Brie’s Comments (group member since Mar 04, 2015)

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

Philippa wrote: "I'm not sure, but I would guess at the other answers as:

DOWN
1. rhyming
2. born
4. trams"

Nicely done!

Yay!!! We've missed you Philippa :) Happy New Year!!! How is the cafe going? Do you still love it??

MINI AUSTRALIA DAY CHALLENGE UPDATE
So...I did some digging and got the answers for 1, 2, and 4 down

1. RHYMING

2. BORN

4. TRAMS

We actually have enough goalless books to complete this entire crossword right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to go ahead and pick the highest page count books for December to double the points on :) We've got some doozies too so this should be great!!!

Perfect :) I can't wait for them to add this mini-challenge to the spreadsheet so I can start plugging them in!

THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!

I know the answers to 3, 4, and 5 across, but I don't know about 1, 2, and 4 down.

ACROSS
3. Women

4. Than

5. Dad

GOAL UPDATE

1. Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as 2002 - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable -- Kaleidoscope (Erin)

2. Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as vampires - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable -- NOS4A2 (Natalie)

NEW GOALS

1. Read a book that is on your "to read" shelf with the highest GR star rating

2. Read a book with the word work, job, career or occupation (plurals are acceptable) in the title

I was wondering the same thing about NOS4A2. I heard it was worthy of a Stephen King comparison!

Speed demon! I love it :) EXCELLENT WORK ERIN!!!

Karen Michele wrote: "I forgot to say that I'm going to read A Darker Shade of Magic -- I've read the other 2"

How did you like the other two? I've heard mixed reviews of The Nightingale.

With this new goal development, I now vote to boon the "chow down" goal over the "Unappreciated Books List" goal. I feel like "chow down" is going to be harder to fulfill.

GOAL UPDATE

1. Read a book which is set in boarding school -- Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian (Philippa)

2. Read a book with the phrase "break a leg" in a book -- Hellforged (Erin)

3. Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 6 odd numbers -- Sheepfarmer's Daughter (Natalie)

4. Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as abandoned - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable -- Seveneves (Farhad)

5. Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as 5-stars - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable -- Cold-Hearted Rake (Natalie)

6. Read a book that a player in your team has read during this team challenge -- The Child Thief (Christal)

7. Read a book with 71-80 chapters -- Evil Games (Kat)

8. Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter A -- Death Coming Up the Hill (Karen)

NEW GOALS
1. Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as vampires - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

2. Read a book with the phrase "chow down" in a book

HOLIDAY GOAL UPDATE

Kat fulfilled the goal "Read a book with Christmas Decorations/Lights on the cover" with her book Boyfriend by Christmas.

***I am halfway done with My Sister's Keeper which will fulfill the goal "Read the 25th book on your "To-Read" shelf ordered by date added"

***We still have two more goals to go until we get our Mega Boon:
1. Read a book with coal on the cover or in title
2. Read a book with hot chocolate on the cover

I know Karen was thinking about working on both of these, but if someone else would like to take over that would work too :)

Aw thank you!! I'm feeling pretty optimistic about it...I trust the movers (as of right now) and I'm in a surprisingly good place packing-wise. I didn't procrastinate like I've done in the past and everything has been in my own control on my own schedule so it's been much easier than anticipated :)

I MIGHT read Winter if I get to the others beforehand...and I might actually read A Darker Shade of Magic... Who knows what I'm doing anymore...I'm a mess hahaha

Great news on the personal front! I hired movers today :) My things will officially be leaving New York on the 18th and I will be in California on the 20th. THINGS ARE GETTING CRAAAAZYYYY!!!

I will also only be reading The Nightingale. They don't choose the members who will be writing DQs until a couple days before the start of the BOM.

Erin (Paperbackstash) wrote: "Brie wrote: "NEW GOAL
Read a book which is set in boarding school

***I'm a little frustrated by this as I JUST used Harry Potter and Percy Jackson towards other goals within the past couple days, ..."

Perfect!!!

BOON UPDATE

It's that time again!!! BOOOOON TIIIIIME!

I have to boon a goal by Saturday morning, so I vote for the "Best Unappreciated Books" list.

I have a couple books that will fulfill that goal, but I won't be getting to them for a whiiiile because of other books, moving, general disinterest in the book etc. hahaha

As usual, this will probably change by Friday. I like to start the discussion early ;)

Philippa wrote: "Book: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian
Author: Rick Riordan
Pages: 368
Date Finished: December 27, 2015"

Please add this to your Tower Teams shelf

So when I search books, I go on the books section of amazon and pull up that particular book. Then, I click on the book and once it's on the book's page a little tab appears above the book's image that says "Look Inside." If there's a print edition available, click on the "Print" tab of the preview and on the left hand side there is a search box where I type in the phrase. If there is only a kindle edition, I press CTRL + F and start typing in the phrase. If the phrase is in there it will pop up, if not then it goes red.

And if the phrase isn't EXACT, it has to have the same meaning -- the meaning being: Good Luck!

It has to be that exact phrase :(