MobileRead Book Challenges discussion

IDK why but the spreadsheet refuses to take my change for the 8th sub

DID IT!!! :-D

It looks like what I saw was a fan created trailer, I just saw "mercy thompson trailer" and quit reading.

MrsJoseph wrote: "Patty was born in Butte, Montana, back in 1965. If you’re good at math, you’ll have deduced that she’s currently twenty-nine. ..."

Dazrin wrote: "It looks like what I saw was a fan created trailer, I just saw "mercy thompson trailer" and quit reading.

MrsJoseph wrote: "Patty was born in Butte, Montana, back in 1965. If you’re good at math,..."

Yah, she's in her 50s. BUt I won't say that loudly because she says she says

...has no intention of getting any older. Fiction authors don’t obey the laws of space and time, they invent them. Don’t argue, or she’ll make up a dragon right behind you . . .

I like my dragons on page, thank you. ;-)

I think fan-made movie should count. Provided it is long enough.

For author it only has to be when they wrote the book...

30 books by authors under 30

I read a book that was started when the author was 12 and published when she was 14. And I didn't even count it for the category? O_o

Patricia Briggs first book Masques was published when she was 28. Maybe she's trapped in that book.

I'm pretty sure I'm misusing the term Micro-history, but I've decided that it's okay because Green is Good. :D

At 8 books in, I'm still at 100% hit rate, and it looks like I'll be holding with the 9th book, but I'm gonna run out of luck soon unless I start getting super creative in how I interpret the genres. :D

It is bound to happen, but you can get a lot of misses and still make it in 48 books. You only have to hit the mega board every time and two of the smaller boards with each book.

Updated mine today, and I have 10 points! Yay! I'm finally not a zero! :D

Points!

Christa wrote: "Updated mine today, and I have 10 points! Yay! I'm finally not a zero! :D"

You were never a zero ;D
And grats on the points!

Hurray!

I updated my books since I hadn't done that for a bit.

My magic number is down to 11, 4 of which need to hit letters I, N, U, and V. (And preferably with J, K, and Y as well so I can hit first word instead of just a word.)

I hate planning ahead this much on books but I really want to clear the boards in only 48 books. Fortunately I still have 5 changes I can make so I should be able to do it if I can keep myself focused and maybe read one or two books I wouldn't normally read.

I agree with the dislike of planning ahead, but I've just been doing it for a cover with food, an author under 30, and an author with my first name. Still, it's taken me places I wouldn't otherwise have gone.

48 would be very impressive. I finished in 51 books. All three of the extras were books I read with my son so not bad.

I managed the alphabet on first words. Thankfully not all editions of Q & A have been retitled to Slumdog Millionaire. :P That was a great find for QXZ. Totally unfair to the book as it is quite different from the movie.

There were only three books in my list that I probably wouldn't have read:

The Young Elites (dystopian, floats, antihero)
The Prophecy of the Stones (curse or prophecy)
The Guitar and Amp Sourcebook (hobby, > 500 pages)

The guitar one I would have browsed through, but never read the whole thing.

I have so many books, lol. And I still need to finish or DNF two more in order to be complete. Damn it.

I have no interest in either of these books right now...but I'm thinking of getting the audio for one of them just to force the issue. Damn it.

Bingo!

Now I can move onto the books I have been wanting to read for the last couple weeks. :)

Well done! I'll get there eventually - books I want to read keep getting in the way...

If I hadn't been so close to completing in exactly 48 books I would have just skipped these last couple and moved on for a while. As-is, I ended up choosing something much shorter than my original options but that I didn't expect to like as much (still enjoyed but ...)

Way to go.

Dazrin wrote: "Bingo!

Now I can move onto the books I have been wanting to read for the last couple weeks. :)"

Congrats!