Keli’s Comments (group member since Jun 23, 2016)

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

Count me in.
So far I've re-read Magic Gifts.
For the last 3 hours I've been reading Texas Roots. I plan to read one more hour. So definitely dropped what I could to read.
Total reading time 5 hours and some minutes.

I'm very much into this.
Duration: 01/01/19 - 31/12/19
Level: Devil May Care = 20 or more
56/20+
The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin - 06 Jan 19
Every Dead Thing John Connolly - 13 Jan 19
Love in Mid Air Kim Wright - 02 Feb 19
Sourdough Robin Sloan - 20 Feb 19
The Surface Breaks Louise O'Neill - 22 Feb 19
The Price of the Stars Debra Doyle - 06 Mar 19
Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard - 09 Mar 19
Hide and Seek James Patterson - 13 Mar 16
The Bear and the Nightingale Katherine Arden - 15 Mar 19
BeSwitched Molly Snow - 05/04/19
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Stuart Turton - 07/04/19
Texas Roots Jean Brashear - 14 Apr 19
Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens - 18 Apr 19
Cotton Comes to Harlem Chester Himes - 23 Apr 19
Naamah's Kiss Jacqueline Carey - 30 April 19
The Mulatta And Mister Fly Miguel Ángel Asturias - 08 May 19
The Historian Elizabeth Kostova - 11 May 19
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit Jaye Robin Brown - 13 May 19
Tokyo Black Andrew Warren-15 May 19
Cream Puff Murder Sandi Scott - 22 May 19
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A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles - 26 May 19
Red as Blood and White as Bone Theodora Goss - 29 May 19
Amanda Carlson Full Blooded 05 June 19
Andrew Lang The Blue Fairy Book - 05 June 19
Brom The Child Thief 13 June 19
A G Riddle Pandemic - 30/06/19
Aimee Easterling, Shiftless - 03/07/19
Juliet Marillier Dreamer's Pool 07/07/19
Alison Weir Innocent Traitor 15/07/19
Alan Bradley The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - 15/07/19
Bossypants, Tina Fey 20/07/19
Dima Zales, Oasis - 25/07/19
Ernest Cline, Ready Player One - 31/07/19
Jessica Day George, Princess of the Midnight Ball - 31/07/19
Depravity M.J. Haag - 12/08/19
Blonde Roots Bernardine Evaristo - 16/08/19
The Vampire Prince Darren Shan - 18/08/19
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy - 22/08/19
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 28/08/19
Friend-Zoned Belle Aurora - 04/09/19
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Underneath It All Kate Canterbary 07/09/19
Kindred Octavia E. Butler - 08/09/19
The Hating Game Sally Thorne - 12/09/19
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer - 18/09/19
Eternal W.J. May - 06/10/19
Adam Jennifer Ashley - 06/10/19
13 Days of Midnight Leo Hunt - 27/10/19
Dune Frank Herbert - 30/10/19
Black Swan Green David Mitchell - 15/11/19
The Duke I Tempted Scarlett Peckham - 24/11/19
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror Mallory Ortberg - 30/11/19
Diana Rowland, My Life as a White Trash Zombie - 12/12/19
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith - 17/12/19
X and Why: The rules of attraction: why gender still matters Tom Whipple - 19/12/19
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 24/12/19
Transcendence Shay Savage - 26/12/19

I've decided to start over as I really didn't give this a proper go for the last 6 months. I hope that's okay.
Duration 10/03/19 - 09/03/20

10/25+
Albania - The Traitor's Niche - 13/03/20
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic - Shadow of Night - 24/10/19
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France - Scarlet - 28/03/19
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland - In the Woods - 16/02/20
Italy
Kazakhstan
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia (FYROM)
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands - The Historian - 11/05/19
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania - And I Darken - 14/01/20
Russia - The Bear and the Nightingale - 15/03/19
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey - To Hell and Back - 29/07/19
Ukraine
United Kingdom (UK) - Gingerbread - 01/04/19
Vatican City (Holy See) - Summoned to Thirteenth Grave - 28/01/19

Thanks for the challenge. I had fun.

