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[Sarah]

I will have two more to add this week.

[Mary X]

Yeah I know that. I read Infinite Jest back in January and it really put me behind. Then recently I read 1Q84 and Atlas Shrugged. Both door stoppers that put me further behind.

Glad to see you posting Michael.

[Mary X]

I'm planning a summer of cozies which tend to be under 300 pages. I also have a few long car trips coming up and plan to use shorter audiobooks.

[Mary X]

[Mary X]

Just saw the weekly update and we held at 11th place again. 12th place was only 2 books behind us and 10th is only 14 books ahead.

[Mary X]

[CountessPaige]

A decision has been made regarding the use of juvenile/children's/middle grade books for Round II. We have decided that we will accept all non-picture books equal to and greater than 160 pages. Little children's books are still not acceptable (for example: , , and ).

As you are reading your book, think about the following: does it seem like there are 250 words per page? How many pages have you read in 15 minutes - is it more than normal? When you tag your book look at the other editions - does that version's page numbers look similar to the others. If you have a question, ask in the Page Numbers, Just About Page Numbers... and we will help you out.

For all electronic books (ebook/Kindle/audio) that do not have an equivalent print copy on goodreads, they will still be verified for a word count. In situations where electronic books vary by 100 pages to print editions, those will also be verified.

The Moderators and Countess Paige will still be conducting random spot checks. We reserve the right of veto power over some books, specifically ‘gift books’, ‘novelty books’, or ‘coffee table books’.

Thank you for your time and understanding!

[Mary X]

Hey guys we are only about 80 books behind the first place team. Think we can over take them?

[Riya]

Totally! We got this!!!

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

I just finished two books, which combined were about 700+ pages and that took a lot of time away from quick reads for me! I have a bunch of what I hope are fast reads sitting here from the library so I'll try to get a few of those knocked out this week.

As for now, I am crashing at the keyboard so it's off to napland for me. ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

[Sarah]

Unfortunately I don't tend to read short books. 400 page books is more my norm. Last year most books I read were about 800.

[Riya]

Dang-800! Most of my books are around 500ish pages and I read enough that it doesn't take too long.

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Sounds like you gals need some bouncing cupcakes ;)

What kind of bird is that Mary? The blue is stunning!!

[Mary X]

Just a blue bird. Vicky says we have earned all our bouncing cupcakes. Now it's just a matter of getting approval to use them on our longer books.

[Mary X]

I have these in my yard and I never manage a picture.

[Mary X]

[Sarah]

Well last year I read The Song of Ice and Fire series and The Millennium series - all long books

[Sarah]

Today finished and

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "I have these in my yard and I never manage a picture.

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wow they are amazing. we mostly get lorikeets, rosellas and kookaburras. Although I once had some tawny frogmouths make a nest in one of our trees.

Here is one of the local magpies singing on our front deck (sitting on my bbq!)

[Mary X]

I'm still 2 books behind. I can't seem to get ahead. That's why I'm planning to get some short books in soon.

[Mary X]

Wow awesome pick.

My mother has a red woodpecker at her house.

So yay! New player Holly finished her sing up today and added 10 books to our finished books and 50 to our group goal. We are now a 299 books. So unless we all stop reading for the week, we'll pass 300 probably tonight or tomorrow.

[Sarah]

Yeah. I have more books read this month than ever before at 6 and I think I can make 7 by June 31st.

[Sarah]

Holly. Holly Holly Holy! Holly?

[Karsyn]

currently 25% into my book. Will have it done by tomorrow, if not tonight if I stay up late. :)

[Mary X]

I am half-way through an audiobook and going to listen to a little bit more while I close the house down and get ready for bed.

We have 2 players named Holly on our team now. We have new momma Holly and now we have Holly from Canada. Our team goal is actually up to 1347 now and we have 310 books. When I checked earlier it must not have updated with new Holly's books yet.

[Mary X]

I checked out a bunch of cozy audiobooks today. All long enough to qualify but short enough to help me catch myself up and maybe get a little ahead. I'm tired of my tracker bar telling me I'm behind. Plus I need the author for another challenge I'm doing.

Oh and as a team we are doing well with our percentage of finished books. We should be around 21% and right now we are 23%.

[Vicky]

As soon as the mods sort out the last of the organization, we have enough chunksters to turn in for 12 bonus points! Unfortunately, it looks like the majority of teams will also have the 12 bonus points, so even though it will be a boost in our books read I don't know if it will boost us up a rank.

I'm halfway through A Breath of Snow and Ashes and Lord John And The Hand Of Devils (though I won't finish this until I finish Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, since it is an anthology and the last story comes after BotB). I'm hoping to get all three finished by the end of the month, but I'm not sure if I'll pull it off. :s

But right now it's time for laundry and

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

So pretty!

[Karsyn]

Finished my book up ~ The Newcomer

Read my three new releases that I was looking forward to in two days. :)



Now life's hardest question.... what to read next?! :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Oh so cute!

[Mary X]

Do we have any cupcakes left and should we read some more chunksters?

[Mary X]

Hmm. Running out of pic ideas.

So lets to foods that start with p or b today.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Pepperoni Pizza Casserole

[Mary X]

Ooh that looks good except for the olives(gag).

I used to make fettucini and pepperoni. Basically an alfredo type sauce with diced pepperoni and mushrooms. Ooh maybe I'll make that this weekend. I have everything.

[Vicky]

Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "Do we have any cupcakes left and should we read some more chunksters?"

We've read WAY MORE chunksters than we have . At the rate we're reading books that qualify in general I don't think we'll have to aim to read any, even if we got 12 more cupcakes every month for the end of the challenge I think we'd make them up in our general reading.

[Vicky]

I was hoping to get closer to finishing Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade today, since I had a 2 hour commute. Unfortunately the new app I got to listen to my CD ripped audiobooks did not get along with my Navigator app. Everytime the GPS gave me directions the audiobook would get quieter. It got to a point where my phone and car radio were turned up all the way and I still couldn't hear the audiobook. Not impressed. :(

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Whoops! I finished two books this week but forgot to tag them for this team (blueberry-muffin is my shelf). I just fixed that! I've been trying not to tag them for the group until I complete them so that my shelf reflects an accurate "read" count. That means that there are times I'll forget to check off the blueberry-muffin shelf when I finish, oops.

books: Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
The Innocent

[Mary X]

Mmm pie!

[Mary X]

[Mary X]

Finished this tonight;



and I am still 2 books behind :-(

[Mary X]

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

That pie looks so good! I've been craving a chocolate pudding/custard thing for days now. I may have to go ahead and make either some hot pudding or a pudding pie today. Well, here is some blueberry pie to honor our team name!

[Riya]

That pie looks so yummy, and the bunnies are ADORABLE!!!

[Mary X]

[Mary X]

Ok so what gave me the bunny idea was listening to Midnight Crystal. For anyone who hasn't read any of the Jayne Ann Krentz/Jayne Castle/Amanda Quick Harmony books they are set on an earthlike planet called Harmony and there's these little creatures called dust bunnies. This is kind of what I picture them to look like, when their 2nd set of eyes are closed.

[Mary X]

or maybe this is a better dust bunny picture

[Riya]

[Riya]

[Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado]

Oh you girls are cracking me up. I *love* the dust bunny!!!

[Vicky]

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