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

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

Nanci wrote: "Keli wrote: "Link to my shelf https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

My pronouns are she/her. I'm a Texan living in England. I've been here for 20 years. Sad..."

It is sooo green here. It's gorgeous. Don't know if you're going to make it to Wales, but it's even greener there. I love Wales. Yes, people here are pretty mellow about the rain. But of they weren't they'd never get anything done or do stuff. I'm glad you're having a wonderful time. It's a wonderful country.

Suzanne wrote: "Ok so it's the second - if there is a print copy that lists a page # we will use that. But if a book is only on audio, then even if it is 20 hours long it will only count as 100 pages. (And it woul..."

Awesome. I saw that first line in the points section and was like wow, someone hates audiobooks.😳🤣🤣 Glad normal rules still apply.

It's awesome to read that there's not a detriment for over-reading. I said 4- 5 books because that's been my average lately but with audio I can possibly double that.

Also, did anyone notice in the rules that it said ALL audiobookd would count as 100 pages regardless of length, but later in post it said that only for books without a gr listing. Do we know which is the rule this time?

Kirsten wrote: "All y'all are so ahead of me. I'm just trying finish Uno over here."

Lol.

I'm so down with reading for the mods. I find the colours harder. I always attempt to use TT as a means of getting through what I've been putting off for the last year or two, but still haven't returned to the library. So my colour choices are limited. And I'm trying not to add more "new" books. I mean, I will, of course, but I'm really trying to read what I have. At least in the beginning. 🤣So if y'all don't mind, I'm gonna scour the mods lists for books that I'd really like to return to the library.🫤
I will limit myself to five planned books at a time however. Because that's about what i read in a month. So I'm not taking over or anything.

Janeylou wrote: "Keli wrote: "Janeylou wrote: "Keli wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "Hi Keli! It's great to have you on the team. We lived in Texas when we were first married and met the nicest people! And I'm imagining a w..."

My husband is from Birmingham but went to uni here, which is why we're here. He loved it.

Shannon wrote: "Keli wrote: "I just read all your intro posts and I am impressed with the number of educators we've got. And the number of crafty folks; crocheting, journaling, knitting, baking, and kind of garden..."

It's a good thing you love spreadsheets! 😆. You're defo in the right group because after education, IT seems to be the popular job here. I majored in archaeology & anthropology, swiftly became a stay at home mom and work in admin now. But I'm with you all on the crafting/hobbies front.

Kirsten wrote: "Keli wrote: "Link to my shelf https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

My pronouns are she/her. I'm a Texan living in England. I've been here for 20 years. Sad..."

I love meeting other nail polish addicts. What's your favourite brand? Mine's A England.

Janeylou wrote: "Keli wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "Hi Keli! It's great to have you on the team. We lived in Texas when we were first married and met the nicest people! And I'm imagining a wonderful story about how you e..."

We live in Norwich. Have you been here? It's beautiful.

Suzanne wrote: "Hi Keli! It's great to have you on the team. We lived in Texas when we were first married and met the nicest people! And I'm imagining a wonderful story about how you ended up in England with a won..."

He was on tour and it was my 18th birthday. It was a tuesday night and I wanted to go clubbing for the first time legally. I chose the one with the longest line. It happened to be a goth club on an S&M night. 😂😂😂

I just read all your intro posts and I am impressed with the number of educators we've got. And the number of crafty folks; crocheting, journaling, knitting, baking, and kind of gardening 🤣. We are definitely an interesting team. I'm so glad to be part of it.

Shannon, what's your major btw?

Kerri, nice blog. I've bookmarked it too.

Link to my shelf https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

My pronouns are she/her. I'm a Texan living in England. I've been here for 20 years. Sadly, i don't think I'll ever make it back to central TX, mostly cos I can't afford it. But I love England, well I love my husband, so yay. And it's fun being a tourist in America. I obvs love reading, coffee, wine, my little Jack Russell, and nail polish. I just started doing yoga in the mornings but have fallen in love with that, too. I've been on teams with at least one of you before (hi Nanci) and am looking forward to chatting with y'all.

