Beth’s Comments (group member since Aug 12, 2014)

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

Also look at the other fantasy books that end in Neptune or Curse or Oracle. There must be something that starts with Curse!

Or you can twist your book if it has Houses in the middle -- In the Houses of Destiny could become House In the of Destiny!

Having said that, so far I've got nothing. But I did finish my yellow dress book! I should be able to finish my Law-Born title book today so I could squeeze in one more short book.

Plethera, I *hate* free verse books, and it's written in that, and I read and loved Hild not too long ago, so the poor book never really had a chance with me. But once I decided to accept the girl as an immature kid rather than an incredibly stupid young adult, I stopped wanting to slap her and could enjoy the retelling of "the Lady of Shallot" and the fast turning pages.

I've noticed in the past decade or so that I take it personally when protagonists the ages of my children behave badly, act stupidly, or die horribly. So right now I'm vulnerable to books starring kids 16-18 :-). On the positive side, I am now enjoying a lot more middle grade fiction.

Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
Finished: 10/6/16
Rating: 2 stars
Hardback: 394 pages

For Bonus 27 Title Relay

Goodreads has my Law of the Desert Born book for the title relay as Law of the Desert Born: Stories, but my cover and my library listing don't have the stories part. Is that going to be a problem? I noticed when I went to add the book to my currently-reading shelf.

Even the graphic novel remake doesn't have the extra part of the title. Humph.

In other news, I finished the Song of the Sparrow book.

Well, humph, my library only has the first two. That's just mean!

I'm reading that Song of the Sparrow book and finding it really annoying, until I arbitrarily decided the the narrator was wrong about her age. She's not 17 or so, she's clearly 10 or 11, and now her actions and emotions make complete sense and I can sit back and enjoy the book.

You can tell I'm desperate to use that Corsican Caper for something. I really didn't enjoy it, so I'm hoping to at least toss it into something for the Tapirs to justify the time spent listening to it!

Moonlight, I went through the whole When the War Began series, but I can't find all the followup books. I should check again to see if they made it over to America.

Corsican Caper has a gun on the cover; isn't Eragon about a war? Or does that not start until the next book? I vaguely remember them fighting some battle by the end.

My book for Red Dress also has the word "livery" on page 305. If anyone else has a red dress we could swap books.

Thanks Moonlight. That's the one I asked for help on, right? I am on my phone and about to be waiting around for 30 minutes or so and am picking my reading material.

OK, color mavens -- do these dresses look pink to you?

☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ wrote: "Beth I need you torefresh me on how the colapse that ss like you did with the group ss. I'm have a memory lapse. Thanks"


Thank goodness Carmen replied so quickly. I had no idea how that was done, and was amazed. If I tried it I probably would have managed to delete the entire spreadsheet.

I finished my Title Chain, Bonus 16. I'm ready to pick up new books from the latest 2 title chains.

Last Summer by Holly Chamberlin
Finished: 10/4/16
Rating: 4 stars
Kindle: 337 pages

Starts with Last for Leg 2 of Bonus 16


Summer Garden Murder by Ann Ripley
Finished: 10/5/16
Rating: 2 stars
Kindle: 256 pages

Starts with Summer for Leg 3 of Bonus 16 (Bonus is done!)

I'm hoping we can fill this from banked books (not mine!), but if not, I'm partly through a book with a widowed main character.

My library has a Song of the Sparrow book I could get (it's a paper book so I'll have to drive out and pick it up). I'm almost done with my personal Title Chain so I could do that next, if we need it.

It's a YA about 5th century Britain, so a bit off my usual fare, but I'll try just about anything.

I thought for sure my 4-disk audio would be under 150 pages, but I checked and it's listed as 176 or something. I'm guessing there was a lot of white space; maybe illustrations? There was not much there in The Corsican Caper. Sorry!

Scotsman of My Dreams by Karen Ranney
Finished: 10/4/16
Rating: 3 stars
Kindle: 384 pages

Starts with Scotsman for leg 5 of Bonus 16.

If anyone else has a book with a mechanic, Blood Bound works for "Main character lives in a mobile home" as well.