Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Thanks, Tea. I tried to go through my TBR list but most of my books were published before 2000 and have only a year, not even a month or day of first publication listed. I'll just try listopia and go through some lists of newer books. Wish me luck. :)

BTW how much must the pet rabbit (Easter Bilby quest) feature in the book? Is it o.k. if it's stated in the book that person so and so has a pet rabbit? E.g. in I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, it is said that Malala and her younger brother have two pet rabbits. Is it enough?

Welcome Jessica. I hope you enjoy your time here.

Bartender! An Ale for Jessica if you please!

Zuzana wrote: "Thanks, Tea. I tried to go through my TBR list but most of my books were published before 2000 and have only a year, not even a month or day of first publication listed. I'll just try listopia and ..."

That's fine for a pet rabbit. It doesn't have to be a large part of the story.

Oooo. We've corrupted attracted another person :)

Welcome Jessica!

I finally got my horse ! :D

Meet Galahad

Now I'll be working to get my bunny!

Can I use for 7) Read a book with an invasion in it ?

Nice horsey :)

thanks :D

Great looking horse Angel :-) congrats!

Congratulations Angel!

Congrats, Angel! It took me a minute to realize Galahad is the name of the horse in the show my two boy's watch all the time lol I was like where have I heard that before!?!?! Ah yes, Mike the Knight haha

Congrats, Angel. :)

Congrats Angel! That's a great horse

Congrats Angel :)

And I think I Am Legend would count as an invasion of the Zombies. I'm assuming it's like the movie :)

Ok thanks, I'll read that then :)

Congrats on your horse Angel!

Yay Angel!

I'm going to have a problem getting the book published on my birthday since I'm over fifty. They rarely list the month in the ones I have

@Mary,
You don't have to read book published on your birthday. You need to match 3 books. One with year, one with month and one with day/date.
For example, my birthday is 20 Dec, so I need to read book published in Dec of any year, and book published on 20th of any month and/or year.

Quick Question (sorry if you've already covered it)

For an audiobook, can you use a narrator for a spell-it-out challenge?

I've just spent a while booking and planning... I now have my next 26 books planned, eep! And that doesn't even include some of other quests I want to do.

Also, sorry another question about the heal potion. When it says "Allows healing up to 10 health during a battle" - does that mean your health goes to 10, or you add 10 to your current hp?

Question: For people doing The Academy - History quest, how did you go about finding a book that was published on the right day? I've looked through my TBR list and listopia, but can't find a book that was published on the 25th. Any suggestions?

RebeccaS wrote: "Also, sorry another question about the heal potion. When it says "Allows healing up to 10 health during a battle" - does that mean your health goes to 10, or you add 10 to your current hp?"

Based on every other RPG style game I play, it adds 10 to whatever your current health is. Hopefully I've been assuming that right this entire time otherwise I have severely screwed up some battles lol

Tia wrote: "Question: For people doing The Academy - History quest, how did you go about finding a book that was published on the right day? I've looked through my TBR list and listopia, but can't find a book ..."

I'm in the process of going through my TBR right now to find my birthday as well. I'll keep an eye out for any 25s for you but no, I don't have any other ideas and I'm starting to stress out about it :P

To search birthday, best way I know would be fictfact. All you need is to find month/date you are looking for, see what books were published and check if those are first pub days (fictfact gives pub dates for all editions separately). For years (and months), you can use GR - list. Again you need to check if it's first pub date.

RebeccaS wrote: "Also, sorry another question about the heal potion. When it says "Allows healing up to 10 health during a battle" - does that mean your health goes to 10, or you add 10 to your current hp?"

I'd say it adds 10, but you can't go over your max.
For example if you can have max 16hp, and you're at 10hp, using potion you'll end up on 16 not 20.

Kelly will correct me if I'm wrong.

RebeccaS wrote: "Quick Question (sorry if you've already covered it)

For an audiobook, can you use a narrator for a spell-it-out challenge?"

I don't think we discussed that one before and I'm not sure about answer. I'm tempted to say no since narrator is not author, but at the same time we allow it in Wheelathon.

I'll let Kelly make final decision.

❀Tea❀ wrote: "RebeccaS wrote: "Also, sorry another question about the heal potion. When it says "Allows healing up to 10 health during a battle" - does that mean your health goes to 10, or you add 10 to your cur..."

Perfect thank you!

Tia wrote: "Question: For people doing The Academy - History quest, how did you go about finding a book that was published on the right day? I've looked through my TBR list and listopia, but can't find a book ..."

Mkay this seems like it works.

Search google with the phrase: "first published March 25th" goodreads

This seemed to give me a bunch of books published March 25th. Might be able to use a * instead of March to get all of them, otherwise just rotate through the months.

❀Tea❀ wrote: "RebeccaS wrote: "Quick Question (sorry if you've already covered it)

For an audiobook, can you use a narrator for a spell-it-out challenge?"

I don't think we discussed that one before and I'm not..."

I'm ok using narrator as long as you did the audiobook version.

❀Tea❀ wrote: "I'd say it adds 10, but you can't go over your max.
For example if you can have max 16hp, and you're at 10hp, using potion you'll end up on 16 not 20."

Correct

Just finished my first 'real' quest and got a Time Walker potion a few days before it expires!

Drinks for everyone!

Thanks and a BIG CONGRATS!!!

Congratulations Diane!

Congratulations, Diane! That's great :D

I just finished up the feast of love quest. Phew. Cutting it close on that one. But I'm good on the ones being removed with this update now at least!

Congrats Diane!

Thanks everyone!

Congrats Cait for getting your quest completed in time.

Just a heads up. If anyone is still looking for a book with a pet bunny in it for their rabbit quest, I just stumbled across one (WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!?)



It's nonfiction about puppies, for goodness sake! But the author/main person in the story notes that they have 2 pet bunnies that live in a hutch in their yard.

Read The Martian by Andy Weir . What a great book. Flew through it in just over 3 hours.

Reva wrote: "Read The Martian by Andy Weir . What a great book. Flew through it in just over 3 hours."

I've recommended that one to so many people now.

I kept reading it and thinking it sounds just like everyone at work then I looked up the author and it said he was a Software Engineer and I started laughing.

I just couldn't put it down.

I loved that one! Took me completely by surprise.

That's awesome news! I just checked it out from the library so I'll have to read it this week.

Another book for my TBR list. I don't know if I'll live long enough to read them all :D

Cathy wrote: "Another book for my TBR list. I don't know if I'll live long enough to read them all :D"

This one's worth it. The movie's also coming out sometime around November if I remember right so it might be good to read it beforehand :)

For those who are participating in the Bunnicula Buddy Read starting tonight, here's the link

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

Any chance that we can get an earlier preview than April 22 for the Market Caravan?