Rebecca’s Comments (group member since May 29, 2014)

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

I finished Silent Prey by John Sandford on 1/25

John SANDford!

212 by Alafair Burke 1/13/14 20 pts
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson 1/14/15 20 pts
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths 1/17/15 20 pts
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1/18/15 70 pts
Where All the Dead Lie by J.T. Ellison 1/20/15 20 pts
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 1/22/15 50 pts

200 pts

updating

The Face Of Deception by Iris Johansen 12/27/14 20 pts
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty 12/28/14 20 pts
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis 12/30/14 20 pts
Make Them Cry by Kevin O'Brien 1/1/15 20 pts
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1/2/15 20 pts
Speak No Evil by Allison Brennan 1/3/15 20 pts
Gone by Mo Hayder 1/5/15 20 pts
So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison 1/10/15 20 pts

Level 1: Serious Readers Challenge 2015
1/1/15-12/31/15
(100/100)

1. Make Them Cry by Kevin O'Brien 1/1/15
2. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1/3/15
3. Speak No Evil by Allison Brennan 1/4/15
4. Gone by Mo Hayder 1/7/15
5. So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison 1/10/15
6. 212 by Alafair Burke 1/13/15
7. The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths 1/17/15
8. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1/18/15
9. Where All the Dead Lie by J.T. Ellison 1/20/15
10. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 1/22/15
11. Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver 1/24/15
12. Silent Prey by John Sandford 1/25/15
13. Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein 1/27/15
14. The Missing by Jane Casey 1/28/15
15. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 1/29/15
16. A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava 1/31/15
17. Judgment Calls by Alafair Burke 2/2/25
18. XO: A Kathryn Dance Novel by Jeffery Deaver 2/4/15
19. A Deeper Darkness by J.T. Ellison 2/6/15
20. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson 2/6/15
21. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 2/8/15
22. Whiteout by Ken Follett 2/9/15
23. The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey 2/10/15
24. See Jane Die by Erica Spindler 2/13/15
25. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 2/15/15
26. Body Count by P.D. Martin 2/17/15
27. Never Tell by Alafair Burke 2/18/15
28. All Day and a Night by Alafair Burke 2/19/15
29. Dead Run by Erica Spindler 2/21/15
30. Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith 2/23/15
31. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 2/25/15
32. Die Again by Tess Gerritsen 2/26/15
33. The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes 3/4/15
34. Exposed by Alex Kava 3/5/15
35. If I Should Die by Allison Brennan 3/9/15
36. Black Friday by Alex Kava 3/13/15
37. Working with Families of the Poor by Patricia Minuchin 3/13/14
38. Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham 3/15/15
39. Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Lena Dunham 3/18/15
40. Breakneck by Erica Spindler 3/20/15
41. Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith 3/21/15
42. Along Came a Spider by James Patterson 3/25/15
43. Damaged by Alex Kava 3/27/15
44. Crash & Burn by Lisa Gardner 3/27/15
45. Still Missing by Chevy Stevens 3/29/15
46. No Safe House by Linwood Barclay 4/1/15
47. Suspicion by Joseph Finder 4/3/15
48. Kiss the Girls by James Patterson 4/6/15
49. Broken Harbor by Tana French 4/8/15
50. Trying to Save Piggy Sneed by John Irving 4/9/15
51. You're Not Safe by Mary Burton 4/11/15
52. The Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill 4/13/15
53. Poppet by Mo Hayder 4/15/15
54. Burial Rites by Hannah Kent 4/17/15
55. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich 4/16/15
56. Moments of Clarity: Voices from the Front Lines of Addiction and Recovery by Christopher Kennedy Lawford 4/20/15
57. Little Face by Sophie Hannah 4/21/15
58. The Truth-Teller's Lie by Sophie Hannah 4/23/15
59. Wolf by Mo Hayder 4/25/15
60. The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah 4/26/15
61. Rogue by Mark T. Sullivan 4/29/15
62. The Dead Lie Down by Sophie Hannah 4/30/15
63. The Cradle In The Grave by Sophie Hannah 5/2/15
64. The Boy Who Followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 5/6/15
65. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman 5/9/15
66. Season of Fear by Brian Freeman 5/9/15
67. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 5/10/15
68. The Other Woman's House by Sophie Hannah 5/13/15
69. The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey 5/16/15
70. Hotwire by Alex Kava 5/17/15
71. Fireproof by Alex Kava 5/19/15
72. Ordinary People by Judith Guest 5/19/15
73. Missing Justice by Alafair Burke 5/20/15
74. Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith 5/24/15
75. The Telling Error by Sophie Hannah 5/25/15
76. Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton 5/27/15
77. Stranded by Alex Kava 5/29/15
78. By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman 5/30/15
79. In the Dark by Mark Billingham 6/3/15
80. Kind of Cruel by Sophie Hannah 6/7/15
81. Deception by Denise Mina 6/8/15
82. The Kill: A Novel by Jane Casey 6/10/15
83. Scaredy Cat by Mark Billingham 6/12/15
84. The Pocket Wife by Susan H. Crawford 6/14/15
85. Winter Prey by John Sandford 6/16/15
86. My Sunshine Away by M.O. Walsh 6/17/15
87. The Betrayal of Trust by Susan Hill 6/21/15
88. Snow Angels by James Thompson 6/23/15
89. China Lake by Meg Gardiner 6/25/15
90. The Carrier by Sophie Hannah 6/27/15
91. No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman 6/28/15
92. The Secret Place by Tana French 6/30/15
93. A Question of Identity by Susan Hill 7/2/15
94. Dark Rooms: A Novel by Lili Anolik 7/5/15
95. Blacklands by Belinda Bauer 7/6/15
96. Cold Killing by Luke Delaney 7/8/15
97. Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge 7/11/15
98. Darling Jim by Christian Moerk 7/15/15
99. The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson 7/16/15
100. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris 7/19/15

