Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Eldarwen wrote: "Thank you! :-)

I'm going to Dublin. First time visiting the city and I'm going with a friend who's been there before so she knows her way around."

Ohhhh, so jealous! I've wanted to visit Ireland for about 25 years now... One day, lol.

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Title: The Bell Jar
Author: Sylvia Plath
Date read: 03/07/2019
Pages: 234
Letters:
S - author
N - Character - Dr. Nolan
D - Character - Doreen


Should hopefully finish my King tomorrow :)

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Have a great trip E.

At least you'll get to cool off from temps in 30is :p"

Oh gosh, don't remind me. I'm so so glad to be able to cool off! Even if it's not as hot anymore and there's a nice wind going most of the time, you're sticky as soon as you move because it's still quite humid. Blergh!

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Title: Viipurin valtiatar
Author: Kristiina Vuori
Date read: 03/07/2019
Pages: 347
Letters:
S - char Sten
A - char Anna
N - char Nils
D - char Folke Didrikinpoika

Genre: no

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Title: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Author: Becky Chambers
Date read: 3 July
Pages: 519
Letters:
S - character: Sissix
A - character: Ashby
N - character: Nib

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Title: The Alchemyst
Author: Michael Scott
Date: 3.7.19
Pages: 375

Letters:
S - author's last name
A - title
N - Nicholas Flamel (ch)
D - John Dee (ch)

Tag: /

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Title: Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Author: Stephen King
Date read: 03/07/2019
Pages: 864
Letters:
S: author
A: Andy Estes (character)
N: title
D: Dolan (character)

Genre: Yes

Woohoo! Not only did menfolk get back from work late, but they also went for a beer run after dinner, so I got lots extra reading time! Yay!

Wooohh! Gotta love a quiet evening to yourself from time to time :-)

I'm trying to finish up His Banana before bed. The King book will be done tomorrow before I leave. And the historical fiction... we'll see. Maybe I'll get it done before the deadline.

Yep, and I'll have another tomorrow as they'll be away to band practice :)

Getting a head start on The Wise Man's Fear, as it's 1k+ pages with tiny writing, lol.

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Book: His Banana by Penelope Bloom

Date Read: 3rd July
Pages: 177
Top Shelf: no
Letters:
N - character: Natasha Flores

Eldarwen wrote: "

Book: His Banana by Penelope Bloom

"

Is it as hilarious as it sounds?

The beginning certainly is! I liked the banter and it was an easy read.

Oh I just noticed that for the mini challenge Cat has added:

"Only one word can be found per book read (though of course multiple people could read the book to find different words)"

For those "tricky ones" I can't imagine I will come across any in what I read, but I'll search my kindle.

I'm headed for Helsinki this morning, but will be back in time tomorrow to report my last book (the Cthulhu one).

LOL about the mini challenge words: "defenestrate" has made an appearance there too!

I'm currently reading Grief Cottage, it will work for Paranormal. Unfortunately, on Amazon the Look Inside feature is available only for the kindle edition, which doesn't allow searching for words in the book (which I've always found weird). Any ideas where to look?

Camilla, google books, advanced search..

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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
368 pages

S: Ch; Simone Jackson
A: Artie
N: Niccolo
D: Title

Genre: no

BOM Discussion:
Day 1
Day 2
I'll continue to join the discussion as the DQs get posted. Such a good book.

I'm going to start
Moon Called for next week's Paranormal.
Seems to have characters for W, A, L, U and T
:)

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Book: Serious Moonlight
Author: Jenn Bennett
Date Read: 3/7/19
Pages: 432
Letters:
S - title
A - character Daniel Aoki
D - character Daniel Aoki

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I'm going to start
Moon Called for next week's Paranormal.
Seems to have characters for W, A, L, U and T
:)"

Awww, Mercy is awesome!!
The series gets better with every book, so don't give up right after the first book in case you don't enjoy it all too much.

Eldarwen wrote: "Awww, Mercy is awesome!!
The series gets better with every book, so don't give up right after the first book in case you don't enjoy it all too much. .."

Ah. one of those. gtk!
She has been on my list for a while so this gives a good excuse.
:)

Every excuse is good to read one of the older books ;-)
I'm picking up Wickedly Dangerous for Fright Week and it's been on my shelf for a few years already, though my copy isn't quite as old hehe.

Hope you enjoy Mercy!

I thought I'd share what I've found in case anyone wants to read one:

TRICKY ONES - 10 points each

Freddie Krueger ,

Black Dahlia ,

Black Widow ,

Andrea Yates

Charles Manson , ,

White Woman ,

Michael Myers

OJ Simpson ,

Marie Antoinnette , , ,

Lucrezia Borgia ,

Bloody Mary ,

I've got The Alexandrite for OJ Simpson that I could try and read at work next week. But without guarantee yet as I'm not sure what will await me when I get back to work.

