Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Completion Post ~ Round Two ~ Safezone Group 2

Task: ii Read a book with a bright/neon green cover (>50%) where the author contains the letters B-U-R-N (doesn't need to be in that order)
Book: The Cat Who Talked Turkey
Author: Lilian Jackson Braun
Pages: 240
Date Read: 9/2/19
Rating: 3 stars
How it fits: lilian Jackson BRaUN;

Completion Post ~ Round Two ~ Safezone Group 2

Task: iv Read a book with a green item on the cover and that contains the letters A-C-I-D in the author's name (doesn't need to be in that order)
Book: Murder at Cold Creek College
Author: Christa Nardi
Pages: 340
Date Read: 9/2/19
Rating: 3 stars
How it fits: Christa nArDI;

So we’re good for the spell out now, right? I’m part way through a few I’m itching to finish!

Completion Post - Safezone Group 3

Task - Spellout

Book: Gifted Connections 3
Date Read: 9/2
Rating: 4 stars
Letter: O - Author S. M. Olivier

Book: Infinity Chronicles Book Four: A Paranormal Reverse Harem Series
Date Read: 9/2
Rating: 4 stars
Letter: I - Title

Spreadsheet updated

Completion Post ~ Round Two ~ Safezone Group 3
SS Updated


Task: Spell-out
Book: Scrumptious ~ Amanda Usen
Pages: 320
Date Read: 09.02
Qualification: author LN: U
Rating: ★★★★

Completion Post - Safezone Group 3

Task - Spell-out N
Book: The Eyre Affair
Author: Jasper Fforde
Pages: 374
Date read: 9/2
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: Character Thursday Next

Completion Post - Safezone Group 3

Task: Spell-out O
Book: Open and Shut
Author: David Rosenfelt
Pages: 292
Date read: 9/3
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: Title starts with O

Completion Post - Safezone: Group 3

Task: Spell-Out
Book: Anything For You
Date Read: 9/3
Rating: 5 stars
Letter: Y - narrator is Sebastian York

If no one else wants it, I'll go ahead and take the last O spot. I've got one that's 285 pages, so I can get it into Turf Wars nicely. :)

Completion Post - Safezone Group 3

Task: Spell-out N
Book: Neverwhere
Author: Neil Gaiman
Pages: 370
Date read: 9/4
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: Title starts with N

Completion Post ~ Round Two ~ Safezone Group 3
SS Updated


Task: Spell-out
Book: Luscious ~ Amanda Usen
Pages: 318
Date Read: 09.04
Qualification:author LN: U
Rating: ★★★★

Completion Post - Safezone: Group 3

Task: Spell-out
Book: Rock Courtship
Date Read: 9/4
Rating: 5 stars
Letter: N - Author Nalini Singh

Completion Post - Safezone: Group 3

Task: Spell-out
Books: Ugly Truths
Date Read: 9/4
Rating: 4 stars
Letter: U - Title

Spreadsheet updated


I may have a problem with my U book. There are no page #s listed here or on Amazon. I'm asking if I can still use it somehow.

Laura wrote: "Spreadsheet updated


I may have a problem with my U book. There are no page #s listed here or on Amazon. I'm asking if I can still use it somehow."

What is it?

Completion Post ~ Round Two ~ Safezone Group 3
SS updated


Task: Spell-out
Book: In a Heartbeat ~ Hilary Storm
Pages: 165
Date Read: 09.04
Qualification: title I
Rating: ★★★

LaurLa, it’s the one I posted above. I can ask the author about it in her Facebook group, but that’s a closed group, so I’m not sure if that’s enough for you to fix it.

Completion Post - Safezone Group 3

Task: Spell-out
Book: The S*x Tape:
Date Read: 9/5
Rating: 4 stars
Letter: A - Author Serena Akeroyd

Spreadsheet updated.

Louise, how are you doing? You've been pretty quiet around here this week. :)

Completion Post - Safezone Group 3

Task: Spell-out Y
Book: The Traitor in the Tunnel
Author: Y.S. Lee
Date read: 9/5
Rating: 4 stars
How it fits: Author initial Y

Completion Post - Safezone Group 3

Friends with Extra Benefits by Luke Young
Date Read: 9/4
Letters: Y - Author LN

Completion Post - Safezone Group 3

Alone with the Dead by James Nally
Date Read: 9/5
Letters : N - Author LN

Laura wrote: "Spreadsheet updated.

Louise, how are you doing? You've been pretty quiet around here this week. :)"

Bit of a hectic work week,

Nearly done with my Y book which will be done tomorrow. Then my I and B book will be done over the weekend 😊

When is the end of the round? I'm sure it's posted somewhere but I can't seem to find it. (not that I looked all tat hard...)

Also, I should finish my N book today and my Y book tomorrow...

I think it ends late Sunday/early Monday, depending on where you are.

Completion Post - Safezone Group 3

Task: Spell-out I
Book: The Iron Empire
Author: James Dashner
Date read: 9/5
Rating: 3 stars
How it fits: Title starts with I

Completion Post - Safezone Group 3

Where Their Hearts Collide by Zoe York
Date Read: 9/6
Letters: Y - Author LN

Louise wrote: "Laura wrote: "Spreadsheet updated.

Louise, how are you doing? You've been pretty quiet around here this week. :)"

Bit of a hectic work week,

Nearly done with my Y book which will be done tomorr..."

