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

I've got a charity bowling event tomorrow evening, but I can take 2-3AM if Jenn has 1-2AM, Karsyn.

Edited to fix the time.

410 pgs

Current Total: 788,576

So four for detour so far.

American Ninja Warrior - Individual Challenge
Duration: Set your own pace
Contestant of Choice: Isaac What Causes Acid Rain? ☔
Start Date: April 19, 2016

Stage 1 Kevin's Stage 1 Run ~ https://youtu.be/mHNRf9YfyqM
Stage 1 consists of obstacles that test the competitors' agility and speed. The first stage is timed and only the competitors who complete it within the time limit and without falling into the water will advance to stage 2.

Piston Road
--- Read the 1st book in a series
✌ Uglies ✯✯✯ 4/30/16


Propeller Bar
--- Read the 2nd book in a series
✌ Through the Zombie Glass ✯✯✯✯ 5/11/16

Silk Slider
--- Read a book with the number 3 (can be spelled out) in the title
✌ The Serpent King ✯✯✯ 5/26/16

Jumping Spider
--- Read a book with the number 4 (can be spelled out) in the title
✌ Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things ✯✯✯ 5/23/16

Sonic Curve
--- Read a book with the number 5 (can be spelled out) in the title
✌ For I Have Sinned ✯✯✯✯ 5/25/16

Warped Wall
--- Read the 6th book in a series OR
--- Read a book with the number 6 (can be spelled out) in the title OR
--- Read a book with the word WARPED or WALL in the title
--- Read a book with a person reaching/stretching up on the cover

Coin Flip
--- Read the 7th book in a series OR
--- Read a book with the number 7 (can be spelled out) in the title OR
--- Read a book with the word COIN or FLIP in the title OR
--- Read a book with COIN(s) on the cover

Triple Swing
--- Read the 8th book in series OR
--- Read a book with the number 8 (can be spelled out) in the title OR
--- Read a book ith the word TRIPLE or SWING in the title OR
--- Read a book with a SWING(s) on the cover



Stage 2 Ian's Stage 2 Run ~ https://youtu.be/e639qxzuBgE
Stage 2 consists of obstacles that test the competitors' strength and speed. Competitors must complete challenges that strain their upper-body strength (such as the Salmon Ladder) without running out of time. Just as in the first stage, only the competitors that finish within the time limit and without falling into the water move on to Stage 3.

Rope Jungle
--- Read a book with the word ROPE or JUNGLE in the title OR
--- Read a book with a JUNGLE on the cover OR
--- Read a book with someone hanging from a rope on cover

Double Salmon Ladder
--- Read a book with the word DOUBLE or SALMON or LADDER in the title OR
--- Read a book with LADDER on the cover OR
--- Read a book with 2 of any item on the cover

Unstable Bridge
--- Read a book with the word UNSTABLE or BRIDGE in the title OR
--- Read a book with a BRIDGE on the cover OR
--- Read a book with an Unstable character

Butterfly Wall
--- Read a book with the word BUTTERFLY or WALL in the title OR
--- Read a book with a BUTTERFLY on the cover OR
--- Read a book with someone hanging off a wall on the cover

Roulette Row
--- Read a book with the word ROULETTE or ROW in the title OR
--- Read a book with a Roulette Wheel/Table on the cover OR
--- Read a book that features a game of Roulette

3 Wall lifts -66 lbs, 88 lbs 110 lbs
--- Read a book with the word WALL or LIFT in the title OR
--- Read a book with a 6, 8, 1 or 0 in the title (can be spelled out) OR
--- Read a book with a person lifting a heavy object on the cover



Stage 3 Isaac's Stage 3 & 4 Run ~ https://youtu.be/aL57-jfV6QI
Stage 3 consists of obstacles that test the competitors' upper body and grip strength. It is the only stage in Mt. Midoriyama that has no time limit. Like Stage 1 and 2, only the competitors that complete Stage 3 move on.

