Trisha’s Comments (group member since Aug 01, 2022)

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

Just checking when I need to be done with books by.
I'm definitely going to be down to the wire on one of them and want to make sure I know when I need to be done!

Melissa wrote: "Thanks Christina! I'll see if Roe gets hers done and if not we can use the other book we have.

@Trisha - did you finish reading One Big Happy Family? It says it on the spreadsheet but it's still ..."

Sorry, my afternoon got messy as soon as I sat down to do the review! lol I've added it to my shelf and completed my review! I'm done with it!

August

STATS AT BEGINNING OF MONTH
Books ON Shelf: 308
Feedback Rate: 76%

154. Talk to Me ⭐⭐⭐ my review
155. Abducted in Appalachia ⭐⭐ my review
156. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder⭐⭐⭐ my review
157. Kill for Me, Kill for You ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
158. The Caretakers ⭐⭐⭐ my review
159. A Thousand Times Before ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
160. After Oz ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
161/2. They Dream in Gold ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
163. You Shouldn't Be Here ⭐⭐⭐ my review
164. Glass Houses ⭐⭐⭐ my review
165. River East, River West ⭐⭐⭐ my review
166. Girls with Bad Reputations ⭐⭐⭐ my review
167. I Need You to Read This ⭐⭐ my review
168. Acts of Forgiveness ⭐⭐⭐ my review
169. The Grimrose Girls ⭐⭐⭐ my review
170. Never Ever Getting Back Together ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
171. The Examiner⭐⭐⭐⭐ My review
172. Then Things Went Dark⭐⭐ my review
173. The Unwedding⭐⭐⭐ my review
174. By Any Other Name ⭐⭐⭐ my review
175. Middletide ⭐⭐⭐ my review
176. One House Left ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review

Melissa wrote: "Then you can answer BOMs for points :)"

YAY! Thanks!

Yes, I believe so.

it's
Read: 6/19 - 6/20

If I've already read the BOTM, can I still participate in the daily discussions and get points or do I have to read the book sometime in that month?

Nick wrote: "Leslie Ann wrote: "How many times do you buy a book you already read? I do this one all the time….lol"

I own 12 different copies of Boyfriend Material and I'm only slightly ashamed..."

oh no! lol 12?!?!

I've definitely bought a few too many duplicates so now I have a "bought-Kindle" shelf AND a "physical copy owned" and now I've added a "bought audio" because that was my mistake - I was buying them in multiple formats!

(I'd be willing to read Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto I just checked out the audio and requested the physical copy from my library, just in case

we also have Irena, Ireland, Irene, The Ire)

they are forcing us to do 4 - I don't think there is anything wrong with matching their energy

Roe wrote: "Rats! I got nothin then! Noir is the only Noir book i can find but then we would just be rereading it over and over lol."

I've read Noir - it was book 2 and not too bad.
Others might have other selection options 🤞🏼🤞🏼

Sophie wrote: "KU has Noire... Would at least allow us all to move on a bit.

Right I'll leave you all alone and stop interfering in not my team."

I mean. . .or we could just return Noir right back
and YOU guys can read Noire
lol 😉😏

Just a curiosity question ~ it's just a silly reading challenge so it doesn't really matter but,

I'm curious why we keep pushing back on teammates willing to read a book that would make the selection tougher on the other team.

it IS a competition and this is the second team to return really tough selections that force us to use more than 3 letters but that isn't what we're doing to them.

I may be the only one feeling this ways. . .I was just curious since I've seen us say no to many selections

I've read Man, Fuck This House (really short horror story) and The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

The first one was just okay (but short) and the second one was really good!

Melissa wrote: "Trisha - Can you add Bear to your shelf, thanks!"

done!

I was just getting to it :) still updating
but just added

Since we don't need anymore of the .5 series reads, I'll take the last nature one.

I'll start it tomorrow!

it safely falls between either of the remaining 2 sets - and should be able to go in either.

When do they need to be done by?

I can read two if they are needed:

Maybe Not (160 pages) and is a 1.5
Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story (124 pages) and is a 2.5

July 2024

Books on Shelf: 312
Feedback Ratio: 75%
(1272 Approved | 956 Feedback Sent)

141. O Beautiful ⭐⭐ myreview
142. The House of Broken Bricks ⭐⭐⭐ my review
143. The Nature of Disappearing ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
144. 49 Miles Alone ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
145. A Sorceress Comes to Call ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
146. Bad Tourists⭐⭐⭐ my review
147. Forgotten Sisters ⭐⭐ my review
148. The Drowning House ⭐⭐ my review
149. Loss Lake⭐⭐⭐ my review
150. The Trail of Lost Hearts ⭐⭐⭐ my review
151. Like Mother, Like Daughter ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
152. The Trail of Lost Hearts ⭐⭐⭐ my review
153. Sleeping with Friends ⭐⭐ my review

Day 3 DQ's Chapter 24 - 33

(it IS weird answering your own questions. lol)

9. We keep hearing how people smell. Luzia of orange blossoms, Perez of plums and amber. Why do you think the author keeps mentioning this? Do the smells mean more than just an odor?

I think it's tied to magic too! but it makes me wonder, if it's tied to magic - why does Perez smell. Why did she mention that? Does he have magic swirling around him in a way we don't know?

10. We are over halfway through the book. What has been your favorite part/scene/person/line so far?

There have been 2 quotes I've noted so far that I loved:
"There is a fine line between a saint and a witch"

"If he had met grief as an honest man, he might not have feared greeting death on the same road."

11. Valentina and Marius seem to be rekindling their marriage, finding love where there wasn't before. Why do you think the author is adding that part of the story when she could have left it out?

Now that we know Luzia's magic can spread and possibly change emotion - I wonder if she was partly making Valentina unhappy. Could her own unhappiness have spread just like her happiness spread? Or is it only that she's using the magic now and that is altering emotions?

11. Now we are over halfway and know more of Luzia, the competition and this world. Why do you think the publisher and possibly the author chose this cover over any other possibilities? If you could remake the cover, what would you want it to look like?

I love that others like this cover. I think it's okay -
I like the chain and the scorpion - they make me think of the chain and dress she wore when competing and Santangel
but I don't like the hand or the clothing - neither seem to match our scullery maid. I'd have loved incorporating the vines or leaves with the grapes or pomegranate. But I guess we'll see if the red and jewels make more sense later in the story.