Glad to hear it was just work. :)

Round 3 - Countdown Tasks
10 - tagged MPG Crime LaurLa
9 - that has the letters A-R-S-E-N-I-C in the title ( in any order)Laura
8 - that was published in the 1980s Louise
7 - with a detective whose initials can be found in the word poison Jackie
6 - set in Scandinavia Jackie
5 - that is more than 500 pages Laura
4 - from an author who was NOT born in the USA, Canada or UK LaurLa
3 - that is #3 in a series Louise
2 - with one or more flowers on the cover Louise
1 that is on the Foreign Lands list Laura

Safezone
Group 1 - 60 bonus points for completing
P Laura - BOM/Team Read
O LaurLa
I LaurLa - BOM/Team Read
S Laura
O Jackie
N Jackie

Group 2
i - Read a book with yellow writing on the cover where the title contains the letters P-O-I-S-O-N (doesn't need to be in that order) Jackie
ii - Read a book with a yellow cover (>50%) where the author contains the letters D-E-A-D (doesn't need to be in that order) LaurLa
iii - Read a book with a skull or other poison logo on the cover and that contains the word POISON in the text Louise
iv - Read a book with a yellow item (something that can be touched) on the cover and that contains the letters P-O-I-S-O-N in the author's name (doesn't need to be in that order) Laura

Group 3
I’ll work some spreadsheet magic to see what we need.

For countdown 1 I can do - 2, 3, 8, 9, 10

Completion Post - Safezone: Group 3

Task: Spell-Out
Book: One Apocalypse
Date Read: 9/6
Rating: 4 stars
Letter: O - Title

Let me see what I can do. I've been planning for Turf Wars, and there's a lot of diversity on those lists!

I finished an audio book today that works for an N, if we need it.

I can do 1, 2, 5, and/or 9.

I need to go to sleep, so I'll look through the other teams' spreadsheets & see what I can find for POISON in the morning. It looks like Sapphire Flames was read by another team, but I really wanted to do a re-read of the series before I read that one. :)

Nicole, on team Pompeii or Bust read The Mane Event for a Countdown task in Round 1, so I can read it for the P in Poison.

Completion Post ~ Round Two ~ Safezone Group 3
SS updated

Task: Spell-out
Book: Protecting Paige ~ Norah Wilson
Pages: 306
Date Read: 09.06
Qualification: author FN N
Rating: ★★★★

Finishing Y later today. It also works for O if we end up needing to shift things around today.

The One Real Thing - Samantha Young

I'll be back in a bit to put in my options for the new countdown stage.

Countdown Stage
10 - tagged MPG Crime
9 - that has the letters A-R-S-E-N-I-C in the title
4 - from an author who was NOT born in the USA, Canada or UK
3 - that is #3 in a series
2 - with one or more flowers on the cover

Group 1 - I, S, O or N (I or S could also be BOM of needed)

Group 2
ii - Read a book with a yellow cover (>50%) where the author contains the letters D-E-A-D
iii - Read a book with a skull or other poison logo on the cover and that contains the word POISON in the text
iv - Read a book with a yellow item (something that can be touched) on the cover and that contains the letters P-O-I-S-O-N in the author's name

For Countdown, I can do any of these: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Group 1 - O, S, or N

Group 2 - i - Read a book with yellow writing on the cover where the title contains the letters P-O-I-S-O-N (doesn't need to be in that order)

Louise wrote: "iv - Read a book with a yellow item (something that can be touched) on the cover and that contains the letters P-O-I-S-O-N in the author's name (doesn't need to be in that order) Jackie"

I think you put Jacki down for the wrong one. She said she can do #1.

I can do the S in Poison

I can do the N in Poison.

Also, Laura's right. I can do the first option in Group 2.

LaurLa wrote: "Group 2
ii - Read a book with a yellow cover (>50%) where the author contains the letters D-E-A-D
iii - Read a book with a skull or other poison logo on the cover and that contains the word POISON in the text
iv - Read a book with a yellow item (something that can be touched) on the cover and that contains the letters P-O-I-S-O-N in the author's name."

What books did you find for these? I'm not finding anything on my Kindle/TBR.

Laura wrote: "What books did you find for these? I'm not finding anything on my Kindle/TBR."

- Darynda Jones for both
ii - Read a book with a yellow cover (>50%) where the author contains the letters D-E-A-D
iii - Read a book with a skull or other poison logo on the cover and that contains the word POISON in the text

iv - Read a book with a yellow item (something that can be touched) on the cover and that contains the letters P-O-I-S-O-N in the author's name.
- Vicki Lewis Thompson

You'll also be proud that I'm going to start the Inn Keeper Chronicles for the BOM for the I in Poision.... I'm having withdrawals after finishing Kate Daniels and hope I like this series as well as that one.

LaurLa wrote: "You'll also be proud that I'm going to start the Inn Keeper Chronicles for the BOM for the I in Poision.... I'm having withdrawals after finishing Kate Daniels and hope I like this series as well a..."

That one is good. More PG, until right at the end of the first book. Have you read Hidden Legacies? Or The Edge books? I think you would really like them!

For Group 2 I'll do:

iv - Read a book with a yellow item (something that can be touched) on the cover and that contains the letters P-O-I-S-O-N in the author's name.

Laura wrote: "LaurLa wrote: "You'll also be proud that I'm going to start the Inn Keeper Chronicles for the BOM for the I in Poision.... I'm having withdrawals after finishing Kate Daniels and hope I like this s..."

I am reading Hidden Legacy too. Told you, withdrawals ;-)