Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Lol yeah I would rather work up the that one!

Other wise my LIbrary books that need to be read in the next 9 weeks are

Finding Audrey
I Was Here
Fall with Me
Golden Son (Pick this one)
Don't Look Back
Miss Mayhem

I'm home all 4th of July weekend so I should be able to be a part of heat one! =]

I actually don't have a list of what I want to read for now, so anything works? Though I'm thinking about reading Four: A Divergent Story Collection

I can do heat one as well.
I have a very large library of Free/Kindle

I subscribe to BookBub via my iPad. You populate with the books you like and daily you receive an email of free or really cheap books. Check it out.

I will go to Kindle 1st to see what's available and try to make a chain.

Here's a couple of ties I found so far...I'll keep adding to this post as I work on it...

? Her
Free on Kindle Now: Her Vampire's Promise - 125 Pages
Rose: Promise of Blood
Tammie: Blood Money
Money ?

? First
Karin: First Comes Love
Tammie: Love Unrehearsed
Unrehearsed ?

Idea: A Nora Roberts Book-Probably easy to get at Library: The Perfect Hope
Ray: Hope Was Here
Karin: Here Comes the Sun
Sun ?

finished:
Missing on Superstition Mountain
Missing on Superstition Mountain by Elise Broach
272 pgs
30Jun
Mystery

Tammie wrote: "A Nora Roberts Book-Probably easy to get at Library: The Perfect Hope
Ray: Hope Was Here
Here ?"

Karin: Here Comes The Sun

Sam wrote: "I actually don't have a list of what I want to read for now, so anything works? Though I'm thinking about reading Four: A Divergent Story Collection"

Sam, if you have access to War Horse I have a book to go with it (The Lemonade War), or if you have access to Secret Heart, Margaret matches with Heart of the Hunter. I browsed your TBR list. :)

Completion post!

Darkfever
349 pages
Bonus book

I just entered all the completed books into the spreadsheet - you guys rock. :)

Ooh, you guys are getting right into the planning! I'm off to the beach right now:) so I'll be able to come online at night (WiFi at the hotel, yay!) and see what books I can find that connect with any of yours. I'd rather do Heat 2 if that's okay, I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish a book fast. My (short, incomplete) list is on the page before if that helps.

I started Winner's Kiss yesterday but am only half way through so I don't know if I can finish it for Battleship. There's always Wheel though!

finished
Nothing Personal by Jaci Burton
1st July
208 pages
contemporary

Going to read one more before the end;
The Sasquatch Escape by Suzanne Selfors
224 pgs, will finish tomorrow, 01Jul (before 3pm)
Fantasy. :)

my computer is finally free.. so I'll be back after raiding my shelves.

Rose wrote: "Broken Promise(Karin)/Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it))/Blood: The stuff of Life (Ray) also works"

Okay here's my first tie-
Broken Promise(Karin)-->Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it))-->Blood: The stuff of Life (Ray)-->Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (Ella- also very long-700+ pgs)

Adding to make a triple into a quadruple.

Kazen................./ Karin.............. / Margaret......./ Ray
Bonds of Trust / Trust No One / One to Keep / Keep Me Posted

There seem to be a lot of erotica books that end in "Bonds"

Finished
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
July 1, 2016
Works for: Classics, Non-fiction (I don't know what those other 25 people were reading), Historical fiction

Finished
Providence by Jamie McGuire
July 1, 2016
Works for: Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, Young Adult, chick lit, contemporary

I may finish An Ember in the Ashes before the end of Battleship. I'm not sure yet though

Some books I would want to read:

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall
Keeping the Moon
The Girl on the Train
The Heir
The Winner's Curse

I know most of them start with "The" but I can adjust to reading any book as long as it is available for checkout in my library.,

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Adding to make a triple into a quadruple.

Kazen................./ Karin.............. / Margaret......./ Ray
Bonds of Trust / Trust No One / One to Keep / Keep Me Posted"

We've got 5 Books!!
Primal Bonds (Ella) / Bonds of Trust (Kazen) / Trust No One (Karin) / One to Keep (Margaret) / Keep Me Posted (Ray)

I checked the Sheets and it looked amazing and organized! Yay! Can't wait for Olympics to begin!

