Jennifer’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2021)

Jennifer’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

I just added a couple of books from your list to my TBR.... thanks.... I think!

You're welcome. I'm happy to do it for her: she's good peeps!

At which point you'll either be happier with yourself than you expected or you'll be covering your eyes and afraid to look. :)

Wow, I just read the synopses of those... GOOD GRIEF!

Renee wrote: "Woot I found you. I was involved it the nonfiction. I am glad we still have it. I do confess to reading the books and not commenting. I will try to be better. Did we ever discuss Caste? I read it b..."

There was a thread for it at LOBA but no comments.

Bonnie wrote: "Bonnie wrote: "I have this and planned to read it soon- but I have SO many Christmas reads right now, I may just start it and finish it in January. My ulterior motive too is to use it on my Motley ..."

Efficient!! LOL

Desley is right -- I shamelessly use books for multiple challenges and encourage you do to that with this one! :)

True story.

Lea wrote: "Oh my goodness, I love this challenge so much. I mean, not enough to attempt it myself...but certainly enough to cheer you on, and get some ideas for my next shopping trip. Oh, sorry, is that not w..."

LOL I don't know whether to virtually smack you or virtually hug you. LOLOLOL

Hi, everyone!

The winning book in the poll for the first quarter NF read for 2022 was Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries, with 17 votes. (The closest runner up was Greenlights with 12.)

The "read" runs from January 1 through March 31, and for you early birds, I hope two weeks is enough time for you to go grab your copy! I'll put a thread up for Diagnosis on the first.

If there are some of you interested in still reading Greenlights, chime in here and heck, we may put up a thread for that as well. :)

Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

Madeline nominated it. I'm glad you liked it!

Cover just has to contain that color. :-)

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I would give it a go Emily, I find this one of the fun challenges, I am to read one a month, but think I'm only at 11 this year, so that's a fail!"

The year isn’t over yet! :-D

Saudi Arabia:
The Night of the Mi'raj
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
With Lawrence in Arabia
The Diary Kept by T.E. Lawrence While Travelling in Arabia During 1911
Infidel
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
Arabia of the Bedouins
In the Footsteps of the Camel: A Portrait of the Bedouins of Eastern Saudi Arabia in Mid-Century
Lawrence of Arabia
A Winter in Arabia
Finding Nouf

United Arab Emirates:
The Sand Fish: A Novel from Dubai

Renee wrote: "Hi I am a returning member. I was with LOBA but life got in the way.

I am curious will there still be the non fiction books"

Yes there will! I read 50-75 NF books a year and am continuing what Lance started over at LOBA in terms of the quarterly read and the "other" NF thread. :) Plus we have a little NF self-challenge going as well!

Wow, Michelle, sounds like the last one and the one you just started are both pretty intense reads, judging from the blurbs.

@Bonnie -- same here!
@Emily -- glad to have you!

Ann_R wrote: "Good luck, Jennifer. I don't think I could read 100 books before buying anymore either, lol. I don't buy a lot of books. But still.... who could pass up a good book sale?"

Heh, well, so far I haven't been able to..... we'll see.

Carolien -- that was the most brilliantly passive-aggressive post I've ever read. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. and yes I added it.

@ Bill -- LOL! bought three times more than you read -- yes, you've captured it exactly!

@Emily, take comfort in SF author Robert Heinlein's edict: Budget the luxuries first.

@Desley - YES, coffee and scented things, plus if I go into Bath and Body Works I walk out with way more varieties of soap than anyone could possibly need...

Ok, that's an interesting idea I hadn't considered.... NF and F on the same topic on purpose (it's happened to me several times by accident). I'll be following this to see what you come up with!

Maybe this resonates because this happened to me this year and both the NF and the F book had the same title.