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Karsyn ’s comments from the Badass Reading Challenges group.

I took a peek too ladies! I love seeing how people use spreadsheets.

Angie's our spreadsheet guru here, I never understand how it does something one way once then I repeat the same action and it doesn't do what it's supposed to. It's annoying! :/

I'm just starting to look, so if you all are ok with it, I'll take H after Ashley is done and I can also take "Read a Book with all the letters of Hind of Ceryneia in the Title".

C is all your's Ashley.

Anyone have any preference on the other letters? I haven't looked at what I have, but I do know I have an H Title I can do, unless someone else wants it.

September


🔴 Read a Book that is the NINTH Book of a Series
Book: Scourged
Author: Kevin Hearne
Pages: 276
Started: 9/25/18
Finished: 9/26/18
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: 9th book in the Iron Druid Chronicles



🔴 Read a Book Published in September of any Year
Book: Cogheart
Author: Peter Bunzl
Pages: 235
Started: 9/22/18
Finished: 9/22/18
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: published Sept 1, 2016



🔴 Read a Book with a NINE Word Title
Book: The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
Author: Adam Cece
Pages: 288
Started: 9/26/18
Finished: 9/30/18
Rating: 1 star
How it Fits: 9 word title



🔴 Read a Book First Published this month, September of 2018
Book: Property of the Rebel Librarian
Author: Allison Varnes
Pages: 256
Started: 9/21/18
Finished: 9/21/18
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: published Sept 18th, 2018

Completion Post


Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in SLEEPING BEAUTY (14 books) - P
Title: Property of the Rebel Librarian
Author: Allison Varnes
Page Count: 256
Start: 9/21/18
Finish: 9/21/18
How it Fits: P Title



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in SLEEPING BEAUTY (14 books) - S
Title: Scourged
Author: Kevin Hearne
Page Count: 276
Start: 9/25/18
Finish: 9/26/18
How it Fits: S Title



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in SLEEPING BEAUTY (14 books) - T
Title: The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
Author: Adam Cece
Page Count: 288
Start: 9/26/18
Finish: 9/30/18
How it Fits: T Title

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Tackle your TBR Read-a-Thon Wrap-Up


I didn't do anything extra with this read-a-thon, other than actually read, but it was a good week with some great books read. :) I need to remember that during football season, I don't read on Sat and Sun! So, I barely got in my 7 books that I wanted to read, but I did get them all in. YAY! The week was spent reading, writing to penpals and watching sports. My kind of week, minus any video games, I just didn't have time! :)

I didn't keep track of my times read for this read-a-thon, I just read. Here's what I did!


Tackle your TBR Read-a-Thon Stats

I completed 7 books
I read approximately 2,300 pages (two books I started prior & had read some)
I read 5 books on my Kindle
I listened to 2 books as audiobooks


Completed Books:

I'm sure none of the teams have done it how it's meant to be, so no worries. It's meant to be that when a Villain comes out all books have to be started after it's posted, so you can't just use one already reading because it happens to fit. But as I said, I'm sure not all teams have done it, so it's ok.

That's rather eerie! Apparently Ashley, you and I both read exactly 4300 pages for this Villain.

That's bizarre!!

Getting us a new one now.

Completion Post


Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book with a Cover that is at least 25% Black & 25% White
Title: Hot Lead, Cold Iron
Author: Ari Marmell
Page Count: 400
Start: 9/15/18
Finish: 9/17/18
How it Fits: 42.9% Black / 26.8% White



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book with a named dog in the story
Title: Five on a Treasure Island
Author: Enid Blyton
Page Count: 208
Start: 7/28/18
Finish: 7/28/18
How it Fits: Dog named Tim in the book



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book with a Main Character named Anita
Title: Guilty Pleasures
Author: Laurell K Hamiliton
Page Count: 368
Start: 7/22/18
Finish: 7/23/18
How it Fits: MC Anita Blake



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book where a Dog or Dogs saves someone or something
Title: Staked
Author: Kevin Hearne
Page Count: 336
Start: 8/2/18
Finish: 8/5/18
How it Fits: Orlaith (Irish Wolfhound) saves Granuaile, Shango and Perun by getting damned souls called "nocnice" off of them. "Orlaith dispatches the two other nocnice, thus becoming the first wolfhound to rescue a couple of thunder gods."



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in One Hundred and One Dalmatians - N
Title: Nyxia (Aug 2018 re-read)
Author: Scott Reintgen
Page Count: 384
Start: 8/30/18
Finish: 8/31/18
How it Fits: N Title



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in One Hundred and One Dalmatians - H
Title: How to Train Your Dragon
Author: Cressida Cowell
Page Count: 240
Start: 7/28/18
Finish: 7/28/18
How it Fits: H Title



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in One Hundred and One Dalmatians - N
Title: Nyxia Unleashed
Author: Scott Reintgen
Page Count: 400
Start: 9/6/18
Finish: 9/8/18
How it Fits: N Title



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in One Hundred and One Dalmatians - D
Title: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic
Author: Armand Baltazar
Page Count: 624
Start: 7/29/18
Finish: 7/31/18
How it Fits: D Title



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in One Hundred and One Dalmatians - M
Title: Marked
Author: Benedict Jacka
Page Count: 384
Start: 7/24/18
Finish: 7/26/18
How it Fits: M Title



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in One Hundred and One Dalmatians - T
Title: The Last Kids on Earth
Author: Max Brallier
Page Count: 248
Start: 7/28/18
Finish: 7/28/18
How it Fits: T Title



Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book for each letter in One Hundred and One Dalmatians - I
Title: Ice Station (July 2018 re-read)
Author: Matthew Reilly
Page Count: 708
Start: 7/28/18
Finish: 7/31/18
How it Fits: I Title

I need to get some reading in (when don't I this year, I'm slacking!) so I'm going to join in the Tackle your TBR Read-a-Thon. I think this one at least once before, I think it was twice, so when I saw it was time again, I thought I'd join in.

