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

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

Shelby wrote: "Do we as a team want to start planning any of our classes? I've been filling in spell letters with anything that doesn't have posted a potential class use.

But if someone had an idea for one part ..."

Carmen has already begun arithmancy.
I'll have Firelight finished tonight or early tomorrow and that could be 1 half of the incendio charm or several other class options.

I'm about to start Taken where the MC is named Alex Verus, can we use chatacter last names?

I moved one of mine from Avada Kedavra to Cruciatus to complete .

Completion Post

Title: All the Birds in the Sky
Pages: 320
Date Read: 18/05/18
Rating: ★★★★
Spell Letters: A, C, P, L, T, I
Author: Charlie Jane Anders
MC: Patricia, Laurence, Theodopholus, Isobel

Shelby wrote: "So I have a problem...a serious book problem...

My favorite used bookstore was closing this week. They've been in business for 50 years and wanted to retire, finally found a buyer. So this weekend..."

No shame in your game! I'd do the exact same thing. Only a heathen would refuse free books.

Completion Post

Title: An Apple for the Creature
Pages: 336
Date Read: 13/05/18
Rating: ★★★★
Spell Letters: A, C, H
Author: Charlaine Harris

MC: N/A 

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Title: An Apple for the Creature
Date Read: 13/05/18
Rating: ★★★★
Spell Letters: A, C, H
Author: Charlaine Harris
MC: N/A

Yes, happy mother's day to all you moms.

I have a question about start dates. I put 3 books on my "currently reading" shelf, so that I'd read those next but I haven't actually started them. One, I haven't even picked up from the library yet. My question is once they come in can I still read them for this even though the history of my shelving will make it appear that I started reading them on May 3rd?

Shelby wrote: "Keli wrote: "I know we're doing spells but can we also participate in the buddy reads?"

Absolutely! We can participate in as many ways as we each individually want to. That's the fun of this chall..."

Thanks, Shelby. That's great to know.

One more question, soz. Would you like us to pick a letter for a spell? Or just read and apply them later?

I know we're doing spells but can we also participate in the buddy reads?

Nanci wrote: "Keli wrote: "Hi guys sorry I'm late. I had a hysterectomy last Saturday, so I've been kind of out of it & didn't check my email. I'm not 100 on what's happening but I'll try and catch up. Here is t..."

Thanks, so much. It gets a little better everyday, though something new in terms of weirdness or discomfort seems to pop up. But, ultimately, it will be better than the long term pain & problems I was suffering (for years) before. So what's another 6 weeks. Besides, I'll never have to see Aunt Flo again. And I was looking at another 15 or so years, basing meno on my mom's age. Sorry anyone if that was tmi.

Hi guys sorry I'm late. I had a hysterectomy last Saturday, so I've been kind of out of it & didn't check my email. I'm not 100 on what's happening but I'll try and catch up. Here is the link to my TT shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

I'll give it a go
2 May - 02 June
11/17

✔Option 1: Spell- it -out.
Spell out the word "Tulip" using the usual spell it out rules(*) 
T - Toni L.P. Kelner, An Apple for the Creature - 13/05/18
U - Unexpected Gifts -30/05/18
L - Lucy King, Taming the Beast - 01/06/18
I - Ilona Andrews, Magic Shifts - 06/05/18
P - Penny Reid, Heat

Option 2: Find that Color!
Read books with covers of the below colors ( books should be 50% or more of color)

White:
Yellow: - - 23/05/18
Pink:
Red -
Purple
Orange.

Option 3: Color Significance

Red tulips: are often associated with true love: Read a book where a character falls in love. - All the Birds in the Sky - 17/05/18

Purple tulips : are often associated with royalty: Read a book about a queen, king, prince or princess

Yellow tulips: are often associated with happiness, cheerfulness and hope: Read a book with a happy, cheerful character - The Will - 10/05/18

White tulips : usually mean "I'm sorry" or given as a token of "my condolences" :Read a book in which a character attends a funeral - Dissolution - 15/05/18

Pink tulips : Usually mean "congratulations", "good luck", or "well wishes"
Read a book in which a character is extremely lucky - The Sex Lives Of Cannibals - 24/05/17

Orange tulips symbolize energy, enthusiasm, desire and passion: Read a book with the word "passion " found in the text. - Firelight - 20/05/18 pg 103

Challenge complete. Read 28 of 25 books to reach treasury level for option #1.
Thanks for a fun challenge.
Original post #59

I was so close to all six but only completed 4 in a year. Thanks for the challenge it was fun.

