Allison’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2015)

Allison’s comments from the The Reading Challenge Group group.

June Mini-Mini Challenge - June Bride (June 2016) (Completed)

Planned:

World Lit Challenge Thread

World Lit Challenge

Goal: 6/12 (June - Dec)
Finished: 5/12

January: South America
February: Middle East
March: Sub-Sahara
April: Southeast Asia
May: Central America/Mexico & Caribbean
✔ June: Western Europe - All the Light We Cannot See
✔ July: North Africa - River God (Egypt)
✔ August: South Asia/India Subcontinent - Rebel Queen (India)
✔ September: North America - To Whisper Her Name
October: Eastern Europe - Doctor Zhivago
✔ November: Oceania/Australia - Heir to Sevenwaters
December: East Asia - Stormdancer (Japan)

World Lit Challenge

Goal: 7/12 (June - Dec)
Finished: 4/12

January: South America
February: Middle East
March: Sub-Sahara
April: Southeast Asia
May: Central America/Mexico & Caribbean
✔ June: Western Europe - All the Light We Cannot See
✔ July: North Africa - River God (Egypt)
✔ August: South Asia/India Subcontinent - Rebel Queen (India)
✔ September: North America - To Whisper Her Name
October: Eastern Europe - Doctor Zhivago
November: Oceania/Australia - Something by Juliet Marillier
December: East Asia - Stormdancer (Japan)

Wow, Deborah! Nice work!

Yay!

Oooh. The Ghost Bride is on my TBR. Maybe it's time to tackle that one! Or possibly Cobweb Bride.

Good luck, Bouchra!

That sounds perfect for the book ban, Sam.

Glad you're joining us, Camille!

Hey Sam, you get 10 points per book that you read for the Readathon. You've accomplished a lot this year already!

Congrats, Jenny! Well done for sticking to your plan and avoiding kindle deals. ;)

So glad you're joining in on this one, Sam!

Glad to have you both along!

Yay!!

Me too, Marina! I am finally down below 100 books that I need to read. Getting there. Just a couple more years and then I'll be free.

The first time I realized that was when I was moving a lot and had overflow stacks of books and doubled up shelves, and discovered I didn't want to haul so many heavy boxes around the country. That's when I started collecting ebooks, which was even more dangerous because they don't take up space!

And now we have a challenge for that!! :D

You can do it, Vero!

Books of Chance

Upper Half

✔ Ones - 4 - Vessel (Roll 5)
✔ Twos - 8 - Cursed Moon (Roll 8)
✔ Threes - 3 - The Winds of Khalakovo (Roll 10)
✔ Fours - 12 - The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence (Roll 7)
✔ Fives - 10 - XO: A Kathryn Dance Novel (Roll 2)
✔ Sixes - 18 - The King's Daughter (Roll 11)

Lower Half

✔ 3 of a Kind - 25 - The Clockwork Dagger (Roll 12)
✔ 4 of a Kind - 14 - A Breath of Frost (Roll 4)
✔ Full House - 25 pts - Lady Fortescue Steps Out (Roll 3)
✔ Small Straight - 30 pts - The Decoy Princess (Roll 1)
✔ Large Straight - 40 pts - Stormdancer (Roll 13)
✔ Yahtzee - 50 pts - An Officer and a Spy (Roll 6)
✔ Chance - 22 - Vicious (Roll 9)

Completed: 13/13

Bookopoly

Bookopoly Round 1 (Completed)

My designated shelf for this game is 2016 - Books of Chance.

June 6th - Roll 1: 4
Library Fine - Read a book from the current month's genres (Minority Studies/LGBT, Western Europe, Classics) - The Tea Rose (LGBT)

June 13th - Roll 2: 11
Railroad - Travel Ahead: A book set in the future - Cress

July 18th - Roll 3: 7
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book - Grave Mercy

August 25th - Roll 4: 11
Partner Pick - Emperor Mage

September 4th - Roll 5: 6
Genre: Contemporary - The Travelers

By the way, you guys all got lucky with the Travel square!

Glad you're all joining in. I hope this will be fun!

Bookworm (or do you prefer Plethora?), it's fine to change the shelf later if you want to. You can also add and remove books from your shelf between turns. The main idea is to narrow down the choices from everything in the world to books you've already identified to read.