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Tammie wrote: "Will plan to read Mine (kindle version)...MMA Boxing after Lace and Lead...let me know if you prefer I read something else...it's no problem."Read what makes you happy, Tammie! That sounds great. :)
Rose wrote: "Finished
Pgs: 596
For: Distance"
"I like big books and I cannot lie...." ;)
Lory wrote: "I am also unaware of the Pokeman Go phenomenon. My coworker was talking about it yesterday and I had no idea it was such a big deal! Sounds interesting though."It's not available in Japan yet so I just read the news and laugh :D
Thanks Margaret and Kazen. I was sitting here like, I think I took the whole secrecy thing a little too far
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Ray (user2637) wrote: "Omni-sack: I have done: H - Suggest an event/new feature for NBRC. Just sent the PM; will let you know when I hear back."I heard back from the Mods and was asked via PM whi..."
Thanks for telling us! The captains will reply with which bonus we're taking so you can relax and read, hehe. Order may not matter too much because it sounds like we'll have all three before long!
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Finished:
The White Mountains by John Christopher
176 pgs
12Jul
for PJ"
~does a little yea-book-finished dance~
Brianna wrote: "Thanks Margaret and Kazen. I was sitting here like, I think I took the whole secrecy thing a little too far"Better safe than sorry! Hehe.
Finished! 
Read for page jumping,
It was a great beach read. Will now move on to
for the distance event. Having a wonderfully relaxing time. Will post more when i get home.
Caly wrote: "Finished! Read for page jumping,
It was a great beach read. Will now move on to
for the distance event. Having a wonderfully relaxing time..."
Huzzah for great beach reads! Enjoy the rest of your time there :)
I finished my third required book, yea!
Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi
July 13
336 pages
I have complex thoughts about it... good but with first novel trouble spots.
Kazen wrote: "I finished my third required book, yea!"Congrats!! :D :D
ETA: To Caly too!
Support Sprint:I had coffee today while finishing up White Mountains and making headway on My Planet. It was ~2 hours of reading and I got through 68 pages. To support Margaret!
Finished
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
July 13, 2016
116 pages
Task: Event 2- Heat 2 Leg 2 (100-150)
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Support Sprint:I had coffee today while finishing up White Mountains and making headway on My Planet. It was ~2 hours of reading and I got through 68 pages. To support Margaret!"
Thanks Ray :)
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Support Sprint:I had coffee today while finishing up White Mountains and making headway on My Planet. It was ~2 hours of reading and I got through 68 pages. To support Margaret!"
I have you down for 23 Minutes and yeaaaa sprints! I had a bus ride from hell yesterday and afterwards I realized that if I kept my nose in my book instead of staring out the window I could have done a two hour sprint! (It's a one hour bus ride. The first ten minutes took an extra hour >_<)
Brianna wrote: "FinishedThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain"
Yea! Congrats from Japan, where the postman (and package guy) do, in fact, always ring twice! And here I thought it was just a book title. ;)
I started The Red Car and I'm liking it very much, hoping to finish it very soon. And it slots into PJ nicely. :)
Kazen wrote: Yea! Congrats from Japan, where the postman (and package guy) do, in fact, always ring twice! And here I thought it was just a book title. ;)"Interesting! I wish the package guy rung twice in America. The guy literally knocked on my door once and before I could get to the door he was already gone and the package was on the ground. Only time I've ever been glad to live among people who do not read for entertainment
Finished:
23 Minutes by Vivian Vande Velde
124 pgs
13Jul
PJ
Brianna wrote: "Interesting! I wish the package guy rung twice in America. The guy literally knocked on my door once and before I could get to the door he was already gone and the package was on the ground."This! I had similar problems when I lived in San Francisco. :(
Japan is kind of amazing with the package stuff - you can sign up for a specific time slot, down to a one or two hour block. And if you miss a morning package you can ask them to come back later that same day(!).
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Finished:23 Minutes by Vivian Vande Velde
PJ"
You've been an awesome reading machine!
~feeds the machine more cookies to keep it happy~ ;)
Kazen wrote: This! I had similar problems when I lived in San Francisco. :(Japan is kind of amazing with the package stuff - you can sign up for a specific time slot, down to a one or two hour"
That is freaking awesome!!! I NEED to move there. NOW!!! These package guys are always violating my books. One package guy looked at me like I was crazy person because I thank him for not assaulting my book's feelings by leaving them out in the cold because I didn't make it to the door in less than 30 seconds.
Z. Rex is up next for me for PJ. 256 pgs. Can't get My Planet to load onto my iPod and reading it only on my laptop is slowing me down but I made some progress on it today. Tomorrow, off to do boring errands so definitely need an iPod book!
Brianna wrote: "One package guy looked at me like I was crazy person because I thank him for not assaulting my book's feelings by leaving them out in the cold because I didn't make it to the door in less than 30 seconds."Come be my neighbor! Hehe. Your package guy is obviously not a book person - of course they have feelings! Geesh. ;)
Ray - Book?Check.
Back up book?
Check.
Just in case book?
Got it.
Emergency book?
Right here.
So we can leave the house now?
...I guess. If we must.
;)
So I found out that I actually own 3 MMA books. Yayyyy!!!!!
