Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Book: The Golden Key
Pages: 893
Date read: 7/9/2016
Task: event 5, Decorations, skull

Note: different cover from what I intially posted because I didn't think to actually walk over to my bookshelf and check. But there is still a skull!

Book: The Heart of Myrial
Pages: 469
Date read: 7/9
Task: Event 5, creature, fire drake on cover, not a dragon like I first thought. There is a dragon in the story, but not on the cover.

Book: The Iron Trial by Holly Black(Kindle edition)
Date Read: Jul 9
Pages: 304
Task: Discus - title with Iron in it

Book: Timeless by Alexandra Monir
Date Read: 7/9
# of pages: 280
Event 2, Heat 1, Leg 3

Book: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Date Read: 9th July
# Pages: 400 pgs (kindle edition)
Task: Event 1 (Relay), Heat 2, Leg 3

Book: L.A. Witt Aleksandr Voinov
Date read: 7/9
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 110
Tasks: Chariot Decoration - Whip

Book: K.A. Merikan
Date read: 7/9
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 107
Tasks:Fight Club - Coaching
MC is a MMA cage fighter who is under contract to a motorcycle club. The story is essentially about his training and his fights with a side of D/s relationship with the club president.

Book: The Cereal Murders by Diane Mott Davidson (audio version)
Date Read: Jul 10
Pages: 335 (GR default)
Task: Wheel-a-thon

Completed

Book:
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
Date Read: 7/10/16
Pages: 460
Task(s): Chariot / 4: Race your Chariot in the Hippodrome / Large, open landscape on cover

Book: Maureen Child
Date read: 7/11
Rating: 3.25 stars
Pages: 192
Tasks: Bonus
Relay Heat 3 book #4

Completion

Date Read: 7/11/2016
Rating: ★★★★
Pages : 320 pages
Works For : Page Jumping - Heat 2 - Leg 3 - 301-350 pages (required book)

Book: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Date Read: 7/11/2016
Pages: 295 - default - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Task: Relay Bonus

Book: The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross (audio version)
Date Read: Jul 11
Pages: 313 (GR default)
Task: Wheel-a-thon

Book: Change of Command
Date Read: 7/11
# of pages: 320
Tasks it fits: Bank for Wheel

Completion

Date Read: 7/11/2016
Rating: ★★★★
Pages : 293 pages
Works For : Event 5 (Chariot), Supplemental Book for Decor #1

When you post a fight book for Coaching, I need to know the fight style and/or plot points that make it work. That is a required field on the spreadsheet.

Book: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Date Read: 12th July
Pages: 368 pgs (ebook edition)
Task: Discus, Round 4, ARM book

Book: Little House in the Big Woods
Date Read: 7/11/16
Task: Discus, ARM book

Book: An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris (audio version)
Date Read: Jul 11
Pages: 280 (GR default)
Task: Wheel-a-thon

Completed


Title: Death Stone by Ruby Jean Jensen
Pages: 315
Date finished: July 11
Task: Event 5: Build a chariot "extra" points for decoration. Book cover shows skeleton hand with ring.

Book: Annihilation
Pages: 208
Date Read: 7/12
Task: Event 5, 12 letters in title

Book: Kindle Alexander
Date read: 7/12
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 399
Tasks: Chariot Decoration - Skull and other Tattoos

Book: Brighter Than the Sun
Date Read: 7/12
# of pages: 376
Tasks it fits: Title Relay

7/12/16
Pg: 321
Task: Chariot decorations (Red flowers and iron work)

Book: Home Sweet Home by Elizabeth Doyle Carey (audio version)
Date Read: Jul 12
Pages: 200 (GR default)
Task: Relay bonus

Completed

Book:
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Date Read: 7/12/16
Pages: 398
Task(s): Chariot / 2: Assemble your Chariot / Rope on Cover

