Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Haha. Yes, Lisa. The US alternative to “bum bag” always makes me laugh and kind of sounds a bit icky at the same time 😂

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Book: Friedhof der Kuscheltiere by Stephen King

Date Read: 4th July
Pages: 379
Top Shelf: yes
Letters:
S - author: Stephen King
N - character: Norma Crandall
D - character: Dory Goldman

Ok, I'm officially losing the will to live. 1200 out of 2100 books checked manually on Google books and Look inside, and nothing has come up for any of the tricky words. (except a couple of times where it claimed it was there but couldn't show me. From experience I know they're always wrong, lol) Can't face doing the rest, so I am officially giving up on the tricky words unless anyone happens to know of any (that are also in my collection, lol).

So I guess I'll just be doing one of the regular words instead, so going back to original plan of Paranormalcy, as it's bound to have at least one of them.

Happy Fourth of July for all those who celebrate!
Dropping by from 'The Color Purple' to spread the holiday cheer.

Sammy wrote: "Ok, I'm officially losing the will to live. 1200 out of 2100 books checked manually on Google books and Look inside, and nothing has come up for any of the tricky words. (except a couple of times w..."

1200!?😮 How long did that take?

I'm currently searching for the harder words that are not being read for and if something comes up I'll post them here:)

About 5 hours (including a break for lunch). Tell you what... If I win the lottery, I'm buying all my books on Kindle. Not to read, just to make it quicker to search for challenges, lol!

I'm pretty optimistic I can finish Daisy Jones and The Six today :-)

Judy wrote: "I'm pretty optimistic I can finish Daisy Jones and The Six today :-)"

Great!

Hopefully, I'm able to finish the two books that I'm currently in the middle of😅.

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416 PAGES paperback
Genre; yes - 45 people on first page
Letters -
S - series name
A - Character - Audrey Rose Wadsworth

Phew, my eyes are nearly falling out of my head I've read so much this week.

I'm going to have to take a breather next week, I'll see how I go.

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Thicker Than Blood
Author: Madeline Sheehan
Pages: 366
Genre: yes
Letters: S - Author, A - character (Alex)

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Title: Sad Cypress
Author: Agatha Christie
Date: 4.7.19
Pages: 304

Letters:
S - title
A - author's first name

Tag: /

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Title: Devil's Daughter
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Date: 5.7.19
Pages: 384

Letters:
S - Sebastian, the Duke of Kingston
D - title

Tag: /

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Title: New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
Author: Paula Guran
Date: 5.7.19
Pages: 562

Letters:
S - Petey Sanderson
A - char Geoffrey Abbott
N - title
D - char Diego

Genre: yes, horror by 166 users on main page

Judy, we have about an hour before the deadline. Do you still think you are able to finish Daisy Jones & The Six? If not and if nobody else is finishing their books before the deadline then I'll let the other captains know that we are finished for the week :)

I'm already reading books for next round :)

Just finished! Doing my completion post now and then answering the last two sets of DQs :-)

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Title: Daisy Jones & The Six
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Date: 5/7/19
Pages: 368
Letters:
D - title
S - character Simone
A - character Artie
N - character Niccolo

DQs: 1 2

Judy wrote: "Completion post

Title: Daisy Jones & The Six
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Date: 5/7/19
Pages: 368
Letters:
D - title
S - character Simone
A - character Artie
N - ch..."

Judy, it appears that you have added the book to the wrong wheel-a-thon self (wheel-a-thon III). Could you please add it to the correct one:)

Sorry, changed that!

Kristel wrote: "Judy wrote: "Completion post

Title: Daisy Jones & The Six
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Date: 5/7/19
Pages: 368
Letters:
D - title
S - character Simone
A - character..."

Also, to count for the BOM you have to interact with the other member of the thread. You have only answered to the DQ. Could you also interact with the other members? 1-2 comments should be sufficient:)

About to do that now while listening to some very on-topic Fleetwood Mac :-) do you need me to post the links?

Judy wrote: "About to do that now while listening to some very on-topic Fleetwood Mac :-) do you need me to post the links?"

thats not neccesary, I'm keeping my own eye on it:)

I think I'm done now :-)

Judy wrote: "I think I'm done now :-)"

Great, yeah I saw your comments:) Letting the others know that we are done:)

Thanks :-) sorry for the mess and that it was so late, I thought I'd easily get it done this afternoon but then life happened...

Judy wrote: "Thanks :-) sorry for the mess and that it was so late, I thought I'd easily get it done this afternoon but then life happened..."

