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

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

I'm still hoping that one of the books (we have both Sallie's The Angel Experiment and Ang's The Archived) in the "The" spot will turn out to have secret depths so that they fit somewhere else, and then we'll come back for your book, Nancy.

Sallie, did every chapter of The Angel Experiment end with a cliffhanger? Maybe that belongs in the "!" square!

OK, I finished Moonshiner's Son for the "son" square, but it's only 208 pages so I won't feel bad if an ambitious reader steals the spot.

I guess I'll work on the 2007 book and then maybe find a "!". I've got Wicked! which should be a quick read.

Moonshiner's Son by Caroline Reeder
Paperback, 208 pages
Read: 8/26/16
Rating: 4 stars

Sheila, The Grand Tour's ISBN is 978-1-4532-5469-1.

And I checked them out of my library as epubs and read them using Aldiko on my tablet. I have a tablet with a NOOK app, KINDLE app, Overdrive and this new thing Aldiko that is what library epubs use now. Most of my books (paper and ebooks) are from the library.

Plethora, Paperback and Amazon have the same giant page count. There's one edition that is closer, but it has a different cover and publisher. I found it all very confusing. I've never looked at e-book page counts before Wobble!

If anyone reads a longer book that fits a square (and doesn't fit an empty square!), feel free to swap 'em out and put your thick tome in that spot! Let's go for the points!

By the way, on the series I'm currently reading, Goodreads drastically overstates the page count. The edition seems right in all other respects (and I don't see other e-editions) but my reader shows 282 pages and goodreads shows 484. Maybe my reader recounted when I made the font smaller and the margins wider? Is that a thing? Because I do like to read without margins on my screen.

Hey, I read about 4 book in a day last week! Of course, they were all for the teeny-book Milon... Made my stats look good, though :-)

I stole Ashley's Kissing square because I finished The Grand Tour, which had a lot of kissing. The next in the series is The Mislaid Magician, which is a 2006 book. But should I switch with someone and read the "!" book instead?

is a nonfiction, and I can finish it and the children's book fairly quickly, but I don't want to commit to anything else since nonfiction usually makes me go more slowly. So someone else would have to grab the 2006 book. I've also got a few short books with "World" in them lying around, but I'm hoping someone else gets there first.

And there's a 2000 book square unclaimed, but that's it. We've almost got this!

The Grand Tour: or The Purloined Coronation Regalia by Patricia Wrede & Caroline Steverner
Rating: 4 stars
Finished: 8/25/16
Kindle, 484 (but goodreads is wrong -- it was 282 pages)

There is a lot of kissing. It's a newlywed trip. So I put it in the Kissing square.

Moonlight, does your family know you have signed up to read three, no four with the Nile book, books by the weekend? :-)

Since my idea for the square was a book that exemplified the "butterfly effect" I think your idea is great!

I meant the one you just finished with the F author. Maybe Moonlights book will fit somewhere else.

Sheila, you can grab the F spot back since your book has more pages. That means more points :-)

I just thought the firebird square was sort of "Awesome Magical creature" and the blurb of Silver in the Blood made it sound like there were awesome magical creatures in it. Does it fit?

I was thinking of your current horse book for the horse picture. Then we can put Ashley's book in "book with pictures."

Oh, I'm hoping everyone gets a chance to look at the spreadsheet since I've been snooping in all our unused books and sticking them in spots :-) If you've got something finished that works in a square and the square is filled with something in black, kick out the unfinished book and put in yours!

I'm waiting on Plethora. She read a book involving majestic shapeshifters and I'm wondering if that fits the theme of magical creatures and would work for that spot.

If not, your bird book would work.

Any ideas for the raccoon? Book set in the great outdoors?

I think I need the actual readers before I can add more. I'm looking for books published in 2000 or 2006. And if anyone's book had that "butterfly effect" of small changes making a huge difference, that would be great.

And I'm pretty sure there was some kissing in somebody's finished book.

Would Plethora's Silver in the Blood work for the bird/phoenix thing? It's about shapeshifters and uncovering power, which is what that picture looks like to me.

I'm only going by the blurb and the cover, though.

That works. I wasn't sure if it was a bird or a dragon. I tried to make it bigger but it got blurry.

Flight Behavior by Kingsolver would be a perfect butterfly book, but I'm listening on audio and that takes me weeks. Or any other book where a tiny choice makes a huge difference in the plot (the "Butterfly Effect").

I'm putting in my finished book. I'd see put it in any square that fits, and double up. So I filled "Changes" into "Cover Has Horse" but Ashley might make that Beth/Ashley with her horse book.

That way we can move stuff around.

Let's put in our banked books and see. If we are super lucky, we'll have a pattern almost complete. Otherwise I do kinda like the coverall...