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

TITLE: Summer: Design an Amazing Wedding
DURATION: June 1, 2025 - August 31, 2025
LEVEL: Happily Ever After - 25+ books
COMPLETED: 0/25

1. Choose the Couple – Decide who is getting married.

2. Pick Attire – Select the wedding dress and/or tuxedo.
3. Select Rings – Choose the wedding rings.
4. Decide on Color Scheme – Pick the wedding colors, considering flowers, attire, or eye color.
5. Choose Bouquet – Select the bridal bouquet.
6. Pick Wedding Cake – Choose the style and flavor of the cake.
7. Select Keepsake – Choose a memorable item for the couple.
8. Choose Transportation – Decide on how the couple will arrive or depart.
9. Pick First Dance Song – Select a song for the couple's first dance.
10. Choose Reception Meal or Venue – Decide on an entrée or restaurant for the reception.
11. Select Honeymoon Destination – Choose where the couple will go after the wedding.

TITLE: Around the World 2025
DATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
ITINERARY: Travel Itinerary #21
COMPLETED: 2/8

✅ 1. Sao Jose do Rio Prieto (BR) - Cape Town (ZA)
Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as fun - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - 1/31/2025

✅ 2. Cape Town (ZA) - Riyadh (SA)
Read a book with blue text on the cover
The Astrology House, Carinn Jade - 3/14/2025

❌ 3. Riyadh (SA) - Goa (IN)
Read a book with the phrase "Method to my madness" in a book

❌ 4. Goa (IN) - Kuantan (MY)
Read a book with the word darning in the text

❌ 5. Kuantan (MY) - Port Moresby (PG)
Read a book with a mobile phone on the cover

❌ 6. Port Moresby (PG) - Wellington (NZ)
Read a book with a interjection in the title

❌ 7. Wellington (NZ) - Chattanooga (US)
Read a book where the edition you are reading was published on the 11th of a month

❌ 8. Chattanooga (US) - Sao Jose do Rio Prieto (BR)
Read a book that is in the "Best "Strong Female"Fantasy Novels" Listopia List

🛫(BR) 🛬 (ZA)
🛫(ZA) 🛬 (SA)

YEARLY CHALLENGE: New 2U Authors Challenge 2025
DATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
LEVEL: Adventurer = 10
COMPLETED: 0/10

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TITLE: Author Alphabet Challenge 2025
DATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
COMPLETED: 0/26

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TITLE: Decades Challenge 2025 Lite
DATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
LEVEL: L-4
COMPLETED: 9/20

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1. The Bones Beneath My Skin, T.J. Klune

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✅2021
1. The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner

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1. The Kingdom of Sweets, Erika Johansen
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✅2024
1. The Wolf's Eye, Luanne G. Smith
2. Bride, Ali Hazelwood
3. We Used to Live Here, Marcus Kliewer
4. The Astrology House, Carinn Jade

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1. The Favorites, Layne Fargo
2. Liquid: A Love Story, Mariam Rahmani
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YEARLY CHALLENGE: TBR Tackler Challenge 2025
DATE: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2025
LEVEL: Headlock: 1-8 books
COMPLETED: 2/8

✔️ #81 - Marked, Kim Richardson
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✔️ #2238 - The God of the Woods, Liz Moore
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TITLE: Spring & Summer: Major League Baseball Challenge
DURATION: April 1, 2024 - World Series
LEVEL: MVP: 25+ books
COMPLETED: 25/25

1) Spell out the name of your favorite baseball team, or the one you predict will make it to the World Series.
T - To Carve a Fae Heart, Tessonja Odette
W - All the Dangerous Things, Stacy Willingham
I - An Inheritance of Magic, Benedict Jacka
N - The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
S - A Talent for Murder, Peter Swanson


5) Playoffs- Using the Number Generator, generate the number of points the opposing team has. Read that number of books, plus one.
Wild Card Playoffs - (2)
1. To Rule A Fae Throne, Tessonja Odette
2. Daisy Darker, Alice Feeney


