Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

I can take tasks 2 & 5

Rat king
1 100 to 175
2 rodent on cover (note: rabbits are not rodents)
3 MC takes advantage or someone or is taken advantage of
4 Royal char in book
5 MPG Non-fiction


Yay it's short!

Kabandha
1 350 to 450
2 MPG Mythology
3 Torso on cover
4 MC has a brother
5 Tree(s) on cover


Another one as I've been bad about completions over the weekend.

Sophie wrote: " I've been bad about completions over the weekend."

or good about being present with family at weekends ;-)

Though as I've been busy plowing though various royalty books (they have Turf Wars dresses!), a leeetle frustrating!

That said, I am reading , which features royalty, and - though not hit it yet - am sure that "take advantage" will happen - possibly the fact that one of the MCs is married off for political convenience despite her strenuous objections fits?

I can grab a short non-fic listen any time, but won't claim it just yet. :)

First I'll try to finish my current reads.

A book about a Medici? Definitely advantage will be taken. I'm pretty sure that family invented the practice 😂

:D

If a Medici hasn't taken advantage are they even worthy of the name?

Nope. They'd be disinherited, I'm sure.

I don't know why, but I'm not settling into Turfs. It's not sparking my normal competitive must just read off the list for the most points spirit.

I think for me, because it's such a looooooong challenge, I'm happy to read anything that's on the list that's on my tbr anyway, and I prioritise those, but I'm not going out of my way to read stuff I normally wouldn't. Except for the odd re-read of a really short book, though no idea how long I'll keep that up for!

This edition I've been fairly lucky with the lists, in that I've had books on there that I want to read (the dresses list has cleared out a few from the closet, for instance), but I do find it's kinda down to how well I am getting on with the lists, otherwise I treat it as a semi-passive challenge - I'll read what I like, and if they're lucky it'll get points.
Helps that we have a friendly Shelf Stalker in Angie, who makes sure to snaffle up any books that slip through the cracks.

Thinking about it more, it's also the lack of warning on what the tasks are before the start of a round. There's no sense of 'I can start that longer book because I know it'll get points next round' instead it feels like a lot of short last minute challenges.

Yeah, I'm a compulsive planner and right now I'm climbing the walls waiting for the next tasks. I am about to finish my last book for this round, and am going to have to pick a book without knowing if it'll be of any use. Makes me uncomfortable, lol.

I'm not a massive planner, but the last minute notice and time limit makes me twitchy.

Finished off Argus and got a new Greek monster, Stymphalian Birds.

Could be worse, I guess. :)

1) 350 to 450
2) #6 in series
3) musical instrument mention in text
4) something metal on cover
5) features a bird (bird shifter accepted)

Also, it is worth mentioning that we already finished off 21 monsters, so well done us! 🥰🎉🎊

currently reading:
There's barbed wire on the cover - in her body - if you are all OK with that. is 400 pages. not found an instrument yet, but not into the swing of that yet - time to warm up?!

Currently I have 2 books on the sheet, but feel free to remove them, if you finish books that would work for the slots.

Next Monday I'll have a minor operation and will stay home for 2 weeks afterwards, so I'll have more time to finish books.

Sylar done, spinning...


Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

100 to 175
Blood on cover
Book has a manipulative character
Gendered word in title (lady, girl, fireman etc)
Author initials in SHAKESPEARE

Cat/Sophie,

I have a favour to ask. I may have botched my Wheels sign-up. I meant to give my book/week count as 3 and I am not sure whether I did that or if went with giving the book/month count, which is 12.

Could you please have a look when you have the time?

Many thanks.

I don't know if Cat changed it, but you are showing with 3 a week.

Thank you, ♡

Cat,

have you already started your non-fic book?

OK, just saw that you are done with it. :)

Penny-wise has come to play.

350-400
Something you are afraid of on cover (your interpretation)
Compound word in title
Author initials PC or CP (First and last only)
"Tagged ""circus"" (5 or more times)"

I'm reading which has wasps on it.

Also The Secrets of Hartwood Hall - Hartwood is compound word (Hart = deer / Wood = small area of moderately dense tree plantings) - this is 352 pages, so fits two.

Circus and CP / PC initials not to hand though

Dang it! I have a Peter Clines series still to read, but only have books 3 & 4 (still waiting for an audible deal/offer on the first 2).

If no-one else has anything to fit, I may be able to re-read another of his books later in the week...

No circuses that I'm looking to read any time soon...

I've got Caraval which is tagged Circus which I can read.

Some how got myself stuck on the idea of reading for the rodent task and think I need to move on.

there's blood on the cover, isn't there? If so, I can take that task, when I've finished one of my other books on the sheet.

I'll pop it in, with a note that I can be bumped :)

Works for me for blood :)

Would we consider this: to work for torso?

I would say that works for torso :)

Awesome. I may also have something for Mythology...

and hopefully one or the other will work as a twofer for the MC has brother!

I'm hoping so, but guess I won't know until I read them.

Sophie, if tgere's nothing else, I can reread The amazing Maurice and its educated rodents. :)

Why didn't I even think of that one??

For author so far I found Chuck Palahniuk, but honestly, I am not mad about the idea :)

And I totally refuse to read anything by Christopher Paolini, sorry for being a negative N about it.

Other rat: Flowers for Algernon.

@Mel, his recent sci-fi one, Sea of Stars or something, wasn't bad, but I could never put myself through his Eragon books. I read the first when it came out and thought it was appallingly derivative and dull, and that was years ago, so I can't imagine being filled with love and joy over them now!

Will continue to ponder CP etc authors

Rodent is sorted and it's KU. 1st chapter was v readable which was a welcome change from Eon. Hard sci fi is not my thing.

CP/PC I'll think on. There's bound to be a romance novelist called Charlotte or Catherine with a P surname.

I read Eragon and hated that it was a sequence of blatant and poor rip-offs from first page to last. :)

I thought of Peter Carey and Paolo Coelho, but .... just no. Will do some more searching.

https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...

All our options from GR.

Has authors with those initials either way round.

I've picked something by Caroline Peckham so that's covered now.

Melindam wrote: "And I totally refuse to read anything by Christopher Paolini, sorry for being a negative N about it."

lol! I agree Eragon wasn't great, though I rather loved To Sleep in a Sea of Stars 😁

Cat wrote: "Other rat: Flowers for Algernon."

Very good book dat!

Will probably finish my book6 in series, so will do another spin in the afternoon.