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

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

Plethora wrote: "Keli wrote: "We should swap one Plethora. Maybe 4 or 5. Just to even out the numbers a bit. Otherwise, you're reading all three in a row."

I'm not worried about them being in a row because we don'..."

I've only just seen this. Good to know they don't need to be in order and that y'all didn't have to wait for me to finish.

Vicki Willis wrote: "Keli wrote: "Vicki Willis wrote: "I finished another one today and it was one of those that makes me wonder why I waited so long to read it. I loved it!

[book:Homego..."

That's good to know. But I do cry at commercials. 😶

Should we also plan out our safezone tasks? Cos even though we can't start reading those until we're done with countdown, we can start reading for each safezone group as soon as we're in the first safezone. So if we're close to finishing one safezone some can start reading for the next. You just can't finish a book before the current safezone is complete. So we could plan out the two weeks based on our category.

50s books are easy enough to find. That four narrators one though looks hard. Do they mean four separate narrators or narration from four pov?

We should swap one Plethora. Maybe 4 or 5. Just to even out the numbers a bit. Otherwise, you're reading all three in a row.

Ok, I just found that Depravity was published on the 10th and it's only 236 pages of genre I'm more into than children's classics. So I'll start that on the 12th. I'm gmt time, so I probably won't have it finished until that evening. Like half a day after the competition starts. But it will give you all time to get stuck into your books. Of course I'm eight, so you may have to wait a bit again. 😕

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Keli wrote: "Can I get a link to my original post #417, please? It would be so much easier."

Done!"

Thanks. 😊

Vicki Willis wrote: "I finished another one today and it was one of those that makes me wonder why I waited so long to read it. I loved it!

Homegoing

my review"

Homegoing is on my list. I want to read it so bad but I've put it off cos I feel like it's going to a powerful tear jerking read.

Can I get a link to my original post #417, please? It would be so much easier.

So out of my 50, I've removed one and read one. Slow progress 😶. But I do have another one started and another in my immediate to read pile.

The one I read was The Child Thief. It wasn't worth the wait. Not that it was bad, it just wasn't for me. The continuous cruelty that centred around a bunch of kids wasn't enjoyable for me. There's so much actual cruelty in the world, much of it inflicted upon children or the defenseless, that I just don't like to or need to have it as part of my entertainment.
Though, when I read the author's afterword I could appreciate the story a little more. I didn't enjoy it more but I could understand the need to have it for the story. There needed to be enough pain outside Avalon, enough to tempt children away from homes, and there needed to be brutality within the Lost Boys to survie inside Avalon but, also, to fight in Peter's war. That sentence Brom read in Peter Pan with the potential sinister aspect, knowing about it made the story palatable in a way that it otherwise wouldn't have been for me.

My next book is King Leopold's Ghost, which is also going to be a hard read. This is why they've been on my tbr for so long.

But after or maybe before that I'll read A Court of Wings and Ruin. That should be fun.

Eldarwen wrote: "My Robert Hunter series now has 3 sizes..... because those stupid publishing houses cannot just stick with one bloody size! And they're all paperbacks as well - what's the use?!

I really dislike t..."

That's even worse than cover art changes. It makes one almost want to write a letter. I wonder what makes them do it?

I have seen that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published on the 10th. If get this stupid Ready Player One finished in the next few days days. I can start that just before we begin and have it finished just after we start. Unless we have to start reading on the 12th, in which case it would take me a couple days after the game starts to finish it.
So I could possibly get in 10, 8 & 1

I hate when they switch cover designs halfway through a series. My first six or eight books of the Hollows looks one way then the last ones another.

I'll go for 8 and 1

How do you want to do it? Should we each take a couple numbers?

Hi all. I like Muana Lua, too.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "It took me 4 years to get to book 8 after reading #7 don't forget. haha"

Lol.

I read about 4-6 per 2 weeks.
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I found a team.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Oh really? That’s a bit annoying! Will take me longer to finish the KD series then 😂😂"

At the moment, it's only the one book, so it won't take you too much longer. I agree with Eldarwen, that you should really read it before KD #10.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Finally read book 8 in the Kate Daniels series!

Loved it. Forgot how much I have enjoyed this series.

And I am almost back on track with % to goal. One more boo..."

I love 😍 😍 😍 Kate Daniels. Wait till you get to theHugh D'Ambry spin-off, Iron and Magic. That book was so good.

