Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Just logged my last book on the SS for Round 4.

Victoria wrote: "We finished our 12th word!"

Woohoo! Go us 🥳 👏🏻

My boyfriend is praying Watership Down have logged all their books for this round 😂 He told me he is going to be "stinking mad if we wake up tomorrow and they're in 2nd place" 🤣

Finished Toxic Trousseau . Updated spreadsheet. I will be away this weekend so won't be on here as much but will be reading.

I love how invested your boyfriend is in the challenge 🤣

Excellent work everyone!

Agreed - your boyfriend's investment in how we are doing is fantastic

We're in 1st!!! Incredible effort everyone this round!

If no tasks fit please put a couple of dashes in that column.

Us 5922 (20300)
Orient Express: 5206 (20270)
Rabbits: 4991 (19797)
Hitchhicker's 5278 (19425)

BACKPACKING time for us. Our tags are: Delusion, Liquor, Hallucinogenic, Trippy, and Crazy

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1 Vikki Three Sisters, Three Queens
2 Vikki The Chain
3 Vikki Cinder
4 Mary Perfume
5 Mary Pretty Girls
6 Sophie Big Little Lies
7 Rosina Paranoia
8 Rosina The Bootlegger
9 Rosina Fear and Loathing in LV
10 Rosina Luckiest Girl Alive
Reserve

B Camilla Neitsytkruunu
A Camilla All the gear, no idea
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K Camilla Kilimanjaro Diaries
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A MH Lang vag hem
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I Victoria Pachinko
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A MH Oga for oga, tand for tand
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I Sophie Pachinko
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Great job everyone!

Wow, well done everyone! Let's keep it up for the final round.
I'm away Sunday to Thursday (in our motorhome, thankfully, especially as the Coronavirus situation has been getting worse here...) so may not be posting as much. But I'll be reading and will update SS whenever I finish a book

Well done everyone! My bf is over the moon 😂

We're going away Mon-Fri. Will do as much reading as I can. Looking forward to sitting on the beach or by the pool and drinking a ridiculously priced cocktail 💃🏼

First place, unbelievable! Let's do our best to finish that way. I bet Orient Express is fuming at the moment and will try to wriggle back to the top.

Nicole, sitting by the pool with a cocktail and reading sounds lovely! Schools are starting here on Wednesday after the summer break, we'll see how that affects the covid numbers, which are on a slight rise already.

Enjoy the time at the pool with cocktails Nicole! If you keep reading as much as you did last round we'll be in a v good place.

Camilla, you're right! Orient Express and Watership Down are both talking about how to up their reading to catch up and overtake us this round.

I've got 3 BOM to read this round which will give us a 60 point boost on top of the page numbers. BOM and reading as much as we can is about all we can do to fend them off!

Is it bad that part of me thinks we should have stayed just behind Orient Express so we didn't draw attention to ourselves until this round!

Sophie wrote: "Is it bad that part of me thinks we should have stayed just behind Orient Express so we didn't draw attention to ourselves until this round!"

I know what you mean 😂 Done a sneak attack and crushed their dreams 😈 Now we're the one's been hunted 😭

Sophie wrote: "Camilla, you're right! Orient Express and Watership Down are both talking about how to up their reading to catch up and overtake us this round."

Yes, somebody already called us pesky hobbits, LOL!

Surprised it's taken this long!

Is there anyway we can not update the SS that goes onto the main leaderboard as regularly. Or save a big update to the end? Just so that the other teams don't have an accurate idea of how we're actually getting on.....

That's what Watership Down have been doing. Victoria and I can work out something similar if you'd like.

The number of books read each round is staying pretty consistent, but last round there were a lot more long books which really pushed up the points

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Sophie, I'm in total agreement about the sneak attack! It's hard not to be gunned for now. I also really like Vikki's idea about not updating the main spreadsheet but the vindictive part of me wants them to watch us beat them!!! {evil laugh}

I am also reading 2 BOMs this month. I'm already into Five Feet Apart and am going to tackle Pachinko (hopefully). Pachinko is really not speaking to me so I am hoping that the first few chapters pulls me in better than the synopsis did.

I will continue with the audiobooks - Cassandra Clare's books always keep me entertained and they are longer so more points.

I've only put the ones that I'm certain that I can finish on the spreadsheet so that we can count on those points ahead of time. I will be done with Five Feet Apart this weekend as long as this migraine subsides. The different climates between the beach and home is killing my sinuses! Regardless, the audiobooks help that situation because they can be listened to while I keep my eyes shut and relaxed. And my trusty sidekick (fur baby - see updated profile pic for visual) is helping as well! =]

Now that I have written a novel instead of reading one... thanks for keeping us all straight!!

Forgotten in my novel above:

It looks like we are good on tags, can someone confirm? (Does anyone else thing these tags are hilarious???)

I’ll try to read more this round too. Not much happening for me in the next 2 weeks. I already finished fool moon. I don’t feel like getting my computer out so I’ll update tomorrow.

My plan for tomorrow is to listen to audiobooks while cleaning my house.

Or laying on the couch with a book. Could go either way.

I’ve gotten addicted to listening to books sped up a bit. Hubby had one playing at normal speed while making dinner the other day. It sounded so odd to me.

Mary C wrote: "I’ve gotten addicted to listening to books sped up a bit. Hubby had one playing at normal speed while making dinner the other day. It sounded so odd to me."

Mary - I didn't know about the speed up feature until I read it here!!! Life changing!

Mary C wrote: "I’ve gotten addicted to listening to books sped up a bit. Hubby had one playing at normal speed while making dinner the other day. It sounded so odd to me."

Same here. I listen to all e-audiobooks with 1.5 speed. I also listen to audio CDs in my car, they sound so sllooooww since I can't speed them up.

