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

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

Sheila wrote: "we got tricked for Halloween. IT IS SNOWING!"

Wow, snow.

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Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Date: October 30, 2019
Pages: 290
Rating: 5 stars

Fits:
Envy - green cover, young adult. Not sure if another team has read this year. I didn’t see it.
Vanity - contemporary top shelf

Mini:
36 - Ally’s grandfather dies but no one else does.
40 - Ally, Keisha, and Albert are in a fight with three guys who often beat up Albert.
107 - Albert gets a black eye.

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After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
Date: October 29, 2019
Pages: 432
Rating: 4 stars

Fits:
Avarice - dystopian top shelf
Sloth - blue cover

Mini:
8 - 100 year flood happens and only mountain tops are left.
18 - a woman in a port steals Pearl and Myra’s bag with fruit and vegetables.
19- most deaths happen near the end of the novel so spoilers but 7/8 named characters die.
84 - post apocalypse top shelf

Happy Halloween!

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The End of The Road by Sue Henry
1 Read a book with MPG Crime, Mystery, Thriller or Suspense set in 100BC - 500AD - current day"

I’m not all that great with the BC AD dates but I think that 500AD was a long time ago so if your book is set now it would not work for this. Am I missing something?

Sophie wrote: "Annalisa wrote: "I just finished a collection of short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others, that were loaned to me quite a few years ago. I was surprised as I was reading to re..."

Yes, Arrival. They story was very close to the movie. I was surprised I liked both the movie and the story.

Rachel can you add your books to your tower shelf. Thanks.

We are now in week 4.

For this week’s mini you can post the number and how/why it fits.

So I’ve been signed out of my digital library account and I can not sign back in. It is very frustrating as I can only access the books I already have downloaded. I’m hoping none of my holds come in. I can access the library sight but not overdrive or Libby so I’m hoping it is something on their end and will be sorted soon.

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One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare
Date: October 25, 2019
Pages: 404
Rating: 3 stars

Fits:
Gluttony - Bingo (pink cover, historical romance top shelf, I like to binge read Tessa Dare)

Mini:
There were a few 5 point animals but I think sin bingo is better.

I have one more book to post. So that puts us at 28. We still need three more.

I just finished a collection of short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others, that were loaned to me quite a few years ago. I was surprised as I was reading to recognize one as a movie I had seen. The stories were odd but I really enjoyed them.

Thanks, Tati. I know it can be a bit of a pain.

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Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
Pages: 285
Date: October 25, 2019

Fits:
Sloth - blue cover
Vanity - Contemporary top shelf

Mini
Platypus, moose, elephant p149 "Robert loved the museum: the frail mummies and immense sarcophagi; the stuffed platypus and pickled mermaid; the wall bristling with elephant tusks and moose antlers and unicorn horns."

Tati wrote: "Book: The Burning Shadow
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Pages: 432
Read: 25/10
Fits: Envy (YA, new release)

Animals (here we go LOL):

Panther: loc. 148: Luc was b..."

Tati I think I might need a full sentence on some of these. I'm not sure what actually works. Some of the animals you listed aren't on our list for the challenge, so I can't use them. Of the ones I'm not sure on (can't be simile, metaphor, or idiom needs to be the actual animal) I am not sure if it is the actual animal or just an expression.

Would it be possible for you to provide the full sentence for any of the animals below? Thank you.

Koala: loc. 797: I think that's koala bears

Llama: loc. 2146: oh my, holly llama babies everywhere

Raccoon: loc. 2810: another weird rant about how raccoons don't get enough love

Owl: loc. 5843: a Harry Potter owl would be cooler

Coyote: loc. 6945: I definitely think there are coyotes around here

It ends at the same time as the week does. If you look at the sinful chat that was up before teams were made there is a count down timer.

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Warcross by Marie Lu
Pages: 366
Date: October 23,2019
Rating: 5 stars

Fits:
Envy - young adult tag

Mini
Polar Bear, Wolf, Wolly Mammoth, Saber-toothed tiger
P.211 “But what really catches my attention are the towering cliffs of blue ice on either side of us, forming our path. Frozen inside this blue ice are enormous beasts. A polar bear as large as a skyscraper. A white wolf with a missing eye, its jaws frozen into a snarl. A snake-like dragon. A saber-toothed tiger. A woolly mammoth. I shiver in awe at the size of them. They look as if they could explode from the ice at any moment.”

A virtual reality game. Warcross isn’t the book and it is about a computer/digital game where the players can interact with the game over imposed on reality or in a virtual reality as a digital player. The animals are when it is virtual. I think it counts though.

I finished a book that has both a Wooly Mammoth and a Saber-toothed Tiger. I was trying to decided if it worked or not since they are in a game but the main character is also in the game so seemed like would work.

Hope surgery goes well, and you have a fast recovery, Mollie.