Book: Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner
Pages: 235
Date Read: 7/12
Task: Coaching fight book
Edit: from blurb "This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, great fight manager and cut man Jerry Boyd, who wrote under the pen name F.X. Toole, is the basis for the Oscar-winning motion picture starring Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. Breathing life into vivid, compelling characters who radiate the fierce intensity of the worlds they inhabit, Million Dollar Baby 'is not just fight fiction at its finest, it is excellent fiction, period'"

Completed

Book:
Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block
Date Read: 7/12/16
Pages: 116
Task(s): Chariot Decorations

Book: Stonefather by Orson Scott Card (audio version)
Date Read: Jul 12
Pages: 112 (GR default)
Task: Wheel-a-thon

Completion

Date Read: 7/12/2016
Rating: ★★
Pages : 106 pages
Works For : Coaching Book - MC is a MMA fighter - Illegal MMA fights

Book: Too Big to Miss
Pages: 324
Date read: 7/13
Task: Bonus Relay

Book: Catherine Coulter
Date read: 7/13
Rating: 3.25 stars
Pages: 390
Tasks:Bonus
Relay Heat 3 book #11

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Finished 7/13/16
Pages 359
Task: Chariot Wheels

Completed


Title: Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
Pages: 237
Date finished: July 13
Task: Bonus Title relay (15 book chain)

Book: Stormy Glenn
Date read: 7/13
Rating: 3.25 stars
Pages: 146
Tasks:Bonus
Relay Heat 3 book #14

Completion
Prince of Wolves
Date Read: 7/13/2016
Rating: ★★★
Pages : 230 pages
Works For : Relay Bonus Heat 3 Book 16

Completed

Book:
The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow
Date Read: 7/14/16
Pages: 399
Task(s): Coaching: set during the Nazi rise to power, a young Jewish boy trains as a boxer at the Berlin Boxing Club. The book revolves around boxing and the boxer Max Schmeling.

Completed

Book:
Sun Storm by Åsa Larsson
Date Read: 7/14/16
Pages: 336
Task(s): Bonus Relay 1, Book 9

7/14/16
4 stars
320 pages
Task: Title Relay, Round 3, spot #12

Completed


Title: Siren Call by Sonya C. Dodd
Pages: 176
Date finished: July 14
Task: Bonus Title Relay, 15 book chain

Book: My Fight Your Fight
Pages: 324
Date read: 7/14
Task: Coach book
How it works: Ronda Rousey memoir about her time as a judo and mma fighter.

Book: Fight Club
pages: 218
date: 14/07/16
Task: coach book
how: first rule: don't talk about fight club. second rule: don't talk about fight club

Book: Leora Stark
Date read: 7/13
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 104
Task: coaching - Mc is a boxing coach and mentor, he is an ex professional boxer and he coaches the other MC, turning him into a boxing champion.

Book: Tiger by the Tail
Pages: 107
Date Read: 7/15
Task: Title Relay

Book: Blue Moon Promise
Date Read: 7/14
# of pages: 321
Tasks it fits: Title Relay

Book: Tiger's Voyage byColleen Houck
Date read: 7/14
# of pages: 560
Coaching Book

Completed


Title: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Pages: 184
Word count: 40,000 something
Date finished: July 15


Bank for Wheel-a-thon

Book: I'm in no mood for love
Date Read: 7/15/16
Event: title relay

Book: Craig Halloran
Date read: 7/16
Rating: 3 stars
Pages: 236
Tasks:Bonus
Relay Heat 4 book #14

Book: Fight Club
Pages: 208
Date Read: 7/16
Task: Coaching Fight Book:
How it works: I can't talk about fight club.

Natalie wrote: "Book: Fight Club
Pages: 208
Date Read: 7/16
Task: Coaching Fight Book:
How it works: I can't talk about fight club."

lol, Natalie ;)

Book:
Pages: 491 pgs
Date Read: July 16th
Task: Chariot task - Gather your horses.
How it fits: Wolf on cover.