Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Awesome job, A-Team!

Must read more! I'm starting my 3rd and 4th books today.

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "Must read more! I'm starting my 3rd and 4th books today.


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Love your tracker!

Just started . Hopefully I'll have that read by 8pm, then I can start ...Or watch Supernatural. o.o I haven't decided.

I just finished my first book of the year, . It wasn't as spectacular as I hoped it would be but it was a solid three stars.

Still reading . It started off a little slow but I'm halfway through and it's getting good! I just want Kerrick and Avery to be reunited already!

Just finished What the Cat Dragged In. It wasn't as good as I'd hoped, but it wasn't all the bad either. Next up: Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library.

Sashana wrote: "I just finished my first book of the year, . It wasn't as spectacular as I hoped it would be but it was a solid three stars.

Still reading ..."

Felt the same way about Scent of Magic. Took a while to get into it, but it started picking up about halfway through and then I couldn't put it down. Heh, the first two books I read this year were The Edge of Never and Scent of Magic. :-D I started Scent of Magic in December, though. Anyway, if you read Meant to Be next, we'll be 3 for 3!

Reading my 2nd book . Hope to finish this within the week so can i start reading of books. Can't wait!

Finished last night, now I'm pondering which book to read next! Possibly or . Happy reading everyone!

Started reading

Finally finished my first book of the year. It's a lot more fun to read as a group!

Eumachia wrote: "Finally finished my first book of the year. It's a lot more fun to read as a group!"

I agree! Congrats, Eumachia!

Em-Em wrote: "Reading my 2nd book. Hope to finish this within the week so can i start reading of books. Can't wait!"

Love both Before I Fall and Sarah Dessen.

Finishing Nauti Boy and Fantasy Lover for a challenge. Then hope to start Dark Lover for another challenge.

Em-Em wrote: "Reading my 2nd book. Hope to finish this within the week so can i start reading of books. Can't wait!"

OH MY GOD BEFORE I FALL IS ABSOLUTELY LOVELY!! I hope you enjoy it, I've got like last chapter and epilogue left + review. It gets really great once you get to chapter 3! :)

I just finished and am 3/4 through :)

hi all, I want to read some good suspense thriller/horror, anyone got any recommendations? Just finished '100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared' highly recommend it , excellent read. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Rachel, have you read Before I Go To Sleep? I read it when it first came out, and I *still think about the story at times. Another that has been highly recommended by some of our library patrons is So Much Pretty.

Mary wrote: "Felt the same way about Scent of Magic. Took a while to get into it, but it started picking up about halfway through and then I couldn't put it down. Heh, the first two books I read this year were The Edge of Never and Scent of Magic. :-D I started Scent of Magic in December, though. Anyway, if you read Meant to Be next, we'll be 3 for 3! "


What a coincidence! I agree with you about Scent of Magic, it went smoothing in the middle and towards the end. I ended up giving it 4 stars. What did you rate Edge of Never? Don't know if I'll read Meant to Be but maybe our fourth book will me the same ;-)

I love Sarah Dessen as well but she's starting to become a little predictable to me. Nevertheless Just Listen and The Truth About Forever are two of my favorite books of all time.

Sashana wrote: "Mary wrote: "Felt the same way about Scent of Magic. Took a while to get into it, but it started picking up about halfway through and then I couldn't put it down. Heh, the first two books I read th..."

I gave The Edge of Never 2/5 stars. Maybe my expectations were a little high because of the crazy high rating it had here on Goodreads, but I just didn't like it very much. I got really angry with it, actually, heh. I gave Scent of Magic four stars, too.

Sashana wrote: "I love Sarah Dessen as well but she's starting to become a little predictable to me. Nevertheless Just Listen and The Truth About Forever are two of my favorite books of all time."

Those two are my favorites as well. I've read The Truth About Forever maybe four or five times. I actually haven't read any of her newer stuff. Every time I think about reading a new one, I end up rereading one of my favorites instead.

I am not getting a lot of reading done cause I can't get rid of this headache. I hopefully it will go away soon.

Aw, Lizz, I hope it is better soon. I loathe headaches.

I was thinking about giving The Edge of Never 2.5 stars but I decided to be generous and just round up lol. I expected much more from it too.

Don't get me wrong, Mary, her new books are pretty good. But they don't hold a candle to her older books IMO. The only book that I haven't read by her is Dreamland and I'll probably hold off on reading that one for a looonnnngggg time.

❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥ wrote: "I am not getting a lot of reading done cause I can't get rid of this headache. I hopefully it will go away soon."

I've had one all day, Lizz. I've even taken prescription medicine for it. And three naps today in hopes that it would go away. It needs to; I have to work tomorrow.

Susan (susayq) wrote: "❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥ wrote: "I am not getting a lot of reading done cause I can't get rid of this headache. I hopefully it will go away soon."

I've had one all day, Lizz. I've even taken prescription me..."

I took Advil and it went away for about an hour then came right back. This is the 2nd day with it

I hate multi-day headaches. I get them often though. Is this something common for you?