No problem. Everything got done on time:)

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Eternity's Wheel by Neil Gaiman
288 pages
6 July 2019

A: Avery Jones
N: Author Neil Gaiman

Genre: no

Mini Challenge:
blood: page 23 "I might get blood on it"
scream: p195 "another scream cut through the blackness"
horror: page 271 they were a nightmare, a horror story"
terror: p91 "I could feel Josephine's wonder and terror"
shadows: p61 "they started to come up out of the shadows"
bone: p205 "the bone legs that had been digging"
spider: p201 "and a little like spider legs"
dark: p17 "it was dark"
devil p49 "that would give the devil himself nightmares"
nightmare: p141 "those little spindly nightmare things
witch: p227 "The HEX witch will find her way here"
knife: p141 "we have a bandana and a knife"
night: p19 "needed anything, day or night"
conjure: p199"sounds I'd just heard had conjured images"
cat p33: "he's kind of like a stray cat"
death: p201: "the scent of death and roses"
maim: p137 "I was really tired of things trying to kill/maim/eat me"
monster: p147 "your fight with the bird monster"

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Title: A Danger to Herself and Others
Author: Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Date: 6 July
Pages: 341
Letters:
A- author: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Mini challenge:
monster/Frankenstein: pg 208 "I hold my hands out in front of me like I'm Frankenstein's monster"
death: pg 230 " ...into my brain as a song about life and death."
hide: pg 128 "I hide my hands beneath the table..."
cat: pg 86 “Cat got your tongue?”
night: pg 6 " At night, a tiny strip of light comes in …"
knife: pg 33 "...give us food that requires a fork and knife."
woods: pg 16 "My window faces the woods,..."
bone: pg 43 "Jonah’s fingers wrapped around Agnes’s hip bone."
dark: pg 23 " Too dark at night."
anxiety: pg 65 "I didn’t have any anxiety about sharing my space..."
scream: pg 6 "...kick and scream and protest my innocence…"

Kristel wrote: "Completion post

Title: A Danger to Herself and Others
..."


Don't forget you also have Frankenstein there ;)

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Kristel wrote: "Completion post

Title: A Danger to Herself and Others
..."


Don't forget you also have Frankenstein there ;)"
There are too many words! Totally missed it😅

Teehee

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Title: Bishop's Honor
Author: A.R. Shaw
Date: 6.7.19
Pages: 232

Letters:
A - author
L - char Louna

Genre: no

Mini:
Winchester - "...pick up a Winchester rifle..." p. 93
cat - "...she called to the cat..." p. 23
hide - "...hide unless confronted..." p. 111
sofa - "...from the living room sofa..." p. 35
death - "After the death of her husband..." p. 51
knife - "...Maeve retrieved the knife..." p. 59
gore - "...no matter the gore he found himself in..." p. 69
nightmare - "Somewhere in the nightmare..." p. 93
bone - "...she saw only blood, bone, and brain." p. 198
cabin - "...both sides of the cabin wall..." p. 69
horror - "...she screamed in horror." p. 135
fright - "A tingle of fright ran up her spine." p. 60
terror - "Austin still frozen in terror..." p. 187
shadows - "...hanging back in the shadows." p. 156

Also night, blood, woods, and dark, but figured those are so common words that they're easy to find in some other book.

Completely off topic... I went to the movies tonight (Gold Class, Macquarie, Karen..) and saw Yesterday. Lovely feel good movie, recommend it if any of you ladies want a couple of hours to chill out and remember why the Beatles music was soooo good.

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Title: Bloody Mary
Author: J.A. Konrath
Date: 6.7.19
Pages: 320

Letters:
A - Alan Daniels (ch)
L - Latham Conger (ch)

Tag: /

Mini challenge
Bloody Mary - title + But a good bloody Mary with a healthy dose of hot sauce makes this tired old tongue dance a jitterbug. pg 144
Charles Mason - John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck, Charles Manson—all had records of serious head injuries. pg 181

blood - When he finally falls asleep, it’s to the image of cutting her open and bathing his face with her blood. pg 7
scream - Then we heard the scream. pg 35
horror - A juvenile affection for bad horror movies and ’80s pop songs. pg 48
fright - I jumped back, almost screaming in fright. pg 148
stalker - She may have had stalkers. pg 29
invoke - Mom, I can invoke power of attorney. pg 19
bone - He will draw his knife across her forehead, pull back the skin to expose the bone. pg 32
anxiety - For the next three hours, sleep was a stop-and-go affair, short stretches interspersed with bouts of anxiety, nagging questions, and doubt. pg 64
dark - The room was dark, but I noticed two things immediately. pg 198
psycho - ...I got to deal with the very real possibility that a psycho would soon be out on the street... pg 139
jaws - ... but I managed to stretch her jaws wide enough to get a penlight inside pg 205
woods - I took her out into the woods, where no one would see. pg 200
nightmare - They’re a cop’s worst nightmare. pg 78
Sam - I took a large swig of Sam Adams and frowned. pg 56
knife - He caresses her chin with the edge of the knife, shaving off some of the mask. pg 6
gore - He scrubs his nails with a toothbrush and a lot of soap, cleaning out all of the gore and little bits. pg 42

I've started Uprooted which obviously has a U and is conveniently also tagged paranormal

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The Awakening
Author: L.J. Smith
Pages: 272
Genre: yes
Letters: L (author), A (Title)

Mini Challenge
Marie Antoinette - pg 28 ‘No idea about the French Revolution, thinks Marie Antoinette was a silent film star’

Do I get extra points for finding the word "Walnut" in my book? lol.

