Steven’s Comments (group member since Jan 18, 2013)

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

My shelf is ttx ttx

Please everyone add me as a friend if you haven't yet!

I also adore longer fantasies, so I can be counted on to take some of the chunkster tasks. :D

Hello, everyone! I'm Steven! I live in NC in the USA. I've done every Tower Teams, so I'm an old hat at them. I've also played multiple other team challenges here in NBRC, like My Restaurant Rocks. Here if you have questions and the captains aren't available. I've played with a few of you before, so yay for reconnecting! I'm looking forward to getting to know the ones I haven't played with before.

I have two dogs (a male 11 year old dox-terrier mix named Albus Noble and a female 3.5 year old chihuahua-Italian greyhound mix named Murphy Rose) and a cat (a female 5 year old American short hair gray tabby named Artemis, aka Artie, aka Fartie, aka Fartemis, aka Artie-Fartie).

I'm currently not working. I quit my job after they treated me poorly, and hubby encouraged me to follow my bliss. So I'm attempting to write a novel. YA-UF. We will see how it goes!

My hubby isn't much of a reader, so isn't involved on Goodreads, but he supports my reading habits 100%! We are going on a cruise Apr30-May 7, so I'll be away that first week, but reading like a banshee while we're going, so will have quite a few to update on the spreadsheet, I'm sure. We love travel, animals, tv shows, books, movies, board games (we have almost 200), and food! :D

Skipping again *sigh*

Task: Sort your "to read" shelf by 'date added' and read a book that is within Numbers 101-150 on your list (the first column before the book cover image)
Direction: West (odd number of pages)

S: Sara Shepard, author of Wanted, 261 pages, finished 23 Mar 2023
K: Klune, TJ author of In the Lives of Puppets, 433 pages, finished XX XXX 2023
I: The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead, 401 pages, finished XX XXX 2023
P: Pippa from A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson, 433 pages, finished XX XXX 2023

Stormlight Archive! I’m team Truthwatcher!

Oh gosh, that’s a lot of out of the way moves! *cries*

Guys, this maze is so cruel. Second time I've reached a dead end that makes me backtrack 7 spaces or more. X)

I can check the US google books for you if you want to message me some titles. I’ve had pretty decent luck on there in the past!

Or just work towards the skip. 4 books for you is like two days! Lol

Try finding the book on the Google book website. You can search the text in a lot of books that way :)

Lucky, Sammy!!! :)

Going to have to skip the task: Read a book that is in the Amazon 2014 bestsellers

Direction: South (Title N-Z)

S: Sara Shepard (author) of Unbelievable, 335 pages, finished 08 Mar 2023
K: Joseph Kavinsky (character) from The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater, 362 pages, finished 12 Mar 2023
I: Ironeyes (character) from The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson, 507 pages, finished 03 Mar 2023
P: Perfect by Sara Shepard, 298 pages, finished 06 Mar 2023

Thanks for the tip! I’ll look it up! :)

Hmm, Kiss of Snow by Nalini Singh probably has some cat shifters in it, even if it follows a wolf and a psy. 🤔

Anyone got any cat shifter novel suggestions? I really don’t want to get sucked into a reread right now and all I can think of are Jane Yellowrock/Nell Ingram, The Others, or Kate Daniels. I also really don’t want to read 4 books to skip again right now lol

Gonna have to skip, sadly.

Task skipping: Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as first-reads - plurals and spelling acceptable
Direction: East - even number of pages

S: Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger, 396 pages, finished 1/29/2023
K: Keisha from The St. Ambrose School for Girls by Jessica Ward, 368 pages, finished 1/23/2023
I: Ilona Andrews, Magic Tides, 158 pages, finished 1/24/2023
P: Pamela Dawes from Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, 476 pages, finished 2/3/2023

Thanks for those Sammy… but Jane Austen is *snooooooze* lol

Thanks, Jenny! Guess my Red Rising reread before Lightbringer will have to start a little early lol

Anyone have any good suggestions for published on the 28th of a month AND title starts with N-Z?

Skipping my task "Read a book where the ISBN10 number has exactly 7 odd numbers"

Direction: South (Title N-Z)

S: Steve Berry, The Last Kingdom (counting The as T), 400 pages, finished 5 Jan 2023
K: K.M. Neuhold, Stick Shift, 276 pages, finished 8 Jan 2023
I: Ilona Andrews, Sweep of the Heart, 472 pages, finished 11 Jan 2023
P: Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World (counting The as T), 272 pages, finished 8 Jan 2023

City of the Lost is the first one. Sooooo good

Sammy, have you read the Rockton series by Kelley Armstrong? They’re set in Canada and oh so good