Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Finished Runaway Groomsman and added options for the mini in case you're doing any switching around. I'm on my phone today so haven't linked it yet. I'll do it in the morning when I get on a laptop.

Would it be best to hang off starting any new books till the 1st? I still have a couple of others on the go that'll keep me busy till then.

The maze starts on 1st, but nothing started before then can be used, so finish things whenever you get to them.

Just completed And the Mountains Echoed, which is MPG Historical Fiction.

It's a really good look into people - their sadness, their grief, their exasperation, their guilt... it's not really a plot based book, it's more character focused, touching on moments in the lives of characters whose lives all intersect. Highly recommended if you enjoy reflective books.

Insiyah wrote: "Just completed And the Mountains Echoed, which is MPG Historical Fiction.

It's a really good look into people - their sadness, their grief, their exasperation, their guilt... it's not really a pl..."

I have liked all four of this author's books (that I am aware of, are there more?) I like The Kite Runner best, but this one was good too.

I enjoyed Kite Runner, but don't think I've read any of the others yet.

Task 1. Read a book with 41-50 chapters
Heading East - even page number

This is our first task for the maze if any one wants to get involved.

I'd love to get involved Sophie but I don't think I'm a fast enough reader, particularly for this task. It'd probably take me a few days to read a book with 40+ chapters.

No worries! The first few will probably end up being taken by speed readers, but hopefully after that we will get lucky and have books started after 1st June (9pm GMT) that fit the criteria and are nearly done so other people can join in too.

I'm not putting myself forward for this one either. My mother in law is arriving for the weekend just before the maze starts so reading time isn't going to be the priority.

Missy Can you add your finished books to your shelf please?

Denise Could you add The Fine Art of Losing Control to your shelf please?


Mini Progress

Just over 24 hours to go on Muse Mini. If anyone has an H book, that is the current priority as it is blank and not being worked on yet.


Thalia
Spell out H - JL

Polyhymnia
Spell out Y - Insiyah - reading

Calliope
Royal title in book title - Sophie - reading

Euterpe
Musical instrument on cover - Denise - shelf

Terpsichore
Spell out C - Andrea - reading


L more than 233
U more than 246
O more than 284
Poetry quote more than 288

If someone is reading a book with Y and you complete before me, please feel free to take the task over - A Little Life is going a lot slowly than expected...

Sophie wrote: "


Missy Can you add your finished books to your shelf please?

Denise Could you add The Fine Art of Losing Control to your shelf please?


Mini Progress

Just over 24 hours to go on Muse Mini. If ..."

If we're desperate for an H you could use Wildfire. It's not the longest but I've finished it and haven't put any mini tasks against it.

Devann has just finished a Harry Potter which gives us >400p for that one, so I'm happy.

Sophie wrote: "


Missy Can you add your finished books to your shelf please?

Denise Could you add The Fine Art of Losing Control to your shelf please?


Mini Progress

Just over 24 hours to go on Muse Mini. If ..."

I'll finish a book that fits with L with 448 pages by the end of the day.

I just finished the busiest of busy times. I'm so relieved.

Added The Fine Art...to my TT shelf. Sorry about that.

I'm a little confused by the maze. It looks like some have already made made progress, but I didn't think it started until June 1. I may have missed something. Actually, there's a very good chance I missed something!

Thanks! Well done on surviving the busiest of times.


There are a lot of individual mazes which people have been working on since March. The one you want to look at is called Trojans and is right down at the bottom of the home page.

Perfect Strangers by J.T. Geissinger 5 Stars!!!!

OMG!!! OMG!!! I don't give out 5 stars very often but this was hands down one of the best books I have read in awhile!! I can't even describe it but it will be one of those books that I keep thinking about over time and will be memorable. Amazing!!

Megan L wrote: "Perfect Strangers by J.T. Geissinger 5 Stars!!!!

OMG!!! OMG!!! I don't give out 5 stars very often but this was hands down one of the best books I have read in awh..."

Thank you for the recommendation!!

Loving that enthusiasm! And the fact it is on kindle unlimited even more.

Sophie wrote: "Thanks! Well done on surviving the busiest of times.


There are a lot of individual mazes which people have been working on since March. The one you want to look at is called Trojans and is right ..."

Found it. Do we all need the username and password for the maze or just the captains?

I think just the captains and cocaptains will have it to start with - want to minimise the cahnce of anything going wrong.

Sophie wrote: "I think just the captains and cocaptains will have it to start with - want to minimise the cahnce of anything going wrong."

Probably for the best if I'm involved! 😂 I found the thread for the maze group. I'm honestly just catching up. I'm hoping to be able to help. My reading speed varies so much with my work schedule, but it might work out at some point!

So if I started a book today and finish it in June, we can still use it but just not for the maze game, is that right?

Insiyah wrote: "If someone is reading a book with Y and you complete before me, please feel free to take the task over - A Little Life is going a lot slowly than expected..."

I'm about to finish a book with a Y author in case we need it

Yes! Any books started after the Towers start date and finished before the Towers end date will still count for the main challenge, just not for the mini challenges that have different date requirements.

Insiyah wrote: "JL wrote: "All three of the books that I have read and marked as read have been removed from the spreadsheet. Is that how the spreadsheet works? Add what you plan to read and it gets removed as you..."

Okay. Thank you.

Megan L wrote: "Happy Sunday!

I just finished Rock Chick Revolution by Kristen Ashley. A great end to a fantastic series!! This series is a must read if you like bad ass chicks, b..."

Love all Kristen Ashley Books! Though, Rock Chicks series was my very first series of hers I read so It's my favorite! And I'm so excited I get to meet KA in September!

