Michelle’s Comments (group member since Sep 19, 2013)

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

Nicole wrote: "Up to the end of chapter 10.

Ah, Weatherbee! LOL

Riding to the Moon by Barbara Cartland
Read 7/1
222 pages

Astronomy - has moon in title

Spells: R, B, C. Characters: Indira Rowlandson, Charles, Jimmy, Mary Edgecomb

I think you'll like the audios, Nicole.

Just completed the first event in the tri-wizard tourney. It's so interesting how each champion uses different methods to get around the problem.

In for Team Draco. I love Julia Quinn so much.

I think it's still planned for July! I hope we get details soon.

Quidditch was a lot. I wouldn't be sad if they said they were going to not have the final round of quidditch so we could have the tri-wizard tourney.

Tina wrote: "[spoilers removed]"

I’m at the exact same part! Literally listening to it now. Can you imagine if that could really happen?

Just now to the actual goblet of fire part.

(view spoiler)[ I love how everyone turns on Harry so quickly and refuses to believe him when he says he didn’t put his name in. Bad crap happens to him all the time, so I would have shrugged and thought, sounds about right to me!
Breaks my heart that Ron doesn’t believe him though. He, of all people, should know better. (hide spoiler)]

Updated to here.

Added my quidditch books tonight too.

It was a little crazy for me. I typically read about 100 pages an hour, but I pushed to get through some of them a little faster. I guess it depends on the book and the writing style.

Wooo! Another round of Quidditch is done.

Big congrats to our Team Draco players for the intense reading and announcing. I hope you all consider at least looking at playing a reserve spot for the final match!

It’s pretty fun, and more flexible than I thought it might be as a chaser. If you just want to help out and assist with announcing the plays, we need that too.

And the seeker rules have changed from the original post. Once you solve the puzzle and find the snitch, you can read any 300 page book read during the match, not a specific Book of the Month, in case that was scaring you off.

Not sure when the final round will be. No details yet.

I’ll be back once I get all of my reviews written and get caught up.

I haven't read either of those authors yet. I'll have to go look them up!

Oh haha, Cathy! My husband and I were listening to books 2 & 3 during our roadtrip and I got him hooked. He flew through the rest without me while I was working and then watched all of the movies.

We kept laughing at how Jim Dale says, HAAARRRRY in that whiney voice for Hermoine. He will just randomly say, "HAAARRRY..." to me now and we laugh.

I really liked it. I loved Felicity.

I think I've only read the first book in the Love by Numbers series. Want to read book 2 together?

Karen Michele wrote: "I'll be on the lookout for "U"s. One of my books that's in a yellow spot has Ursula, first name of the author. If my other two yellow books come in soon, we might be able to switch that one out."

We could, because I have a yellow one still to read. Good idea! I switched it to U instead.

I am on Goblet of Fire, so I will get there.

I just finished Fish & Chips which has a U author so we need 6 more!

Fish & Chips
Abigail Roux
6/27
BR link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
280 pages

Spells: F, A, R, M, U (title and authors), Ty Grady, Zane Garrett characters

Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫ wrote: "I just started in on the audiobook for this today. Its my first HP audiobook and I am amazed by this narrator!! He really SINGS the Sorting Hat's song!!!"

I thought that was fun! I listened to that part this morning while I was getting ready for work.

I'm up to chapter 13. I love all of the details in this book and how the things at the beginning that you feel like could be filler tie back in later! She does a great job weaving the plot.

Jenny has gone through our spell letters, and this is what we still need to finish up!

A - 1
C - 1
E - 1
G - 1
L - 1
M - 2 1
N - 2
P - 2
R - 2
S - 1
T - 1
U - 7 5

The U's are obviously the biggest need. As you are reading, please be sure to capture character names that might help us knock off these final letters. We are close to finishing our classes and I would love to be mostly completed so we can finish strong once the Tri-Wizard starts (hopefully soon!)

Back at it! I’m loving this book now.

Chapter 14, at the Rookery? When she picks the lock? I absolutely adore Felicity right now. And I love her banter with Devil. He’s met his match, and Whit knows it even if he doesn’t yet.

I’m working early today but I should be able to devote some time to our spreadsheet and hopefully reading tonight!