Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Book:
Summer Knight
By Jim Butcher

Date read: 12/1/15
Pages: 449
Rating: 4 stars

Goal: NONE

Tags - Urban Fantasy, Magic, Faeries, Wizard, Trolls, Changelings, Chicago, Werewolves.

Read: 01/12/15
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 404

Goal: Read a book that is in the "Best Arabic Books" Listopia List (#1550)

Quests: #1 features accident , #8 features life or death situation,#10 Eyes on cover, #12 features someone finding out the truth.

Read: 28/11/15
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 310

No current goals

Book:
Equal Rites
by Terry Pratchett

Date read: 12/1/15
Pages: 292
Rating: 4 stars

Goal: Read a book by an author who died this year

All I Want by Jill Shalvis

Completed 12/1/15
4 stars
304 Pages

No goals

Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines
352 pages
Finished 12/1/15

No current goal

Characters: Maggie, West, Brady, Coralee, Boone, Nash, Raleigh, Ryker, Gunner

High school, football player, dad dying from cancer, and a girl who chooses not to talk after her dad murders her mom

Pages: 256
Read: 02/12/15
Rating: ★★★★

Goal: Read a book where a character becomes royalty - Mulan marries Prince Jian.

Quests: features an army/soldiers, features horses, life or death situation, a prince, small group against large enemy, features HEA

Pages: 673
Read: 2 December
Rating: ★★★★

Goal: None

True crime, non-fiction

Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Pages: 310
Finished: 2/12/15
Rating: 3 Stars
No Current Goal

Cape Maybe

By Carol Fragate Brill
Finished 12/2/15
346 pages

Goal: artichokes in text

Page 219
All the green people running around start to look like giant artichokes.

Date read : 11/30
Pages : 224
Rating : ****
Goal : None
Mummy Quest : 02 ~ features major find of some sort
03 ~ features an army/soldiers
04 ~ features horses
05 ~ features a person in power
10 ~ features a prince
11 ~ features small group against large situation
12 ~ features something where it should not be

Finished:
Before He Finds Her: A Novel
on 3 December 2015

Most popular edition (Hardcover): 394 pages

Goal: "Available" on first page

Crimson Shoreby Douglas Preston
Completed 12/3/15
2 stars

354 Pages

Bonus Goal: Red Cover

Date Read: 04/12/15
Rating: ★★
No current goal

Date finished: 12/4/15
4 Stars
979 pages
Goal: Modern history? ---> late 18th century America

Date finished: 12/4/15
435 pages -->hardcover edition
I listened to the audio this time, wasn't really into the narrator, is a 5 star read though.
Goal: Girl dresses as a boy:
And then we drew closer, and it wasn’t a man at all. It was Kasia, in boy’s clothes and heavy boots. She came straight for us: we were the only ones going towards Dvernik.

Uprooted is a re-read for me - I last read it in May, so it is more than 6 months out, let me know if there's anything I need to do to make it show I started it on 12/3/15 to count for tower teams. Goodreads isn't very good at showing re-reads.

Rachel wrote: "Uprooted is a re-read for me - I last read it in May, so it is more than 6 months out, let me know if there's anything I need to do to make it show I started it on 12/3/15 to count for tower teams...."

I think that you have to go in and change the date started and finished to the most recent to make it work

I think I fixed it, let me know if not.

Alex

by Sawyer Bennett
finished 12/4/15
224 pages

Goal: Read a book where a character visits a city.

Alex is a NHL hockey player and travels all around, but he visited Toronto, which was a big deal because it's an hour away from his hometown and his dad was able to be there and also Sutton surprised Alex on his birthday when she flew to NYC while he was on a road trip.

characters: Alex Crossman, Sutton Price
NHL Player, Drug awareness therapist, parents with addiction, set (mostly) in North Carolina

Date read: 29/11
Pages: 273
Rating: **
Goal: None
Mummy Quest: 01- features accident of any sort
03- features a legend
11- features a secret society/group

Emmaline Waters, This Is Your Life

by Maggie Bloom
finished 12/5/15
259 pages

goal: Read a book with a classic board game name in the title ( e.g. Life, Monopoly, Risk, Chess, Checkers, etc.)

Book:
Always on My Mind
by Bella Andre

Date read: 12/5/15
Pages: 214 pages
Rating: 5 stars

GOAL: Kissing couple on cover

Date Read: 05/12/15
Rating: ★★★
Pages: 350


GOAL: Read a book with the word Santa in the text (...we went to Santa-Cali-Gon Days..)