Hopefully I can squeeze them all in, but if not I will definitely be reading
Kazen wrote: "Come be my neighbor! Hehe. Your package guy is obviously not a book person - of course they have feelings! Geesh. ;) "*Packing now* He definitely is not, but hopefully since he thinks I'm a crazy book girl he'll treat my books with some respect :)
Kazen wrote: "You've been an awesome reading machine!~feeds the machine more cookies to keep it happy~ ;)"
I like cookies!!! :D :D nomnomnom
Kazen wrote: "Ray - Book?Check.
Back up book?
Check.
Just in case book?
Got it.
Emergency book?
Right here.
So we can leave the house now?
...I guess. If we must.
;)"
Bahahaha! SO TRUE, if you only knew! I kinda hate leaving my house. My house is awesome -- it's a 112 year old Victorian with a library, game room, craft room, and even a basement which is weird in this area. Plus there are people outside of my house. Like groups of strange people who smoke or wear perfume, two things I'm allergic to. So, yeah, inside the house is MUCH better. :D
Also, I always have ~300 books with me on my iPod. And a few paper books in my trunk. Just in case, you know. ;)
We are so close to finishing a lot of the heats! I just love seeing all that green in the spreadsheet, makes me want to read faster!
Lory wrote: "We are so close to finishing a lot of the heats! I just love seeing all that green in the spreadsheet, makes me want to read faster!"I know, right!! Only 22 more books to go until we can count it "Complete". Woot!
finally finished
Jagger by M.J. Fields
13th July
217pages
Coaching
Gah! It was such a bad book!! complete torture getting through it.
Actually could you put me down for
first (pj 160pages) after the other book i cant seem to get into visibly broken. I'll do that aftr 'make-believe wedding'
Out of curiousity, do we have to leave page number books open for the people who have not ready any for that challenge yet?I have a few books I'm looking at after Study in Silks, so I wanted to double check.
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Finished: 
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
by Mary Roach
PJ"
Yea Mary Roach! This is her collection of shorter stuff, right? How was it?
Red Pandas! The COOLEST thing happened to me today, OMG! I was navigating downtown Santa Cruz, looking for a certain place when we drove right by a Little Free Library! I squealed and my partner pulled over. So I went and took a picture and got a book of recipes from a teacher my partner had in the culinary program at the local community college. So very awesome! I knew there were some LFLs around but never just happened upon one. I really really really want to put one in the corner of my front yard (but simultaneously don't want to actually build one). Someday.
Here it is! And I'm in the reflection, haha.
Ella wrote: "finally finished Jagger by M.J. Fields
Coaching
Gah! It was such a bad book!! complete torture getting through it."
Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear that! Booooo. :(
In the future - if you (or anyone else!) is reading a book and it really really sucks let us know. There's no reason to keep reading something that you would normally DNF, especially when the task is as open as this one. I will not have teammates torturing themselves, even if it's in the name of books. 'kay?
...but we'll make sure your suffering wasn't in vain and pop that in the spreadsheet right away. :) Good work, soldier - now go treat yourself to some book catnip! :D
Kazen wrote: "Yea Mary Roach! This is her collection of shorter stuff, right? How was it?"Yup; it's shorts she wrote for Reader's Digest. Sort of weird having them all together because she introduces her husband in just about every one. Also some were a little too "men do this, women do that" for my taste, but still some LOL moments. I gave it 3 stars.
Ella wrote: "Actually could you put me down for first (pj 160pages) after the other book i cant seem to get into visibly broken. I'll do that aftr 'make-believe wedding'"No worries! If you don't want to read Visibly Broken at all that's okay, too. :)
Also, I took this picture for y'all waaaay back on the 4th of July from atop a mountain at some friends' house, but I'm really bad at updating Flickr. Better late than never? Pretty redwood forest. :)
Ray (user2637) wrote: "Red Pandas! The COOLEST thing happened to me today, OMG! I was navigating downtown Santa Cruz, looking for a certain place when we drove right by a Little Free Library! I squealed and my partner pu..."Oh Ray - how exciting!! Those Little Free Libraries are awesome. And how serendipitous to have found that culinary book!!
I really, really want to put one up in my area too. I showed my husband the website hinting that maybe he might want to build one for me :)
Lory wrote: "Out of curiousity, do we have to leave page number books open for the people who have not ready any for that challenge yet?I have a few books I'm looking at after Study in Silks, so I wanted to d..."
Yes and no. ;) Long story short - two people have yet to claim PJ slots. Thanks to the Omni-sack bonus we'll soon be able to open up the PJ bonus. So as long as they read a book we'll be able to swap it in to Heat 1 or 2 and putting the book it replaces into the bonus. Or maybe Chariot decorations if that opens up soon.
So for now, just read - we'll wedge it in somewhere! I don't have any interpreting today so I'll be tackling this between laundry and studying. :)
Margaret wrote: "Oh Ray - how exciting!! Those Little Free Libraries are awesome. And how serendipitous to have found that culinary book!!I really, really want to put one up in my area too. I showed my husband the website hinting that maybe he might want to build one for me :) "
Awesome! I hope he does! My partner is fine with one going in the front yard as long as he doesn't have to do anything at all. We have an elementary school a few blocks down and kids walk by every day, and it's not the richest neighborhood so I think it'd be a really nice thing to do.
Mostly we just scare the kids on Halloween. Literally we make kids cry every year with our scary decor. So, maybe this will make up for it?
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Real, Katy Evans
320 pages
Coach-MMA
Overall OK...not my usual type of read...but I do want to read next in series. Lots of sex, well writte..."
Nice work! If it makes you want to read the next one it's not a total loss... especially if it has well-written sex!^ ;)
^ And you are of age, etc. etc. ;)