Psycho Chainsaw
--- Read a book with the word PSYCHO or CHAINSAW in the title OR
--- Read a book with a CHAINSAW on the cover

Doorknob Grasp
--- Read a book with the word DOORKNOB or GRASP in the title OR
--- Read a book with a DOORKNOB on the cover

Floating Boards
--- Read a book with the word FLOATING or BOARD in the title OR
--- Read a book with someone or something Floating on the cover

Ultimate Cliffhanger
--- Read a book with the word ULTIMATE or CLIFFHANGER in the title OR
--- Read a book with someone hanging off a cliff

Pole Grasper
--- Read a book with the word POLE or GRASP in the title OR
--- Read a book with a POLE on the cover

Hang Climb
--- Read a book with the word HANG or CLIMB in the title OR
--- Read a book with someone Climbing on the cover

Area 51
--- Read a book with the word AREA or 51 (can be spelled out) in the title OR
--- Read a book with featuring Aliens

Flying Bars
--- Read a book with the word FLYING or BAR in the title OR
--- Read a book with something that Flies on the cover



Stage 4 Geoff's Stage 4 run ~ https://youtu.be/2HSxPyOGCUo
Stage 4 of Mount Midoriyama is a 75 foot rope climb that competitors must complete in under 30 seconds.

SPELL OUT
--- Mount Midoriyama ~ using only TITLES

Ah! That makes perfect sense now. Thanks, Nikk.

As far as detour/spell out, I'm agreeable to either option, but yes, that would be hard to spell. If anyone wants to try spell out, I was able to find this (clicky clicky) on Wikipedia earlier today.

I would like to join. This looks like fun!

Earth Day Challenge
Time: April 19, 2916 - June 19, 2016 (Two months)
Credits Earned: 4
Books read: 4

There is no Planet B! Help save the Earth by participating in a variety of environmentally friendly reading challenges.

Earn carbon credits by completing tasks and see what type of environmental activist you can be. Each task can only be completed once.

Levels:
☙ World Speaker - 75 Carbon Credits
☙ Community Leader - 50 Carbon Credits
☙ Tree Hugger - 25 Carbon Credits
☙ Recycler - 10 Carbon Credits

Tasks
Earn an extra carbon credit per book read that is a borrowed book or a digital book.
1 Carbon Credit Tasks:
(view spoiler)[☙ Save a tree - Read a book with a tree on the cover.
☙ Walk to work - Read a book with a verb in the title.
☙ Ride your bike - Read a book where someone travels for a living.
☙ Celebrate the day - Read a book that has 22 as part of the page numbers. (Example: 422 pages, or 229 pages, etc.)
☙ Celebrate the Earth - Read a book that starts with the letter E, A, R, T or H. (hide spoiler)]
2 Carbon Credit Tasks:
(view spoiler)[☙ Live green - Read a book with a mostly green cover.
☙ Learn about the Earth - Read a science book.
☙ Plant Wildflowers - Read a book with a flower in the title.
☙ Compost - Read a book that you've already read to re-use it for a new purpose.
☙ Save water - Read a book that's set at sea or where someone captains a ship or boat. (hide spoiler)]
3 Carbon Credit Tasks:
(view spoiler)[☙ Bring your own bags - Read 2 books where one title "fits" inside the other. (All of the letters of one book title are in the other one.) Example: Mine is inside A Straight Line to My Heart.
☙ Pick up Trash - Read 2 books that have been on your to-read shelf for over a year.
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
☙ Go Organic - Go back to basics by reading 2 books that are the first in their series.
The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
☙ Pull Weeds - Read a book where someone fights against the "bad guys".
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
☙ Visit a farmers market - Read a book set on a farm. (hide spoiler)]
4 Carbon Credit Tasks:
(view spoiler)[☙ Build up the local environment - Read 2 books that are 4+ in their series.
☙ Plant a vegetable garden - Find 10 veggie names in a book. (Names may be repeated)
❂ Install solar panels: Passion Unleashed Set in Egypt
☙ Clean Naturally - Clean your house naturally by reading 2 books with different essential oils in their text.
☙ Donate your time - Read a book that spans at least 3 years. (hide spoiler)]
5 Carbon Credit Tasks:
(view spoiler)[☙ Plant a tree - Spell out the word TREE using spell-it-out rules.
T Tally Youngblood from Uglies
- R
E Emma Donoghue - Room
- E
☙ Speak out - Read 4 books, each from a different genre that all have the same first letter in the title (A, An, The can be ignored if desired.)
☙ Create a Plan B - Read a book that's set on another real planet.
☙ Setup a windmill for energy - Read a book with wind in the title or series and a book with something tall on the cover.
☙ Donate your money - Read a book with someone who has a lot of money. (hide spoiler)]