ALDS Playoffs - (6)
1. Squeak, Vera Valentine
2. Squeal: The Squeakquel, Vera Valentine
3. To Wear a Fae Crown, Tessonja Odette
4. To Spark a Fae War, Tessonja Odette
5. To Kill a Fae King, Tessonja Odette
6. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann


ALCS Playoffs - (4)
1. Dirty Billionaire, Meghan March
2. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
3. Dirty Pleasures, Meghan March
4. Dirty Together, Meghan March


World Series Playoffs - (8)
1. All the Blues Come Through, Metra Farrari
2. The Year Of The Gadfly, Jennifer Miller
3. Circe, Madeline Miller
4. Murder Your Employer, Rupert Holmes
5. The Awakening, Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
6. Origins of an Academy Bully, Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti
7. Lore Olympus: Volume One, Rachel Smythe
8. The Awakening as Told by the Boys, Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

Duration: 3/1/2024 - 3/1/2025
Rules: No re-reads, you can use any media (audio, ebook, graphic novel, book, etc.)

Easy Climb - Complete any 1 task
Middle of the Road - Complete any 2 tasks
Die-Hard - Complete all 3 tasks

TASK ONE: A Mix of Old and New
✔️Read 1 X complete Trilogy
1. Dirty Billionaire, Meghan March - 5/25/2024
2. Dirty Pleasures, Meghan March - 6/10/2024
3. Dirty Together, Meghan March - 6/14/2024

❌Read 2 X books that have your Favorite Color on the cover
1. Circe, Madeline Miller - 7/11/2024
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❌Read 3 X books from your Favorite Author/s
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❌Read 4 X Different New to You Authors
1. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig - 5/31/2024
2. Starling House, Alix E. Harrow - 4/23/2024
3. All the Blues Come Through, Metra Farrari - 6/18/2024
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❌Read 5 X Different Genres
1. The Women, Kristin Hannah - Historical Fiction, 10/13/2024
2. The Reckoning, Caroline Peckham - Fantasy, 8/29/2024
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TASK TWO: Books of All Sizes
❌ * Read 2 X Short Stories (Less than 100 pages)
❌ * Read 2 X Novella's (Less than 200 pages)
❌ * Read 2 X Novels (200-400 pages)
✔️ Read 2 X Chunky books (More than 400 pages)
1. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?, Crystal Smith Paul - 466 pp, 3/24/2024
2. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin - 401 pp, 4/4/2024


TASK THREE:
❌ * Read a complete series from book 1 through to the last published book at the time of the challenge

I did it!

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YEARLY CHALLENGE: 2024 TBR Tackler
DATE: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
LEVEL: Headlock: 1-8 books
COMPLETED: 7/8

304 - The Year Of The Gadfly, Jennifer Miller
2221 - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
1906 - The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
1996 - #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini, Nicole Byer
774 - Love Life, Rob Lowe
228 - The House Girl, Tara Conklin
1023 - Fallen Beauty, Erika Robuck
366 - The Vanishing, Wendy Webb

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YEARLY CHALLENGE: Author Alphabet Challenge 2024
DATE: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
COMPLETED: 20/26

A: Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Agatha Christie
B: An Inheritance of Magic, Benedict Jacka
C: Cursed Fates, Caroline Peckham
D: Fever Moon, David Lawrence
E: Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs
F: Daisy Darker, Alice Feeney
G: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann
H: The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
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J: The Year Of The Gadfly, Jennifer Miller
K: The Women, Kristin Hannah
L: The Third Hotel, Laura van den Berg
M: Dirty Billionaire, Meghan March
N: #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini, Nicole Byer
O: To Carve a Fae Heart, Tessonja Odette
P: A Talent for Murder, Peter Swanson
Q: I Want To Show You More, Jamie Quatro
R: Through a Darkening Glass, R.S. Maxwell
S: Hotel 21, Senta Rich
T: Sora's Quest, T.L. Shreffler
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V: Unhinged, Vera Valentine
W: The Vanishing, Wendy Webb
X: Bastien, Tianna Xander
Y: Bookworm, Robin Yeatman
Z: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin

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YEARLY CHALLENGE: Cleaning Out the TBR Closet
DATE: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024
COMPLETED: 10/30

✔️1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin - Shelved December 2022
✔️2. #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini, Nicole Byer - Shelved December 2020
✔️3. The Vanishing, Wendy Webb - Shelved January 2014
✔️4. Daisy Darker, Alice Feeney - Shelved December 2022
✔️5. The Year Of The Gadfly, Jennifer Miller - Shelved December 2013
✔️6. To Carve a Fae Heart, Tessonja Odette - Shelved November 2022
✔️7. The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich - Shelved December 2020
❌8. Love Life, Rob Lowe - Shelved December 2014
✔️9. The House Girl, Tara Conklin - Shelved December 2013
✔️10. Fallen Beauty, Erika Robuck - Shelved October 2015
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Woohoo! I completed this challenge with days to spare this year!

CYOA: Xtreme Sports
DURATION: August 22, 2023 - ???
OPTION 5: Scavenger Hunt Freestyle
BOOK LEVEL: Dauntless - 0/25
SCAVENGER HUNT LEVEL: Bravura - 0/121

Reserved

I'm so excited to try this again! It's been too long since I've done a NBRC challenge.

TITLE: Author Alphabet Challenge 2023
DATE: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
COMPLETED: 26/26

A: Rock Paper Scissors, Alice Feeney
B: Hell Bent, Leigh Bardugo
C: Blacktop Wasteland, S.A. Cosby
D: The Lava Witch, Debra Bokur
E: The Club, Ellery Lloyd
F: The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley
G: City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert
H: The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen
I: When Darkness Comes, Alexandra Ivy
J: The Iron King, Julie Kagawa
K: Heaven's Keep, William Kent Krueger
L: Sign Here, Claudia Lux
M: Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy
N: Siren Queen, Nghi Vo
O: They The Pretty Stars, Eden O'Neill
P: The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator, Joakim Palmkvist
Q: Fire Sermon, Jamie Quatro
R: The Son of Neptune, Rick Riordan
S: Brutal Prince, Sophie Lark
T: The Murders of Molly Southbourne, Tade Thompson
U: Her Deepest Fear, Kelly Utt
V: I Choose Myself, Deepti Vempati
W: The Shadow Reader, Sandy Williams
X: The Body in the Annex, Diana Xarissa
Y: The High Schooler's Guide To Killing Monsters, Yebon Yang
Z: Brutally Beautiful, Christine Zolendz

- 3/1/2023 - 320 pp
- 3/12/2023 - 416 pp
- 3/19/2023 - 294 pp

Subtotal: 1,030 pp

Current Total: 507,203

- 1/5/2023 - 470 pp
- 1/11/2023 - 31 pp
- 1/11/2023 - 376 pp
- 1/16/2023 - 224 pp
- 1/22/2023 - 320 pp

Subtotal: 1,421 pp

Current Total: 231,411

I'm in! It's been two years since I've done an NBRC Challenge.

Yearly Challenges > Cleaning Out the TBR Closet
Duration: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Completed: 5/5 (oldest added to TBR list)

1. The Shadow Reader, Sandy Williams
2. Winter's Passage, Julie Kagawa
3. The Iron King, Julie Kagawa
4. The Iron Daughter, Julie Kagawa
5. The Iron Queen Special Edition, Julie Kagawa

Completion Post
Round #: 2
Book: White Trash Zombie Apocalypse by Diana Rowland

Pages: 320 pp
How it Fits: Tagged Kick-Ass-Heroine by 4 users; Tagged Female-Protagonist by 4 users
Nouns Chosen:
1. Zombie (title)
2. Brains (precis)
3. Blood (precis)
4. Morgue (precis)
5. Louisiana (precis)

I'm still unable to update the spreadsheet. Mods, can you help me out?

Aiswrya wrote: "Submissions for round one are closed :)

Adjective for this week -
"Dainty"


You have until Nov 6th 3 PM Eastern to submit your final pick! Please post in this thread. If you can update the tr..."

I'm unable to edit the spreadsheet to update my information.