Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

I can read the book for set in an imaginary country. I'm still worrying through the Beka Cooper book in Tortall if that card is stilln in play.

Yay Caly! Great find. :)

I have a book that has the word 'buggy' as in 4 wheels...21 times. Buggy doesn't refer to an actual bug though. Does it count for Card 2?

I finished for Card 1 - which looks like it's gone now (books published in a certain month) - I'll try to be quicker next time.

Finished
A Game of Brides. Megan Crane
29th oct
160pgs
6th in series (also. The hero calls the heroine 'bug' throughout the bk as a nickname<15times>. So if that works n u want to use my book fr that instead of 6th in series...)

Tammie wrote: "I have a book that has the word 'buggy' as in 4 wheels...21 times. Buggy doesn't refer to an actual bug though. Does it count for Card 2?"

Sadly no :(

★☆End of Wobble COUNTDOWN☆★

Cards

Card 1 (incoming)


Card 2 (incoming)


Card 3 (five books, 6xp, 1 gold)
Read a book with STAR in the title - Caly
Spell-it-out: S - TA?
Spell-it-out: A - Tammie

Card 4 (incoming)


Card 5 (three books, 2xp, 1 greater heal potion)
An "inbetween" series book - TA
An "inbetween" series book
An "inbetween" series book

Caly wrote: "I am not sure which cards we are using at this point. But I can also read something else if there is a better way to use my reading time. 8-) I have PLENTY on my "to Read" List LOL."

It's definitely time for a think about this. Update post after I catch up :)

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Finished

Swordbird by Nancy Li Fan
256 pgs
29Oct

Works for: imaginary country, forest on cover, S (title), B (character Bug-Eye), R (character Reymarsh), A (character..."

Popped into the bank with all the awesome options so we can mull over them properly :)

Karin wrote: "I finished for Card 1 - which looks like it's gone now (books published in a certain month) - I'll try to be quicker next time."

No worries - it wasn't you, but the rest of us! Ray went through and found TA books for the missing months and we all got giddy and impatient, hehe. I'll pop Fellside into the bank so we can fit it in the best spot :)

Ella wrote: "Finished
A Game of Brides. Megan Crane
29th oct
160pgs
6th in series"

Huzzah! I've read a couple of Megan Crane books and they were of the tear-your-heart-out variety... how was this one? I was thinking of Megan Hart, eep. Sorry!

Question re: "PB" initials. In TA shelf's The Night Circus, there's a character named Hector Bowen but he goes by Prospero as a nickname/stagename, so does that make him Prospero Bowen? For PB? This one is hard, so I'm hoping....

ETA: Nevermind! Found one! Paola Brunetti in TA's Suffer the Little Children. WOOT!

ETA: It was the 50th book I checked, lol.

THE END OF WOBBLE IS NIGH!

I never thought this moment would come but here we are with eight days to go! (Countdown added to the Goal post.) It's time to prioritize tasks and focus our efforts. Some thoughts:

- We're nearly at a level 10 weapon, and 11 is still a ways away. It may be worth it to enjoy our 20 attack and go all out on quests and monsters.

- It appears that the spreadsheet will now reset twice a day, at both 11 am and pm London time. We can leverage this, discarding cards we're not interested in and hoping for monsters every 12 hours.

- A question for everyone - what kind of tasks do you like? What would you rather skip? Some of the more complicated ones are no brainers (booo chains and ladders!) but what about the rest? (Spell it outs, cover tasks....)

Here's where we stand currently:

Weapon - one book away from Level 10 :)

Card 1 - map task, newly drawn (like and keep? Throw back?)
Card 2 - bugs (Interested? Throw back?)
Card 3 - STAR (in progress)
Card 4 - one book away, but maybe I missed something...?
Card 5 - PB&J (There's a J TA book, so the only hard part is the PB Ray found one, huzzah!)

Ideas and thoughts of all sorts are welcome - let's rock Wobble to the very end!! :D

Ray (user2637) wrote: "ETA: Nevermind! Found one! Paola Brunetti in TA's Suffer the Little Children. WOOT!

ETA: It was the 50th book I checked, lol. "

Holy cow, thank you, this is huge!!

yw. I've never done that quest in Novel RPG because the PB bit is so hard!! I'm surprised I found one on the TA shelf. :)

Kazen wrote: "Holy cow, thank you, this is huge!!"

