Varla Fiona’s Comments (group member since Mar 26, 2012)

Varla Fiona’s comments from the SA Book & Challenge Lovers group.

@Barbara: I preferred both of Dan Brown's stand alone novels to his series.

@Jax: Welcome to the challenge. I also started it recently. Glad to see I can use Micro!

I think that would be a good idea!

Maybe whoever nominated the task should also choose a day and time and whatever lists come up at that time are the lists we must use.

Go to Explore at the top of the page and click on the down arrow next to it. Click on Ebooks. Choose a book on this list and read it. If you have a hard copy of the book you are welcome to read that instead of the ebook version.

11. Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul and Mary

Really looking forward to this one...

25/25

1) The Warlock
2) Seizure
3) How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel
4) Carpe Jugulum
5) Dodger
6) Kraken
7) Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
8) Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
9) The Power of Six
10) The Rise of Nine
11) Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
12) Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
13) The Big Over Easy
14) The Fourth Bear
15) Little Women
16) Good Wives
17) Kingdom of the Wicked
18) The Hound of the Baskervilles
19) Along Came a Spider
20) UnWholly
21) My Haunted House
22) Illusion
23) The Sword in the Grotto
24) Taggerung
25) Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors

Finished

25/25 FINISHED

1) One For The Money
2) Ender's Game - new to me authors
3) What's Left of Me - main character is under 20
4) Another Fine Myth - Used for Life Full of Books Challenge
5) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Published before 1980
6) Soulless - Female protagonists
7) Carpe Jugulum - Vampires
8) The Warlock - Characters with magical abilities
9) Raising Dragons - Teenage protagonists
10) How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel Dragons
11) Kraken Mythical creatures
12) Seizure Animals play key role
13) The Island of Dr. Moreau Research involving animals
14) The Hound of the Baskervilles Classic
15) Charlie Bone and the Time Twister Dog plays important role
16) Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy Same character
17) Troubletwisters - magic is critical to storyline
18) Little Women - siblings
19) Two for the Dough - female character filling predominantly male role
20) Phoenix Rising - Female who has a gun
21) Changeless - Steampunk
22) Agatha H and the Airship City - dirigible
23) The Darkest Minds - Parasol Protectorate challenge
24) The Big Over Easy - New series
25) Three to Get Deadly - Crime solving

25/25

✔1. Good Minds Suggest: Tim Morehouse suggests The Fencing Master
✔2. Goodreads Choice Award: Blameless
✔3. Blog: Cinder
✔4. List friend voted on: Lauren voted on Best Male Character One For The Money
✔5. List with my 5* book: A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32) is on the List The Best of Discworld with Carpe Jugulum
✔6. Popular in July 2012: God Save the Queen
✔7. Recommendations for my To Buy shelf: Achieving The Impossible: A Fearless Hero. A Fragile Earth
✔8. Favourite author rated book 5*: The Hound of the Baskervilles voted by Michael Scott
✔9. Similar to a favourite on my biggest shelf: Darke from my Read in 2012 shelf is similar to The Warlock
✔10. Similar to a friend’s favourite: Soulless, is Claudia’s favourite and is similar to Phoenix Rising
✔11. A quote that reflects my passion: “Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.” from Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
✔12. Debut Author Snapshot: Soulless
✔13. The South African Booklovers' bookshelf: Prince of Thorns
✔14. Founder rated 5*: Ender's Game
✔15. Ebook: The Island of Dr. Moreau
✔16. Numbered Listopia: 11 October 2012; Tag: Most Anticipated; List: Most Exciting Upcoming YA Books: Etiquette & Espionage
✔17. Quiz: Raising Dragons Score: 8/9
✔18. Popular groups (Paranormal Romance Urban Fantasy): Changeless
✔19. 1 rank above me: Top 49 readers this year in South Africa, Lauren, The Fourth Bear
✔20. Group – genre: The Lorien Legacies, The Rise of Nine
✔21. After Fencing Master: Along Came a Spider
✔22. Movers and Shakers: The Darkest Minds
✔23. Recent award winner: Locus award for best fantasy in 2011 Kraken
✔24. Ask for Recommendations: The Rook
✔25. Currently read by Group member: 2012-11-01, Claudia, What's Left of Me

My playlist 25/25 FINISHED

✔1. Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology The Warlock
✔2. Change of Seasons The Darkest Minds
✔3. Africa Achieving The Impossible: A Fearless Hero. A Fragile Earth
✔4. Paradise By The Dashboard Light Carpe Jugulum
✔5. Battle of Trees Changeless
✔6. Indie Rock'n'Roll Two for the Dough
✔7. Video Games Three to Get Deadly
✔8. A Beautiful Lie Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
✔9. Wanted Dead Or Alive One For The Money
✔10. Sympathy for the Devil Raising Dragons
✔11. Puff the Magic Dragon How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel
✔12. Butterfly on a Wheel (Lyric: hiding in your smile) What's Left of Me
✔13. Assassin (assassins play critical role) Another Fine Myth
✔14. Agoraphobia The Island of Dr. Moreau
✔15. Two out of three ain't bad Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
✔16. Bohemian Rapsody Lyric: Escape from reality I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
✔17. Russian Roulette Phoenix Rising
✔18. Space Oddity Ender's Game
✔19. The Gambler Kraken
✔20. Total Eclipse of the Heart Seizure
✔21. To Build A Home Good Wives
✔22. Colleen Dodger
✔23. Cosmic Love Soulless
✔24. Fly me to the moon Agatha H and the Airship City
✔25. The End Is The Beginning Is The End Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods

I get spot 7 which is my favourite number! Nice and appropriate for this challenge!

25/25 FINISHED

Completed:
One For The Money - Main character learning a new skill
Ender's Game - Main character has an older brother
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Main character had a difficult relationship with her father in her teen years.
Another Fine Myth - published in my birth year (1978)
Soulless - Main character is an older single female
The Warlock - Main character's home town is a coastal city
Raising Dragons - British heritage
How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel - Scandinavian heritage (Varla, my first name, is Scadanavian)
Achieving The Impossible: A Fearless Hero. A Fragile Earth Open water swimmer
Kraken Works in a museum
Seizure Has a dog
Carpe Jugulum Trio of females
Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy Boa
Charlie Bone and the Time Twister Boarding school
The Island of Dr. Moreau Research involving animals
The Big Over Easy Work in lesser known section of complex
Kingdom of the Wicked Not a common career choice for main character
Changeless Scottish heritage
Little Women Tomboy
Good Wives Worked with children
Three to Get Deadly Unpopular career for female
Two for the Dough Parents setting up daughter
Agatha H and the Airship City Technically minded
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods Owns a sword
Phoenix Rising Female who enjoys fighting

Yay, this looks like fun!

RAMP (Afrikaans for disaster)

The Mark of Athena

Clive Cussler

Too many good books nominated already... I have just been filling up my TBR shelf!

A summer read (as most of the other Good Read groups will be focusing on winter...)

Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology by Jack Johnson

Open Goodreads, click on the arrow to the right of the Explore tab at the top of the page. Click on Goodreads Voice, then click on Good Minds Suggest. At the bottom of the page, click on More Good Minds Suggest. Choose one author from that list and read one book s/he recommends. NOTE: Tell us which author recommended the book you chose.

Congrats.

Oh, right!