Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

AWESOME challenge LK!!! Nice job revamping everything☺☺☺ I'm not sure what will be read but I'm in for it.

☺ We make a great team.

Lisa Kay wrote: "FYI, ★Gwendolyn Kay★: has NOT been "tagged" for your "nbrc-tower" bookshelf, so it doesn't show under your "view books.""

Its tagged now - Sorry about that :)

Lisa Kay wrote: "Any suggestions for challenges, ★Gwendolyn Kay..."

Ideas from a few other challeneges that I have seen are besides green covers:
Green in the title
Author name Green
Green with Envy
Green with Jealousy
Green Thumb
Rolling in the Green or greenbacks
Being Green - sick

Besides St Pat's Day March has
Eyes of March (March 15th) Theme/covers about betrayal, friendship/friendship gone bad.
Day Light Saving Time Change and Spring Equinox - Theme/covers about Time and about balance/unbalance
Easter - Multicolor, geometic, bright/electric covers or spiritural theme/covers

The new challenge looks fun! Thanks for taking the time to make these and keep track of everything Lisa Kay! :)

★ gwendolyn ★ wrote: "Its tagged now - Sorry about that :)"

Not a problem, just wanting our Team to get the credit. ☺

Great ideas, ★gwendolyn★...but I already posted #1356. Maybe you have ideas for April, if the challenge is still going!?!

Working on setting up Round II now. **hee hee**

Christina wrote: "The new challenge looks fun! Thanks for taking the time to make these and keep track of everything Lisa Kay! :)"

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Finished reading The Poems of Dylan Thomas . Not my favorite poet.

♥Robin ♥ wrote: "Barbara ★ wrote: "I tried to read but it is so incredibly boring that I gave up at page 75. Well you know my theory Barb...why continue on with a book that you don't like when YOU KNOW there are more books out there waiting for you that you will like. Years ago I would NEVER not finish a book no matter how bad they were....BUT now I have no problem putting a book on the DNF lol. Too many GOOD books and not enough time to read them if I'm wasting it on a bad book.
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EXACTLY!

I finished today. The main character is a baker which fits for #6 of the mini-challenge ideas. I read about half the book yesterday and then stopped to update challenges with the last 10 books read in February.

I'm doing a buddy read on so I read the first 100 pages of that also. Now i think I'm taking a break from reading and maybe watching an episode or two of Grey's Anatomy with McDreamy.

In between reading for the buddy read, I'm going to also read .

Lisa Kay wrote: "☺ We make a great team."

I must agree!!! Glad I was able to help with the ideas although you did the work getting it set up☺

Christina wrote: "The new challenge looks fun! Thanks for taking the time to make these and keep track of everything Lisa Kay! :)"

Glad you like it Christina!!! I must agree, LK does a fantastic job keeping track of everything and I appreciate all her effort in making them!!!!

Yes, thank you Lisa Kay! I've only been here for part of the color challenge so far but having so much fun with these mini challenges!

@Robin - What a great March challenge! Looking forward to it!

I just finished today which will fit in for #5 in the March challenge. I really enjoyed this one and don't know why I never read it before now! I've just started and not sure if it will fit into any of the categories for this month.

I've finished 25 books for this challenge so far and I'm partway through three more books!

Reading:

Swept Away by Mary Connealy

Only a few chapters in this book, but I'm already loving it! :)

A Killer Among Us by Lynette Eason

Really good so far. A lot of suspense! :)

Temptation: A Novel by Travis Thrasher

I've taken a little break from this one, but hope to get back to it this week and finish.

It looks like they are recruiting for Round II. Is Round I done? I didn't think we were that close to finishing.

Barbara ★ wrote: "It looks like they are recruiting for Round II. Is Round I done? I didn't think we were that close to finishing."

We are getting there fast, Barbara★. Plus, we wanted everyone who wants to to have time to sign-up. It will take some time to crunch some numbers.

We will be having smaller teams; however, I will try to put Teammates for Round II together with Teammates from Round I, but really it is going to be about balancing the numbers. Some people only committed to five books, some 500.

I'm really loving the ideas for the March challenge! I will just have to find some books to fit in now.

I was confused about the Round 2 as well, so thanks for the heads up, whomever is on the Moderator account at the moment. ;)

I figured that out after I posted the comment. Thanks Moderators for clearing up the confusion.

