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

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

You all are vacationing in amazing places. Have fun on Switzerland and Alaska!

Have a grand vacation, Vi

Nanci wrote: "I was granted my extra entry for 4th wing and also signed up as an alternate question writer. Fingers crossed we get chosen!

Sorry for the middle of the night awake time, Vi. I'm often up at night..."

For real about the f-bombs! I didn’t notice them so much in the beginning, but as she's "grown in confidence" her f word usage has increased. I'm sure there's a direct correlation and we could probs produce a graph. I have a favourite one of these gems too. Sadly, mine is audio, so I don't know for sure how it is written, but I imagine it looks like this "HE. FUCKING. WINKED."
Why? Why use it there? Would seriously he winked or unbelievable he winked or he actually unbelievably winked not have conveyed her disbelief as adequately? It kind of takes away the effect the word has by over the overuse. Also, it reminds me of me at 12, when I thought I sounded grown up using it. And therefore, used it all the time except around my mom, who would have literally put a bar of soap in my mouth. Anyway, Violet reminds me of a twelve year old with her swearing.

Suzanne wrote: "Keli wrote: "Kirsten, it didn't come across as dissing TJK. Suzanne is so right about taste. There isn't a book that could maintain a 5.00 rating. Eventually, someone with not enjoy it. I can't wai..."

Lol, that's exactly why I don't read ya.

I really don't want to ruin this book for any one and if you love it, take everything I say with a grain of salt. I am very much in the minority opinion. Here, however, are my impressions.

My mental image of Violet


Xaden, just imagine some of tattoos as scars and a signet or whatever-


My mental image everytime Violet looks at or talks about Xaden -


And I'll leave you with my favorite sentence, and there are some real whoppers of cringe and bad writing in here, but this one wins because it had me questioning and laughing at a moment of intense action, which is probably not the tone the author intended. But the scene is Violet, our hero, fighting an arch- nemesis (she has many). He obviously is trying to kill her. So, very serious. Then I read this, he comes "Barrelling toward me with a series of kicks and punches I'm not ready for." And my mind imagines something along the lines of


But it's even more ridiculous in my head because it's a "series." So he's doing the gif above lots! Language is important. A few slight changes would have me picturing what I imagine she meant. Like he barrelled towards me, then performed or executed or emitted or discharged a series of kick and punches...
But what do i know. Only one of us is a NYT best selling author.

Murderbot is soooooo good. And what's weird is that it's prety much just the inner-monologue of an introvert self-aware ai robot.

Kirsten, it didn't come across as dissing TJK. Suzanne is so right about taste. There isn't a book that could maintain a 5.00 rating. Eventually, someone with not enjoy it. I can't wait to finish the fourth wing. If it wasn't audio and for dq points, I would have dnf it long ago. Maybe I'm just tooold for it. However, Suzanne, who is obvs much younger than me, either in truth or spirit, is loving it. I cannot stand all that annoying inner-monologue stuff. Or the "omg he's so hot but he wants to me" malarkey. Seriously, if a guy wanted to kill me and i truly believed it, his hotness would be the last thing on my mind. I'm willing to suspend disbelief, it's a fantasy after all, but our protagonist reminds us every three minutes that Xaden would like to kill her. It's quite infuriating. I am going to hold off finishing it today though. It will be my first book of july, since i want to finish Artificial Condition tonight

I loved both Lightning-Struck Heart and The House in the Cerulean Sea. They are so sweet and, the latter, wholesome. I saw a headline today about some Missouri man sentenced to life for caging and dismembering a woman. Life is truly horrific sometimes. So, I appreciate the super saccharine tone of TJK and escaping into mind and heart of a plain old-fashioned good guy protagonist.

I loved both Lightning-Struck Heart and The House in the Cerulean Sea. They are so sweet and, the latter, wholesome. I saw a headline today about some Missouri man sentenced to life for caging and dismembering a woman. Life is truly horrific sometimes. So, I appreciate the super saccharine tone of TJK and escaping into mind and heart of a plain old-fashioned good guy protagonist.

I've started fourth wing. Not really sure it's my thing. I am only about 10% in. For some reason i thought this was a WWI LGBTQ book, like Regeneration. Don't know why i thought that.

So, I've now got a Scribd subscription.

Thanks for the update, Suzanne. Y'all, we are doing amazingly well. I was a little lacking in my reading this month. But i hope to hit it out of the park for the last one.

I have two more mod tower claims to finish. I claimed them so that it would force me to read them. I keep bumping them to the bottom of my pile. But i have physically had them checked out of the library since covid or just after! I just started fate's edge which should only take a few days. And then I will begin the Goldfinch. However, i also have the expats, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel (2013). I can read that one for a chipmunk task, and start a mod tower one after
Also, I'll have my 500-599 finished tomorrow.

Hope you feel better soon, Suzanne.

Elinor, I'd agree with brown.

Suzanne wrote: "Vi- that's good thinking about the 11/23 book, but it'll have to be used as a math thing, so it won't work.

Keli, I'm not exactly sure what book you are asking about? But I'm also not feeling grea..."

I'm reading . The audiobook doesn't have a cover, but has the right narrator. My cover does look like the default page cover, . Because we can't add editions anymore and must request an add, which i can't be bothered with, I tend to find the closest in cover but with my page count or narrator in audio. Most of the time, I'm not fussed about the cover. However, in challenges the cover is important. So just wanted to check if I could use the default cover, which is the same as the audiobook I'm listening to. I wasn't asking in particular for this book but in general. I've had to use the book closest to my version in pub date and cover for a few of my audiobooks. Fool's Gold being one. There wasn't an audio on there, so i just used the default edition as my read book.

The edition I'm reading doesn’t have a cover picture? It's the same as the default, so would that work should we need to reference it?

I've been mia and have come back to so many post and so much done. Hubby and I went to the last Long Division festival in Wakefield this weekend. We stayed with his friends in a little village called Everton outside of Doncaster. So i got to see a bit of the country I've not seen before. Wakefield was awesome and beautiful and funky. Highly recommend a visit. And I've seen Doncaster now, so can't tick it off. I wouldn't recommend Doncaster as a place to visit. As we drove in, there was a big slogan art piece on the side of a building. It said:
Live
Cope
Give
Hope
Cope? What kind of inspiration is that? How depressing.

Anyway, back home and ready to read.

I just read The Fast Diet: Revised and Updated: Lose weight, stay healthy, live longer, can i use this in the challege?

I've reserved The Fourth Wing from my library, but there are only 3 copies and I'm 13th in line. 😐 Hopefully, it won't take too long. Luckily, reserving that meant i saw that one of the books I've got out is now reserved, so that's gone straight to the top of the pile. The Secrets of Hartwood Hall is very popular too. Anyone read that one yet?

I'm so glad you all are all over the chipmunk tasks. I'm going to focus on the three books I've claimed for the mod tower. I haven't even started on my paperbacks, yet. Thank heavens for audiobooks.