Mauvelous

[Hina]

Puzzle 184 is up, its a jigsaw and slider. I didn't get a chance to try to do them.

[Barbara ★]

puzzle 184 submitted

[Hina]

Puzzle Update

It looks like we have completed all the puzzles for this month. :)

[Barbara ★]

Yay. Now we just have to figure out how to redeem all those cupcakes before Round II is over.

[JoLene]

You can mostly use the specialized ones for chunksters. The other ones can replace a book in a mod challenge.

[Barbara ★]

I'm just glad you a have a handle on it all JoLene because I haven't a clue. I just do the puzzles hoping they will help us in the long run.

[JoLene]

Yep, that's fine :-). As long as you like to do them.

[Barbara ★]

JoLene wrote: "Yep, that's fine :-). As long as you like to do them."

most of them anyway :)

[Hina]

Do we have any challenges during November? Or are we scheduled to finish up the tower team challenge?

[JoLene]

I dont think so --- one team is super close to finishing.

[Hina]

I think you are right, redeeming all the cupcake and all the other things, they can probably win this week or the following week. Let's see what happens with the Sunday updates in two days time.

[NBRC Book Ninja]

This is the NBRC Book Ninja! Just when you thought you couldn't earn any more Book Advantage Points (BAPs), I appear!

You never know when I will pop up, or what I will ask for. These little mini tasks will be worth one or two (1 - 2) BAPs.

For the first task, I will grant your Team one (1) BAP for any Team where two members read books by the same author. They may be the same book, or not. They may be under different pseudonyms, too; it matters not to me!

You have until the 23rd of November to earn these points.

Until the next surprise.

Post finished task here.

[Hina]

What's everyone currently reading..... as far as I can tell none of us have crossed the same author in the month of November. If you have a list, can you post it here, so we can see if anyone else is planning to read the same author.

[Barbara ★]

These are the books I plan to read in November though I'm getting a late start so I may not hit all of them. If one of them matches for the ninja thing, let me know and I'll move it to the top of the list. If it's something crazy like A Dance with Dragons or The Hobbit, I'd love to do a buddy read to force me to read it. :-)

Currently reading:
Affliction - Laurell K. Hamilton (570 pages)
Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb (675 pages)

TO READ IN NOVEMBER
Black Hole Sun - David Macinnis Gill
Blue Dragon - Kylie Chan
A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin
The Darkest Secret - Gena Showalter
Dead Beat - Jim Butcher
Divergent - Veronica Roth
Eternity Base - Bob Mayer
The Far West - Patricia Wrede
Finding the Lost - Shannon Butcher
Goddess - Fiona McIntosh
Grimm End - S.T. Cameron
Head Over Heels - Jill Shalvis
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein
The Hour of Dust and Ashes - Kelly Gay
Kinslayer - Jay Kristoff
Labyrinth - Kat Richardson
Mountain Echoes - C.E. Murphy
My Life As a White Trash Zombie - Diana Rowland
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
On the Hunt - anthology
The Redbreast - Jo Nesbø
Seeing a Large Cat - Elizabeth Peters
Shade's Children - Garth Nix
Silencing Eve - Iris Johansen
Stranger - Zoe Archer
Thankless in Death - J.D Robb
Tiger's Voyage - Colleen Houck
Time Untime - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Twice as Hot - Gena Showalter
Unholy Ghosts - Stacia Kane
Whitechapel Gods - S.M. Peters
With All My Soul - Rachel Vincent

Books Already Read in November
White Heat - Cherry Adair 11/2
A Year and a Day - Virginia Henley 11/3
Curfew - Phil Rickman 11/6

[Hina]

I have read Sherrilyn Kenyon and J.D. Robb already and I am going to read a book by Jill Shalvis soon. So if you end up reading them before thw deadline we are all set.

[Barbara ★]

1. I'm reading Jill Shalvis right now. Should be done tomorrow.
2. J.D. Robb is an audiobook which I won't read until the end of the month (if the library comes through).
3. I can read Sherrilyn Kenyon this weekend.

[Hina]

That works. I should be reading Shalvis sometime end of next week. :)

[NBRC Book Ninja]

Task #2 - Spell-It-Out F.A.L.L.

Same spell it out rules as before. (Character names included.) One member, or four, it matters not to me.

Any books 160 pages or greater, finished by November 1st, or after.

You may NOT use books used in other November tasks.

You will be granted two (2) BAPs.

You have until the 23rd of November to earn these points.

Until the next surprise.

Post finished task here.

