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[Dragana]

Judith wrote: "I just finished American Psycho 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. "

Great! I'm more than half way though lawyer book.
BTW How did you like 'American Psycho'? Weird and complex book, but another where movie worked better for me.

[Judith]

Dragana wrote: "Judith wrote: "I just finished American Psycho 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. "
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It was okay, his ramblings were hard to get through sometimes and all the talk about what clothes people were wearing was pretty distracting. I get the point the author was making about materialism, etc. But I think it detracted from the book.

I haven't seen the movie yet (partly because I always wanted to read the book first) but I can see myself liking the movie better as long as they gave the material a decent treatment in the screenplay.

[Dragana]

Judith wrote: "Dragana wrote: "Judith wrote: "I just finished American Psycho and can start Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin…Every Inch of It which will work for ..."

Yeah the same things bothered me too.
You should definitely check out the movie. Dark and gritty but interesting. And I liked the ending (a bit different than the book).

[Alex]

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 never recommend people read The Colour of Magic first because even though it's technically the first book in the series, it's not the best introduction to the world. I didn't really like the first two books but some of the later ones are much much better.

[Forrest]

I'm sorry for letting you all down with my lack of reading! Let's hope I become a powerhouse this month! lol I was so busy with the holidays and now my mother is in the hospital with a broken back! We work together so I've been even more busy covering for her and taking care of my family. I hope everyone else has a much less hectic holiday!

[Forrest]

I did read 4 graphic novels in December:

The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel
Amulet, Vol. 1: The Stonekeeper
Amulet, Vol. 2: The Stonekeeper's Curse
Amulet, Vol. 3: The Cloud Searchers

It's not much but it's better than nothing, right? haha

[Imke]

Hi Katherine sorry to hear about tour mother. I hope she will get better soon. It's not a very good start of the new year.
About the graphic novels, I'm sorry but they don't count for this team challenge.

[[deleted user]]

Finished Scarlet and The Lake. The Lake fits the goal with the word lake in the title.

[Judith]

Used: The Lake read by Wren for read a book with lake, pond, etc in title.

New Goal: Read a book where characters has a familiar (magical pet)

[Dragana]

Used The Bourbon Kings read by me for goal: Read a book where a character is a lawyer

New goal: Read a book where a character's first name starts with the letter V

[Judith]

Used: Six of Crows read by Samantha for character with the first name starting with V.

New Goal: Read a book with a facial feature in the title (Eyes, Lips, Nose, Mouth)

* I can't believe we have this goal AGAIN already *face-palm*

[Judith]

Katherine wrote: "I'm sorry for letting you all down with my lack of reading! Let's hope I become a powerhouse this month! lol I was so busy with the holidays and now my mother is in the hospital with a broken back!..."

So sorry to hear about your mother. I'm sure something of that nature means a long road to recovery and I hope that goes well. And I'm glad you were able to be there with/for her.

As Imke pointed out, graphic novels can't be used for this challenge (since points are based on pages, reading graphic novels I think are seen as unfair since it's a lot less text). Could you remove them from your Tower Teams shelf? They keep getting pulled into the spreadsheet every time we run the script.

But please don't worry/feel bad about not reading more books that qualify. Life happens and this is supposed to be a fun challenge for people, not a chore or obligation. Read what appeals when you can :)

[Forrest]

Yep, I'll do that now. I'm glad our team has such great moderators! :)

[Forrest]

Yep, I'll do that now. I'm glad our team has such great moderators! :)

[Judith]

I've finished the book for the top shelf of 'fun' goal but we don't have a new goal yet because the spreadsheet is down again and can't get it to update.

Other teams are having the same problem, but hopefully it will be up and running again soon.

[[deleted user]]

I just finished reading Underworld. I don't know if it counts as a familiar, but in the book there is an immortal pet dove name Hope. She doesn't have any magic powers or anything like that, but she's always warning Pierce (MC) when there is danger or guides her to safety.

[Judith]

I think a pet being immortal and being able to do things like warn and guide its owner qualifies for the goal. It certainly isn't a normal pet and is more than just unusual (which is a separate goal).

I'll try again later tonight and see if I'm able to update the spreadsheet.

[Judith]

Used: Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin…Every Inch of It read by me for top shelf of fun goal.

Used: Underworld read by Wren for magic pet goal.

