Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

I’ve started a book for “Andrea Yates”. Hopefully I can get it done in time!!

What a superstar you are Karen. And all you other ladies who have found the tricky words. Where do you find all these books with serial killers, LOL.

I've got one more book to read for paranormal this week, and it has all the letters except T so far..

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I’ve started a book for “Andrea Yates”. Hopefully I can get it done in time!!"

Yaay :-D
Fingers crossed!

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "I just happen to have a "U" in...

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That's fantastic about the U!

Could you give me the sentence please for "anxiety"? Thank you! :-)

Eldarwen wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "I just happen to have a "U" in...

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That's fantastic about the U!

Could you give me the sentence please fo..."

"Or it could be the temptation of spending time with Chiron overcame her natural anxiety" (Loc 1564)

I'm leaving on a trip to London for a couple of days tonight... I'll definitely finish Uprooted and probably another book before the deadline (maybe even another U! I plan on buying Under a Dancing Star while I'm there) but I can't promise completion posts (though I'll definitely add them to the shelf).

My plane is supposed to land in good time for me to make it home before the deadline buuuuut Easyjet is unreliable in the evenings so who knows if that works out...

Oh, and I'm nearly done with Ghosts of the Shadow Market, will do a completion post for that in the afternoon :-)

Hey Judy, me too. I'm arriving in London over the weekend, meeting my cousins for a family history fact finding mission and general look around.

Sounds great Judy & Lisa, enjoy!!

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "What a superstar you are Karen. And all you other ladies who have found the tricky words. Where do you find all these books with serial killers, LOL.

I've got one more book to read for paranormal..."

oh thanks. I got through 35% today so I think I can do it! James Patterson is not a difficult read ;)
But, yes, I've probably had enough serial killer books for a while now. lol

Cool! That sounds like it's going to be fun & should be pretty interesting! 😊 I'll just go to a book event and buy as many books as I can fit into my carry-on 😅

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Title: Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Author: Mitch Albom
Date: 10.7.19
Pages: I listened to the audio, the edition that comes up in search is 210 pages

Letters:
A - author
T - title

Genre: no

Mini:
"the lawyers in the O.J. Simpson trial..." p. 80 of the HC

I should finish my audio book today (which will be an "L"), and I'm hoping to have Wise Man's fear finished today too.

I then should have time still to squeeze in a paranormal if we still need one?

We have new word - UMBER
and genre is Shifters

I don't have problem with that genre. Have plenty of choices :)

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "❀Tea❀ wrote: "OK, I'll take U and then if there is still time left attack Myers :)"

Tea, I had a U so you can attack Michael Myers if you like and save your U for another time."

I've already started U book, but I can set it aside (for next week) and go for Myers. It'll probably be both books at the same time as one is audio (Myers) and another is on reader

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Title: Ghosts of the Shadow Market
Author: Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, Robin Wasserman, Kelly Link, Sarah Rees Brennan
Date: 10/7/19
Pages: 624

Letters:
W - author Robin Wasserman
L - author Kelly Link
A - character Alec Lightwood

Genre: yes

Mini:

Blood: p. 6 „a tiny, insignificant amount of demon blood“
Scream: p. 103 „reject her, run screaming“
Horror: p. 297 „she watched in horror as he pulled away“
Fright p. 103 „I look a fright“
Shadow: p. 3 „the Shadow Market“
Bone: p. 5 „that lived long amid old bones“
Dark: p. 4 „under the dark arches“
Devil: p. 128 „running through it as if some devil had touched it“
Woods: p. 6 „an incident in the woods with a demon“
Night: p. 3 „a silver dagger against the night sky“
Poison: p. 101 „as the poison stung the surface“
Hide: p. 153 „They are in hiding“
Death: p. 148 „it was death to demons“

❀Tea❀ wrote: "We have new word - UMBER
and genre is Shifters"

..The genre is going to be a hard one for me😅.

For next week I can read Dark Currents for the shifter genre, which has at least M and B and possibly other letters. 400+ pages

And I can also read War of the Wolf - 300+ and has a pesky U for MC :)

If I have time, I can read book 2 in the shifter series too :)

(When I say "I can read war of the Wolf" what I actually mean is "I am reading the darned book, whether y'all want to use the thing or not") :P

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Title: Empire of the Sun
Author: J.G. Ballard
Date read: 10/7/2019
Pages: 351
Letters:

L - Mr. Lockwood (character)

Genre: No.

