Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Once Every Never
Pages: 400
Task: Running - Heat 2 - Leg 3
Date: 7/17/16

The Lost Hero
Pages: 557
Task: Jumping Bonus
Date: 7/17/16

Silver Borne
Pages: 342 pages
Task: Jumping
Date Read: 7/17/16

Silver Bullet
Pages: 243 pages
Task: Equestrian: 12 letter title
Date Read 07/18/16

Leviathan
440 pages
Task: Equestrian - decorating the chariot
Date Read 07/18/16

Wild Horses
384 pages
Task: Equestrian Round 1 : Horse on the cover
Date Read: July 18 2016

Books completed so Olympics so far:

Fire & Flood
320 pages
Task: Running Heat 2
Date Read: 5th July 2016

Every Heart a Doorway
176 pages
Task: Jumping Heat 1.3
Date Read: 7th July 2016

If Walls Could Talk
329 pages
Task: Chariot Building - tools on the cover
Date Read: 15th July 2016

Black Rose
368 pages
Task: Title relay
Date: 18/7

Boxer, Beetle
256 pages
fighting
7/18/16

Summer Days & Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories by Stephanie Perkins
Pages: 400
Tasks: Jumping pages
Date Read: 7/18

Fat City
Pages: 200
Task:Fight Club, Coach (boxing)
Date: 7/19/16

Changeling
pages: 315
Task: Equestrian - dagger on the cover
date: 7/19

The Son of Neptune
Pages: 513
Task: Jumping Bonus
Date: 7/20/16

The Perfect Match
Pages: 115
Task: FightClub Round 6 Coach(wrestling)
Date July 20 2016

Taming Natasha
Pages: 256
Task: not defined
Date: July 20 2016

The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
Pages: 370
Task: Equestrian

Fight Club
218 pages
Fighting
Read 7/20/16

Never Never
159 pages
Title relay
21/7

Never Never
Pages: 159
Task: Title relay bonus
Date: 7/21

Never Ever
Pages: 352
Task: Title jumping
Date: 7/21

Never Never
Pages: 159
Task: Title relay
Date: 7/21

Never Never: Part Two
157 pages
Read 21/7
Title relay

Ever Night
106 pages
Task: title relay/running bonus
read: 21/07

Never Never: Part Two
158 pages
Task: title relay bonus
Read: 7/21/16

Confederacy of Dunces
462 pages
7/21/16

Never Say Never
236 pages
July 22 2016
Task: title relay bonus

For wheel a thon
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
"Her grizzled gray hair was escaping it's hair net"
Page 19

For wheel-a-thon
The Iron King
"It looked like ordinary rain - gray, misty, somewhat depressing."
Page 306
One of the main characters Ash Tallyn

The Wasp Factory
244 pages
22/7
Task: I can't see anywhere obvious for Olympics so probably best to save for wheel a thon.

A - character Angus
B - author Iain Banks

Page 59 - "the town was grey and empty in the dull afternoon light."

Or could be saved for a word where we need an I :)

Bare-Knuckle Love
Pages 106
July 22 2016
TASK: Fightclub Round 5 Coach #2 Read book that features: Wrestling, Boxing and/or MMA

Night Train
Pages: 176
Task: title relay
Date: 7/22

Identical
date: 07/22
task: jumping bonus - round 3?
pages: 565

Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
7/22/16
Task - Jumping?
Pages: 512

Honeymoon for One
Pages: 129
Date: July 23 2016

Letters updated on spreadsheet

Kindle Locations 304-305 She had been watching the dull gray conveyor belt circling around and around and now, as she blinked her eyes, she saw that it was empty.

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Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Pages: 418
Date: July 23

The color word "gray" is in the text of the book.

Quote: "It was raining and a gray light loomed in the garret..." Page 89

Gathering Blue
Pages: 256
Date: 7/23

nearly every colour of the rainbow is mentioned somewhere in this book.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Pages: 320 pages
Date: 07/22/16
Tasks:
L: Lupin
A: Albus
R: Rowling, J.K.
S: Sirius

Bonus: 'The middle owl, which was large and grey, keeled right over and lay motionless' I think it's on page 9 or something. I don't have my copy here right now, and I can't find page numbers when searching amazon.

Forever with You
Pages: 370 pages
Date: 7/24/16
Tasks:
A: Armintrout
R: Roxie
S: Stephanie

Vicious
Pages: 340 pages
Date: 07/24/16
Tasks:
S: Schwab

Anna Dressed in Blood
Pages: 320
Date: 07/24
Tasks: spreadsheet updated

Purple Magic
pages 107
july 25 2016
purple in title
character C Carrie

The Color Purple
Pages: 295
Task: WaT, color in title
Date: 7/25/16

The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
Pages: 352
July 25 2016
Tasks: WaT, title starts with a "T" and author initials are B.L.

Has the color blue in the text, quote directly:

"till the rain clouds cleared and the sky turned deep blue..." (Page 24)

Amber Brown Is Tickled Pink
Pages: 154
Date: 7/25
Tasks: lots of colours (spreadsheet updated)

Oryx and Crake
Pages: 400
Date: 7/25

No Place Like Home by Mysti Parker
Pages: 284
Date: 7/26
Tasks: the author's last name stars with "P" and the MC are Mira and Lysander.

The Housekeeper and the Professor
Pages: 180
Date: 7/26
Task: WaT

A Pink Zombie, with a Mist
Pages: 260
July 27 2016
Wheelathon: Pink in Title

Identity
168 pages
7/26/16
Characters: C, J

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Pages: 512
Tasks: The "N" in spring
Colors: page 46: "his bright green eyes..."
page 45: "bright blue expanse of the sky..."

Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell
Colors:
-> red - page 96 - "..then stopped at a soft red shirt in the middle..."
-> orange - page 172 - "I look awful fine in orange."
-> pink - page 134 - " she'd replaced her pink covers with..."
-> green - page 46 - "Plucking a green bag from the stand..."
-> purple - page 64 - "..when the purple sky started going black.."
-> blue - page 24 - " His eyes were cornflower blue..."
-> brown - page 10 - "Brown hair, brown eyes..."
-> black - page 10 - " ...just an old black fan..."
-> white - page 21 - "...hoisting a long white box..."
-> gray - page 110 - "...net of tiny gray squares..."
-> gold - page 134 - "...overstuffed pillows in shades of gold and bronze..."
-> silver - page 166 - " ... was the part in his hair and just how many silver strands had threaded in with the dark..."

by Scott Stambach
Pages: 336 pages

Can be used for I, S. Other main character are: Polina and Natalya. Also there is purple text on the cover because the name "Ivan" is written in purple!