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

Great job team !

DQ Day 3: Ch. 11-13

11. Do you think the author has been able to give Bess and Alexandra individual voices? Do you like books with multiple points of view?

I think so, yes.
Depends on the book. When it's well established from the beginning I like it fine. I might love a pov more than another but that's fine. What I hate though is when you're used to follow one particular pov and suddenly there's a new one added. That I don't like. It usually throw me out of the story.

12. What do you think ‘Eliza’ and Agnes were talking about in the kitchen? Do you think either Agnes or Maria know that Charlotte came from the Foundling home?

Not sure if they know anything about that.

13. I think that Alexandra will get much worse re her fears of the outside after the mask prank. Do you think her thoughts about ‘Eliza’ will suffer because of it?

I mean, she's already quite perturbed. I don't think she's going to get better soon.

14. Do you believe that Dr Mead was telling the truth about not knowing about what happened to Alexandra’s parents? Why has he lied about who ‘Eliza’ is?

I don't trust Dr Mead, to be frank.

DQ Day 2: Ch. 6-10

6. Were you surprised to find out Daniel had a wife? I personally was super surprised as I originally believed him when he said he was single. What do you think of the way Daniel died?

Not really, no. I kind of expected it to be honest. And I'm not sure about his death though.

7. How do you think Alexandra Callard knew about Bess and her daughter?

Possibly. Not sure.

8. What do you think of the way Alexandra and Charlotte live? Do you think Alexandra keeps Charlotte home to stop her from being recognized or because she is truly scared of the real world?

I think it's a mix of both. She seems really isolated and afraid of the world.

9. "Eliza" has been fired on her first day. What do you think of Alexandra's reasoning for firing her? Do you think part of Alexandra knows that she is Charlotte's real mom?

I don't think she knows. She didn't want to hire het in the first place. She just found the first reason to fire her. She just didn't want anything perturbing the way she organizes her life.

10. Do you think Bess will find a way to still see her daughter? How?

Sure. That's kind of the point of the story, right? She'll find a way

DQ Day 1 - Chapters 1-5

1. How are you liking the writing style ? Are you enjoying the story so far?

The writing style is okay. I appreciate that it's not overly flowery as I feared it would be.
Storywise, it's fine, but I'm not hooked yet.

2. After reading that opening scene, what do you think of the practice of the Hospital taking babies based on a lottery (the coloured balls in the bag) ?

I'm really not a fan of that concept, and I'm appaled at the idea that it really happened.

3. At some point Bess says that "knowing she [Clara] could be anywhere instead of nowhere at all was torture even more exquisite." Implying that not knowing where her child is is worse than knowing she's dead. What's your opinion ? Or would you rather not know ?

I can kind of agree with what she says. Of course loosing a child is terrible, but not knowing if they're gone or not could be even worse in the sense that you are not able to grieve the potential loss properly. There is no closure to be found because you are torn between absolute depaire and deperate hope.

4. What do you make of the child's father, Daniel Callard ? Everyone keeps asking Bess if he's really dead. Do you suspect there's more to Daniel than we've been told so far ?

I have a feeling we haven't heard the last of him.

5. Time for your theories ! Who do you think claimed Clara on the 28th of November 1747, the day after Bess gave up her baby ?

I think the father might be involved somehow. I doubt he's really dead.

Hi Elen, welcome to the team !

Amazing !!!

I would but I'm enjoying my free day too much. Next time, maybe.. Haha

Good luck with that meeting, Sonia. Think about the good stuff you're going to read tonight ;)

I finally got around to read and it was amazing. The whole series is amazing. It always manages to surprise me in a new way.
I love it.

@Sammy, if that works for you we can use it for jackonary - a shorter book. It has 174 pages.

Claire wrote: "Sammy wrote: "

JACKANORY REQUIREMENTS

Migraines do funny things to my brain. In this particular case they furnished me with an idea for the Jackanory. Of course this happened just as I was shutti..."

and the second book in the series , which I'm reading right now can be used for person held captive. They both fit both prompts in fact.

Sammy wrote: "

JACKANORY REQUIREMENTS

Migraines do funny things to my brain. In this particular case they furnished me with an idea for the Jackanory. Of course this happened just as I was shutting down my com..."

Hey Sammy, we can use my last read for - Man holding a woman in his arms :)

Andy, that's just the best thing I've read today. Thank you XD

That's a relief ! thanks Sonia

Sorry I've been kind of absent. And I'm not reading as much as I was hoping so far for this challenge. I'll try to catch up a bit this week.

Sonia wrote: "This reminded me the Harry Potter discussion I had last challenge till I got purple.

No matter how adult deadly hallows or order of the phoenix content may seem, it had MPG children, so, it couldn..."

Wait. I thought as long as the word count was right, that we could read books tagged as children. Am I wrong?
If so, we'll have to delete my last read: Escape From Aurora

Yeaaaah ! Thanks Sammy ! ;)

Can I also have a virtual cookie? Pretty pleeeease?

Those are very pretty Sammy

Sammy wrote: "Claire wrote: "Well... the book is about things coming back to life after all... Damn that kindergarten classroom is gonna get interesting during craft time :p"

Hahaha! I'll keep hold of this lot ..."

Lol, it'd be an interesting way of cursing someone; sending a card made out of King's recycled devilish imagination. You can send them It, or one of those foul creatures from Dark Tower.

Well... the book is about things coming back to life after all... Damn that kindergarten classroom is gonna get interesting during craft time :p

RIP 40 years old copy of Pet Sematary