Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

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Team Members:
Cat
Sammy
Sophie
Mel
Domi
Sonia

Team Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... (totally stolen off Vicky!)

Wheels:
✔ Greek: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
✔ Asian: https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Ropen&amp...
✔ Urban Legends: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
✔ Fictional Human Monsters: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
Specific Literary Monsters: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
✔ Doctor Who: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
Bad Romance: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
Vegi-Might: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
✔ Discworld: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
World Villains - https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
Holiday Monsters: https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Joulupukk...

Master Sheet of Tasks: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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26 Sep info on Monsters
A. Had Three Times (respin):
Joffrey (Game of Thrones) - Wheel has been completed
Python - Wheel has been completed
Charybdis - Wheel has been completed
John Willoughby and Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
George & Martha (Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf)
The 456 - Wheel has been completed
The Gelth - Wheel has been completed
Kabhanda - Wheel has been completed
Ropen - Wheel has been completed
Gremlin
Hungry Grass
Vampire Pumpkins
Dragon King of Arms - Wheel has been completed
Wintersmith - Wheel has been completed

B: Not Had At All:
The Luggage (Discworld)
Cal Hockley (Titanic)
Ent
Vegetable Lamb
Peter Stumpp
Sayyida al Hurra
Shap-ng-tsai
Torquemada

no Holiday Monsters

LOVE it!!

yay!

shall we spin one of each wheel for starters?

ok. I am not allowed to spin! first one is Cerberus! @#*%&ing musical instrument and MPG!

Would you like some company?

Sophie wrote: "Would you like some company?"

We'd love to have you, yes!

Yay haven't ventured into this challenge yet (other than TT) but this will be a good reintroduction.

Manman Duck has come to play

100 to 175/Red and blue on cover/MPG Romance/Title starts with a letter in FLOOD/Only one eye on cover

Shouldn't be too bad (at least it's not Cerberus)

Music mpg and instrument on cover are now covered by one of my next reads.

It's the first in a series and no idea about the funeral, but I'll take what I can get.

Cat wrote: "ok. I am not allowed to spin! first one is Cerberus! @#*%&ing musical instrument and MPG!"

LMAO! Only you...

Sophie wrote: "Would you like some company?"

Yay! Happy you're joining us Sophie! :D

Ok, spinning the next wheel!

El Duende

1 350 to 450
2 hat on cover
3 Set in Latin and South America, The Philippines, or Guam
4 Cave in text
5 MC is under 18 (for at least 50% of the book)

And my current book has someone wearing a hat on the cover :)

well, my current actively reading books are not helping me out here!

one is 350 pages, and in a S American influenced location, but it's entirely fantasy land, so that's of only limited use. It might have cave in though, so I'll check that and confirm! - ETA: It does! so I've got those two in El Duende :)

The one I'm mostly actively avoiding does have one eye on it, but I'm really not sure I can take the pain, even though reading it would get it off my TBR closet, and that darn Line of Shame is creeping up again!

Yeah, I'm trying to factor in the closet with my next print book choice... Not faring too well as I'm insisting it must also have a 9 in the page count! 😂

8s are (nearly) as good!

Cat, can you remember if Gideon the Ninth has a funeral in it? (it seems like the kind of book that should have!) That one's my next-up audio and so far it doesn't fit anywhere else, lol.

Cat wrote: "8s are (nearly) as good!"

true, which will be my compromise point if I can't find a 9, lol.

I also read the two Virginia Woolf books for Turf Wars.... went from them to the latest St Mary's book - felt the need for some action action action after all that wafting about thinking thoughts about art and life and keeping the men happy!

Sounds like a very sensible course of action to me. If it isn't tempting catastrophe to use the word sensible in conjunction with St Mary's 😂

Sammy wrote: "Cat, can you remember if Gideon the Ninth has a funeral in it? (it seems like the kind of book that should have!) That one's my next-up audio and so far it doesn't fit anywhere else..."

ummmm.... maybe kinda if we squint. There are deaths, and events that could maybe be classed as consigning the body to the next stages / funerary remembrance rites. possibly a flashback that would work as such?

