Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

THIS THREAD IS ONLY FOR THE POSTING OF READ BOOKS BY TEAM MEMBERS IN ORDER TO ASSIST THE CAPTAINS

GOALLESS BOOKS ALREADY ENTERED IN SPREADSHEET
Title
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Asa (Marked Men, #6)
Banishing the Dark (Arcadia Bell, #4)
Big Little Lies
Black Hills
Bound (Eternal Guardians, #6)
Break Her
Bright Side (Bright Side, #1)
Bring on the Night (WVMP Radio, #3)
Burn for Me (Hidden Legacy, #1)
Carniepunk
Cast in Honor
Cherished
Cold-Hearted Rake
Cold-Hearted Rake (The Ravenels, #1)
Fangirl
Fault Line
Fit to be Tied (Marshals, #2)
Fracture (Blood & Roses, #2)
Full Tilt (Full #2)
In the Shadow of Blackbirds
Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty Norville #1)
Living Dead Girl
Love Me Once, Love Me Twice (Montana Cowboys, #1)
Madame X (Madame X, #1)
Mistletoe and Mr. Right
Must Love Mistletoe (Holidays, #1)
Running In Fear: Escaped
Secondhand Spirits
Sector C
Sharp Objects
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
Sight
Sins of the Mother: A heartbreaking true story of a woman's struggle to escape her past and the price her family paid
Skin
Sophia (Vampires in America, #4)
Soulmates (Soulmates, #1)
Stars of Fortune (The Guardians Trilogy, #1)
Storm Born (Dark Swan #1)
Sweep in Peace (Innkeeper Chronicles #2)
Sweet Addiction (Sweet Addiction, #1)
Sweet Possession (Sweet Addiction, #2)
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, #1)
The Art Forger
The Backup Boyfriend (The Boyfriend Chronicles, #1)
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
The Blue Bistro
The Bone Doll's Twin (The Tamír Triad, #1)
The Child Thief
The Darkest Secret (Lords of the Underworld, #7)
The Hanged Man (Her Majesty's Psychic Service, #1)
The Heart of Christmas (Carhart #0.5; Tallants #3.5)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet
The Search
The Secret of the Mansion (Trixie Belden #1)
The Vampire's Warden (Undead in Brown County, #1)
This Christmas (Christmas in New York, #1)
This is Not a Test (This is Not a Test #1)
What's Left of Me (The Hybrid Chronicles, #1)
Why Not Me?
Winter in Sweetwater County

GOALLESS BOOKS NOT ENTERED YET IN SPREADSHEET

Full House (Full #1)
You're Never Weird on the Internet
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Widow's Web (Elemental Assassin, #7)
The Burning Bridge (Ranger's Apprentice, #2)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful, #1)
Walking Disaster (Beautiful, #2)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Taffeta and Hotspur
A Darker Shade of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic, #1)
The Ripper Gene: A Novel
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Hillbilly Rockstar (Blacktop Cowboys, #6)
Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock, #1)
Tied with a Bow (Includes: Breeds, #25; World of the Lupi, #8.5)
Crazy Hot (Steele Street, #1)
Touching Ice (Cyborg Seduction, #4)
Night Vision (Indigo Court, #4)
White Heat (T-FLAC, #11)
Holidays Are Hell (The Hollows, #5.5)
Save the Date
Thrown By Love
The Book Thief
Fury (New Species, #1)
Around the World in 80 Men

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Current Open Goals As of 1/12/16

Read a book where tarot cards are used
Read a book from a genre that you don't normally read
Read a novel with a poem in it
Read a book which features an eagle on the cover or in the story (or with a shape shifter who turns into a bird of any type)
Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a boat or other ocean vessel

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Please post your books read this way:
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- cover image:(you can do this from "add book/author")
- book link:(you can do this from "add book/author")
- author's name:
- page numbers:
- date reading completed:
- any open goal it may work for:
- if it can count for any quests in the mini challenge:
- if it was a BOM then if you wrote DQs or participated in the discussion:
- Main Character names:
- Setting:
- NOTES:* if the book does not fit an open goal, then please make notes of anything interesting about the book that may count for a later goal (for example, there's a gargoyle in the book, anything special or different about them, if it is on a listopia list you know of, etc, etc, etc...**):

Thanks!

