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

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

⚚♆ Cynthia ♆⚚ wrote: "Sorry team! I have been quite busy these last few days and didn't have enough time to check Goodreads properly.

Titles
They can be used in Jackanory. E.g. What She Ate could be used for something ..."

I think that sounds brilliant.

Cat wrote: "finished Too Like the Lightning, which was really dense and slow reading - I took over a week over it 'cos I could generally only read a chapter a day. And then it ended on a massiv..."

I hate books that end on massive cliffhangers. It's my biggest bugbear.

Peg wrote: "Great work! I'm on board, still needing a little clarification.

When it comes to counting the books for each section, and how they are used, are titles acceptable? I'm about to finish What She Ate..."

I think we can use any part of the book to help us tell our story. We can make the books fit however we choose.

I've knocked another one off. It was not as good as I hoped. The cover of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires was better than the story.

Donna wrote: "Wow, Keli! You are good at this!"

Thanks, Donna. 😊

I think the problem, once we get going, will be one of editing. 500 words max is not a lot. But there's a lot of stuff to work with already, so I have no doubt we'll get a story together.

I didn't want to get to far into it and y'all not want it. But that's a sort of basic fantasy-mystery or fantasy-thriller using most of the stuff listed.

Well for a rough idea we could have an interstellar or interdimensional or dystopian America baby stealing organisation run by vampires that our MCs have to hunt down.
4x Describe the setting of your story - pick any of the states and florida
8x Describe your protagonists (max 2 characters) - an inept bounty hunter/pi and her best friend an actual p.i. or police officer who grew up an orphan. She has a passion for socual justice and he has a lot of tattoos mostly of birds moths and insects
8x Describe your antagonists (max 2 characters)Governor of the country of florida where the government is harsh and cruel and cabal of baby stealing vampires (though we'll only introduce one)
3x Describe your secondary characters (max 3 characters)
4x What's DEATH up to? ('cos DEATH is in every story!)owns a bar in hellish Florida with some people playing darts in the background. But it's also where Death holds fights to the death, the vampires are often the winners. But some of these gator punching locals can truly hold their own.
6x Who's the cameo(s)? (max 2 cameos)
4x What's the spur that starts the story? A woman finds her baby missing. Stolen out of her house during a cocktail party (champagne glass on cover)
4x What's the motivation of the antagonists? In this new horrible world something terrible afflicts Floridians. They've all become crazy violent infertile mad people. And no other place will allow them to move into their areas bringing their crazy Flordia taint. Some sort of evolutionary and behavioral changes within nature in urban environments that has caused infertility and violent madness. This is also why vampires love florida, it's become hell on earth. So for wealthy Floridians if they want a baby they've got to pay for a stolen one.
4x How do the protagonists react?
4x What's the next plot point?
6x What are your secondaries up to?
2x What's the McGuffin?
4x What obstacles are in the protagonists' way?
4x How do the protagonists overcome them?
4x Time for the final twist! Definitely aliens
8x And now to wrap things up for the protagonists, antagonists, secondaries, cameos, DEATH et al!

Cat wrote: "read which is all sort of domestic abuse trigger warnings, but also brilliant writing"

As a feminist, I always want to read books like this but they make me so angry. I'm finding it hard to not break things whilst listening to The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires with it's casual dismissal of women. I think I'd go insane reading about abuse. Even though I cannot read them, I am so glad books like these exist.

Sammy wrote: "Finished #65

Borrowed it off my little brother last time I saw him... In 2019! Will finally be seeing my family in a couple of weeks (if stoopid virus doesn't do..."

🤞 you'll see your family soon. It was a really good book.

I'm really going to need to start the Expanse series soon. I have also added The Perks of Being a Wallflower to my tbr. But I have read two, so it went down briefly.
I finished Small Magics yesterday. Most of the stories were great but I particularly liked the ones related to the Kate Daniels series. I especially loved Curran's pov.
I also finally got to World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. I liked the movie more. The structure was interesting at first, but became a bit boring after a couple hundred pages. I think I would've preferred a straight-up narrative, but that's not what he wrote.

