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

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

Characters: Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley, Melanie
Takes place in Georgia
63 chapters

Updated Goals (looking very similar to the previous set)
*New* Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as misc - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
*New* Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter B
- Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Chariot" in the text or title
-Read a book that is on your Captain's or Co-captains "to read" shelf with the highest GR average rating
- Read a book with an orange cover

And Deception Cove has Drake as a character

Our very first book - Sweet Addiction - has DNF from 6 users

Great!

Updated Goals
*New* Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as dnf - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
*New* Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter D
- Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Chariot" in the text or title
-Read a book that is on your Captain's or Co-captains "to read" shelf with the highest GR average rating
- Read a book with an orange cover

For Freezing:

F: Forever with you
R: Reawakened
E: Twist Me (Julian Esguerra)
E: The Earl's Complete Surrender
Z: Club Shadowland (Zachery)
I: What the Bride Wore (Irene)
N: The Dragon Writers Collection (Nicholas Taylor)
G: Wilderness and other Stories (Addison Goodheart)

Also found another U! Breathe You In has Amy Underwood as a character, so I just stuck that in Platypus

For Kangaroo:
K: Tie Me Up - Sherrilyn Kenyon
A: All Yours
N: Straight Pepper Diet - Joseph Naus
G: Grind
A: Falling for Autumn - character named Autumn
R: Behind Her Smile - Rosemary HInes
O: Bangkok Days - Lawrence Osborne
O: Offspring

I used books that don't have a preview wherever possible, since they'd end up being less helpful for goals where we need to find a word.

I also put in Club Shadowland already into FREEZING - for the character Zachary, and I put in XGeneration into BOX JELLYFISH. Might as well save those so we don't accidentally use them and regret it later!

Ok, hopefully this won't cause too much confusion, but I got an answer on Rose Madder. Basically the mini-challenge tab is going to mark every book in there as "used", but the ones used for double points can still be used again for goals (Ones used in the crossword letters cannot.)

So bottom line, if you see a book marked "used" that's still in the goalless tab, it might be ok if it was only used for the double points.

Wait on Rose Madder for a bit. I used that for the double points in the last crossword puzzle, and now it's showing up as used. I don't think that's right, since the double points books could be any books, including ones we've already used, so using them for that shouldn't make them unavailable now, but I'm still waiting on confirmation on that. (I hadn't deleted from goalless yet because it'd be annoying to have to retype everything)

That comes up as a mix of yellow and brown, so not quite orange. I think Reed was working on an orange book if I remember correctly. But I agree, once that's out of the way we should use our Mega Boon, none of these are easy goals to get!

Updated Goals
*New* Read a book with the word ball, bat, uniform, racquet or team (plurals are acceptable) in the title
*New*Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Chariot" in the text or title
-Read a book with the word crash, bang, collide, bump or knock (plurals are acceptable) in the title
-Read a book that is on your Captain's or Co-captains "to read" shelf with the highest GR average rating
- Read a book with an orange cover

Crimson Peak is first on our list that works for the new one

Updated Goals
*New* Read a book where the page numbers add to 10 (i.e. 345 pages = 3+4+5 = 12)
*New*Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Chariot" in the text or title
-Read a book with the word crash, bang, collide, bump or knock (plurals are acceptable) in the title
-Read a book that is on your Captain's or Co-captains "to read" shelf with the highest GR average rating
- Read a book with an orange cover

In The Breeding Tree, the MC is just starting a new job

Updated Goals
*New* Read a book where a character is seeking employment, or just started a new job.
*New*Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Chariot" in the text or title
-Read a book with the word crash, bang, collide, bump or knock (plurals are acceptable) in the title
-Read a book that is on your Captain's or Co-captains "to read" shelf with the highest GR average rating
- Read a book with an orange cover

No luck on "the Chariot", but Everything I Never Told you has a character come out of the closet

Rogue with a Brogue is shelved as available - https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Updated Goals
*New* Read a book where someone “comes out of the closet”
- Read a book which features an eagle on the cover or in the story (or with a shape shifter who turns into a bird of any type)
-Read a book with the word crash, bang, collide, bump or knock (plurals are acceptable) in the title
-Read a book that is on your Captain's or Co-captains "to read" shelf with the highest GR average rating
- Read a book with an orange cover

And on to regular goals, A Darker Shade of Magic has an illustrated cover

We are now done with January's 1st mini-challenge, on to the 2nd!

C - Christmas Spirit
U - Uprooted
L - Ladies Who Lunch
T - Taken
U - Untouched
R - Reaper's Stand
E - Every Waking Moment