*If you have a lot of note and can hide them in an html "spoiler" that will make the tread a lot shorter.
**For help on what to write if you haven't glanced at the all possible goals page, it might give you ideas.

Winter in Sweetwater County by Ciara Knight
220 pages (Note - this book has 44,250 words (http://www.smashwords.com/books/searc...))
11/8/15

Goals this book will fit -
(view spoiler)[#51 Read a book you got for free (I got this book free from Barnes and Nobles in October 2015

#95 Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female names in Ireland according to nameberry (http://nameberry.com/popular_names/Ir...)
(Ciara is #28 on the list)

#99 Read an book where the authors name is also a word (Author's last night is Knight)

#107 Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter E (Main character - Eric)

#112 Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter J (Main character - Judy)

#114 Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter L (Main character - Lisa)

#132 Read a book where a character is a lawyer (Main character Eric is a lawyer - page 75 "Oh please. I don't to mushy. I'm a lawyer," Eric protested.)

#269 Read a book with blue text on the cover

#275 Read a book with only one cover image on Goodreads (i.e. there is only one edition, or if there is more than one edition, all editions have the same cover art) (see above - more than 1 edition with the same covers)

#310 Read a book that was originally published between 2011 and 2015 (Published 2014)

#311 Read a book first published in January (Published January 2014)

#337 Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 15th of a month (Published January 15, 2014)

#363 Read a book where the kindle version is less than 300 pages (144 pages)

#379 Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Contemporary (Shelved as Contemporary by 15 users)

#380 Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Romance (Shelved as Romance by 49 people)

#409 Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as 2015 - plurals and spelling acceptable (Shelved as Romance by 22 people)

#516 Read a book with more than 100, but less than 500 goodreads reviews (141 reviews)

#520 Read a book with an average goodreads rating of between 3.51 and 3.99 (Average rating of 3.69)

#530 Read a book that is book 1 in a series (#1 in the Sweetwater County series)

#539 Read a book with 21-30 chapters (28 chapters)

#599 Read a book which has the main location (setting) as the USA (Set in Tennessee)

#631 Read a book that starts with the letter W

#725 Read a book with the phrase "In the heat of the moment" in a book (Page 30 "Yes, but it was in the heat of the moment. I don't think he'd actually hurt me."

#948 Read a book with a Title of at least 4 words (hide spoiler)]

Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell

310 pages

Completed 11/8/15

Some notes: Book was free, has a gargoyle, someone is lost in it, suicide, witches, sees ghosts, always ready to help, woman on the cover, blue cover, yellow text.

My First book done! Please let me know if I'm messing this up as it's my first tower challenge....


Book: Dark Currents by Jacqueline Carey
page numbers: 356
Dates read: 11/8/2015
Any open goals it may work for: none
Count for any quests in the mini-challenge: not aware of mini-challenges - are they up yet?
BOM: no
Total Points: 40

Book: Walk Through Fire
Pages: 615
Date Read: 11/9/15
Goal: No
Additional Info: Motorcycle Club, MC names Logan "High" Judd and Millie Cross, Heroine is a party planner, Heroine is kidnapped, Hero has 2 children, Heroine has 2 cats: Chief and Poem, Hero is divorced, 24 chapters, Contains epilogue, Set in Denver CO