COMPLETED
Searcher level reached
Read:
✔Keystone (Crossbreed #1) by Dannika Dark - 08/04/18
✔A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1) by V.E. Schwab - 28/08/18
✔The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw 29/09/18
✔The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin - 06/01/19
✔Sourdough by Robin Sloan - 20/02/19
✔The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy, #1) by Katherine Arden - 15/03/19
✔Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3) by Marissa Meyer - substituted Cinder - 21/03/19
✔Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2) by Marissa Meyer - 28/03/19
Previously Read:
✔Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2) by Sarah J. Maas
✔Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) by Victoria Aveya
rd
✔The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
✔Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) by Leigh Bardugo
✔Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3) by Sarah J. Maas
✔Ruin and Rising (Grisha Verse, #3) by Leigh Bardugo
✔The Assassin's Blade (Throne of Glass, #0.1-0.5) by Sarah J. Maas
Written in Red (The Others, #1) by Anne Bishop

Finally Completed!!!!

I'm up for this one.

Scrabble Bingo Master: 64+ books

98/98 Books

Option # 3: Scrabble tiles are distributed as shown below. Using the title or author's first or last name read a book for each letter that occurs and its frequency. ( or as many as you can)

✅A x 9 tiles:
1. Ilona Andrews, Magic Shifts - 06/05/18
2. All the Birds in the Sky - 17/05/15
3. An Apple for the Creature - 13/05/18
4. The Arnhem Lift - 05/06/18
5. Learning to Love - 05/06/18
6. Ilona Andrews, White Hot - 10/09/18
7. Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire - 17/09/18
8. Anne Bishop, Lake Silence - 01/02/19
9. Ilona Andrews, Gunmetal Magic - 11/04/19

✅B x 2 tiles:
1. Beyond the Highland Mist - 16/04/18
2. Blood Trade - 30/04/18

✅C x 2 tiles:
1. Capture - 03/06/18
2. City of Light - 14/06/18

✅D x 4 tiles:
1. Death's Rival - 06/04/18
2. Dissolution - 15/05/18
3. A Discovery of Witches - 03/10/18
4. The Diva Runs Out of Thyme - 26/12/18

✅E x 12 tiles:
1. Eidolon - 05/06/18
2. Entreat Me - 24/06/18
3. Etched in Bone - 27/07/18
4. Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep - 29/09/18
5. Every Dead Thing - 14/01/19
6. Elizabeth KostovaThe Historian - 11/05/19
7. Aimee Easterling, Shiftless - 03/07/19
8. Ernest Cline, Ready Player One - 31/07/19
9. Aimee Easterling, Wolf's Bane - 14/08/19
10. Bernardine Evaristo, Blonde Roots - 16/08/19
11. Eternal - 06/10/19
12. Everyone Brave is Forgiven - 31/01/20

✅F x 2 tiles:
1. Firelight - 20/05/18
2. Falling for Flynn - 02/06/18

✅G x 3 tiles:
1. The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London - 09/07/18
2. God Save the Queen - 25/08/18
3. Grave Peril - 10/12/18

✅H x 2 tiles:
1. Charlaine Harris, Must Love Hellhounds - 11/04/18
2. Her Dakota Man 01/06/18

✅I x 9 tiles:
1. Ilona Andrews, Magic Rises - 01/04/18
2. Larissa Ione, Pleasure Unbound - 02/09/18
3. The Iron Hunt - 08/09/18
4. Ilona Andrews, White Hot - 10/09/18
5. Ilona Andrews, Magic Binds - 04/11/18
6. In the Unlikely Event - 17/11/18
7. The Island of Dr. Moreau - 29/11/18
8. The Immortalists - 06/01/19
9. It 19/02/19