Hello all! Guess, I need to get focused on checking in daily. Let me create my shelf.😬

Finally updating my tasks.
Since my first book of the challenge, nothing has been quite as good. Most of them have been three-star reads, with two being 3.5 stars and rounded up. One book was absolutely unbearable, so i dnf-ed it.
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Added 2019 - The WWI part was tense and interesting. The post WWII bit, not so much. It was a tale of two halves, a good half and a kind of dull half.
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Added 2016 - This is my favorite of the group. It lacked all the sexiness of modern vampire novels, which was refreshing. But every character was pretty pathetic or ugly or gross in some way. Other than being a little slow it was pretty good.
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Added 2017 - Really good but i think I was hoping it would be as good as Circe.
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Added 2020 - This reminded me of And Then There Were None at first. However, it turned out to be very different. I thought the connections between the four ladies was a bit far fetched, two maybe, but not all four. The back and forth timeline didn't add anything either. But overall an emgrossing mystery/thriller
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Added 2018 - How i wanted to like this one more. It was touching but there is just something about Backman's writing that doesn't work for me. I dnf-ed that Ove story like 20 pages in. This was better, but still too stylised.
- DNF at 48%
Added 2016 - A tour de force of style over substance, the sentences just carried on and on, with only an occasional comma to separate thoughts. There were maybe two periods per page. I'm hardly exaggerating. And it jumped about in time. In one long ass "sentence" there would be forty different thoughts, with several subjects and verbs doing things in the present and past. Ugh. So not for me.

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As ever, I'll try again
23 Feb 23 - 24

Level V = 103-127 books.

Read corresponding ending number for six (6) years of your choice (2014 to 2023) then one (1) book for others
2023
The Hole We're In 26/04
Fourth Wing 01/07
Cuckoo in the Nest 14/09

2022
Remarkably Bright Creatures 19/04
I'm Glad My Mom Died 02/05
The Family Chao 10/07
Carrie Soto Is Back 26/07
Demon Copperhead 17/08
Bewilderment 12/08
Undone 17/10
The Unknown Beloved 08/12/23
Our Wives Under the Sea 19/12/23
Lessons in Chemistry - 04/01/24

2021
Divergent 29/03
Every City Is Every Other City 12/06
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium 26/06
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon 08/08
The Dating Game 18/08
Becoming Crone 25/08
The Final Girl Support Group 17/09
Kingdomtide 28/10
Piranesi 09/11
Death in Her Hands 12/11
A Holiday With The Devil 16/11
The Gravedigger’s Son 20/11
Black Hat, White Witch 08/01/24

2020
A Stitch in Time 07/03
The Guest List 10/03
End Game 16/04
Pine 02/05
Breasts and Eggs 25/05
The Mermaid of Black Conch 05/06
The House in the Cerulean Sea 08/06
Black Sun 13/07
The Once and Future Witches 19/07
The Empress of Salt and Fortune 07/08
The Decagon House Murders 20/08
A Phoenix First Must Burn 30/08
Strange Love 07/10
The End of October: A Novel 14/11
Upright Women Wanted 05/12/23

2019
Rise Against 28/03
Roar 06/05
Flowers in the Attic 03/10
Fair Isle and Fortunes 07/10
The Murmur of Bees 03/11
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? 29/11/23

2018
Bone Driven 19/03
Then She Was Gone 20/03
Death Knell 23/03
The Last Hours 22/06
Artificial Condition 03/07
White Teeth 21/07
Rogue Protocol 10/08
The Ragged Edge of Night 02/09
Hold 16/09
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 27/09
Dark Arts and a Daiquiri 14/10
Diamond Fire 11/11

2017
The Alice Network 27/02
Bayou Born 17/03
Sugar Money 18/05
Another Brooklyn 14/07
Behind Her Eyes 05/08
Animals Strike Curious Poses 18/08
The Prince of Darkness 19/09
An Unkindness of Magicians 20/10
Naked in Death 09/11
Heartless 11/12/23
Clockwork Boys 12/12/23
The Hole - 10/01/24
Moll Flanders 17/01/24

2016
Moonology: Working with the Magic of Lunar Cycles 12/07nn
A Closed and Common Orbit 20/06
Every Heart a Doorway 07/08
The Essex Serpent 22/11
Utopia 05/12/23
Good Sugar Bad Sugar - 17/12/23

2015
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer 10/03
Zombie's Bite 17/10
Starboard Secrets 21/10
The Time Traveler's Wife 14/11
Night Shield 18/11
The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant 04/12/23

2014
Fool's Gold 15/05
The Fast Diet: Revised and Updated: Lose weight, stay healthy, live longer 05/06
The Alchemist 30/09

I finished my first book for this challenge and it was a five star read for me! After 5 years, I finally plunked down the £12 for the paperback and was glad I did. I usually hate inner-monologues, but clearly not when it's a murderbot's. I can't wait for the next one, even though I will have to.

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New Releases Challenge 2023
Level : Upon a Time - 1 book per month

January - options
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)-
Fawcett, Heather
Liar, Dreamer, Thief - Dong, Maria

February - options
Looking for Jane
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

Two years in a row I have set out read the weighty tome. I buy it and begin well, but something happens and it all falls to the wayside. Luckily for me, this year's book is not my sort of thing, so no set up for possible failure. However, I will try to finish both Gone With the Wind and Pillars next year. Happy reading to you all for 2023.