The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater
Hardcover, 439 pages, 63 chapters, Prologue & Epilogue
done 11-10-15
*goal:Read a book with the word tumble in the text
tumble, found Chapter 31, page 232, 5th line, 2nd word
NOTES:
(view spoiler)[Characters names: Richard "Gansey" III(MC), Ronan Lynch(MC), Blue Sargent(MC), Adam Parrish(MC) and Noah Czerny, Gray Man aka Mr Gray, Persephone, Calla, Maura, Joseph Kavinsky, Matthew Lynch, etc..
Published September 17th 2013, has Ravens(#868) and a boy/man on the cover, more than 50% white cover with light blue text & 281.
Was nominated for the 2013 for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction, primary charicters are in High School, book takes place during the summer, I borrowed it from the library so it was "free" #51, tarot cards are used in the story # 57, The Tower #767 page 357 10th line 1st & 2nd words, The Hanged Man #763 page 357 10th line 3rd - 5th words, The Magician #752 page 358 4th line from bottom 1st & 2nd words, The Devil #76 page 398 9th line from bottom 6th & 7th words, also many charicters are clairvoyant, it has an assassin in it #165, ride on a helicopter ?#146, character Noah Czerny is a ghost #170 & #178, #191 Blue is her name and a "word" color, #193 Ronan is a Catholic and Blue is the daughter of a psychic very different religious views, #200 fits, #224, #232, #2335, #236, #237, #798, #814 a small part is at Aglionby Academy a boys boarding school, #887 (hide spoiler)]

I finished The Hanged Man by P.N. Elrod
336 pages
date finished 11.10.15

Book: Nerd in Shining Armor
Pages: 324
Date Read: 11/10/15
Goal: No
Additional Info: MCs Jackson Farley and Genevieve Terrence, H is IT guy/h is secretary, 23 chapters, Has epilogue, Set in Hawaii, MCs are stranded on island

Book: Happily Even After
Pages: 228
Date Read: 11/10/15
Goal: No
Additional Info: MCs Dean and Creigh De Luca, H - Works in factory/h - florist, 11 chapters, Second chance romance/MCs are divorced and get remarried, 2 kids/pregnant with 3

Book: The Raven Boys
Pages: 416
Date Read: 11/10/15
Goal: Yes: Read a book on your co-captain's read shelf that is on your to-be-read. Alison's read this.
Additional Info: Psychics, Tarot Cards, First book in series, Award Nominee, Characters in high school, Raven on cover, 50% white cover

The book. s Hopeless

- page numbers. 406

- date completed 11\11\15

- any open goal it may work for

- if it can count for any quests in the mini challenge

- if it was a BOM then if you wrote DQs or participated in the discussion

- if it does not fit an open goal, then please makenotes of anything interesting about the book that may count for a later goal (for example, there's a gargoyle in the book, the important characters names, anything special or different about them, where the book takes place, etc, etc, etc...*) 
character names: linden sky davis goes by sky... dean holder goes by holder..
Has a kidnapping.. molestation.... suicide... murder... identity change.... bullying...

Book: Rajmund
Pages: 260
Date Read: 11/11/15
Goal: No
Additional Info: MCs Rajmund Gregor and Sarah Stratton, H - leads NY vampires/h - assistant history professor, 49 chapters, Contains prologue/epilogue, Set in Buffalo NY, Heroine is kidnapped, Heroine is using fake identity

Shifting Shadows: Stories from the World of Mercy Thompson by Patricia Briggs
done 11-11-15
Hardcover, 450 pages
no current goals :-(
NOTES:
Main characters names: Mercedes "Mercy" Athena Thompson Hauptman, Adam Hauptman, Samuel Cornick, Ariana, Thomas Hao, Margaret Flanagan, Elyne Gray (O'Malley), Jack O'Malley, Peter Vanderstaat, Tom Franklin, Wendy "Moira" Keller, Anna, Charles Cornick, Asil "The Moor" (Hussan), Elizaveta Arkadyevna Vyshnevetskaya, Bran "The Marrok" Cornick, Warren & Kyle
Published September 2n9d 2014 by Ace
Vampire, Ghost, Witch (both White & Black), Cops, Werewolves, Shifters, Fae #58, etc...
#52,
I will update it more later

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Finished 11/10/2015
Pages: 465
BoM Yes, will be adding discussion and possibly DQs later.

