Colleen ’s Comments (group member since May 02, 2018)

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

Completion Post

Title: Ask the Passengers
Author: A.S. King
Pages: 304
Date read: 6/30
Letters: E
Tag: No?
Task: Read a book with MPG Romance

Planning sheet updated

Judy wrote: "Colleen wrote: "Completion Post

Title: The Authenticity Project
Author: Clare Pooley
Pages: 368
Date read: 6/28/20
L..."

OK thanks!

Completion Post

Title: The Authenticity Project
Author: Clare Pooley
Pages: 368
Date read: 6/28/20
Letters: C & R
Tag: No?
Task: Read a book with a blue cover

Planning sheet updated

Completion Post

Title: Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself
Author: Rachel Lloyd
Pages: 277
Date read: 6/26/20
Letters: R - author
Tag: None
Task: Read a book with a job word in the title

Title: All the Bright Places
Author: Jennifer Niven
Pages: 416 pages
Date read: 6/22/20
Letters: N - author, A - title, T - character Theodore
Tag: No - don't think so
Task: Read a book with a four word title
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

Title: The Lost Wife
Author: Alyson Richman
Pages: 368 pages
Date read: 6/21/20
Letters: A -author, L - title
Tag: No - don't think so
Task: Read a book with a family relationship
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

I don't know where all my other fits went on the spreadsheet, so if you need me to remember/re-add these, let me know. Not sure why The Collector is in my column L. Offhand, it also fits MPG Romance, a three-word title and two people on the cover.

Completion Post

Title: The Starless Sea
Author: Erin Morgenstern
Pages: 498 pages
Date read: 6/16/20
Letters: S - title, A - title, D - narrator
Tag: No - don't think so
Task: Read a book with MPG Romance
BOM: No

Planning sheet updated

Judy wrote: "Colleen wrote: "5 hours to go for me here, can't wait to start reading again!"

Colleen, you can already start reading! We all started at the same time & the "countdown timer" is counting up now si..."

Duh! OMG - I'll be reading today, obviously.

Also, I'll try figuring out the tags again to fit books I'm already scheduled to read.

Go Team! Two of you are already super fast.

I still don't get how to find the obscure tags - so if someone can help me out on that I'd appreciate it!

5 hours to go for me here, can't wait to start reading again!

I put additional options on the planning sheet. I'm sure there will be more, but just don't know them all yet. :)

Is that what you would like us to do?

Hi June! I totally want to go to Barbados someday. Of course I had to add The Street to my TBR.

Hi - I'm Colleen from Lakeville, Minnesota, USA. I'm doing well amidst all the craziness (COVID, race riots, you know normal year 2020 stuff). I've been working from home full-time since March, so like others, I miss my audio book commute, but trying to listen in as much as possible while out walk/running, cleaning etc. Un/fortunately I don't have a job where I can listen in as I wouldn't be able to concentrate on what was going on (book or work tasks). But very glad I attempted to do audio again because now they've stuck with me the past few years. I can get through my TBR much more, however, it's still a lost cause. :)

I just added Ayiti to the list.

The best book so far this year I've read is The Dutch House but I have a few other really good ones I've enjoyed, mainly All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Three Junes.

Not sure what fictional book world I would live in. I don't think I've met it yet, which is exciting. But I would be part of Slytherin - not sure if it was TT but I was part of Draco Malfoy's group once - maybe Devann knows. This is my second Wheelathon. I really enjoy the Uno challenge as well - my team won this year, maybe we can do it here. But I've been really random so far this year so hopefully can read at least one book a week.

My shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Glad to meet you all and can't wait to start! I better finish up my current reads next week so can start timely!

Really great idea - and seems so doable. I own this copy pictured and am motivated. Seems better than to audio it. I'm going to add this to the reading plan. Thanks!!

Annalisa wrote: "@Colleen and Emily. You are on a reserve list. Sometimes a team will have someone not check in or be unable to participate. When that happens reserves are added to teams. If that happens you will b..."

Thank you!

I'm on the wait list. If we get placed on a team how are we notified?

Just started my tenth book - really proud here, I don't recall ever getting so many knocked off the old part of the TBR list before.

Only it's a doozy at 950+ pages. I didn't realize this. I'm almost on chapter 3 and it's going to take Forever but I'm pretty sure it's going to be a good story.

The Far Pavillions

Me four.....

Annalisa wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Well done Annalisa ! I felt a bit the same about The Lovely Bones. In some ways, I thought it worked better on film"

I haven't seen the movie. Would you recommend it?"

The movie was well-done I thought.

Gaijinmama wrote: "Colleen wrote: "I just finished my second book and it was another winner. How did I wait so long to read The Shadow of the Wind? It is a must, people."
Indeed! I couldn't put it down, a..."

I excuse the treatment of women to the times - it was Spain in the 1940s. However, it's not like in the 2000s all that much has changed depending on where one lives. But I agree, there really wasn't a strong female character, unless you count the prostitute who visits the hospice. :)

And I didn't know there was a sequel! Uh-oh.

I just finished my second book and it was another winner. How did I wait so long to read The Shadow of the Wind? It is a must, people.