Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Sonia's Read-a-Thon Question #1
Q. What is the best book of 2013 so far and why?
So far my favorite book is . It was really informative and interesting.

Ashley Marie's Read-a-Thon Question #2
Q. What series makes you wish the author would write faster?
I don't have any series books that I am really excited about. I suppose the third Divergent book.

Mary's Read-a-Thon Question #3
Q. What is your favorite book cover of books you've read? What did you like about it?
My favorite book cover is probably


Evana's Read-a-Thon Question #4:
Q. Who in your friends and family knows you so well that when they recommend a book, you know you will like it?
My friend Kelsey always has really good recommendations.

TheButterflyEffect's Read-a-Thon Question #5
Q. Do you have a favourite book that you've read this year, which has been adapted into either a movie or a television show?
I just read and I really enjoyed the movie too.

Barb's Read-a-Thon Question #6:
Q. What author can you simply not stand? You wouldn't read his/her books if you were paid to!
I really dislike Paulo Coehlo. I hated

Lizz's Read-a-Thon Question #7
Q. Have you started any new series this year? If yes how many?
Yes, I only started one series.

Sheila's Read-a-Thon Question #8
Q. What book that you read this year made you think the most...ya know the one that three days later your still muling over.
and but for different reasons. I do not understand The Turn of the Screw, so I am reading critiques of it. I just feel like I missed something. And then I work in an Adult Mental Health Unit at a hospital so The Silver Linings Playbook is right up my alley and I have been discussing it with everyone I know.

Sheila wrote: "Sheila's Read-a-Thon Question #8
Q. What book that you read this year made you think the most...ya know the one that three days later your still mulling over."

Hmmmm ... Off the top of my head, I'd say

Hello A-team

Yesterday was a busy day at work, and I arrived home so tired that I wasn't able to read at all :(

READ-A-THON UPDATE
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DAY #1
Pages Read: 247
Books Read: 1
DAY #2
Pages Read:55 pages
DAY #3
only 10 pages from


TOTAL
Pages read:312
Books read:1

Evana's Read-a-Thon Question #4:
Q:Who in your friends and family knows you so well that when they recommend a book, you know you will like it?
A: A very good friend of mine. There wasn't a single book he recommended to me that I didn't like.

TheButterflyEffect's Read-a-Thon Question #5
Q: Do you have a favourite book that you've read this year, which has been adapted into either a movie or a television show?
A:Not this year. I've started but I have no intentions of seeing the movie and I doubt that the book will be a favorite.

Barb's Read-a-Thon Question #6:
Q:What author can you simply not stand? You wouldn't read his/her books if you were paid to!
A: I would say L.J. Smith and P.C. Cast Kristin Cast. The Vampire Diaries series was a struggle, after book 3 I can't even look at the covers. And House of Night series, although I've read till book 6, the ending of the book was the final straw... the whole series was beginning to be tiresome and I just can't read it anymore.

Lizz's Read-a-Thon Question #7
Q: Have you started any new series this year? If yes how many?
A:11. Really? Oh wow. let me check (series and first book read)
Elemental Assassin - Spider's Bite
Lunar Chronicles - Glitches
World of the Lupi - Tempting Danger
Night Huntress - Halfway to the Grave
Beautiful - Beautiful Disaster
Temperance Brennan - Déjà Dead
Alexa O’Brien, Huntress - Once Bitten
Graveyard Queen - The Restorer
Black Dagger Brotherhood - Dark Lover
Cassandra Palmer - Touch the Dark
Rhiannon's Law - Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between

Sheila's Read-a-Thon Question #8
Q. What book that you read this year made you think the most...ya know the one that three days later your still muling over
A.
and . I still feel conflicted every time I think of them.

March Read-a-Thon Mini-challenge #2 : Write it with me
Post a phase/Paragrah to continue the storie.

Example:

Post #1:
Sonia was walking on the park when a sparkling caught her attention. She stepped close to the source and behind a bush there was a big, red...


Post #2:
Apple with a bite mark like someone was just eating it and was suddenly vanished. But apples don't sparkle or reflect light so...


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Tomorrow I will assembly all the posts together to see our little story. Just to be easy to identify, start the comment with Mini-challenge #2 : Write it with me post #number

So, do you want to write it with me?

Mini-challenge #2 : Write it with me post #1

It was a perfect summer day. Not a cloud in the sky. Boo left the bookstore with the brand new Magic Rises and was walking to her favorite reading space, under a strange and beautiful tree in a nearby park behind a row of perfect white...

