Annalisa’s Comments (group member since May 04, 2018)

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

Here are a few of my favorite recent-ish reads.



and not so recent reads

Jackie wrote: "I was able to get Five Feet Apart from my library."

I thought we might be part of the same online lending library being in NC, but maybe not since you were able to get it and I have to place holds. (holds I don't currently have)

What I read is going to depend on what holds I get and what is available from the digital lending library.

Thanks, that’s what I thought about the default edition being what mattered but wanted to check.

Devann wrote: "hey everybody! i know i've been on a team with melindam before [waves] but the rest of you are new faces to me i think.

here's my shelf
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list......"

I think we did a bunch of Seanan McGuire buddy reads during the Harry Potter TT. I haven't read the most resent Wayward Children book but I just checked and my library has the it.

Which leads to a question Come Tumbling Down is 206 pages for the hard cover, 160 for the ebook, 208 for the kindle, but the audiobook is only 4 hours. Do I need to verify word count or is the fact that it isn't a Children's books, Graphic Novels, Scripts/plays (movie and theater), Cookbooks or Poetry book mean that I can use the page count for the default version even if I listen to the audio?

Here is the link to my shelf. https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Melindam wrote: "With so many Hogwarts-wannabe-pupils.... did you play in the Harry Potter TT challenge? If yes, which Houses/Teams did you belong to?

I was Hufflepuff/ Team Cedric Diggory. :)"

I was on team Severus Snape. That was a crazy TT.

Hi everyone,
I think this is my third wheel.
I’m from North Carolina, the mountains.
This is my first week back at work after two months of working from home. I had been doing some of my own writing. Now that I’m back in the office I’ll have my commute for audiobooks. The best book I’ve read so far is The House on the Cerulean Sea.
If I’m a visitor and I don’t have to live there I’d be interested in visiting a fantasy world like in Red Sister, The Poppy War, or The Bear and the Nightingale. If I’m living there then someplace a lot safer, but I can’t think of what book that would be.

Yay! I'm very excited for Wheel. I put the number of books I'm reading lower than I normally would but if things change and I'm actually able to sit down with a book I guess I'll read something longer. I've read three books this month and it isn't like I can go out and do things.

I saw a few people mention The House in the Cerulean Sea and it is one of the best, if not the best, book I've read so far this year.

I finished my 7th book and my second book from my physical shelves, . It was a memoir from by a man who received a lobotomy at 12. It was horrifying. It was a loan so I’m glad I get to return the book.

I finished my 6th book. It was really good and I was sad it ended. The ending was a little jarring but I got why it ended where it did. I just wanted more story.

I finished book number 2, Sing Down the Stars, which I added to my TBR in 2015. It was a nice Science Fiction/Fantasy mix young adult novel. It didn't fall into a lot of the repetition I've seen in newer YA that has been less appealing to me recently.

I’ve been waiting to start it. I know I won’t read it if I can’t count it for UNO or some other team challenge, because once it starts that what I’ll be reading for and all other books will be put on hold.

Finished my first book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. I wanted to read this in 2014 or 2013 when it was first published but I didn't get a chance to. I wonder if the book would have had more impact if I had read it sooner. It makes a lot of good points and I agree with the feelings that the book mentions. I think it has lost some of the immediacy it would have read it before the #MeToo movement.

I got so close. My problem was that I was too specific and when I read more books from one year than I intended I updated my entire goal. So I started with 20 as my goal and then I updated to 37 and read 35 of them. I’m sort a book from 2015 and one from my physical book shelf.

I cleared 2014 from my TBR shelf. I still have 2013 though so I’m a bit confused how that happened. I’m not going to set goals for each year next year because that was a stumbling block for me. I still need to clean my actual book shelves and I have a hard time letting go of books before I read them. I’m considering taking a month and saying no library only books I own and seeing what happens.

Thank you everyone for a great Challenge. And thank you Paula for being a great captain.

Not going to finish Don Quixote this in time.

I’m going to try and finish Don Quixote before the deadline. I have about 3 hours left.

Completion Post

Good Luck with That by Kristan Higgins
Date: December 14, 2019
Pages: 480
Rating: 3 stars

fits:
Vanity - Contemporary tag

Mini - Yes a favorite book

Jenny, it is via rating. Any book published that has over a three star average is eligible. I would guess initially books are by what you said but can do write in for the first round.