Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

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

Great job Maritza! Glad you are feeling better :D

May wrote: "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..."

Thanks for your flexibility May :D

Minx wrote: "Maritza wrote: "Finished my tricky animal, moving on to BOM. Might be able to read 3 books this week."

Great job Maritza! Glad you are feeling better :D"

Yeah that lingering cold did not want to go away. But i'm feeling much better and my latest books have turned out to be very interesting. Have a couple lined up that may fit Sin Bingo.

I'm trying my best to also finish a third book this week - Undead Girl Gang since I realized earlier today it has puffer fish in it! (instead of Save The Date which is so short I obviously would have been able to finish it but I guess I'll do that next week)

I'm going to try to get to a third book this week also! Almost done with Ninth House

Thank you everyone for reading what you can, :D

finished 2nd book of the 3 - Quichote by Salman Rushdie

Kinga wrote: "finished 2nd book of the 3 - Quichote by Salman Rushdie"

Hi Kinga! Your first book doesn't count because it was not reported during week 2.

For your second book which was read in week 3, please add it to the reporting thread

Here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Thank you 😊

Minx wrote: "Kinga wrote: "finished 2nd book of the 3 - Quichote by Salman Rushdie"

Hi Kinga! Your first book doesn't count because it was not reported during week 2.

For your second book which was read in we..."

Done!

Kinga wrote: "Minx wrote: "Kinga wrote: "finished 2nd book of the 3 - Quichote by Salman Rushdie"

Hi Kinga! Your first book doesn't count because it was not reported during week 2.

For your second book which w..."

Perfect, thank you!!

Hi guys. Thank God It's Friday - I love that expression. Looking forward to the weekend. Finished the BOM - just need to finish DQ's and then will update post. Have one more book I would like to finish by the weekend.

The month is almost finished. Wow. Okay guys have a beautiful, Blessed day. I'm finally sick-free. Thank-you for the well wishes.

Maritza wrote: "Hi guys. Thank God It's Friday - I love that expression. Looking forward to the weekend. Finished the BOM - just need to finish DQ's and then will update post. Have one more book I would like to fi..."

Happy Friday!

Maritza wrote: "Hi guys. Thank God It's Friday - I love that expression. Looking forward to the weekend. Finished the BOM - just need to finish DQ's and then will update post. Have one more book I would like to fi..."

Have a blessed day as well and Happy Friday!! Make sure if the book you are reading is for the week's challenge that you have it read by Sunday noon your time so that we can log it.

okay Minx. By the way you are doing an awesome job. It's like you a ghost hovering around, you respond so fast.
I mean everyone is doing awesome.

Maritza wrote: "okay Minx. By the way you are doing an awesome job. It's like you a ghost hovering around, you respond so fast.
I mean everyone is doing awesome."

lol, being a ghost around this time of year is cool. Yes, we are doing awesome as a team!! Thank you. :D

Thanks for updating my book. But I changed to cover Brown because I think we get more points.

Maritza wrote: "Thanks for updating my book. But I changed to cover Brown because I think we get more points."

I looked in the BOM thread but I didn't see that they made any official "this is what we are doing with this book" convos. If they went with brown that works :D

Maritza wrote: "Thanks for updating my book. But I changed to cover Brown because I think we get more points."

I just added my finished book too and checked the link to your Save The Date edition - and... it doesn't look brown to me at all? that's probably why it had been changed before 🙈 unless you read a copy that actually had a brown cover?

Christina wrote: "Maritza wrote: "Thanks for updating my book. But I changed to cover Brown because I think we get more points."

I just added my finished book too and checked the link to your Save The Date edition ..."

Did the mods make an official "this is what we are using for this book" statement?

Minx wrote: "Christina wrote: "Maritza wrote: "Thanks for updating my book. But I changed to cover Brown because I think we get more points."

I just added my finished book too and checked the link to your Save..."

nope.

Lol, well I think I will see if I can get a ruling then 🧐

I see some other teams shelve it as brown but I don't know if it was approved or assumed.

Also, were there an animals in Save the Date? Thanks! 🙂

I guess it's just because we're not supposed to use tineye anymore and it's not like obviously brown? like it is brown according to tineye, but tineye is just.... a mess lol

ok I guess it looks kinda brown but I never would have thought of reporting it as that? x)

No animals in the boom Minx.

Maritza wrote: "No animals in the boom Minx."

lol, ok. So with the book cover, it doesn't look brown to me BUT I would love it if it had an official ruling of brown because then we could use it that way. I will wait to see what some of the Captains think but I don't feel comfortable going with brown if there is not a consensus. There have been book challenges occurring and I don't want to be fined - even if other players shelved it as such - because they could be the reason their team is fined. I am just being cautious. I will let you know what comes of this :D

Christina wrote: "I guess it's just because we're not supposed to use tineye anymore and it's not like obviously brown? like it is brown according to tineye, but tineye is just.... a mess lol"

I will admit to missing tineye, it made things more definite but we are able to use more books without it...sooooo....yeah....

Hey May, is the version of Ragdoll that you have shelved the one that you read? If so, that cover is not blue and I will have to change it to the Genre of Contemporary. If you read the blue covered version then you are going to have to change the book edition and shelve that version.

