Fiona’s Comments (group member since Sep 25, 2023)

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

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Current total: 820,944

Why do my favorite artists keep dropping new songs when I’m trying to read ARGHHH
I can’t do both 😫

Fruit in title

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process; Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family, and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider; and Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have and must decide what kind of person she wants to be.

Shot through with the indulgent pleasures of life among New York’s one-percenters, Pineapple Street is an addictive, escapist novel that sparkles with wit. Full of recognizable, lovable—if fallible—characters, it’s about the peculiar unknowability of someone else’s family, the miles between the haves and have-nots, and the insanity of first love—all wrapped in a deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love, and class.

Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

Introducing internationally bestselling author Bolu Babalola's dazzling debut novel, full of passion, humor, and heart, that centers on a young Black British woman who has no interest in love and unexpectedly finds herself caught up in a fake relationship with the man she warned her girls about

Sweet like plantain, hot like pepper. They taste the best when together...

Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she's made it her mission to make sure the women of the African-Caribbean Society at Whitewell University do not fall into the mess of "situationships", players, and heartbreak. But when the Queen of the Unbothered kisses Malakai Korede, the guy she just publicly denounced as "The Wastemen of Whitewell," in front of every Blackwellian on campus, she finds her show on the brink.

They're soon embroiled in a fake relationship to try and salvage their reputations and save their futures. Kiki has never surrendered her heart before, and a player like Malakai won't be the one to change that, no matter how charming he is or how electric their connection feels. But surprisingly entertaining study sessions and intimate, late-night talks at old-fashioned diners force Kiki to look beyond her own presumptions. Is she ready to open herself up to something deeper?

A gloriously funny and sparkling debut novel, Honey and Spice is full of delicious tension and romantic intrigue that will make you weak at the knees.

I have another challenge in a different group at the same time as the mini and I’m trying so hard to find books that match both challenges 🤯

Woooot, heading over to Amazon!

205 pages

Current total: 801,926

DQs - Day 1 - Prologue-Blackthorn

1. A paranormal retelling?? of Jane Eyre - this prompts the question about the original or let's call it the "source for inspiration". What is your relationship to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë? Have you read it? Loved/liked/disliked it?

I have read it this year and I can’t say that I cared for it. I was hoping to love it but I just didn’t. Now, I don’t remember all that much of it.

2. What about Retellings? Is it a genre you like/avoid?

I like retellings. I don’t usually seek them out but if I happen to come across one, I usually enjoy it.

3. Jane Aire as a witch in a school for orphan witches? How do you like the setting of this alternative Victorian world where magic is at least tolerated?

Actually, I really like this. So far, I’m enjoying this far more than Jane Eyre. I like witchy stuff and the Victorian era, so this might be a great read for me.

4. What are your first impressions of Jane and Rochester?

I like that Jane is someone who needs to get told to behave. Rochester I’m not sure yet, something seems fishy.

5. What do you think about the occurrences in Thornfield? Are they really caused by supernatural elements or is it human action?

Maybe it’s both? I don’t think that it’s the work of a supernatural being alone but it might have to do with human actions with supernatural consequences.

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Current total: 793,160

Ends at: May 28, 2024 11:59PM PDT

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Already voted for the Country Gentlemen as it's on my tbr lol

Sadly, I feel the same. Looks more red to me I'd say.

Great, thanks 😊

Okay, I have a question.
We probably have to read one book for each task, right? Not like read one book and use it for all tasks it fits in?

Thank you, Judy :)
I’ll just see it as opportunity to read more books (hopefully) 😁

497 pages

Current total: 791,121

I planned to start Salt & Broom tomorrow at work but seems as if I will start it at home because I have a cold wir fever and all yayyy
I don’t think I would’ve read it if it wasn’t BOM because I don’t like the cover and I didn’t enjoy Jane Eyre lol

