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Just to let you know I’m going away for the weekend and can’t guarantee being online until Sunday. I’ve finished The Left-Handed Booksellers of London just need to finish the DQs. I will have one more book finished tomorrow before I go. A Mother's Lie
Dec 01, 2021 11:11PM
DQs - Day 3 - Chapter Nine - Twelve
10. We are about half way through the book now and I've been looking at the cover and trying to see how it fits with the story. The cover feels dark to me and so far I don't really feel that in the story. Do you feel like the cover fits the story?
I’m reading this edition
which is more befitting, I think the default cover fits the era covered by the book, why else show a 80s police car with its number plate11. So the old fashioned booksellers in charge might feel the need to remove Susan if they find out her father is one of the Ancients. It seems like Merrihew and Thurston are not greatly respected in the Booksellers realm. How do you feel about them? Do you think they might be involved in what is happening to Susan?
I do like them even if they are a little out of touch
12. We keep getting all these references to books, musical groups, and other pop culture from the 80's. Take for example this quote: "The ground floor facing the street was all floor-to-ceiling high windows, with a wonderful display of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose complete with a cardboard castle to the left of the central revolving door, and a selection of new release thrillers an mysteries built up in a series of pyramids in the window to the right, including John Le Carre's The Little Drummer Girl, Jeffery Archer's First Among Equals, and Ken Follett's On Wings of Eagles." That sentence is long and the following one is not much shorter. How do you feel about all of these references?
I enjoy this scene setting and as it is a YA I do believe it is meant as a reminder to the era the book I set in
13. In the last section Vivian gives Susan a steel knife and salt and tells her how to bind something to herself. Do you think she will have to bind something? Any idea who or what she will bind?
Why have this scene if she’s not going to use it. No idea who she will bind, her father maybe
Melissa wrote: "Louise - you were chosen to write DQs for The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo yay!!!"Yay,started it today :)
Alysa wrote: "Finished Left-Handed Booksellers BOM!On spreadsheet :)"
I'm hoping to finish this tomorrow.
Dec 01, 2021 04:11AM
DQ'S DAY 1 - PROLOGUE - CHAPTER 41. I nominated this book because titles with libraries or books naturally draw me in and I've wanted to read a Garth Nix book for ages. What are your reasons for reading.. long term Garth Nix affectionado or "It's only about the points, baby"?
I liked the the thought of a book about books having read a number of them in the past couple of years, the fact this one brings points is a bonus
2. Wikipedia (The Oracle of quick searches about whatever and sometimes actually factual) defines a prologue as "Opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one and other miscellaneous information." What have you learnt in this particular prologue that seems important to the story moving forward?
not sure, seems a bit muddled tbh
3. Chapter 1 introduces us to our main protagonists in a scene filled with murder, fashion descriptions and a giant louse! First impressions of Merlin and Susan and any sign if they will be friends or enemies or maybe even frenemies ?
This is typical YA, introduce the heroine to a “magical” hero who is destined to protect her.
4. Right handed and left handed booksellers policing multi layered worlds and realities. Set in 1983 London but the language and environment heavily leans on the Victorian Age. Are you comfortable with the preliminary world building, do you find it interesting and unique or same old same old in the YA fantasy genre?
I do like this alternative perception of modern day London
5. It seems someone is after Susan, probably because of her mysterious missing father. Who do you think he is and what maybe is his significance in this alternate world and to the plot in general?
Her father is definitely important not sure why yet but no doubt we will find out
Spreadsheet updated. We have completed 6 mythology tags.
Nov 21, 2021 12:07AM
DQs Day 3: Sweat Lodge Massacre - Shirts and Skins (61%) 9. What do you think about what happened to Lewis and people’s reaction to the news?
I think Lewis was having a mental breakdown and others knew
10. The section title is “Sweat Lodge Massacre.” Do you think the two other guys (Gabe and Cass) will live through this section? Do you think other bystanders or even Gabe’s daughter will be killed?
I don’t think anyone will survive who is associated with them
11. What do you think of this section so far as compared to the first one?
I’m struggling with it tbh
12. Where do you think the dogs went at the end of this section? Do you think there is a relation do between the elk woman and dogs or just used for the imagery?