I'm going for Option 4 using a combo of Option 1= Read books that have green covers, have green in the title, or have something green on them.
AND
Option 3= Do a spell it out of something to do with St. Patrick's Day or Leprechauns (green beer, leprechauns, four leaf clovers, kisses, luck, wishes, shoes, green
pot of gold, magic, rainbows, etc)
My mom used to make us green pancakes and bacon for breakfast on St Paddy's. So I'm going for:
G - Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit - 13/05/19
R - Red as Blood and White as Bone - 29/05/19
E - Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian - 11/05/19
E
N - Chloe Neill, The Veil - 31/05/19

P - The Price of the Stars - 06/03/19
A - Miguel Ángel Asturias, The Mulatta And Mister Fly - 08/05/19
N - Naamah's Kiss - 30/04/19
C - Cinder - 21/03/19
A - Ilona Andrews, Gunmetal Magic - 11/04/19
K - Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale - 15/03/19
E
S - Scarlet 28/03/19

R
A - Ilona Andrews, Magic Steals - 19/05/19
I Ilona Andrews, Wildfire - 04/05/19
N
B - BeSwitched - 05/04/19
O - Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread -01/04/19
W - Andrew Warren, Tokyo Black - 15/05/19

L - Shari Lapena, A Stranger in the House - 17/05/19
E
P - Pretty Little Liars - 09/03/19
R
E
C - Curse on the Land - 27/03/19
H - Hide and Seek-13/03/19
A - Ilona Andrews, Magic Stars - 19/05/19
U
N

Woo-hoo challenge completed! 1 year 73 books. Post # 27.
Thank you for the challenge.

THE VIOLET FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1:
- 31/07/19
✔Option 2:
T - Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - 09/04/19
W - Wildfire 04/05/19
O - The Offer - 25/08/19

F - Faith Hunter, Broken Soul - 22/04/19
R - Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy - 07/06/19
O - Mallory Ortberg, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror - 30/11/19
G - A Gentleman in Moscow 26/05/19
S - Summoned to Thirteenth Grave - 287/01/19
Option 3:

Option 4:

THE CRIMSON FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1:
- 19/09/19
Option 2:
E
I - Ilona Andrews, Sapphire Flames - 05/12/19
S - A Stranger in the House - 17/05/19
E - Eternal - 06/10/19
N
K - Kindred - 08/09/19
O
P
F - Faith Hunter, Cold Reign - 20/10/19
Option 3:

Option 4:

THE BROWN FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1:
30/12/19
Option 2:
B - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - 21/01/19
U
N
Y
I
P - Phoenix Unbound - 03/10/19
Option 3:

Option 4:

THE ORANGE FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1:
- 18/04/19
Option 2:
U
G - Gena Showalter, Alice in Zombieland - 05/08/19
L - The Little Prince - 28/08/16
Y

D
U
C - Cream Puff Murder - 22/05/19
K - Knight - 20/09/19
L
I
N
G - Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep - 23/11/19
Option 3:

Option 4:

THE OLIVE FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1:
- 23/06/19
Option 2:
M - Juliet Marillier, Dreamer's Pool 07/07/19
A - Ann Aguirre, Hell Fire - 23/05/19
D -Darren Shan, The Vampire Prince - 18/08/19
S - Sommersgate House - 22/09/19
C - The Child Thief - 13/06/19
H - Hide and Seek - 13/03/19
U
N
Option 3:

Option 4:

THE LILAC FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1: - 10/07/19
Option 2:
F - Faith Hunter, Shadow Rites
O - - 30/12/19
U
R

G
I
F - Flame in the Dark - 30/09/19
T - Tokyo Black - 14/05/19
S - Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin - 17/08/19
Option 3:

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Keli wrote: "Second question, #54 is for a "simple" cover, no people and only 1 object. Will this work?..."

I can see a bridge, and water, and clouds, and lightning and some land...
;)

Ah, yes I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Just look..."

Lexi wrote: "Keli wrote: "I've got two questions. First, with an epistolary novel, does the whole thing need to be in a correspondence format? I've just read The Diva Runs Out of Thyme and each c..."

Thank you. I failed to read the FAQ s/s. 😳

I've got two questions. First, with an epistolary novel, does the whole thing need to be in a correspondence format? I've just read The Diva Runs Out of Thyme and each chapter is headed with a letter to one of the two MCs. Will this count?
Second question, #54 is for a "simple" cover, no people and only 1 object. Will this work? It only has a bridge on it.

