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

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

I finished . It was young YA and very predictable but still fun.

Sophie wrote: "I've ditched The Only Good Indians. Haven’t wanted to read all day because I can't face its darkness. Feels v out of character given my normal enthusiasm for any book that gets extr..."

It is a hard book. I hope your next book is better.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Yay, I got picked for DQ's for too."

It was your nomination, so you were guaranteed a day but glad you are excited.

Thank you, Maddy

DQ's Day 5: It Came from the Rez – End

17. And then there was one... Were you surprised by who the one was? Why do you think that this person was "the one" who was left? Was there significance there?
I figured Denorah was going to live when they gave her the “only Dead Indian” quote and she said she was going to be the worst Indian. At that point, there was going to be some very mixed messages if she was killed. I got kind of tired of all the random people getting killed. It didn’t seem like the best revenge if it was indiscriminate.

18. Let's talk about that basketball game. I'm not talking about the technical stuff with the moves and everything because frankly that doesn't mean much to me. But, what do you think that it represented? Why was so much time spent on that at this point in the book?
That dragged for me but I think it represents the fight anad will she had to live.

19. What did you think about that ending? Did the story come full circle?
And I know that this is a little off topic, but were you surprised by who Denorah's stepdad was? I didn't remember his name being revealed before, or did I just miss it?
They told or pretty much told us who they stepdad was earlier when talking about telling stories and why Denorah knew about the elk hunt. For the spirt to stop being murderous, she would need to turn back into an elk so that wasn’t a surprise but the calf was a nice touch.

20. Finally, let's talk overall impressions. What did you think about the book? Is this your first book by this author? Do you think you'll read anything else by him?
This is my first and likely last by the author. It relied a lot on gore for the horror and that just bored me and not really grossed me out. I found the revenge spree a little unoriginal and indiscriminate so hard to see as pure revenge.

Can I be first day for DQs or at least, not the 18/19th?

I volunteered for DQs if someone can be backup as that helps us get questions with the randomizer for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Link here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Volunteering for Team Max

Lisa, yes, you can read it again and volunteer for DQs. I will be your backup unless someone else wants to. The rule for rereads is only 6 months.

You all are doing awesome as we are currently in 3rd place.

Also, the last BOM for Wheel is the Dec Adult book and is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo if people want to get in line at libraries etc.

Books can now be finished for Round 3. Great job everyone. You all are doing great. Also, you are one of the easiest/best teams I have ever captained for all participating so thank you everyone.

Keli,

I really liked The Fifth Season (I have read the first two), The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (I liked the first two) and The City We Became. I think her later works are much stronger.

I got one more book finished in Oct - . It meanders and is very lyrical so I would only suggest it if you like that kind of book.

My first ever with the Twelve Towers in 2017 and I have one book left as well. I keep saving it for Wheel for U and then never getting U's.

Finished The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin as #21. I only gave it 3 stars as I just could not connect with the characters or the plot. This is my second 3 star N.K. Jemisin book in a row and that makes me sad.
Also, only now am I even with the number of books that I started the year with and last year my TBR list went down by 70 so not doing as well this year on that.

Second, books can be finished again for Round 3 in 4.5 hours.
We have 7 X's claimed so far so hold off on adding anymore for now as we might get more X's in a later round.

Edited: No worries, Sally. It would have been only 4 point difference so I just used my book.

Sally906 wrote: "I will be finishing one later today - it has an M character and 200 and something pages.

Title and author’s name don’t fit anything.

Where There's Smoke by [author:Kirsten Fullm..."
Thank you, I added it to the SS and just tell us when you finish it

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Captains... This has come in from my library. Is it white enough?

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That is >50% white so it works great.

Sophie, if you want to hold off on yours, we don't need it this round. Sandy's two will finish off the round.

Though, if anyone else finishes a book, add it to the sheet and we will make it work.

No worries, we can use everything so far. It just helps planning. We should have exactly the maximum right now.

As we are 30 hours out, can people give me a sense of what books they will finish between today and the end of the round? Thank you