finished The Sportswriter by Richard Ford 12/27/14 for 20 pts

I finished:

At the Stroke of Madness by Alex Kava 12/20/14 20 pts
The Zero Hour by Joseph Finder 12/20/14 50 pts
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 12/23/14 20 pts
The Giver by Lois Lowry 12/23/14 20 pts

110 pts

i finished The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson on 12/14/14

and The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett on 12/17/14

each are 20 points :)

finished The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver 580 pages 50 points

Say Goodbye could be used for "good" in the title finished 11/16/14

I finished Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner 12/5/14

Look Again by Lisa Scottoline 12/7/14

The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill 12/9/14

20 pts each...so 60 points total!

I finished Shadow Prey and Snow Crash for 20 points apiece

the fix the chimney one is intriguing to me

My shelf: army ants

books read:

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 11/12/14 50 pts
Gone by Lisa Gardner 11/13/14 50 pts
1st to Die by James Patterson 11/19/14 50 pts
Vicious by Kevin O'Brien 11/28/14 20 pts
The Immortals by J.T. Ellison 11/24/14 20 pts
Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger 11/12/14 20 pts
Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke 11/10/14 20 pts
Rules Of Prey by John Sandford 11/20/14 20 pts
Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner 11/16/14 20 pts
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy 11/9/14 20 pts
20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill 11/9/14 20 pts
One Kick by Chelsea Cain 12/1/14 20 pts
Deliverance by James Dickey 11/21/14 20 pts
Shadow Prey by John Sandford 12/3/14 20 pts
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 12/4/14 20 pts
Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner 12/5/14 20 pts
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline 12/7/14 20 pts
The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill 12/9/14 20 pts
Eyes of Prey by John Sandford 12/10/14 20 pts
The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver 12/13/14 50 pts
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 12/14/14 20 pts
The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett 12/16/14 20 pts
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 12/17/14 20 pts
At the Stroke of Madness by Alex Kava 12/20/14 20 pts
The Zero Hour by Joseph Finder 12/20/14 50 pts
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 12/23/14 20 pts
The Giver by Lois Lowry 12/23/14 20 pts
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford 12/27/14 20 pts
The Face Of Deception by Iris Johansen 12/27/14 20 pts
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty 12/28/14 20 pts
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis 12/30/14 20 pts
Make Them Cry by Kevin O'Brien 1/1/15 20 pts
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 1/2/15 20 pts
Speak No Evil by Allison Brennan 1/3/15 20 pts
Gone by Mo Hayder 1/5/15 20 pts
So Close the Hand of Death by J.T. Ellison 1/10/15 20 pts
212 by Alafair Burke 1/13/14 20 pts
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson 1/14/15 20 pts
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths 1/17/15 20 pts
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1/18/15 70 pts
Where All the Dead Lie by J.T. Ellison 1/20/15 20 pts
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 1/22/15 50 pts
Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver 1/24/15 20 pts
Silent Prey by John Sandford 1/25/15 20 pts
Sand (Sandford) 5 pts
Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein 1/27/15 20 pts
-"the D.A.'s executive assistant, Rose Malone" (p.32) 5 pts
The Missing by Jane Casey 1/28/15 50 pts
-"But I didn't allow myself to think about Ben" (p.122) 5 pts
Lord of the Flies by William Golding 1/29/15 20 pts
-"the deep sea breaking miles away on the reef" (p.51) 5 pts
A Necessary Evil by Alex Kava 1/31/15 50 pts
-"Joe's seafood grill and bar" (p.355) 5 pts