Mini:

Horror: Page 141 “bending the nails until, to the Vincents’ horror, the entire structure”
Bone: Page 81 “worth nothing, Frank.’ ‘You’re skin and bone. “
Clown: Page 10 “as if Shanghai had become a city of clowns.”
Cabin: Page 72 “ducked through a narrow hatch into a metal cabin behind the bridge.”
Jaws: Page 18 “Jim felt his cheeks and jaw, trying to imagine”
Night: Page 11 “ After a heavy snowfall one night in early December the snow…”
Death: Page 129 “Chinese soldiers were being worked to death”

Sammy wrote: "(When I say "I can read war of the Wolf" what I actually mean is "I am reading the darned book, whether y'all want to use the thing or not") :P"

Hahaha ;-)

UMBER should be interesting with the U ;-)

SHIFTERS is going to be easy for me. I love fantasy after all!

Judy wrote: "I'm leaving on a trip to London for a couple of days tonight... I'll definitely finish Uprooted and probably another book before the deadline (maybe even another U! I plan on buying..."

Have fun!! :-)

If you can manage, just post a note here in the thread if you're done with a book and we'll handle it from there. Thanks!

Judy wrote: "Cool! That sounds like it's going to be fun & should be pretty interesting! 😊 I'll just go to a book event and buy as many books as I can fit into my carry-on 😅"

Way to go!!
Which book event is that?

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Hey Judy, me too. I'm arriving in London over the weekend, meeting my cousins for a family history fact finding mission and general look around."

Nice! Hope you'll enjoy!!

I don't think I have anything planned for the near future for shifters, but if I have time tomorrow morning before we leave, I'll have a look.

For the remaining completion posts for this week:

Unless you have one of the tricky words, you don't need to scavenge for the sentences and locations anymore. We have filled our 25 that are allowed :-) Nice work, guys!!

Sammy wrote: "I should finish my audio book today (which will be an "L"), and I'm hoping to have Wise Man's fear finished today too.

I then should have time still to squeeze in a paranormal if we still need one?"

We're got on the Paranormal front. If everyone finishes their books, then we've got 10 :-)

Eldarwen wrote: "For the remaining completion posts for this week:
Unless you have one of the tricky words, you don't need to scavenge for the sentences and locations anymore. We have filled our 25 that are allowe..."

Oh, I hadn't realized we only need to complete 25 of the words!

Eldarwen wrote: "UMBER should be interesting with the U ;-)

SHIFTERS is going to be easy for me. I love fantasy after all!"

I love fantasy too, but usually I'm more of an epic/high fantasy kinda girl. Not much of a fan of urban fantasy, though giving these a go because I love Carey's Kushiel books.

So, in quite a twist, Gatwick had massive issues today and my flight was eventually cancelled... I was quite sure there was no way it'd happen tonight but still went to the airport and just as I was through security, they announced the cancellation - got a quick rebooking for tomorrow morning though and let's hope that works out! (It's only a 40min trip to the airport for me so it could be a lot more inconvenient! And I'd rather have this cancellation and fly tomorrow morning than arrive in London at 3am... silver linings and all that 😅)


"If you can manage, just post a note here in the thread if you're done with a book and we'll handle it from there. Thanks!"
I'll try to post in the thread when I'm done with something 😊

"Which book event is that?"
It's the launch event for Heartstopper: Volume Two - I love the author & I've been reading Heartstopper since the first part was posted ☺️ (plus it's a great excuse for a short trip to London to browse bookstores 😂)

Completion post

Title: Third Grave Dead Ahead
Author: Darynda Jones
Date: 10.7.19
Pages: 330

Letters:
A - Amber (ch)
L - Luther (ch)
T - title
*there might be more letters, but it was audio and story so sucked me in that I didn't pay attention to names*

Tag: paranormal

Mini challenge
Michael Myers - It was either that or Michael Myers, pg 134

Great news we've completed the task... but sad face also because I love looking for the words. And my current book actually had Jaws as in the movie, what are the chances of that when I wasn't even looking, LOL.

Next week, I'll be travelling and am just taking my kindle.. I have one book I know of already loaded for Shifters - luckily one very considerate person labelled it and its on the top shelves page. . From the blurb there is a R character - Romulus but maybe others.

I can also read another Deadwood Anne Charles book - there is a secondary character Ray Underhill but not shifters unfortunately.

We're going great overall in this challenge.. The Wheel of Brown is a lot of fun.

So I found another quickie for Shifters with a B Character - Blayze.