NARCISSUS - "...narcissi and gave them to Ursula Monkton..." The Ocean at the End of the Lane
NASTURTIUM - "...and nasturtiums wit leaves the size of small pizzas trailed over a stone bench." The Devil's Right Hand
OLEANDER - "...with its background of rich foliage of oleander..." Dracula
ORANGE BLOSSOM - "She steps in toward me and the scent of orange blossoms fills the air." Loc 2446 Alex: A Cold Fury Hockey Novel
ORCHID- "Each table was bedecked with lavish orcid centerpieces..." Cinder
PANSY - "I could be happy with Pansy, in some part of my head..." The Ocean at the End of the Lane
PASQUE FLOWER - "...and buried her on her old dower lands in a field pf pasque flowers." Entreat Me
PASSIONFLOWER - "It was an exotic bloom he'd seen in a shop window, and he would have been abashed to know it was called a passion flower." Strange the Dreamer
PEACH BLOSSOM - "Bushy, barely thirty centimetres high, it had bright pink flowers with petals resembling outsize peach blossom..." Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
PEONY - "She was going to start sounding like Peony. " Cinder
PETAL - "Each deep red bloom was full and perfect, the petals velvety soft." Grave Ransom
PHLOX - "Iceberg roses and white phlox grew more luminous night scented stock..." Polo
PLUMERIA "There were bushes of red bougainvillea and white gardenia, pink plumeria..." Dirty Angel
POINSETTIA - "He looked a hundred million dollars and was carrying a rose pink poinsettia." Polo
POPPY - "Poppy had simply disappeared in the library..." Firelight
PRIMROSE - "...tying back the sidelocks with primrose ribbon..." Outlander
PUSSY WILLOW - "She knew spring was coming, even if there was snow on the ground, when she saw pussy willow in the bowl" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
QUEEN ANNE'S LACE - "...Queen Anne's lace whispering against Kirsten's outstretched hans." Station 11
*ranunculus*
RHODODENDRON - "Ancient rhododendrons began dotting the side of the road..." At the Water's Edge
ROSE - "Have you given any thought to what color roses? A Court of Mist and Fury
*safflower*
sego lily
*sepal*
SNAPDRAGON - "It goes by Snapdragon, although I don't know if that's a code..." The Wicked King
STOCK "I don't take any stock at all in such matters." Dracula
SUNFLOWER - "...and there would be a field of sunflowers at the bottom of the garden." The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
SWEET PEA - "I can make anything you'd know to order, sweet pea." Blue Diablo
THISTLE - Rainwater filled the deeper pits, and thistle and ox-ye daisy..." Outlander
*tickseed*
TIGER LILY - "I nodded, noticing for the first time that one petal of the tiger lily brushed the rim of the mug just so." First Grave on the Right
TRILLIUM - Title and throughout Trillium
TULIP - "What's the significance of the white tulips." Looking for Alaska
Venus flytrap
VERONICA - "Do you think Betty and Veronica here can keep an eye on these two?" Rock Chick
VETCH - "Vetch. Not a name Aleks knew..." - Cormorant Run
VIOLET -..."some lovely bits out of wood anenome, and violets..." Outlander
WALLFLOWER - "People dismissed Oris as a wallflower..." The House of Shattered Wings pg 84
*wild prairie rose*
WILDFLOWERS - "She followed the path through the wildflower field..." -The Cage
WISTERIA - "...past wisteria and bee balm; past jewelweed and milkweed..." The Darkest Part of the Forest
WOLFSBANE - "They salted the scene with wolfsbane." Magic Strikes
YUCCA FLOWER - "The edge of the cliff was thick with stubborn growth: yucca, small live oaks, firs, cactus, a huge variety of grasses..." Midnight Crossroad
ZINNIA - Name of a character so used throughout - Kind One
Books Used:
Radiance, Outlander, The Darkest Part of the Forest, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time, Until the Sun Falls from the Sky, Dracula, Firelight, Cinder, To Kill a Mockingbird, At the Water's Edge, Looking for Alaska, A Court of Mist and Fury, Dirty Angels, The Cage, Penmort Castle, Fire Touched, The Dream House, Equal Rites, When We Wake, Magic Bites, Darker Angels, First Grave on the Right, Dead Until Dark, The Devil's Right Hand, The Silver Witch, Midnight Crossroad, Slave to Sensation, Magic Strikes, Blue Diablo, Rock Chick, Kind One, Alex, Cormorant Run, The Restorer,Grave Ransom, Polo, A Pocketful of Crows, Entreat Me Blood in Her Veins: Nineteen Stories from the World of Jane Yellowrock Trillium The Immortalists Balzac and the Little Chinese SeamstressHide and Seek Curse on the Land Texas Roots Shiftless A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Wicked King Strange the Dreamer