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[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos)]

I am reading and I am loving it so far and I am rereading .

[Ashley]

❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥ wrote: "I am reading and I am loving it so far and I am rereading ."

I can't wait to get Clockwork Princess. I am putting it off because I have so many other books to read. I am glad you are enjoying it, I have heard only good things!!

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Current Stats:

Team	 Books Read/Goal*	% of Goal	% of 2,013
Team A	 1663/6409 	 =	 25.9%		82.6%
Team B	 1770/6385 	 =	 27.7%		87.9%
Team C	 1794/6321 	 =	 28.3%		89.1%
Team D	 1567/6375 	 =	 24.5%		77.8%

Goal totals adjusted, subtracting people who never signed up, or never posted a book.

If your Team is on track, it would be at 24.6% of Goal as of today.

Note: Teams A & C’s adjusted totals have changed because people changed their personal goals (some up, some down). Interestingly, while Team B members also adjusted their goals, they all managed to still keep the same Team goal. Team D’s hasn’t changed b/c Captain Rebecca has been so on top of things, she has been notifying me of their updates as they happen.

[Ellinor]

I finished and I'm almost finished with and with .

[Lala]

Finished reading and started with

[Gayle]

Finished . Now will be able to finish .

[Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos)]

Ashley wrote: "❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥ wrote: "I am reading and I am loving it so far and I am rereading ."

I can't wait to get Clockwork Princess. I ..."

I just finished and I loved it

[Ashley Marie]

Finished Etiquette & Espionage today, and thought it was really fun.

Getting ready to start The Madness Underneath - I'm on a YA kick...

[Suzanne]

Finished and starting !

[Mary]

Keep it up, A-Team! :D

I'm currently in the middle of , and I just started & , two books that couldn't be more different.

@ Suzanne
How was A Red Herring Without Mustard? I absolutely loved the first two Flavia de Luce books and I've yet to read the third.

[Sheila]

I just finished FINALLY! It took me way to long to finish that book. But now done and on to bigger and better things- such as and

[Stephanie]

Finished and


Now to choose one of the library books I picked up yesterday to be my next read.

[Ashley]

Just finished . Next I'll probably read , , or . My goal is to be finished with all three by the end of this weekend.

[Stacie]

Trying desperately to finish so I can move onto other things.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Just finished . Loved it! Melina Marchetta is such a great writer. I'm off to the library to pick up the rest of her books that I haven't read. I've read this one and . If you like contemporary YA, I highly recommend these.

[Amy]

Am currently talking a break from and finishing .

[[deleted user]]

I am still reading . It's taking me awhile to finish it cause of school but mainly cause I want it to last since it the last book.

[Sonia]

Finished . If not for the epilogue, that I thought it was a little far-fetched, I thought I had to take a star of Abby's POV book rating. I love Travis. His POV is amazing. For those who liked Beautiful Disaster, this one is a must read.

[Karla]

I am 31% finished with , 46% finished with , and 15% finished with . I'm hoping to finish the first two this weekend.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Current Stats:

Team	 Books Read/Goal*	% of Goal	% of 2,013
Team A	 1744/6409 	 =	 27.2%		86.6%
Team B	 1853/6385 	 =	 29.0%		92.0%
Team C	 1892/6321 	 =	 29.9%		93.9%
Team D	 1677/6378 	 =	 26.2%		83.3%

Goal totals adjusted, subtracting people who never signed up, or never posted a book.

If your Team is on track, it would be at 25.7% of Goal as of today.

Note: Teams D’s total has changed slightly; see Issues thread.

[Sashana]

Sonia wrote: "Finished . If not for the epilogue, that I thought it was a little far-fetched, I thought I had to take a star of Abby's POV book rating. I love Travis. His POV..."

Can't wait to read this one! I just have to finish a few books first :(

[Sonia]

Sashana wrote: "Can't wait to read this one! I just have to finish a few books first :( "

I know what you mean. Since I have no amount of self control whatsoever, I left all my books on hold for Travis.

[Suzanne]

Mary wrote: "Keep it up, A-Team! :D

I'm currently in the middle of , and I just started & , two books that..."

I loved it! I think this series is so unique in the main character is a little girl but it was written by a guy :) He captures an 11 year girl so well!

[Suzanne]

I finished and and starting !

[[deleted user]]

Finished and I am starting .

[Lala]

Finished reading and started reading

[Barb]

I don't know if anyone else has been paying attention to the team numbers, but as of a couple of hours ago, here are the team standings:

Team C - 1910 books
Team B - 1868 books
Team A - 1764 books
Team D - 1745 books

Team C is VERY close to completing 2013 books! And we are dangerously close to finishing in last place. I just checked to be sure all of the books I've read that meet the requirements are appropriately tagged, so all I can do to help is to read faster :)

[Sheila]

Just finished . Still working on and

[Steven]

All the books I have to read are too long! I need more that are right around the required 170 pages to tear through haha!