✅J x 1 tile:
1. Justice Calling - 15/06/18

✅K x 1 tile:
1. Keystone - 08/04/18

✅L x 4 tiles:
1. Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening - 30/04/18
2. Lucy King, Taming the Beast - 01/06/18
3. Jeff Lemire, Trillium - 01/12/18
4. Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

✅M x 2 tiles:
1. Magic Breaks - 05/04/18
2. Moonglow - 06/10/18

✅N x 6 tiles:
1. Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea - 05/08/18
2. Naomi Alderman, The Power - 22/11/18
3. Naamah's Kiss - 30/04/19
4. Chloe Neill, The Veil - 31/05/19
5. No Country for Old Men - 22/08/19
6. Naamah's Curse - 09/11/19

✅O x 8 tiles:
1. George Orwell, Animal Farm - 04/06/18
2. Old Man's War - 20/07/18
3. Helen Oyeyemi, What is Not Yours is Not Yours - 24/09/18
4. On Stranger Tides - 25/10/18
5. George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London - 07/01/19
6. Louise O'Neill, The Surface Breaks - 22/02/19
7. Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread - 01/04/19
8. Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing - 18/04/19

✅P x 2 tiles:
1. A Pocketful of Crows - 01/05/18
2. Pandemic - 30/06/19

✅Q x 1 tile:
1. The Queen B* Strikes Back - 30/05/18

✅R x 6 tiles:
1. The Red Tent - 23/05/18
2. Rescue Me - 21/08/18
3. Penny Reid, Heat - 02/06/18
4. Red Sister - 27/06/18
5. Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues - 13/01/19
6. Robin Sloan, Sourdough

✅S x 4 tiles:
1. Shakespeare's Landlord - 21/07/18
2. The Sealwoman's Gift - 23/07/18
3. A Separate Peace - 13/12/18
4. Molly Snow, BeSwitched - 05/04/19

✅T x 6 tiles:
1. J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives Of Cannibals - 24/05/18
2. Lynne Truss, Cat Out of Hell - 18/09/18
3. Ten Tiny Breaths - 07/09/18
4. Treasure Island - 24/09/18
5. Truth or Beard - 24/11/18
6. Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - 09/04/19

✅U x 4 tiles:
1. Unexpected Gifts - 30/05/18
2. Underneath It All - 07/09/19
3. An Unattractive Vampire - 10/01/20
4. Under Locke - 16/07/20

✅V x 2 tiles:
1. V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic - 16/08/19
2. Vampire Academy - 07/06/19

✅W x 2 tiles:
1. The Will - 10/05/18
2. Waiting for Godot - 18/06/19

✅X x 1 tile: X and Why: The rules of attraction: why gender still matters - 19/12/19

✅Y x 2 tiles
1. Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing - 22/09/20
2. Your Perfect Year - 17/08/20

✅Z x 1 tile
1. Dima Zales, Oasis - 25/07/19

Part 1 complete, time for part 2
Challenge Completed - 73 books read

✅Month 1: A nickname you go by - or want to go by! You know...Bunny, Snookums, Babe. Spell-It-Out.
L - The Long Earth - 27/02/18
A - Ilona Andrews, Magic Slays - 30/03/18
N - The Nest - 14/02/18
I - Larissa Ione, Pleasure Unbound - 02/09/18
✅Month 2: Read four books where the protagonist has your current job, your dream job, or even your avocation.
A - Kristen Ashley, The Will - 10/05/18
R - The Red Tent - 23/05/18
C - Kristen Callihan, Moonglow - 06/10/18
H - Her Dakota Man - 01/06/18
A - All the Birds in the Sky - 17/05/18
E - Eleventh Grave in Moonlight - 11/02/18
O - One for the Money - 27/03/18
L - Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening - 30/04/18
O - Old Man's War - 20/07/18
G - Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033 - 11/03/18
I - Ilona Andrews, Burn for Me - 15/07/18
S - Salvation in Death - 17/03/18
T - J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific - 24/05/18
✅Month 3: Again, your favorite color. Only this time choose four books where your favorite color appears somewhere on the cover, with at least one the predominate cover color.
I like all colours.
1 primary-(red) - 15/02/18
2 secondary - (green) - 06/05/18
3 metals - (gold) - 01/05/18
4 neutrals - (grey) - 05/04/18

