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

Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "Most of my list was written by Catherine Marshall."

I noticed that. :)

Melissa (ladybug) wrote: "Melissa's Challenge
Ends: December 31st 2016
Start with 10 and see where it goes:01 Little Princes
02 A Man Called Peter
03 Something More
04 [book:Beyon..."

Christy is one of my favorites of all time. I got my book club to read it last year and all but one lady loved it, and she just couldn't get into it. I hope you love it. :)

I'm rereading A Man Called Peter right now. I used to watch the movie every Easter season. I don't have access to it so I'm reading the book again instead. I quite like it, I think it's inspiring but realistic. I always feel like I'd recognize Peter Marshall if I met him somewhere after I've read it.

Noa wrote: "I read (book #4b). I loved this book! Omg... I sometimes read children's books and I like them... but this one was just so lovely. I'm going to reread it at some po..."

It is a good book, isn't it? I reread it last year. My daughter loved it as well. :)

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree by Ann Weisgarber

Sarah wrote: "You all wore me down. :D I've been stalking this for a week now and it has precipitated a complete reorganization of my bookshelves - both physical, eBook, and on Goodreads. Now I have to join this..."

Welcome to the challenge! I've read #1 and !4 and liked them both, though they are very different. It's good ot have variety, isn't it? :)

Snowtulip wrote: "Yipee, finally finished one!


Under Heaven
3.5 stars

This was another epic tale from this author. I loved Tigana, and was hoping I'd love this one j..."

I loved Tigana, too. But I've not read anything else by him.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Book 2 completed!
Loved it.
Now I'll have to watch the BBC TV version :)

✔1. - added as it is a classic that I have always been intrigued by. I have kept putti..."

Oh, the BBC version is really good. It follows the books very closely, and Richard Armitage... Amazing. Every time I read the book I hear his voice saying the lines. lol Enjoy!

Nanci wrote: "Ok, doesn't it just kill you when friends say, "I would read, but I don't know what to read." Or "I don't have anything good to read." And meanwhile i have a list of TBR a mile long! ;)"

What kills me is when people ask you to recommend "a book", but won't tell you what they like to read. How can I know if they'd like a thriller or some fat historical tome?

Also - When we were first married we visited my husband's grandmother, and he had a cousin living next door. The grandmother worked and my husband was gone during the day, so I read. Every time the cousin would walk by he'd say, "You sure do read a lot." Like I had three heads and orange stripes. We used to joke about it later - DH would walk by and say "You sure do read a lot." I'd mime throwing the book at him. :)

YOur second list looks great to me. :)
#1 is a fine place to start - it's where I'm beginning, myself. I tried the audio-book and hater the narrator, so I'll be reading it instead.
#3 is the best in the series. The audio-book is really good, too.
#4 is a fun, quick read. Again more of a kid's book, but I reread it last year and still enjoyed it.
#5 was one of my favorite books growing up. I hope you love it. Though it may be a book that your more likely to love if you young when you first read it.
#8 is the first in a series, but you can stop with just this one. Maybe. :)
#9 is one of my top ten favorite books. I'm rereading it myself this year, for the ??? time.
#10 I read it last year and was under impressed, but lots of folks love it. You might, too.

I know my opinion doesn't mean anything to you, but I just saw your list and had so many thoughts about it I wanted to share. As this is a challenge to reduce TBR, I'm not going to suggest a couple of other books you might like, based on this list. :)

I'll play. I don't read much sci-fi, but I am working my way through the Vorkosigan series, so we'll see where that gets me.

Choose Your Own Adventure: Astronomy
Duration: You Set the Pace
Begun: 4/3/2016

Option 1: Read Space Themed Books
►Read books set completely (or at least mostly) in Space
Level: Astronomer, 7 - 10 books

1. Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/3
2. Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/4
3. A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/5
4. Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/20
5. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/28
6. Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
7.

