Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Thanks for all the well wishes! I’m slightly better but still feeling terrible.

Great news about the stitches, Karen! I hope you’ll recover quickly!

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I had my stitches out today, big step (pun intended!).
My foot looks revolting but surgeon said it is "perfect" haha

Anyway, still with elevation, but now ice packs as I can get it wet (hooray) an..."

Glad all is going well with the treatment. I was up at the Canopy this morning, we may have well passed each other like ships in the night, LOL. I haven't been to Garcon but I've heard it's good, my usual restaurant of choice is the Four Frogs Creperie. Yummy.

I've had a really bad sore throat all day so I may be joining the sickness club, but hopefully it is just a sore throat.

I just did a bit of spreadsheet maintenance and we need a D and an I to finish our current spell it out.

Personally, I intend to finish at least 2 more books this round. I'm working on my green book which so far only works for an E and should have that done at some point today. I'm going to work on finishing October's BOM which will give us an I (or a G if the I gets covered). I'm off work for 3 nights now so I may be able to get that other book I have on the spreadsheet done too, but the other 2 are my main focus for now.

My current Berlin book has everything except E. I have about 150 pages to go but it's a fairly quick read. One of those books with very short chapters, sometimes only 1 or 2 pages.

Can't wait to see what our next word is...

I should be able to finish a book today that covers both D and I!

I just finished my green book which means we are all done with green covers!

I also did a bit of shuffling on the SS and we have now completed our 7th spell it out!

Elisabeth wrote: "My current Berlin book has everything except E. I have about 150 pages to go but it's a fairly quick read. One of those books with very short chapters, sometimes only 1 or 2 pages.

Can't wait to s..."

Oh me too! I think the next bonus might be instruments on the cover.. we will see.

You must be psychic Lisa. 🤣

Round 3 Bonus



For this round, find musical instruments on the cover of your books (any instrument, just has to be obviously an instrument)

Each found instrument will earn an additional 5 bonus points. Only one instrument per book cover and a maximum of 10 bonus instruments. You can find the same instrument multiple times (not least because no one's got time to decide if it's a violin or viola etc etc)



Note to captains: any changes to the standard bonus rules, similar to what was done for Round 2, will not be determined until after the results of Round 2 and the mods see the point spread between teams. A lot can change from round to round.

So our next word is

Alpine Zither

And blue covers

I can definitely tick off some blue covers for that one.

Finally something with L! I need to read Little Women for a challenge and it’s been waiting for me since August 😂

I'm going to read a couple of your books Elisabeth with the instruments on the cover! 😊

Thank you, Lisa. 😀 From memory there are 2 violins and a cello.

I have with a piano and good for I and L for starters.

Also a blue cover with N.

Elisabeth wrote: "I have with a piano and good for I and L for starters.

Also a blue cover with N."

I LOVE North and South.. the book is great but the TV adaption with Richard Armitage as John Thornton is even better. 😍

yay! new letters!!

I've put the round onto the tracking spreadsheet

I am glad to see the back of D and O for a while!! ;)

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "I have with a piano and good for I and L for starters.

Also a blue cover with N."

I LOVE North and South.. the b..."

Good! I'm doing a calendar challenge so it's been waiting for November to roll around. Also need an author starting with N. Hmmm

D and O etc turned out to be quite hard. Too restricted, really.

I have at least one book with an instrument on. I also have some blue covered books saved up. It's nice to see we have a bit more variety of letters for Round 3.

Elisabeth wrote: "D and O etc turned out to be quite hard. Too restricted, really."

Yes, but it could have been worse (Ukelele!)

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "D and O etc turned out to be quite hard. Too restricted, really."

Yes, but it could have been worse (Ukelele!)"

Haha, but don't even think it.. there are still two rounds to go!

I started looking for instrument covers in my library, but that was hard. So I looked if GR has a list with musical instruments on the cover. Here are a few:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/7...

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

One question is on how complete an instrument needs to be.

I think a fried has . Not sure if it's this edition, though it is the one I remember having decades ago.

It was written by the composer Hector Berlioz and is very funny particularly if someone's played in a pit orchestra which I have.

Elisabeth wrote: "I think a fried has . Not sure if it's this edition, though it is the one I remember having decades ago.

It was written by the composer Hector Berlioz..."

Well that's not going to happen! My friend doesn't have the book anymore, it's not in my local library or 2nd hand shop and online starts at $53 and continues to over $100!

Wow that is pretty expensive for a book! Time for an alternative ;)

I still haven't left the sick club. It's been almost a month since covid, but now I have a low grade fever that won't go away and apparently a rising crp. I have an audio book and an ebook going, but the fatigue is hampering the reading speed.

That sucks, Silje. I hope you start to feel better real soon. Don't stress too much about the books, your health is more important.

Silje wrote: "I still haven't left the sick club. It's been almost a month since covid, but now I have a low grade fever that won't go away and apparently a rising crp. I have an audio book and an ebook going, b..."

Sorry to hear that Silje. I hope it improves soon.

I hope you’ll feel better soon, Silje!

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: "I have with a piano and good for I and L for starters.

Also a blue cover with N."

I LOVE North and South.. the b..."

I love that adaptation too!

I finished

which was a great, if somewhat disturbing read. Based in Melbourne so bonus there ;)

Marie-Anne wrote: "I started looking for instrument covers in my library, but that was hard. So I looked if GR has a list with musical instruments on the cover. Here are a few:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19..."

Thank you for these links! Sure shows I don't have instruments on covers in my tbr lol

In regards to your question, it really needs to be an obvious instrument.
For example, this came up with the current BOM in the captains group and it was agreed this is instrument on cover

I've been making slow progress on my current book but I will be finished in time for tomorrows deadline

We just finished our 8th spelling!

With just over 12 hours until the end of round 2, please can you let us know if you will be finishing any more books as the captains only get a short time after the deadline to finalise sheets before they are locked.

Keely wrote: "We just finished our 8th spelling!

With just over 12 hours until the end of round 2, please can you let us know if you will be finishing any more books as the captains only get a short time after..."

That's great work everyone.

I have finished reading for Round 2. 😊

I will finish my last read for the round in time!

Thank you for the updates Lisa and Fiona.

I have also finished reading for Round 2 now.

I finished my last book The Girl Who Was Taken for this round and it was pretty good.

I have just added an O to the spreadsheet its a little one at 115 pages but will get it finished in an hour so thought it might help

I'm trying really hard to finish The Bat, but not sure that I can make it :(. Will update in 2.5 hours.

You can do it!!

I've just finished my last book for this round and updated on the spreadsheet

I will finish Seabiscuit: An American Legend for this round.👍🏼

I've updated the spreadsheet and we have 37 minutes left in the round so any books for round 2 need to be posted before then.
I'll check again closer to the cut off and post when we are in round 3

I am not going the make it. Not sure how I got the time mixed up.

I did it!

:)

Great work team - round 2 is done :)

Round 3 has now begun!!

I've finished my first for the new round :)


I'm older than Britney, so I didn't grow up with her, or her music. By the time she debuted I was well into grunge stage and didn't pay a whole lot of attention.
Since #freebritney started I have been interested in the conservatorships in America and how we treat female stars differently. And it was through that lens that I found myself wanting to read this book.
What a horrible 13 years she endured. Hopefully she can now find herself again.

I'm thinking about reading Puccini's Ghosts .
Before I do, I wanted to check if this is enough to qualify for instrument: There are 3 partial violins on the cover, the one at the top is nearly an entire instrument.

They look obvious to me.