Used: Make Me Stay read by Imke for great body on cover.

New goals:

Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a bus, train, or other road based vehicle

Read a book with the phrase "all ears" in a book

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

~Australia Day Mini Challenge~

We never said you would have only one puzzle :)

So, here we go!

Same rules apply, but before you start this puzzle, you must have already completed your previous puzzle and spell-it-outs. (and remember, once done those books are locked in and can't be moved).

This time those teams that were at the top of the overall leader board as at Jan1 receive puzzle AA, the middle puzzle A and the lowest puzzle B.
Good luck!

Puzzle A






ACROSS
1. The first Australian of the Year award was awarded to Professor Macfarlane Burnet who had won the Nobel Prize in the same year of 1960 for his groundbreaking _________ research.

3. Surprisingly Australia is the most _______ country in the world as of 2012 with a 26 percent obesity rate.

6. 80 percent of Australians believe Australia has a strong _______ and identity characterised by being down to earth, mateship, honesty, sports and multiculturalism.


DOWN
2. Today's Australia is very multicultural with ________ peoples and migrants from some 200 countries.

4. Australia is the _______largest country in the world.

5. Australia is the only place in the world where you can still find the ______ fish which is a living fossil from the Triassic period 350 million years ago.

[Dragana]

I'm glad to hear the spreadsheet is working again. :)
And yay for another puzzle. :)

ETA: I will be busy today celebrating Christmas with my family.
But I can help you with filling out the books for the new puzzle tomorrow Judith. :)
And I'll look for "all ears" book too.

[Judith]

Answers to the second puzzle:

(view spoiler)[
1across: Physiology
3across: Obese
6across: Culture

2down: indigenous
4down: sixth
5down: lung

(hide spoiler)]

[Imke]

Used Rules of engagement for the goal, book that starts with "R".

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

[Judith]

Imke wrote: "Used Rules of engagement for the goal, book that starts with "R".

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

So yep, we have 2 of the same goal. But the current BOM, Darker Shade of Magic, works for this and a few of us are reading it and will done in the next day or so. So we'll knock them out by the end of the week. :)

[Judith]

And I think we have a boon expiring at the end of the week. Let me know the team's thoughts on what to boon out.

[Imke]

My vote goes to the transportation one.

[Judith]

Dragana wrote: "I'm glad to hear the spreadsheet is working again. :)
And yay for another puzzle. :)

ETA: I will be busy today celebrating Christmas with my family.
But I can help you with filling out the books f..."

Enjoy Christmas & family time!

I didn't get through all of the goalless books. Although I went through most of them. There's like 5 left on the tab, I needed to get to work through so I had to stop.

-We have a lot of repeating letters this time around so I started sort of going by letter instead of word.
-And I tried to look for 'harder' to find letters first so if something would work for X, I didn't use it for S, etc. I think we should do this as new books are read as well.
-The lines highlighted in pink we don't have a book that works for the letter as far as I can tell.
-Lines that aren't filled out and not highlighted are ones I didn't get to yet.
-I checked audible book narrators for the letters I think we don't have as well. (Like none of the goalless books have a narrator name starting with a U, O, or X).


And Imke found a book with a character name starting with X and I believe she is starting that one so luckily we'll get that letter taken care of.

[Judith]

Imke wrote: "My vote goes to the transportation one."

I was thinking the same thing

[Tori]

Judith wrote: "Imke wrote: "Used Rules of engagement for the goal, book that starts with "R".

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

So yep,..."

i finished colour of magic earlier today. i havent had time to put it on the thor read thread but i can do it this evening

[Judith]

Tori wrote: "Judith wrote: "Imke wrote: "Used Rules of engagement for the goal, book that starts with "R".

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

Oh, I didn't even think of that. In my head I had those goals checked off with the BOMs. Whoops!

I already grabbed your book and used it for one of the letters for the new mini challenge. It was pulled into the spreadsheet when the script ran so I was able to use it.

[[deleted user]]

Finished An Ember in the Ashes. I'll search my kindle for another book that will fit the facial goal later tonight when I get home, hopefully this will be the last time we get that goal :)

[Dragana]

My vote goes for transportation goal too.

Wow Judith great job with new challenge.
I am thinking of doing the books for missing letters first. To grab those double points.

