Deborah’s Comments (group member since Dec 28, 2017)

Deborah’s comments from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.

My total for the 10th is 486 pages.

Okay, sounds good! I think my purple book should be a quick read. :)

This is probably my closest option to a purple cover, but it might be more burgundy than purple? Thoughts?

I finished my red book!

Sounds like we're covered for the TBR prompt now that I've reviewed the planning tab more, so will prioritize my red cover and then book about a game.

Now that I'm on an actual computer, I just saw that between all the super long Stephen Kings and other books I can't get through this week on my TBR page 6, I do have The War of the Worlds and my library had it on digital and audio, so I could probably do that in addition to finishing up my red cover book (it is relatively short and I've got a couple hours in the car ahead of me before I get home tonight)!

I did the Favorite Things and the Syn/Ant posts!

Some of these are too hard!

What is your favorite…

Book? All of them? (most recently All My Puny Sorrows
Author? Again too many, but have read the most by Stephen King
Food? Eggplant Parm
Dessert? Chocolate souffle probably because I never get it
Candy? Milk Chocolate!
Drink? Coffee
Color? Green? Blue?
Movie? ...
TV Show? Gilmore Girls
Sport/Game? Baseball
Musician? George Strait
Song? ...
Animal? Dogs... more specifically my dog of course!
Item of clothing? Don't think I have one.
School subject? English
Season? Fall
Holiday? Christmas

SYNONYMS

1. Large Small Untruths (view spoiler)[Big Little Lies (hide spoiler)]
2. The Servant Girl’s Story (view spoiler)[A Slave Girl's Tale (hide spoiler)]
3. The Anguish and the Euphoria (view spoiler)[The Agony and the Ecstasy (hide spoiler)]
4. Pointy Items (view spoiler)[Sharp Objects (hide spoiler)]
5. Crimson Ascending (view spoiler)[Red Rising (hide spoiler)]
6. Insane Wealthy Singaporeans (view spoiler)[Crazy Rich Asians (hide spoiler)]

ANTONYMS

1. Off the Go Down (view spoiler)[On the Come Up (hide spoiler)]
2. Here Here (view spoiler)[There There (hide spoiler)]
3. The Boy After (view spoiler)[The Girl Before (hide spoiler)]
4. Unlearned (view spoiler)[Educated (hide spoiler)]
5. After Y’all Will Be Mine (view spoiler)[Before You Were Mine (hide spoiler)]
6. You’ll Be Here in the Light (view spoiler)[I'll Be Gone in the Dark (hide spoiler)]

Emily wrote: "Deborah, that's perfect!

Also, as of this writing, we are literally ONE PAGE short of having Bucket 8's page count fulfilled!

Once Deborah finishes The Hunger, we can begin filling in the rainb..."

I did finish The Hunger so we're good to go!

And I say go for it on the questions! :)

Katie wrote: "Deborah, I read The Hunger last year & thought it was pretty interesting. I'm excited to see what you think of it."

It was not a book I normally would have necessarily picked up, but it was a book club pick. I wound up liking it a lot more than I thought I would. I classify it as more creepy than scary if that makes any sense - maybe because I expected the cannibalism and people turning on each other going into it. The general concept of the journey and the historic bits were very interesting for me as I haven't read much on that. :)

I finished The Hunger on my way to work this morning. Possibly the worst example of a road trip to celebrate Take A Road Trip day with, but I think it counts to finish Bucket 7 and allow us to start reading the rainbow!

I will definitely finish The Bell Jar tonight for red.

I have an ARC for The Escape Room which would work for the game prompt in bucket 9 unless anyone else has something for that and I should work on finding some colorful covers.

I am hoping my hold for Front Desk will come into the library tomorrow for the child character prompt.

I have about 100 pages left in The Hunger which is a retelling of the Donner Party journey which could work for National Trails Day or Take a Road Trip Day in June. :)

I have less than 100 pages in The Bell Jar with a red cover, so can finish that up quickly when the time comes.

I'll take another look at the holiday lists too to see if anything jumps out at me, but I won't be able to tackle a new read until after work and thats a lot of hours away. :(

My 6th page of the TBR is all super long books that I definitely won't be able to get through this week.

6/9 - 761 pages

761 pages for 6/9

6/7 347 pages
6/8 333 pages

I finished Don't Ever Tell which should work for a summer holiday. Ponytail Day in July (cover hairstyle) and Sisters Day in August (there are two sets of sisters playing significant roles in the book).