Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Crud I’ll be on the cruise when it’s announced! No internet! Aaaarrggghhh this is not good lol

Thanks Deanna for the info!

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Book: Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton
Pages: 416
Date Read: 10/27
How it Fits: Title Starts with C


The Visitor by Amanda Stevens
Pages: 379
Date Read: 10/28
How it Fits: 379
How it Fits: Author Starts with A

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Our Lady of the Streets
Details in spreadsheet (sorry, I am on a tablet right now and can’t type too easily)

On to next book!

FYI, I have decided to remove one of my 60 point books and replace it with 2 other books (totalling 60 points, to make up the difference).

One of my new books covers the same letter (R) as the old one. The other new book can be used for C, A, or N (that I know of so far...).

I am removing the old 60-pointer because I have just discovered that it is set at Xmas time, so I want to save it for possible use in Weeks 5 or 6 because I do not have a lot of options for the bonus categories of many of those words! 🧐

@Megan: You have a book listed on the spreadsheet as an A title, but the book is called A Match for Addy, and articles don’t count...
I guess you meant A character?

Alysa wrote: "@Megan: You have a book listed on the spreadsheet as an A title, but the book is called A Match for Addy, and articles don’t count...
I guess you meant A character?"

Actually, it's fine as is. Articles can either be used or ignored. For example, I'm currently reading The Monstrumologist. If we needed the letters from the title, I could claim either the T from "the" or ignore the article and use the M.

Deanna wrote: "Actually, it's fine as is. Articles can either be used or ignored. For example, I'm currently reading The Monstrumologist. If we needed the letters from the title, I could claim either the T from "the" or ignore the article and use the M."

Huh! I was not aware of that being an either-or thing on NBRC. Again, perhaps Cutthroat ruined me.

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Finished 10/28

Year One by Nora Roberts
How it Fits: Title Starts with a Y

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Winter Kill by Josh Lanyon
Date Read: 10/28
How it Fits: MC named Robert

Alysa wrote: "Deanna wrote: "Actually, it's fine as is. Articles can either be used or ignored. For example, I'm currently reading The Monstrumologist. If we needed the letters from the title, I could claim eith..."

From the challenge rules for how a spell it out works:

"As always, if the first letter of a title starts with an indefinite or definite article ('A', 'An', 'The', etc.), you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word."

The key word being may allows the choice of using or ignoring the article. It's also in the general challenge rules; so if you ever do individual spell it out challenges on nbrc, the same rule applies.

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10/28
How it fits: Character - Nora (options on spreadsheet)
Word on cover

Current Team Status - Monday 10/29

Bonuses:
🔸word in text - Deanna ✔
🔸word in title - Jan
🔸word on cover - Deanna ✔
🔸word as genre - Megan

Spellings of Candy Corn
🔸Spelling 1 - CANYCOR complete, DN claimed
🔸Spelling 2 - all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 3 - all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 4 - CANC claimed, all other letters open

Awesome job everyone! We're off to a great start!

Nominations are now open for December BOMs. They are HOLIDAY Themed Reads!
You can nominate here until November 4:

Young Adult
Adult Fiction / Nonfiction

Uh, even giving most people the benefit of the doubt re speed-reading and double-timing audiobooks and not sleeping and whatever else, there is still some probable cheating going on. I mean, srsly.

Sorry, just venting. I get so annoyed at this stuff. 😡

I just started a "C" book

Brittany wrote: "I just started a "C" book "

Is it the edition you linked? 384 pages? I have the spreadsheet open...

let me check my book, I just grabbed the first one that popped up

Yes that is correct, the hardback edition :)

Brittany wrote: "I just started a "C" book "

I'll be interested to know what you think. It's on my tbr.

Deanna wrote: "Brittany wrote: "I just started a "C" book "

I'll be interested to know what you think. It's on my tbr."

Ditto, I really want to read all of the DC Icons books.

I have read the first 2 DC Icons, I LOVED Wonderwoman, I was relaly disappointed in Batman, and I thought SJM was a great choice to write a cat burglar, but I'm hoping my expecrations aren't too high on this one.

Alysa wrote: "Uh, even giving most people the benefit of the doubt re speed-reading and double-timing audiobooks and not sleeping and whatever else, there is still some probable cheating going on. I mean, srsly...."

Booo to any possible cheating but yay to us having a great first day. I had a rough time getting into my first book. Sci fi has never been my favorite but my husband and a good friend of ours raved about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Ittttttttt just isn't for me. But I switched to the audio and am finding it much easier to absorb. The narrator has a slow delivery so I can listen at a faster speed and should finish in an hour and a half or so. Hoping to also finish Candy Corn Murder today.

