Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Finished:

A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers

By Hazel Gaynor

Prologue, 46 chapters, epilogue

Historical fiction told in two time periods (neither current time). Missing siblings, flowers, orphans, finding yourself and making piece with the past


I should be back on the computer some time tomorrow but I'm still just on the app so I'm not messing with the spreadsheet. I can add more details to the goalless tab then

Just finished The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian on audio book. The pages need to be overwritten to 240, i believe. I don't think it meets any current goals though.

Finished
A Wicked Thing
11/27/2015
Pages: 337
Goals: N/A
Story of Sleeping Beauty, she was asleep for 102 years and she was born from magic.

Pages: 384 (kindle ed)
Read on: 28. Nov.
Genre: alternate history
Has word 'temperance' @ loc 3357: "He did not mean to go on like a blue-light captain, preaching chastity and temperance all day; still, he did not think it prudish if he preferred his youngsters to have a respectable example before them in the older officers."

This book works for two goals, but I vote to strike the 'temperance' one. I can always read another alternate history.

I'm off to update the spreadsheet. ;)

Finished:

27 Nov 2015
Just One Taste by Lexi Blake
pages: 172
chapters: 10 + epilogue
does not fit any of the current goals
Mini chalange: Alfheim - Read book where main character is artist (any kind), main character is a sous-chef and is an artist in the kitchen.

Also Finished:

28 Nov 2015
The Outlaw's Obsession by Jenika Snow
pages:121
chapters:13
does not fit any of the current goals
mini challenge: Svartalfheim - Read a book with dark cover

Spreadsheet updated.

Finished:



info already in spreadsheet so I'm being lazy and not typing more here.

But this takes care of the "read book with rainbow on cover for mini-challenge".

Finished:

Finished 11/28/15
404 pages


Finished 11/28/15
416 pages


Finished 11/27/15
292 pages

Finished:



11/28/15
Pages: 465

BOM discussion participant



spreadsheet updated

Finished

11/28/2015
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
pages: 465
chapters:46

participated in BOM discussion

updated spreadsheet.

finished:

Rode Hard, Put Up Wet by Lorelei James
Date: 11/29/2015
Pages:300
Chapters: 39

Does not fit any of the current goals

Finished
The Originals
11/29/2015
Pages: 296
Goals: N/A
About three cloned girls in hiding, basically lived as triplets as kids but now as teenagers they split their days into thirds.

28/11
260 pages

No goals
red cover, science fiction, dystopia, classic, author died in 1993



29/11
196 pages

No goals
Paranormal, ghosts, non fiction, set in Essex England

Finished:



goal: briefcase on cover

spreadsheet updated

Soulless
Pages: 388
Read on: 30. Nov.
Work for alternate history goal.

Spreadsheet updated.

The Iron King

Pages: 363
Read: 11/30

Works for sidekick goal (talking fae cat)

Pages: 333
Read on: 30. Nov
Works for goal: MC get a manicure @loc3055 "Beth Ann steered her friend to the manicure table and while Miranda explained what had happened in the past week, Beth Ann filed her nails and cleaned a week's worth of grime out of her nail beds."

Off to update the spreadsheet. :)

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Read: 30 Nov
Pages: 372
Orphans, war, ordinary girl becomes hero

Finished:



alexanderite birthstone goal.


spreadsheet updated.

Finished
Crank
Pages: 537
11/30/2015
Goals: N/A
A girl creates a different personality and ends up getting addicted to drugs, ends up getting attacked by a guy and gets pregnant with his baby. First in the series.
Book like 'Impulse' that I read previously.

Pages: 142
Read on: 1st Dec.
Goals: n/a

Setting: imaginary kingdom
Characters: Cecelia, Alexander, Frederick
Pets: horse Sterling
Events: C&A get engaged and later married; C becomes royalty; A lives in a castle; C&A hate each other at the beginning; A is cursed to transform into a wolf at night;

Sorry I don't have time right now to update the spreadsheet. I'll do it later if noone beats me to it.

spreadsheet updated

I finished The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times. It has 340 pages and the author died in 2011

spreadsheet updated

Finished:


358 Pages
Finished 12/1/15


Finished 12/1/15
218 pages

spreadsheet updated

I finally finished Les Misérables on audiobook! I don't think it fits any current goals. The pages need to be overwritten to 1463.

