Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

I thought that might be what the purple was for. Okie doke! Just thought maybe at the last minute, it would be good for us to pair up, but you're right, there are so many that are multiple genres. :)

Finished:

The Monsters Inside by Stephen Cole
253 pgs
Date: 28Jun
Scifi (96), Fantasy (26).

Okay, reading Holes now. Pretty short (230pgs) and fits into classics, contemp, humor, mystery. :)

I'm reading Heart of Darkness which is a classic. I should finish by the end of today

Also welcome to the team, Karin. It's great to have you

Welcome to the team Karin!

Finished
My Guardian by Alanea Alder
29th June
224 pages
Fantasy D7 (So my series is up-to-date and I think I've read one book for every Fantasy and paranormal squares that we had. Only a partner is required for it.)

Now that my series is over, I feel lost and homeless :-(

Kazen... My Healer and My Protector (on the reserves list) also goes with humor. But we didn't have humor as a genre when I read them so I didn't mention it then and I don't know if v can use it now for humor. (so just in case we can ^^ :) )

Karin wrote: "So for a more formal introduction...I'm Karin and I live in the US (Connecticut). Married, working full time with two dogs and a cat (no kids - well those are my kids). Now that summer is here, my ..."

Hey Karin, welcome to the group!

I'll finish The Winner's Kiss by tomorrow, that shoukd count for sci fi/fantasy. Not sure if I can do a classic, maybe I'll give Pride and Prejudice another go.

Ella wrote: "Kazen... My Healer and My Protector (on the reserves list) also goes with humor. But we didn't have humor as a genre when I read them so I didn't mention it then and I don't know if v can use it no..."

Thanks for the heads up - we can totally use it there now, yea!

I'm sorry your series is over, that's always a disappointment. Here's hoping the author comes out with the next book soon. :)

Done!
Holes by Louis Sachar
233 pgs
29Jun
classics, contemp, humor, mystery

3am now so I will sleep. Will check in when I wake to see if there are any specific needs before I choose another book.

Annabeth wrote: "I've added the read date now. :D"

It made it safely to the spreadsheet :) Thanks!

Pragya wrote: "I'll finish The Winner's Kiss by tomorrow, that shoukd count for sci fi/fantasy. Not sure if I can do a classic, maybe I'll give Pride and Prejudice another go."

Brianna and Ray are reading for classic, so you can be spared Pride and Prejudice ;) (I've started that book several times myself and never seem to get very far!)

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Done!
3am now so I will sleep. Will check in when I wake to see if there are any specific needs befo..."

Wonderful timing - sleep well, Ray!

We are one book away from the 20 we need to fill all the hit tasks! So close!

Keep reading even if after we hit that number - each and every book will count for bonus points as long as it fits one of the genres we've been given, and these bonus points will help us move up in the rankings. Yea points!

Oh, and I've heard some rumors around the staff room... word is that the next challenge will have a lot of teamwork involved. It really makes you wonder what they're going to throw at us. In a good way, of course! :)

~shivers in antici...pation~

I totally lol'd at your last line! Was on several RHPS casts & played all the roles at least once. Good times. :)

Not sure if this will count for anything, but I'll add it just in case

Completion Post


In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Date read: 29-Jun-2016
Number of pages: 238
MP Genres: Non-Fiction, History, Adventure, Historical, Biography, Travel

Kazen wrote: "We are one book away from the 20 we need to fill all the hit tasks! So close!

Keep reading even if after we hit that number - each and every book will count for bonus points as long as it fits one..."

Yay, I'm hoping for something more interesting than battleship, here we pretty much read anything and fit it under a category, not much teamwork involved:) I still enjoyed this though!

Kazen wrote: "I'm sorry your series is over, that's always a disappointment. Here's hoping the author comes out with the next book soon. :) "

:) Yup I'm hoping it'll come out in about 3 months... (too ambitious??) fingers crossed. I'll just catch up on my never ending to-read list in the mean time.
I hope the next challenge allows me to read my netgalley books since none of those books were tagged by 10 or more ppl to qualify for this challenge.

Also I finished
Hold by Zannie Adams
29th June
185 pages ( not long but we get bonus points for finishing them right? so at this point i'm just reading as many short ones as I can for the extra bonus points)
sci-fi, romance, paranormal, fantasy. ( I mainly picked it for sci-fi since I saw many slots there but happy co-incidence , it had many more tags :) )

Completion post!
The King's Deception
640 pages
Works for Mystery, Historical, Contemporary

May get one more done...that's the goal anyway!

Finished a very short classic I've been meaning to get to


139 pages

I'll be finishing up one from non-fiction, but that's probably it.

Guys I've been stalking other teams' spread sheets. I think we could move up like 5 places by the end of this thing. Yay Team Red Pandas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ha. I have no idea where we will end up. It's hard to tell with the sinking ship points taken into account.