[Ashley Marie]

Just finished this weekend, and should finish tonight! Then on to and !

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Yes, Barb, read faster! :p

Steven, read shorter books, hahaha! I have a few really long ones on my TBR but I think I'll wait on those until I get a few shorter ones out of my system.

[Steven]

Well, I would, but I already have so many actual copies of books (Kindle and/or phyiscal) to read... and most of them are at least 400-500 pages.

I just don't find many shorter books!!!!

I'm trying to read pretty fast though!

[Steven]

I'm almost done (75%) with , and a quarter of the way through which ends the series. After those, I'll be finishing up the Harry Potter series with and finishing up the Kane trilogy with by Rick Riordan.

Then, we'll see. Dunno yet. Probably another scary book!

[Steven]

I don't know how you guys do the cover art links!

[Sonia]

when you use the add book/author tool, you can choose between link or cover on the bottom of the pop-up window

[Sonia]

OR when you have [book :Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone|3] you can replace book by bookcover, like this: [bookcover :Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone|3](*)

(*)blank space added to allow visibility

[Steven]

AHA! Thanks! :)

[Sonia]

Anytime!

I've been a little absent lately, RL as its best.

I'm hoping to be able to be a little more present, now that we are almost at the final strand.

We are not going down without a fight!

Don't forget to sign-up for round II to get to thread CLICK HERE

[Steven]

I signed up! Do we keep the same teams? I like you guys and gals! (mostly gals in this challenge, I noticed!)

[Stacie]

I just finished Table for Seven: A Novel and I'm currently pondering which of my hoarde I want to read next.

[Barb]

Steven wrote: "I signed up! Do we keep the same teams?"

I think the mods said they're going to try to keep teams somewhat intact, but at the same time, there will be more teams with fewer members on each team. So who knows? LOL

And Steven, I'm still working my way through The King's Deception. It's good, as expected, but I'm so used to listening to these books rather than reading them, I keep hearing Scott Brick's voice narrating the story LOL

[Steven]

Barb wrote: "Steven wrote: "I signed up! Do we keep the same teams?"

I think the mods said they're going to try to keep teams somewhat intact, but at the same time, there will be more teams with fewer members ..."

Yes! It's hard to switch voices in your head back to your own once you've listened to an audio version.

I listened and read off and on when I read earlier this year. I listened while at work to the professional narration, then read once at home... and I kept hearing that narrator's voice! :)

[Joyce]

Steven wrote: "All the books I have to read are too long! I need more that are right around the required 170 pages to tear through haha!"

I know me too. It seems lately that I've been reading chunky books. The one currently is over 1000 but it is good and I am going through it pretty fast.

[Joyce]

I finished and currently reading and . I need to read shorter books. But all my shorter books are too short.

[Stephanie]

I just finished and today

[Barb]

It's been awhile since I've posted an update, but I've recently read
            and .

This afternoon, I started my first-ever Hercule Poirot book, . So far, so good :)

[Steven]

Barb! I love love love Hercule Poirot. I've read them all (and the other Christies too)! I don't remember half of them because it's been a while. I plan on re-reading a bunch of them soon!

I've also read Heat Wave from the Castle series... need to read the rest. It was a decent story.

My friend is obsessed with Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane being the one I bought her that got her obsessed and actually got her to read. She is IN LOVE with fireflies and anything connected to them, so I got her the book and, while she reads very little, she will read anything Hannah writes. The sequel comes out this month to that too!

Once you've read Agatha Christie's and a good chunk of her other books, you should check out Pierre Bayard's . He was SO MAD that she pulled one over on him that he wrote an entire book on why she was wrong. He does use a bunch of her other stories in his fight to prove his point. It's an interesting read, but don't spoil a bunch of the books by reading this too early in your Christie reading! :)

[Barb]

I'll keep that in mind, Steven, thanks :) I'm not sure how it happened, but I've only read a handful of Agatha Christie books in my reading 'career.' I need to read several for a challenge I'm doing, and I've enjoyed the books I've read. I will definitely be reading more, even after that particular challenge ends!

I have the Firefly Lane follow-up on my library holds list already, but I need to find out if the next Nikki Heat book is in the library system. Thanks for the reminder :)

[Steven]

If you have Amazon prime, I believe the Nikki Heat books are available for the free monthly checkouts!

[Barb]

I do have Prime, but I just checked and the books aren't free anymore -- at least not the next in the series :) My library system has it, though, so I've added it to my list for later, when I get caught up on some of the other books I have checked out and on hold right now.