May - Come Sail Away With Me

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 7/7 ⛵
I made it safely to port! ⚓

[TerryJane, Challenges]

oshizu wrote:

Sneaky tip
Here's a sneaky tip for the prompts where you need to find the word "tide" or "pollution" in the text..."

Good tip! Here's another: Go to Community | Quotes, and search for the desired keyword. Searching for "pollution" brings up 89 pages of quotes. As I scrolled through, I found a quote from a book on my TBR list. It's a Self-Help/Spirituality book in which I'd never expected to find the word "pollution." Booyah!

[oshizu]

Carmen wrote: "Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 7/7 ⛵
I made it safely to port! ⚓."

Congratulations, Carmen! *hugz

[oshizu]

TerryJane wrote: "oshizu wrote:

Sneaky tip
Here's a sneaky tip for the prompts where you need to find the word "tide" or "pollution" in the text..."

Good tip! Here's another: Go to Community | Quotes, and search ..."
@TerryJane

Thanks so much for sharing that tip!
You are such a strategic and dedicated challenge participant!
And I bet you have dozens of other tricks up your sleeve....
We all sit at your feet in admiration and anticipation, seriously! 😍

[Megan]

Update to msg 32:

7. Read a book with the word "tide" in the text



FYI, the search button in Libby works right in the app.

This brings my total to 4/6 read

[oshizu]

Megan wrote: "Update to msg 32:

7. Read a book with the word "tide" in the text



FYI, the search button in Libby works right in the app."

@Megan
Thanks for sharing about the Libby app!

[Megan]

Updated msg 12

Just completed #4 (swim in ocean) - The Blood Spell by C.J. Redwine. Good fairytale retelling with good diversity. I wish she had some lgbtq+ diversity as well but an overall enjoyable read. Worth reading! 4 stars

5/4

[L Y N N]

Update to message #6:
4/5 as of May 15

[Megan]

Update to msg 32:

5/6 read


For prompt #10. And I wish I had a good tip to give everyone on how I found the word "pollution" in this text, but really it was sheer dumb luck.

[TerryJane, Challenges]

oshizu wrote:

"Thanks... strategic and dedicated challenge participant... We all sit at your feet in admiration and anticipation, seriously! 😍..."

You're so welcome! And, wow! *furiously blushing* 😊

[oshizu]

Megan wrote: "Update to msg 32:

5/6 read


For prompt #10. And I wish I had a good tip to give everyone on how I found the word "pollution" in this text, but really it was sheer dumb luck."

Lucky you! I take it you're not reading an ebook?

[oshizu]

TerryJane wrote: "oshizu wrote:

"Thanks... strategic and dedicated challenge participant... We all sit at your feet in admiration and anticipation, seriously! 😍..."

You're so welcome! And, wow! *furiously blushin..."

*whispers: Don't tell TerryJane, but last year I might have bookmarked her Member's Corner thread....

[Mikaela]

Update to message 26, Progress 1/2

10. Read a book in which the word "pollution" can be found in the text
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson

"Then there is the vexed matter of pollution."

[oshizu]

Mikaela wrote: "Update to message 26, Progress 1/2

10. Read a book in which the word "pollution" can be found in the text
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by [autho..."

Happy sailing, Mikaela! You're halfway there!

[gone]

updated message 7: completed 2/3!

[Sue]

Update message #40

1/2

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to message #8. Progress: 10/10. Complete!

Thanks for the fun challenge!

[oshizu]

TerryJane wrote: "Update to message #8. Progress: 10/10. Complete!

Thanks for the fun challenge!"

Congratulations, TerryJane!

[oshizu]

Updated msg #48

Progress: 8/8 Challenge completed!

[L Y N N]

Update to message #6

5/5 books read as of May 19
Challenge DONE!

Though I will add whatever I may yet read in May that would fulfill some of these prompts. We'll see! :)

Thanks for helping, oshizu! (You are one busy lady with Goodreads challenges!) :)

[oshizu]

Lynn wrote: "Update to message #6

5/5 books read as of May 19
Challenge DONE!

Though I will add whatever I may yet read in May that would fulfill some of these prompts. We'll see! :)"

Yay, congrats on finishing yet another challenge this year, Lynn!
I've left in your link, in case you wish to add a book or two.

[L Y N N]

oshizu wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Update to message #6

5/5 books read as of May 19
Challenge DONE!

Though I will add whatever I may yet read in May that would fulfill some of these prompts. We'll see! :)"

Yay, congr..."

Thanks for leaving it, oshizu! It is really helpful to have those links, particularly when I have so many challenges going at once! :)

[oshizu]

Lynn wrote: "Thanks for leaving it, oshizu! It is really helpful to have those links, particularly when I have so many challenges going at once! :)"

I have links from each challenge post in my Member's Corner to my corresponding sign-up post in each challenge thread.
Do you know to do that?

I've written out the steps to do that here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
It's very handy. Whenever I finish a book, I update my challenge posts in Member's Corner posts one by one, while oening in a new tab to update my challenge thread posts, too.

[[deleted user]]

Message 14 update.

