Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Christina wrote: "btw what happened to Kinga? 🙈"

Kinga is on a college tour with her son.

JanEyre9 wrote: "I can also do for honeybee"

Nice!

SOMETHING HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION.

That is in caps to draw your attention, lol, I am not shouting. This was a question asked and it's answer. This is very important to us when looking for animals.

Q: If we're looking for the animal in the text, do we need to match the wording exactly or just find the correct animal?

Examples:
Orca instead of killer whale
Hammerhead instead of hammerhead shark
Black widow instead of black widow spider

A: the wording exactly* please

*spaces/hyphens/plurals/possessives excepted.
ie: honey bees, honeybee, honey-bee all OK

bee (or indeed honey) not OK


Shelby, make sure your Hammerhead Shark (if not on cover or in title) says Hammerhead Shark in the text.

JanEyre9 wrote: "I can also do for honeybee"

Hey Jan, re: message #453 and that this cover has a bee on it I am pretty sure it would be ok BUT if you read it can you pay attention for text that says honey bee in case we are challenged. Thanks!

Also, if you read a book with a mountain lion on cover they are also called Pumas and Cougars. I have a book that has one on the cover so I chose Cougar BUT if you read a book with a cougar in text I can switch mine to Puma. Just let me know :D

Minx wrote: "JanEyre9 wrote: "I can also do for honeybee"

Hey Jan, re: message #453 and that this cover has a bee on it I am pretty sure it would be ok BUT if you read..."

No problem, I did a search of quotes from the book and saw that honey bee is used multiple times :)

JanEyre9 wrote: "Minx wrote: "JanEyre9 wrote: "I can also do for honeybee"

Hey Jan, re: message #453 and that this cover has a bee on it I am pretty sure it would be ok BU..."

figured, perfect!

But do you (caps) not want to keep track of who's claiming which word and if their books might work for other animals as well we can do some switching around if needed?

I thought about it, but I didn't want to make it too complicated with the mini challenge only being one week.

Shelby wrote: "I thought about it, but I didn't want to make it too complicated with the mini challenge only being one week."

agreed, I think we will be ok for the mini-challenge.

Jan - I'm going to switch your book Spinning Silver from YA to Cover: Blue since it's a few more points for us. :)

Alright we're sitting at 29 books and all are reported to the official spreadsheet. :) Kick butt these next 2-ish days!

Yay! I’m reading a book now 😍😍😍

Just added Wilder Girls, will hopefully finish my last one this morning, tomorrow at the latest

This book has eagles in it if anyone is looking for another easy animal and likes YA fantasy. I'm almost done with it and its actually a pretty good book and a quick read

Do we need another book to make the quota? I can squeeze in some short romance novel if needed. If not I will continue reading my horses book ...

Dragana wrote: "Do we need another book to make the quota? I can squeeze in some short romance novel if needed. If not I will continue reading my horses book ..."

I am finishing 2 books soon, so we will meet the minimum :D. Thanks for asking, much appreciated.

Found book with capybara for tricky animal mini challenge

Animal update:
I know horses are easy to find. I just came upon a part in my book For Killing Of Kings when they see a hawk and a doe in woods. So we can switch it for one of those if anyone has some other book with horses 🙂

Maritza wrote: "Found book with capybara for tricky animal mini challenge"

That is awesome!! Great find!! :D

Dragana wrote: "Animal update:
I know horses are easy to find. I just came upon a part in my book For Killing Of Kings when they see a hawk and a doe in woods. So we can switch it for one of those if anyone has so..."

Surprisingly hawk is not on our list. Falcons are but they are different from hawks.

You can use the deer or horse if you prefer. :D But thanks for being flexible in case someone needs to switch it up :D

Shelby wrote: "Jan - I'm going to switch your book Spinning Silver from YA to Cover: Blue since it's a few more points for us. :)"

Sounds good to me!

We have just under an hour left of this week. I will be around if anyone has questions :D.

Week 3 HAS BEGUN!!



We ended week 2 with an impressive 37 books read!

Total Points Standing: 3375
Place In Challenge: #12

For week 3 your books can either count for the mini-challenge or the Sin criteria. Have fun reading! :D

Yay we moved up a spot from last week!!

Ashley wrote: "Yay we moved up a spot from last week!!"

That we did! :D

Finally found a tricky animal! has a humpback whale. I have no idea what this book is bit it looks interesting

Will start tricky book.

I finished The Turn of the Screw around midnight and thanks to the mini challenge we will actually get some extra points for it now, wooh! next I gotta start Save the Date for the DQ points 🙈

Ashley wrote: "Finally found a tricky animal! has a humpback whale. I have no idea what this book is bit it looks interesting"

I agree, that does look interesting! Is that what the movie The Meg is based on?

Maritza wrote: "Will start tricky book."

Thanks!!

Christina wrote: "I finished The Turn of the Screw around midnight and thanks to the mini challenge we will actually get some extra points for it now, wooh! next I gotta start Save the Date for the D..."

