Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Cat wrote: "JanEyre9 wrote: "Man, Thursday as a genre is tricky!"

#2 of Thursday Next series has it. #BOOM!"

That's awesome!

Hmm, maybe a cover that shows a calendar?

Cat wrote: "JanEyre9 wrote: "Man, Thursday as a genre is tricky!"

#2 of Thursday Next series has it. #BOOM!"

I missed that one. I did find a lovely nonfiction book about dolphins that my library has.

For Thursday bonuses:

Word in text - Brittany
Word in title /series Jan
Word on cover - calendar definitely works, will come back with more options after more of the captains check in to approve/disapprove the current ideas
Word as genre - #2 of Thursday Next series if anyone wants to read it, I found one book that would work if no one else claims this

I'll get the planning spreadsheet updated later this evening (after I decided which of my two audiobooks to start next). Either would work for our unclaimed O.

Current Team Status - Thursday 11/8
Week 2: Spelling BLOOD

Bonuses - Complete
🔸word in text - Ashley ✔
🔸word in title - Alysa ✔
🔸word on cover - Jan
🔸word as genre - Deanna ✔

Spellings of BLOOD
🔸Spelling 1 - Complete
🔸Spelling 2 - Complete
🔸Spelling 3 - Complete
🔸Spelling 4 - LOOD complete, B claimed
🔸Spelling 5 - LO complete, BOD claimed
🔸Spelling 6 - all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 7 - all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 8 - all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 9 - all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 10 - BLOD claimed, O open
🔸Spelling 11 - all letters open

(Just moving over to current page)

Re word on cover for next week... Can anyone think of a book that has a character named Thursday, with the character depicted on the cover? Would that work?

Urge, what’s frustrating is also that since we are one of the first team to get this word, whoever gets it in Week Four will be able to steal our ideas 😉

An update on The Titan’s Curse: I haven’t started it yet, and at this point I think it makes more sense to start something long for next week instead. I will remove it from the spreadsheet.

Brittany wrote: "For the word thursday I just got in the BOTM The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein that I will be reading"

I got mine too! But I haven’t decided whether to read it for THURSDAY, or start it when the BOM starts and finish it for the week after.

Finished Jane Slayre: The Literary Classic with a Blood-Sucking Twist, on SS

Alysa wrote: "Re word on cover for next week... Can anyone think of a book that has a character named Thursday, with the character depicted on the cover? Would that work?..."

Yes. I have a couple of titles for that. I'll post those and some other ideas in a bit. My brains a little fried at the moment. I'm currently alternating being keeping my youngest on task with his school and helping my senior with trig.

Thursday on cover title ideas: (the ones definitely approved at this time)

-calendar on the cover
-character named Thursday on the cover or
-Thor on cover

Possible options under discussion:
-Thor's hammer on cover
-football player or stadium at night

Deanna wrote: "I'm currently alternating being keeping my youngest on task with his school and helping my senior with trig."

Wow. Respect.
Having just a 3rd grader is hard, but you are the master!

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Details on spreadsheet.

I had somehow never read this before, for all that it's a classic. It was quite good!

4th spelling complete!

Good job everyone!!!

JanEyre9 wrote: "Oh great! If no one minds me nabbing it I can do The Eyre Affair for word in title/series. The series is called Thursday Next.

This was a rough reading week for me. We had a potluck a..."

I know the feeling! I've had to be out of the office a bunch this week so I lost a lot of my sit at work and screw around on goodreads time. I can't wait for the holiday week next week

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Finished - details on spreadsheet

I love Clay and Elena! It's been fun rereading these books this week. It's been a few years since I last read the series.

Updated and verified to here.

The planning spreadsheet has been updated for week 3 spellings of Thursday.

Countdown to end of week 2 / start of week 3

I love all these cute little graphics that you find, Deanna :D

Alysa wrote: "I love all these cute little graphics that you find, Deanna :D"

It's fun to find them, and if I need to go back and double check something, they give me a visual marker of where to find different types of information.

4th spelling of Blood added to the spreadsheet!

Current Team Status - Friday 11/9
Week 2: Spelling BLOOD

Bonuses - Complete
🔸word in text - Ashley ✔
🔸word in title - Alysa ✔
🔸word on cover - Jan ✔
🔸word as genre - Deanna ✔

Spellings of BLOOD
🔸Spelling 1 - Complete
🔸Spelling 2 - Complete
🔸Spelling 3 - Complete
🔸Spelling 4 - Complete
🔸Spelling 5 - LOOD complete, B claimed
🔸Spelling 6 - OOD complete, BL claimed
🔸Spelling 7 - all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 8 - all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 9 - all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 10 - BLOD claimed, O open
🔸Spelling 11 - all letters open

It's Friday!! Please double check the books you have planned, and let us know which if any you will not finish so we can shuffle books around if needed. (Brittany, your two remaining books are Catwoman Soulstealer and Grave Peril).

I had to change my books to quicker reads, this week has been a busy one. But I'll still be able to finish any letters I've claimed

I will finish my two remaining BLOOD books.
Of Sorrow and Such will be done today, and Hammered will be done tonight or possibly in the morning.

