MobileRead Book Challenges discussion

My goal will be to finish 12 books this year. Where have we heard that before?

First!?! And Happy Holidays! :)

...and to you, Nyssa!

Now that it's March, I suppose I should post to this. Here's what I've read so far.

1...1/06...Rip Kirby, vol. 2 - Alex Raymond
2...1/10...Playing the Game - Babe Ruth
3...1/18...Brew North - Ian Coutts
4...2/05...Cal Tjader - S. Duncan Reid
5...2/11...Loser Takes All - Ed Fowler
*...2/25...The Illuminati - Charles River

So halfway to your challenge already? Did you give yourself enough of a challenge...? ;)

Ugh. I wasn't' getting notifications for this thread..

:-(

But you are doing great!

Thanks Mrs. J!

Orlok, I want to meet my annual goal before the Canadian league season starts in June!

I guess I missed your thread too! :(

You seem to be right on track for your goal if you plan on being done in June though :D

Agreed! Lucky for me Football doesn't until fall-ish...and my team kinda regularly sucks.

So I still get in decent reading even in season (cause that emotional rollercoaster is too much for me).

My team is going to be playing in a brand new stadium so I'll be watching highlights alot while I can't get a ticket to go. :)

Homey, are you aware that cfl.ca has lots of highlights each week?

Yes, but thanks for the tip anyway. It's one of the only places I can get the highlights without having a TV subscription. All the TV I currently watch is only Netflix. I've been tempted to try some of the Amazon shows now that we get their service with Prime.

I end up listening to the Rider games on the radio. I am so low tech.

I listen to Rod and Carm on the internet!

Ive got A.M. radio complete with static.

GA wrote: "Thanks Mrs. J!

Orlok, I want to meet my annual goal before the Canadian league season starts in June!"

Makes perfect sense now :)

*...3/14...The Federalist No. 46 - James Madison
6...3/17...Super Quick Mysteries - Andrew Stanek
*...3/20...The Huguenots - Charles River
7...4/04...Hemingway Didn't Say That - Garson O'Toole

I hope everyone enjoyed his Easter!

SO MUCH CANDY!!!

I'm still in shock.

Didn't have a single bit of chocolate (on a diet, at last...) :)

Just, so wrong.

I gave up extra sugar for Lent. It was difficult. Easter was not going to be denied.

Homey, Laura Secord?

Orlock, one of the many pleasures of Easter is making yourself sick on chocolate!!!

GA wrote: "Homey, Laura Secord?

Orlock, one of the many pleasures of Easter is making yourself sick on chocolate!!!"

Too right, and I love chocolate. It helped that no one bought me any eggs :)

GA wrote: "Homey, Laura Secord?

Orlock, one of the many pleasures of Easter is making yourself sick on chocolate!!!"

There are other pleasures?

Yes a bit of Laura Secord, although if I want real decadence I'll treat myself to a few chocolates from Bernard Callebaut.

I don't even like chocolate that much...

8...4/12...Right Down the Middle - Ralph Terry
9...4/18...Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! - Max Shulman
10...4/20...The Science Fiction Hall of Fame vol. 1 - Robert Silverberg, ed.

Am I the only one here old enough to remember Ralph Terry?

Older than me. I am getting close though.

I don't listen to enough music.

And I'm foreign... :)

11...4/26...The Confessions of St. Augustine

12...5/08...Learning to Listen - Gary Burton

And with that, ladies and gentlemen, I have reached my goal!

Congratulations. And the draft just occured. Good timing. :)

Right! Do you have any thoughts on the Riders' picks?

I obviously like the local boy Picton. I think it is the first move Jones has made that reflects the community-oriented fan base here.

4 OL is a good start as well. We need an offensive line and I like that pattern of generating a lot of young depth.

The CFL draft is little more than a crapshoot what with players potentially signing in the NFL. Better GMs find the players they need from the list of cuts or from trades with other teams when we have some depth at a position rather than relying on the draft. The Riders pretty much have no depth except at quaterback (albeit unproven and old.) There may be more than a little wishful thinking in Jone's head that QB injuries will allow us to trade Glenn to another team for a part we really need. We don't need Glenn, we need a young quarterback to build an offensive line around. We might have that in Bridge or Bennett, but it will take a least two years to be anywhere.

A little help for the defense too. I think that is reasonable.
Going to be a long season this year I think.

Overall, not displeased with the draft.

One of my old classmates plays for the CFL. We always knew he'd be a professional.


EDIT: I forget how old I am sometimes, lol. He USED to play in the CFL and is now retired and last I read trying to coach in the CFL.

GA wrote: "12...5/08...Learning to Listen - Gary Burton

And with that, ladies and gentlemen, I have reached my goal!"

Excellent. Well in advance of the season :)

MrsJoseph wrote: "One of my old classmates plays for the CFL. We always knew he'd be a professional.


EDIT: I forget how old I am sometimes, lol. He USED to play in the CFL and is now retired and last I read trying..."

Mrs. J, what is his name?

13...5/11...500 Things People Believe That Aren't True - James Egan
14...5/13...Super Quick Mysteries, Volume 2 - Andrew Stanek
*...5/26...Overlooked Survival Items - Greg Thornton
*...5/29...How To Get To Carnegie Hall - Paul Reiser
15...5/30...Prince Valiant Vol. 14: 1963-1964 - Hal Foster
16...6/07...Did You Read That Review? - Amazon Reviewers
*...6/09...Talk about What - Amanda Byers
17...6/13...The Galton Case - Ross Macdonald
18...6/17...The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett

Now that's what I call catch-up!

O, most of these were pretty simple reading.

19...6/23...Seven Slayers - Paul Cain
*...6/23...Overlooked Survival Skills - Greg Thornton
20...6/29...The Kansas City A's and the Wrong Half of the Yankees - Jeff Katz

21...7/23...Speed Duel - Samuel Hawley
22...8/05...A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

GA wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: "One of my old classmates plays for the CFL. We always knew he'd be a professional.


EDIT: I forget how old I am sometimes, lol. He USED to play in the CFL and is now retired and ..."

Jermese Jones (I *think* I spelled that correctly.)

Orlok wrote: "Now that's what I call catch-up!"

IKR??

Thanks Mrs. J! I found him in my encyclopedia. I don't remember him probably because he was an offensive lineman. He was with BC in 2002, Winnipeg 2003-06 and Sask in 2007.

Regarding the My Books page: For the past month, I have been unable to enter both my place and date of purchase. When I click on them, I get red squares with the word "error." Anybody know anything about this?

I'm a bit confused - where are you trying to enter my place and date of purchase? These are not fields I'm familiar with and can't see them in the edit section I'm my books.

I don't use those fields but you can see them if you go to the settings at the top when you are in one of your book lists.

GA, have you cleared your cache and possibly your history? You could also try in a different browser first. If it works in a different browser that may mean something is corrupted and you just need to clear things out.

Ah, I see. By going into settings at the top, you can enable these fields. I tried this and am getting the same error as GA, so there obviously is some kind of problem.

Misery loves company, so it's great to see somebody else having this problem!