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[Viji]

Completed:

Book: by J.A. Whiting
Date Read: 07/15/2016
Pages: 235
Event: 3 Book into the Distance
Round 1: Stone in Title

Book: by Peter S. Beagle
Date Read: 07/15/2016
Pages: 248
Event: 5 Create a Chariot
Round: Gather your Horse: Animal/Creature on Cover

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Hi Skandia! Here be something while you read

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Nikk wrote: "I am also at the Challenge factory and just started a super series challenge... I am not addicted...I can stop anytime I want to...I just don't want to :-P"

lol that's the same thing I said! Isn't it? ;)

[Viji]

Kathleen wrote: "Viji, Nikk and Karishma,

I saw you ladies over at SFRC and 2016 Goodreads Olympics.

Aren't we getting too addicted to these challenges? lol. Oh well what's another one!"

I think so!! I am learning to participate in challenges and I think I am being over-enthu! Should curb myself from temptation.

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

Kathleen wrote: "Nikk wrote: "I am also at the Challenge factory and just started a super series challenge... I am not addicted...I can stop anytime I want to...I just don't want to :-P"

lol that's the same thing ..."

LOL! Pretty much :-P

they are kinda fun though :-)

[Ashley]

Hi Elspeth - sorry but your horse cover book for Event 5 doesn't meet the page requirements. The minimum page count is 100. Can you read another book with a large animal on the cover?

[Skandia]

Kathleen wrote: "Hi Skandia! Here be something while you read

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Ohh, thanks, Kathleen! Yummy!

My son got me into chasing Pokemons now :)))))
I just have to start listening to audiobooks I guess, not that this Pokemon frenzy lasts for very long but it's fun!

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

@skandia my partner and I spent nearly half an hour on the way home from shopping driving around to all the lures chasing pokemon. LOL

edit: even funnier is that there is people everywhere round our area tonight walking around with phones in their hand chasing pokemon :-P

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I had to google what you ladies were talking about! But it does sound something that one could easily get into.

[Ashley]

Sooooo obsessed with it. It's eating into my reading time!!

[~~~N~~~]

I don't have a smart phone, but I like the idea

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

Completion post

Book: dead house by Dawn Kurtagich
Date read: 16/7/16
Pages: 440
Fits task: event 5 - chariot decorating : Fire

[Rebecca]

Finished Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children but don't think it fits anywhere. I will be finished with Never Never and The White Elephant by tomorrow.
Also, it doesn't look like my reading Hold Still counted towards anything?

[Rebecca]

Also, my colleagues at work are Pokémon crazy!! Haha. It's so funny seeing professionals trying to catch little creatures.

[Ange]

Gotta catch em all! So obsessed, we have a poke stop at work which has constant lures on it so we have people shouting out "there is an Evie in the office" all day and about 7 people grab there phones, the director is also involved so catching Pokemon at work is totally allowed. Going out with my son today to go a-hunting

[Gillian]

My oldest daughter got my self and my youngest daughter playing last night we went to a lot of churches lol

[Ange]

Finished The Ruins of Gorlan. Loved it thanks guys for suggesting as a buddy read, want to read em all.

[Gillian]

Finished:
Book:Pennsylvania by Michael Bunker
Date Finished: 17 July 2016
Task: Read 100-150 pages
How it Fit:has 100 pages

[~~~N~~~]

What bonuses are we going after? Which are worth the most points?

[~~~N~~~]

Ange wrote: "Finished The Ruins of Gorlan. Loved it thanks guys for suggesting as a buddy read, want to read em all."

That's awesome. I didn't really get into it, but I think at one point in the past and maybe at some point in the future I would have liked it.

[Ashley]

Best bonus to fill is for Event 2 - Page Jumping :)

[Rebecca]

Finished:The White Elephant
Fits:build a chariot
Finished: 17th July

This book was so poorly written. I liked the storyline a lot...but the execution just sucked. Like questions need question marks.

[~~~N~~~]

Kay then.

Read: Dark Space by Lisa Henry
Date: 17/07/16
Pages: 216
Fits: 201-250 pgs, Event 2, Bonus

[Gillian]

Finished:
Book:Bind the Soul by Annette Marie
Date Finished: 17 July 2016
Task: ????
Pages: 304

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

Hoping to get a good bit of The Kiss of Deception today though i have already been side tracked after starting Goddess of Legend

so far though i am finding it a little repetitive and slower going so will swap back across to kiss of deception which ironically i am also finding slow going :-P

[Gillian]

I'm reading Raze now

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

It's taking me forever to finish Sorcerer to the Crown too. I'll try today or tomorrow.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Someone shelved The Goldfinch as YA. I mean... seriously???