Sophie wrote: "


Missy Can you add your finished books to your shelf please?

Denise Could you add The Fine Art of Losing Control to your shelf please?


Mini Progress

Just over 24 hours to go on Muse Mini. If ..."

Finished but wasn't able to even start , my last book I had marked for May.

Steven wrote: "Yes! Any books started after the Towers start date and finished before the Towers end date will still count for the main challenge, just not for the mini challenges that have different date require..."

Thank you! That's what I thought, but wanted to be sure.

I couldn't bring myself to get into A Little Life for a bit, so I spent the morning reading Redshirts because I decided to listen to the part of my brain that's been trying to lust over this. Total Star Trek spoof, and I couldn't stop laughing at some points.

Awesome Andrea, I saw you were selected to write DQs for The Book of Cold Cases ! Our team got really lucky this time with the odds. I will join you in the discussion. I've started the book today and I'm hooked already. Loving the mysterious vibe so far.

Yep, I was lucky to be selected!!. I want to finish a book in the afternoon and begin reading The Book of Cold Cases later today.

I am hoping to start The Book of Cold Cases tomorrow

Just finished my ARC of Compass by Murray Lee. Loved it. If you like arctic adventures reminiscent of Jack London, you might like this one. Unreliable narrator, humorous guide, Inuit mythology and culture...
Definitely worth a read. I think it might be available on NetGalley. I had a print copy from the publisher, but I think I saw that they were releasing it as an e-ARC.

Insiyah wrote: "I couldn't bring myself to get into A Little Life for a bit, so I spent the morning reading Redshirts because I decided to listen to the part of my brain that's been trying to lust ..."

I've heard it's a really emotional book to read. I haven't tried it yet.

FML... I just tried to leave to run errands and my back tire is flat as a pancake. I don't know how to change it myself and I don't have enough money to call someone to do it. I hate being stranded when I have so much I need to do. UGH

Is there going to be a June mini? Or is it just the maze?

Oh Amy! Life isn't being kind to you atm. Hope sorting the tyre hasn't been too much of a pain.


There are new things coming throughout the rest of the challenge, but just the maze for right now.

I can't remember if any of you were children's librarians, or if I need to widen my gr net. My 4 1/2 has outgrown preschooler picture books and we are trying to find new things to read him at bedtime. He really enjoying The 13-Storey Treehouse so any recommendations for similar things would be amazing.

Sophie wrote: "I can't remember if any of you were children's librarians, or if I need to widen my gr net. My 4 1/2 has outgrown preschooler picture books and we are trying to find new things to read him at bedti..."

There are a bunch of books for ages 5+ in the 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. I made a spreadsheet if you would like to take a look: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Sophie wrote: "I can't remember if any of you were children's librarians, or if I need to widen my gr net. My 4 1/2 has outgrown preschooler picture books and we are trying to find new things to read him at bedti..."

Hmm...maybe try Inspector Flytrap by Tom Angleberger or A Beginning, a Muddles, and an End by Avi or The Platypus Police Squad series. My boys all liked the Mr. Lemoncello books and the Platypus Police Squad books. They actually wrote emails to Jarrett J. Krosoczka and Chris Grabenstein and eventually heard back from them!

The Bad Guys and Diary of a Wimpy Kid are extremely popular series with kids, but parents don't always love them...lots of name-calling, burp/fart jokes, etc. My own kids liked them, but were older than your son when they read them. So it depends on what you're comfortable with.

I'll try to look around the children's section this week and see if anything else jumps out at me. Good luck!

Note: I'm reading the Kindle version of Carrie Soto Is Back. GR keeps switching me to the Hardcover edition. I even tried saving from my laptop. I don't think I've ever had this issue before, but fwiw, I'm reading the 352 page Kindle version.

Amy the book-bat wrote: "FML... I just tried to leave to run errands and my back tire is flat as a pancake. I don't know how to change it myself and I don't have enough money to call someone to do it. I hate being stranded..."

Ugh. I'm sorry. Spending money on cars is possibly my least favorite thing to spend money on.

Thanks everyone! Will check these out. Excited to see what the next thing he takes to is.

There's been steady progress on the maze today.

Task: Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with H

While we could go in any direction, East (even p number) or South (N-Z title) would be best.

I have a bunch of books I started before June 1 that I need to finish before I can start helping with these tasks - sorry!

No worries at all! I like to keep everyone in the loop so if you do have something, you know the option of using it in the maze is there. I'm not likely to catch all the tasks though as there are some speed readers all over the world involved.

My suggestion if you want to get involved in the Maze is to enable notifications on the Maze chat - you'll be able to keep yourself updated that way 😊

Random question, has anyone read the Murderbot Diaries? If so do you know if it's OK to read book 6 before book 5?

I've read 1 through 4 but my library hold for 6 came in way before the hold on 5 so I'm going to have to either read them out of sequence or return 6 and wait 3 or 4 months to borrow again as there's a hefty waitlist

Sophie wrote: "V odd, it reckons that is linking to not goodreads. Can you add me as a friend so I can look at a couple of things? I couldn't immediately see the shelf on your books page."

Sorry, had a couple crazy days at work where I was the o ly supervisor and all that could go crazy did.
Catching up on threads now and I added you. Fingers crossed you can help!

I’m really confused by the maze. I think I’ll head over to that thread and see if I can figure it out.

I’m also really confused by the BOTM. I read Travelling Cat Chronicles finishing on 5/31, but did I have to be writing discussion questions to get us points? And where are the discussions happening? Sorry, I’m trying to figure things out…

I want to read two of this months so I feel like I should figure out what’s going on with it…