Total: 1275

ok I added 12 books...also am I co-captain? how did that happen? and what should I do? lol

ok so my bookshelf for this challenge is "army ants" do I add all books I finished since 11/8?

hi all! I just got the message to join this group and am very excited...but I am out of town for thanksgiving so it's hard for me to look over everything. I will be home sun!

i'll also play if a spot comes up!

Books read in 2014: 183
Plan to read in 2015: 250
Continent: North America (Virginia)
Team Captain or Co-captain: I'd rather not since ive never played but I'm willing to be co-captain if need be!
First Challenge with NBRC? No, I did wheelathon

Level 2
October 21, 2014-
(42/100)

1. The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen 10/22/14
2. Edge of Evil by J.A. Jance 10/24/14
3. Skin by Mo Hayder 10/26/14
4. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman 10/26/14
5. Love You More (Detective D.D. Warren, #5) by Lisa Gardner 10/27/14
6. Deeper than the Dead by Tami Hoag 10/30/14
7. Catch Me by Lisa Gardner 10/31/14
8. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith 11/1/14
9. The Risk of Darkness by Susan Hill 11/5/14
10. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl 11/6/14
11. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez 11/6/14
12. 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill 11/9/14
13. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy 11/9/14
14. Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke 11/11/14
15.Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger 11/13/14
16. Gone by Lisa Gardner 11/13/14
17. Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner 11/15/14
18. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 11/19/14
19. 1st to Die by James Patterson 11/19/14
20. Rules Of Prey by John Sandford 11/20/14
21. Deliverance by James Dickey 11/21/14
22. The Immortals by J.T. Ellison 11/24/14
23. Vicious by Kevin O'Brien 11/28/14
24. One Kick by Chelsea Cain 12/1/14
25. Shadow Prey by John Sandford 12/3/14
26. Fear Nothing by Lisa Gardner 12/6/14
27. Look Again by Lisa Scottoline 12/7/14
28. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 12/4/14
29. The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill 12/9/14
30. Eyes of Prey by John Sandford 12/10/14
31. The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver 12/13/14
32. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson 12/14/14
33. The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett 12/17/14
34. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 12/18/14
35. At the Stroke of Madness by Alex Kava 12/20/14
36. The Zero Hour by Joseph Finder 12/20/14
37. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 12/23/14
38. The Giver by Lois Lowry 12/23/14
39. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford 12/27/14
40. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty 12/29/14
41. The Face Of Deception by Iris Johansen 12/30/14
42. Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis 12/30/14
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yay finished!! Moving on to level 2!