Option 5: Scavenger Hunt Freestyle
►Find the words below in the books you read. There is no limit to the number of words per book. **Will accept Plurals of the word, but no other variation. Only exact word or exact word that is plural will be accepted!
Level: To see what I get.
Completed: 94/200

Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/3
Completed: 33 words
cluster "He spotted the Kouldelka clan in the ballroom, in a cluster on the far side."
comet "A smoky comet's trail of exquisetly fine powder hung a moment in the air."
day "The day in question dawned foggy and damp..."
density "...or attempting to market them like high information density slabs of meat."
docking "Properly, upon docking the injured hostage was rushed out first."
dust "I wouldn't expect much dust, given the air filters here."
Earth "The late Ser Galen, killed in that mess on earth..."
eclipse "...whom legend had it had died insane after the abrupt eclipse..."
event horizon "The fleet existed before Barrayar ever came over our event horizon..."
free fall "The med tech ducked away into free fall."
galaxy "...in the chaining network of wormhole jump routes that strung the galaxy together."
gravity "...after the sink back into their gravity well."
inclination "A slight inclination of her head."
magnitude "Several orders of magnitude simpler than installing it must have been."
mare "The mare was next door to somnolent."
mass "The heavy duty fuel cells add mass..."
opposition "I'm afraid it will find stiff opposition..."
orbit "We've just left orbit."
parallax "Let's just say... a parallax view of the problem could be most revealing."
phase "It is an entirely biochemical, rather than a pahse elliptical, form of epilepsy."
planet "I don't want to be stuck on just one planet for the rest of my life."
planetoid "...like a wandering planetoid, to fall into orbit..."
probe " probe, though most surely not a robot, to go places I can't..."
radiant "Her body seemd to glow with the radiant heat of burning metabolism."
radiation "You are entering a high radiation area."
satellite "...looed for all the world like a sheperical satellite, bristling with antennae."
sky "Things fell out of the sky onto Ivan."
space "She had doffed the helmet and gloves from her space armor..."
star "...formed into a dense cake in the shape of a star."
sun "...watching the rising sun burning redly through the morning mists above Vorkosigan Surleau."
telemetry "Your suit emitted a lot of garbage telemetry."
universe "It's a big universe."
wormhole "...six important wormhole jump points in close practical proximity to one another."

Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/4
Completed: 21 words
apogee "Yes... vertigo at apogee, eh?"
asteroid "How could he have gotten all the way out to the second asteroid belt and boarded it…"
crater "...hence we can thank our ancestors for our Southern crater lakes."
eliptic "The damaged Soletta-array was now visible, creeping along the eliptic…"
equinox "And - over in Equinox - wild cockatoos."
gravitation "...taking into account light, water, gravitation, trace nutrients, and even attacks by programmed pests."
interstellar "Explorations through it had deep-ended either in deep interstellar space…"
Mars "...an immensely easier problem to tackle than such classic cold planets as, say, Mars."
meteor "...hoping to be hit by a meteor before his disease manifested itself."
moon "...that included as an option it's famous moon circling a handspan away…"
rings "...leaving only pale red rings of new scars."
shooting star "...the clockwork procession of their heavens - comets, novae, shooting stars - "
solar "...the reflected fire of the solar mirror sprang out in brilliant contrast…"
solar system "...and then a quarter of a solar system away when she really needed him."
solar wind "Solar wind."
solstice "The Solstice Massacre was infamous…"
space station "There were works on space stations and their construction…"
spectrum "Over the following decades, a full spectrum mixture…"
terminator "Furthermore, the terminator moved across their miniature landscapes in real time…"
vacuum "No one stands up to exposure to vacuum without a pressure suit, regardless of their age."
zenith "A vague wave of his arm taking in the planet from zenith to horizon indicated his idea of scope."

A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/5
Completed: 4 words
flare "She rose in a flare of skirt; he boweed over her hand."
inertia "This cheery inertia proved a happy chance..."
twinkling "...gleamiong and flashing and twinkling in the twilight."
wavelength "...how to make wings that bio-fluoresce at the right wavelength..."

A Palm for Mrs Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 4/20
Completed: 1 word
astronomer "I think he prefers to become an astronomer."

Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/20
Completed: 5 words
celestial "Who almost never left the Celestial Garden..."
constellation "Constellation by constellation, the haut were called forth..."
deep space "Briefly, one of our Komarr-based trade fleets put in at a deep space facility..."
solar "They were three jumps out from Solar space..."
transit "Then your most recent reports are probably somewhere in transit..."

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel 4/21
Completed: 14 words
astronomy "felt little affinity for anything outside astronomy."
conjunction "with the time the same conjunction was supposed to occur in the skies over the reference location."
earthbound "Earthbound astronomers were watching for the lieght of a moon to reemerge from the shadow of another world."
elliptical orbit "The moon follows an irregular elliptical orbit around the earth..."
Jupiter "when the earth came closest to Jupiter in it's orbit around the sun."
lunar "In this fashion, astronomers built one of the three pillars supporting the lunar distance method."
Mercury "Halley had witnessed part of a more common transit of Mercury from St. Helens in 1677."
north star "the compass helped sailors find direction when overcast skies obscured the sun by day or the North Star at night."
observatory "King Louis approved the building of an astronomical observatory in Paris."
pole star "The relative positions of the magnetic pole and the Pole Star sufficed to give a longitude reading in degrees east or west."
Saturn "had divined that the 'moons' Galileo observed around Saturn were really a ring."
telescope "called a sextant, which incorperated a telescope and a wider measuring arc."
terrestrial "What more, the results were further contaminated by the results of terrestrial magnetism."
Venus "In order for Venus to transit, or trespass in this fashion, the planet must be precisely between the Earth and the sun."

