Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Krissy wrote: "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 gif..."

I’ll read it. Should I PM you my email?

Yes. PM me

So it looks like Beth will take care of Acorn on cover! Thanks, Beth. Taking one for the team.

We need O's again. I finished one and put it in books read thread. Hopefully that will be put in for an O. Krissy had one too. My other books don't seem to have an O character. Poo poo.

Krissy you are amazing - all the books you have read for the team, so many of the points... and yes, Beth you are a rock star for taking one for the team, but I also hope you enjoy the book. It sounded like it might be interesting?

Sarah wrote: "Krissy you are amazing - all the books you have read for the team, so many of the points... and yes, Beth you are a rock star for taking one for the team, but I also hope you enjoy the book. It sou..."

I’ll let you know! So far I’m really enjoying Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation as well. After this I may look more into books like this!

Krissy wrote: "So it looks like Beth will take care of Acorn on cover! Thanks, Beth. Taking one for the team."

No problem! Sometimes we find amazing books that way 😁

Sarah wrote: "We need O's again. I finished one and put it in books read thread. Hopefully that will be put in for an O. Krissy had one too. My other books don't seem to have an O character. Poo poo."

Once I finish the two for bonuses, I have an O book I could get done in time. Possibly two but I work all weekend and tomorrow is a holiday

There are some other O's I noticed. Most my books, a wopping 3 or 4, usually have several letters.

Sarah wrote: "Krissy you are amazing - all the books you have read for the team, so many of the points... and yes, Beth you are a rock star for taking one for the team, but I also hope you enjoy the book. It sou..."

Thanks! It's amazing how much reading you can do when you have no social life whatsoever 😂

I can't believe I missed this book!

Finished Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation!

Beth wrote: "Finished Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation!"

Yay! I nominate Beth for the "Take One for the Team" award this week!

Krissy wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Krissy you are amazing - all the books you have read for the team, so many of the points... and yes, Beth you are a rock star for taking one for the team, but I also hope you enjoy th..."

In my older age I prefer to not be social and stay at home reading. But I do have to work, and I love to travel whenever I can. But vacations can be good for reading too.

I am going to Florida for the Christmas/New Years holidays for three weeks. My best friend lives in Orlando and my brother and his family are in Jacksonville - so a week at each house and a week at an Orlando resort. I want to just lay in the sun at the pool and read, but I will also be spending time running around the theme parks with my daughter, which is fun, but exhausting. And my brother's house is a zoo - he has four girls. My daughter and I are just the two of us and used to mellow and quiet. But I am so excited to see family and friends.

So we have our word for week 5 and it is :

DECORATIONS
We can also use festive for first page of tags

so hopefully t next week should be an easier week for finding books.

That being said, we are doing very well this week given our word and I am confident we can get even more points before the week is out. We have completed 4 complete run through and just need an N to finish a fifth.

The count down to the end of the week can be found Here

Let's keep on reading as we are :-)

We were apparently hit with the O bug. I’m pretty sure all of our words have had at least 1! I should be finished with the acorn on the cover book today. Thank you again Krissy for buying it for me!

Karolyn wrote: "Beth wrote: "Finished Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation!"

Yay! I nominate Beth for the "Take One for the Team" award this week!"

Haha thank you! I’m very much a team player :D

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Books shelved as Festive:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

Can anyone check this for festive? I’m on iPad so can’t just search for the word https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Oh never mind just saw it’s not. Darn, that’s BOM so would have been easy haha

I can read Winter Warmers. Festive is on first page and it’s onky 192 pages

I was gonna say the most festive tags is 10 and since that first book you posted ends the first page at 23 tags then there is no way it would be on the first page. You wouldn't even have to look

Yeah I realized that about 20 seconds after asking haha

Happy Thanksg to all our American teammates! My husband is the cook and he won't let anyone in the kitchen, so I should get some reading done today.

Questions on Decorations. In the title does it have to be exact? Or would "decorate" or "decorating" work? And as for on the cover... I'm guessing anything Christmas-y will work (lights, garland, a decorated tree, etc)?