Awesome of both counts!! Thanks for all the extra points this week :D

Minx wrote: "Maritza wrote: "Christina wrote: "I finished The Turn of the Screw around midnight and thanks to the mini challenge we will actually get some extra points for it now, wooh! next I gotta start [book..."

Minx wrote: "Maritza wrote: "Christina wrote: "I finished The Turn of the Screw around midnight and thanks to the mini challenge we will actually get some extra points for it now, wooh! next I gotta start [book..."

Christina wrote: "I finished The Turn of the Screw around midnight and thanks to the mini challenge we will actually get some extra points for it now, wooh! next I gotta start [book:Save the Date|34452419] for the D..."

What is link for discussion. Will be reading this also.

Maritza wrote: "Christina wrote: "I finished The Turn of the Screw around midnight and thanks to the mini challenge we will actually get some extra points for it now, wooh! next I gotta start [book:Save the Date|3..."

Here is the link:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Minx wrote: "Maritza wrote: "Christina wrote: "I finished The Turn of the Screw around midnight and thanks to the mini challenge we will actually get some extra points for it now, wooh! next I gotta start [book..."
You're fast Minx. I Found it but thanks.

Maritza wrote: "Christina wrote: "I finished The Turn of the Screw around midnight and thanks to the mini challenge we will actually get some extra points for it now, wooh! next I gotta start [book:Save the Date|3..."

you can always find the links in the BOM tab of our spreadsheet too! (;

Christina wrote: "Maritza wrote: "Christina wrote: "I finished The Turn of the Screw around midnight and thanks to the mini challenge we will actually get some extra points for it now, wooh! next I gotta start [book..."

lol, hmmm, would have been awesome had I remembered that. Thanks Christina.

Minx wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Finally found a tricky animal! has a humpback whale. I have no idea what this book is bit it looks interesting"

I agree, that does look interesting! Is that w..."

I think so, the audiobook looked like a movie poster. I've never seen it or even heard of it. Have you seen the movie?

Ashley wrote: "Minx wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Finally found a tricky animal! has a humpback whale. I have no idea what this book is bit it looks interesting"

I agree, that does look interesti..."

YES!! lol it's stupid but I really liked it a lot. I've actually seen it a few times.

Minx wrote: "Dragana wrote: "Animal update:
I know horses are easy to find. I just came upon a part in my book For Killing Of Kings when they see a hawk and a doe in woods. So we can switch it for one of those ..."

No problem Minx. Yes, this book is very flexible. Characters travel a lot and there are a lot of wild animals spotted. I am highlighting mentions, and in the end, I will check and write down all that are on the list, and you can pick what suits you best.

Minx wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Minx wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Finally found a tricky animal! has a humpback whale. I have no idea what this book is bit it looks interesting"

I agree, that does..."

It looks pretty stupid with the ridiculous font on the cover lol, can't wait to read it!

Ashley wrote: "Minx wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Minx wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Finally found a tricky animal! has a humpback whale. I have no idea what this book is bit it looks interesting"

I agr..."

I can tell you that there is no T-Rex in the movie :D I love ridiculous books.

Minx wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Minx wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Minx wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Finally found a tricky animal! has a humpback whale. I have no idea what this book is bit it looks inte..."

I didn't even notice he was eating a T rex on the cover until you said that!! I might have to watch the movie after I read it, I watch exactly 0 movies ever but I like shark stuff

The book I just finished, has a jaguar hieroglyph on the cover but also has an actual jaguar within the book, should I count the one in the book rather than on the cover since it's just an image of the animal and not the actual animal but within the book it's the actual animal?

I feel like I'm a little confused so I guess I'll just report it and hope I did it correctly. And I'm correct in thinking that it'd get more points for the challenge than for YA?

Sophie wrote: "The book I just finished, has a jaguar hieroglyph on the cover but also has an actual jaguar within the book, should I count the one in the book rather ..."

you could have counted the jaguar on the cover but using the text was fine :D.

If the animal is on the cover, in the title (ie: Dogs of War) or in the text it all counts. The animal in text though must be an actual animal not a simile or metaphor of sorts.

You did report it correctly the book and yes it gets more points as the animal than it would have as YA. :D Good job!

I am still reading Acheron. But birds are mentioned. I will claim birds & will fit another animal book in as well.

I just finished listening to The Arrangement but can't remember any animals being mentioned... Will add it to our spreadsheet tomorrow!

Mamacita wrote: "I am still reading Acheron. But birds are mentioned. I will claim birds & will fit another animal book in as well."

Thank you!!

Christina wrote: "I just finished listening to The Arrangement but can't remember any animals being mentioned... Will add it to our spreadsheet tomorrow!"

No worries if there are no animals, we can still use the book for the sin challenge :D

I'm just starting and so am checking off fox on the spreadsheet, but all the characters are animals so if anyone needs me to hop to a different one please let me know! I'm sure I'll be able to swing it.

Finished my tricky animal, moving on to BOM. Might be able to read 3 books this week.