They have been killed as they would warn of what was coming
I've added my last book to the spreadsheet for this round. Really struggling with The Only Good Indians should have it finished tomorrow.
I've got a number of mythology books planned:Persephone's Orchard
The Red Pyramid
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London and
The Lost Hero
Nov 16, 2021 11:05PM
Day 2: Friday - Still Tuesday 68 - 129 (42%)5. Wow. I was not expecting this section to end that way, did you? I really thought Lewis was going to be our main protagonist for the rest of the story. Were you surprised like me or were you able to predict the bloody ending?
I have to admit I was surprised at the ending, I thought Lewis would have had a bigger role to play in the book.
6. Lewis was often wondering why the “elk woman” was terrorizing him and his friends in this order. What do you think? Any predictions on which friend we’ll follow next?
I have no idea, I didn’t get what was happening for most of this section
7. Do you think the elk woman is real or just in the minds of our protagonists? If she is real: any ideas of who she might be?
She’s real to them, and is a manifestation of their psychotic breakdown
8. At one point Lewis thinks that Shaney can’t be all bad because she doesn’t fold down the pages on books. What are your feelings on dog-earing books? How do you like to keep your place when you read?
If I don’t have a bookmark handy I will light turn down the corner of a book if a paperback. Hardcovers I use the dust jacket to mark my place. I do like to see that a book has been read and not as a shelf decoration, but I abhor writing in books
I’ve got a U that is also an I
Alysa wrote: "I went through my big pile of random "laundry room book swap" paperbacks and found this one: 
Red Cover! :D"
That looks intriguing
Reading
Ann wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Ann, I saw you answered DQs for The Only Good Indians but I didn't see it on the tracking sheet. When did you finish reading it? It says Nov 3 but if that's the case since that was ..."We still get 20 points for it we just can use it in a spell-out
BOM Points
Participating in Book of the Month (BOM) discussions during the time frame of the challenge will score points as follows:
◈ 40 points for writing a discussion question set
◈ 20 points for participating in the discussion
Nov 11, 2021 09:58PM
Volunteering for Cyndi Lauper
Nov 07, 2021 12:46AM
Day 3: Chapters 11-159.Let’s talk about Cate. What could Grey have possibly said to her to make a mother hate her child? (If she is her child.) What do you think of Cate and Iris’ relationship?
I think Grey told her what happened and why Gabe died
10. What do you think causes the sisters to have the power of suggestion, or the power of the kiss, or whatever you call it?
Whatever happened to them when they disappeared left a remnant when they returned, which manifests as this power
11. How do you feel about Grey's actions in the hospital and during the escape?
She is fighting for her and her sister’s lives
12. The girl says “It is in me…In her…In you.” What is in them? And, may I say, yuck. This story seems very myth-laden. Has anyone recognized the myth yet, or do you think this is an original one? Are you enjoying the story so far? (Is anyone else having a flashback to the creepy video in season one of True Detective, or is it just me?)
And, just out of curiosity, has anyone done a Google search on the flowers yet?
I don’t recognise the myth although elements seem familiar. I am enjoying the story so far.
Nov 06, 2021 11:23PM
Day 2: Chapters 6-105. Grey leaves her sisters a note that reveals the creepy guy is really a very bad person...that she's in peril. She provides a key and sends them to a super creepy apartment...'The missing sister, the dead body, the burned apartment, the gunshot wound, the armful of stolen artifacts. Even harder: the man in the skull, the flowers growing rampant in all the soft parts of a corpse.' What is your conclusion so far?
This has a fae feel to it,
6. Vivi and Iris find a diary from their father...his notes supporting the Vogue article with all kinds of rumors about the girls. What do you think about their father? Was he crazy? Are his girls dead?
He knew something was wrong I don’t think his girls are dead just changed
7. What is with the flowers and vegetation found in the girls and around the girls? This organic, smelly stuff keeps showing up? What do you think is behind it?
With the anniversary looming the veil between the real world and the “fae” world is thinning
8. Tyler shows up at the end of this section of our reading. There's an article referenced with mention of a disappearance. Someone else came back. What do you think is next? What will Tyler's role be...hero, bad guy, or is his appearance a cameo/distraction?
I think he’s a good guy who wants to find Grey