Spell-It-Out Rules:
(view spoiler)[Read books to spell out the word(s) using
◈ the first letter in the book's title
◈ the first letter in the series
◈ the first letter in the author's, translator's or narrator's first or last name
◈ the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name (hide spoiler)]

I can do 12p-1p.

Big Bang Theory
Open Ended Deadline
Option 3: Spell-it-Out* Episode Titles
Sheldon: 25+ books
Read: 4/85

Peanut Reaction
⚛ P Passion Unleashed
⚛ Emma Donoghue Room
A
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⚛ U Uglies
T

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A
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T
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⚛ O The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
N

Lizard–Spock Expansion
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Jiminy Conjecture
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Benefactor Factor
B
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Raiders Minimization
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Romina wrote: "I think we finished that one! Did anyone message the mod letting them know?!"

I don't actually understand what the detour for the Malaysia stop means. Someone want to take pity on the heavily medicated?

Hi everyone. I hopped on as a hitchhiker. The team is doing the detour with a character with a J name, correct?

Ooh boy. This may take a while.

The Twelve Towers Challenge
Start Date: April 18, 2016 - April 18, 2021
Level: Slow and Steady
Read: 8/78

12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
1. Bad Monkey
2. Killer Instinct
3. In the Air Tonight
4. Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
5. Dark Lord of Derkholm
6. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
7. When She Woke
8. The 100
9. Strange Magic
10. Reboot
11. Cast in Angelfire
12. Bite the Dust

11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest (pre-choose these)
1. A Game of Thrones
2. The Eye of the World
3. Wizard's First Rule
4. The Stand
5. The Handmaid's Tale
6. The Man in the High Castle
7. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
8. The Giver
9. Memoirs of a Geisha
10. The Golden Compass
11. Dragons of Summer Flame

10 books you randomly select from your shelves (such as by using random.org -- as you go or pre-choose)
☤ 1. Uglies
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
✌ 1. Passion Unleashed
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
☆ 1. For I Have Sinned
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3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
1
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3
4
5
6
7

6 anticipated releases (release dates after your start date)
1
2
3
4
5
6

5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
❅ 1. Cinder
❅ 2. First Grave on the Right
❅ 3. Room
❅ 4. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
❅ 5. The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

4 books that you started but never finished
1.
2.
3.
4.

3 books that you've already read before
1. Old Yeller
2. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
3. Where the Red Fern Grows

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
1.
2.

1 book that intimidates you
1. Dune

Nikk wrote: " Team We're booking it! is still also looking for a couple of hitchhikers"

I'll hitch a ride. :)

That is an amazing idea.

No worries! I just always want to be sure before I use something like that for anything. :)

April Showers Bring May Flowers
Duration: April 1, 2016-May 31, 2016
Option 1/ Level 8+
Read: 3/13

Sweet Pea
☂ Scott Westerfeld Uglies
W
☂ Emma Donoghue Room
E
T

☂ P Passion Unleashed
E
A

Lilac
L
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L
A
C

Astronomy
Open Ended Deadline
Option 3: Spell Out the Planets
Cosmonaut : 25+ books
Read: 52/52

