Karen D’s Comments (group member since Aug 25, 2015)

Karen D’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

The Dragon Factory talks a lot about computer viruses.

Finished 1/23

Characters: Heidi, Chris, Willow/Claire, Zoe, Matthew, Joseph
Takes place in Chicago

Goals
*new* Read a book where there is a computer virus or computer hacking
*New* Read a book with no labeled chapters
-Read a book with the phrase "break a leg" in a book
-Read a book with a pumpkin on the cover
-Read a book where the first word of the text is One

Gone with the Wind works for the neighbor goal

Goals
*New* Read a book with no labeled chapters
- Read a book where MCs are neighbours
-Read a book with the phrase "break a leg" in a book
-Read a book with a pumpkin on the cover
-Read a book where the first word of the text is One

The FAQs say that variations that retain the meaning are ok, so The Thirteen will work for the new goal - p. 8 "her knees grew sick-weak"

Goals
*New* Read a book with the phrase "weak at the knees" in a book
- Read a book where MCs are neighbours
-Read a book with the phrase "break a leg" in a book
-Read a book with a pumpkin on the cover
-Read a book where the first word of the text is One

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines was 240 pages

Goals
*New* Read a book where the hardcover version is less than 300 pages
- Read a book where MCs are neighbours
-Read a book with the phrase "break a leg" in a book
-Read a book with a pumpkin on the cover
-Read a book where the first word of the text is One

Those "sort by" goals are tough, once the books have been marked as read, you can't see what number they used to be. But, Kim's books that were added on January 20th show up as between 200 and 250, and "The 6:41 to Paris" was added on January 20th, so I think that will work.

Hah, that's dark! From the ones I still have, you could take either Gone with the Wind or the Lost Tudor Princess, both had plenty of deaths.

The Awakening should work, takes place in Borneo, an island that's known for rainforests.

Finished 1/22

Characters: Alan, Kurt, Adele, Oskar
Takes place partly during WWII, in Austria, England, and NJ

Finished 1/21

Characters: Amy, Basil, Trinity, Matt, Ruth Anne
Takes place in Ohio, in an Orsk store (basically an Ikea)

Sandy wrote: "I am reading a non-fiction book with an undertaker. Does that work?
"

Yeah, i would think so!

That moved us up to 3rd place overall! (I think we were around 6th before)

I went ahead and filled out the rest of our crossword, since that was an easy 360 points to grab.

P - Make Something Up (CHuck Palahniuk)
L - Dive: A Novel (Lisa Teasley)
A - Bad for You (Abbi Glines)
T - Texas! Chase
Y - On Dublin Street (Samantha Young)
P - A Passion for Him
U - Breathe You In (Amy Underwood)
S - Barry Groupe (Sean McLure)

B - Breathe With Me
O - Old Filth
X - XGeneration
J- Jazz Funeral
E - Don't Look Back (Lynette Eason)
L - Shades of White (Levin)
L - PS I Still Love You (Lara Jean)
Y - End of Days (Penryn Young)
F - Last Chance Llama Ranch (Hilary Fields)
I - Masters of Seduction Volume 1 (Alexandra Ivy)
S - Small Town Christmas
H - Texas! Lucky (Devon Haines)

U - Ecstasy Unbound (Uri)
N - Midnight RIot (Thomas NIghtingale)
I - Inkheart
Q - The A.I. Chronicles (Susan Quinn)
U - Until Fountain Bridge
E - Kiss of Fire (Rebecca Ethington)

we go until the first team hits 25,000 points and one team is over 23,000 so yeah, it'll probably be pretty soon. right now we're #3 in pages read and #1 in most improved, so that's good! I'm hoping to get a day or so off work Friday and/or Monday for a "historic" snowstorm so I'll try to get some more read then!

Finished 1/20

Characters: Christopher, Adam, Donny, Jenna, Devon
Takes place in Arizona, in a mental hospital
87 chapters

Hey team! Sorry I've been so MIA lately, been traveling like crazy for work. I just checked the book I'm currently reading, and it doesn't help with any of the current goals. But I should finish it tonight, so maybe the next one will help!