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Top Shelves - shifters 2 people

Oh, I like Shifters! Gives me a chance to finally get to Kate Daniels.

I will read Magic Shifts which at least has a B and M. Hopefully others
and I will get into the second Mercy book Blood Bound which has U, M, B at least

Completion post

Title: Escaping America
Author: Warren Fahy
Date: 10.7.19
Pages: 294

Letters:
W - author
T, N - char Tom Neville

Genre: no

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Oh, I like Shifters! Gives me a chance to finally get to Kate Daniels.

I will read Magic Shifts which at least has a B and M. Hopefully others
and I will get into the second Mercy ..."

Good choices in books :-))

Judy wrote: "So, in quite a twist, Gatwick had massive issues today and my flight was eventually cancelled... I was quite sure there was no way it'd happen tonight but still went to the airport and just as I wa..."

Well that sucks!!
At least you can catch a flight in the morning and still be on time for your event (or so I assume) because it would be a shame to miss that! And if you have time, go to Foyles - lovely bookstore that works with half-floors and regularly has surprises like signed books etc.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Great news we've completed the task... but sad face also because I love looking for the words. And my current book actually had Jaws as in the movie, what are the chances of that when I wasn't even..."

It IS a lot of fun :-) I like WaT as well.

Lucky on the tags with your books haha! If you can manage the book with the U character as well, go for it! The rest of us will manage to get some shifter books together as well so not everyone of yours will have to have the tag and the U will definitely come in handy! :-)

Enjoy your trip!

Yeah I’ll be on time, it’s only at 6 tonight 😊 I’ll definitely go to the Foyles, I think it’s my favorite bookstore! I love how bright it is and yup, the signed books you can randomly find are definitely a bonus 😉

Shifters isn’t a great one for me, I do like the shifters in Immortals After a Dark Series but I’ve only just reread them all!

I’ll start with Morning Star for next week, without looking at characters it works for M and B.

My issue is on the opposite side haha. I have several shifter books that I could read but all the BOMs start next week as well.. Guess I'm just going to have to put those on ice until next week ;-)

I think I'm going to start with Magic Triumphs for next week. And then I'll see which book I want to pick up for shifters next.

After just a quick look at my shelves, my options are: Marked in Flesh Allegiance of Honor Linger
I'm pretty sure there are a few more.

Where abouts is Foyles in London? I've got a bit of time before my cousins arrive so I think I'll check it out if it's handy. I'm staying around Paddington.

There are several! The one I've visited and really liked was the one in Charing Cross (not far down the road from the Dominion Theatre and not too far away from Covent Garden).

I'm pretty sure that from Paddington you can even catch a straight tube line to get to one of the stations near Foyles - Tottenham Court Road or Charing Cross maybe.


https://www.foyles.co.uk/book-shops-i...

Also, if you're going to go to Covent Garden, there is a shop called Fopp, which sells books, cds, dvds for really good prices. You can find some extraordinary gems there sometimes.

I bought the entire Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan there a few years ago for the price of just one book - as an example.

and of course, if you go to the flagship Foyles you can wander down Charing Cross Road to check out the remaining bookshops (and the pricey special edition shops in Cecil Court :)

The flagship Waterstones on Piccadilly is also great: Europe's biggest bookshop, allegedly.

Best, though, is wandering in the Southbank's open air book market, under Waterloo Bridge (Waterloo station on the Bakerloo - head to the river and turn right, away from the Houses of Parliament / London Eye)

PS: for Foyles: Charing Cross station is at the far end of Charing Cross Road, the other side of Leicester & Trafalgar Squares. Totally walkable in about 15 mins, and is on the direct line from Pad (Bakerloo).

COMPLETION POST
Mary, Mary by James Patterson
468 pages
11/7/19

W: Mary Wagner
A: Alex Cross
L: Paul Lebleau
N: Nana Mama
T: James Truscott

Mini challenge:
Andrea Yates
kindle 86% "Andrea Yates, who killed all five of her children..."

Oh thank you so much ladies. I'm definitely going to be near Covent Garden on Monday, so I'm going to take up your suggestions. So exciting.

Cat, I went to the Riverside Book Market on my trip in 2006 and bought a whole bunch of Jean Plaidy paperbacks. Original 60's and 70's editions and sent them back home. I had read them all in my teens, this had started my love of English history but somehow after I left home my Mum chucked them out in a clean up! So when I saw them for sentimental reasons I couldn't resist them. The postage cost about double what the books cost, LOL.