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

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

Carmen, can Interview with a Vampire work for P? I'm reading Hollow Boy for an L Horror, but if you've got that spot I'll move to something else because I'm not liking it much so it's very slow going.

If you can do P, then I'll persevere and try to finish by tonight, otherwise I could go read something without ghosts and spectres and murder :-)

Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly
Read 8/9/16
Rating: 3 Stars
Pages: 304

Fits: Y (Apple Yengko)
Also: B, E, K, A,

Yeah, we've got 4 OLYMPICS and a MILON in progress, so as the finished books come in we'll jump ahead. Somehow this time we are doing them all at the same time instead of doing one and then the next.

We've got 3 finished horror books; I'm reading Hollow Boy (L), Carmen is reading Intensity and and Moonlight is reading Isle of Blood (Y) so two of those would give us five. We've got the bonus questions (with Carmen's book), so as soon as Moonlight or I are done we can grab the missing letters from the main sheet and turn in the bonus.

We'll need an O and a P, and if Moonlight or I are slow a replacement for either L or Y. I'm sorry I've been so slow this weekend -- headaches really crunch my reading time and I've been getting them. Also, horror scares me so I read it slowly.

Coraline by Neil Gaimon
Finished: 8/6/16
Pages: 162
Rating: 4 stars

Horror book, orange letters on cover, orange words in text
C
N, G,

Hmm. I enlarged the goodreads picture of and it does look yellow on screen, but the paper version is definitely orange. I forced everyone at my table at my PTA conference today to look at it. Everyone said "orange" with no prompting at my part, except for the artist guy who said "burnt sienna" before we pelted him with bread rolls.

But I found the word Orange in the text so we could use it for that if Erin's book has orange on the cover.

Carmen not the Title, the author's name above it. It's definitely not red. But I'm looking for the word orange.

Sheila, Carmen found a horror book with purple, so you don't have to worry about the genre. I've got which has the author's name in orange, and Erin has marked Christopher Pike's Monster as Orange Text, which come to think of it probably means the cover as well so I'd better keep an eye out for the word "orange" somewhere in a book.

Now we just need more books! Coraline is really creeping me out so I might read it slowly and not finish until Monday. And I've got to read for another group and that's horror as well.

OK, my alien book is coming up with violet text and the library will want it back soon, so I'll put that up after my YA horror.

I'm hoping the violet words are the thing that falls off on Saturday though -- that's hard!

The Crocodile's Last Embrace by Suzanne Arruda
Paperback, 400 pages
Finished 8/5/16
***

I was hoping I could convince myself that text was orangish, but it's not really.

S for wheelathon.
Or A, C, M, J, L, B

I keep popping up to members of my family with book covers saying "what color is this?" because if I stare long enough I have no idea. I have found with paper colors that it helps to get natural light. I have to *gasp* open the window curtains sometimes...

I'm in the mood to live dangerously because I just got back from the state office to get my younger son his driving permit. My older son got his last month. So I feel like I live in the danger zone anyway :-)

Well, submit that last TORCHWOOD. But we don't have books ready for the next one, so we might as well get a new word to work on.

Let's spin for another word! That's my vote. Live dangerously! Also, I'm tired of the letter "O."

The Ordeal of Change
122 pages
Finished 8/5/17
3 stars

Works for O.

I finished another "O" -- I found a book with 120 pages on my shelves, so I read it. First poetry, now philosophy -- Wobble is making me smart!

"The Ordeal of Change" by Eric Hoffer. I think with this one and Jennifer's one we can turn in TORCHWOOD 6 and get a new word.

Carmen, I stole your yellow "O" spot.

We're hoping to finish today -- TORCHWOOD 7 is done and TORCHWOOD 6 needs 2 Os -- let's give us a few hours to see if we can come up with the last Os.

If we put my 101 Poems in the 7th TORCHWOOD for the final O, it's ready to submit. Then two more O's to wrap up the 6th TORCHWOOD and we get a new word.

Jennifer, Paula, Carmen, are two of you almost done?

And tell that Milon that we read at least two 500+ books for the 7th TORCHWOOD. Boo yah!

We should have a list of the stinkers we read for the Tapir's. The wonderful discoveries could be Tapir's Delights, and the less wonderful ones Tapir's Droppings.

I finished 101 Famous Poems (much to the enjoyment of my cats, who found my recitation of my favorites to be a bit over-stimulating), which can be used for one of the O's if someone doesn't want to worry about finishing quickly.