Teri-K’s Comments (group member since Mar 16, 2025)

Teri-K’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Allison Ann wrote: "Annika wrote: "Nice catch! :D"

My palindrome book SUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS so I'm avoiding it and reading GR instead."

Life is too short to read a lousy book. Pick a new goal and move on. :)

I can read this for "Green text on cover". This is the edition I'd be reading, so it's the one whose cover counts, right?

I can do at least one more after the "darning" book, but I'll wait till the morning here to decide. Then I can see what's still open. :)

(I know I could do the perfect cube number, animal in title, pumpkin on cover or starts with "An".)

Denise wrote: "New Gabrielle goal: Read a book with the phrase "chow down" in a book

We keep getting so many repeats for goals!!! Even though there are hundreds we've never seen, LOL.

Not sure if we have one ..."

I know. You know the one goal we've only gotten once? "Read a book that you got for free." Every book I read would probably work for that one. lol Of course, it wouldn't be as satisfying. :)

ETA - I've been forgetting to put my team name in my messages when I report on my books. Sorry. You'd think after all this time I wouldn't forget that. :(

I've finished Groom in Training for "Pet name starts with 'F'". The heroine has a dog named Fred.

I'll read Village Diary tomorrow. It has the word "darning" in it. It's the next in the series, after Village School which I just read for "radish". So that works out nicely. lol

ETA - Team Maximus. Sorry I forgot.

Karen, I'm reading for pet name stars with "F". Should be finished in an hour. :)

I can read a book with "darning" in the text tomorrow, if we still need it.

I'll try this, but only for Moderate, 5-8 books.

Completed: 10/5-8

Alien
Angel
Banshee
Demon Marked by Rebecca Zanetti 10/2
Dhampir
Dragon The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 10/8
Dwarf
Fairy
Furies
Gargoyle
Genie
Ghost Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James 10/3
Ghoul Dark Magic by Christine Feehan 10/23
Goblin
Gremlin
Harpy Once Upon Stilettos by Shanna Swendson 10/1
Mermaid
Mummy
Nymph
Oracle
Pegasus
Pixie
Selkie
Siren
Troll
Unicorn
Vampire Dark Destiny by Christine Feehan 10/26
Warlock Dark Demon by Christine Feehan
Werewolf Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews 10/13
Witch
Wizard Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay 10/1
Wraith The Grub-And-Stakers House a Haunt by Alisa Craig 10/31
Zombies

I've been participating in a number of the challenges here and am really enjoying them. It's especially nice since I don't have many people to talk about reading with right now, so this is a place to come chat about books. :)

I keep eyeing the RPGs, but I have no idea where to start or how. Is there an introductory one for folks who don't know if they'd like them or not, perhaps not a year-long one? Some place that explains how they work and where we can ask silly questions? I guess I'm envisioning an "RPG for Beginners", if that exists.

Thanks!

Eldarwen wrote: "I'm out of the HP run for the time being hehe, as the 4th one is 21 hours of audio and I won't make it before Saturday evening ;-)

Thanks for picking up yet another goal-book!
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No problem. The world is full of books worth picking up, a challenge just helps me decide which ones to try next. :)

Am off to finish "Romans" and start working on the review for it.

OK, I'll take "Pet name starts with 'F'". Groom in Training, 214 pages, has a dog named Fred. If someone is reading Harry Potter they can save that for one of the many other goals it will work for. :)

Catherine wrote: "There waswas mention that Dragon Harper had citrine in it.
Is that goal still around? & which book is Dragon Harper? (suspect different UK/us titles)
I might be able to read it..."

It's this one: Dragon Harper by McCaffrey and her son Todd. Citrines should be mentioned twice. You can see it here: https://books.google.com/books?id=-V2...

Denise wrote: "New Spartacus goal: Read a book were a romance isn’t approved by a family member."

You could use Jeeves in the Offing. Several of the girls get engaged to guys their families hate and Jeeves has to help them get their HEAs.

Denise wrote: "Do you have the sentence/page #? Or was that posted earlier? (and where lol, since I had more than 100 posts to go through)
"

Sure, sorry. I can see why you don't want to try and go back to find it. :)

Village School 239 pages.
Use for "radish" in text.
"She had twisted the corner of the face-flannel into a formidable radish and was turning it remorselessly round and round inside his left ear." page 11

I've finished Village School, as previously mentioned for "radish".

I'd already started it a couple of weeks ago and then put it aside. I think when this challenge is over I'm going to reread all her books, I love them so much. :)

Eldarwen wrote: "From the way it currently looks, we're going to use a whole lot of boons today...

Waiting for a few more opinions, then we'll get to requesting all of these boons. I think we're up to 4 now."

Again, it's just me, but I'm OK with that. Right now we still have time for people to pick and choose a book for a goal. When we get down to the last day or so only the quick readers will be able to do that. So clearing a few goals out now gives more chances to everybody to get in a last goal or two. Clearing them out at the last minute might allow us to use already finished books but it might not. But that's just my opinion, and I really don't care either way. :)

I vote boons for memoirs, C. Am author and Alexandrite.

Evidently "Citrine" can be found in Dragon Harper by Anne McCaffrey and Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier but I can't get either in the next couple of days.

Eldarwen wrote: "The new Gabrielle goal (since Teri finished a wolf in title book) is another one of our favourites:

"Read a book written by an author who was born in Central America"."

I vote boon, too. Though if you want to give it a few hours, that's OK. It's very limited and we don't have time for someone to request a book that would fit...

Allison Ann wrote: "Teri-k wrote: "How close are to to finishing your radish book? Since we're getting down to the wire I don't see any reason to duplicate efforts on purpose. I can read mine in a couple of hours if y..."

OK, works for me. :) I'll go read "radish". lol

I got so interested in the new goals I forgot to add I finished another off-the- library-paperback-rack book. Secret of the Wolf (Heart of the Wolf), 256 pages. Insomnia is good for something. lol

It will work for the goal of "wolf in the title" or "name of an animal in the title."

Allison Ann wrote: "I'm actually reading a radish book right now and a dinosaur one. I think we should dump the gemstone ones though, can't find them anywhere."

How close are to to finishing your radish book? Since we're getting down to the wire I don't see any reason to duplicate efforts on purpose. I can read mine in a couple of hours if you want to focus on the dinosaur. If not, I'll find a different goal. No problems either way. :)

Believe it or not I can do "radish". :) It's in the first book in a series I've been wanting to reread anyway.

I'm all for using boons that have been hanging around with no one volunteering for them, especially those pesky ones like that memoir goal that keep coming back before we filled the last one. I'm thinking "alexandrite" is a toughie, too. Give everyone a chance to get one last goal book in. :)

ETA- Village School, 239 pages.
"She had twisted the corner of the face-flannel into a formidable radish and was turning it remorselessly round and round inside his left ear." page 11