Sonia's Read-a-Thon Question #1
Q. What is the best book of 2013 so far and why?
. The writing was so rich and flawless IMO. I love the author's world building, the characters, the dialogue...I love that there isn't a love triangle and I love that the plot is so unique and unlike anything that I've ever read before!

Ashley Marie's Read-a-Thon Question #2
Q. What series makes you wish the author would write faster?
There are quite a few actually. Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, The Sweet Trilogy by Wendy Higgins, His Fair Assassin by R.L. LaFevers, and Legacy of Tril by Heather Brewer

Mary's Read-a-Thon Question #3
Q. What is your favorite book cover of books you've read? What did you like about it?
Such a hard question because I'm a sucker for beautiful book covers! I can't list them all so I'll give you a few: .

I love the gorgeous dresses, the bold colors, and the typography. I love the quality of the pictures themselves; they look like they belong in magazines or a gallery somewhere.

Evana's Read-a-Thon Question #4:
Q. Who in your friends and family knows you so well that when they recommend a book, you know you will like it?
My aunt knows what I like to read when it comes to contemporary romance novels. She always gets it right on that front. For other genres and sub genres I'm pretty much on my own because my friends and family have different reading taste than I do.

TheButterflyEffect's Read-a-Thon Question #5
Q. Do you have a favourite book that you've read this year, which has been adapted into either a movie or a television show?
Not really. I started watching Game of Thrones on HBO and I'm thoroughly addicted! But I haven't read the books yet. Will get to them soon though. is in the process of becoming a TV show so I'm excited for that!

Barb's Read-a-Thon Question #6:
Q. What author can you simply not stand? You wouldn't read his/her books if you were paid to!
Cassandra Clare - I really don't get the hype about her. Plus she had some plagiarism scandal back in the day so I really don't understand how she has a shred of respect or credibility in the book world.

P.C. Cast - House of Night is seriously one of the worst series I've ever read. I don't think I'll ever read another book by this author again.

Lizz's Read-a-Thon Question #7
Q. Have you started any new series this year? If yes how many?
So far I've started 3 new series. The rest of my series have been continuations.

Sheila's Read-a-Thon Question #8
Q. What book that you read this year made you think the most...ya know the one that three days later your still muling over.


Sashana's Read-a-Thon Question #9
Q. What are your top 3 most anticipated book releases of 2013?

Sashana's Read-a-Thon Question #9
Q. What are your top 3 most anticipated book releases of 2013?
A.Since is already out, a new one steps foward :o)

Okay I finished Beautiful Creatures for the RaT. So I'm at 563/1000.

Sashana wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Sashana's Read-a-Thon Question #9
Q. What are your top 3 most anticipated book releases of 2013?
A.Since is already out, a new one steps foward :o)

..."

I do miss Kate & Current. I like Andrea too, but although her book was quite good, I need my Kate fix.

Ilona Andrews now has two different series, Kate Daniels and Kate Daniels World - Gunmetal Magic was the first one on this series, next one will be Jim & Dali's book, I believe the POV will be Dali's. I'm hoping that, since I really liked her voice on Magic Dreams. Julie's short story also was pretty nice, I'm wondering if she'll do a whole YA book/series *dreamy eyes*

Sashana wrote: "Sashana's Read-a-Thon Question #9
Q. What are your top 3 most anticipated book releases of 2013? "

I've already read , one of the new books I was most looking forward to this year -- and now I want to read the next in the series, but it'll be at least a year LOL

Others I'm eager to read are    and

R-A-T Update

Finished reading Irish Gilt by Ralph McInerny, 240 pages
Finished listening to 204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber, 379 pages

Books read: 6
Pages read: 1821
Pages to go: 179

Sheila's Read-a-Thon Random Question #8
Q. What book that you read this year made you think the most...ya know the one that three days later your still muling over.
Ans: I'm such a one-answer-pony, but literally the only thing on my mind currently is Game of Thrones, so that is, of course, my answer.


Sashana's Read-a-Thon Random Question #9
Q. What are your top 3 most anticipated book releases of 2013?
Hmm...
1. Sever by Lauren DeStefano(Already out, but I don't have it yet, so it counts)
2. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer(Again, already out, I know)
3. House of Hades by Rick Riordan(Seriously. The ending of Mark of Athena almost killed me)

Sonia wrote: "Sashana wrote: "Sonia wrote: "Sashana's Read-a-Thon Question #9
Q. What are your top 3 most anticipated book releases of 2013?
A.Since is already out, a new one st..."

