Karsyn ’s Comments (group member since Mar 01, 2017)

Karsyn ’s comments from the Badass Reading Challenges group.

Well done JASTice ladies.

Will give you a new villain after dinnertime in my house, so in an hour or so.

Sounds good Ashley.

The spreadsheet is up. It's not perfect yet, but close enough, so everyone can use it to take tasks.

Just mentioned is fine for those tasks.

For the other: Queen, of and Hearts need to be in the title, but it doesn't HAVE to be just "Queen of Hearts" In other forms means it could be titles such as:

The Queen of Zombie Hearts
Queen of Broken Hearts
All But the Queen of Hearts

Or just:
Queen of Hearts
The Queen of Hearts

But it can NOT be: (hearts not plural)
Queen Of My Heart
Queen of His Heart

No, sorry. As the Cheshire Cat is a Tabby cat, let's stick with house cats / domesticated cats only.

I tried to give us our new Villain but we'll need to wait on Angie (spreadsheet guru) on that. I did the same thing I did when i gave us Villain 2 but the spreadsheet doesn't want to work this time. :(

I'll put the tasks in post 4 in the meantime, so you can at least see them. Then hopefully Angie can set the spreadsheet right this evening.

Wooo! Well done as always ladies!! :)

It's a fantastic series! Such creepy serial killers!!

I believe I have onset insomnia. I can sleep once I get to sleep, but most nights it takes me 2-3 hours before I can fall asleep. Sounds like y'all are very much like Angie and I with little sleep. I end up around 6 hours most nights, because I don't get out of bed til 9 or 10, just getting to sleep takes forever. :/

Completion Post


Task: ☠ ~ Read a Book with a Cover that is at least 85% White
Title: Sabriel
Author: Garth Nix
Page Count: 311
Start: 3/1/18
Finish: 3/6/18
How it Fits: 91.1% White

Thanks WW! :) I do have the ARC for it, have had it for a while and just haven't gotten to it, despite really wanting to read it. Thanks for the push!

Vicki ~ my picks for you:


~ because I'm curious about this one. It's been on my TBR for a while but I keep not reading it, mainly because I haven't been into romance lately. How much is the romance and is it a good book? (if you read it)

~ because Nora is always great for a good story and this one was an enjoyable one.

HA! I think I'm trouble for a lot of TBRs. I love recommending books!! :D

LOL! Ok. It's a great book!

Here's what I did come up with so far, in case you ever need others. :D

Islands, but no E character:
Vanquished
Nil
24/7
The Search
Dance Upon the Air
The Island of Dr. Libris (boat on cover)

Whodunnit? Murder on Mystery Island (would need to read the first one though, these are the books that got me into Gildart Jackson as he was the butler on the tv show based around these books) THINK this one, or the first one, had an E character.

Checking what I'm looking at with if you read it (like I was gonna recommend Shutter Island), and noticed you haven't read And Then There Were None? There you go!! Wow, great book and an E character. :)

But will still keep gathering more for you. :)

I do love giving recs! Will work on that for you. :)

Weather is messing up my internet, even my wired. :/ Here's what I tried to post 20 minutes ago. :)

For me, it varies by narrator. Unless I'm really trying to speed through books I don't turn it up too much, but if they are really slow, then I will.

Typically for me, I run mine between 1.5 and 1.8 speed wise. I like Nick Podehl on 1.8. He's super slow and that has him at a speed where I enjoy his inflections and such. Lets see, on my list and on my Kindle, I like Luke Daniels at 1.6, Lauren Fortgang at 1.9, R.C. Bray at 1.6, Julia Whelan at 1.5.... so it just varies for me, depending on narrator.

Here's a few suggestions based on what you like:

Whodunnit duology by Anthony E Zuiker (mystery) narrator Gildart Jackson
Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss (Epic Fantasy) narrators Nick Podhel or Rupert Degas
Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka (Urban Fantasy) narrator Gildart Jackson
Chronicles of St Mary's by Jodi Taylor (Time Travel) narrator Zara Ramm
The Witness, The Collector and others by Nora Roberts (mystery) narrator Julia Whelan

A few maybe outside your favorites list, but worth a listen:

The Martian by Andy Weir (sci fi) narrator R.C. Bray
The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly (action) narrator Sean Mangan

NP! What kind of books you you like the most? I could recommend books with those narrators that are most like what you read.

LOL. I was writing out my list as you posted. :)

The only ones I haven't listened to out of the others are all of Kathryn's recs and Darynda Jones.

Kathryn must be a Brandon Sanderson fan, the first two do The Way of Kings and apparently either people love them or hate them, there seems to be no middle ground with those two.

I always forget Tim Reynolds, but he is enjoyable.

I search Audible Jackie, that has the majority of audiobooks I think. I've discovered authors because of narrators, specifically Benedict Jacka comes to mind because I listen to almost everything Gildart Jackson does and I found the Jacka books that way (he does a series like Dresden, only better IMO).

I love love love a good narrator, and will seek out new books by the narrators I like. Here's some of my favorites, if you wanna give any of them a try sometime.

Jim Dale
R.C. Bray
Nick Podehl
Gildart Jackson
Sean Mangan
Jeffrey Kafer
Rupert Degas
Simon Vance
Luke Daniels
Kirby Heyborne
Scott Brick
Zara Ramm
Julia Whelan
Lauren Fortgang

HA! I love talking good narrators. I'd listened to Nick before and liked him but when I listened to a LitRPG series by him, I really really started to adore him. He's so expressive. He's top 5 for me for sure. Jim Dale is still number 1, just wish he'd do more. R. C. Bray, Nick and Gildart Jackson are firmly in my top 4 male narrators.

I looooove Nick. He's so great!! :) Who all is on your good narrators list?

I like doing other things while listening too, but I usually listen at night before bed, or running around a game that doesn't require my attention. Sometimes I miss things too, but I don't mind backing it up. I always miss stuff at night before I start to fall asleep, but I just back it up til the last part I remember. It helps me be not bored when trying to fall asleep, because I take hours to fall asleep. :/