

Thanks Sonia, for letting us know!

CassieV wrote: "Nooooo!

Sigh, and I was so hoping to get rid of that one ;)

Thanks Sonia, for letting us know!"

No problem. I'm going to correct it. Btw.. goal points are automatic.. so.. if they don't appear is because something is not right.

Good to know!

But... you have a book from a Robyn Carr... and Robin is on the German list.

On my way to add it :D

OKay, goals update:


Read a book that has the birthstone Topaz in the text or title
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as angsty - plurals and spelling acceptable
Read a book with a picture frame on the cover
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Hanged Man" in the text or title
Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 6 odd numbers



Since I'm in a good mood I'm going to check ISBN numbers

And used Last Olympian fro Jordan for that :P

Aren't you happy I'm checking teams? :D

So happy! Thank you very much :D

CassieV wrote: "So happy! Thank you very much :D"

And now I need to check if "Read a book with 3 U's in the title" means exactly 3. I think so. But better check.

Checked:


Q. we have a goal read a book with 3 U's in title we have a book with 4 U's is that acceptable or does it have to be just the 3 of that letter
A. It is just 3 (otherwise it may say "at least 3" or "3 or more")


Okay, so Khnum's open goals are:

Read a book that has the birthstone Topaz in the text or title
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as angsty - plurals and spelling acceptable
Read a book with a picture frame on the cover
Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Hanged Man" in the text or title
Read a book with 3 U's in the title

Awesome, thanks!

Thanks everyone :)

Hello all,
Every two weeks we get a 'boon' which means we can throw out one of our goals. We need to do this by end of day today (I think) or we lose the opportunity.

Here is our list of current goals:
1) Read a book that has the birthstone Topaz in the text or title
2) Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as angsty - plurals and spelling acceptable
3) Read a book with a picture frame on the cover
4) Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Hanged Man" in the text or title
5) Read a book with 3 U's in the title

Since I'm not one of the power readers on the team, I thought I would ask you guys. If I don't hear from you, I will get rid of the tarot card one since it seems the hardest.
(Sam indicated that she is reading one with topaz in the cover)

I don't know if I count as a "power reader", but I vote for the tarot card or the "angsty" one

Hey y'all ~

I was able to get some goals covered for you. It generated some more. Here's your current list. Let us know if you wanna get rid of one.


~ Read a book that has the birthstone Topaz in the text or title
~ Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Emperor" in the text or title
~ Sort your "to read" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is number 251 or higher on your list (the first column before the book cover image)
~ Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf that has the lowest number of pages (but meets the challenge page requirements)
~ Read a book where an uninportant character dies


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Removed with boon ~
~ Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Hanged Man" in the text or title

Okay, then I vote for "the Hanged Man" :)

Thanks for looking it over, Karsyn!

Thanks Karsyn -- I will request The Hanged Man as the boon fulfillment in the other thread. Thanks for looking out for this.

I have a question regarding the goals. For the "to read" shelf, does it specifically have to be "to read" as the name. I re-named my "to-read" to be "own-tbr" --- these are the books that I own and haven't read. My shelf that is "to-read" is for books that "want to read" but don't own.

So, can I use my "own-tbr" shelf for the purposes of the goals since I think that is the shelf that was the original meaning in GR.

New Goal

~ Read a book where an uninportant character dies


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No, sorry, I was informed that it has to be the main "to-read" shelf. Sorry for the wrong info I gave initially! :(

Karsyn wrote: "New Goal

~ Read a book where an uninportant character dies


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Yes, whatever you use as your main "TBR" even if you have named it something else will work."

The book I just posted, Alanna: The First Adventure, would work for that one. One of her friends dies of a fever and it spurs her to realize she needs to use her powers of healing. He's so minor I don't remember his name, so it should count :)

Yes, whatever you use as your main "TBR" even if you have named it something else will work."

Actually, yesterday was posted that in that kind of goal it has to be to-read shelf
post is here

CassieV wrote: "The book I just posted, Alanna: The First Adventure, would work for that one. One of her friends dies of a fever and it spurs her to realize she needs to use her powers of healing. He's so minor I don't remember his name, so it should count :) "

Absolutely it'll work. I'll get back there in just a bit and add it on for y'all.

Also, I was worried about this, y'all had Invisible Library as a "picture frame" on cover, I guess since the cover itself is a frame? That's not going to be accepted, so you'll still have to do that goal as well. So sorry.

Rats --- that makes it more difficult since my to-read are books that I don't have

Don't worry JoLene, I'm sure someone else can cover that one. I read from mine a lot :)

Attention team! We're doing a little Merging & Acquisition movement in order to try to balance the results.

Therefore, Khnum will cease to exist and members will be assigned as follows:

Member		New Team
Cassie			Ipilya
Karla K			Ipilya
Tia			Ipilya
Amy Clark		Ipilya
Sam			Ipilya
Jordan			Ipilya
JoLene			Sphynx
Riddish Mukherjee	TBA (Assigned after check-in)
Ankit Saxena		Sphynx
khan Shamim		TBA (Assigned after check-in)
Mehreen Ahmed		TBA (Assigned after check-in)

If you're working on a goal currently open, you have 48 hours to complete it, and it will be transferred to your new team. Just inform your team captains or mentor.

In 48 hours we're closing this thread.

Happy Readings!