Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Would this book work for at least three foods on the cover? It has mushrooms and two types of berries, but it’s a fantasy novel so it’s not clear if the berries and mushrooms would be edible.

Deanna wrote: "@Cassy - can you add Wicked to your challenge shelf when you have a moment please? Thanks!"

Done! sorry about that

You can put me down for the Cornupia mini with
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Ann wrote: "Hi team! I know I have played on various challenges with you. I need to get up to speed with this game but I am excited to join you!"

Welcome Ann!

Temple by Matthew Reilly is also set in Peru. I love this book, and would love to read it for the mini. But I have 2 other books going and I don’t know if I can finish it in time. If anyone else would like to give it a read, please go ahead!

I know I am late to the party. Trying to figure the game out! Here is my plan for the mini. Question when does the mini end?
I have added my reading the planning spreadsheet.
Mad Honey - Orange Cover
It would be a night in caracas - set in Venezuela
The crimson thread - set in Crete
A proposal they can't refuse - author name is diacritic

Ann wrote: "I know I am late to the party. Trying to figure the game out! Here is my plan for the mini. Question when does the mini end?
I have added my reading the planning spreadsheet.
Mad Honey - Orange Cov..."

June 15

Aiswrya wrote: "Ann wrote: "I know I am late to the party. Trying to figure the game out! Here is my plan for the mini. Question when does the mini end?
I have added my reading the planning spreadsheet.
Mad Honey ..."

thanks!!

For Book Drop #3


Weapons
Silver text on cover or Killian has a sword that is mentioned a couple of times.

Shelter
Purple on cover

Food
White text on cover or three course meal p. 324 "fresh oysters in a lemon-wine sauce, lobster risotto with saffron, and Quebec duck roast in citrus hone with heirloom carrots."

Defense
Brown skin on cover or a longer book added to a wall.

I've got three books I could read next. It is unlikely I'll be able to finish all three by the 15th, as I'm planning to read the backroom BOM, but I might be able to if they are easy reads. I'm going to start with the horns on the cover because it has been a while since I read an alien book and they are normally fast reads.
(author with Diatic)
(sent in Idaho) or
(horn on the cover)
If anyone knows that one of the other tasks is needed more please let me know and I'll focus on that one after Chosen By the Alien Warrior.

LavenderLane wrote: "Would this book work for at least three foods on the cover? It has mushrooms and two types of berries, but it’s a fantasy novel so it’s not clear if the berries and mushrooms would be edible.

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I'm going to say yes. There's no reason to think they wouldn't be edible. (Just checked the spreadsheet and realized all the spaces for this task are full now)

Tracking Post
Moving over from previous page...

5 Point Tasks
📌 Title (including subtitle) includes all the letters CORNUPIA (no need to duplicate C and O)
📚 Lavender (Alien Earths...)
📌 The cover has at least 3 different food items
📌 Set in Peru, Panama, Colombia or Venezuela (or combination of them to reach the 50%)
📚 Megan (One Hundred Years...)
📚 Ann (It Would Be a Night in Caracas)

3 Point Tasks
📌 Horn on cover (instrument or animal equally OK. but not antlers please)
📌 Book set in Crete
📚 Ann (The Crimson Thread)
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📌 Book set in Idaho
📚 Deanna (Two Wicked Desserts)
📚 Annalisa (Rumor Has It)
📚 Michelle's Empty Nest (Cover of Night)
📌 Author's name has a diacritic (Cornucopia was a concert tour for Björk. yes, it's tenuous, but go with it anyway!)
📚 Ann (A Proposal They Can't Refuse)
📚 Michelle's Empty Nest (Abigail)
📌 "abundant" or "abundance" in text
📌 Takes place on a farm (farm meaning somewhere raising plants or animals to be sold for food)

1 Point Tasks
📌 Read a book with a orange cover
📚 Ann (Mad Honey)
📚 Aiswyra (Her Deadly Game)
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📌 "harvest" (plural OK, no other variants) in text
📌 Author initials in HERACLES
📌 Word in title is hiding a different smaller word (of at least four letters) inside it (not the singular form or verb tense differences) - examples LimonCELLO; THINg; wereWOLF (or indeed WEREwolf); HUNGer but NOT GAMEs (as that's the singular/plural)
📚 Jill (This Summer Will Be Different)
📌 One of the following food words in text (plural OK, no other variants): corn, grape, ham, bread, cheese, apple, fish, chicken, bread, rice, tomato, pepper, salt, honey, lobster

Here are our current remaining mini tasks based on the planning spreadsheet this morning. If you're working on a book for any of the open tasks, please post here so we can coordinate what we're reading.

Deanna wrote: "LavenderLane wrote: "Would this book work for at least three foods on the cover? It has mushrooms and two types of berries, but it’s a fantasy novel so it’s not clear if the berries and mushrooms w..."

No probs if that task has been completed, I’ll concentrate on the Alien Earths book then 🙂

Reading a book for the orange cover task. Her Deadly Game

To earn BR discussion points for The Hunger Games the book must be finished and at least three posts of actual discussion need to be made during Round 1.