Ella wrote: "We've got 5 Books!!
Primal Bonds (Ella) / Bonds of Trust (Kazen) / Trust No One (Karin) / One to Keep (Margaret) / Keep Me Posted (Ray)"

WOOT!

Anyone who takes books from Netgalley, I just got a new one that would make this 5 (but since i've already got a book here I cant use it-- >Visibly Broken

It would then go in front of
Broken Promise(Karin)-->Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it))-->Blood: The stuff of Life (Ray)-->Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (Ella- also very long-700+ pgs)

Possible Chains
Nothing is set in stone so there may be duplicate books listed, etc. Just trying to gather info in one place. :)

Rose.................. / Karin ............. / Ray
I can't tell you / You own me / Me talk pretty one day

Free on Kindle Now: Her Vampire's Promise - 125 Pages
Rose: Promise of Blood
Tammie: Blood Money

Idea: A Nora Roberts Book-Probably easy to get at Library: The Perfect Hope
Ray: Hope Was Here
Karin: Here Comes the Sun

Primal Bonds (Ella) / Bonds of Trust (Kazen) / Trust No One (Karin) / One to Keep (Margaret) / Keep Me Posted (Ray)

Broken Promise(Karin)-->Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it))-->Blood: The stuff of Life (Ray)-->Life after Life-->Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined

Ella wrote: "Anyone who takes books from Netgalley, I just got a new one that would make this 5 (but since i've already got a book here I cant use it-- >Visibly Broken

It would then go in front of
Broken Promise(Karin)-->Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it))-->Blood: The stuff of Life (Ray)-->Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (Ella- also very long-700+ pgs)"

Another option for this would be
Visibily Broken (Ella)-->Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it))-->Blood Money (Tammie)

And then something starting with "Money". That would get you a shorter book, Ella.

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Rose wrote: "We should all just read cozy mysteries. They always end/begin in death, mystery, or murder. lol"

Hahaha, I have 7 that end with "murder" and 1 that starts with it."

I have one that begins with Murder... maybe we should start a 'Murder connection' :)

Sam wrote: "I actually don't have a list of what I want to read for now, so anything works? Though I'm thinking about reading Four: A Divergent Story Collection"

Sam, for this challenge we really need to plan out the books exactly :/ If you have a list of books you have that you wouldn't mind reading it would help us a lot. Or if you see a way you can jump on to the beginning or end of a chain. :) This challenge is mandatory for everyone so you'll need to fit in somewhere.

Brianna wrote: "I may finish An Ember in the Ashes before the end of Battleship. I'm not sure yet though"

If you do it's Battleship, if not we get to use it towards Wheel, so read fast but not too hard, okay? ;)

I started an Event 1 Planning sheet in the Team Spreadsheet. It's long and doesn't fit on one screen, but you can Ctrl+F to search for words. I added all the books I saw mentioned here, minus the 1000+ page/uncertain ones. ;)

I can read for either Heat 1 or Heat 2 - doesn't matter to me as I have chosen most of the books under 300 pages that I have on hand

Cat's Cradle - 179 pages
A Clockwork Orange - 192 pages
Portnoy's Complaint - 274 pages
Naked Lunch - 289 pages
Where She Went - 264 pages
The Rosie Project - 295 pages
War of the Wildlands - 253 pages
The Murder on the Links - 232 pages
The Cinderella Murder - 320 pages

I have a bunch of ebooks (over 3,000) so if we need a link somewhere let me know and can search through the titles I have to find a suitable match

Brianna wrote: "I have a bunch of ebooks (over 3,000) so if we need a link somewhere let me know..."

Oh man, if that were a physical library I'd be inviting myself over right now to have a look, hehehe. :) Adding your books to the planning sheet now!

Kazen wrote: "Oh man, if that was a physical library I'd be inviting myself over right now to have a look, he..."

I think if it was a physical library my apartment would be swarmed with books. I'd have a book couch even though that doesn't sound comfy at all but cool.

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Another option for this would be
Visibily Broken (Ella)-->Broken Promise (Karin)-->Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it))-->Blood Money (Tammie)

And then something starting with "Money". That would get you a shorter book, Ella. "

I could do that but it would still be good if someone got 'visibly broken' since its a MMA fighting based book and would make a good coaching book for challenge 4 of olympics

Thanks to the person that mentioned NetGalley - I forgot I have these titles available to download on Edelweiss:

Bird in a Cage
Eve Out of Her Ruins
Target in the Night

And my hold on this audiobook just came through:

A Burglar's Guide to the City

Brianna wrote: "I can read for either Heat 1 or Heat 2 - doesn't matter to me as I have chosen most of the books under 300 pages that I have on hand

Cat's Cradle - 179 pages
[book:A Clockwork Orange..."