TA shelf Papillon has 44 bugs (maybe more, but I ran out of ideas for what to search). That's a good start! My Swordbird had 12 = 56. I think we could do this one. I'll poke around the TA shelf a little more -- was hoping for 100 in one book. :P

Ray (user2637) wrote: "TA shelf Papillon has 44 bugs (maybe more, but I ran out of ideas for what to search). That's a good start! My Swordbird had 12 = 56. I think we could do this one. I'll poke around the TA shelf a l..."

Your poking is much appreciated! Hehe.

eta: I shifted some books around so there's more in the bank at the moment, if that helps :)

eta2: And I just found a #10 in a series I missed, eep! The good news is that it finishes level 10 :)

I'm fine reading whatever...I'm on vaca through Wed...so lots of reading time as I'm on the beach!
I think we should probably be finished with series leveling as it may not be helpful...finishing challenges as fast as possible will be our best strategy....so reading shorter books for the balance, if we have them on our to-read, unless something else is required.

I noticed that one as well. I'm certain it wasn't there a few days ago, or that maybe we had used it and it got unused somehow...? *shrug* I suppose we can't be faulted for it if the spreadsheet is telling us wrong info! :)

I agree that level 10 is a good place to stop with the weapon.

Kazen wrote: "eta2: And I just found a #10 in a series I missed, eep! The good news is that it finishes level 10 :)"

Tammie wrote: "I'm fine reading whatever...I'm on vaca through Wed...so lots of reading time as I'm on the beach!
I think we should probably be finished with series leveling as it may not be helpful...finishing c..."

So much envy - enjoy that beach! Thanks for your input on tasks :)

Ray (user2637) wrote: "I noticed that one as well. I'm certain it wasn't there a few days ago..."

This makes me feel less crazy, lol.

Oh, I noticed it on the TA shelf though. D:

Kazen wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "I noticed that one as well. I'm certain it wasn't there a few days ago..."

This makes me feel less crazy, lol."

Bug update: The Thorn Birds (TA) has ~83 bugs. Add in the ~44 from Papillon (TA) and we can knock this one off right now. :)

Okay, if we really want to, we can use up all 5 banked books and 16 TA books (out of 26 we have left, and counting the 3 books reserved for the Horse card) and finish cards 1, 2, & 5.

(view spoiler)[
Card 1
set in country where you live or come from = Tammie bank, Donavan
set in a foreign country = Karin bank Fellside (Yorkshire, England vs. USA for Karin)
set in imaginary country = TA The Hunger Games (Panem), also Lory requested
set on the continent you live on = any of our continents should count, right? TA Delirium (NA)
set on another continent except North America and Europe = TA White Tiger (India)
mountains on the cover = TA The Aftermath
river/sea on the cover = TA Rainshadow Road or TA Unspeakable or TA All the Light We Cannot See
valley on the cover = TA The Look of Love? Or TA Heat?
forest on the cover = TA The Woods

Card 2 (? books, 10 xp)
TA Papillon ~44
TA The Thorn Birds ~83

Card 5 (seven books, 12xp)
Read a book where the author or a character has the initials PB = Paola Brunetti in TA Suffer the Little Children
Read a book that starts with the letter J = TA Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Spell-it-out: B = Iskander Barnett (character), Fallow, Rose bank
Spell-it-out: R = Robin Hobb, author Ship of Magic, Rose bank
Spell-it-out: E = TA Enjoy the Dance (title)
Spell-it-out: A = Aska character Swordbird, Ray bank
Spell-it-out: D = TA Dear Thing (title)
(hide spoiler)]

Finished

The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot by Robert Arthur
182 pgs
29Oct

Fits: B (character Bob), R & A (author), S (character Skinny), country & continent where I live.

Finished

Works for: Spell it out S- Gemma, a member of the dagger society is called Star Thief.
Read a book set in imaginary country

Id like to read for s

I am not sure how this works to get us the most points but I agree that we should probably stop leveling and work on getting cards done quickly however that needs to happen. Seems to make sense to use the TA books at this point like Ray suggests. Then we can see if we get any monster cards.

It seems that spell it out cards are the easiest followed by book covers, at least for me to find books.

Oh and by the way *grin
Finished !

360 pages

I should be able to also finish the "stars" book by tomorrow since it is only 163 pages.

Go Pandas!

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Bug update: The Thorn Birds (TA) has ~83 bugs. Add in the ~44 from Papillon (TA) and we can knock this one off right now. :)"

This is awesomely efficient for us! Thanks Ray!

Finished! 10/30

American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
555 pgs
Card 3: A or S

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Finished

The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot by Robert Arthur
182 pgs
29Oct

Fits: B (character Bob), R & A (author), S (character Skinny), country & continent where I live."