01/01/19 - 31/12/19
Level - Fairy Godmother 26+
Option 5 (combo)

THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK - Completed
✔Option 1:
- 20/02/19
✔Option 2:
B - Chloe BenjaminThe Immortalists - 06/01/19
R - Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues - 14/01/19
O - Louise O'Neill, The Surface Breaks - 22/02/19
N - Naamah's Kiss - 30/04/19
Z - Dima Zales, Oasis - 25/07/19
E - Every Dead Thing - 13/01/19

R - Red as Blood and White as Bone - 29/05/19
I - Iron and Magic 21/01/19
N - Chloe Neill, The Veil - 31/05/19
G - George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London 07/01/19
✔Option 3:
- 05/06/19
✔Option 4:
Cinder - 21/03/19 retelling of Cinderella

THE RED FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1:
- 09/01/19
Option 2:
M - Magic Triumphs - 26/01/19
I - Ilona Andrews, Gunmetal Magic - 11/04/19
N - No Country for Old Men - 22/08/19
N - Naamah's Curse - 09/11/19
I - Innocent Traitor - 15/07/19
K - Kim Wright, Love in Mid Air - 02/02/19
U
N
Option 3:

✔Option 4: Princess of the Midnight Ball - 31/07/19 - retelling of Rapunzel

THE GREEN FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1: - 15/07/19
✔Option 2:
B - The Bear and the Nightingale - 15/03/19
L - Lake Silence - 01/02/19
U - Underneath It All - 07/09/19
E - Aimee Easterling, Shiftless - 03/07/19
B - BeSwitched - 05/04/19
I - Ilona Andrews, Clean Sweep - 21/09/19
R - A Red Herring Without Mustard - 06/11/19
D - Debra Doyle, The Price of the Stars - 06/03/19
Option 3:

Option 4:

THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1:
- 30/06/19
Option 2:
N
I - Ilona Andrews, Sweep in Peace - 10/10/19
X - X and Why: The rules of attraction: why gender still matters - 19/12/19
Y
Option 3:
Option 4:
THE PINK FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1: - 12/12/19
Option 2:
F - Friend-Zoned - 04/09/19
I - Ilona Andrews, On the Edge - 12/11/19
R - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - 24/12/19
T - Texas Roots - 14/04/19
R
E - Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian - 11/05/19
E Aimee Easterling, Wolf's Bane - 14/08/19
Option 3:

Option 4:

THE GREY FAIRY BOOK
✔Option 1:
- 23/04/19
Option 2:
P - Pretty Little Liars - 09/03/19
R
U
N
E - Bernardine Evaristo, Blonde Roots - 16/08/19
L - Leo Hunt, 13 Days of Midnight - 27/10/19
L - Lilith Saintcrow, To Hell and Back - 29/07/19
A - Miguel Ángel Asturias, The Mulatta And Mister Fly - 08/05/19
Option 3:

Option 4:

I started this way back in 2016 as my first ever challenge. I mistakenly thought it would be easy to find 127 flowers in books. Boy was I wrong. Sadly, I've only just been told about word search in Google and Amazon books, so I might have missed some flowers over the years but I have yet found any books with bachelor button or kangaroo paw. Can I read a plant book to cover these. I've got 30 words left and I would like to finish by my 3 year anniversary. 😳

Thanks everyone for a fun team challenge. I hope to see you all at the next one. Have a wonderful holiday, whatever you celebrate.

For genre I can squeeze in a reread of Casino Royale, which has been tagged thrice as "cold. " is that an acceptable variation and number of tags?

Do we still need a snowflake genre book?

Book - The Strain
Author - Guillermo del Toro/Chuck Hogan
Date Finished - 05/12/18
Rating - 3
Letters - S N F L A K E
Nora, Fet, Joan Luss, Ansel, Kelly, Eph
Task 6. Eat some latkes and sufganiyot by finding a book with the word "flour" in the text (20 points)
Page 427 "The prevailing myth is that one gains immunity from them by mixing the blood of the vourdalak with flour and baking a bread from the paste, which must then be eaten."

My book works for task 27 .Read a book with a belt on the cover ( 40 points)

Book:Black Arts
Author: Faith Hunter
Date Read: 02/12/18
Pages: 325
Letters: S N W F L A K E
Jack Shoffru, Nantale, Wrassler, Faith Hunter, Leo, Angie, Katie, Eli

Task 27 - has a belt on the cover

I've had a poor reading week, this week. I managed 1book but it's 155 pages! It was The Island of Dr. Moreau, a blooming classic but 5 pages short. I think I'll have a few books to add for week 6, though.