Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

I'm almost done with an A title. Will be today.

I’ll have my A book done tonight!

I'll be finished tomorrow morning with mine.

On the spreadsheet The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is marked down for "seed" genre bonus but I don't see seed on the first page of genres. Am I just overlooking it?

thanks for the heads up Krissy. That's correct. The word seed needs to be on the first page of the books tags.

Oh okay thank you. I should have double checked on the book page. I only looked at the seed tag itself. I’ll take it off

The planning sheet still has the letters for cornbread instead of acorn on the right side of the spreadsheet

These words with only a few people tagging with are a pain to find a book :/

ALERT - my final books are posted in books read thread- Where the Crawdads Sing will work for an O and the bonus. And both books for other multiple letters as well. But another O would be most points. Also if we need R to finish last word to start another my book Hoot has Roy as main character. Hope they all get entered in time. I came home last night exhausted and fell right asleep.

I'm trying to find something for Genre this week. These are the books that would work for "Seed" but my library doesn't have any of them. Figured I'd post the list to save y'all the 30 minutes of cross checking these. Acorn was a complete bust.

Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq
Blind Spot: The Hidden Biases of Good People
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
Acting Out!: Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism

SMH - Where the Crawdads Sing would have been better utilized for an O than a C. Like I said in my last post. We lost points on that one.

I found this for acorn on the cover. I wanted to confirm that it's OK for the acorn to be a drawing.

Karolyn wrote: "I found this for acorn on the cover. I wanted to confirm that it's OK for the acorn to be a drawing.
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I would think most defenitely. There is clearly an acorn on the cover, and in the title - could two people read it and it be used one for each category?

Sarah wrote: "Karolyn wrote: "I found this for acorn on the cover. I wanted to confirm that it's OK for the acorn to be a drawing.
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I would think most defenitely. There is..."

Definitely can be used for either acorn in title or acorn on cover and yes if two different people read it, we can use it for both :-)

Do we have to verify word count, because I can't find the word count for that book?

Sarah wrote: "Do we have to verify word count, because I can't find the word count for that book?"

No I can't either if we can find a audio version on audible or siilar showing it is more than 4 hours that will count also. It's not coming on on the australian audible site and any attempt to try to check out the us site redirects me back to the Australian site.

Can you double check if its on the us audible site and how long it is otherwise i will have to double check with the mods about it.

Given its 372 pages, i would think the word count should be fine but we need to be able to verify :-/

Sarah wrote: "Do we have to verify word count, because I can't find the word count for that book?"

I have asked the question in the mods Q & A since we can't find it on either Arbook or on audio

Sarah wrote: "SMH - Where the Crawdads Sing would have been better utilized for an O than a C. Like I said in my last post. We lost points on that one."


Sorry I got sucked into the rabbithole that is Riverdale on netflix last nightand was binge watching season 2 until 4 am. Got up at 8.30 to finalise books before 9am deadline only to have a power outage so i was madly trying to update via ipad so my main goal was to get it on the official spreadsheet in time. The toughest letter points for being an O never occurred to me.

Karolyn wrote: "I found this for acorn on the cover. I wanted to confirm that it's OK for the acorn to be a drawing.
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Apologies guys. I checked with the mods and as nothing can be found to verify word count and there is an illustrator listed, we are unable to use it :-(

sorry :-(

This words bonus is going to take years off my life 😭. I can check my library to see if they have any of those books Karolyn posted

My library has Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation! Placing it on hold and picking it up tomorrow

I give up on the acorn thing since the Mods have chosen to make it impossible. Glad I didn't buy the kindle book yet. Good luck finding something.

My goodreads says is 377 pages for that edition? Which edition doesn’t have a page count?

If anyone wants to read this, it might work for acorn on the cover.

Beth wrote: "

If anyone wants to read this, it might work for acorn on the cover."

I think it is poetry and also needs a word count, which I also couldn't find.

Nikk the Sapphired Book Dragon wrote: "Karolyn wrote: "I found this for acorn on the cover. I wanted to confirm that it's OK for the acorn to be a drawing.
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Apologies guys. I checked with the mods..."

