Heena’s Comments (group member since Oct 13, 2014)

Heena’s comments from the RMFAO (Reading My Frigging A** Off) group.

Bonnie wrote: "Finished but didn't love it. It was OK. The character's weren't well developed to me. The main ones seemed dumb and didn't grow. One honest conversation between any two of them would have solved th..."

I have a feeling I'm going to be equally disappointed by the time I'll be done with it.

Fran wrote: "I finished it...yippee. And while I felt dazzled throughout the entire book, the last couple chapters and explanations felt dull and forced. And perhaps a little rushed? I'm not sure what word I'm ..."

I'm 200 pages in and I'm already feeling it...

What do you think about the characters?? So far I'm not able to connect to anyone, though I do like how Julien is described.

In all honesty, I was expecting this book to be as good as The Night Circus, but I'm really not impressed by the writing. Where I was expecting enchanting descriptions, I found them to be forced and unnecessary. Even the world-building failed to fascinate me. Maybe it's because my mind is constantly trying to compare this book with Night Circus, but I don't find the book as appealing as I thought I would. I'm skimming over descriptions and just trying to read the book as fast as I can to be done with it.

Marjorie wrote: "It is a very descriptive book. Sometimes to much so. I mean I really do not need a full description of every dress. Really!"

Even I'm finding the descriptions too lengthy and mostly unnecessary.

Marjorie wrote: "I would like to nominate Seeker by Douglas E. Richards."

Thanks for the suggestion, but we're not having a buddy read in Jan. Though if you want to have one here, you can most definitely host one (anyone can host a buddy-read here!)

Marjorie wrote: "Is there a buddy read for January?"

Sorry, no. We're still discussing the buddy-read schedule. We'll most probably have the first buddy read in February or March.

Dagny wrote: "This is such an interesting and diverse Challenge that it hardly seems possible it's already the fifth year! I'm especially excited about the new choice of World Fiction. Thanks to Cheryl for comin..."

True! And even I'm super excited for September now :)

I'll be going for Level 3: Bookworm: 6 - 8 books for this year. And I'm planning on completing the Richard Hannay Series by John Buchan (an amazing espionage series recommended by our Classics Professor, Dagny.) I'm yet to read the 3rd, 4th and the 5th book, so I'll be reading this in 2019. Plus a couple of other books that would be recommended by Dagny for this year and some Manga Classics if I can get my hands on any.
I also have a couple of Agatha Christie books, so I'll try and tackle them too.

I'm going to go for Level 3: Bookworm: 10-15 books. For this year I have a lot of audiobooks; (some are the latest bestsellers and some are Stephen King's books that I desperately need to read. I even have one by Dean Koontz, so I'm really excited for the coming year!!

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Marjorie wrote: "I am liking the buddy read. It makes me read more. I enjoy have people to talk about the book with. It will be even better when we can actually talk about it."

Yes! It does help in reading more and makes it pretty interesting. And please feel free to start discussing the book. Teh Spoiler rule is there so that the book is not ruined for anyone. But don't hesitate becaus eof it. Just add SPOILER to your comment and discuss in detail to your heart's content :) (hopefully I'll be joining you soon too!)

I received my book!! Yay... I'll start reading today and will join the discussion as soon as I'm done with some pages.

I've not read all of his books, but I'm trying to read his earlier works first (but then he comes out with new ones again and again and then I feel like reading the new ones, lol.) So far, my absolute favourite is Duma Key.

Oh god, you guys are making me so curious! I'll be receiving my book on the 8th (the day after tomorrow) so I'm finishing a couple of other books I had to read so that when I start this one, I won't have any other book's tension.

#2 Braidy von Althuis: And the Gullible Ghost Hunter - 3.5/5

A step down from the first one as a couple of characters I loved were not present in this book, but the story was still good.
I'm looking forward to the next book in this series.

Nilendra wrote: "What do you think about the new movies series revolving around Dumbledore/Grindelwald? "

I liked the first movie - it was truly captivating! But the second one (the latest one) wasn't that impressive. It felt a little too flat, at least to me it did.

Sydney wrote: "Thank you for all of this information, and I look forward to this upcoming year :)) "

Pleasure. And same here!! It's gonna be a really good reading year :)

Hello, Liz, Dominic, Sydney and Nilendra. It's so good to have you all here. Please feel free to have a look around at all our year-long challenges. We have something for everyone - Classics Challenge for helping everyone to incorporate more classics into their reading lists, Audiobook Challenge for audiobook lovers, Series Challenge to help you finish all the series you want to read and Genre Challenge for practically everyone where we read a different genre every month (sometimes two.) The challenge threads for 2019 are being set this week (more than half are already up!), so we'll be beginning to plan our reads for next year soon!
Lookign forward to seeing you all around :)

Heli wrote: "Heena wrote: "Heli wrote: "Heylo! I'm Heli, late twenties, Finnish. I'm genderqueer, pan, and polyamorous, in other words not a very conventional person. I'm on disability because of mental health ..."

Haha... I've been trying not to buy any books from the last couple of months. Lol. It's so difficult to resist!
I had no idea that Altered Carbon show was based on a book. I'll have to watch it now. Looking forward to knowing what you thought of the book.
And thanks. Hugs back to you!