Audrey Jane’s Comments (group member since May 27, 2014)

Audrey Jane’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

🍀 Leprechaun RPG - Quests 🍀

✔ Embrace Your Inner Leprechaun
Task Completed: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Reward: 1 Experience, 1 Red Shard, 1 LP Coin

The Ugly Leprechaun
Receive 8 experience, an orange shard and 12 Leprechaun coins.
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✔ The Almost Color of Gold
Receive 6 experience, a yellow shard and 12 Leprechaun Coins.
• Malt - Read a book with a dark cover: A Dissection of Murder by Felicity Young - ★★
• Yeast - Read a book with little creatures (small pets): Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier - ★★★ (The MC, Jena has a frog as a pet/companion and every full moon she and her sisters go visit the Other Kingdom to dance with fantastical little creatures).
• Hops - Read a book where someone cooks: Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop - ★★★ (Meg cooks spaghetti for Simon in the final chapter)
• Gold Flecks - Read a book where someone only has a little money: A Texan's Luck by Jodi Thomas - ★★ (after her father in law dies, Lacy Larson only inherits the printshop but can't barely pay the wages and, falls on hard times financially.)



Reward: 6 experience, a yellow shard and 12 LC

✔ Green is for Leprechaun
Earn 3 experience, a green shard and 6 Leprechaun coins for crafting your clover.
• Read a book with leaves or a tree on the cover to gather your leaves: Written in Red by Anne Bishop - ★★★★ (trees/forest behind Meg on the cover)
• Then read a book with a gold cover or with gold in the title to convert the leaves to gold: Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine - ★★ (Gold colour on the cover)



Reward: 3 experience, a green shard and 6 LC

The Blue that Soothes
Receive 8 experience, a blue shard and 14 Leprechaun Coins.
• Read a book with 1 word in the title for the shortest string.
• Read a book with 2 words in the title for the next string.
• Read a book with 3 words in the title for the next string.
• Read a book with 4 words in the title for the next string.
• Read a book with 5 words in the title for the longest string.

Reward:

The Power of Purple
Receive 5 experience, a purple shard and 7 Leprechaun Coins.
• Read a book with a short title (10 characters or less):
• Read a short book (100-150 pages):
• Read a book with an short person. (Either mentioned as short, or a dwarf/hobbit/midget):

Reward:

There Be Gold in Them Hills
Receive 1 pot of gold and 6 Leprechaun Coins. A pot of gold will produce 1 gold coin each week on Sunday.
• Combine all 6 rainbow color shards together:
• Shake with an exciting book:

Reward:

--> LC earned: 19
Books Read: 6

- 01/03 - 03/03 - 05/03 - 13/03 - 19/03
- 25/03

🍀 The Road to St. Patrick's 🍀
Name: Sneaky Whiskeybreath

Rule: All books must be started after the goals have been posted.

Earned LC: 8

✓ 1. Read a book published in March (01/03) : A Dissection of Murder (published March 2012) by Felicity Young - finished 5 March - 2 stars
✓ 2. Read a book with a GREEN cover (02/03) : Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier - finished 3 March - 3 stars
3. Read a book with the word LUCK or LUCKY in the title (03/03) :
✓ 4. Read any book listed below. Worth 4 LC (04/03):
--> From Tea's list: Written in Red by Anna Bishop - finished 13 March - 4 star
5. Read a book with a shamrock on the cover, or the word Shamrock in the title (05/03):
6. Read a book that has been on your TBR for over 2 years (06/03):
7. Read a book set in Ireland or written by an Irish author (07/03): Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier (set in Connacht, Ireland)
8. Read a book that features a castle, has Castle in the title or has a castle on the cover (08/03):
9. Read a Book with Gold on the cover, in the form of Coins, Bars or a Pot of Gold (09/03):
10. Read a book with the word Pride, Heritage or Celebration in the title:
11. Read a book with a rainbow on the cover:
12. Read a book with the word Irish or Ireland in the title:
13. Read a book recommended by a friend or GoodReads member:
14. Read a book with a colored beverage on the cover:
15. Read a book with balloons on the cover or in the title:
16. Read a book featuring a green/spring landscape on the cover:

Books Read: 3



🍀 BOM's Participation 🍀

☘ Participating in a current BOM (participating in discussion):
--> Up to three days = 5 Leprechaun Coins
--> All days = 5 Leprechaun Coins

- finished March 19 - 2 stars

Earned LC BOM: 10

Hellow everyone, my name is Sneaky Whiskeybreath. Nice to meet you all. I'm searching for the pot of whis-- *ahem* I mean gold at the end of the rainbow. Let's have some mighty craic shall we!

@Sophie: yes, I noticed that :) How are you liking the India Black series? I need to read the first book for another challenge, the short story got me intrigued but I'm not convinced by the main character yet.

Finished A Texan's Luck - 01/03 - 2,5 stars, the book works for the Petropavlovsk detour. I was right, the hero doesn't want to have a wife/arranged marriage and turns the heroine down only to realise two years later that he actually loves her :) And it has been shelved twice as 'second chance romance'.

Finished my short story today India Black and the Rajah's Ruby - 29/02 - 3 stars

The 'last chance' task seems to be the most difficult for me as well. I think A Texan's Luck will fit for this detour because the main character comes back to the heroine after rejecting her. So I guess it's logical he has to win her over :)

Thank you Katie and Sophie, I've been invited to the second round of interview which I had today *fingers crossed*

Great Sophie, I hope you will like Daughter of the Forest as well!

I finished my book Daughter of the Forest - 28/02 - 3,5 stars

Katie and Danielle, I didn't cry (I'm not too fond of that either and I don't like much angst too) but it was emotionally gripping and a couple of times I thought 'I can't handle this any more'. However I couldn't put the book down and I grew attached to the characters so I will read the sequel as soon as possible. It's a retelling of The Six Swans tale by the brothers Grimm. It also has some romantic elements. I hope it's a good read for you as well Danielle :)

I'm sorry our team has to explore Egypt so extensively this week. I'm 61% in Daughter of the Forest and it's amazing, it's been a while since I've enjoyed a fantasy book that much. Don't know if anyone of you read it? I will have it done by tomorrow. The whole week I had to go to job interviews, it took all my courage.

Thank you Mary for your feedback on And Only to Deceive, I will keep that in mind. I'm picking my 500+ pages book now, there was another book I couldn't wait to read first.

We have a weird winter too, we had warm weather until the beginning of January. Now it's payback time, we had minus 3 degrees last two weeks, now it's 11 degrees again. And there's too much wind!

Katie, I have the Raine Benares series on my tbr list. Is it any good? Your two year old curiosity is really cute, she's like an explorer ;)

I will read (544 pages) for our next stop in Hurghada. And (58 pages) for our stop in Nizhny Novgorod.

Finished my book for our third stop today. It's my first introduction to the chick-lit genre and I quite liked it. I might try some other novels by the same author.
by Katie Fforde 16/02/'16, 3 stars.

I regret to read that your book was a bummer, Mary. I was really looking forward to pick up that series next.

I finished by P.B. Ryan today 11 february. The book can be used for the Almaty spell-it-out, it works for the letters:
M or T - Max Thurston (character)

For or first detour, purple text on the cover, I think I'm going to try . I found a copy at a bookfair and it's a standalone.

I agree for the detours. The detour for Almaty seems to be the most difficult one for me as well. If it wasn't for the 'top shelves' requirement I could've find something. For the detour for Gunnison we also have the possibility to read a book set in a fictional setting, maybe it could be loosely interpreted. But I'm good with either spelling out Almaty or Gunnison.

I'm off to peruse my tbr list for the detour books :) That's a good pick, Mary. I've got And Only to Deceive on my tbr shelf too.

Enjoy Danielle! It was really good, especially as Katie said for a short story. There're some interesting details for the later books ;) I hope there will be sequels.

So glad for the weekend to catch up with my reading. Finished my book for our Bermuda stop. Can't wait for the next installment, still two books to go in the KD series. I hope for a lot of spin-offs afterwards ;p

I'm currently reading which works voor M (title), A (Ilona Andrews) and D (Derek Gaunt - character).

Finished by P.B. Ryan on 1 february - 4 stars.
The book is set in 19th century Boston and is written by an american author.
If I understood correctly, the page count in this challenge doesn't matter. I wonder if we can use novella's for this challenge.

@Mary: hope you get better soon!

Katie wrote: "Gah...I love the Kate Daniels series!"
Me too! It was love at first read ;) Finished the book, looking foward to read Magic Stars next.

I understand Sophie, when that happens I wake up still holding my e-reader or finding it under my pillow.

I'm good for reading a book that fits the task. I'm planning to read Murder in a Mill Town over the weekend, it's set in Boston, Massachusetts.
I'm currently finishing Magic Shifts by Ilona Andrews at the moment (but started it before the creation of the thread).