CiCi’s Comments (group member since Jun 25, 2018)

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

TITLE: Love Your Pet Day 🐾
DURATION: February 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019
OPTION 3: Spell our your pet's name
LEVEL: Man's Best Friend (1-8 books)
COMPLETED: 6/6

M: Matched, Ally Condie
I: Deception, Mona Ingram
N: We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
N: No Happy Endings, Nora McInerny (4/22/19)
I: Extinct, Ike Hamill (5/18/19)
E: Elevation, Stephen King

I'd love the link & will be checking out your shelf! Thanks :)

Jill wrote: "My cloud book is actually good so I won’t take as long with It. For Christmas, my husband got me a 100 essential books scratch off poster and this book is on there.

I can’t believe how much I fel..."

I was thinking about getting that poster for a gift as well. Have you read a lot of them yet?

Ugh... I hear ya Jill! It's been cold here, but with wind chill temps have been negative.

Go Team Go!

TITLE: Very Superstitious 🍀
DURATION: March 1, 2019 - March 31, 2019
OPTION 1: Spell-it-out
LEVEL: 3rd division lotto winner (5 - 8 books)
COMPLETED: 6/6

C: Matched, Ally Condie
I: Extinct, Ike Hamill (5/18/19)
R: Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
C: City of Bones, Cassandra Clare (4/9/19)
L: We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
E: Elevation, Stephen King

TITLE: Let It Be Love 💋
DURATION: February 1, 2019 - February 28, 2019
OPTION 1: Spell-it-out
LEVEL: Easy (3-4 books)
COMPLETED: 4/4

K: Two Can Keep a Secret, Karen M. McManus
I: Deception, Mona Ingram
S: You Suck: A Love Story, Christopher Moore
S: The Age of Light, Whitney Scharer

DONE! We're ready for the next stop. I updated the spreadsheet.

Rina, will you update the Travel Agent?

I will finish my Love book TONIGHT! Sorry to hold the team up again this week.

Honestly, I don't need another challenge, but this one sounds sooo fun!!!

TITLE: 50 States Challenge
DATE: January 14, 2019 - January 14, 2020 February 14, 2020
LEVEL: Franklin (12-24 books)
COMPLETED: 18/18




Arkansas (AR): Shakespeare's Trollop, Charlaine Harris
California (CA): You Suck: A Love Story, Christopher Moore
Colorado (CO): The Shining, Stephen King
Georgia (GA): Prophecy of the Female Warrior, Kate Young
Kansas (KS): In the Tall Grass, Stephen King
Louisiana (LA): A Recent Martyr, Valerie Martin
Maine (ME): Extinct, Ike Hamill
Massachusetts (MA): Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Michigan (MI): Inspection, Josh Malerman
Minnesota (MN): No Happy Endings, Nora McInerny
New Jersey (NJ): One for the Money, Janet Evanovich
New York (NY): We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
North Carolina (NC): Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Oregon (OR): Save the Date, Annabeth Albert
Rhode Island (RI): The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike
Tennessee (TN): Southernmost, Silas House
Virginia (VA): Miracle Creek, Angie Kim
Washington (WA): Blood Bound, Patricia Briggs

Phew, I was hoping I wasn't the only one struggling with their book choices too.

Key:
✔️ = Completed
❌ = In Progress

Completed 12/29/2018!

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Done!

Sorry to hold up the team! I'm at 82% & will finish tomorrow.

TITLE: New Releases: 2019
DATE: January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
LEVEL: Once Upon a Time (1 book per month)
COMPLETED: 8/12

January: Golden Child, Claire Adam
February: The Age of Light, Whitney Scharer
March: Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
April: Miracle Creek, Angie Kim
May: Necessary People, Anna Pitoniak
June:
July: Lock Every Door, Riley Sager
August:
September: Body Of Proof, Darrell Brown
October: Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo
November:
December:

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Open Ended Challenges

❌The Never Ending Series (2019)
❌Agatha Christie (2018)
✔️Color Challenge (2018-2023)

A Novel Role Playing Game

Monthly/Seasonal Challenges

January
✔️Decorate the Christmas Tree (2019)
✔️Time for Tea (2015)
✔️Vices and Virtures (2014)

February
✔️Love Your Pet Day (2019)
✔️Let It Be Love (2019)
✔️A Few of My Favorite Things (2014)

March
✔️Love Your Pet Day (2019)
✔️Very Superstitious (2019)

April
✔️Rain or Shine ☀️ (2019)
✔️Spring & Summer: Major League Baseball Challenge (2024)

May
✔️Mostly May Idioms (2019)
✔️Rain or Shine ☀️ (2019)

June
✔️Summer: Boredom Buster YA Challenge (2019)

July
✔️Summer: Boredom Buster YA Challenge (2019)
✔️Music Festivals (2018)

August
✔️Summer: Boredom Buster YA Challenge (2019)
✔️Music Festivals (2018)

September
✔️Music Festivals (2018)

