Kaseadillla’s Comments (group member since May 04, 2016)

Kaseadillla’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

Mimi wrote: "Ravenclaw august 2"
Daisy wrote: "Wow, this is such a cool idea! I'm in Hufflepuff, ..."
Linda wrote: "August 2 Ravenclaw"
Mimi wrote: "Ravenclaw august 2"

3 points for Ravenclaw, 1 point for Hufflepuff!

another point for Slytherin - early lead!!!

Sophia wrote: "
August 1st
Slytherin!!"

Point for Slytherin!

Marcos wrote: "I haven't the faintest idea "

Marcos - in Harry Potter, similar to how many English boarding schools are organized, the students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are assigned "houses" which are essentially the dormitories they live in for their tenure at school.

Of course, Hogwarts being a magical place, instead of this being random, students are assigned houses by The Sorting Hat, a magically enchanted hat that reads your thoughts and personality and assigns you to one of the four Hogwarts dormitory houses based on your fit.

The website, Pottermore, has a "Sorting Hat Quiz" where you can answer questions and get sorted to one of the four Hogwarts houses. After you do this, you can join that team!
https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by...

To give you a better idea, here's a highlight reel:
https://youtu.be/xQZFWA2KDbw?t=1m21s

two more points for GRRRRRRYFFINDOR

I think I might be biased ;)

Welcome, Rachel!

Thanks all! You can find yourselves under "House Members" for each house. If you only have your first name on your profile, feel free to comment with a last name, last initial, or any other identifier you are comfortable with, and then use that going forward so we can distinguish your individual tally in comment #2.

Sylwia wrote: "Clockwork Prince
Date Read: August 1st
Slytherin"

Another point for Slytherin!

Mariah wrote: "I have a tie between HUFFLEPUFF and RAVENCLAW. I could join Hufflepuff though, because they need more people."

Did you take the test on Pottermore? I've never heard of anyone getting a tie!!! In that case, it's totally your choice.

Sarah wrote: "Sorted long ago.
Go, go Gryffindor!"
Sarah can we use your last name, or at least last initial, since we have two Sarah's in house Gryffindor?

GO GO GRYFFINDOR

I liked the short chapters, but sometimes it felt choppy.

Just finished The Book Thief and can't help but compare the two. What did everyone else think, for those who read both?

Not saying anything new here, but thought having Death as a narrator was original and gripping. Portraying Death as this omniscient, omnipresent HUMAN-like being made it really interesting, and powerful.

I'm torn on the foreshadowing/spoilers provided by death. Full disclosure, I saw the movie first so kind of already knew what the spoilers would entail regardless. I normally hate spoilers. I think it takes the weight out of the event when it happens. But in this case, everyone dies, and then the story ends pretty abruptly. I feel I would have been very unsatisfied by that ending if I hadn't known it was coming... if that makes sense.

I also find this interesting as it is told from the perspective of Germans. "Quiet resistance" as Dave points out. WWII is and always will be tragic and baffling. How could so many sit by and just "let" tragedy happen like this? I think this book gives a little insight into how this happens. I want to criticize everyone on Himmel street for being silent, and yet I feel for them, I relate to them, and in the end honestly don't know what I would do differently in their situation, especially if I had a family and others relying on me to take care of them.

Could that be a longer run-on sentence.

Also adding first book for Gryffindor!!
Date read 8/1

The Book Thief

August 1, 2017
552 pages

Total Group Pages = 133,964

Ashley wrote: "One Soldier's War
Date Read: 8/1
Slytherin!"
Point 2 for Slytherin!

Abby wrote: "Put me down for Slytherin!
Date read: 8/1"
Point for Slytherin!!

Sarah wrote:
Hey Kase, I updated my profile with my last name, Suchon, so you can use that on our house member list instead of the location explanation."

updating now, thanks! GO GRYFFINDOR!!!!!

Mimi wrote: "For Ravenclaw
date read: august 1
page count: 194"
Point for Ravenclaw!!

GO GO GRYFFINDOR! GO GO GRYFFINDOR!

Mimi wrote: I re..."
I'd use whatever has an ISBN but if there is no book version whatever comic you read, as long as you can link it to a Goodreads book page that counts!

Kristin wrote: "I used Pottermore to sort me a few years ago, but I staunchly disagree with it's findings. So I'm going with what I would have told the sorting hat I wanted to be, and that's Ravenclaw. :)"
Isn't that what Harry Potter did?!? So fully support that.