Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Finished I Cross My Heart

If someone has a book with Star in the title, it would finish off Card 1. Currently all of the books placed there have been read and then we could get a new card.

I can read Adaline Falling Star. It's less than 200 pages, so I should be done in a couple hours.

Sarah wrote: "Not working now. My daughter is sick with the crud, fever, and another rash. I think it is a viral rash, she did this last year. Well I called in sick to take care of her, she just got back to slee..."

Oh no! Hope she gets better soon!

Erin wrote: "The Thousandth Floor could work for something very high. I just finished it if you want to log it."

If you guys want to use this for my spot for everyone brave is forgiven, I will finish bone gap soon. Brave forgiven is gonna take awhile so we could find a spot for it later. It is my audio but I have been reading a lot more lately.

Sarah wrote: "Erin wrote: "The Thousandth Floor could work for something very high. I just finished it if you want to log it."

If you guys want to use this for my spot for everyone brave is forg..."

I think we used that one for the STAR spell it out.

I hope your little one feels better soon! I swear, it's harder to see them sick than for me to be sick.

I will start next. Has bones on cover or in title. We can also move Bone Gap to has bone in title but then will need to find a cover with something that flies, which I could do later. Whatever works. But is someone else wants to also read Bone Gap for this spot - I highly recommend.

CARD 1
The Queen is sending a contingent of riders to the The Alka Tournament of Sinj. You bravely step forward when the Queen asks for volunteers and proclaim in a loud voice that you are the best horse rider and alka stabber in all of Novel Kingdom. The Queen quickly agrees with you and sends you off to represent the Kingdom.

Tasks:
•Read a book that's 300-399 pages.
•Read a book with a spear like item on the cover.
•Read a book where the authors initials can be found in ALKA.
•Roll a dice, read a book that is that number in a series.

Rewards:
•5 Experience
•1 Heal Potion

Can read Lovely in Her Bones for bones in title and
The Songcatcher for #6

Beth wrote: "Can read Lovely in Her Bones for bones in title and
The Songcatcher for #6"

Done!

Open tasks:

Horror or paranormal genre
Spear like item on cover
Author initials found in ALKA

Series #'s most in need right now
-4
-5
-6

I'm a little confused by the initials. First and last need to be one of those letters?

Angela wrote: "I'm a little confused by the initials. First and last need to be one of those letters?"

Yes. So we need an author whose first and last initials are a combination of two of those letters like AL, LK, KA, AA, etc.

I needed it for another challenge so am currently listening to The Unleashing which would fit the Paranormal task.

Can also read A Touch of Midnight by Lara Adrian which can work for the ALKA task.

I'm working on a #4 and #6 in a series.

So that pretty leaves the spear task.

I can see what I can find.

Man you guys pick off things fast. I should have a few books finished this weekend.

I found The Spear of Destiny by KT Tomb. And it's only 106 pages so it's nice and short.

Just a note on the spreadsheet, Frozen Solid is written by James M. Tabor, Hallie Leland is the main character and the series name.

CARD 3

A father is looking for a gift for his young child Hadley. He asks you if you've come across anything in your travels that might entice a young girl.
Find the shape name in the book title then spell-it-out.


Tasks:
•Read a book with TRIANGLE in the title.
•Spell-it-out: T
•Spell-it-out: R
•Spell-it-out: I
•Spell-it-out: A
•Spell-it-out: N
•Spell-it-out: G
•Spell-it-out: L
•Spell-it-out: E

Rewards:
•10 Experience
•1 Gold

Thanks Shanna, I fixed it.

Since I was only 3 chpts in my book for ALKA task, I used Shanna's book since it's already done & it fits. I'll go back to my weapons books.

CARD 5
Drop Bear
A cute cuddly little creature with vicious man eating teeth dripping blood. Makes a great steak and is good for increasing iron levels.