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So I finished up , which I'm going to fit into Category 6- The Girl Scouts because the main character is working as a maid, and makes lots of yummy deserts, and totally deserves a badge. ;)

I'm currently reading , which besides the creep-tastic cover, is pretty blah right now.

Megan L wrote: "I do have a question though. If we played in round I and already have a shelf for this challenge do we have to have a new shelf for the second round or can we continue to use the shelf we have already?"

Cathie wrote: "Ok, the above answer leads to another question: Do we need to take all of our books off the shelf that we have already read, if we keep the same shelf name?"

I finished and both were spectacular.
Both work for #5 strong female and Goliath also works for #3 - third in a series.

Still working on which was really hard to get into. Too many characters, too many enemies and no real connection to the H/H. About halfway through it started getting interesting and now it's moving along. I should finish this today at work.

I finished 2 books: North of Beautiful and The Orchardist . Both excellent reads.

North of Beautiful definitely fits into #5 on the Mini March challenge, but I'm not sure where (or if) The Orchardist fits in anywhere.

I have to say The Orchardist is one of my all time favorite reads :-)

I finished . Don't think it fits into any of the March Challenge categories though. I'm still working on and .

finally done with this one!

finished

Finished in Feb:

March Challenge:
#3 - (animal shifters)
#5 - (strong female main character)
#6 - (baker)

Christal, how was Paper Valentine ?

Finished Swept Away by Mary Connealy.

#5 - the main female character is very strong
#6 - the main female character made cookies in the book.
#7 - book one in the Trouble in Texas series.
#8 - Would you consider the guy on the cover "rugged"?

First and Thrid-Murder at the Vicarage is the first Miss Marple.

Cathie wrote: "Christal, how was Paper Valentine ?"

It was pretty good, Cathie. A different type of story, but interesting. The beginning is a little slow.

Thanks Christal; Paper Valentine has been on my TBR list since before it's release date but I didn't know anyone who had read it yet :-).

Finished Taken. It was time not well spent. 2 stars. Fits into category 5 (at least it's author thought so!)

Finished which wasn't nearly as funny as the other books in the series. This is one that if you haven't read the others in the series, you'd have no idea what was going on. (Works for #6 strong female)

I also finished (doesn't fit any category) and (#4 bright color)

What does round two mean?

for this contest...

Hope, this is still Round I. We go until one of the four Teams reaches 2,013 books. We will be breaking down into small, more manageable groups for Round II. (The race to the next 2,013 book finish.)

Also, it will be set-up in a separate group so that people can NOT mistakenly sign-up on the Home Page. Also, some people have signed up and then dropped out because of Real Life. It makes it very difficult to track.

Hats off to all the moderators for all that you do! A lot of work has gone into making this challenge and keeping it running so smoothly and it is such a big challenge; you all are amazing!

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Lisa Kay wrote: "

                                         ♥Robin's♥ March “C Us Win” Challenge

Duration: March 1st through 31st. Any book read since then counts!

1. Luck - All books with “luck” in the title, t..."
Can the word be Lucky instead of just Luck?

Phyllis wrote: "Can the word be Lucky instead of just Luck?"

Yes, Phyllis, any derivative of the word "luck" - I meant to put that. ☺

finished reading

So, we are still in round one right

Finished for #2 -Time (diary writes about what happens tomorrow) and for #7 (1st in a series).

Finished all 6 books in the Enchanted, Inc series.

And I lov' the series. Going to be hard to wait until May for the next one to come out. Kiss and Spell

Have started for my Aussie author challenge. The format/style is different and haven't decided if I like it or not yet. It is a quick read though.

The next series I'm going to read is
because the new release

or



I'm planning on both series this month so it doesn't matter which one I'm in the mood when I'm ready to start reading :-D

If you haven't noticed when I read a series I plan the whole series at once. I'm a back-to-back reader when it commes to series.

Oh, I have to get some green books in this month too. Yes, I have some plan. I even found a series called Green that I might read.

Finished up today. I'm counting is as Category 3- Lion/Lamb because there's a phoenix that plays a pretty big role in the story, showing up a lot. Otherwise, I suppose that this could work for first in series too. =)

I'm unsure what to pick up next, I might get some blog tour books out of the way. Or perhaps something older on my bookshelf. So indecisive, haha. ;)

finished reading

Hope wrote: "So, we are still in round one right"

Right.