Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Hugs to you Brianna x

Thanks Margaret

Another book done. This one was just awful. Avoid at all costs!!



Him by Carey Heywood
Date read: 26/6/16
302 pages
Could be used for: contemporary, romance, young adult, or chick-lit.

Brianna, I'm so sorry. Lots of love and hugs :(

Thank you Sam

Brianna,
I am so saddened to hear that. I can't even imagine. I'm sure everyone here understands. Take care of yourself first.

So sorry for your loss Brianna. Keeping you and Tammie in prayers.

Finished
My Healer by Alanea Alder
26th June.
236 pages.
Romance- B1

A question... for the bonus books, does one person only get one bonus book read per task? or can we read say 2-3 books as a bonus for the same block. (eg after the 2 compulsory books are read for b1-romance- can i read 2 books and use it as 2/8 bonus books?)

Hey guys, sorry for being MIA- I'm on vacation till the 11th, but I'll try to read as much as I can! It'll be hard for me to check in, just letting you guys know I haven't disappeared.

Brianna, I'm so sorry. Sending you a bunch of hugs:)

I'm sorry for your loss Brianna :(

Thank you everyone. I really appreciate the support. It means a lot

Ella wrote: "A question... for the bonus books, does one person only get one bonus book read per task? or can we read say 2-3 books as a bonus for the same block. (eg after the 2 compulsory books are read for b..."

Each person can only put one book towards each square/task. But luckily we have lots of squares, and some repeat tasks, too. :)

Pragya wrote: "Hey guys, sorry for being MIA- I'm on vacation till the 11th, but I'll try to read as much as I can! It'll be hard for me to check in, just letting you guys know I haven't disappeared."

Pragya, just to be clear - are you going to be away from the computer completely in that time, or will you still be able to mark books complete? And the Olympics starts near the beginning of July, I think - will you be able to check in and see what the events are? It sounds like you're missing an entire week of that, which I think would be an entire event. :/

eta: Also, note that books started before July 2nd won't count towards the Olympic tasks, it's a whole separate game.

Don't worry, I will have a computer and my kindle, so I'll be able to read/mark books as read and see the events:), I'm just not going to be able to check in all the time. Ehh, I don't know, I'll figure it out.

I'm so glad to hear that! That should work just fine:). Enjoy your vacation! Feel free to make us jealous by posting pictures of where you're going if you want ;)

Hugs to Brianna and Tammie! *hugsssss*

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
382 pages
Categories - sci-fi, romance, mystery, horror, paranormal, ya, fantasy, chick-lit, contemporary, historical (I didn't believe it fit all those, either)

Thanks to everyone who recommended this - it got my out of my reading slump but isn't really for me. I didn't love it as much as other urban fantasy series I've read so it always felt a bit weak, and then there's that cliffhanger at the end, grah! I'm not sad I read it, but I'll leave all the sequels to you guys. ;)

Thanks Kate much appreciated

Hey guys - we had another great round of Battleship today! We had 12, count 'em, TWELVE hits. "Impossible!" you say. "But we only had 10 guesses!"

Yes, but every time you sink a ship you get an extra guess. We sank six ships, y'all. SIX. That's a whole lot of awesome.

...it also means we have a whole lot of books to read if we want to lock in all those points. As things stand we'll need 28 books to fill the remaining primary tasks. We have eight books banked, so that means we have 20+ to read before the end of the week (Friday-ish).

Twenty books sounds like a lot, but if we work together we can do it. There's 15 of us so that's a book a person, with a few of the faster people reading two. All the genres are at the top of the page in the goal post, but a couple stick out:

New - humor, classics
+4 slots - science fiction, fantasy, classics, contemporary

With all these hits we have a great chance to earn a lot of points - let's not let it go to waste! Read! Read like the wind! :D

I'll definitely read two, but I'm gonna aim for 3. Bonus points, here I come:)

That sounded a lot less lame(r?) in my head...

woohoo!! awesome Kazen!! And we have another fantasy slot that has my name written all over it because I just ran out of genres that my next book would fit into. :) :) I'll read my last 2 books in the series which will fit fantasy and humor. YAY!

