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[Judith]

I'm fine with booning it. Our current boon expires at the end of the week anyway. I'll give it a little bit of time for the rest of the team to respond saying they have a book that will work.

Otherwise I'll put in the boon request this evening.

[Dragana]

I'm going to read Frankenstein for the goal to read a book published before 1900...

[Judith]

Dragana wrote: "I'm going to read Frankenstein for the goal to read a book published before 1900..."

Ohhh, that's a good one. Not too long either if I remember correctly.

[Alex]

I'm fine with booning it, I've checked a few books and don't seem to have anything that fits.

[Judith]

Top shelf of 'curious' has officially been booned. Just waiting for the swap!

[Judith]

Used: The Chimes read by Caroline for book originally published before 1900.

New Goal: Read a book that contains the word asparagus

[Judith]

Used: The Queen of the Tearling read by Wren for book won/nominated for 2014 GR Choice awards.

Used: Rode Hard, Put Up Wet read by Imke for top shelf of alpha-male.

Used: Uprooted read by Zee for top shelf of friendship.

Used: Beauty read by Andrea for character doesn't need to work for a living.

Used: Strangers in Death read by Imke for written under pseudonym.

Used: Ash & Bramble read by Andrea for book published on 15th of the month.

Used: Trapped read by Shy for character with first name starting with O.

Used: Discount Armageddon read by Shy for more than one weapon on cover.

New Goal: Read a book that is in the "Best Historical Mystery" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)

[Imke]

I have finished Cinder and it might work for the tarot card goal. The word "Empress" is mentioned several times, but not "The Empress".

[Imke]

Everyone have a good and fun New Years. I'm almost (just waiting to board the plane) on my way to a New Years in the sun in Cape Verde (Boa Vista Island). I will be able to connect to the internet, but not very frequently as there is only wifi in the lobby of the hotel and not the rooms.

[Dragana]

Imke wrote: "I have finished Cinder and it might work for the tarot card goal. The word "Empress" is mentioned several times, but not "The Empress"."

Sadly Imke it has to be "the empress". :(

[Judith]

Used: Love in the Time of Cholera read by me for author died last year.

Used: A Cold Day for Murder read by Zee for a country scene on cover.

Used: The Sea of Monsters read by Zee for mentions Olympian God.

Used: Spellbound read by Andrea for top shelf of 4-stars.

New goal: Read a book that contains a quote from another author in the text

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

~Australia Day Mini Challenge~

This is an OPTIONAL mini-challenge for our Tower Teams which will run from Jan 1 to Jan 31, 2016

Australia Day is the official National Day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales

How to Play
◈ Your team will be given a crossword puzzle with 6 facts about Australia.
◈ We have created three different puzzles with varying levels of letter difficulty for the teams at the top of the overall leader board, (puzzle A) middle (puzzle B)and lowest (puzzle C)
◈ Once you have the 6 answers, these become the words your team needs to “spell-it-out”
◈ For each word completed, you can choose a book read by your team in December to claim DOUBLE POINTS for (page points only, not goal points)
◈ A book can only be claimed for double points once. (i.e. you can't use the same book of 130 points to keep doubling)
◈ Each spell-it-out word can only be completed once for double points
◈ Books read AT ANY TIME during the challenge can count for the spell-it-out , but DO need to be separate books from those you claimed for goals.
◈ The usual book length rules apply, Books must be more than 100 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com
◈ Spreadsheets will be updated for the Captains to update and track the teams points

Spell-it-out rules

Using the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter in the audiobook narrators first or last name.. As always, if the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.
Example under spoiler
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If an answer to your crossword was "lovers" ; you could spell this out as follows:
L Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
O Once by Morris Gleitzman
V Vampire Acandemy by Richelle Mead
E The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
R The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
S Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
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[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Puzzle B



ACROSS

5. There are more people in Sydney born in China than _______

6. Only 1 in 10 Australians uses public transport to get to work and more people ____ to work than catch a bus.

DOWN
1. Australia was the ___________ country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902.