An Owl Too Many by Charlotte MacLeod 4/22
Completed: 3 words
full moon, "just as this great horned owl flew smack-dab across the face of the full moon with a bunch of wispy clouds streaking along behind."
lens "Folded and wrapped over the lens, the thin cloth diffused the beam..."
rocket "They found the makeshift contrivance that had been used to launch the rockets..."

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/28
Completed: 3 words
aperture "Run, Jet!" she gasped, and bolted for the aperture.
dark matter "would be added on the debit side of the House Cordonah ledger, at least in the dark matter column."
nadir "We had reached the nadir of marketing my mother-in-law's hair…"

Night Broken by Patricia Briggs 5/2
Completed: 1
x-rays "Samuel said the first x-rays showed that you broke your neck."

Have Spacesuit Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein 5/3
Completed: 9 words
black hole "we threw the dead one down a black hole and went on."
double star "Proxima Centauri is a double star, as you know if you do crossword puzzles..."
helium "But there came a day when I pumped Oscar full of pure helium at two atmospheres absolute."
light-year "A light-year is -- I had forgotten."
Milky Way "It is pure as the Milky Way."
Neptune "Or maybe Neptune -"
Pluto "The outer door opened and I had my first view of Pluto."
starlight "counted thirty seconds to give time to adjust to starlight while I fumbled..."
Uranus "NEPTUNE, SATURN, URANUS"

I finished! This was a blast. Thanks so much to whoever thought it up. :)

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I finished one: Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery. I have one on hold at the library and another in pb.

I see some really good books on other people's lists. :)

Love flowers, so I have to play.:) I'll do the flowers that I have on my coffee table right now. I'm glad I picked them before the hail came!

April Showers Bring May Flowers Challenge
Level: Difficult - Read 8+ books.
Completed: 12/12

A Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery 4/1
P P G Wodehouse Blandings Castle 4/2
P The Provincial Lady in London by E.M. Delafield 4/10
L Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/3
E The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald 4/6

B Beau Geste by P.C. Wren pg 71 4/2
L Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold 4/4
O An Owl Too Many by Charlotte MacLeod 4/22
S Song of Silence by Cynthia Ruchti 4/5
S Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse 4/16
O An Original Belle by E.P. Roe 4/3
M Montgomery, LM Anne of Ingleside 4/9

Melissa(SweetMelissa) wrote: "I'm in too! Great challenge to help get books read and feedback ratio higher!!

Books on shelf: 5
Ratio: 43% (ugh)

A Muddied Murder
! Give it a try and hopefully you'll live it, too. :)

I'm half way through one and another just arrived in the mail from paperbackswap, so I can start it soon. I should have a copy of The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name but I can't find it anywhere...

I love Shakespeare! But this April is a terrible month for me to commit to reading, so I'll have to keep it simple.

Celebrating Shakespeare
Duration: April 1st to 30th
Level: Actor 2-4 books

Option: Read It!
1. All's Well That Ends Well 4/19
2. The Merchant of Venice 4/29

I'll play, if I can get my internet to cooperate... I try to keep my reviews up to date but don't always succeed, so this will be good for me.

Feed Your Readers, the NetGalley Challenge
Duration: Monthly
April
On shelf - 8
Feedback ratio - 82%

Titles on shelf April 1:
Stand Firm: A Guided Journey through the Challenges of Philippians
The Power of Weakness: Embracing the True Source of Strength
Song of Silence
A Spirituality of Listening: Living What We Hear
Small-Town Brides Romance Collection: 9 Romances Develop Under the Watchful Eyes of Neighbors
Crossing the Divide: John Wesley, the Fearless Evangelist
Searching for Happiness
Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions

Completed:
1. Song of Silence by Cynthia Ruchti 4/5
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2. Crossing the Divide: John Wesley, the Fearless Evangelist by Jake Hanson 4/5
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

End of Month:
Books on shelf: 6
Feedback Ratio: 83%

resurrection

soul

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