I also finished
My Savior by Alanea Alder
27th June.
220 pages
Romance- A1

I plan on finishing one book soon (hopefully tonight). This will be a non-fiction book. Hopefully that fits a primary task! It also has 13 people shelving it as a humor book...so YAY!

I am also planning on getting DarkFever to read this week as well, which as everyone knows fits a lot of categories. I don't think I'll be able to finish a third, but I can check in and see how everyone is doing and what slots need to be filled :)

I'm still really excited about this...it is definitely motivating to read a lot.

Save me a classics slot please! I'm reading King Lear for school :) Also, I'm about to finish The Battle of the Labyrinth, which works for Mystery and Fantasy.

I am going to be reading for one of the Romance spots!

Countdown to end of Battleship

Okay guys - we got a lot of hits! This time around so we're going to concentrate solely on them. Any extra books will go towards bonus, no worries, but this is what we need to do to get all the points we earned:

New/Incomplete
We have to fill these tasks to get the points for each hit square (5) and for sinking ships (1-4).

Open primary slots listed below (details under the spoiler)

Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people - 4 slots open
Read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people - 2 slots open
Read a book shelved as classics by at least 10 people - 4 slots open
Read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people - 4 slots open
Read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people - 2 slots open
Read a book shelved as mystery by at least 10 people - 2 slots open
Read a book shelved as historical by at least 10 people - 2 slots open
Read a book shelved as humor by at least 10 people - 2 slots open
(view spoiler)[D3 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as classics by at least 10 people
Book 1:
Book 2:

B7 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people
Book 1:
Book 2:

D7 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
Book 1:
Book 2:

E7 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people
Book 1:
Book 2:

H1 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as classics by at least 10 people
Book 1:
Book 2:

H2 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as mystery by at least 10 people
Book 1:
Book 2:

D9 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Book 1:
Book 2:

J4 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as historical by at least 10 people
Book 1:
Book 2:

A10 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people
Book 1:
Book 2:

B10 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as humor by at least 10 people
Primary:
Book 2:

F10 - HIT! - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Book 1:
Book 2:
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Bonus
This is where any extra books will go - we'll find a place for it :)
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Each person can read one book for each square - so if you read five romances only one can be used for B1. You could use a second at A1, though. :D

The following genres can be read for bonus: (details below)
romance (x2)
mystery
horror
young adult (x3)
fantasy (x2)
non-fiction
science fiction
contemporary
chick lit
historical
paranormal

B1 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people
Primary: Kazen, Pragya
Bonus (1/8 complete): Ella

E5 - HIT! - BONUS- Read a book shelved as mystery by at least 10 people
Primary: Tammie, Rose
Bonus (0/8):

H5 - HIT! - BONUS -Read a book shelved as horror by at least 10 people
Primary: Kate, Sam
Bonus (0/8):

I9 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as paranormal by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Annabeth
Bonus (0/8):

A3 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as young adult by at least 10 people
Primary: Sydney, Lori
Bonus (0/8):

D5 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as young adult by at least 10 people
Primary: Riah, Pragya
Bonus (0/8)

A1 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people
Primary: Tammie, Tori
Bonus (0/8):

F5 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as non fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Sam, Rose
Bonus (0/8):

A5 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Brianna, Annabeth
Bonus (0/8):

F3 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people
Primary: Rose, Tammie
Bonus (0/8):

A6 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as chick lit by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Lory
Bonus (0/8):

I10 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
Primary: Kate, Ella
Bonus (0/8):

J2 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as historical by at least 10 people
Primary: Sydney, Sam
Bonus (0/8):

G5 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
Primary: Margaret, Lory
Bonus (0/8):

I8 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as young adult by at least 10 people
Primary: Rose, Pragya
Bonus (0/8):

A4 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Tori, Rose
Bonus (0/8):

C7 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as non fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Riah, Lory
Bonus (0/8):

E3 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
Primary: Pragya, Ella
Bonus (0/8): (hide spoiler)]

Misses
In case of book emergency break glass click spoiler
(view spoiler)[B9 - miss - Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female/male names in Australia

C6 - miss - Read a book which has the main location (setting) as Canada

D2 - miss - Read a book written by two or more people under same name (example: Illona Andrews)

G7 - miss - Read a book which has the main location (setting) as the UK

J1 - miss - Read a book where author's first and last names have same initials
Book 1: Margaret
Book 2: Rose