How did you like An Ember in the Ashes Wren? It feels like I am thinking about reading it for ages...

[Judith]

Dragana wrote: "My vote goes for transportation goal too.

Wow Judith great job with new challenge.
I am thinking of doing the books for missing letters first. To grab those double points.

How did you like [book:..."

Thanks :) Google and Wikipedia was my friend in getting those answers.

As close as we are to having the new mini challenge filled out I was thinking about mixing using books for goals or to spell out words. Especially since our goalless tab is going to be completely wiped out of books. We have until the end of the month to complete the mini challenge, I think that should be enough time to do it.

This reminds me though we need to fill in the last double point book for the first puzzle.

And I LOVED An Ember in the Ashes, FYI

[Dragana]

Used Magic Lost, Trouble Found read by Shy for goal: Read a book with the word magic, sorcery, enchant or divine in the title

New goal: Read a book that is in the "Funny as Hell!" Listopia List (https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...)

[Dragana]

Judith wrote: "Dragana wrote: "My vote goes for transportation goal too.

Wow Judith great job with new challenge.
I am thinking of doing the books for missing letters first. To grab those double points.

How did..."

Is there only one day left to use the boon? Just a reminded, so it does not go to waste...

You might be right, maybe I'll try to read books for goals and then those that are completed before I finish will squeeze into the mini-challenge.
There is no possibility we will win this challenge, but I like to fight until the end. :)

OK, I am now REALLY interested to read 'Ember in the Ashes', I just need to fitit into some goal. :D

I still didn't have time to find a book for 'all ears' goal. Kindle word search is returning A LOT of results, since they look for those words to be in the same sentence, not necessarily together. :/

I am going to read Feral Sins next. A lot fo people recomended it to me + it's on "Funny as Hell!" Listopia List.

[Judith]

I'll boon the transportation goal today

[Judith]

Used: A Darker Shade of Magic read by me for Magic in title.

New Goal: Read a book that is in the ʺThe Best Fairytales and Retellingsʺ Listopia List(https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9...)

[[deleted user]]

Dragana wrote: "How did you like An Ember in the Ashes Wren? It feels like I am thinking about reading it for ages..."

I was surprised how much I loved it. It has everything, mystery, action, suspense, love, friendship, and magic. I got attach quickly to some characters and I enjoyed the pacing, the tone, and plot. I recommend it :)

[Dragana]

Wren wrote: "Dragana wrote: "How did you like An Ember in the Ashes Wren? It feels like I am thinking about reading it for ages..."

I was surprised how much I loved it. It has everything, myste..."

OK so that's now two more votes to push it up my TBR. :)

[Andrea]

Well if no one else does the fairy tale goal I will do it, I have a few books that are in my to read pile that can fit the goal. After I am done with this book I will move on to one to fit the goal.

[Andrea]

Just wen through the list and the book I am currently reading is actually on the list... so yay! Lol.

[Judith]

Andrea wrote: "Just wen through the list and the book I am currently reading is actually on the list... so yay! Lol."

I get probably more excited than I should when that happens. . .

[Judith]

Judith wrote: "I'll boon the transportation goal today"

FYI - I placed the request to boon this so sometime within the next day we should have a new goal.

And just to keep in mind if we get a set of goals we really don't like, we have the mega-boon to use between now and then end of the month. I don't think that's the case now, but I certainly don't want to miss using it after we completed all those holiday themed goals :)

[[deleted user]]

Finished The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye for the facial feature goal.

[Judith]

Used: The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by Wren for facial feature goal.

New goal: Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as 2004 - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable

New goal from boon: Read a book that was published in the last month

[Judith]

I'm getting ready to start: The Night Voice, which was just published on Tuesday so I'll take that goal.

[Dragana]

Used Wondrous Strange read by Andrea for goal: Read a book that is in the ""The Best Fairytales and Retellings"" Listopia List

New goal: Read a book where a character is a ghost

[Andrea]

I read the book Wilder and she trains with her dad in dreams, her dad died when she was little, could that be used as a ghost since he isn't really there?

[Judith]

We don't have any unused books right now. Either they've gone to a goal or used to spell words in the mini challenge.

[Andrea]

Ah, I keep forgetting about the mini challenge.

[Judith]

We're close to being done with the second puzzle, but yeah they completely wiped out out goalless books.