May 30,2014-October 21, 2014

(100/100)
1. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 5/30/14
2. The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen 5/31/14
3. The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner 5/31/14
4. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry 6/3/14
5. Rabbit, Run by John Updike 6/4/14
6. The Devil's Punchbowl by Greg Iles 6/5/14
7. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 6/5/14
8. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer 6/6/14
9. The Burying Place by Brian Freeman 6/7/14
10. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 6/8/14
11. The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner 6/9/14
12. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 6/11/14
13. Blood Vines by Erica Spindler 6/11/14
14. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett 6/12/14
15. The Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen 6/13/14
16. One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 6/14/14
17. Emma by Jane Austen 6/15/14
18. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh 6/19/14
19. On the Road Jack Kerouac 6/20/14
20. You've Been Warned by James Patterson 6/21/14
21. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré 6/22/14
22. Natchez Burning by Greg Iles 6/25/14
23. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 6/29/14
24. A Dark and Twisted Tide by S.J. Bolton 6/30/14
25. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 6/30/14
26. Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last by John M. Gottman 7/1/14
27. Justice for Sara by Erica Spindler 7/2/14
28. Drop Shot by Harlan Coben 7/4/14
29. Price of Justice by Alan Brenham 7/4/14
30. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg 7/5/14
31. The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill 7/7/14
32. A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane 7/7/14
33. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 7/8/14
34. Waiting for Wednesday by Nicci French 7/10/14
35. Don't Tell by Karen Rose 7/11/14
36. Ubik by Philip K. Dick 7/12/14
37. Animal Farm by George Orwell 7/13/14
38. Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith 7/13/14
39. The Last Place by Laura Lippman 7/15/14
40. Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner 7/15/14
41. The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke 7/17/14
42. Native Son by Richard Wright 7/19/14
43. Mother, Mother by Koren Zailckas 7/20/14
44. Naked in Death by J.D. Robb 7/21/14
45. Disturbed by Kevin O'Brien 7/22/14
46. The Burning Air by Erin Kelly 7/24/14
47. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 7/26/14
48. The Third Victim by Lisa Gardner 7/27/14
49. Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen 7/29/14
50. Red by Erica Spindler 7/30/14
51. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 8/1/14
52. Cornered by Alan Brenham 8/2/14
53. A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava 8/4/14
54. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 8/5/14
55. Iron House by John Hart 8/7/14
56. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 8/8/14
57. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 8/9/14
58. Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan 8/9/14
59. The Treatment by Mo Hayder 8/11/14
60. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer 8/12/14
61. Ghost Story by Peter Straub 8/15/14
62. The Last Girl by Jane Casey 8/16/14
63. The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner 8/18/14
64. White Noise by Don DeLillo 8/20/14
65. 14 by J.T. Ellison 8/22/14
66. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 8/25/14
67. Double Indemnity by James M. Cain 8/25/14
68. Intensity by Dean Koontz 8/28/14
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 8/30/14
70. The Stranger House by Reginald Hill 9/1/14
71. Cover Her Face by P.D. James 9/2/14
72. Ritual by Mo Hayder 9/3/14
73. Cop Town by Karin Slaughter 9/5/14
74. Dead Connection by Alafair Burke 9/6/14
75. The Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen 9/8/14
76. The Pure in Heart by Susan Hill 9/10/14
77. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen 9/11/14
78. Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy 9/12/14
79. Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner 9/13/14
80. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris 9/15/14
81. The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner 9/17/14
82. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone 9/19/14
83. Split Second by Alex Kava 9/20/14
84. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 9/21/14
85. The Cold Nowhere by Brian Freeman 9/23/14
86. Lying on the Couch by Irvin D. Yalom 9/24/14
87. Judas Kiss by J.T. Ellison 9/25/14
88. Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion 9/25/14
89. Kiss Me, Kill Me by Allison Brennan 9/27/14
90. Last Witness by Jilliane Hoffman 10/1/14
91. The Surrogate by Tania Carver 10/1/14
92. Fury: A Memoir by Koren Zailckas 10/3/14
93. The Soul Catcher by Alex Kava 10/4/14
94. Dead Simple by Peter James 10/7/14
95. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 10/7/14
96. Unspeakable by Kevin O'Brien 10/11/14
97. The Cold Room by J.T. Ellison 10/15/14
98. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 10/16/14
99. The Killing Hour by Lisa Gardner 10/18/14
100. Last to Die by Tess Gerritsen 10/21/14

finished round 2!!

Round 2
Pirate: Butch Scurvy Sharkchum
Level: Sea Dog
(6/6)

1. Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy 9/12/14 (12+2+5)= 19

2. Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner 9/13/14 (4+2+4+4+7)= 21

3. The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner 9/17/14 (3+4+8+4+7)= 26

4. Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone 9/19/14 (3+8+6+5)= 22

5. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 9/21/14 (3+4+3+5+3+3+8+2+5)= 36

19+21+26+22+36= 124

6. Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion 9/25/14 (4+2+2+2+4+4+6)= 24

124-24= 100