Book: Reaper's Stand
Pages: 352
Date Read: 11/11/15
Goal: No
Additional Info: MCs Reese "Picnic" Hayes/London Armstrong, H - president of Reapers MC/h - commercial cleaner, 19 chapters, Contains prologue/epilogue, Set in Coeur d'Alene ID

Book: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Pages: 378
Date Read: 11/11/15
Goal: None
Comments: Free, Has poem, someone is lost, suicide, Violet Markey, Theodore Finch, Decca, Kate, more than one child, character dies, character's name is also a word, haricut, second chance, bully, romance isn't approved my family, flower on cover, animal on cover, blue cover, blue cover, black font, published between 2011-2015, published in January, 6th of the month, young adult

The Lovers by Vendela Vida
Pages: 240
Date Read: 11/12/15

Open Goal - Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Lovers" in the title or in the text

Dark Ghost by Christine Feehan
Pages: 312
Read : 11.12.15

Goal - Read a book where the first word of the text is "The".
The mountain range was high.

additional info - Carpathian, Vampires

Book: Sweet Addiction
Pages: 305
Date Read: 11/12/15
Goal: No
Additional Info: MCs Reese Carroll/Dylan Sparks, H - accountant/h - baker, 23 chapters, Contains epilogue, Set in Chicago

Bit late on my updates. Life finally got uncrazy for a bit. *knocks on wood*

- cover image, very helpful:
- the book: Sweet Revenge
- the authors name: Lynsay Sands
- page numbers: 375
- date completed: November 9th
- notes: Galen MacDonald, Kyla, Romance, Kidnapping, Highlanders, multiple lovers

You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs

Read: 11/13/15

Goal:Read a book where the audio version is narrated by the author

The Immortal Circus: Act One by A. R. Kahler

Goal: Read a book which is set in a Circus
Number of pages: 231
date completed 11.13.15
notes: immortals, murder, magic,part of a series

Book: Promised
Pages: 480
Date Read: 11/13/15
Goal: No
Additional Info: MCs Miller Hart/Olivia "Livy" Taylor, H - Escort/h - waitress, 25 chapters, Contains prologue, Set in London

- Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews (husband and wife team)
- 342 pages, hardcover - Published August 4th 2015 by Ace
- completed: 11-13-15
- any open goal: NO :-(
- NOTES* (view spoiler)[
Characters: Kate Daniels(MC), Curran Lennart(MC & Lion Shifter #84, former Beast Lord), Julie (sensate & adopted daughter), Derek Gaunt(Wolf Shifter), Jim Shrapshire(now Beast Lord), Dr. George Doolittle(Badger shifter), Dali Harimau(white tiger shifter), Mahon Delany(kodiac bear shifter), Ghastek(head of The People in Atlanta), Rowena (People & distant relative to Kate), Ascanio Ferara(Boda shifter), Barabas Gilliam(Lawyer & ?shifter), Roland(bad guy & Kate's dad), the Builder of Towers(aka Roland), George (werebear), Nick Feldman(Knight of the Order)...
Place: post "shift*" Atlanta, *major magic storm that makes all tech not work, even basic stuff.
Cover: Lion head, dark haired lady with leather jacket and sword, mainly green in background.
Text is white or blue
Words: Potato - Page 285 4th line 2nd word & Onion 4th line 5th word
???
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Shadowland by Meg Cabot
Pages: 287
Date Finished: 11/13/2015

Currently does not work for a goal

Edge of Disaster
- author's name:
A.M. Hargrove
- page numbers: 232
- date completed: 11/8

Love Me Once, Love Me Twice

- author's name:
Sandy Sullivan
- page numbers: 212
- date completed: 11/8

Tied
- author's name:
Emma Chase
- page numbers: 272
- date completed: 11/11

Book: Lie to Me
Pages: 374
Date Read: 11/14/15
Goal: No
Additional Info: MCs Ryder Montague/Dee Miller, H - Paramedic/h - Small business owner, H has cat named Jezebel, 13 chapters, Set in Australia, Author is from Australia

- cover image:
- book link:Ruined
- author's name: Paula Morris
- page numbers:304
- date completed:11/14/2015
- any open goal it may work for:n/a
- if it can count for any quests in the mini challenge:
- if it was a BOM then if you wrote DQs or participated in the discussion:
- Main Character names: rebecca, anton, helena, marianne, lisette
- Setting: new Orleans
- NOTES:* ghost, curse,and cemetery, goals 208,271,302,541,626,945,

Under the Tuscan Sun
author's name: Frances Mayes
page numbers: 280
date completed: 11/14/15

any open goal it may work for: Read a book where a character is a teacher
Both the main characters are University Professors living part time in Tuscany.

if it can count for any quests in the mini challenge: Haven’t seen a mini challenge.