I thought it was just one series and she decided to write about another character besides Kate. So it's kind of a spin off then. Interesting.

RaT update:

Finished my 3rd book
started reading my 4th book an e-ARC from Netgalley

3/4
914/1252

Barb's Read-a-Thon Question #6:
Q. What author can you simply not stand? You wouldn't read his/her books if you were paid to!
I don't know that I have a particular author that I hate, but I did decide to quit reading Janet Evanovich after reading two or three in a row that I didn't enjoy.

Lizz's Read-a-Thon Question #7
Q. Have you started any new series this year? If yes how many?
Technically, 11. Wow. However, I won't be continuing all of those. Probably about half of them.

Sheila's Read-a-Thon Question #8
Q. What book that you read this year made you think the most...ya know the one that three days later your still muling over.
Definitely Stolen: A Letter to My Captor by Lucy Christopher! Even now, when I think about, it makes my head spin and my emotions go all over the place. Such a great book.

Sashana's Read-a-Thon Question #9
Q. What are your top 3 most anticipated book releases of 2013?
Oh, Sashana. Why only 3? :-( After a lot of thought, here they are:

Although Isla and the Happily Ever After came close...

Mini-challenge #2 : Write it with me post #1

It was a perfect summer day. Not a cloud in the sky. Boo left the bookstore with the brand new Magic Rises and was walking to her favorite reading space, under a strange and beautiful tree in a nearby park behind a row of perfect white...

Mini-challenge #2: Write it with me post #2
...benches. She sat underneath the twisting branches, sighed, and was about to crack open the book when a low voice startled her. "Come here often?" she heard, from somewhere behind the tree. She whirled around to see...

RAT update:

Finished
Beautiful Creatures 563 pages
The Name of the Star 372 pages

Total: 935/1200

Next I am going to read Masque of the Red Death.

RaT update:

I just realized what day it is and that I have not actually given an update on my progress for the read-a-thon. I have been reading a little everyday.

Books read: 1
Pages read: 260

If I can't find a sub job for tomorrow, I will spend the whole day reading. Need to make my goal of 800 pages!

RaT update:

14 pages of +
18 pages of +
58 pages of +
325 pages of (could not put this book down) =

1056/1300

Ashley wrote: "Next I am going to read Masque of the Red Death."

I'm really curious to hear your opinion about Masque of the Red Death. It's been on my TBR pile for awhile now, and I've heard really mixed reviews.

Got another problem: I just started reading . When I select it for tracking the pages that I read. It shows there is 512 pages but the edition that I have only have 352. It's the hardback not the paperback and I can't find anything that has 352 pages when I try to change the edition. Do I keep the 512 pages or do I use one of the edition that is close to the 352 pages?

79/290 of
189/363 of
274/452 of

Finished this boy up and started on

I knew this would happen -- already almost Friday and I have barely cracked open a book in the past 3 days. Got extra hours at work and a lot of the work has been physically draining so I just veg on the couch watching TV instead of reading! Tsk tsk.

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "I knew this would happen -- already almost Friday and I have barely cracked open a book in the past 3 days. Got extra hours at work and a lot of the work has been physically draining so I just veg ..."

I'm having the same problem. I had a busy week, since I'm going to take the next one off, so almost no reading for me :(

I have totally flopped on this RaT. My husband came home unexpectedly Sunday night and my reading time has been almost zip :(

Nancy wrote: "Got another problem: I just started reading . When I select it for tracking the pages that I read. It shows there is 512 pages but the edition that I have only have 352..."

Nancy, post about it here, the "Page Numbers, Just About Page Numbers..." thread. Lisa Kay can help you out if you'd like to add your edition to Goodreads.

Otherwise, it doesn't really matter all that much to this challenge if you have the right edition selected, so long as the edition in question is over 170 pages.

Another day of poor reading. But, weekend is there, so, maybe I'll be able to catch up on some pages :o)


READ-A-THON UPDATE
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DAY #1
Pages Read: 247
Books Read: 1
DAY #2
Pages Read:55 pages
DAY #3
Pages Read:10 pages
DAY #4
46 pages


TOTAL
Pages read:358
Books read:1

Mary wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Got another problem: I just started reading . When I select it for tracking the pages that I read. It shows there is 512 pages but the edition that I have..."

thanks Mary

RaT Update #2: 872/1000

Stephanie wrote: "

Finished this boy up and started on

"

I love Graceling! Can't wait to hear what you think about it.

Ashley Marie wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Next I am going to read Masque of the Red Death."

