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

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

Volunteering for July BOMs are up:

I volunteered and am the only one so far from our team. We can have 5 more volunteers for each book if you plan to read the book and have not read it in the last 6 months.

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Volunteering for DQs for Team Pandora

Volunteering for DQs for Team Pandora

July BOMs

Adult: Ariadne
DQs Starts July 2: TBA

Theme: Sea - Malibu Rising
DQs Starts June 16: TBA

No links yet but if people want to find copies if you want to join

Gunit Kaur wrote: "Laila Jane wrote: "Maritza wrote: "I really liked The Travelling Cat Chronicles. I was an unexpected read for me. No stinkers so far."

I really enjoyed it too! It's something I wou..."

You should read Shipwrecks. It is my favorite Japanese book but do NOT read the summary first. It spoils the plot. I also like Kitchen and After Dark.

Hi everyone, I have not had a lot of time to read as I worked all weekend and had a 14 hour day yesterday. I am going to go add the links for July's BOM next (we came in 3rd on both so we will need lots of volunteers to get a set of DQs).

DQs Day 2: Chap 12-19

5. Shea is trying to explain the taps being turned on and the cupboards being opened by themselves through telekinesis. If you had experienced what she did, do you think you would have tried to explain things logically or do you think you would have believed it was ghosts and left it at that?
Logically as well. I would go with old houses and bad fixtures first.

6. After getting a cat, Shea calls on Michael to ask for advice on how to care for it, through the conversation she thinks about wanting to meet him. Do you think they will end up together or perhaps just remain as friends? Could Michael be interested as well?
I think they are already friends of a sort, and a shared interest could lead to romance. Also, she pays him as an expert and not an employee so no real power dynamic issue in that direction.

7. Mr. Greer’s former secretary tells Shea Mrs. Greer wasn’t competent and that she was "sent away somewhere when she was eighteen". Do you think she was crazy or do you have any other theories?
I think that is too straightforward but since I have read ahead, I will say that I did not guess what was going on.

8. While listening to the recording of Beth’s interview Shea hears a voice in the background whispering “I am still here” and poor Winston gets spooked. Did you find this scary? Do you think cats/animals have a feel for the supernatural? If it were you, would you come back to the house after hearing that?
The book no. In real life, maybe or I’d think someone was messing with me and not go back. My cat liked to stare at the ceiling at a 100 year old house I lived in but I think it was the water pipes but I used to call it watching the ghosts. There were also rats in the walls so most odd noise could be explained by that.

9. Finally, in order to get in the mood for more scary stuff. Have you or someone you know have any scary/ghostly experiences you might like to share?
I lived in a place that believed ghosts inhabited really big trees and you had to give the trees food to please the ghosts. The alternative was to cut the tree down before it got too big.

Gunit Kaur wrote: "Lexi wrote: "Does anyone have any books they are planning on reading for Pride in June? I am waiting from the library for A Lady for a Duke and am reading "

I have not but I have read Pet and Freshwater by the same author and plan on reading The Death of Vivek Oji sometime when I need a shorter book than for TTs.

Does anyone have any books they are planning on reading for Pride in June? I am waiting from the library for A Lady for a Duke and am reading The Hourglass Throne now.
Anyone have any good recommendations esp. for longer books. I always take ace (asexual) recommendations and will offer Elatsoe as one of my all-time favorites (Ace MC and author).

There are 4 people who already volunteered for DQs for if two more people would like to volunteer. Having six people maximizes our chance of getting a set of questions.
Here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Books starts June 8th

Also poll for July
Vote here: Poll open until June 5
Link: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/3...

Also another back up for team Pandora.

Truitt_T wrote: "Lexi wrote: "Awww. I almost won. The weather here today is 42 C and dust and I just counted over 500 snails. Glad I got some reading done before this."

Happy snail hunting, Lexi! The book I just f..."

That seems interesting. I don't have energy for non-fiction right now but I will look into it when I get back to the US. (Also, very, very safe here just very hot and dusty. The people we work with are wonderful).

Awww. I almost won. The weather here today is 42 C and dust and I just counted over 500 snails. Glad I got some reading done before this.

Rebecca wrote: "Ok great, I thought it was strange that we would only have the maze going"

Maze is going to be complicated for some, so it means we don't have two new things at once and overwhelm our lovely mods.

Rebecca wrote: "We can start reading something as long as we don’t finish it before the start of the next mini right? I just started a 612 pg book that I’m positive I could drag out until the 15th (not sure if tha..."

We need page points even between minis so feel free to read and finish books at any time. I will likely read 3-4 before the next mini.

Colleen wrote: "Judith wrote: "We have just over a day left to finish books for the Muse May Mini. There are 7 books left based on what's claimed on our tracking sheet. Here's what I have:

-Colleen Drum: 1 book
-..."

That sounds lovely. We were out collecting snails at 100 F (38 C) today.

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Marina Lewycka's bestselling debut novel which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Lewycka tells the side-splittingly funny story of two feuding sisters, Vera and Nadezhda, who join forces against their father's new, gold-digging girlfriend.

Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.

Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth.

But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and sends them back to roots they'd much rather forget.

Thank you all for nominating. Someone else nominated the one I was going to so glad that we have some nominations in there. I will add it to the BOM list.

Edited: I added one since Mods vote, so there is no concern on too many nominations.

Polls are up and my nominations are and or vote for whatever you would like to read

Link here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/3...

Truitt_T wrote: "Kate S wrote: "Truitt_T wrote: "I just noticed that no one from Team Pandora has nominated a book for the Adult Fiction or a Non Fiction BOM for July. There are plenty of good Sea nominations, incl..."

I just nominated it. Thank you for the reminder. I lost track of time.