2. The largest _____ population in the world beside Athens can be found in Melbourne

3. Australia’s population is 24 _______ and growing by 500,000 a year.

4. The most widely said Australianisms are “no worries” (74 per cent of Australians have used this phrase), “arvo” (73 per cent), and “_____” (71 per cent).

[Caroline]

This is what I get.
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1d second
2d greek
3d million
4d g'day

5a c_ _l _n_
6a walk
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I can't figure out 5 across. Im currently working on a w and my next book will probably be an i.

Hope everyone had a fun and safe New Year's and is looking forward to another glorious book filled year!

[Dragana]

Happy New Year everyone!

Great job figuring out the word Caroline. :)
Those chunksters we all read in December are going to pay off now. ;)

[Judith]

I'm marking books on the goalless tab that we can use to spell out the words Caroline figured out and highlighting the rows.

That should speed things along once the Mods are able to update the spreadsheets so Dragana/Imke/I can fill in the books for the bonus points.

Although if I book I highlight fits a new goal that pops up before the mini-challenge tab is active we should use it for the goal instead. The good news is we aren't just limited to the title letters and can use author, characters, etc. It'll give us a lot of flexibility it what we are able to use for the mini challenge.

And hell if I can figure out what 5a is! Google is SO letting me down right now.

[Judith]

Dragana and I filled out the Jan mini challenge information. With the books on the goalless tab we were able to complete spelling out all of the answers to the crossword.

So our goalless tab is looking fairly empty now, but we just earned a lot of points without having to dig around for books that would meet the requirements.

Win-Win

[Dragana]

When I was checking the number of chapters for Frozen I saw it has quotes from another author at the beginning of the book. I am not sure if it can work for goal: "Read a book that contains a quote from another author in the text". Does someone remembers?

[Judith]

I would think so. When we had the goal before I used American Gods because before some of the chapters there were quotes from other books.

I see this as the same thing.

[Dragana]

Great, I saved Frozen, since it has a poem and I remember there is a goal for that too and used other book instead.

Used The Darkest Part of the Forest read by me for goal: Read a book that contains a quote from another author in the text

Used Cinder read by Imke for goal: Read a book that is in the "Books that Exceeded your Expectations" Listopia List

Used Scarlet read by Imke for goal: Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the ""top shelves"" of the book) as 4-stars

New goal: Read a book that contains the word beetroot (or beets)

[[deleted user]]

So I joined the Six of Crows discussion when it was book of the month in November but I didn't finish the book until mid december and didn't get most of the discussion questions done until then too. Does it still count?

[Judith]

I think so, as long as it's within 30 days of starting. I'll double check and if you can still get the points I'll add them to the spreadsheet

[Tori]

how is everyone today? what are we all thinking of our current books?

[Imke]

Hi Tori. I'm doing great, I'm on vacation and it's sunny and warm. I just started reading Cress and the current BOM. I like Cress (the previous two Cinder and Scarlet were also great) so I'm almost set to read the YA BOM Winter. The current BOM a darker shade of magic is good but it is early on in the book.

[Tori]

oooo I'm glad the weather is good for you! it's rainy and horrid here but my lad and I put our coats and boots on and went for a nice walk earlier. I enjoyed cinder but I haven't read the books in between to join to BOM so I decided to skip it. I'm reading colour of magic and although it's fun it isn't blowing me away or anything :(

[Judith]

Used: Atonement read by me for Best Historical Mystery.

New goal: Read a book with the word magic, sorcery, enchant or divine (plurals are acceptable) in the title

[Judith]

Used: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail read by Caroline for beets in text.

New goal: Read a book with the word water, lake, pond, ocean or stream (plurals are acceptable) in the title

[Dragana]

Tori wrote: "how is everyone today? what are we all thinking of our current books?"

Hi Tori. We had our first snow tonight so the plan for today is to take out the kiddo to play (his first snow ever). I am looking forward to see his reaction. :)
Lately I've been reading a lot of science fiction. I just finished Fairest, a story about Levana. It's a nice history of her character. I am all ready for the 'Winter' BOM too. :)

[Dragana]

Used Fairest read by me for goal: Read a book with the name of the tarot card "The Empress" in the text or title

Used Unnatural Acts read by Shy for goal: Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Humour(ous)

New goal: Read a book that is in the "Thrillers" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...)