Tonya - I enjoyed 5 feet apart, but Pachinko is slower going for me. It has picked up as I get more into it though.
I hope the migraine clears quickly, and I'm happy the audio books help and keep your brain distracted.

We're good on tags, but any extra that pop up aren't a bad thing in case anything unexpected happens.

Mary - a quiet couple of weeks for you sounds like much needed respite after the last couple of weeks.

I can't deal with audio at normal volume. Think it's at 1.25 at the moment but might up it to 1.5

I keep hearing a lot about audio books but I haven't actually listened to one since I was a kid. Have been tempted to try them a few times but have never actually done it.

On my first book for the final week & I'm enjoying it so far - The Chain by Adrian McKinty. Hoping to get plenty of reading done over the next few days when I'm away. Fingers crossed I can actually do what I hope!

I started listening to them when I had an hour commute each day after not having listened to them before. The narrators are v variable and I've found some much better than others.

Enjoy the time away!

There's an additional page to our team SS if you all want to check it out later

I only have a 5 minute commute so I usually just listen to the radio unless I’m in a team challenge. I listen when I’m alone at the office, walking, doing housework or driving more than a few minutes. Frequently when hubby is working, I’ll listen while I cross stitch instead of watching tv.

I can’t listen in bed or on a treadmill. For some reason my kind wanders and I lose track of the story.

Housework is one of my main times to listen too. I end up listening while playing daft games on my phone as well.



I've moved a lot of books round on the SS. If you want to just slot books into the new page, I'm happy for you to use it that way.

Mary C wrote: "I only have a 5 minute commute so I usually just listen to the radio unless I’m in a team challenge. I listen when I’m alone at the office, walking, doing housework or driving more than a few minut..."

I'm so jealous that you can cross-stitch! My carpel tunnel has gotten so bad that after about 10-20 x's, I can't do anymore.

I've finished Lång väg hem and Öga för öga, tand för tand

Lately most of my books have been audio books - having only gotten through three physical books for this challenge. I do think increasing the speed helps a lot as the normal speed is way too slow and depending on the book I'll increase it anywhere between 1.25x - 2x.

I listen to them a lot during commutes, runs, walks, housework, etc. I want to read more of my physical books but seem to not have nearly enough time for it.

Sophie wrote: "I've moved a lot of books round on the SS. If you want to just slot books into t..."

Is it okay if we mark the books only into the old page?

Physical books are tricky - one of my new years resolutions was to read 2 pages of a physical book a day. It hasn't happened. I read a lot on my phone at the moment instead.

Either is ok for now! If it gets too much to balance, I will let you all know.

I'm not going to do the updates daily given that the information is there on the new page. I'll update how Orient Express and Watership Down are doing every so often so we can keep track.

I really resisted ebooks for the first few years that they were gaining in popularity. But after having bad allergic reactions to some library books and going from huge house to a very small one after my divorce-I embraced the Kindle and ebooks. I still have a few hundred print books. Every few years I decide to go through them and purge some. Just filled 3 boxes full for the local thrift store.

I've been an audio book fan for most of my adult life.

Wow I've never heard of anyone having an allergic reaction to a library book! That must have been a nasty shock.

I'm trying to convince my husband to build a lot of bookshelves round the window in our sitting room. We don't yet have enough books to fill the, but that won't take me long. The majority of physical books we have are children's books.

Spell outs 1-4 are planned out; we've got I books planned to spell out 10. If we were to read the number of books we signed up for we should finish 7.3 spell outs, so I'm not going to planned more Is for now.

Orient Express have read over 500 points and Watership Down are a little bit ahead of us at present.

I got a hold of the rest of the BOMs!!! I'm going to attempt those this time - if I do all of the planned BOMs (fingers crossed), that's 100 extra points (I think)! :D :D :D

I've added them to the worksheet. I will work on the tie to BACKPACKING when I get into the book. I wasn't able to find a match for one or two of them.

Fantastic Tonya! I'm sure links will come up as you read.

Finishing up my first book today! Sorry about the lack of reading this weekend but our brief stint in 1st place proves we got this!! :D

Uhh, question: I'm currently listening to Counter-Insurgency in Aden. For some odd reason this book has the genre Non-Fiction on the main page by 2 users. But it's actually not non-fiction but fiction. It belongs to the S.A.S. series (https://www.goodreads.com/series/1195...), and I read another book in the same series in round 2 (Into Vietnam). My question is: I assume that I'm able to use the character names in the same way I used them in round 2 despite the book being erroneously shelved as non-fiction? The book I listened to in round 2 didn't have this problem, it didn't have non-fiction on main page and neither do most of the other books in the series.

Looking at the rest of the series, I'd agree it's a fiction book so you can use the characters. Unfortunately there's no way of changing the tags, and other people are sometimes bonkers

Thank you for confirming it, Sophie! Yes, the tags are what they are, can't remove them even if they're clearly erroneous, like here.

I've just updated the SS for today if anyone wants to know where we have got to

Can we get points for the book I suggested for September BOM being chosen?!?

Unfortunately not. Would be great if there were bonus points for that.

Sophie wrote: "Unfortunately not. Would be great if there were bonus points for that."

I was {mostly} kidding Sophie, but I do wish we could!

I'll be getting us bonus points for the Spin the Dawn BOM though. Unfortunately Orient Express have been assigned a set as well.

Just checking in to say that I'll be updating the spreadsheet on Saturday with the books that I've read this week. I only have access on my phone right now and it's a pain to update the spreadsheet from there!

The goodreads phone app is just awful.

I'll be out the next 2 evenings so I read the last few evenings. Hubby wants to re-watch the Great Brittish Bake-off seres and since I've seen them all, it's been easy to just read. He's contemplating going back to school to become a pastry chef. I think that's why he wants to watch.