⚚♆ Cynthia ♆⚚ wrote: "Hi Team! I have added an extra tab to the SS called "Plan" with all the tasks left to do. Because we have been given a shelf to use that we can pick 50 books from, I have provisionally assigned 28 ..."

Re the hippo book, whatever is easiest. I am happy to read it. I am a little behind on where I'd like to be on my reading. I was hoping to have WWZ finished by yesterday but I ended up doing extra baking for a charity I volunteer for and then had a wisdom tooth out today. I have spent my of my afternoon sleeping. I was not prepared for the ache and the swelling! I had the top one done a few months back and only had a little pain. This lower one is a whole other story. Anyway, i will have Z and Small Magics finished tmz. Then I can either start the Hippo, Mort or some other book.

I like fantasy romance.

⚚♆ Cynthia ♆⚚ wrote: "Keli wrote: "I'll read MC is a cat shifter with Small Magics
I'll also read for cold covers and, the hippo one of course. I'm also reading mort. In july, I can read..."

I am 100% r..."

No, it's all yours, I just looked at ones that hadn't been claimed and thought I'd pick the trickiest that I actually books for. I wasn't planning on the cold cover book otherwise. So I'll puck something else. Or even start planning the jackanory.

Also, an up-to-date summary would be brilliant.

I'll read MC is a cat shifter with Small Magics
I'll also read for cold covers and, the hippo one of course. I'm also reading mort. In july, I can read The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, which is #140 on the non-fic list. But I do not read non-fiction quickly. That book will probably take me a couple weeks. I'll read others alongside. If someone wants to read for that task, don't let me stop you. I'm just tossing my hat in the ring so we know it'll get done.

Kate S wrote: "Will be finishing a few more books tomorrow and Friday.

I will work on #11 inept MC with Three to Get Deadly, 121 MPG War with Beneath a Scarlet Sky, and 197 (or 198) w..."

If you haven't started Beneath the Scarlet Sky yet, i will have World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War finished tonight or tomorrow at the latest. It has a war MPG

Sarah wrote: "Hey guys,

Starting to find a new normal here. Dad is home but can only use one arm, which we expected, but still having some mobility problems. Nothing too bad though!

I have like 10 books to add..."

Sarah, it's great to see that your dad is back home and on the mend for the most part.

Megan wrote: "Omg! I didn't know a book with a hippo existed. Thats great, no rush for you to read it Keli! Just fab you can.

What books are they from Keli? I was thinking along those lines, like inept at holdi..."

Charley Davidson is from the phenomenal UF Charley Davidson series. The first book is First Grave on the Right, all the books have grave in the title. She's kooky and funny, though she does go on about the superhot Reyes. Though, it works in this series. These aren't clean and I think eventually, like a few books down the line, there are some sex scenes. But I don't think it's in the first book.

Stephanie Plum is in the mystery series Stephanie Plum. The first one is One for the Money. These all have sequential numbers in the title. I've only read the first one so I can't say how good or not the series is, but it's pretty popular as it goes to book 24 or something. Stephanie is truly inept in that first book. Everything that could go wrong does and generally because she's flying by the seat if her pants or, in her case, bicycle shorts. I will say that it was fun to go back in time. Though it's from the mid to late 90s it seems so old.
I do have the next book in the series but I'm not going to make a claim for this task.

Also, I think someone like Charley Davidson or Stephanie Plum could qualify as inept. Charley cos she is generally uncoordinated. And Stephanie because she's a newb and it's only by luck that she gets her man, at least in the first book.

i own this, so I can read for hippo on the cover.
It probable won't be for another week or so. I need to finish Dark Hollow and Mort first.

I've post the tasks which fit Shadow of Night, two of them are for words in text. If you choose to use it for one of these, let me know and I'll give the quote. I just didn't want to put them both there. They'd take up so much space.