I'm really curious to hear your opinion about Masque of the Red Death. It's been on my TBR pile for awhile now, and I've heard rea..."

I really liked it. A couple of characters can be a little annoying but I didn't think they were so bad that it changed how I felt about the story. I added the sequel to my TBR list but it doesn't come out till the summer. :(

RAT update:

Finished:
Beautiful Creatures 563 pages
The Name of the Star 372 pages
Masque of the Red Death 319 pages

Total: 1254/1200 YAY!!

Next I am gong to read Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out.

RaT update:
Tigers and Devils 365 pgs
Khyber Run 205 pgs
A Virgin River Christmas 320 pgs.
Diplomacy 228 pgs.
Life, Over Easy 178 pgs.
Second Chance Pass 416 pgs.

Total Pages: 1712 pgs.

I'm currently reading and and have read 412 pages for the RaT so far. :)

Great job, A-Team!

I was out all day, so I'll have to do some catching up on my reading this evening.

Name: Steven
Location (optional): The Time Vortex. And North Carolina.

Favorite Book of All Time: Impossible to pick just one!

Favorite Book of 2012: Bloodline by James Rollins, Columbus Affair by Steve Berry, Temple by Matthew Reilly, etc.

Favorite Book Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller (Action/Adventure/History-mixed-in types)

Favorite Animal: Elephants and Otters. Can't make me decide between the two. Nope. Can't.

Favorite Cartoon: Looney Tunes, of course!

Favorite Movie: Clue

If I could meet any fictional character, it would be: The Doctor

Some of my other hobbies/interests are: Watching WAY too much TV, Line Dancing, Writing, Hiking, Traveling, Fitness (haha yeah right, this is an attempted hobby/interest)

I'm very indecisive... asking me to narrow things down to ONE SPECIFIC is dang near impossible.

Glad you've joined us, Steven! Love your choice for fictional character. :-D Also, love Clue! I can quote good chunks of that movie.

Me too! I used to watch it once a month. Been since last summer now, but it's still my favorite. Such a classic.

:)

Ashley wrote: "Ashley Marie wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Next I am going to read Masque of the Red Death."

I'm really curious to hear your opinion about Masque of the Red Death. It's been on my TBR pile for awhile no..."

That's good to hear! I think I'll move it up on my TBR pile...

Welcome, Steven! I can't wait for March 30th - new episodes!

Yes! I do so wish they had kept Victorian Clara but modern Clara should be fun too!

Read the first chapter of .

R-A-T Update

Finished reading Six Hours One Friday: Anchoring to the Power of the Cross by Max Lucado, 237 pages and
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, 320 pages

Books read: 8
Pages read: 2378
Pages to go: 0!

RAT update:

Finished:
Beautiful Creatures 563 pages
The Name of the Star 372 pages
Masque of the Red Death 319 pages
Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out 190 pages

1444/1200

I think I am going to read Life of Pi next.

RaT Update:

Beautiful Creatures 563 pages

More Like Her 309 pages

Beautiful Darkness 503 pages

Total: 1375/1000

One more RaT update:

Tigers and Devils 365 pgs
Khyber Run 205 pgs
A Virgin River Christmas 320 pgs.
Diplomacy 228 pgs.
Life, Over Easy 178 pgs.
Second Chance Pass 416 pgs.
ADDED:
But For You 242 pgs.

NEW TOTAL: 1964 pgs.

Hello A-Team!!!

First of all, welcome to the team Steven, I hope you enjoy your time here. We're in the middle of a RaT, ends next Monday 8AM PST, you can still join, since it is a all you can read read-a-thon type.

I'll have to check if we have more new members, if so, welcome all!

TEAMS STATUS UPDATE:
TEAM A:1358
TEAM B:1407
TEAM C:1438
TEAM D:1285

Our numbers may be off, since I checked directly on goodreads feature without enter everybody's shelf first, but I'll give you our correct number after the read-a-thon. No checking books till there, or else I won't be having much time to the RaT reading.

Anyway, we are doing great so far!Keep on going, as usually you make me really proud of being on this team.

And now I'm going to think on some cool RaT mini-challenge foe the weekend.

Happy Readings!

We're so close to catching Team B! Keep it up, guys! Sonia, you and I shall have a day-long Validating Books Party after the Read-a-Thon is over. :-)

RaT update:
79 pages of +
47 pages of +
64 pages of =

1246/1300 - so close!

I've read some since I joined. What do I need to do for that to count?

Also thanks for the welcome!