Attack: 8 Health: 15

Rewards:
•2 Experience
•1 Gold

CARD 5
Sewer Rat
The bane of all young hero's, the iconic sewer rat. Biting at ankles, he makes his presence known one nip and nibble at a time.

Attack: 6 Health: 20

Rewards:
•1 Experience
•1 Gold

CARD 5
Greater Sewer Rat
The larger, stupider cousin of the average Sewer Rat. These rats are bigger, smellier and have beadier eyes.

Attack: 8 Health: 25

Rewards:
•3 Experience
•1 Gold

A huge huge storm is supposed to hit the west coast tomorrow. It already flooded some in Portland tonight. So don't know how it will play out, but certais areas are predicted to lose power, so if I am MIA at some point, just know it is because I don.t have power. But I will read by candle light. Hopefully it doesn't affect my area. Winds are supposed to be crazy. At the moment all is good.

CARD 5
Brown Bat
The brown bats are much prettier than the black bats because of their grace, stamina and ability to make a lovely bat leather hat.

Attack: 2 Health: 20

Rewards:
•1 Experience

CARD 5
The local fool is wandering around town speaking in riddles... or at least you think they're riddles. He keeps talking about wanting a cup of joe but you can't figure out how Joe (the 300 pound farmer down the road) could fit in a cup. Then he told you to eighty-six the moldy bread and you told him who would want eighty six pieces of moldy bread... Then he started talking about having a field day with the new rat stew recipe in the tavern but he wasn't even in the field that day. You really must help him regain his sanity so he doesn't keep spouting off gibberish.

Tasks:
•Read a book that contains an idiom.
•Read a book that contains an idiom.
•Read a book that contains an idiom.
•Read a book that contains an idiom.
•Read a book that contains an idiom.

Rewards:
•7 Experience
•2 Gold

Stay safe Sarah!

With Linda's completed book entered the card in the official sheet and was able to get some battles/quick Exp in! We are only 3 Exp from leveling up our hero which we should be able to do tomorrow since we're almost done with another one.

I think the idiom one should be fairly easy since they are in most books! Here is a good resource if you want to look some up: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com.

CARD 3
Lexicon Ness Monster
The Lexicon Ness Monster is a close cousin of another more popular lake dwelling creature. It spends it's days frolicking in the water, making bubbles and eating unsuspecting boaters.

Attack: 10 Health: 30

Rewards:
•3 Experience
•1 Poison Potion

CARD 4
Logophilic Lemur
These are the termites of Novel Kingdom. They are everywhere! They have chewed their way through an adverb forest and a whole crop of newly sprouted adjectives.

Attack: 15 Health: 35

Rewards:
•5 Experience
•1 Damage Potion

CARD 3
The local librarian (a powerful political position in Novel Kingdom) is walking around looking frazzled in the tavern. You gently take the book out of his hands and notice it's a dictionary. You ask him what the problem is. "I just can't find the word I'm looking for! Property of something or other!" You calm him down and assure him that you'll help find the word he's looking for.
Read a book where the plot, a main character, or other large apsect of the book reflects the words definition.

Tasks:
•Ubiety - the quality or state of being in a place
•Perpetuity - the state or quality of lasting forever
•Palatability - the property of being acceptable to the mouth
•Acceptability - the quality or state of meeting one's needs adequately
•Isotropic - having a physical property that has the same value when measured in different directions
•Uniformity - always the same, as in character or degree; unvarying
•Adaptability - capable of being adapted

Rewards:
•10 Experience
•1 Greater Poison Potion

This one is a tough one. What do you guys think?

I'm tempted to keep it actually. I like the rewards and I think we'll have flexibility in interpreting how the plots fit the words. I'm not sure it's going to be as hard as one thinks at first glance.

I think Erin's book, Fracture, can be used for adaptability. The MC's mind adapted and developed new abilities after the near death experience.

Fire plays a central role in the plot of The Good Goodbye and that has uniform properties.

And I'm reading Death of a Crafty Knitter which it set in a small town that never changes year after year.