Happy Thanksgiving! My husband is in Germany so it's just me and the kids. Having a lazy day cooking all their favorite side dishes since they don't like Turkey or ham. Listening to my audiobook:)

Happy thanksgiving to you as well! My boyfriend, his mom, and I decided to make it low key. None of us like turkey or many of the normal sides so we are just doing ham, potato salad, and garlic bread haha. We are just watching football and hanging out so I’m getting some reading done as well

Do you think one of these will work for Decorations on the cover? I can get either one.

I think the second one definitely should work

I have a book I posted in books read thread that works for an N, but I can't enter on spreadshheet? Orhan's Inheritance

I am also about to finish Something in the Water, I will also post in book read thread, and it will work for an R we need. Also another N from Counting by 7's which I will finish by tomorrow morning, but that should complete next two acorns.

I have a question about the number of pages on the book I just read (listened to). Because it was an Audible book, usually we take the first edition that is shown. In the case of The Collector the first one is a large print edition which is 700+ words. I don't know if that is a fair number.

Chris wrote: "I have a question about the number of pages on the book I just read (listened to). Because it was an Audible book, usually we take the first edition that is shown. In the case of [book:The Collecto..."

The rules say that we go with the default edition so if that is the default edition then that’s the one we will go with. It would be nice to have the rules work in our advantage rather than our disadvantage like it did earlier in the week with the acorn book

Karolyn wrote: "Do you think one of these will work for Decorations on the cover? I can get either one.
"

The second one would work I should think. I also have a few already put on lan from the Library with decorations on the cover as I had borrowed them for another Christmas challenge. 😀

Was any else reading for acorn in the title? Or do I still need to read the acorn hills book?

Nikk the Sapphired Book Dragon wrote: "Karolyn wrote: "Do you think one of these will work for Decorations on the cover? I can get either one.
[bookcover:A Christmas Hope|1756875..."

If you have one, go for it. I was pretty "meh" about that one, but would read it if we need it. Do we have an answer if the title needs to be "Decorations" exactly or will "decorate" or "decorating" work.

I'm trying to get one more done this week, but keep getting interrupted. Good news is it works for next week also.

Nikk the Sapphired Book Dragon wrote: "Chris wrote: "I have a question about the number of pages on the book I just read (listened to). Because it was an Audible book, usually we take the first edition that is shown. In the case of [boo..."



Sweet! (This was for ACORN)

It needs to be either decoration or the plural - no variations

I know I already posted this but I have books posted in book read thread that can be used but need to be added to spread sheet. I think there are other books too. I don't know how that works, Nick enters it? I just don't want anything missed.

AND where is Green Fairy? I hope she is o.k.

Don't worry Sarah I am going through the books read thread now so I will make sure to use all our books read :-)

I managed to get my acorn in the title book read this afternoon. It wasn't great but at least it wasn't as bad as the cornbread book the week before LOL. Gonna try and get all books from books read thread and spreadsheet entered quickly and try and squeeze one more book in but given its already nearly 9 pm here I am not sure how successful i will be

plus i want to watch the next episode of Sabrina on netflix...

I keep forgetting to put my books on the read thread sorry!! Would you like me to put the books I’ve finished that aren’t on the official spreadsheet?

I started the audio for , reading on kindle (which is also for another challenge, and still reading to my daughter on kindle as well. They are all hard to put down. I am enjoying all three.

I read and enjoyed

Completion Post

Cover:

Title: I'm Fine...and Other Lies
Author: Whitney Cummings
Series: n/a
Narrator: author
Translator: n/a
Date Read: 11/24
Spell-Out Letters: C, I
Bonus Options: n/a

Oh an I is good. We have three difficult letters in our word I think - one I and two O's

I finished Broken Silence yesterday and the word ‘decorations’ was in the book. Would that count for the bonus?

Sarah wrote: "Oh an I is good. We have three difficult letters in our word I think - one I and two O's"

My book I finished yesterday works for O along with a couple other letters. I’ll look for more I books as well

I see Chris is reading for word in text so whichever you want to take is fine by me!

Awoke ar 2:30 a.m. and couldn't sleep. But hey, I got in some good reading time.

I couldn't figure out why my completion of I'm Fine...and Other Lies wasn't in the "books read" post when I could have sworn I added it! Now I know why 🤣