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Current total: 787,821

Level 1

101. Under Locke
102. Pageboy
103. Valley of Secrets
104. Queen Charlotte
105. Die drei ??? Melodie der Rache (drei Fragezeichen)
106. Salt & Broom
107. Die drei ??? Im Reich der Ungeheuer (drei Fragezeichen)
108. Emilia Galotti
109. Die drei ??? und die Zeitreisende
110. Six Cloves Under
111. Solange es Liebe gibt
112. Die drei ??? Schrecken aus der Tiefe (drei Fragezeichen)
113. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
114. Der Traum vom Meer
115. Starling House
116. Die drei ??? Im Bann des Drachen (drei Fragezeichen)
117. Die drei ??? und der schwarze Tag
118. How to Solve Your Own Murder
119. Noah
120. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen
121. Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder
122. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
123. Catching Fire
124. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
125. The Wishing Game
126. Be my Heartbeat
127. Die drei ??? und das versunkene Schiff
128. Die drei ??? Verbrechen im Nichts (drei Fragezeichen)
129. Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin
130. Trying to Live With the Dead
131. A Kut Above The Rest: Lovin' A Female Boss
132. Die drei ??? und die Kammer der Rätsel (drei Fragezeichen)
133. Ich, Eleanor Oliphant
134. Eine Tote bleibt selten allein
135. The Woman in Me
136. Die drei ??? und der unsichtbare Passagier
137. The Resort
138. The Alchemist
139. Ander & Santi Were Here
140. The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories
141. Heavy & Light
142. Spuren an Deck
143. Schindler’s List
144. Die Elite
145. Der Tod und das dunkle Meer
146. Tintentod
147. Lucky Charm
148. Midnight Mass
149. Granny's Got a Gun
150. Granny Undercover
151. Granny Strikes Back
152. Barbarian Lover
153. Barbarian Mine
154. Barbarian's Prize
155. Barbarian's Mate
156. Barbarian's Touch
157. Fata Morgana
158. Überredung
159. Love at First Set
160. Bright & Dark
161. Anatomy
162. Hot & Cold
163. Just for the Summer
164. Die drei ??? und das kalte Auge
165. Mockingjay
166. Immortality: A Love Story
167. The Moonstone
168. The Sun Also Rises
169. Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto
170. A Cyclist's Guide to Crime & Croissants
171. Die drei ??? Der Ruf der Krähen
172. Die drei ??? Signale aus dem Jenseits
173. Die drei ??? und der Tornadojäger
174. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
175. Die drei ??? und das silberne Amulett
176. Lucky Iron Fish: A Social Enterprise Tackling Iron Deficiency
177. We Are Okay
178. The Familiar
179. Blue Hawaiian
180. Red Velvet
181. Die drei ??? Das Grab der Inka-Mumie
182. A Study in Charlotte
183. The Other Woman
184. You Should Pity Us Instead
185. Butcher & Blackbird
186. Die drei ??? Insel des Vergessens
187. Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words
188. Die drei ??? und der Mann ohne Augen
189. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
190. Treasure Island
191. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
192. Cornelius Sky
193. Owned by Fate
194. Broken Moon
195. Bet The Farm
196. Over Her Wed Body
197. Tot im Wald
198. The Last Flight
199. Don Quixote
200. Das letzte Haus in der Needless Street
201. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
202. The Vacation House
203. The Island of Dr. Moreau
204. Ugly Love
205. Verführerische Rosen
206. Die drei ??? Drehbuch der Täuschung (drei Fragezeichen)
207. Die drei ??? und der Hexengarten
208. Pretty Little Savage
209. Fix Her Up
210. Die drei ??? und der letzte Song (drei Fragezeichen)
211. Where the Crawdads Sing
212. Die drei ??? Im Haus des Henkers
213. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife
214. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
215. Tress of the Emerald Sea
216. Stone Cold Queen
217. Siddhartha
218. Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
219. Deja Brew
220. Intermezzo
221. Into the Deep
222. Take Me Home to Willow Falls
223. Murder at the Vicarage
224. Charm
225. Carrie
226. A Merry Little Meet Cute
227. Fallen Princess
228. The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M.B.E.
229. An Unexpected Kind of Love
230. Haunted Reign
231. Two Can Play
232. Legends & Lattes
233. Lights Out
234. Griechischstunden
235. The Under Dog and Other Stories
236. The Pumpkin Spice Café
237. The Never King
238. The Unmothers
239. One by One
240. One Last Word
241. Stronger Than Ever (GU New Adult)
242. Verity
243. The Maid
244. Dark Venice. Deep Water
245. Good Girl, Bad Blood
246. Janie
247. The Spellshop
248. Lead Us To Temptation
249. Salt Kiss
250. Saint