Lexi’s Comments (group member since Jul 27, 2016)

Lexi’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Yay, enjoy the new wheel, as it made me very happy to make

They make me happy so glad you like them.

I finished lemurs as well and got us our second and last (for now) overly specific one. I think it will be easier for this group.

White Walker (GoT)
250-300
Tagged "undead" (5 or more times)
Author first and last name start with same letter
MC visits a place with ice
"obsidian" in text

I agree with no more than 2 and then keep on with the human and urban ones as there are still lots we have not had

First one,

Leofric (Sorcerer to the Crown)
100-150 pages
Tagged "fantasy-of-manners" (2 or more times)
There is an animal sidekick or familar
Solid color cover (>85%)
"serpentine" in text

Yay, I will go spin. Do we have thoughts on only having one overly specific monster at a time or are we good with more than one?

I will finish lemurs shortly and get one from the new wheel. I also removed my 200 page book, as I have switched from the paperback to the kindle version and it is over 300 pages.

Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications—from the author of Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail .

Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her.

When Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid’s stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there’s some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all.

Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise…at first. Though they’ve known each other for years, they don’t really know each other—so Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. When they’re forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations—including a plot to save Astrid from her horrible fiancé—Claire isn’t sure she has the strength to resist Delilah’s charms. Even worse, she’s starting to think she doesn’t want to...

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh

Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities—and strengths—of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard times, and surviving. In her family, she writes, “country music was foremost a language among women. It’s how we talked to each other in a place where feelings aren’t discussed.” And no one provided that language better than Dolly Parton.

Smarsh challenged a typically male vision of the rural working class with her first book, Heartland, starring the bold, hard-luck women who raised her. Now, in She Come By It Natural, originally published in a four-part series for The Journal of Roots Music, No Depression, Smarsh explores the overlooked contributions to social progress by such women—including those averse to the term “feminism”—as exemplified by Dolly Parton’s life and art.

Far beyond the recently resurrected “Jolene” or quintessential “9 to 5,” Parton’s songs for decades have validated women who go unheard: the poor woman, the pregnant teenager, the struggling mother disparaged as “trailer trash.” Parton’s broader career—from singing on the front porch of her family’s cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains to achieving stardom in Nashville and Hollywood, from “girl singer” managed by powerful men to leader of a self-made business and philanthropy empire—offers a springboard to examining the intersections of gender, class, and culture.

Infused with Smarsh’s trademark insight, intelligence, and humanity, She Come By It Natural is a sympathetic tribute to the icon Dolly Parton and—call it whatever you like—the organic feminism she embodies.

Thank you, I’m very excited about it. Now I just need to finish my lemur book.

I think I have a reverse curse. I want to see them but the more I ask about sneks, the less I see them.

I got one from 2016 read. I liked it and gave it 4 stars (3.5 rounded up) but not as much as other I know have. I felt it was more of a list of situations than a cohesive story at times.

For fun I made a list of the total of each monster, due to being the smallest wheel, we have done all of the Asian monsters and impressively have 3 or more each of 5 monsters. No sneks, despite Judith and I getting more than 10 when we spun for the original wheel. We might want to stick to Urban and Human for a bit to get new monsters as we have probably had most of the Greek ones in the original round.


Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Finished Sphinx, new human monster:

The Cigarette-Smoking Man (The X-Files)
100 to 175
Tagged UFO or Aliens (10 times minimum)
Read a book with partners (your interpretation)
Published between 1993-2018
Hand holding something on cover

Thank you, Judith. I am very excited. This is my favorite of the wheels so far. Also, some of the tasks are truly obnoxious.

I should finish my brown cover book today and hopefully my sloth one in the next few days. I have been in kind of a reading funk this month.

Melinda, that is a favorite of mine, glad you enjoyed it.

Karen, I'm impressed you kept with that one. I DNF'd it after two tries.

Volunteering for DQs as well

Not under 18 but still lovely:
When We Were Birds
It Would Be Night in Caracas
The Messenger

The Head of the Saint is Brazil and under 18

I removed my book from Zombies as it will take me a bit to read it if anyone else has a zombie book