✅Month 4: Read four books from your favorite series. They can either all be from different series or the same one.
1 - Charley - The Trouble with Twelfth Grave - 02/03/18
2 - Dante - Saint City Sinners - 09/01/19
3 - Rachel - The Good, The Bad and The Undead - 22/09/18
4 - Jane - Death's Rival - 07/04/18
5 - Kate - Magic Bleeds - 28/03/18

✅Month 5: Make of your dream car. If you don't drive, then use your favorite form of transportation. If you want to find your mode of transportation on the covers of four books, go for it. Otherwise, Spell-It-Out. 
J - Justice Calling - 15/06/18
A - Keri Arthur, City of Light - 14/06/18
G - Grace Draven, Entreat Me - 24/06/18
U - Unexpected Gifts - 30/05/18
A - Anne Bishop, Etched in Bone - 27/07/18
R - Red Sister - 27/06/18

✅Month 6: Birth Order. Were you born first, or sixth? Spell-It-Out.
L - Kate Locke, God Save the Queen - 25/08/18
A - Ilona Andrews, White Hot - 10/09/18
S - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot - 18/06/18
T - Taming the Beast - 01/06/18

✅Month 7: Whether you love to play it or watch it, what is your favorite sport? Baseball, football, hockey, the Olympics? Find four books on the topic, or Spell-It-Out.
B - Beyond the Highland Mist - 16/04/18
A - Amanda Bouchet, Breath of Fire - 17/09/18
S Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London - 09/07/18
E Elantris - 23/03/18
B Blood Trade - 30/04/18
A - Ann Aguirre Grimspace - 15/11/18
L - Lois Duncan, Gallows Hill 16/10/18
L - Libriomancer - 19/12/18

✅Month 8: Your best subject in school. Math, science, French, Home Ec? Find four books on the topic, or the protagonist teaches or takes it. Or use the Spell-It-Out option.
F - Fool Moon - 19/02/18
R Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - 24/09/18
E - Shea Ernshaw, The Wicked Deep
N - Naomi Alderman, The Power - 22/11/18
C - Capture - 03/06/18
H - Heat - 01/06/18

L - Living Dead in Dallas - 23/12/18
I - The Iron Hunt - 08/09/18
T - Taken - 14/07/18

Month 9:You against the elements. Read four books total, one each with “earth, wind, fire, water” in the title, or has a depiction of them on the cover, or is the subject of the book.
1 - Water 23/07/18
2 - Earth Blood of the Earth - 04/07/18
3 - Fire - 20/05/18
4 - Air- Love in Mid Air - 02/02/19

✅Month 10: Your Kingdom: animal, vegetable or mineral? Decide on a kingdom, then choose something from within that kingdom. Example: elephant, zucchini, quartz. Read only three books this month. Or, you guessed it, Spell-It-Out.
1 Animal - - 29/10/18
2 Veg - - 26/12/18
3 Mineral - Iron and Magic - 21/01/19

✅Month 11: Read your favorite media delivery system: Kindle, NOOK, Kobe, iPad, e-book, audiobook, audio, iPod, paperback, paper, dead-tree version, etc. Spell-It-Out.
P - Polo - 10/03/18
A - Amelia Rose, Learning to Love - 05/06/18
P - Sarah Pinborough, The Death House
E - Every Dead Thing - 13/01/19
R - Penny Reid, Truth or Beard
B - Black Arts - 02/12/18
A - Ilona Andrews, Magic Rises - 01/04/18
C - A Confederacy of Dunces - 08/07/18
K - Kicking It - 27/08/18

✅Month 12: Repeat your favorite challenge month from “All About You, Part 1” . New to me authors
1. C.J. Sansom, Dissolution - 15/05/18
2. Crista McHugh, The Queen B* Strikes Back - 30/05/18
3. Kate Willoughby, Falling for Flynn - 01/06/18
4. Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder - 05/07/18

Finished!