E4 - miss- Read a book where the first word of the title is An

J9 - miss - Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female/male names in USA according to nameberry

C8 - miss - Read a book where all word in title have same number of letters (example: Gone Girl)

I2 - miss - Read a book that is book 5 in a series

E10 - miss - Read a book where sum of pages is even number (use read edition)

C3 - miss - Read a book which has the main location (setting) as Australia or New Zealand

C10 - miss - Read a book that is book 2 in a series

E8 - miss - Read a book whose author uses initials only (example: J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien)

F1 - miss - Read a book by an author who died in 2015-2016

G9 - miss - Read a book that is book 4 in a series

I3 - miss - Read a book with double letter in title (example Harry Potter and...)

J6 - miss - Read a book where sum of pages is odd number (use read edition)

F2 - miss - Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female/male names in Germany according to nameberry

G3 - miss - Read a book with a title with 6 or less letters

A8 - miss - Read a book where the first word of the title is The

A9 - miss - Read a book that is book 1 in a series

G1 - miss - Read a book where the first word of the title is A
(hide spoiler)]

Read like the wind! :)

Finished

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
June 27
372 pages
Tasks can be used for:
B7 or A10- Read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people (2,786)
E7 - Read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people (3,900)
E10 - Read a book where sum of pages is even number (use read edition) (3+7+2=12)
A9 - Read a book that is book 1 in a series
G1 - Read a book where the first word of the title is A

Hey guys when does battleship end?

There' s a countdown for that!

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/...

I'll add it to the goal post once I'm not on my tablet. :)

Hi Tori,

Check out this post here

We have 4 days left!!

Please welcome new team member Ray!

Woo-hoo, so happy to have you, Ray!

Check out the first page of this thread for all kinds of important links and information. Our current goals are near the top of every page. I'm updating the spreadsheet now so hopefully we'll be able to whittle it down a little bit. :)

Welcome!

Ella wrote: "woohoo!! awesome Kazen!! And we have another fantasy slot that has my name written all over it because I just ran out of genres that my next book would fit into. :) :)"

Hehe, another fantasy slot, coming up! ~writes Property of Ella in Sharpie~

Pragya wrote: "I'll definitely read two, but I'm gonna aim for 3. Bonus points, here I come:)"

Woo-hoo! ~breaks out some pompoms~

Lory wrote: "I plan on finishing one book soon (hopefully tonight). This will be a non-fiction book. Hopefully that fits a primary task! It also has 13 people shelving it as a humor book...so YAY"

Non-fiction is something we can totally use - thank you! And Darkfever counts for just about everything so no worries there. :) Read on!

Sam wrote: "Save me a classics slot please! I'm reading King Lear for school :) Also, I'm about to finish The Battle of the Labyrinth, which works for Mystery and Fantasy."

Hehe, I'm expecting classics to be one of the harder ones to fill so we'll be very happy to have King Lear in there. :)

Kazen wrote: "Woo-hoo, so happy to have you, Ray!

Check out the first page of this thread for all kinds of important links and information. Our current goals are near the top of every page. I'm updating the spr..."

Thanks! :) I'm going to start reading the thread at the beginning & all the way through so I get caught up.

I finished a book today. Not sure where to post it yet, so I'll put it here:
Book:
Rules
Author: Cynthia Lord
Pages: 208
Date: 27Jun
ID: 222458
Genres: humor (11), contemporary (64), ya (332)

Also, I'm currently reading: Doctor Who: The Monsters Inside, which is good for sci-fi and fantasy. :) :)

My shelf for wobble is here. I have a wobble reading shelf for books in progress, and a wobble to read shelf for mostly quick, qualifying books (I checked word count).

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Thanks! :) I'm going to start reading the thread at the beginning & all the way through so I get caught up.

I finished a book today. Not sure where to post it yet, so I'll put it here:"

This is the perfect place to post it :) More info on the first page of the thread (which I'm sure you're devouring already, hehe).

Just a note so you're aware - a large chunk of this team is from Australia and Asia, with other members in US time zones. So if I or someone else seems suspiciously quiet it's probably because we're sleeping. ;)

eta: And way to be organized with your shelves!

