Abbey’s Comments (group member since Apr 30, 2018)

Abbey’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Sophie wrote: "Use a book for as many different challenges as you can make them fit for!"

Booyah! I was hoping that was a thing people did :)

Joanne wrote: "Hi Minnesotans! (If that's the correct term). I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba just over an hour north of the U.S. border. I've driven down occasionally to Grand Forks, Fargo and Minneapolis for shoppi..."

That's the right term! You are just to the north of us! I'd love to visit more of Canada, it's such a gorgeous country. I've only been to Vancouver back when a passport wasn't required and I was visiting Seattle and the PNW. You have some amazing National Parks in your large country.

Colleen wrote: "I'm here! The fellow Minnesotan (with Abbey). To check - when does 5/12 reading start if we are CST? duh....

My shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list... (h..."

Colleen - I hear the audiobooks of HP are AMAZING, although I haven't listened to them myself (the waiting list at the library is sooo long, but I have considered joining Audible just to get all the HP audiobooks a month at a time for less than buying them regularly :) It could be fun for you and your 8-year-old to listen to the audio version while following along with the book. I've heard the narrator really makes it come alive!

I've started listening to audiobooks with the little girls I nanny (6 and 3) while we color, and it's been so fun seeing their excitement for audiobooks!

I'm very excited for you to read them for the first time! I'm so jealous. I recently helped a friend read them all (with some cajoling and providing her with the books), and it was so fun to watch her experience it for the first time as an adult!

Jammin Jenny wrote: "That YA Buddy Readers group looks like fun. I just have too many challenges right now to join anything else but if/when things calm down I might give that group a try."

Question for those of you in multiple challenges: Do you use the same book if it works for different challenges (obviously not within the same challenge)? Like say two separate challenges you are in both require a "T" book for a spell-it-out, do you read two different ones or carry the same book for both? I'd like to join in more challenges, but have been pondering this question for a while.

Thanks for getting our group set up and organized! This is also my first team challenge, but am very much looking forward to it! I'm from Minnesota, USA (just learned another Draco teammate is from MN too, small world!) and recently graduated from college with a degree in Kinesiology (exercise science). I'm working currently before heading back for my masters and potentially PhD in the coming years. :) My book interests vary wildly, and I'm always trying to get into new genres. Recently started working on more fantasy/sci-fi genre and am loving all the options I was overlooking previously without this genre!

Here's a link to my shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Jammin Jenny wrote: "Team Draco Malfoy here - that's good with me - he turns good in the end!"

Me too! I get different houses every time I take a sorting quiz, but once I saw I was on Team Draco, I was not disappointed! He gained my respect in the Half-Blood Prince and kept it ever since. I was also older when I got to the later books, so that probably played a factor in understanding the "bad" characters compared to when I was a young child. :)

COMPLETED: 12 of 12 = FINISHED on 12/31/18

❌1. Your favorite number. Spell -it-out or read that # in a series.
❌Favorite Number = 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, #5 in the series

❌2. Your favorite hobby( drawing, jogging, knitting, reading, etc) Spell -it- out or read a book with a picture of your favorite hobby on the cover of a book.
Favorite Hobby = Reading: Buried in Books (books on cover)

❌ 3. Your favorite cereal. Spell -it-out or read a book with cereal on the cover.

❌L - Lu, Marie Warcross
❌I - I Kill the Mockingbird
❌F - Fearless Fourteen
❌E - Extraordinary Means

❌4. Your favorite vacation destination. Spell- it- out or read a book where a character goes on vacation.

Favorite vacation destination = East Coast/Small Coastal Town
One Summer by David Baldacci

❌ 5. Your favorite smell. Spell -it- out or read a book with a nose on the cover.

❌R - Reichs, Kathy Code
❌A - Alan Bradley The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
❌I - I See You
❌N - Nick Vujicic Leven zonder beperkingen

❌ 6. If you were a crayon what color would you be? Spell-it- out or read a book with one solid cover.

❌R - Kathy Reichs, Code
❌E - Exposure
❌D - Dangerous Minds

❌ 7. Your favorite snack. Spell- it-out or read a book with snack food on the cover.

❌C - Ally Condie, Matched
❌H - Hiram, main character in Terminal
❌I - The Island of Dr. Libris
❌P - The Penguin Lessons
❌S - Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

8. What app do you use the most? Spell-it-out or read a book with a computer or cell phone on the cover.

❌L - A Likely Story
❌I - The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
❌B - Books Can Be Deceiving
❌B - Book Clubbed
❌Y - Yes Please

❌ 9. Your favorite superhero character. Spell-it-out or read a book about a character helping someone who needs help.

❌ Under the Influence Character Alice helps Helen

❌10. Your favorite GR's challenge. Spell-it- out.

❌T - Through the Grinder
❌O - On What Grounds
❌W - Writing All Wrongs
❌E - Espresso Shot
❌R - Roast Mortem

❌T - Tommy from Game Changer
❌E - Ellery Adams, Murder in the Mystery Suite
❌A - Angelica from Not the Killing Type
❌M - Murder is Binding
❌S - Sentenced to Death

❌11. What color are your eyes? Spell-it-out or read a book with eyes on the cover.

The Da Vinci Code, (eyes on cover)

❌12. Repeat your favorite challenge month from All About You: Part 1 ,All About You: Part 2 , All About You: Part 3 , or All About You: Part 4
Favorite Beverage (From Part 3)

❌D -
❌R-

❌P -
❌E - Emma from
❌P - Pepper from
❌P -
❌E - Ellery Adams,
❌R - Robin Sloan,

All 3 Options COMPLETED: 5/31/18 :)

Option 1:
5/5 FINISHED 5/29/18
T - Turtles All the Way Down
U - Under the Influence
L - Life Without Limits
I - I See You
P - The Penguin Lessons

Option 2:
6/6 FINISHED 5/27/18
White Warcross
Yellow The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
Pink Fearless Fourteen
Red 1984
Purple Dangerous Minds
Orange I Kill the Mockingbird

Option 3:
6/6
FINISHED: 5/31/18
1. Red tulips are often associated with true love: Read a book where a character falls in love.
Extraordinary Means

2. Purple tulips are often associated with royalty: Read a book about a queen, king, prince or princess.
A Little Princess

3. Yellow tulips are often associated with happiness, cheerfulness and hope: Read a book with a happy, cheerful character.
Finding Audrey

4. White tulips usually mean "I'm sorry" or given as a token of "my condolences": Read a book in which a character attends a funeral.
Wuthering Heights

5. Pink tulips usually mean "congratulations", "good luck", or "well wishes": Read a book in which a character is extremely lucky.
Seizure

6. Orange tulip symbolize energy, enthusiasm, desire and passion: Read a book with the word "passion " found in the text.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Birthday: March 7
Favorite Book(s): Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Harry Potter
Favorite Book Genre: A little of everything
Favorite Author: No particular author, but love Robyn Schnieder, J.K. Rowling and Gabrielle Zevin
Favorite Color: Red
Favorite Food: Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes or sweet potato fries :)
Any Pets: Never had a pet :(
If I could live anywhere in the world it would be: Anywhere near the mountains
Finish the line: I know I'm a book addict because.... I own more books than I could ever finish, yet continue to check out many books from the library weekly and buy more books whenever I see good ones or a sale. The cycle never ends! :)

Just signed up and very excited for my first team challenge!