Thank you so much for finding all the TA books! I'm going to get our own books in then flesh out tasks with TA and get us some new cards. Yea!

Tammie wrote: "Finished! 10/30

American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
555 pgs
Card 3: A or S"

Nice!

Pragya wrote: "Finished

Works for: Spell it out S- Gemma, a member of the dagger society is called Star Thief.
Read a book set in imaginary country"

Well done!

Ella wrote: "Id like to read for s"

We're turning over cards fast and furious - read what you like, we'll fit it in somewhere! :)

Caly wrote: "I am not sure how this works to get us the most points but I agree that we should probably stop leveling and work on getting cards done quickly however that needs to happen. Seems to make sense to ..."

Thanks for your input - I totally agree :)

Caly wrote: "Oh and by the way *grin
Finished !

360 pages

I should be able to also finish the "stars" book by tomorrow since it is only 163 pages.

Go Pandas!"

Huzzah!

CARD 4
You wish to learn more about healing to better arm yourself for battle. Spend some time researching different methods.

Tasks:
•Read a book thats title containing a healing word.
•Read a book thats title containing a healing word.
•Read a book thats title containing a healing word.

Rewards:
•1 Experience
•2 Minor Heal Potions

Boo! I'm going to discard Card 4 so we get a new one when the spreadsheet rolls over :)

CARD 2

The Queen is going on a first date with a very nice Prince of the neighboring kingdom of Novella. She wants some idea's of nice things to do on her date.
Find the following words in the text of a book.


Tasks:
•Find the word ROSE in the Text
•Find the word VALENTINE in the Text
•Find the word DATE in the Text
•Find the word MARRIAGE in the Text
•Find the word HAPPY in the Text

Rewards:
•5 Experience
•1 Gold

CARD 1

Novel Kingdom is dangerously close to entering a time of deflation. Queen Skye has been advised that she wants a nice healthy rate of inflation around 2% to maintain price stability and maximum knight employment. She is worried that if the kingdom falls into deflation everyone will hold onto their gold since it will be worth more tomorrow than it is today. She's even heard that there is novel hoarding going on! Help Queen Skye inflate the kingdom!
Inflationary books have a "number" in the title. The number should be inflated to the next higher number as the series number.

Tasks:
•Read an inflationary book.
•Read an inflationary book.
•Read an inflationary book.

Rewards:
•8 Experience
•2 Gold

No inflation! No way!

~throws it back~

CARD 5
Faeries travel through thinning in the veil called in-between. Three small fairies have gone missing in the in-between. Find them before they're eaten by the Gothere Monster.

Tasks:
•Read a book that is in-between series numbers. i.e. #6.5 or #2.1 in a series.
•Read a book that is in-between series numbers. i.e. #6.5 or #2.1 in a series.
•Read a book that is in-between series numbers. i.e. #6.5 or #2.1 in a series.

Rewards:
•2 Experience
•1 Greater Heal Potion

Currently reading

Long Drive Home, Will Allison
MCs:
Glen Bauer
Detective Rizzo
Sara
Liz

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "CARD 5
Faeries travel through thinning in the veil called in-between. Three small fairies have gone missing in the in-between. Find them before they're eaten by the Gothere Monster.

Tasks:
•Read a..."

Will 0. 5 & 0. 6 count or does it have to be greater than one?

My pleasure. :) Can you verify how many TA books we have left afterward? I want to double-check my numbers. Also, do we have any bonuses left? Hard to keep track of those.

Kazen wrote: "Thank you so much for finding all the TA books! I'm going to get our own books in then flesh out tasks with TA and get us some new cards. Yea! "

Kazen wrote: "Ella wrote: "Huzzah! I've read a couple of Megan Crane books and they were of the tear-your-heart-out variety... how was this one? I was thinking of Megan Hart, eep. Sorry! "

;) haha. Well thats a good thing bcz, i did not like this book at all. Though other readers seem to have liked it. Hmm that rarely happens with me.

I don't know the *official* ruling on this, but another team used No Place Like Oz which is #0.1 so.....

ETA And Kazen (probably) filled in a book on the Reserve spreadsheet that is # 0.1 - 0.5!


Pragya wrote: "Will 0. 5 & 0. 6 count or does it have to be greater than one?"

Bahaha, I just noticed we lose an hour due to daylight savings on the night before the end. Hilarious!! ~7.5 days left.

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Bahaha, I just noticed we lose an hour due to daylight savings on the night before the end. Hilarious!! ~7.5 days left."

But if clocks go back here in the US we actually gain an hour not lose it.