Kazen wrote: "This is the perfect place to post it :) More info on the first page of the thread (which I'm sure you're devouring already, hehe).

Just a note so you're aware - a large chunk of this team is from Australia and Asia, with other members in US time zones. So if I or someone else seems suspiciously quiet it's probably because we're sleeping. ;)

eta: And way to be organized with your shelves! "

:) Thanks! I saw that you're in Japan so figured we might be all spread out. I'm in California (UTC -8:00) but I'm usually up pretty late (midnight, 1, 2am). So it's 8:30am for you, Kazen, and 4:30pm for me (on Monday). Timezones have always been weirdly interesting to me. Anyway.. back to my thread reading! :)

And hi everyone else!!

Hi Ray! Welcome to the Red Pandas! You have joined at an exciting time - with less than 4 days left of the Battleship challenge, and 27 open spots - we need all the extra readers we can get :)

Team - I can realistically only finish one book before Battleship ends (unless I call in sick at work for the rest of the week - very tempting let me tell you!!)

I am about 50% of the way through which will fit the tasks for Historical, Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction.

Hi Ray! Welcome to the team! We're glad to have you!

I'm still stuck with my book, but hopefully I finish it tomorrow and have a new one to read.

Thanks for the nice welcome everyone! :) I just read through all 13 pages of this thread and it was quite a rollercoaster! Good news (congrats Kate!) and sad news (condolences to Tammie and Brianna) and a whole lot of reading recommendations. Whew!

For a little more info on me, I love love love sci-fi! Also read a lot of non-fiction, horror, ya, contemporary, mystery, humor, graphic novels. I like some paranormal, but it seems not as much as others do. Not really a fan of fantasy, war, history, romance (though the authors seem to slip this in everywhere).

So, yeah, I'm the weirdo that loves sci-fi but not fantasy. It's a hard line to draw, separating those two. When there are unpronounceable names and words, it's fantasy. ;) ;)

General stuff about me: This is my first team challenge here in NRBC. I play the Novel Role Playing Game here though and love it. I live with my partner, a full-time housemate, and 2 part-time housemates in a big 112 year old Victorian and can see the ocean from my windows (on a clear day). My town is very near Santa Cruz. If I could have a superpower, it would be healing -- myself and others -- because I have Fibromyalgia Syndrome and it sucks. I read almost exclusively on my laptop or iPod because holding books is unsustainable for me. I like to play board games, watch movies, cook, play D&D (Monday night usually), do papercrafts, knit, sew, and of course read. :D

Welcome Ray! I'm mostly opposite of you as love fantasy but not as big of a fan of sci fi. I like magic!

Completion post!
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
394 pages (just missed the 400 mark!)

Works for non-fiction and humor.

Now the dilemma, I gave darkfever which works for a lot. But also another that works for contemporary, historical fiction, and mystery. Its also 600+pages, so more points!

I'll try for both....read read read!

I have finished

To Sir Phillip, With Love
384 Pages
6/27/16
Qualifies for: Historical, Humor, Romance

Please advise what you want me to read to finish the challenge.
I have a book on tape I wouldn't mind reading in my travels on Wednesday...
Not sure exactly how you count pages...but all other versions...pages are in the 300s
Qualifies for: Mystery, Romance, Contemporary. Let me know if you want me to read something else...I don't want to waste the reading at this point.

Lory wrote: "Welcome Ray! I'm mostly opposite of you as love fantasy but not as big of a fan of sci fi. I like magic!

Completion post!
The Disappearing Spoon"

It's good to be complementary. :) The Disappearing Spoon has been on my TBR list for ages. 5-stars, eh? I might have to move it up the list....

Ray, your post got me thinking about the book I'm currently reading, Infomocracy, which is a debut sci-fi novel. It is interesting but just immerses you straight into the world with no explanation so my head is still spinning :o
It is available for download on Netgalley if you use it

Sometimes I am generous with my stars. It was an easy to read non fiction book about science...relatively hard to find, plys it had some funny moments.

R pandas...I just read through past messages...want to thank you all for your support/sympathies. I won't be back to my 3-4 books a week for awhile, but will do my best to keep things moving.
...welcome new member Ray!

I'll read
It's a classic...I think I read in high school.
Paperback is 102 pages