[Andrea]

I read The girl with the dragon tattoo, That is on the "thrillers" listopia list. I don't see if you have used it previously. Just thought I would mention it.

[Judith]

We used it for the January mini challenge. We can't use them for goals and to spell out words for the mini challenge.

But right now books for the mini challenge aren't popping up as used so it's a bit confusing. We have 33 books showing as available for goals that really aren't

[Caroline]

Judith wrote: "We used it for the January mini challenge. We can't use them for goals and to spell out words for the mini challenge.

But right now books for the mini challenge aren't popping up as used so it's a..."

So did we finish the mini challenge or what are we missing?

[Judith]

We actually had enough books on the goalless tab to fill out the mini challenge with what was already read by the team

[Judith]

It almost wiped out our unused books and we need to pick one more book to double the points of, but other than that the mini challenge is done.

We decided to wait a couple days for any December books to straggle in before selecting the final book for double points in case people read some longer ones over the break and didn't post until after the holidays. We used anything that was worth 80 points or more already but it left one open spot.

The mini challenge tab is filled out, let us know if there are any questions.

[Andrea]

Judith wrote: "We used it for the January mini challenge. We can't use them for goals and to spell out words for the mini challenge.

But right now books for the mini challenge aren't popping up as used so it's a..."

Okay thanks for the clarification, I didn't see it so I didn't know. :)

[[deleted user]]

Finished Paper Towns, it fits the asparagus goal :)

I also have a book for the facial feature goal which I can get started on it.

[Dragana]

Wren wrote: "Finished Paper Towns, it fits the asparagus goal :)

I also have a book for the facial feature goal which I can get started on it."

That's great Wren! I was thinking what to read for that goal, but if you got it covered I am going to focus on another one. :)

[Judith]

Used: Paper Towns read by Wren for asparagus goal.

Used: Rush read by me for best contemporary romance Listopia goal.

Used: Golden Son read by Shy for book published in January.

Used: Transcendence read by Wren for main genre of Time Travel.

New goal: read a book where a character is a lawyer

[sonya]

Now reading cold cold heart by Tami Hoag

[Dragana]

Sonya wrote: "Now reading cold cold heart by Tami Hoag"

I hope you are enjoying it. I noticed you like thrillers and mysteries. :)

[sonya]

I do very

[sonya]

Much like them

[[deleted user]]

Finished The Girl with Ghost Eyes for facial goal.

[Judith]

Used: The Girl with Ghost Eyes read by Wren for facial goal.

New goal: Read a book with the top shelf of 'fun' on the first page of shelves


**Notes on the new goal. Fun =/= funny based on questions posed by other teams. I posed the question of 'guilty pleasure' working for this.

[Tori]

to be really honest. colour of magic is a bit of a hard read. im not really enjoying it as much but on the other hand i only have a couple pages left yay!

should be finished later today if i can read in my lunch break

[Dragana]

Tori wrote: "to be really honest. colour of magic is a bit of a hard read. im not really enjoying it as much but on the other hand i only have a couple pages left yay!

should be finished later today if i can ..."

You are talking about Pratchett's book? I also never got into that series. Too many details and I can't remember/follow them all.
I did love the movie though.

[Dragana]

Some books that can work for fun goal:

(I am reading a book for lawyer goal but if no one beats me to it I can do the fun goal next.)

[Judith]

Tori wrote: "to be really honest. colour of magic is a bit of a hard read. im not really enjoying it as much but on the other hand i only have a couple pages left yay!

should be finished later today if i can ..."

I really didn't like that book either. Just wasn't for me.

[Judith]

Dragana wrote: "Some books that can work for fun goal:
[bookco..."

I just finished [book:American Psycho|28676] and can start Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin…Every Inch of It which will work for the fun goal.

[Judith]

Used: American Psycho read by me for Listopia Thriller list goal.

New Goal: Read a book that starts with the letter R