I think I will go with A Caribbean Mystery for Lucrezia Borgia as I'm guessing that's a somewhat difficult one to find in most books by accident. And it has characters that work for W, L, T and A

I can reread Konrath's Bloody Mary - Jack Daniels series (sorry, on app atm so can't link). I've skimmed it yesterday for letters and as far as I saw, it works only for L

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Oh I just noticed that for the mini challenge Cat has added:

"Only one word can be found per book read (though of course multiple people could read the book to find different words)"

For those "t..."

Awww, that's not fair! lol.

I’m reading Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession for Charles Manson, it only works for A though.

Hmmm, will need to come up with a new plan. Seems pointless re-reading a book just for one regular word, and the only tricky one I know I can find is Lucrezia Borgia (won't know if there are any others before reading them, as 99.99% of my collection is paperback, lol.)

So it looks like one of my audible books has Marie Antoinette in the text, so I can read that. It will work for A or L.

Sammy wrote: "Hmmm, will need to come up with a new plan. Seems pointless re-reading a book just for one regular word, and the only tricky one I know I can find is Lucrezia Borgia (won't know if there are any ot..."

Agree, don’t reread a book just for a regular word

These kind of challenges are really geared in favour of people who read on a kindle, lol.

Amazon Look Inside still sometimes works (but not for all books) but you need to choose the paperback edition in order to be able to search for a particular word.

Otherwise, books.google.com can help, though it doesn't give page numbers anymore, but those you'll get once you start reading anyway.

Eldarwen wrote: "Amazon Look Inside still sometimes works (but not for all books) but you need to choose the paperback edition in order to be able to search for a particular word.

Otherwise, books.google.com can h..."

I'm finding google books quite unreliable (loads of false positives) and the Look Inside feature has also given me a migraine or two already. It has also taken me days typing in books one by one to find what I've needed, which we can't really afford to lose when the words run weekly, lol.

Once the house guest is awake I'll go check wheat I have upstairs that will fit Paranormal and could conceivably have a tricky word in them, then I'll see if amazon feels like playing nice.

Searching a kindle does make it easy, but I also read a lot of audio and paperbacks. For those I use the google or amazon search functions 😉👍

Eldarwen wrote: "I've got The Alexandrite for OJ Simpson that I could try and read at work next week. But without guarantee yet as I'm not sure what will await me when I get back to work."

I kept my copy for if I ever get that task for Alexandrite again. lol

Have a wonderful break this weekend!

I hope no-one minds if I just keep track of which tricky letters are being read for. Helps me to know what to read next week:

TRICKY ONES - 10 points each

		Freddie Krueger
		Black Dahlia
Kristel-	Black Widow
		Andrea Yates
Emma -		Charles Manson
Kristel-	White Woman
		Michael Myers
Eldarwen (maybe) - OJ Simpson
Emma - 		Marie Antoinnette
Karen -		Lucrezia Borgia
Tea -		Bloody Mary

Karen, if you want to add to your tracking post what I'm reading for next week:

The Diviners - White Woman in the text
Scythe - Black Widow in the text.

Kristel wrote: "Karen, if you want to add to your tracking post what I'm reading for next week:

The Diviners - White Woman in the text
Scythe - Black Widow in the text."

cool :)
I have The Diviners #3 from the library, but it is such a big book I'm not sure I'd finish it in time

Freddie Krueger
Black Dahlia
Andrea Yates
Michael Myers

Are the ones left. Not found anything yet, but will keep looking.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I kept my copy for if I ever get that task for Alexandrite again. lol

Have a wonderful break this weekend!"

Hahaha, yes! That's exactly why I kept this, too! When it popped up as a freebie with that word in the title, I didn't even read what it was about, I just downloaded.

Thanks! :-)

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I hope no-one minds if I just keep track of which tricky letters are being read for. Helps me to know what to read next week:"

That's perfect, thank you! :-)

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Title: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Date read: 04/07/2019
Pages: 251
Letters:
S - author
A - character Agatha
Genre: yes

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368 pages paperback.
Wrote Day 3 discussion questions here - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Participated in discussion Messages 36 and 72.
Letters:
S - Simone Jackson
A - Artie Snyder
N - Niccolo
D - title
Genre - No

Great book. 5 stars.

I’m reading a Miss Marple.... and just to show how language has changed in a relatively short period... one of the characters calls Miss Marple a “nice old pussy”.
😉

Mmmm. Yes.

It's a bit like cultural differences between us and the US and another similar word starting with F***y. Always makes me snigger when I read it in an American novel.

So just clarifying a point with the word search.

We can still find the words in another genre book, not just paranormal?

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "So just clarifying a point with the word search.

We can still find the words in another genre book, not just paranormal?"

Exactly.

Whichever book we read this week will count for the scavenger hunt.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I’m reading a Miss Marple.... and just to show how language has changed in a relatively short period... one of the characters calls Miss Marple a “nice old pussy”.
😉"

Hahaha ;-) That would definitely not fly these days!