No plans for this one, I hope to read at least 7 books. That's on the low side for me, but I'm really really into my game, so if I ignore it long enough to read, then that will be a good thing. May try to chip away at my NetGalley pile as well. Looking forward to it, just hoping I actually get reading in!

Are you joining in? Let me know if you have a blog and I will follow you!

Thanks Sam, I thought there might have been one team down but forgot to go look last night. We're fine with you joining them, Slytherpuff.

I'll see if Angie can get to modding the spreadsheet tonight. In the meantime, you can join them on the thread - Oogie Boogies

Completion Post


Event: Alpine Skiing
Task: Use TITLES to spell out word A ~ ALPINE SKIING
Title: Nyxia Unleashed
Author: Scott Reintgen
Started: 9/6/18
Finished: 9/8/18
Pages: 400
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: N Title

It's up to you. I had said at one point we wouldn't make those coming in later do it. So if you'd like to, you can, if not, you can go ahead and skip it completely.

Ora:


- highest rated on your shelf
- highest # in a series on your shelf

New suggestion:

- a pretty unique fun book

Completed Tasks ~


Chapter Thirteen ~ Nicolas Flamel


Task: Read a Book with the phrase Hocus Pocus in the Text
Book: The True History Of The Strange Brigade
Author: David Moore
Pages: 240
Start Date: 8/20/18
Finish Date: 8/20/18
How it Fits: Hocus Pocus in Text ~ "This was HOCUS POCUS, nonsense!" @ 41%



Task: Hufflepuffs: Read a Book with a MC who is Poor
Book: The Last Necromancer
Author: C.J. Archer
Pages: 270
Start Date: 8/21/18
Finish Date: 8/21/18
How it Fits: Charlie lived on the streets as a boy for 5 years ~ "For five years, Charlotte (Charlie) Holloway has lived as a boy in the slums."



Task: Read a Book the is about or heavily features Alchemy
Book: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Author: Alan Bradley
Pages: 386
Start Date: 8/18/18
Finish Date: 8/20/18
How it Fits: MC Flavia is into Alchemy, and it's part of the story ~ "I had my own opinion about the true meaning of this obviously alchemical reference, but, since I was saving it for my Ph.D. thesis, I kept it to myself."



Task: Read a Book that has all the letters of GRINDELWALD in its title
Book: The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls
Author: Adam Cece
Pages: 288
Start Date: 9/25/18
Finish Date: 9/30/18
How it Fits: Grindlewald in Title: the extremeLy WEIRD thinG thAt happeNeD in huggabie faLls

August


🔵 Read a Book that is the EIGHTH Book of a Series
Book: Staked
Author: Kevin Hearne
Pages: 336
Started: 8/2/18
Finished: 8/5/18
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: 8th Book in the Iron Druid Chronicles



🔵 Read a Book Published in August of any Year
Book: The Last Necromancer
Author: C.J. Archer
Pages: 270
Started: 8/21/18
Finished: 8/21/18
Rating: 2 stars
How it Fits: published August 11th, 2015



🔵 Read a Book with a EIGHT Word Title
Book: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Author: Alan Bradley
Pages: 386
Started: 8/18/18
Finished: 8/20/18
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: 8 word Title



🔵 Read a Book First Published this month, August of 2018
Book: The True History of the Strange Brigade
Author: Various Authors, edited by David Moore
Pages: 240
Started: 8/20/18
Finished: 8/20/18
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: published August 9th, 2018

Bout of Books 23 ~ Wrap-Up


Bout of Book 23 Stats

I completed 15 books and started 1 other
I read 3,350 pages
I read 8 books on my Kindle
I listened to 7 books as audiobooks
I read 9 Novels and 5 Novellas
I read for approximately 38 hours (13h 35m on Kindle, 24h 25m on Audio)



COMPLETED BOOKS:







Started, but did not complete:

Bout of Books 23 ~ Day 6



Saturday
Night Time Audio listening time/pages:
Day Time Audio listening time/pages:
Kindle reading time / pages: 2 hours 30 minutes / 330 pages
Number of books I've read today: 2
Total number of books I've read: 12
Current Book:
Pages Read Today: 330 pages
Total Pages Read: 2,759 pages
Time Read Today: 2 hours 30 minutes
Total Time Read: 33 hours 15 minutes
Today's Completed Books:

Bout of Books 23 ~ Day 5



Friday
Night Time Audio listening time/pages: 1 hour 30 minutes / 111 pages
Day Time Audio listening time/pages: 1 hour 30 minutes / 115 pages
Kindle reading time / pages: 2 hours / 296 pages
Number of books I've read today: 3
Total number of books I've read: 10
Current Book:
Pages Read Today: 522 pages
Total Pages Read: 2,429 pages
Time Read Today: 5 hours
Total Time Read: 30 hours 45 minutes
Today's Completed Books: