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

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Week 5 - CHOCOLATE

Book Read: Red, White & Royal Blue | Casey McQuiston
Date Read: 19-Jul-2019
Pages: 423
Fits:

C: Author - Casey McQuiston
H: Character - Henry
O: Character - Oscar
A: Character - Alex Claremont-Diaz
E: Character - Ellen Claremont

Completion Post
Week 5 - CHOCOLATE

Book Read: A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Tahereh Mafi
Date Read: 15-Jul-2019
Pages: 310
Fits:

O: Character - Ocean
A: Character - Amna
T: Author - Tahereh Mafi

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Week 4 - COFFEE

Book Read: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy | Mackenzi Lee
Date Read: 11-Jul-2019
Pages: 450
Fits:

C: Character - Callum Doyle
F: Character - Felicity Montague

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Week 4 - COFFEE

Book Read: A Dog's Purpose | W. Bruce Cameroon
Date Read: 07-Jul-2019
Pages: 319
Fits:

C: Author - Cameroon, Bruce W.
E: Character - Ethan Montgomery

Fright Week Words
Blood - "... and even their blood mixed with fur and saliva." - Page 25
Scream - "... and people would yell and scream for no reason." - Page 132
Terror - "He felt full of the same lonely terror." - Page 114
Shadows - ".I usually shied away from them, slinking in the shadows..." - Page 88
Bone - "... I would strut up to Coco with a rubber bone..." - Page 39
Dark - ".Padding along quiet streets after dark." - Page 286
Woods - "... something very odd had occured out there in the woods..." - Page 92
Night - ".That night I slept under the covers..." - Page 146
Cat - ".Bailey, I want you to meet Smokey the cat" - Page 70
Hide - "... would you do me a favour and go hide somewhere" - Page 227
Death - "I hope he wouldn't cry over my death" - Page 146

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Week 3 - BROWN

Book Read: They Both Die at the End | Adam Silvera
Date Read: 28-Jun-2019
Pages: 373
Fits:

R: Character - Rufus Emeterio


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Book Read: Inherit the Dead | Jonathan Santlofer, Stephen L. Carter, Marcia Clark, Heather Graham, Charlaine Harris, Sarah Weinman, Bryan Gruley, Alafair Burke, John Connolly, James Grady, Ken Bruen, Lisa Unger, SJ Rozan, Dana Stabenow, Val McDermid, Mary Higgins Clark, CJ Box, Max Allan Collins, Mark Billingham, Laurence Block
Date Read: 03-Jul-2019
Pages: 288
Fits:

B: Author - Bryan Gruley
R: Author - Rozan, S.J.
W: Author - Weinman, Sarah

I'm totally participating, but I totally was out of stable network connectivity since I'm backpacking here in Alaska this week. I have a book read for Week 2, but I'm not sure if I'm still allowed to post for that week.

I thought I did mention about my travel at the start of the week, but I apologize for the tardiness.

Should I still post for that week or continue with Week 3?

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Week 1 - UMBER

Book Read: Catch a Tiger by the Tail | Charlie Cochet
Date Read: 20-Jun-2019
Fits:

M: Character - Maddock, Cael
E: Character - Ethan Hobbs
R: Character - Rosa Santiago

=> Tagged SHAPESHIFTER 123 times <=

Seems like we all need RL to just shut-up and let us read!

Eldarwen wrote: "
Wait... are you saying this isn't normal behaviour??
You're making me doubt my own sanity here *grin*."

Now! Now! Who said anything about normal? And Sanity? :P
Alien words! LOL! :P

We are all a bunch of crazy coo's playing a wheel game! *teehee*

I am reading a shapeshifter book, and will follow that up with the BoTM hopefully, so some more points there as we go along. I was hoping to add another Shifter book, but I don't think I'm going to get to it before Week 1 ends. RL is a little busy this week, and I'm travelling the whole of next week - so I might be a little slow in getting my reading updates through. Apologies in advance.

I live in Boston, Massachusetts and am a Biomedical Engineer by vocation. I try and keep it even through all the genres, fiction and non-fiction included, so these challenges are always more fun for me since I get to dig deep in GoodReads and find more interesting books. NBRC is without a doubt one of my favourite places for team challenges; been doing this for a while now and hope to continue this for ever. Plus, being a GR addict is no help. I am LITERALLY here even at work. I need help! SMH!

I'm excited to chitty chat more with all you cool gals (many of whom I've played other challenges with across GR). This should be super fun! :D

Completion Post
Week 1 - UMBER

Book Read: Between Ghosts | Garrett Leigh
Date Read: 16-Jun-2019
Fits:

B: Title
R: Character - Regan Connor

It's so good to see so many known cool faces here. This is going to be a fun challenge! :D Yaaaay! :D

Ahh, thanks Carmen, for the message. I was lost on my way here. :)
Will catch up with the basics in a few, but it doesnt seem a lot different than the other Wheel-a-thon's!

For starters, here is my shelf!
Challenge-NBRC-Wheelathon

That's it, Barrel-ers!
Curtains on this year's Wheel-a-thon! :(

9955 points,
5th on the overall points list,
5th on the toughest letter list,
2nd on the BOM points,
315 books

We sure did a stellar job!
Thank you very much, everyone, for being perfect sports and great team players! This was FUN! :D

I sure hope to run into each one of you across GoodReads and more challenges! :)

Laura wrote: "I’m on the app on my phone, so it’s possible my system is what’s messed up, but our tracking spreadsheet shows we’re part way through spelling #10, but I only count 9 spellings on the official spre..."

Great catch, Laura! Thank you!
Updated the official spreadsheet to reflect what we have on the tracking one. Things should align now, hopefully!

Laura wrote: "Well, I’m kind of partial to most of what we do at AMMP. Our sister group, Game Night, has some great challenges as well."

I LOVE AMMP!
It has by far been the group that I have played most of my challenges in. :D

Laura wrote: "Vicky, I noticed that you put down Her Highness, Princess Perry for both the Candle on cover and the Brown cover between 301 & 500 pages. I thought we couldn't use the bonus books for the challenge..."

If it is something stupid, it is Apoorv!
You should know that by now, Laura! :P

megan wrote: "megan wrote: "The Summer Children
Dot Hutchison
300 pages
1 Dec

I don't think this book was used. ."

There was some issue with the spreadsheet and few books from last round. Vicky is working with the mods to get it resolved.

Kelly wrote: "Completed post - The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

Carrots in text - 9% of the way through not sure if that will be accepted."

Kelly, would you able to note the statement that contains the word carrots? I tried looking up the book online, but I wasn't able to search, since I guess its an ARC as yet. Thanks! :)

megan wrote: "Is there a short story where the couple celebrates Hanukkah?? I was hunting for a book to fit this task, but if this takes care of it thenI won't keep searching ."

Yup, there is!
So, that task is covered! :)