I'll be on the lookout for those as I'm listening. I'm playing challenge tetris now, trying to fit one book to several different challenges 😂

we do always have the page counts here, if nothing else.

I'll spin a fourth monster in for us (we can have up to 5) as Mel is joining - yay! - I've exercised patience!

Mel will be joining us later today, so she can give that final wheel a whirl, and then we can decide which wheel we want to double up on?

(I vote Cat is banned from the Greek wheel, because you just know she'll hit the Centaur next! 😂)

or the Boar! I'm totally fine with only being allowed to spin the Greek as a very special treat!

Yay for Mel joining us!

I've been doing a St Mary's reread for comfort as well as working through the time police series.

I keep forgetting that I'm looking for page counts and lists - turfs are just going to have to deal with what they get.

Hello my Lovelies!

Here I am. 😊 Checking out this thread now.

I got

The Cigarette-Smoking Man (The X-Files)

100 to 175
Tagged UFO or Aliens (10 times minimum)
Read a book with partners (your interpretation)
Published between 1993-2018
Hand holding something on cover

Question: I have finished today. Does that count already or do I have to start sth afresh?

If yes, it would cover "hand holding sth on cover" and published in 2018. (I put it on the sheet, but can delete, if it doesn't count)

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Also, I am reading and it is nonfic, but has already mentioned the funeral of Henry III

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I am reading as well, has MPG Romance and only one eye on cover.

This is a super laid-back challenge, so I'm ok with books finished today being used for tasks

Yaayyy! :)

Cat, you want to choose a wheel for our final spin?

Sammy, I added some books to the sheet, but feel free to move them if you finish sth that fits sooner. :)

It's all good. :)

Dang it! My book with the hat has MCs under the age of 18... for around 40% of the book. *sigh*

Ah well... sh*t happens

They're currently getting up to some decidedly 18+ stuff. A little disconcerting when a few minutes ago they were still kids, lol.

I'll roll the Asian I think

Ahool
1 350 to 450
2 6 or 9 in page count
3 Wings on cover
4 Jungle in text
5 Authors LN or FN starts with a letter in AHOOL


Well, this seems made for this rounds Turf Wars, anirite? 9 page count and the ALN in Moon task...

Cat wrote: "Ahool
1 350 to 450
2 6 or 9 in page count
3 Wings on cover
4 Jungle in text
5 Authors LN or FN starts with a letter in AHOOL


Well, this seems made for this rounds Turf Wars, anirite? 9 page coun..."

Just a question of which of us claims it!

Which teams are you in? I landed up in Alf and while there are familiar names, there's no one I've really chatted to before.

Paul. The grey bald one.

Lead by Jenny and Angie, who roped Sammy into that team too 🙂

Coming over to compliment this new team on the team name and the picture at the top, and here I am being maligned. "Roped Sammy into it". I mean really.
As if I would do something like that.

Ahh, Jenny. You have to bear the cross of being misunderstood. (giggles)

Funny how Jenny usually gets blamed for everything...

*mumbles something about smoke and fire...*

😉

Jenny wrote: "Coming over to compliment this new team on the team name and the picture at the top, and here I am being maligned. "Roped Sammy into it". I mean really.
As if I would do something like that."

Perhaps you'd prefer seduced??

This 100-175 pagecount is even more irksome than the 500+ for TT, LOL. Practically I have almost nothing to cover them with.

And it's even more annoying that my current short audiobooks are just over 180 pages.

But I found a short Christmassy read of all things, so I will add that to one of the monsters. ;)

Also, before I start reading The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett, I need to read sth about the 1565 siege of Malta , otherwise I will not be able to keep up with Dunnet and her superhero, Lymond. ;)

Thankfully, Audible Plus is obliging, so I am grabbing a free listen: The Great Siege, Malta 1565. Hopefully it will fit some monster or other.

If we get Cerberus again in the not-too-distant future, I'll take the music/instrument tasks. Soul Music is next up in my Discworld re-read 😉

How nice! ;)

Melindam wrote: "Also, before I start reading The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett, I need to read sth about the 1565 siege of Malta , otherwise I will not be able to keep up with D..."

I'm slowly slowly working my way through the Niccolo series. It's so dense with facts!