Date read : 05/12/15
Rating : ****
Pages : 418
Goal : None

by Simon Winchester
Date read: 6 Dec
Rating: 3*
Pages: 252
Goal: None

Non-fiction, books about books, England, history

Finished
The St. Valentine's Day Cookie Massacre

The St. Valentine's Day Cookie Massacre
By Elisabeth Crabtree
Finished 12/6/15
160 pages

Goal. Red dress on cover

Can we use the same book for a regular goal AND a 25 holiday task? If yes then holiday in title too

by N.R. Walker
4 stars
Completed 12/5/15
250 Pages
No Goal

by Sandra Dallas
Completed 12/5/15
3 stars
Goal: Bonus Holiday Goal
256 Pages

Book:
The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan

Date read: 12/6/15
Pages: 391 pages
Rating: 2 star

Goal: Olympian God is mentioned in this book

Location: 4.2% "'Zeus,' I said, 'Hera, Apollo. You mean them.'"

Lesley, unfortunately a book can only be used for one goal, so I used yours for the red dress task.

Perfect by Ellen Hopkins

finished 12/5/15
622 pages

MC: Cara, Jenna, Kendra, Andre, Sean

alternating POV, not written in paragraph forms, almost written poem like - but not rhyming.

Bullying, anorexia, rape, suicide attempt, glbt issues, stalking, steroids, dancing, drug and alcohol use, modeling, pageants, parental issues - not living up to expectations/being perfect

note for future goals - this books contains Amethyst (since we seem to get so many gemstone goals)

2nd in a series

Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser

finished 12/6/15
208 pages

MC Gary, Ryan, Dustin, Sam, Brendan, Allison, Emily, Chelsea

Fiction, written like a school research project (college level) by a college student that attended the school where the events happen. She interviews teachers and students, as well as neighbors, parents, friends, etc, includes copies of the suicide notes, etc, as well as statistics and information about guns and gun control.

bullying, bombs, school shooting, suicide, gun control, football

Date Read: 07/12/15
Rating: ★★★★
Pages: 366

Goal: Read a book with the word sky, cloud, sun, moon or star (plurals are acceptable) in the title

Summer Days
by Susan Mallery
finished 12/7/2015
381 pages

no current goals:

Fool's Gold #7
published: 1/1/2012
Heidi Simpson, Rafe Stryker
set in Fool's Good California

Book:
Date Read: 08/12/15
Rating: ★★★★★
Pages: 447

Goal: Read a book with a green cover

Book:
Date Read 12/7-12/8/15
Audiobook-most popular version is 309 pages

Goal: read a book that has a character that is the glue to hold characters together

Book:
Date Read: 08/12/15
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 195

Goal: Read a book with no images/objects on the cover

Finished the audiobook: Neverwhere on 8 December 2015

Most popular edition (paperback): 370 pages

1st published: 16 September 1996
My edition published: 23 October 2007
Setting: London (above) and its alternate universe London (below)

Main Characters: Richard Mayhew, Jessica Stockton, Door Portico, Croup, Vandemar, The Marquis de Carabas, Old Bailey, Hunter, The Angel Islington, Lamia, The Abbott, The Earl, Anaesthesia

Fits no Current Goals but I think we should keep it in the bank and not use it for any old goal - it's full of oddities

358 pages
12/7/15



389 pages
12/8/15

Both take place in washinton state.
Both by Kimberly Derting
MC in both: Violet, Jay, Rafe, Chelsea, Krystal
Both involve killers, abductions, psychics, murder,

Pages: 244
Read: 09/12/15
Rating: ★★★★★

Goal: Read a book with the word Santa (must refer to Santa Claus) in the text
"We look like Santa’s helpers..."

by Robyn Carr
Completed 12/9/15
5 stars
371 Pages

No goal

Book 9 in a series

Date read : 8/10/15
Pages : 445
Rating : *****
Goal : Read a book where a character has more than one lover

One Summer
by Nora Roberts
finished 12/10/2015
313 pages
published 9/15/2011
goal: Published on the 15th of the month

#2 series
photographers, road trip across America

Alice in Zombieland
12/9/2015
404 pages

mc Alice, Cole, Justin, Kat, Emma

zombies, fighting/resistance, secret organization, based on a classic story, mc is orphaned after a car wreck caused by the zombies