Natalie’s Comments (group member since Oct 24, 2015)

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

Looking forward to my sprint tomorrow. I haven't decided on my second book yet, I'm going to see how my time works out.

I'm a bit annoyed at myself. The three fight books arrived at my library came in, but it was closed when I was out earlier, closes at five on Fridays and for whatever reason is closed Saturdays in the summer. I was planning to read at least one or two on Sunday. I'll see if I can get any of them on overdrive in the meantime.

My chariot book should be finished by the end of the weekend. I'm gearing up for all our bonus books :)

Book: Losing It - audio
Date Read: 7/8
Number of pages: 189 - default - Losing It
Task: Event 2, Heat 1, Leg 3, Book #2

Venecia wrote: "We have one book that does not meet the min page count. TJ it is your The Spy Wore Blue (Lord and Lady Spy, #1.5) at 100 pages.
That one is in the first leg of the Heat 2 relay. We will need to re..."

I have Gathering Blue. I won't be able to get to it until Sunday at the earliest.

Book: Love, Stargirl - audio
Date Read: 7/7
Pages: 288 - default - Love, Stargirl
Task: Page Jumping Heat 2, Leg 1, Book #4

City of Mirrors was finally finished and posted to be banked for W-a-T. I'm most of the way through Love, Stargirl for PJ and will start Losing It tomorrow when I finish. I'm going to start reading Heart of Mryial tonight and should hopefully finish it tomorrow or Friday. Two of my coach fight books are at the library ready for pickup and the third is in transit.

As long as LisaM finishes her sprint by Saturday morning I plan to complete it then.

Book: The City of Mirrors
Pages: 598
Date Read: 7/6
Task: Banked for Wheel-a-thon

Blameless was finished and posted.

Book: Blameless - note: listened to audio
Pages: 384 - default - Blameless
Date Read: 7/6
Task: Page Jumping Heat 1, Leg 3, #6 of 8

So for my sprint book that was going to be a decoration, it has skulls or paintings. Would one of those be considered festive? It's the only task I could find it fitting. Unless Teresa hasn't started her discus 500+ book. It would fit for that.

Also found Losing It (189 pages) as an audiobook for another page jumping spot. Will be read after Love Stargirl.

I just checked out Love, Stargirl (288 pages) as an audiobook and will listen to that after Blameless. Looking for other audio options for the short books.

Laura wrote: "Can you focus on The Stone Goods before Career of Evil? No one else has a Stone book, but we could easily find another 12 letter title. "

I have Over Sea, Under Stone for a bonus round.

So here is my schedule:

Bank for Wheelathon
The City of Mirrors - finish today

Relay:
Heat 1:
Anna Dressed in Blood - DONE
Heat 2:
The Memory of After - DONE
Bonus:
Tiger?
Dragon Prince
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Page Jumping:
Heat 1:
Blameless - finish today or tomorrow
Heat 2:
The Rose & the Dagger - DONE

Discus:
None official

Fight Club:
6-hour sprint (undecided)
Fight Club
The Fight
Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner

Chariot:
The Heart of Myrial

Oh and I have Rose Under Fire as an audiobook which could be a good option for title relay.

Lisa M wrote: "Can I take the last slot of round 2 in Discus? Read a book for medium distance: page count 251-400p

That way I would have a task for each event :)"

Looks like you were added there.

Can someone link Tiger by the Tail? I can't read Tail of the Dragon since I'm up after, but I'll check about that one.

I'm going to start listening to Blameless as an audiobook (Blameless - audio edition). The default is 384 pages so it can work in one of the 351-400 slots on page jumping.

Venecia wrote: "Laura wrote: "I think TJ & Kelly read MM, too. And Natalie."

Oh great, that makes things easier :-)"

I can tap in if needed and I can get the book. I just posted a long list of books above I should be able to get.

Here were the list of short books I posted initially to see if they could fit anywhere.