Does anyone know when Rebecca will have internet access again?
I am so jealous of that cruise 🛳

I am soooo close to getting my copy of Crazy Rich Asians. #3 on 45 copies. Come on come on!

I'm a few pages shy of finishing one of my remaining 3 books and will finish the other two on time.

I should be able to finish both of mine, it might be down to the wire on my second one

I'm 3/4 through First Rider's Call and will finish today. I'll should be able to finish both my other listed book as well as the BOM easily. I might be able to cram in something short if needed to finish a spelling.

Finished

Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas
Date: 11/9/18
works for a L: Luke Fox of B: Batwing

Brittany wrote: "Finished

Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas
Date: 11/9/18
works for a L: Luke Fox of B: Batwing"

Nice! I marked it Read on the spreadsheet for you.
How was the book? Any good?

That completes our 5th spelling! Great job!



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Details on spreadsheet.

This was really good. I recommend it!

@Alysa:
I enjoyed it. I felt like it had a good mix of SJM world and the DC universe. I loved having more of the empathetic relationship between Catwoman, Poison Ivy & Harley Quinn. The beginning was a little bit slow, but that is pretty normal for Maas, once the book takes off, it just soars. I loved Wonder woman, batman fell a bit flat and this was a good follow.

Interesting!
I haven't yet read any Maas. I have Throne of Glass, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Updated and verified to here. 5th BLOOD spelling added to official spreadsheet.

I hope Rebecca manages to get online -- she probably has so many books completed!
And has anyone heard from Megan?

Alysa wrote: "I hope Rebecca manages to get online -- she probably has so many books completed!
And has anyone heard from Megan?"

Sorry I hope I'm not letting anyone down. I think I'm only going to get 5 in this week. The cruise was miserable I got food poisoning on the first night and it went downhill from there. If it hadn't been for the friends I was with I think I would have jumped overboard lol Plus, I got Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America from the library in the mail while I was gone so I had to read that first thing because it's not renewable. It was a very detailed, information packed book, very sloooow reading. I'm so glad I read it but I'm also extremely glad to be finished with it! I'll post what I have so far.

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Home Sweet Murder
Book: Home Sweet Murder by James Patterson with Andrew Bourelle
Completed: 8 Nov 2018
Pages: 297
Fits: Author's name starts with B-Bourelle

Scarlet Toys

Book: Scarlet Toys by S.M. Shade
Completed: 6 Nov 2018
Pages: 180
Fits: Character's name starts with L-Wyatt Lawson

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Book: Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
Completed: 9 Nov 2018
Pages: 434
Fits: D in title

I updated my changes on the spreadsheet since I had other books listed. I should have the two "O"'s done by morning. Sorry I wasn't able to read as much this week. Devil in the Grove really slowed me down...

OMG that’s sounds terrible! I am so sorry you got sick on your cruise!

Alysa wrote: "OMG that’s sounds terrible! I am so sorry you got sick on your cruise!"

Thanks! I'm just glad I have good friends and I'm sorry that some of them got sick as well. No shrimp for a very long time hahaha

Oh Rebecca no worries about the books, I'm so sorry your trip was a bust. Food poisoning is no fun :(

Rebecca F. (Nightengale) wrote: "Alysa wrote: "I hope Rebecca manages to get online -- she probably has so many books completed!
And has anyone heard from Megan?"

Sorry I hope I'm not letting anyone down. I think I'm only going ..."

Sorry about the trip. Glad you made it back OK. Don't worry about the books. Life happens and plans change. I'm glad you had the time to work through the slower one.

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Finished and - details on spreadsheet

Spellings 6 and 7 are complete! Way to go everyone!

I was thinking about also reading The Eyre Affair for one of the bonus categories for Week Three.... but there are waiting lists for both the print and ebook version at the library. I put in holds on each, but I don't know whether they'll come in on time :/

Aha! I found a word-as-genre book for THURSDAY:

Such Stuff as Dreams: The Psychology of Fiction

I can take that if nobody else finds anything else that they have a burning desire to read (or has a higher page count for point value, or has more letter options).

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Details on spreadsheet.
That was my last book for Week Two.

Current Team Status - Saturday 11/10
Week 2: Spelling BLOOD

Bonuses - Complete
🔸word in text - Ashley ✔
🔸word in title - Alysa ✔
🔸word on cover - Jan ✔
🔸word as genre - Deanna ✔

Spellings of BLOOD
🔸Spelling 1 - Complete
🔸Spelling 2 - Complete
🔸Spelling 3 - Complete
🔸Spelling 4 - Complete
🔸Spelling 5 - Complete
🔸Spelling 6 - Complete
🔸Spelling 7 - Complete
🔸Spelling 8 - BOD complete, LO claimed
🔸Spelling 9 - D complete, BLOO claimed
🔸Spelling 10 - all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 11 - BL claimed, OOD open

Reminder: With daylight savings time over, week 2 ends at 5 pm EST again. Please try to have your books finished 30 minutes before the deadline, so we have time to update the official spreadsheet before it is locked. If you have a book that will be finished last minute, please let us know, and we'll keep an eye out for it.

Finished Often I am Happy, on SS. That's my last book for this word. Happy reading everyone!