Finished Cress
Date: 12-2-2015
Pages: 550
Goals: N/A
Book three of the Lunar Chronicles. Cress represents Rapunzel. I can't say much about the book without it really giving it away. :P

Finished:



Goal: onomatopoeia in title

Pages: 187 (kindle ed)
Read on: 2. Dec.

Setting: Auckland, New Zealand
Characters: Joseph, Christie, Marissa, Helene
Other: transcript of chat between J&C included; Christie is a journalist (works for news paper), Joseph is a CEO; J&C go on a blind date; J&C go to a party; J&C go biking; C plays video games; J has ADHD (mental disorder);

Goals: n/a
Mini challenge goal: Read book set in New Zealand

I have one more book to enter and then I'm going to add them to the spreadsheet.

Pages: 237 (kindle ed)
Read on: 3. Dec.

Setting: Texas, USA
Characters: Dina, George, Jack, Gaston, Sophie, Caldenia, Orro, Dagorkun, Arland, Nuan Cee,
Pets: dog (kinda) Beast, wolf-like creature Gorvar, cat Feistykins, cat Count
Other: Orro is a chef; aliens; werewolves; vampires; shifters; unusual pets; turquoise (word) appears twice; a lot of food descriptions;

Goals: n/a
Mini challenge goal: Tagged as magic (71 people)

And now I am off to update the spreadsheet. :)

Finished:


by Liane Moriarty

Goals: n/a

mini challenge: takes place in southern hemisphere


spreadsheet updated

Finished Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis/Medea/The Bacchae Doesn't fit any current goals.

Finished:

The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardner
Read: 12/3
Pages: 497

Goal: works for 25 Days of TT, day 1: read a book with a red cover. I'm not sure the spreadsheet is up for this yet but there isn't a point in putting it on the goalless tab.

Mini challenge: used the term guardian angel


Going to start a book with a truck on the cover

Judith wrote: "Finished:

The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardner
Read: 12/3
Pages: 497

Goal: works for 25 Days of TT, day 1: read a book with a red cover. I'm not sure the spreadsheet is up for this yet but there is..."

You found book with the truck on the cover? Great news! :)

updated spreadsheet.

Added Judith's book to 25 Days of TT goal list.

Pages: 400
Read on: 4. Dec.

Setting: Mars (planet)
Chapters: 44, Divided into 4 parts
Characters: Darrow, Eo, Narol, Mickey, Harmony, Dancer, Cassius, Antonia, Julian, Quinn, Titus, Pax, Sevro, Fitchner, Mustang
Other: horses; wolves; Darrow gets a makeover; 10+ characters killed; rubies (word) mentioned; exams; name of Roman gods appear (Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, Volcanus, and Apollo); twins (Cassius & Julian)

Off to update the spreadsheet. :)

Finished 12/4/15
3 Stars
352 Pages

Finished Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal on audiobook. The pages should be overwritten to 348. I don't think it fits any current goals, unless the alimentary canal counts as a facial feature (I mean it does include the mouth!)

Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Read: 11/04
Pages: 436
Goal: None
Set in Canada, made into a TV show, journalist.


The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Read: 11/04
Pages: 464
Goal: None
Historical fiction, secret marriage
Map and family tree at the beginning
53 Chapters

Finished
The Hunt
12/4/2015
Pages: 358
Book 2 in the project paper doll series.
Hybrids, half alien-half human, telekinetic powers, mind reading powers.

Caroline wrote: "Finished Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal on audiobook. The pages should be overwritten to 348. I don't think it fits any current goals, unless the alimentary canal counts a..."

I asked for a ruling from the mods on whether it can count for the goal or not. They'll probably think we lost our minds, but I figured, what the hell.

Finished:



Goal: read a book with a truck on the cover

spreadsheet updated

They said no to Gulp since it included so much more than just the mouth

Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver
Read: 11/5
Pages: 368
Goal: None
Characters: Dara, Nicole, Parker, Madeline, Ariana
Mostly a mystery murder
41 Chapters, Chapters start with a date

Finished:



Read: 12/5
Goal: top shelf of german

spreadsheet updated

Finished:
Eleanor & Park
Date: 12/5/2015
Pages: 325
About a girl that doesn't fit in and is poor, and an Asian boy that has a nice family. They end up falling in love.