October
✔️China's Golden Week (2018)
✔️A Peanuts Reading Challenge (2014)

November
✔️Feast of Flavor (2018)
✔️Horses for Courses (2014)

December
✔️ Decorate the Christmas Tree (2018)

TITLE: Decades Challenge
DATE: January 9, 2019 - February 20, 2020 March 20, 2020
LEVEL V: 79 -103 books
COMPLETED: 56/100



2010 (1/1) (view spoiler)[
1. The Pericles Commission, Gary Corby

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2011 (5/11) (view spoiler)[
1. Parched, Z.L. Arkadie
2. Deception, Mona Ingram
3. A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness
4. Crossed, Ally Condie
5. The Seventh Sister, Z.L. Arkadie

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2012 (1/1) (view spoiler)[
1. Incarnation, Jason Tesar

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2013 (1/1) (view spoiler)[
1. Conditional Love, Cathy Bramley

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2014 (0/1)

2015 (2/15) (view spoiler)[
1. A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie, Kathryn Harkup
2. Incumbent, Joanne Schwehm

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2016 (3/16) (view spoiler)[
1. Arrivals and Arrests, Diana Xarissa
2. Witch, Patrick Logan
3. Not His Dragon, Annie Nicholas

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2017 (9/17) (view spoiler)[
1. We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
2. Caraval, Stephanie Garber
3. A Tale of Two Ladies, Glenn Song
4. This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
5. Three Daughters of Eve, Elif Shafak
6. Dial P For Poison, Zara Keane
7. The Looking Glass Goddess, Amanda Hughes
8. Save the Date, Annabeth Albert
9. The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

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2018 (15/18) (view spoiler)[
1. Something in the Water, Catherine Steadman
2. Southernmost, Silas House
3. Elevation, Stephen King
4. Guess Who, Chris McGeorge
5. Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be, Rachel Hollis
6. Women Talking,Miriam Toews
7. Witch's Blood, Book 1: Bloodless: A YA Paranormal Romance, Neha Yazmin
8. Desolation Mountain, William Kent Krueger
9. The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn
10. A Wedding to Die For, A.R. Winters
11. The Winter Bees: Fiction, Jill Kalz
12. The Garden Party, Grace Dane Mazur
13. Paper Ghosts, Julia Heaberlin
14. There There, Tommy Orange
15. Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

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2019 (19/19) (view spoiler)[
1. Golden Child, Claire Adam
2. The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
3. Early Riser, Jasper Fforde
4. Two Can Keep a Secret, Karen M. McManus
5. The Age of Light, Whitney Scharer
6. The Lost Girls of Paris, Pam Jenoff
7. The Au Pair, Emma Rous
8. Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
9. American Pop, Snowden Wright
10. The Only Woman in the Room, Marie Benedict
11. No Happy Endings, Nora McInerny
12. The Municipalists, Seth Fried
13. Inspection, Josh Malerman
14. How Not to Die Alone, Richard Roper
15. Before She Knew Him, Peter Swanson
16. Miracle Creek, Angie Kim
17. Necessary People, Anna Pitoniak
18. This House of Wounds, Georgina Bruce
19. Ask Again, Yes, Mary Beth Keane

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TITLE: The Never Ending Series Challenge
DURATION: 12/28/18 - Infinity
LEVEL: Sequence (51+ books)
COMPLETED: 29/51+

✔️ Completed (view spoiler)[
Lily Bard (5/5) - Charlaine Harris


Matched (3/3) - Ally Condie


A Love Story (3/3) - Christopher Moore


The Ravenhood (3/3) - Kate Stewart


Squeakverse (2/2) - Vera Valentine


Alex Stern (2/2) - Leigh Bardugo


The Dirty Billionaire Trilogy (3/3) - Meghan March

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❌In Progress (view spoiler)[
Mercy Thompson (2/11) - Patricia Briggs


Hot Damned (1/12) - Robyn Peterman


Alice Madison (1/5) - Valentina Giambanco
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Cork O'Connor (9/17) - William Kent Krueger
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Knitting in the City (1/13) - Penny Reid
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Winston Brothers (1/9) - Penny Reid


The Hangman's Daughter - Oliver Pötzsch
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The Paper Magician (2/4) - Charlie Holmberg


The Chronos Files (1/7) - Rysa WalkerRysa Walker


Dark Carousel (1/5) - Anya Allyn


Jane True (2/7) - Nicole Peeler


Luxe (1/4) - Anna GodbersenAnna Godbersen


Wicca (6/15) - Cate Tiernan


Parasol Protectorate (1/6) - Gail Carriger
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth (0/8)- Carrie Ryan

Mercy Watts (0/13) - A.W. Hartoin

Jeeves (0/19) - P.G. Wodehouse; Sebastian Faulks

Parched (1/9) - Z.L. Arkadie


The Mortal Instruments (1/6) - Cassandra Clare


Villians (1/3) - V.E. Schwab
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Caraval (1/3) Stephanie Garber
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