Ooh yay! We're at 20 at the moment, right? :/

Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story by Ally Carter
Date read: 30/06/16
Pages: 144
Works for: Contemporary, romance, mystery (and young adult, but that's a bonus point)


I'm so proud of myself, I posted this from my phone:)

Finished
The Governess Affair by Courtney Milan
201 pages
30th june
historical romance/ romance

Countdown to end of Battleship

Bonus
We are in bonus land, huzzah! Each person can only read one book for each square, but other than that there are no restrictions. Well, other than reading for the right genre and having enough pages and stuff. ;)

These are the genres we have:

romance (x3)
mystery (x2)
horror
paranormal
young adult (x3)
non-fiction (x2)
science fiction (x4)
contemporary (x3)
chick lit
fantasy (x4)
historical (x2)
classics (x2)
humor

(view spoiler)[B1 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people
Primary: Kazen, Pragya
Bonus (4/8 complete): Ella, Brianna, Tammie, Tori

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

E7 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as romance by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Tori
Bonus (0/8):

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

H2 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as mystery by at least 10 people
Primary: Karin, Lory
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):

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

F5 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as non fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Sam, 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):

A5 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Brianna, Annabeth
Bonus (4/8): Kazen, Sam, Tammie, Ray

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

D9 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Annabeth
Bonus (0/8):

F10 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as science fiction by at least 10 people
Primary: Riah, Ray
Bonus (0/8):

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

B7 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people
Primary: Kazen, Margaret
Bonus (0/8):

A10 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as contemporary by at least 10 people
Primary: Karin, Pragya
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):

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

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

D7 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as fantasy by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Rose
Bonus (0/8):

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

J4 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as historical by at least 10 people
Primary: Tammie, Karin
Bonus (0/8):

D3 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as classics by at least 10 people
Primary: Sam, Ray
Bonus (0/8):

H1 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as classics by at least 10 people
Primary: Sam, Rose
Bonus (0/8):

B10 - HIT! - BONUS - Read a book shelved as humor by at least 10 people
Primary: Ella, Ray
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! :)

Started reading Boom!. Scifi, fantasy, humor, mystery. :)

Completed 7/29
The Search

I did audio version...all book like versions page count in the 300s
Mystery, suspense, thriller, romance, contemporary

What needs to be read?

Books for bonus! I'm in the spreadsheet and we have all the primary hits filled :) I'll be updating the goal post when I'm done, but the short version is any hit square that you haven't read for yet :)

I entered our 20 books in the spreadsheet and we gained a whole slew of points, helping us leapfrog over four teams in the rankings! What makes this ultra amazing - we have read fewer books than anyone else but we're still beating a whole bunch of teams :D We've been hitting our stride the past week so I doubt that fewest books thing will last, though!

I have to go to the dentist (booo!) but I'll put the rest of the books in bonus slots when I get back. Keep on reading on!

Kazen wrote: "I entered our 20 books in the spreadsheet and we gained a whole slew of points, helping us leapfrog over four teams in the rankings! What makes this ultra amazing - we have read fewer books than an..."

OMG guys - way to go Red Pandas!! high-five

And thank you Kazen for your amazing job as our captain getting our books all sorted for the most points!! I can't access the spreadsheet here at work (it is blocked!!) but will check and see our standings when I get home.

I am almost finished with To Tame A Highland Warrior ~ it is such a beautiful story of love and courage and honor ~ I highly recommend it for those historical "Scottish" romance lovers out there, (and it has a touch of fantasy too). I don't want the story to end... but will finish it in time to count as a bonus for battleships.

Completion Post

by Christina Lauren
Pages: 345pgs
Geners
Romance, contemporary, chick-lit , *cough* over-rated *cough*

Tori wrote: "*cough* over-rated *cough*"

This made me laugh :)

Did the book make it to your Wobble shelf by any chance? It's not showing up on the spreadsheet. :/

Margaret wrote: "I can't access the spreadsheet here at work (it is blocked!!) but will check and see our standings when I get home."

Blocking the spreadsheet is so mean! I can tell you the standings though - filling all the hits brought us from 22nd place up to 18th, and adding the bonus books has us up at 16th :)

loops good call just added it!!

Finished:

Boom! by Mark Haddon
208 pgs
29Jun
Scifi, fantasy, mystery

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Finished:

Boom! by Mark Haddon"

And now we're in 15th, woo! :D

Finished:

The Last Olympian
381 pages
30/6/2016
Anything that fits

Feels good to finish this series!

Finished:

To Tame A Highland Warrior by Karen Marie Moning
367 pages
Read: 30/6/16
Romance, Historical, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Finally! It was such a short read but I had hard time getting through it.

by Cormac McCarthy
306 pages
Read: June 30th 2016
Could count for: SciFi, Horror, Classics, Contemporary

Yay glad to hear!! 4 spots! I'm excited for the next events.

We're only 14 points away from 11th! =]

I started a new book yesterday and I think I can finish it by tomorrow night!

uh i didnt get time to read today. im going to finish my book tonight and try to do another one

The Olympics Rules are up! It's definitely more defined. Looks like fun! Can't wait to start strategizing :)

I am still going to try to finish up my book tonight, but not sure if I'll make it. Taking a reading breather before being more intense reading!

I can't find the Olympic rules!!! Where did you find them/do you have a link?

I started Daughter of Smoke and Bones during a challenge last year but never finished! I wish I had, it's loved by all. (but so was beautiful stranger...and I've lost my faith in other's opinions after that book)

I found them on the All Land Teams Chatter. It popped up in my Notifications...I assume it's alright that I read them, its the very last post.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Tori wrote: "We're only 14 points away from 11th! =]

Woohoo!

Halfway through The Call of the Wild. Only 2 more points. 28 hours to go on Battleship!

Off to read Olympic rules. :)

Omg! ! Just finished reading the rules for the first Olympic challenge-relay and it is Awesome!! Im super excited **happy dance chandlerstyle **