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

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

Hi. I realized I haven't updated what I'm reading recently. Sorry about that. I know tend to have a lot of books going at once; I expect to finish these soon:
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters, 1929-1932
Lord Emsworth and Others
The Brandons
A Beauty So Rare First published March, 2014
Unexpected Father
The Lady Chapel

Marguerite wrote: "Everything is packed except for the stuff we will be taking to our new house Friday. Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhhh Tomorrow (Thursday) we do the last walk through, then at 4pm we do the closing and once the pa..."

That's really exciting! I love the first night in a new house. :) I hope everything goes smoothly.

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I finished A Gift Of Dragons, which took place in outer space, goal #6.

I've also finished The Gemel Ring, not for a goal.

I can read Earthly Delights, which has RADISH in it. "Opening the oven to see if a cake is rising is like pulling up radishes to see if they are growing." location 3261

ETA - I'm going to read it even if we don't need radish. I've been wanting to start this series over again.

Karen wrote: "Thanks Teri!
I wrote those goals and in my mind it was an alternative to the goal "Read a book which has the main location (setting) as a known planet other than Earth" which had to be a known planet. That is, in my mind, "outer space" could be any other planet or just set in space."

Oh, good. This is one of those books DH had that I realized I'd not read. It's pretty good so far. I think I'll put it in the "pass on to the kids" box when I'm finished. :)

I can read A Gift of Dragons: Illustrated Stories, which takes place on another planet, if that counts for the outer space goal. If someone else gets an outer space book before me, that's fine, of course. :)

It doesn't have children as a genre, but I checked the word count anyway and it's over the minimum.

Does another planet count for outer space? Or does it have to be a space ship of some kind?

Lucy wrote: "Hey guys! Sorry for the missing two days! I was working and didn't have an access to a computer!

However, I finished two books:

by [author:J.K. ..."

Welcome back. I see you enjoyed some reading time. :)

Karen wrote: "I knew that quickly as I researched it this morning for another goal ;)"

I reported back in post 280, which may have become lost in the shuffle, that I'd finished The Texan's Wager First published Oct 29, 2002, for goal 1. But I don't believe it's been updated. Is there something I missed?

Eldarwen wrote: "Open Season is read by a male - David Chandler. I'll go update."

Yeah!

Eldarwen wrote: "Teri-k wrote: "Did goal #1 ever get updated?"

Which one do you mean? The one with the X author? If so, the book is still being read."

Sorry. I meant for the first published on the 29th book. From post 280.

I have two male-narrated audios going, if it doesn't get filled before I finish them. :)

Did goal #1 ever get updated?

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Melissa wrote: "At the very least it is helping to clear out some TBR shelves."

That's good! I started doing challenges to help reduce my TBRs. Now the list is about 3 times longer than it was. :)

Though one of my current goals is to read all the books in the house and decide which are worth keeping, not that so many are on e-book. So I'm going to my book shelves first, and I am getting some read that way.

Eldarwen wrote: "Hm, nothing on the list fits what we currently have people reading.

Since the 29th goal is already finished and I don't have to get to Magic Breaks immediately, I can read [book:Lo..."

Well I won't be horning in on that goal. :) I don't have access to any of the books on that list that I want to read...

DH was a mathematician, so I know how probability works, but it seems weird that we keep getting these goals that make us read from a list. sigh

Eldarwen wrote: "YES! Absolutely! :-)

I mean it's a teen romance and the love declarations at ages 16-18 always weird me out a little, but it reminds me of Roswell and that's just... I loved that tv show haha. "

I think books are like food. Sometimes you want a 5 star meal, but other times an apple or one piece of chocolate are perfect. And the books/foods that remind us of other times, places, or people we love can be better than the fanciest book/meal. If that makes sense. :)

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416 pp Total 752 pp

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Finished:
First published Oct 29, 2002. goal 1
First pub March 6, 2012. goal 5
no goal

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