Really enjoying it though, :)

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Title: Unholy Ghosts
Author: Stacia Kane
Date: 7.7.19
Pages: 340

Letters:
L - Lex (ch)
U - title
T - Terrible (ch)

Tag: paranormal

Mini challenge
blood - Something that cooled her blood and made her wish desperately that she was back home in bed. pg 30
scream - His scream was muffled in the mist and drowned out by the clank of the tire iron... - pg 212
horror - ...turning her panic and horror at the full scope of the Lamaru’s plan into energy... pg 221
creepy - Creepy in there, all them blue pilgrims with black eyes and buckle shoes. - pg 89
terror - ...eliminating her terror in the dark and making it sound as though she’d heard about the tunnels... pg 168
shadows - For a moment the shadows inside the car looked like blood trails smeared over her skin. pg 176
bone - ...she sprinkled the remaining powdered crow bone over the ruined body on the pallet. pg 260
spider - Its pale, wrinkled skin and gnarled fingers looked like a dead albino spider. pg 14
jaws - ...as the dog gripped his arm in its heavy jaws and dragged him down ... pg 261
nightmare - Different shades of red, like a nightmare. pg 16
witch - ...the tattooed witch in her tank top and jeans and the hulking guard in his bowling shirt and trousers,... pg 25
knife - Not enough to tuck the knife back into her bag. pg 23
night - ...parting the weeds sounded like death whispers in the still night... pg 30
poison - Aw, you think we give you poison? pg 58
death - ...and dragged him down into the emptiness of silent death. pg 261

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Title: Grief Cottage
Author: Gail Godwin
Date: 7.7.19
Pages: 288

Letters:
W - char William
L - char Lachicotte
U - char Coral Upchurch

Genre: yes

Mini:
Since it's a pain to locate words in the book (no Look Inside available on Amazon, so I had to search for words in google and then try to find them in the actual book), I listed here only a few.
poison - "Certain humans are poison." p. 100
hide - "...or did he hide out from the noise..." p. 133
sofa - "I slept on the sofa..." p. 82
monster - "That's my monster." p. 160
witch - "Oh, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." p. 220

Yay, found O.J. Simpson in the audiobook I'll read after finishing my current one!

I’ve found a book with Charles Manson!

❦ Tina ❣ wrote: "I’ve found a book with Charles Manson!"

I’ve nearly finished a book with Charles Manson, so don’t feel you need to read the book if that’s the only reason you’re picking it up :)

Reposting to this new page with which tricky letters are being read for. :)

TRICKY ONES - 10 points each

Karen-		Freddie Krueger

		Black Dahlia

Kristel-	Black Widow
			
		Andrea Yates

Emma -		Charles Manson
Kristel-	White Woman
			
		Michael Myers

Camilla - 	OJ Simpson
Emma - 		Marie Antoinnette
Karen -		Lucrezia Borgia
Tea -		Bloody Mary

I know of all those baddies except for Andrea Yates? What did she do?

Lucrezia Borgia is my personal favourite although after reading quite a lot of historical novels and watching The Borgias TV show I think history gives her a bad wrap.

I haven't got any of the tricky words although the book I'm reading now has an Annabelle.

I don't know either Lisa and I'm too scared to google to find out. LOL

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Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
352 pages
8/7/19

Genre: Paranormal, 1st column 2,475 people

A: Adam Hauptman
L: Leah
U: Stefan Uccello
T: Mercy Thompson


Mini Challenge:
I found these via google. If you let me know which ones you want page numbers for I'll find them in the book. (as I have the paperback, not the kindle for this)

blood: "you have blood on your chin"
chills "which were red with a chill"
scream: "I can scream really loud"
creepy "there was nothing creepy about the hallway"
terror "tony claimed to live in terror of this mother"
stalker "there was noting to see, so my stalker was far enough"
shadows "stefan first emerged from the shadows"
Dracula "but the dracula look does have its place"
Bone "I heard the bone crack"
anxiety "I could smell his anxiety before it was drowned..."
dark "I couldn't tell what color it was. dark blue or..."
Pyscho "It had been Ben, the psycho killer from London"
jaws "his elongating jaws stretching around"
woods "the winter woods were quiet"
nightmare "I suppose I should have had nightmares"
supernatural "meaning anyone touched by the supernatural"
Sam "you called me Sam"
Witch "the witch wasn't Elizaveta at all"
knife "resolutely I pressed the knife against"
gore "his elegant muzzle was covered in gore"
night "just had enough of vampires that night"
conjure "as if my voice had conjured him from thin air"
poison "you sleep and get rid of this poison"
cat "which is why she often ended up in the cat carrier"
hide "I could not hide from myself anymore"
sofa "samuel settled on the good side of the plush sofa"
death "you come smelling of blood and death"
monster "I can control the monster?"

Ooohhh I was going too Emma!

@ Thanks Karen.

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A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie
283 pages
08/07/19

W: Esther Walters
A: Author Agatha
L: Lucky Dyson
T: Tim Kendal

Genre: no

Mini challenge:
P184 Lucrezia Borgia
"then he talked a lot about Lucrezia Borgia"

I'll start The Quickie for "Freddie Krueger"

edit -- or do we need another paranormal book instead?