So that's 3 of the tasks. If other team members want to drop it we can, but I think this one is actually fun to be creative in meeting the tasks.

I'm sorry I typed that wrong.

Fire for isotropic and the small town for uniformity. I'm only on the app so I can't edit my original post

Sarah wrote: "A huge huge storm is supposed to hit the west coast tomorrow. It already flooded some in Portland tonight. So don't know how it will play out, but certais areas are predicted to lose power, so if I..."

Stay safe

CARD 1
Great Novel Dragon
The king of all dragons, the Great Novel Dragon has been featured in stories far and wide. To fell this mighty beast you must be the strongest of all the hero's in all the lands in all the worlds in all the universes and so on and so forth.

Attack: 25 Health: 150

Rewards:
•50 Experience
•15 Gold
•1 Greater Damage Potion
•1 Greater Heal Potion

Considering that in The Understatement of the Year, one of the guys was kicked out of the team for being gay (his parents kicked him out, too) and some of the new teammates struggle with the fact that he gay, could it work for palatability? (due to some people thinking he's not suitable for playing hockey?)

That does work for palatability of ideas or feelings, but the quest specified taste, so I'm not sure. I did find 'given them the benefit of the doubt' in the text, so I can put it down as a book that contains an idiom.

Ubeity- state of being in a place
Sharp Objects the story is based around Camille returning home.

Perpetuity - the state or quality of lasting forever
Tempting Evil main characters are vampires

Palatability - the property of being acceptable to the mouth
Poison Study Main character is food taster

I think all of those work Beth!

Wow you learn something new everday. So The Bone Collector is not my typical genre with real detective work. I think this is probably well researched and there is all these abbreviations for the crime scene and forensic collection and stuff, but about 100 pages in and I just discovered a glossary in the back of the book. At first I was having trouble getting into this type of book. I have read crime novels before, but this has a lot of the forensic side to it that I have never encountered before. I know some people read nothing but these types of novels. Well, it's my first. Part of the Lincoln Ryhme books by Jeffery Deaver. This was a movie, which I saw, with Denzel Washington - he was that parapalegic detective who co-starred with Angelina Jolie. I may have to rewatch the movie when I'm done. I saw it soooo many years ago.

Speaking of movies, me and my daughter - she is six, went and saw Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children last night in 3D. It was awesome. Some might say it is too scary for a six year old, but she loved it and she got really into the story. She also loved The Jungle Book movie, which was epic. Some would say that it is also too much, but she also was absolutely thrilled by it. It was sooooo amazing.

And we did get some wind today, but did not loose power. A neighbors big tree did uproot and fall over, but it missed house and powerline. There was some flooding in the streets last night but I was so relieved I didn't get any flooding in my basement. That happened to me last year on Hallowwen night - the only time in the 14 years I've owned my house.

Glad everything's okay Sarah! A co-worker told me they went to see Miss Peregrine's in 3D the other day and also said it was really good. Glad your daughter enjoyed it as well!

Finished -
Songcatcher for number 6 in series.
Rosewood casket for idiom
Tempting evil for perpetuity

Beth wrote: "Finished -
Songcatcher for number 6 in series.
Rosewood casket for idiom
Tempting evil for perpetuity"

Hi Beth, please add Tempting Evil to your shelf please!

Also for your 2 books - Rosewood Casket and Ballad of Frankie Silver. They are #4 and #5 in series as well as the idioms so trying to figure out if they would be better used for the weapons rather than idioms. Put it down for weapons for now but haven't set anything in stone yet.

FYI -

After much discussion on the Captain's Board and a talk amongst the mods, tournaments will no longer be a part of Emerge the Victor.

Instead there will be monster boss cards and some other things added to replace this part of the game. Kelly and the other mods and still working on those details and getting them added for teams to do. Once the new parts have been finalized and added, we will provide you with those details.

However, since the tournaments were originally going to be starting tomorrow, I at least wanted to let everyone know about the change in the game.