Joanne’s Comments

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

Note: Joanne is not currently a member of this group.

First Labour: Hercules has to slay a lion - Find a book with a weapon on the cover (knife, sword, bow and arrow, etc)

Second Labour: Hercules keeps cutting the heads off a Hydra and they keep coming back - Read a book from a long series (series has at least 10 books in it)

Third Labour: Hercules begs Artemis' forgiveness for capturing her animal - Read a book that starts with the letter "A" (not counting A, An or The)

Should we come up for an option for each of the 12 labors?

Let me see if I can come up with a few.

Ediali wrote: "For capturing Ceberus the task could be to complete a trilogy.
The 9th labor involves the Amazons so the theme could be female main characters that fight or use some weapon.
The 5th labor of clean..."

I like all of these. Sometimes challenges are so specific that they're hard to read for, but these are all things I could find options for easily.

I like the idea of opening up a Bonus Round of Title Relay.

Hmmm as for that task... this is going to take some thought. Anyone have any ideas?

Go Catherine Go! Yay!

If it helps you choose what to read next, our main priorities would be a book between 100 and 200 pages or a book with something decorative on the cover (flowers, ribbon, tattoos, etc) that we could use to decorate our chariot. Otherwise, read anything and we'll bank it for wheelathon.

I should finish my chariot book soon and then all I will have is an audio, so I'm going to take one of the remaining Page Jumping spots and read next. It has 198 pages

Finished

Olympics: Primary Round Update

Goal Date for Completion: July 16th

Amy (Total: 3)
Title Relay: Love is A Many Trousered Thing
Page Jumping: Ghost Dog Secrets Jul-11
Chariot: Thunder

Becky (Total: 22)
Title Relay: Blood Trail Jul-2
Page Jumping: Lady of Quality Jul-6
Chariot: Texas! Lucky Jul-6

Bonita (Total: 9)
Title Relay: Trail of the Spanish Bit Jul-3
Page Jumping: Before You Jul-6
Chariot: Maybe Baby Jul-8

Catherine (Total: 3)
Title Relay: Sea Spell Jul-6
Page Jumping: The Legend of the River Beast Jul-7
Chariot: Listen Like a Dog: And Make Your Mark on the World Jul-9

Chelsea (Total: 5)
Title Relay: The Game of Love and Death Jul-6
Page Jumping: I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister Jul-8
Chariot: Hatchet Jul-10

Chloe (Total: 3)
Title Relay: The Good Girl Jul-4
Page Jumping: Under Siege Jul-9
Chariot:

Cora (Total: 9)
Title Relay: Red Rising Jul-4
Page Jumping: Jagannath Jul-6
Chariot: The Call Jul-7

Ediali (Total: 4)
Title Relay: Fire and Ice Jul-3
Page Jumping: The Winner's Crime Jul-6
Chariot: Riders

jingles (Total: 3)
Title Relay: The Ice Queen Jul-3
Page Jumping: Ready or Not Jul-7
Chariot: Sweet Justice

Joanne (Total: 10)
Title Relay: War is Not Over When It's Over Jul-3
Page Jumping: Witness in Death Jul-7
Chariot: Popular Jul-9

Laurence (Total: 4)
Title Relay: The Infinite Sea Jul-5
Page Jumping: Seulement si tu as envie... Jul-6
Chariot: The Bachelor

Margaret (Total: 4)
Title Relay: First Comes Love Jul-5
Page Jumping: And I Darken
Chariot: The Falconer

Minx (Total: 24)
Title Relay: Ice Like Fire Jul-2
Page Jumping: Metro Girl Jul-6
Chariot: Midnight Star Jul-8

Sarah (Total: 3)
Title Relay: Heir of Fire
Page Jumping: Bride to Terabithia
Chariot: The Long Earth

Shannon (Total: 25)
Title Relay: Enslaved by Blood Jul-2
Page Jumping: The Guardian Jul-6
Chariot: Eastern Cowboy Jul-7

Vicky (Total: 8)
Title Relay: Queen of Fire Jul-5
Page Jumping: The Heiress Effect Jul-7
Chariot: Lagoon

Good luck!

Cora, I would say any blank space is good.

Finished Witness in Death. Love this series so much.

Still working on my other 3 books.

Ediali wrote: "Read on July 4. Just forgot to post about it that day.
Title: Landline
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Characters: Georgie McCool
Pages: 310"

Hi Ediali, can you add this one to your WOBBLE shelf please? :)

LOL. I know, I put some thought into my book too.

Luckily I've done timed reading before so I knew my reading speed pretty well (and turns out I was spot on with my estimate) so I just picked a book in a series I like so I could be sure that it wouldn't be hard to get into. Didn't want to have to slow down to figure out the characters/world-building.

Finished Round 2 of Fight Club

Vicky, you're up!

Chelsea wrote: "Alright, I am back to the land of the real internet!

Here are my book requests for tasks 2 and 5 after looking at the spreadsheet:

Event 2: Gathering Blue (240 pgs...heat 2) and I love I hate I m..."

Ok got you in the spreadsheet. Happy reading!

Bemused Bookworm wrote: "Finished my title relay book, First Comes Love. BTW, does anyone know the last day for the Olympian reads?"

Sounds good. Heat 1 is finished so all events are open. You're free to start any of your claimed books for the other events now.

I'm not sure exactly when it ends (we should get a countdown clock near the end) but its supposed to go for 3 weeks. We're aiming for everyone to hopefully finish their required books (Events 2 and 5) in 2 weeks (July 16) or sooner if possible so we can open up some bonus rounds for the last week.

The Genre Minx wrote: "For the LOVE! Did my first status update on a book I am reading, On Goodreads it stated that the kindle version is 243 pages long and I had it added for Page Jumping heat 1 210-250 pages BUT I boug..."

That's annoying. Updated.

Shannon, when are you thinking of doing your one hour sprint?

The gates are open!

Shannon wrote: "We've been Freed!!

I haven't read in a couple of days, now I don't know what to pick!! lol"

lol