So far I only have "war" as a match, in a line with "the" at the beginning and "wildlands" at the end, so not too easy to continue....

Do you have anything ending in "Primal" or "visibly" -- or starting with "money" or "posted"?

Ella wrote: "I could do that but it would still be good if someone got 'visibly broken' since its a MMA fighting based book and would make a good coaching book for challenge 4 of olympics"

I like this idea - fighting books won't be the easiest to come by :/

I collected the chains we have so far that seem to be hanging together - scroll up to the goals graphic to see what we've come up with :)

And to those who are waking up to a lot of new posts - apologies!

I could make it 5 with Life After Life

Broken Promise(Karin)-->Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it))-->Blood: The stuff of Life (Ray)-->Life after Life-->Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (Ella- also very long-700+ pgs)

Ray (user2637) wrote: "So far I only have "war" as a match, in a line with "the" at the beginning and "wildlands" at the end, so not too easy to continue....

Do you have anything ending in "Primal" or "visibly" -- or starting with "money" or "posted"? "

I have Money for Nothing

Kazen wrote: "I collected the chains we have so far that seem to be hanging together - scroll up to the goals graphic to see what we've come up with :)

And to those who are waking up to a lot of new posts - apo..."

Nice. I've got a lot of pairs which will hopefully multiply when I wake up and more people have posted lists. :) Really going to sleep now!

I have The Perfect Hope but I'm not that far in the series yet, I'm just on the first book. If anyone would like to read it, I can email them an ebook copy of it (either epub or mobi).

I'm going to wait on the rest of my books to sync to my computer (I just got a new one). So once my google drive syncs, I'll be back.

Kazen wrote: "I like this idea - fighting books won't be the easiest to come by :"

Yes especially since they have a specific type of fighting/ boxing requirement. i have books with lots of fighting but its just gangster mafia books and they don't qualify.

We could also do it this way, Ray, if u dont want blood:the stuff of life-->
EITHER
Broken Promise(Karin)-->Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it)-->Blood Money(Tammie)-->Money for Nothing(Brianna)-->Nothing but Trouble (Ella)

OR

Broken Promise(Karin)-->Promise of Blood (Rose-longer book, but I've been dying to read it)-->Blood: The stuff of Life (Ray)-->Life after Life(brianna)-->Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (Ella- also very long-700+ pgs)

Anyone have a book beginning with TROUBLE?

I can do Trouble is a Friend of Mine

Kate wrote: "I can do Trouble is a Friend of Mine"

And I can do Battered Not Broken, which makes a string of 7!

Ray - could you list out that seven string so I can play with it in the spreadsheet? Thanks!

...and did you even sleep?! :P

Annabeth wrote: "I plan to read these books :
Dorothy Must Die
Die for Me
Me Before You
You Slay Me"

Oh wow, you made your own string there!

Strings for the game have to have different people for each book, but these are all common words that will pair nicely with other people's reads, yea!

In other news...

After a couple of false starts I finally got into Who Will Catch Us As We Fall today - doubt I'll finish it in time so it will be a downtime read that goes towards Wheel.

And I found a book hiding on my ereader that can go towards strings: Level Up :)

Hey all,

The past 24 hours have been a bit crazy so here's a quick recap.

First - Battleship is ending in hours! Check out this update post for links to countdown timers. Remember that there's a 12 hour gap between Battleship and Olympics!

Second - Post your "on hand TBR" (as explained in that update post) so we can start forming chains for the first Olympic event. We have world class string formers armed with Excel and an abundance of wits, but we need a list of books to, uh, string. Remember, this is a required event for everyone.

That's the big stuff. :) I'll be updating the spreadsheet with the last Battleship books after the event closes so keep those reads coming! :D

I also have readily available

City of Thieves
American Assassin (longer)
And one more that takes place in Australia, but I cannot remember the name at the moment!

I'm not on a list right now, but I have many library's available to me.