I didn't even think about verifying word count since it was over 300 pages. I looked a bit this morning and couldn't find anything either. On kindle the only illustrations were a small picture at the start of each chapter. Kindle does give an "Average Reading Time" of 4 hours, 7 minutes (it took me closer to 5 to read). Would that convince the Mods?

I get that the rules are what they are. I'll take it off the spreadsheet.

Acorna: The Unicorn Girl - I don't have this book, but would it work for word in title if someone read it?

Karolyn wrote: "Nikk the Sapphired Book Dragon wrote: "Karolyn wrote: "I found this for acorn on the cover. I wanted to confirm that it's OK for the acorn to be a drawing.
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I am almost positive it has the word count needed, and then some, that is why this is sooooo lame.

I don’t like this bonus this week 😭

I think the MODS need to chime in here, again. I think they need to reconsider the reading time on kindle is at over four hours, the illustrator argument is just stupid, it is not a book full of pictures, it just has a design at the chapter headings. There isn't an audio book available.

Yeah I, hoping they see the hour time because the word count is definitely high enough

... well maybe we will get an answer at some point? This is frustrating not being able to find out. I had all day off to read to my daughter if they will count this book, there just isn't a lot to work with. But I did read my other book anyway. Don't know how to get this day back full of time to read for this particular category though, work and school starts back up tomorrow.

Sarah wrote: "... well maybe we will get an answer at some point? This is frustrating not being able to find out. I had all day off to read to my daughter if they will count this book, there just isn't a lot to ..."

Hi guys. The mods have already made their decision and we need to abide by the current rules. So we will keep looking for other options.

for acorn on cover



for acorn in title/series name

Nikk and GreenFairy - First off, you are both doing an amazing job! Thanks for captaining.

I was looking at the "Official" Igor spreadsheets. Last week, it looks like our 15 points for the Spell Out Word. It looks like the formula didn't pull it in right. Just wanted to give a heads up, since I'm guessing that feeds the master file.

Thanks for the heads up Karolyn. I think I know what’s happened and will fix it soon 😀

Looking at December BOM and I’ll be participating in one of them! So more points for us, correct?

Beth wrote: "Looking at December BOM and I’ll be participating in one of them! So more points for us, correct?"

Yes. And even more points if write a set of DQ's.

Sarah wrote: "Beth wrote: "Looking at December BOM and I’ll be participating in one of them! So more points for us, correct?"

Yes. And even more points if write a set of DQ's."

I volunteered to do them for extra points. And because I like writing them haha

Mollie - u read Crazy Rich Asians and can still participate in BOM for points - it is super easy. You don't have to answer every single question, and you can really just write what u want about te book.

Sarah wrote: "Mollie - u read Crazy Rich Asians and can still participate in BOM for points - it is super easy. You don't have to answer every single question, and you can really just write what u want about te ..."

Thanks Sarah. For some reason, I thought I had to do the questions the same week I read the book. I'll try to make some time this week to participate. I'm just swamped right now. I'm so thankful for audio books or I wouldn't be getting any reading done.

Has anyone had luck finding (and actually getting) a book for they bonuses this week? I'm still looking, but anything I find or that y'all have shared isn't at my library. I'm going to dig around some more tomorrow.

I have one for seed as first page tag

I posted a couple above that will work for acorn on cover and acorn in series name - feel free to grab on of those to read if you can get access to them. Sorry on phone at the moment so can’t post links the titles were the sapphire heart and second title was bittersweet (acorn hills #1)

Nikk the Sapphired Book Dragon wrote: "I posted a couple above that will work for acorn on cover and acorn in series name - feel free to grab on of those to read if you can get access to them. Sorry on phone at the moment so can’t post ..."

My library didn't have them and I don't want to have to buy a copy :(

Yeah I am in the same boat Karolyn

I don't have Kindle Unlimited, but this one is free on KU if anyone is a subscriber. It could be... interesting....
Acorns to Wheat

Anybody US based interested in reading this one:


The Atomic Blood-Stained Bus

It's short at only 170 pages. I'd be willing to gift the ebook to you. But since I'm in the US I can only gift within the US

Or the book Nikk mentioned above. I can gift that one as well