The BR discussion thread will remain open and please continue to discuss as long as you'd like. The mods will put a post in the thread stating something to the effect of "posts beyond here no long count towards Book Games discussion points". So it will be clear when the window for points has closed.

Team spreadsheets must be finalized by captains one hour after the close of Round 1.

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Info for the next mini is up!

Tracking post in message 212 is up to date. We're almost there team just a few more unclaimed tasks. Keep up the great work!

Ann wrote: "Hi team! I know I have played on various challenges with you. I need to get up to speed with this game but I am excited to join you!"

Ann, when you have a chance can you post a link to your challenge shelf please. You can add any books started since the beginning of the challenge on the 15th of May.

I grabbed the last diacritic mark with Abigail by Magda Szabó.

I’m reading Nosy Neighbors for an orange cover. 😊 I’ve just started so haven’t updated the spreadsheet yet.

I also picked up an Orange cover since it looks like the next book I had planned has a place that is already filled.

That just leaves us needing 2 more books set in Crete. Anyone has a book to read or a suggestion of good books that would fit the task?

I unfortunately don't have any books for the Crete task, but I checked over this list: https://www.goodreads.com/places/3361...
I've read Circe in the past, and although it wasn't the book for me, I think if anyone likes Greek mythology that it's a good one to try! It has great reviews.

I also wasn’t able to find a Crete book that my library had or that my library had and didn’t have a long wait list.

I think I can fit in Ariadne. It's not too long and it's on Libby. I'll add it to the SS.

Is anyone else thinking the next mini is going to be a little difficult? Not as easy to search for, etc.

Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "Is anyone else thinking the next mini is going to be a little difficult? Not as easy to search for, etc."

Yeah this new one could be a tricky one!

Agreed. Looks like we need to finish planning in the first week

Finished my CORNUPIA book for the mini.

I can take the last Crete task. I found .

Less than 48 hours to go for Round 1!

Please make sure all of your finished books are up to date on the tracking spreadsheet by Friday. I'll get everything added late Friday after work.

The Round 2 tab is ready for books to be added if you need to move books that won't be finished until the next round.

Deanna wrote: "Ann wrote: "Hi team! I know I have played on various challenges with you. I need to get up to speed with this game but I am excited to join you!"

Ann, when you have a chance can you post a link to..."

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Ann, what did you think of Mad Honey? Would you recommend it? Sounds like a mystery focused novel, which is right up my alley. But I don’t want to read anything with sexual assault. Let me know?

Aiswrya wrote: "Ann, what did you think of Mad Honey? Would you recommend it? Sounds like a mystery focused novel, which is right up my alley. But I don’t want to read anything with sexual assault. Let me know?"

I gave it 5 stars. It was really good but it does have a lot of very sensitive topics. (transgender, suicide, domestic violence)

Ann wrote: "Aiswrya wrote: "Ann, what did you think of Mad Honey? Would you recommend it? Sounds like a mystery focused novel, which is right up my alley. But I don’t want to read anything with sexual assault...."

Got it, thank you!

I finished a book but cannot access the spreadsheet.
I finished Bones on Ice by Kathy Reiches.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

White on cover - Food

Michelle wrote: "I finished a book but cannot access the spreadsheet.
I finished Bones on Ice by Kathy Reiches.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

White on cover - Food"

Make sure you are accessing the Tracking sheet. You should have access to it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Battle Mini Planning

The mods have given us the go ahead to start the planning phase of the next mini. We're facing off against team 11.

Our title is: The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Does anyone have a book with a title that starts with LES that they will be able to finish reading between June 22-28?

Uggh, LES is hard. I’ve looked through all the audio, physical books and ebooks I have and none start with LES!

Lessons in Chemistry works, but I’ve read it and as much as I loved it, I generally don’t enjoy re-reading literary fiction. But, if it’s on anyone’s TBR it’s an option.

Lessons in Chemistry immediately came to mind...and it's on my TBR. I can definitely read it!

Battle Planning Tracker

Books must be started and finished between June 22-28

1. Michelle's Empty Nest (Lessons in Chemistry)

Sending our first choice to team 11 now.

Is there anything reason to not pick a book if possible that has the full last word as the start? I didn’t see that not being allowed in the rules. I know we already picked but if there was a title that started with Chronicles could we have read that? For example Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.

Per the rules:

The winning team will be either:
- the team to make the last completed strike, if not all 20 books (across both teams) are read; or
- the team with the smallest number of overlap letters in their strikes, if all 20 books are read; or
- if there is a tie for number of overlap letters, a coin toss will be made by a neutral mod to decide the winner.

So assuming both teams read all the books, having a smaller number of overlap letters is the next way to win.

Thanks. For some reason my brain thought it was the opposite. More overlap was better.

Arena Battles - District 11

Our first book will be Trying to Live With the Dead

Believe it or not team, I actually have a book that works for starting with EAD!


Eadan's Vow

Oooh ead is tricky. Let me try that before we defer to dead

Michelle's Empty Nest wrote: "Believe it or not team, I actually have a book that works for starting with EAD!


Eadan's Vow"

oh woww lol! Happy to read it! Unless you'd like to? We need to read 20 books I think, so we're going to have to read more than 1 each.