For me? Not really common, but I do get them. What usually happens, and I really hate, is I get a headache for several days in a row. Also, about once every six weeks I get one that just WON'T go away. Needless to say, I'm on migraine medication.

Ugh, sorry to hear about the headaches, ladies! I hope they go away soon so you can get back to some uninterrupted reading!

Rachel, for horror I really liked Salem's Lot. I also loved Rebecca for a little bit of suspense.

Susan & Lizz: so sorry about your headaches. I hope they go away soon! I'm with Lisa Kay - headaches are no fun at all.

Lisa Kay wrote: "For me? Not really common, but I do get them. What usually happens, and I really hate, is I get a headache for several days in a row. Also, about once every six weeks I get one that just WON'T go..."

I hate headaches :(

Thanks, Teresa & Mary.

Yeah, Lizz, they steal so much of your life, when you suffer from them frequently.

After dithering about whether or not to count The Big Four, I chose to NOT to count it. To me, the book was only 160ish pages long (even in ebook). There were pages of her backlist and ads.

I've started my four book yesterday:

Argh! I got slammed!

I'm currently reading but I got busy with work and MA applications. *sigh*. I knew I was going to hit a bump! Well, I'll just have to read that much more these next couple of days to catch up! At least I'm still technically a book ahead of schedule!

Book 4 for me is

Lisa Kay wrote: "Thanks, Teresa & Mary.

Yeah, Lizz, they steal so much of your life, when you suffer from them frequently."

Tell me about it. I had meningitis when I was a kid, and have suffered from migraines since. The migraine painkillers make me vomit, so I had to quit them. The migraine prevention meds either will make my hair fall off and make me feel nauseated or make me fall into serious depression (I'm a smiley person, I don't do depression well), so I had to quit them also.

The solution? Endure... regular hours of sleep (not too much or too little), meals on time, never EVER forget to take my morning coffee, and keep the alcohol drinks to a minimum... and always have ibuprophene on hand - it's the only thing that relieves the pain and/or keeps it under tolerable levels that doesn't have side effects.

Good Morning A-Team!!! I'ts about 10 something AM here at Lisbon, and it's raining, bummer! *note to self: do not look at the mirror to see the rain results on your curly hair*

Anyway, here's the teams results (taking in consideration that GR's has a little delay)

TEAM A:161
TEAM B:161
TEAM C:161
TEAM D:140

AMAZING! All the teams are pretty even. That is SO.MUCH.FUN!

I guess that means that I should stop with all the GR browsing and start reading.. oh...wait... I'm at work... so no reading...and no goodreads either (well, not much at least) being a grown up with obligations sometimes is so not fun!

*giggles*

Happy Readings to all!!!

GO TEAM!

Alexa wrote: "Em-Em wrote: "Reading my 2nd book. Hope to finish this within the week so can i start reading of books. Can't wait!"

OH MY GOD ..."

Mary wrote: "Em-Em wrote: "Reading my 2nd book. Hope to finish this within the week so can i start reading of books. Can't wait!"

Love both ..."

My Cousin recommended it to me :) I am loving it!!!

Sashana wrote: "I love Sarah Dessen as well but she's starting to become a little predictable to me. Nevertheless Just Listen and The Truth About Forever are two of my favorite books of all time."

Hopefully i could start reading Sarrah Dessen's books by next week.

I'm on my 8th book! I decided to read a bunch of fluffy quick books to make up for some bigger books I plan to read later on. So much fun!

Wow, Stacie! :-D

Doing great, everyone! I'm hoping to finish my fifth book today.

Stayed up later than I should have last night to finish The Body in the Library so I could return it to the library this morning. Next book, which I will start on my lunch break: Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World.

Guys I was wondering could we maybe like have a group read every month? Like the regular group reads but that its just our group and that we vote for what book each month, so like we could I don't know...make sure everyone read at least 1 book each month towards their goal :) and we could make a thread to discuss or use this one (? not so sure about using this one due to confusions and whatnot)

It's just a thought! As I personally love reading books with others because of the fact that I can discuss it y'know :P and as for genres, I've noticed we all have varied taste so we could make it fair and read a book for each genre? I don't know hahah, It's just an idea!!
If its not do-able or that not enough people are willing to join then its fine! :)

Alexa wrote: "Guys I was wondering could we maybe like have a group read every month? Like the regular group reads but that its just our group and that we vote for what book each month, so like we could I don't ..."

I like that idea, Alexa! It might be difficult to come up with books we'd all enjoy, as we all read so many different genres. And we all read at different paces, too, so that's something else to consider. I'll talk it over with Sonia and the other mods and see what they think about it.

Another book finished. Started my next one.

Congrats, Zina! I just finished one as well.

I finished and loved it! Now I'm switching to something completely different and going to read !

Alexa wrote: "Guys I was wondering could we maybe like have a group read every month?"

Because of the varied reading interests in the group, instead of a group read, maybe a readathon would work better? Or maybe do both?

Hey gang, just finished my first book in this challenge. I'm not the fastest of readers, so I apologize ahead of time that I won't read quite as many as others. I also have way too many things that I do as hobbies, so am unable to read all the time. Will be starting my second book tonight.

Finished moving on to