Let me know, okay? Thanks!

GUESS WHAT???

Ok my lovelies, we have another mini-challenge heading our way. Here are the details:

Wrath Mini Challenge

I know all the information (under the spoiler) might make your eyes go cross BUT Shelby and I will present you an organized spreadsheet will all the details.

One caveat for this challenge is MPG (Main page genre) means that when you are looking at the edition you plan to read the genre is indicated on the main page NOT the top shelves. If you have any questions on this, please let me know :D

Basically once we have that spreadsheet up and going you will just claim your task and read for it.

When you report the book you will indicate the task in the justification section with any justification necessary.

I will give an example for a book I plan to read.

Into the Dark by Karen Rose

Task: Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller, or Suspense that is 500 or more pages.

This book is MPG Mystery and is 608 pages.

@Martiza @Christina can you check your Save the Date books (assuming you have kindle versions and can search) can you looks for ducks.

There is a part being reported as

"ethically sourced, hand-fed organic ducks, though"

and as long as they are talking about the actual animals (even ones being served as food) we could use this for the mini-challenge. That way one of your books could be used for the mini-challenge but the other one will have to be used as Genre Contemporary as Cover Color Brown is not going to work.

Edit: Now that I am thinking about it a duck in pieces is not an actual duck and that could be challenged. lol, sorry. Maritza I am going to update your to genre Contemporary.

@Christina, for your Undead Girl Gang book I don't think we can use it for Puffer Fish because according to the rules it has to be the actual animal and this indicates just the poison from the puffer fish.

So I am going to switch it to Sloth Cover Color Blue which is the same point wise, so its all good :D

This week I was reading mostly classics and nonfiction books so I'm happy to say I just finished my 3rd book of the week! I was getting a little nervous about that but it was a great reading week. Maybe I'll be able to finish another one or two (I think so!) but at least I met my requirement :D

Sophie wrote: "This week I was reading mostly classics and nonfiction books so I'm happy to say I just finished my 3rd book of the week! I was getting a little nervous about that but it was a great reading week. ..."

I am happy that you had a good reading week and I appreciate all the books ;D Don't forget to check out our new mini-challenge Comment #530

Ok, here is the countdown for week 3 COUNTDOWN Clock

A tab for the wrath mini-challenge has been created in our spreadsheet and you can check that out when you have a chance.

Any questions, please feel free to ask. Otherwise lets finish up the books we need to for week 3 and have a hell of a start for week 4 :D

Minx wrote: "Hey May, is the version of Ragdoll that you have shelved the one that you read? If so, that cover is not blue and I will have to change it to the Genre of Contemporary. If you read the blue covered..."

Hi Minx, I'm sorry! The screen on the iPad I was using made the cover look blue behind the text, that's my bad.

There are more animals mentioned in Undead Girl Gang, just not tricky ones :( let me know if you need one.

@May, no worries 😀

@Christina Thanks! I will let you know for sure 😍

So close to finishing my last tricky animal book! I will definitely be done by tomorrow morning. maybe tonight if I can stay awake :)

JanEyre9 wrote: "So close to finishing my last tricky animal book! I will definitely be done by tomorrow morning. maybe tonight if I can stay awake :)"

Tomorrow is fine, lol, I have fallen asleep on a book many times. Get some sleep, lovely.

Sophie, I see you read Northanger Abbey this week - I listened to the audiobook last week or so! What did you think; did you like it?

We had daylight savings end last night which was great because it meant an hour more of sleep, but now I gotta keep remembering that the TT weeks change on Sunday 9pm for me!

Christina wrote: "We had daylight savings end last night which was great because it meant an hour more of sleep, but now I gotta keep remembering that the TT weeks change on Sunday 9pm for me!"

lol, yeah everyone should check the countdown timer before starting a new book just in case of that.

Christina wrote: "Sophie, I see you read Northanger Abbey this week - I listened to the audiobook last week or so! What did you think; did you like it?"

I loved it! Henry Tilney is so wonderful and Catherine is so sweet. Isabella was SO irritating tho, I dreaded every scene with her "my sweet creature." Pffft. How about you?

JanEyre9 wrote: "So close to finishing my last tricky animal book! I will definitely be done by tomorrow morning. maybe tonight if I can stay awake :)"

Hey Jan, are you done with your book? I need you to log it in asap. Thanks!

yes I am so sorry, I finished

honeybee is on page 67!

up all night with a sick kid, knocked everything else out of my mind

JanEyre9 wrote: "up all night with a sick kid, knocked everything else out of my mind"

I am so sorry! No worries, Thank you.

WEEK FOUR HAS BEGUN!!

Please remember that we have the WRATH MINI-CHALLENGE for this week, so please check the tab indicated Wrath Mini-challenge to see if any of your books you want to read apply.

Here are the details:

Wrath Mini Challenge

One caveat for this challenge is MPG (Main page genre) means that when you are looking at the edition you plan to read the genre is indicated on the main page NOT the top shelves. If you have any questions on this, please let me know :D


We had a great week with 42 BOOKS read!!