Main Character names: Ed & Frances Mayes

Setting: Tuscany & other parts of Italy as well as San Francisco

NOTES: Some more goals this could fit in case someone else snatched up the open one:
Read a book you got for free
Read a novel with a recipe in it
Read a book that has been turned into a movie
Read a book where characters go to the beach
Read a book where characters get on a plane
Read a book where the characters eat salad
Read a book where the characters eat pizza
Read a book where the characters eat pasta
Read a book that is not part of a series
Read a book where the title starts with the letter U
Read a book with the word sky, cloud, sun, moon or star (plurals are acceptable) in the title

Entered into Team Spreadsheet thru here!

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

180 pages

Finished 11/15/15

Current goal: Unforgettable characters listopia (If this hasn't been filled already!)

Witness in Death 11/15/15

#80 on https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

(Added to spreadsheet used for goal)

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
Pages: 333
Dates read: 11/15/2015
Any open goals it may work for: none
Notes medieval time period (year late 800s), historical fiction, invasion, vikings,

Wicked Charms
Finished 11/15/15
Pages: 308
Goal: None
Notes: Third book in Lizzy and Diesel series, orange cover, magical charms, hunt for treasure,7 deadly sins, main character baker, 2 authors

Title: Darned if You Do
Author: Monica Ferris
Pages: 304
Date Finished: 11/15/15

Main Character names: Betty, Connor, Valentina, Godwin, Jill, Mike, Georgie, Grace, Tom
Setting: Minnesota

Goals this book will fit -
(view spoiler)[
#77 - Read a book in which a suicide or murder takes place. (Tom is murdered)

#97 - Read a book whose author has more than 2 pen names (According to GR site has published under 3 pen names - Monica Ferris)

#115 - Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter M (Monica)

#148 - Read a book where a character has more than one child (Jill has 3 children - Emma Beth, Erik, Einar

#149 - Read a book where a character has more than one pet (Betsy has 2 cats - Thai and Sophie)

#177 - Read a book where a character dies (Tom is murdered)

#181 - Read a book with twins ((view spoiler)[Georgie and Gracie are twins (hide spoiler)])

#255 - Read a book with a red cover (maybe?)

#267 - Read a book with yellow text on the cover (Title in yellow)

#310, #312, #325 - Published February 3, 2015

#360 - Read a book where the hardcover version is between 300 and 399 pages (304 pages)

#376 - Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Mystery (shelved by 31 people)

#377 - Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Fiction (shelved by 7 people)

#379 - Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Contemporary (shelved by 1 person)

#515 - Read a book with less than 100 goodreads reviews (62 reviews at time of reading)

#520 - Read a book with an average goodreads rating of between 3.51 and 3.99 (3.69 at time of reading)

#536 - Read a book that is book 10 or more in a series (#18 in A Needlecraft Mystery series)

#539 - Read a book with 21-30 chapters (29 chapters)

#575 - Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 3 odd numbers

#585 - Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 7 even numbers

#612 - Read a book where the title starts with the letter D

#637 - Read a book with a title between 7 and 16 characters (13 characters)

#649 - Read a book with a homophone in the title (http://www.allaboutlearningpress.com/...) (Do/Dew)

#776, #780, #782, #784 - pg. 91 "The platinum and sapphire, around ten to fifteen thousand; the black opal and diamonds ten to fifteen thousand; the ruby brooch - I'm not really up to date on rubies, so much depends on the color as well as the cut."

#799 - Read a book written in third person narration

#919 - Read a book where a character is a knitter (Connor is a knitter - pg 234 "By then Connor had come back to the table with a canvas bag, sat down, and taken out his knitting.")

#948 - Read a book with a Title of at least 4 words
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