The 19 Dragons
Lord John and the Succubus (anyone reading Richelle Mead's Georgina Kincaid series?)
Wishing Stars: Space Opera Fairytales
Storming the Castle

Other options that could maybe worked in somewhere. I tried to focus on words that I could see appearing in other titles and avoiding A/The:
Battle Magic
Over Sea, Under Stone (also discus bonus)
Angels & Demons
Dragon Prince
Heir of Fire
Promise of Blood
North and South
Mystic River
In Her Shoes
Rocket Boys
All the King's Men
Poison Study
Daughter of the Empire
Whispers in Autumn
First Comes Marriage
Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage
Wait for You
To Ride Pegasus
Pegasus in Flight
Pegasus in Space
Good in Bed
Burn for Me
Something Strange and Deadly
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Dark Lover (can link to most of the other BDB books)
Again the Magic
Secrets of a Summer Night
Blue-Eyed Devil
Devil in Winter
Scandal in Spring
Deadly Games
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Breathe, Annie, Breathe
After the Golden Age

July 2016

July 4
Magic Staff

Level 1
Beauty - #1 in Fairytales series - 6/25/2016
Level 2
Clean Sweep - #1 in Innkeeper Chronicles series - 6/27/2016
The Winner's Crime - #2 in The Winner's Trilogy - 6/25/2016

July 6
Level 3
Anna Dressed in Blood - #1 in Anna series - 7/3/2016
The Rose & the Dagger - #2 in the Wrath & the Dawn series - 7/4/2016
Blameless - #3 in Parasol Protectorate series - 7/6/2016

July 25
July Classifieds
Read a book where the hardcover version is between 400 and 499 pages (3 Gold)
Battle Magic
Read a book with an orange cover (3 Gold)
The Girl With All the Gifts - 7/16
Read a book where a character becomes royalty (3 Gold)
The Golden Key - 7/9
Read a book where a character lives in a castle (3 Gold)
Storming the Castle - 7/21

Lady Shanna and the Case of the Blueberries

You pass group of young squires sitting and talking. You can't not notice they are retelling Lady Shanna's Blueberry Adventure. You smile to yourself. It is great story, but like in many stories some things got changed with each retelling. And not to mention not many people know what happened after. Lady Shanna went to the field again day after and she picked some blueberries for herself, but nobody told her that those berries shouldn't be eaten fresh. She started eating them while picking. "Spit them out!" said the white horse. "But they are so tasty." "Spit them out!" All of the sudden, Lady Shanna's nose started turning purple. "What is happening to me?" yells Lady Shanna while continuing turning purple and starting to grow round. "I told you to spit them out. Everyone who eats them fresh ends up as blueberry and nobody knows why."

Read 2 books with blue covers and 2 books with round object on the cover to help Lady Shanna out of her blueberry-ism. She will gladly pay you 10 gold.
Wonder - - 6/8/2016
The Three-Body Problem - - 6/12/2016
The Exiled Queen - - 6/19/2016
Over Sea, Under Stone - - 7/16/2016

A Fairy Odd Path
Faeries travel through thinning in the veil called in-between. Three small fairies have gone missing in the in-between. Find them before they're eaten by the Gothere Monster.

Read 3 books that are in-between series numbers. i.e. #6.5 or #2.1 in a series. May be part of a collection of stories but the whole collection must be over the 100 page minimum (a collection will only count towards one of the numbers). Fairies are forgetful but always thankful and after you remind them they provide you a Heal Potion and 2 experience for the rescue.
The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After - 4/21/2016
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories - 6/11/2016
Winning the Wallflower - 6/22/2016

Sword - Level 4 - Attack 6
Level 4
Fearscape - 165 pages - 7/6/2015
Love, Stargirl - 288 pages - 7/7/2016
Too Big to Miss - 324 pages - 7/13/2016
The Heart of Myrial - 469 pages - 7/9/2016

Magic Staff - Level 4 - Attack 6
Level 4
Losing It - #1 in Losing It series - 7/8/2016
The Dark Is Rising - #2 in Dark is Rising Sequence - 7/17/2016
Greenwitch - #3 in Dark is Rising Sequence - 7/17/2016
The Grey King - #4 in Dark is Rising Sequence - 7/17/2016

The Girl With All the Gifts can work for arm as well if we need more there. May be better for it to be used for that instead of page jumping bonus, especially if it's going to be difficult to find.

Laura wrote: "Sorry, Natalie. I didn't see that.."

No problem, I keep debating between one long post with all my info and having 20 posts go up while I'm typing that changes mine, or smaller quick posts that can get lost easily.

Rose and the Dagger was finished and posted. Since coaching books don't have to be until after everything else I will ignore them for now. I should be able to do at least two, ideally three if everything arrives at the library soon.

Does everyone have a required spot for page jumping? If so I'll see what I have to fill in the blanks.