Keli’s Comments (group member since Jun 23, 2016)

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

Just finished my last book for this round. If we get another U word, I recommend An Unkindness of Magicians. Very good.

Also, it's a shame that we didn't get vuvuzela as one of our bonus words, as it appeared in Zoo City. Like what are the odds that vuvuzela would appear?!

Alyana wrote: "For anyone who fancies mystery thrillers, Undone is from the Cora Shields series. All books start with 'U'. I'll try the first book.."

Scribd have these in audio. So I will try to get a few of these in. Depends on how they monitor usage. I defo have the first one.

I added a couple other letters,but I will have both Z books up tomorrow and will then read an Unkindness of Magicians. Scribd audio do not give me location or percentages, so I have used chapter and timestamp for reference for the bonus instrument. Will this suffice?

I will err on the side of caution. I have plenty if other books with V titles and green covers. springs to mind. It's been so long since I started this series, I'm juat not sure I can or want to pick it back up. I really enjoyed thr first book.

Would you all call this green or blue?
I know there is TinEye, but I find it's sometimes unreliable. I mean it never sees white, just shades of grey🤨

I'm going to start with Zombie's Bite, then move to Zoo City.

Hi Sanz.

Christina wrote: "Aoife wrote: "Keli wrote: "I just finished flowers in the attic today. How perfect it would have been 😭😭😭 A V and banjo in the text."

Handy to know tho!"

That's what I thought but then I looked a..."

It's compelling. Not as bad as it sounds.

Christina wrote: "Keli wrote: "Hi all, i thought i already left a message. Sorry. Don't know what happened there"

I thought this might have been what happened! We all know GR likes to mess with us sometimes... *eye..."

Sorry, i have been ill and not really checking in. Check out Navajo Autumn, The Cold Dish and Open Season. I haven't read the last one but Ive got it andy sister-on-law loves the series

I just finished flowers in the attic today. How perfect it would have been 😭😭😭 A V and banjo in the text.

My shelf is https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

I'm a challenge reader right now. Though, I can be a mood reader, too. But i like reading for challenges as it gets me reading outside of my comfort zone. I recently had to read western mysteries and was surprised to enjoy them. Not a genre I would have picked up necessarily.

I read the Oct BOM not that long ago, so will be skipping that one.

Hi all, i thought i already left a message. Sorry. Don't know what happened there

I'm on team Pop. I love rap, and metal, and old country, and classical. Honestly, I don't think there's a style I don't like, except some modern country and polka. Good luck everyone!

I joined up too.

Janeylou wrote: "Ive got so much on at moment that i dont know if im going to be able to join in with this one this time 😞"

You'll be missed.

I'm sorry to hear about your brother-in-law, Suzanne. I, too, wish him a speedy recovery.

I agree with y'all about the Bluest Eye. It is a fantastic emotional and powerful book. But Toni Morrison can do that. If you haven’t read Beloved, give it a go. It's not an easy read, but it has impact.

Another four read. All really enjoyable. Can recommend all of them. I only have one more to reach my target!
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Lexi wrote: "
I got one from 2016 read. I liked it and gave it 4 stars (3.5 rounded up) but not as much as other I know have. I felt it was more of a list of situa..."

Lexi, that is good to know as I am debating buying this book. After comparing our books we seem to have similar tastes and ratings, think I might pass.

Another 5 read this month so far.
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This book was okay. I think if I had been sold on a supernatural element before I startes reading, i may have liked it more. But because it was sold as acontemporary thriller, i found the (view spoiler)[body-snatching (hide spoiler)] aspect quite hard to swallow.
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Beautiful fable-like story. I look forward to reading the next one.
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Really solid start to a series. There were a few contradictions, but they didn't detract from the overall story. Just little niggly things, like if you are a boarding school that is checked up on, which has previously been referenced how can you remain open or unaudited with quite a few kids going missing? That kind of thing
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For some reason this book toom me a while and three attempts to get into it. I found the dad annoying at times. Well, almost all the time. I get that he didn't want to get his kid on meds, but his kid really needed some help. And the fact that he couldn’t even look at it as a short time solution was sad and frustrating. I found that aspect of it truly frustrating. So the ending was no surprise.
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Absolutely fantastic! Aside from Rogue Protocol (not a closet qualifier) probably my favourite book of the month. Demon was an excellent narrator. Wonderful story populated with a colourful cast of characters, even if most of them remain one-dimensional.
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Hands down the worst book I've read this year. Worse than that Yarros schlock! So racist. So stupid. I wrote a slightly more in depth review but, I would advise you to leave this one off of your tbr shelf.

Sammy wrote: "TT usually does the opposite for me. A lot of re-reads and new books to cover tasks, etc.

But I only have 6 left to go out of 125, so I don't mind having had a break from reading old tbr books, lol."

Yeah, I have a fair number of new reads too. This time though, I made myself choose a tbr first. If it fit I had to read it. Or finally admit defeat and take it back to the library. I rarely choose to re-read in group challenges. Not sure why.