Progress: 4/4--completed!

[oshizu]

Regina wrote: "Message 14 update.

Progress: 4/4--completed!"

Woooo, way to go, Regina! *performs a one-person wave 🌊

[Tania]

Update to message 19, 4/5

✓4. Read a book in which characters swim in the ocean: Wish Me Home by Kay Bratt (finished 5/18), my review is here

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 8/7 ⛵

[Tresdivas]

Update #23

3/5

[Carmen]

Update to message #10

PROGRESS: 9/7 ⛵

[Megan]

oshizu wrote: "Megan wrote: "Update to msg 32:

...

Lucky you! I take it you're not reading an ebook?

Nope, this was a booksale find from last year that I just got around to reading for another prompt on another challenge.

[Sue]

Updated msg #40

2/2

COMPLETED

[Tresdivas]

update message # 23

5/5

Thanks!

[L Y N N]

Update to message #6:
5/5 books read--challenge finished May 19! DONE!

Total of 9 books read for this challenge as of May 24.

[oshizu]

Today's a big day for completing this challenge!
Congratulations to Sue and Ruth for their well-executed reading plans!
And a warm shout-out to Carmen and Lynn for going above and beyond!

[Tania]

Complete on message 19, 5/5

[oshizu]

Tania wrote: "Complete on message 19, 5/5"

Way to go, Tania! Congratulations!

[oshizu]

Updated msg #48

✔️6. Read a book where characters survive the ocean: Words of Radiance (Shallan Davar)

Progress: 9/8

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Message 18: 4/4

4/4

1. Read a book with a blue cover ( more than 50 % blue ) - Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson
2. Read a book with a green cover ( more than 50% green)- The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
7. Read a book with the word "tide" in the text- The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
8. Read a book with the letters "water " in the title - Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

[oshizu]

SarahKat wrote: "Message 18: 4/4

4/4

1. Read a book with a blue cover ( more than 50 % blue ) - Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson
2. Read a book with a green ..."

Congratulations, SarahKat! Yay!

[Tania]

Snuck in an extra one on message 19, exceeding my goal at 6/5

✓5. Read a book where characters escape on the ocean: quite literally, there is an ocean escape here, If You Must Know by Jamie Beck (finished 5/29), my review is here

[Mikaela]

Update to msg #26
Progress: 2/2

2. Read a book with a green cover (more than 50% green)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver



Very interesting read! Learned a lot

[oshizu]

Mikaela wrote: "Update to msg #26
Progress: 2/2

2. Read a book with a green cover (more than 50% green)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

[bookcover:Animal, Vegetable, Miracl..."

Congrats on completing this challenge, Mikaela!

[Nicole]

Update to Msg. 17:

4/2

[oshizu]

Nicole wrote: "Update to Msg. 17:

4/2"

Very nice, Nicole! Congratulations!

[Suzanne]

Finished with 7!

2020 Reading Challenge
May - Come Sail Away With Me
Duration: May 1, 2020-May 31, 2020

Progress: 7 out of 7

This month we are traversing the ocean blue with nautically-inclined books.

1. Read a book with a blue cover ( more than 50 % blue):
Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life by Hector Garcia Puigcerver - *** - 5/29/2020 - 194 Pages

2. Read a book with a green cover ( more than 50% green):
The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig - **** - 5/28/2020 - 400 Pages

3. Read a book with an ocean name in the title ( Pacific, Indian, Altlantic, Southern, Artic)

4. Read a book in which characters swim in the ocean:
Sea Witch Rising by Sarah Henning - *** - 5/14/2020 - 416 Pages

5. Read a book where characters escape on the ocean
6. Read a book where characters survive the ocean

7. Read a book with the word "tide" in the text:
Yesterday, I Cried by Iyanla Vanzant - ***** - 5/24/2020 - 304 Pages - "The first ceremony was 'tasting the tides of life.'”
8. Read a book with the letters "water " in the title
Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman by Dav Pilkey - ***** - 5/1/2020 - 176 Pages
9. Read a book with the letters "plastic" in the title:
Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets: Color Edition by Dav Pilkey - ***** - 5/7/2020 - 176 Pages
10. Read a book in which the word "pollution" can be found in the text"
Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips - **** - 5/1/2020 - 385 Pages

[oshizu]

Congratulations,Suzanne!

[oshizu]

Thank you to everyone who read books for this challenge!
And now we are switching to the June monthly challenges.
Wheee!

[Megan]

Update to msg 32

I finished my last book late last night for a total of 6/6.

2. Read a book with a green cover ( more than 50 % green)


It also featured a character swimming in the ocean (well, fjord leading to an ocean).

Thanks for hosting!

[oshizu]

Megan wrote: "Update to msg 32

I finished my last book late last night for a total of 6/6.

2. Read a book with a green cover ( more than 50 % green)


It also fe..."

Congratulations, Megan! You are now an official Salty Dog, lol!

[Octothorpe Reader Leora K]

I am sneaking in here -
I didn't pledge for this challenge, but I completed two books with blue covers (more than 50%):

1. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
2. The Boy Who Steals Houses

Happy June!!