MN Lisa’s Comments (group member since Jul 20, 2023)

MN Lisa’s comments from the Hooked on Books group.

Last two IBR links added to the spreadsheet.

Janine...we will be sharing with another group reading the same book - New Year's Resolutions by Crystel Greene

Spreadsheet updated with links to the BR. Looks like I forgot 2 (New Year's Resolutions for Janine and I and After Felix for Amanda and Kirsten). I've requested those and will update again when they are available.

The Quill Questers (MN Lisa, Amanda, Jackie, Janine and Kirsten) would like the following buddy reads for January. Thanks!

New Year's Resolutions by Crystel Greene (Lisa, Janine)
After Felix by Lily Morton

I could start that one tomorrow. We can probably read when we want and if we aren't all reading at the same time, spoiler tags?

I moved the Let There Be Light to the spreadsheet. I'll move the rest later.

Anyone want to start one soon? I don't have my reading planned yet.

Ashley's Post for our BR: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Do we have to do posts?Ashley provided the spreadsheet....

Happy New Year! I'm done. Your turn.

I probably will too. This one felt like it just finished. IDK. I liked it, but not a fave of mine.

Ok. Sorry. I got bored so I filled out the spreadsheet for everyone. :) update so that all the BR has the same info.

It's a problem. i know....I like things in a certain way....I'm sorry.

@Amanda. The Amazon Page Count doesn't match the Goodreads Page count for Kindle.

Amazon: 380
Goodreads: 2021 Version - 368 Pages.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...

Jackie wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "It is the worst song, but also the best song."

I like it. Even if it is a cheating song."

But its a cheating song where they cheat with each other...so its so bad, but good. I love it.

Could Our Wives Under the Sea be considered "Own voices novel from an underrepresented perspective"?? For the solar system impossible challenge.

It is the worst song, but also the best song.

Yep. I was surprised when I read the bio.

While checking for Diversity Authors....Rupert Holmes (Murder Your Employer) wrote "Escape (The Pina Colada Song). just an interesting factoid.

Janeylou wrote: "Thanks girls ..i like to pull my weight and kept looking at that 200 and my heart would drop 😞

I feel much better now 😁😁"

I"m gonna try because I want, in general, to write better reviews. I think mine are not very good. But that is a personal goal...that I probably won't do very well at. LOL.

From the Q&A: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Diversity only counts if it's a book by an author from an underrepresented group or a book translated from another language.

So, if we can identify that the author is Queer, we could count that. I would say for sure they are underrepresented.

Kirsten wrote: "I am super excited by this so far—we’re acting like a team and planning to share books and y’all are my favorite online group. This is a year long challenge—we can’t do stuff we don’t want to do for 12 months, and we shouldn’t have to!"

For sure. We need to make sure this is fun for us the entire year. I'm always, lets just not be last, and I don't think we will be last even if we don't do the long reviews and all the team reads.

If we can maximize on Buddy Reads and Monthly/Weekly Theme that should be good enough I think.

This is going to be my most fun challenge this year and don't want huge pressure to win. :)

Once the Threads are up, I'll add the links to the appropriate people on the spreadsheet.

I don't think it has to be for this challenge either.

I just requested the threads and asked for Let There Be Light, cause I thought I saw that it was planned for later this week?