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Do we have all the goals covered except for the radish?

Yeah. I think a couple have multiple possibilities and we'll see who finishes first, but radish is our only open one right now!

Is there a way to search for a word in a book other than Amazon's "look inside" option? Amazon doesn't have a search option for The Witches of Eastwick.

I can't do a word search in all of my books, but haven't found it so far..

Yeah, try Google books:

Search for the book and most of them have a preview option, so once you click on the book there's a box on the left page to search for specific words.

It can be weird though, for some reason it doesn't work unless there's an exact match. So you'd want to search radishes as well just in case the plural is in the book. :)

I've got "radishes" in The Magicians. I'm almost done with it!

Ooh nice! :D

Yeay! All our goals get done fast... We are on roll!

I finished Skin Game which takes care of our read a book that is book 10 or more in a series goal!

Next that came up was read a book that starts with a D so I used A Dangerous Thing for that one. Then we had Read a book first published on the 2nd of a month - Mr. Right There All Along worked for that (GR says 8/2/14 and then originally published January 1st the same year, but I confirmed the date on the author's site) so that's another out of the way. And I used Reveal as well. :D

Next up: Read a book where a character is a writer Do any of the finished books work for this one?

It's awesome when I can fill in a bunch of goals in a row, but I get really impatient waiting for these goals to refresh in 5-10 minutes, lol!

I have 4 writer books we haven't used :)
Use the first one in the series, the shadow one (and yesI have forgotten the exact title atm.. ) =P

Got it! If I had known that the MC was a writer and it would say so in the first sentence of the blurb I might have checked them, haha. But I figured I'd ask everyone since instead of going through them all and then having a random book with a minor author character. ;)

I finished The Magicians! 428 pgs.
And on pg. 23:
"He was asked to draw a rabbit that wouldn’t keep still as he drew it� as soon as it had paws it scratched itself luxuriously and then went hopping off around the page, nibbling at the other questions, so that he had to chase it with the pencil to finish filling in the fur. He wound up pacifying it with some hastily sketched radishes and then drawing a fence around it to keep it in line."

Woohoo! Thanks Emily!

I'll update now then post once I have our next two goals that I can't fit a book into.

We're doing a great job - we were around 91-92 defense points just yesterday I think, and with Emily's book we're now at 106. :D

Read a book that contains the word chamomile

None of my finished books have this, though I still have to check my current reads if no one has one already done!

Awesome job, everyone! Thanks, Denise!!

Really great work everyone! :)

One of mine might, I think i saw it a few days ago and flashed back to Uno..... If we haven't found it in the morning (a few hrs) I'll go through my books first thing.

Awesome! If no one has chamomile already done I did find it in one of my current reads and I need to finish that book by Saturday for another challenge, so I can cover it. :)

Also, the other new goal: Read a book written by an author who was born in Central America

I'll check and let you know in a few hours. I'm out on the author though.

No worries! I doubt I'll finish tonight but either way I need to finish it by Saturday. If you have one great, if not I'll prioritize mine and try to finish tomorrow. ;)

I think I'm out on the author too. That's going to be a hard one! I'll take a closer look at options in a couple of days (once I've finished my insane reading schedule for this week lol) if no one else claims it!

Finished

Not my book with chamomile in it so I can't use it for a goal yet. :)

Finished This Song Will Save Your Life. 288 pgs. Doesn't fit any current goals.

Yeah, that Central American author one could be really tough! I've been looking, but haven't really found anything I want to read (though I found, for example, authors from South America and the Caribbean with books on my TBR if we get those places in the future).

I know, it's tough! I have Australia, several countries in Europe, South America, Canada, Mexico...and nothing that I've found so far for Central America, lol. ;)

I don't have any authors for Central America right now either. At least not that I remember. I'll try a look further into it later today, if no one else has chipped in with a book.

No chamomile in any of my read books :(

Two more to add to the read list btw

Blind Passion 20/8 198 pages
Faith & Fidelity 21/8 228 pages

I think Delta had a book for the central america challenge last round, Ashes of Izalco, if anyone wants to read that one.

Added the recent books to the spreadsheet, but I'm on my phone app (and at work:P), so couldn't fix the link, will have to do it later..

Ugh, the Central American authors one is tough. I know other groups have had a lot of trouble with it in the past.

I've got Mexican and I've got South American, but no Central American authors that I'm aware of. :(

We can always use a boon on it if we look around and still can't find anything.

I was just thinking the same, Kate, we could use a boon to take it away=)

Ashes of Izalco is a really short read and it's available for Kindle Unlimited. Also, very well written.

This Central America one is tough!

Finished Out of Oz. "But what a sight for sore eyes you'd provide him, on some happy day!" page 154 in my paperback edition.

Delta wrote: "Ashes of Izalco is a really short read and it's available for Kindle Unlimited. Also, very well written."

Shame that I used my trial for Unlimited a couple of months ago, lol.

(Also, yay another goal finished! Will post the next one shortly)

I finished another book, no goal though
Duty & Devotion, 234 pages

Next up: Read a book with only one eye on the cover

If there is a finished one for this please let me know! I don't have time to go through all of the links until a bit later today. :)

I really hope it will be a good goal. The ones we've gotten this round has been tough.

No eye on my list, sorry :(

The mods added a ton of new goals right around the end of round 1 so that may be why, lol. Honestly though we've had quite a few easy ones too - I've filled out I think at least a dozen from already finished books and just haven't posted them all here. :)

It's like we get 3 really easy ones and then something ridiculously hard. ;)

For the eye one, do you think would work?

Otherwise someone could read (I read it a couple of months ago) It's fairly short and free on amazon.

I can look around and see if I can find something else too.

Here are two lists with "eyes" on the cover.

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/list/show/3...

I have several that would work and 2 that I needed to get to this month either way. I could fit one in tomorrow. Or if someone else has one that's cool, but either way I'll be reading 1-2 during this round. :)

Can we reread some books? If so I can reread any of as I already have them.

If not I have or on ibooks.

Though yesterday I started reading .

You can reread a book if it's been more than six months since the last time you read it! :)

If you want to work on your current book it's up to you...I have The Host and I think Unravel Me (whatever the 2nd in that series is lol) to read. I have to finish both in August for other groups so I'm going to have to read them whether they fit goals or not. ;)

I can reread any of these books by Sunday as I read these before six months except forever. We can save host for alien invasion or something alike for goal in future.

I just had Unravel Me pop up for another game I'm playing as well, so I'm going to start today and get it out of the way, haha.

I have a BUNCH of books (like, a dozen LOL) I've committed to for this month that I have to catch up with, so I probably will not be able to add anything additional for goals over the next week. Hopefully several I'm already reading will fit in somewhere! :)

Finished Brokenhearted 210 pgs

BTW Nidhi if you finish your eye book first that's cool, it may pop up again or my book may fit for another goal. I'm just starting today, I'll probably finish Sunday because I have a couple others I need to finish by tomorrow. ;)

Yay, Teresa! :D

Silje wrote: "Added the recent books to the spreadsheet, but I'm on my phone app (and at work:P), so couldn't fix the link, will have to do it later.."

I'm updating with the new books now so I'll add the links in. :)

Actually, I'm going to check with the mods and see if will count for the eye goal...it's from the side and kind of behind a letter but there's only one eye on there! Emily finished that one yesterday.

I feel like I'm spamming this thread, haha. >_>

Anyway, Karen gave us the okay on our already finished book for the eye goal! So I will fill that in (and maybe some more goals depending what pops up *fingers crossed*). Will post the next goal soon. :)