Skandia, saw your shelf for it... let's read it sometime. Just. Sometime. It was BOM few months ago but I was on the road and my copy is hardcover, weighs some xx kilos so no way was I going to lug it around. Gillian, saw you've read it already.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

@Skandia: So I browsed your help-me-decide shelf and I highly recommend The Golem and the Jinni. I'd like to say more but it's more of a spoiler so I'll just wait til you've read it.

[Skandia]

Kathleen, I'm in tackling The Goldfinch and doing a BR in near future. It's a chunky one but definitely not YA.
I've heard a lot of mixed reviews and been eyeing it for some time now.

[Kimberly]

I've finished the audiobook: So You Want to Start a Brewery?: The Lagunitas Story on 17 July

Most popular edition: Paperback - 224 pages.

Task: Tool on cover (AXE)



I do not know what to start next. What would be useful??

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Hi Kimberly! We're in need of a coach book or any book to fill in for page jumping bonus round.

[Kimberly]

Would any of these help for page jumping?

The Dinner : 292 pages
Ruthless People: 342 pages
Crash into You: 474 pages

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I will try my best to finish my chariot book tonight! Sorry ladies, the pace is just soooo soooo slow and the MC so boring I cannot bring myself to read more than 2 chapters a day.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Skandia wrote: "Kathleen, I'm in tackling The Goldfinch and doing a BR in near future. It's a chunky one but definitely not YA.
I've heard a lot of mixed reviews and been eyeing it for some time now."

I think there are a lot of 3 star reviews because everyone got lost in the 700+ page story. Let's see where we stand after we read it. I have got The Luminaries too. And S. by JJ Abrams. I think the BOM questions will be very helpful in getting us through.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Kimberly wrote: "Would any of these help for page jumping?

The Dinner : 292 pages
Ruthless People: 342 pages
Crash into You: 474 pages"

Ruthless People and Crash into You sounds good. Do you plan on reading both?

[Kimberly]

Kathleen wrote: "Ruthless People and Crash into You sounds good. Do you plan on reading both?
"

I can. Do you need me to?

[Kimberly]

I've been scouring my books for another coach book - but I don't think I have one.

I bought Real just for this challenge. :)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Only if you want to Kimberly. :D But yes please, would be great if you read both. :)

Thank you for taking one for the team! Lol speaking of things we do for this challenge... I almost signed up for Kindle Unlimited. Almost. Phew! If only I had access to a good library too.

[Kimberly]

Ok. Count me in for both. I'll start Ruthless People first because it's shorter.

Thanks for helping me - again!

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Happy reading Kimberly!

[Viji]

Completed:

Book: by John Flanagan
Date Read: 07/17/2016
Pages: 249
Fits: Mini-challenge

[Viji]

Kathleen wrote: "Only if you want to Kimberly. :D But yes please, would be great if you read both. :)

Thank you for taking one for the team! Lol speaking of things we do for this challenge... I almost signed up fo..."

I totally reciprocate your sentiments about a good library.

[Skandia]

Speaking of daunting books - I have ready to start and I love Edward Rutherfurd's books, but it's over 1000 pages - just too much of commitment for me at the moment.

[~~~N~~~]

Read: In Allegiance by Kate Islay
Date: 17/07/16
Pages: 240
Fits: I don't remember where, but it's already in the spreadsheet

[~~~N~~~]

Good evening :)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Good evening :) Aside from reading what's keeping you busy ladies?
Or that should be aside from reading and searching for pokemons ;)

There's this video I saw somewhere just today where people were clamoring somewhere in Central Park because a rare Pokemon came out. I don't understand what that meant but it was funny to watch.

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Skandia wrote: "Speaking of daunting books - I have ready to start and I love Edward Rutherfurd's books, but it's over 1000 pages - just too much of commitment for me at the moment."

The only 1000+ paged books in my TBR are , , and 2 classics. We shall read them eventually. Story of our lives after all ;)

[~~~N~~~]

I have a book that like 5 people have suggested to me and I really want to read it, even though it's 1427 pages. The only issue is that there are two versions (one old and one re-published) and I can't decide which to read.

[~~~N~~~]

And I have quite a few that are 900+ pages. A couple classics, but mostly gay romances.

Back in January I started a book that had been mistakenly listed as 200+ pages, but it turned out to be 900 pages (I checked a seller and updated the info). I found it really funny, because quite reviewers talked about the how strangely long it seemed, and a few even said no way it was 200 pages. Yet no one changed it.