Allison Ann’s Comments (group member since Oct 19, 2014)

Allison Ann’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

There's a giraffe in Takedown Twenty.

I have a palindrome title I can read next if I don't need to read the radish one right now. ;)

Teri-k wrote: "How close are to to finishing your radish book? Since we're getting down to the wire I don't see any reason to duplicate efforts on purpose. I can read mine in a couple of hours if you want to focus on the dinosaur. If not, I'll find a different goal. No problems either way. :) "

My dinosaur book is my work book, so I will concentrate on that and leave the radish book until later. It has a cat named Ed so maybe a pet goal will pop up. :D

I'm actually reading a radish book right now and a dinosaur one. I think we should dump the gemstone ones though, can't find them anywhere.

Team Juba

Finished: by Daniel Arenson - 352 pages
Date Finished: 09/24/15
Goal - Commodus: Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 male names in Spain according to nameberry (http://nameberry.com/popular_names/Spain)
Daniel is #2 on the list.

Swords on cover for mini-challenge.
Hand cannon for mini-challenge - page 297 - "The oil spilled. The hand cannons fired."

I found "hand cannon" in the book I'm reading. Yay, I can participate in the weapon count. :)

Too bad I can't share one. :)

Delta knocked out Gabrielle's cover weapon goals in one fell swoop - BRAVO! Spartacus, Juba and Varro all need one more cover weapon each. I have one book with a sword on the cover (I think, does this look like a sword to everyone? ) that is written by a Daniel which is a top name in Spain. It will probably take me two full days to finish though. I also have a country in the title book that I could probably finish by tonight.

Is anyone else from Juba reading a book with a weapon on the cover?

Team Juba

Finished: by William R. Forstchen - 352 pages
Date Finished: 09/23/15
Goal - Maximus: Read a book where a character is given a last chance.
I think this will work. After the war the last few prisoners are released. Page 306 - "I'm not going through some bullshit ritual of you swearing to me that you will leave, never return and repent. Don't ever come back. I ask but one thing. We've given you back your lives. Do not take any more lives, for then you will surely be damned forever."

No weapons for mini-challenge.

How annoying, I just found "English longbowmen" in my book completely out of the blue, so close but not close enough.

Team Juba

Finished: by Judy Angelo - 215 pages
Date Finished: 09/22/15
Goal - Maximus or Barca: Read a book with a country name in the title.
Possibilities: If USA isn't considered a full country name then they saw lions at the zoo. :)

No weapons for mini-challenge.

Team Juba

Finished: by Sidney Sheldon - 398 pages
Date Finished: 09/22/15
Goal: None
Possibilities: Takes place in hospital - lots of doctors, no publication date besides year, 37 chapters, no pets, zebras, hippopotami, monkeys, cheetahs and snakes but no elephants, giraffes or lions, no birthstones, no tarot, no songs, no poems, no unusual names.

No weapons for mini-challenge.

Team Juba

Finished: by Kevin O'Brien - 464 pages
Date Finished: 09/22/15
Goal: None
Possibilities: More than 5 people die, unimportant characters die, dead person isn't really dead, 27 chapters, pets named Einstein and Rolo, characters named Yolanda and Virgilio.

The MC had pretty purple eyes. :D

Team Juba

Finished: by Heath Pfaff - 241 pages
Date Finished: 09/22/15
Goal: None.
Possibilities: No chapters, no pets, monsters but no animals, no birthstones, no tarot, no songs, no poems, not good enough to be on any lists, don't know if Heath is a popular name anywhere, but not the lists we've already had. If we get the "think they're dead but not really dead" goal again it will work though. :)

It has a sword on the cover for Juba's list, but no new weapons for the mini-challenge. Unless this would count for fire ship... the strange, blue fire driven ship approaching us.

Team Juba

Finished: by Lilian Jackson Braun - 292 pages
Date Finished: 09/21/15
Goal - Gabrielle: Read a book that is book 10 or more in a series - #27.
Other possibilities: It has a ton of pet names, but none that start with F.

No new weapons for the mini-challenge.

Team Juba

Finished: by Catherine Coulter - 416 pages
Date Finished: 09/20/15
Goal - Gabrielle: Read a book where a character is a doctor. (It's still on the list, so I assume it's valid, if not I'll add some more info.)
Character - Dr. Timothy MacLean

No new weapons for the mini-challenge.

Team Juba

Finished: by Dana Stabenow - 199 pages
Date Finished: 09/20/15
Goal - Barca: Read a book where the page numbers add to 19
1+9+9 = 19

Lots of guns but no fancy weapons for the mini-challenge.

Okay, I can read for pages that add up to 19 instead of 3, since we have a few choices for that one. A Cold Day For Murder - 199 pages it is. :D

I have a couple of 300 page books, I'll give one of them a shot this afternoon.