Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

New to NBRC and trying out my first challenge. Will start the November Feast - going for pumpkin pie level.

C - Crouch, Blake's Recursion
H -the Haunting of Hill House
I -
C - Cynthia Baxter's Murder with a Cherry on Top
K - Keith Donahue's The Boy Who Drew Monsters
E -
N -

Going to start Challenge 2 - Audiobook challenge in December. 1 year to finish.

◈ Female Narrator: The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon

◈ Male Narrator: The Chalk Man

◈ Duets : The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

◈ Full Cast: Escape from Virtual Island by John Lutz

◈ Dramatizations: The Messengers

◈ Celebrity Narrator: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood written and narrated by Trevor Noah

◈ New-to-Me Narrator: The Witch Elm by Tana French. Narrated by Paul Nugent

◈ Favourite Narrator: The Ocean at the End of the Lane written and narrated by Neil Gaiman

◈ Volunteer Narrator
A narrator that is not professional, but volunteers to read books. (Such as those used on librivox.org)

◈ Less Than 3 Hours: Emergency Skin by N. K. Jemisin, 1:04

◈ Between 3 - 5 Hours: Coraline 3:39

◈ More Than 5 Hours to 9.9 Hours: Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday; 8:02

◈ 10 Hours to 14.9 Hours The Broken Girls by Simone St. James; 11:12

◈ 15 Hours to 19.9 Hours: Violet by Scott Thomas. 16:45

◈ 20 Hours to 24.9 Hours: The Trespasser by Tana French, 20:05:58 hrs. 12/8/19

◈ 25 Hours to 29.9 Hours
An audiobook that is a Super-Duper Colossal Chunkster! More than 25 hours in length, less than 30.

◈ 30 Hours to 34.9 Hours
An audiobook that is a Monstrous Chunkster! More than 30 hours in length, less than 35.

◈ 35 Hours to 39.9 Hours
An epic, indeed! More than 35 hours in length, less than 40.

◈ 40 Hours and Beyond – or a Trilogy!
Beyond epic, indeed! Time to implant ear buds in your head. Forty hours or more! For this one we will also allow a trilogy that qualifies in length, or three books anywhere within a series, if you “read” all of it/them via audio.

◈ In-Sync Multimedia
Use an audible sync option to read-along! Such as the new read-along with your Kindle option by audible.com called Whispersync, which remembers your last stopping point in either device. However, you may read a book using any two media choices your desire, as long as one of them is via audio.

◈ Digital Downloads Freebies: Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life via Libby (Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County)

◈ Doing it “Old School”
Use audiobook CDs, or cassette, or even LPs or 8-Track-Tapes, if you have them! Don’t have the right equipment? Oftentimes your public library will have these devices to loan.

◈ Planes, Trains, or Automobiles with an Audiobook: The Other People by C. J. Tudor

◈ Multitasking! Listening on My Portable Music Player (PMP) Audiobook: An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks

◈ Audie Award Nominees and Winners: Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson. Best Female Narrator

◈ Recommended by Others: Regretting You by Colleen Hoover

◈ BOM via Audiobook: The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

◈ “Buddy Read” via Audiobook : Girl at War by Sara Novic


◈ Classic Read: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

◈ Re-Read a Favourite
Old or new, choose a book you’ve read and loved - and see if you could possibly love it even more via audio. (Note: The right narrator is even more crucial here!)