💥☑💥Mercury: 7/7
(view spoiler)[☤ Morgan, K.M. The Deadly Real Estate Affair
☤ Emma Donoghue Room
☤ R Runaway Vampire
☤ C Cinder
☤ U Uglies
☤ Rachel Hawkins The Wife Upstairs
☤ Y You Should See Me in a Crown (hide spoiler)]
💥☑💥Venus: 5/5
(view spoiler)[💖Veronica Roth (Divergent)
💖Evanovich, Janet Full Tilt
💖Nasuada (character) Eragon
💖U Uprooted
💖Sands, Lynsay Immortal Unchained (hide spoiler)]
💥☑💥Earth: 5/5
(view spoiler)[🌎 E. Lockhart We Were Liars
🌎 Andrews, Ilona Magic Bites
🌎 Reyes Farrow (character) Second Grave on the Left
🌎 T The Road
🌎 Halliwell, Nyx Of Potions and Portents (hide spoiler)]
💥☑💥Mars: 4/4
(view spoiler)[⚦ Marina Keegan The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
⚦ Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
⚦ Riley Sager Home Before Dark
⚦ S Storm Front (hide spoiler)]
💥☑💥Jupiter: 7/7
(view spoiler)[🌊Jonathan Maberry Ghost Road Blues
🌊U Uglies
🌊Paige, Danielle Dorothy Must Die
🌊I The Inheritance Games
🌊T The Girl Who Owned a City: The Graphic Novel
🌊Evelyn/Ate (character) The Farm
🌊Ryan, Carrie (The Forest of Hands and Teeth) (hide spoiler)]
💥☑💥Saturn: 6/6
(view spoiler)[🌠Snoekstra, Anna Only Daughter
🌠A All Systems Red
🌠T Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
🌠U Unwind
🌠Russell, Kate Elizabeth My Dark Vanessa
🌠N The Night Circus (hide spoiler)]
💥☑💥Uranus: 6/6
(view spoiler)[🖍Ugad the Hammer (character) Magic Burns
🖍Roxanne Rhoads (Haunted Flint)
🖍A Angels' Blood
🖍Nigel (character) Kindred
🖍Unhygienix (character) The Beach
🖍Simone St. James (The Broken Girls) (hide spoiler)]
💥☑💥Neptune: 7/7
(view spoiler)[⚓Neil Gaiman American Gods
⚓E The Eagle of the Ninth
⚓P Project Hail Mary
⚓T The Ghost Hunter Next Door
⚓Urbanik, Nurse (character) They Went Left
⚓Nadia (character) Shadow and Bone
⚓Estele Magritte (character) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (hide spoiler)]
💥☑💥Pluto: 5/5
(view spoiler)[♇ P Passion Unleashed
♇ L The Last Wish
♇ Ulf (character) Devil's Night
♇ T The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women Journal
♇ O Old Yeller (hide spoiler)]

Query: When you say picture books, I assume this also means graphic novels? I'm reading Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft so just won't use that for this if that is the case.

I'm coming back to add more to this but...


Option 1: I'm going to try to read everything by Larissa Ione, Kresley Cole, and Gena Showalter
Level: Comrades (6 - 10 books) to begin with
Duration: You set the pace
Read: 2/10 books

Larissa Ione
💜 1 Passion Unleashed ✨✨✨✨
2 Ecstasy Unveiled
3 Sin Undone
4 Reaver
5 Revenant
6 O Come, All Ye Horsemen (And Angels)
7 Azagoth
8 Hades
9 Bound by Night
10 Blood Red Kiss*

*This shows the main author as Kresley Cole. However, it is an anthology and there is a story by Larissa Ione included.

Kresley Cole
1. A Hunger Like No Other

Gena Showalter
💜 1 The Darkest Touch ✨✨✨✨
2 The Darkest Torment

The NBRC Mods’ April Showers Scavenger Hunt
Duration: 1st April - 30th April
Level: Moderate Sprinkle (5 to 7 books)
Read 2/5

❃ R Room
O
❃ Serena Kelley from Passion Unleashed
E
Scott Westerfeld Uglies