Other books I am starting today:
: Louise Clark is the main character, but also Nathan who gets her the job in New York

by Elizabeth Crook

Brittany I will add those books too (linked editions unless you say otherwise).
Just post if you come across additional eligible letters in any of your books (e.g. character names) so Captains can have options :D

No problem, I was trying to look through the book descriptions ot see haha. We are still using the Candy Corn letters, correct?

Brittany wrote: "No problem, I was trying to look through the book descriptions ot see haha. We are still using the Candy Corn letters, correct?"

Yes. Second word will start sometime on Saturday but we will find out what it is a day or two in advance.

ok just checking :) I may have claimed an "O" previously but I thought we had more than a week, so I probably won't make it through that book

We had talked about you maybe doing an "O" but you never claimed anything. So the 3 books you mentioned today are your only books on the spreadsheet atm :D

Ok excellent! I didn't want to let anyone down.

Rebecca F. (Nightengale) wrote: "Crud I’ll be on the cruise when it’s announced! No internet! Aaaarrggghhh this is not good lol"

Deanna, I wonder, if Rebecca will literally have no internet access when the next word is assigned and for however long afterwards, would the Mods be willing to PM her with the word an extra day in advance, so long as she promises not to tell the rest of us?

Planning spreadsheet up to date and verified through here.

Finished Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, info on spreadsheet

Alysa wrote: "Rebecca F. (Nightengale) wrote: "Crud I’ll be on the cruise when it’s announced! No internet! Aaaarrggghhh this is not good lol"

Deanna, I wonder, if Rebecca will literally have no internet access..."

I can ask.

Oooh they already did the week 2 spin!!

Yes, Sonia is awesome.

Our word for week 2 will be BLOOD. Rebecca, you can plan your vacation reading now. I hope you have a great time on your cruise.

OMG, we got BLOOD!!!

Lots of O's as I expected... but at least super easy for some of the bonuses.

Anyone mind of I claim word-in-title?
I have at least 3 books that fit :D

I love our next word!!!

I'll go hunting for some more O's and blood books

This is already so much fun :)

I can do as either a blood on cover or blood in text book. I am a huge Jane Eyre fan and only just found this adaptation when I was looking for blood books. Now I need to read it!

JanEyre9 wrote: "Booo to any possible cheating"

That same person... OMG. There are literally not enough hours in a day for her to have "read/listened" to as many pages as her books contain. It's over 3k pages in total, just her 4 books. The challenge just started 46 hours ago. What's the point of winning if you don't properly read/listen to your books? I mean, what do you get out of it?

Finished Candy Corn Murder, info on spreadsheet. Moving on to The Silver Dream

Updated and verified to here.

I just added and O and an R to the 4th spelling, so it looks like we are all set up to the 4th time through except for the Y!

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Your Fallen Star
Date Read: 10/29
How it Fits: Title Starts with Y

Gabriel
Date Read: 10/29
How it Fits: Author Initial is D

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Book: A Match for Addy
Author: Emma Miller
Pages: 288
Date Read: 10/29/18
Rating: 5 stars

Letters it works for:
A - title begins with A or MC is Addy
Y - Sara Yoder (character) (view spoiler)[she's the matchmaker in the series (hide spoiler)]

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Details on spreadsheet

Current Team Status - Tuesday 10/30

Bonuses:
🔸word in text - Deanna ✔
🔸word in title - Jan ✔
🔸word on cover - Deanna ✔
🔸word as genre - Megan

Spellings of Candy Corn
🔸Spelling 1 - CANDYCOR complete, N claimed
🔸Spelling 2 - CDYC complete, all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 3 - Y complete, all letters claimed
🔸Spelling 4 - Y complete, all other letters claimed
🔸Spelling 5 - all letters open

Great job everyone!

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Finished 10/30

November 9 by Colleen Hoover
How it Fits: Title Starts with a N (also author C)

Awesome, we spelled out our first Candy Corn!!

Question: If someone has their books shelved for Wheel and marked as Read, but with no Start or Read dates set, will that be automatically picked up as a problem when books are officially logged?

I ask for us, in case some one makes a mistake when setting dates, but I also ask because of the possible cheating I mentioned before... This person now has 8 books “read” and shelved for Wheel, and apart from the mathematically impossible page count problem, 4 of them have no Start or Read dates set at all, and 1 of them has a Start date set as 10/8, which is obviously before the Challenge stared.