[JoLene]

Do you mean finished after Nov 1???

[NBRC Book Ninja]

JoLene wrote: "Do you mean finished after Nov 1???"

Yes.

[JoLene]

Ok, I have F and L covered.
Just finished Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
Reading Highlander Betrayed by Laurin Wittig

also reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay.

[Barbara ★]

Barbara ★ wrote: "1. I'm reading Jill Shalvis right now. Should be done tomorrow."

I finished 11/7

[Barbara ★]

I'm listening to Afflictionwhich I will finish on Monday.

[Carrie]

Read in November:

by Monica Murphy
by Rachel Hawkins
by Adam Gidwitz

[jingles]

I am working on puzzle #185

[Barbara ★]

heck I thought the puzzles were done. guess I gotta check them out.

[Barbara ★]

JoLene, there's another encrypted one for you #186
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[jingles]

Puzzle #185 submitted

[JoLene]

I finished Highlander Betrayed by Laurin Wittig
and
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
which covers one of the L and the F for the Fall Spell It Out.

Barbara will finish out the other "L" on Monday and we can use White Heat by Cherry Adair.

Barbara, just let me know when you finished Affliction and I will post :-D

[JoLene]

I sent in 188. Someone else has to do 187 because I was the tester on that one...
I'll do the encrypted quote today or tomorrow. I can't claim the cut-throat points until we have one more cut-throat cupcake :-D

[Barbara ★]

Today I finished The Far West by Patricia Wrede and Affliction by Laurell K. Hamilton (this ones 570 pages).

I'm working on Time Untime which I'll finish tomorrow.

I'll check out puzzle 187.

[Barbara ★]

Puzzle 187 takes too much thought. I'll work on it tomorrow unless someone else wants to give it a try.

Puzzle 189 submitted.

[Carrie]

Finished A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Since you were the test bunny for puzzle #187, the Word Wheel, JoLene, you already get the cupcakes.

[Barbara ★]

I started a post for puzzle 187 if anyone (other than JoLene) want to help. https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Barbara ★]

puzzle #190 is a word search if anyone is interested.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Barbara ★]

Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges (All the Mods) wrote: "Since you were the test bunny for puzzle #187, the Word Wheel, JoLene, you already get the cupcakes."

so that means Team Mauvelous doesn't have to submit this one?

[Captain Cupcake]

Barbara ★ wrote: "so that means Team Mauvelous doesn't have to submit this one?"

That's right. ☺
You can, but you don't have to since you already have cupcakes for that one.

[jingles]

I will do puzzle 190 tomorrow at work.

[Barbara ★]

Have fun Jingles.

[NBRC Book Ninja]

Do you feel lucky?



Task #3 - Random Genre

I will randomly assigned the following twelve (12) genres to a corresponding number.

Contemporary Romance
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Historical Romance
History
Horror
Mystery/Cozy
Mystery/Thriller
Non-Fiction
Urban Fantasy
Women's Fiction
Young Adult

Go to:

http://www.random.org/dice/

and roll one or two dice.

Come back to this thread and tell me the number you rolled and I'll tell you the genre a member (any member) of your Team needs to read this month.

I will reassign the genre before each Team request.

Yes, if a member has already read that genre, you may count it.

You may NOT use books used in other November tasks.

Any books 160 pages or greater, finished between November 1 - 23, 2013.

Classification will be by the top five most popular 'tags' - according to GRs members.

You will be granted one (1) BAP.

You have until the 23rd of November to earn this point. (Or the end of the TTRC, which looks like November 17th, according to the poll in the "sister" group.)

Until the next surprise.

Post finished task here.

[JoLene]

OK --- I rolled a 5......

[Hina]

Team Mauvelous, for Task #3, your genre is History.

[JoLene]

rats --- that's hard. I read a lot of historical fiction :-(

[JoLene]

Hina -- are the Ninja???

[Hina]

JoLene wrote: "Hina -- are the Ninja???"

huh ??? What? lol...I spent my weekend babysitting my cousin's 3 month old baby and I am not firing in all cylinders I am so tired....::(

[jingles]

Puzzle #190 has been emailed.

[jingles]

Okay, so one of us needs to read a book that is tagged as "history" before November 23? is this correct?

If so, I can do this task with All the President's Men.



At 480 pages, it might have counted as a chunkster, but then, I guess we are pretty much done with that.

[JoLene]

@hina, you said we do history???? The book Njnja is supposed to tell us what we get from our roll so I thought you were the ninja

[Carrie]

So have we gotten any of these done?