Keri’s Comments (group member since Oct 03, 2017)

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

Completion Post

Book: Black Cake
Author: Charmaine Wilkerson
Finished: 7/10/23
Pages: 385 pages
Rating: 4.5 stars
Cover Color: Multi
Spellout Options:
Title: B
AFN & ALN: C, W

▪️Characters:
Benny
Byron
Bunny
Eleanor
Covey
Gibbs
Lin
Charles Mitch
Mabel
Patsy
Gio
Pearl

Forgot one!!

Completion Post

Book: Year of Yes
Author: Shonda Rhimes
Finished: 6/26/23
Pages: 352 pages
Rating: 4 stars
Cover Color: 72.5% Blue
Spellout Options:
Title: Y
AFN & ALN: S, R
▪️Audiobook Narrators:
Shonda Rhimes (same as author)
▪️Characters:
N/A since nonfiction

Alisha wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Alisha wrote: "Completion Post


Red Sister
Date Read: June 29 23
Pages: 513
Rating: 4/5"

Considering your rating, I assume you enjo..."

I own this trilogy and really want to get to it soon!!

Mark me down for another 600+ pager for July…there’s no way I’m not picking up Wrath ASAP after that ending in Ruin!

Completion Post

Book: Ruin
Author: John Gwynne
Finished: 6/30/23
Pages: 746 pages
Rating: 5 stars
Cover Color: 89.4% grey
Spellout Options:
Title: R
AFN & ALN: J, G

▪️Characters:
Alcyon
Buddai
Corban
Dath
Edana
Fidele
Gar
Halion
Ildaer
Javed
Krelis
Lykos
Maquin
Nathair
Owain
Pendathran
Rhin
Storm
Trigg
Uthas
Veradis
Wulf
Yalric


Book: Bird Box
Author: Josh Malerman
Finished: 6/30/23
Pages: 262 pages
Rating: 3.5-4 stars
Cover Color: 59.5% Black
Spellout Options:
Title: B
AFN & ALN: J, M
▪️Audiobook Narrators:
Cassandra Campbell

▪️Characters:
Malorie
Shannon
Tom
Jules
Cheryl
Don
Felix
Olympia
Victor
Gary
Rick
Boy
Girl

Completion Post

Book: Prince Of The Wasteland
Author: Joseph Sale
Finished: 6/14/23
Pages: 192 pages
Rating: 3.5 stars
Cover Color: Black
Spellout Options:
Title: P
AFN & ALN: J, S
▪️Characters:
The Prince
Bull
Glover
Michael
Black Hat
The Fool King
Joel
Splice
Lucy
Dina
John
Bleak Heart
Razor
Lethe
Brian Mor
Slick
Jack Slight


Book: The No-Show
Author: Beth O'Leary
Finished: 6/19/23
Pages: 337 pages
Rating: 4 stars
Cover Color: Pink
Spellout Options:
Title: T, N
AFN & ALN: B, O
▪️Audiobook Narrators:
Evanna Lynch
Heather Long
Kathryn Drysdale
Luke Thompson

▪️Characters:
Siobhan
Miranda
Jane
Fiona
Scott
Joseph Carter
A.J.
Richard

I’ve come to realize I missed posting a few of mine so I’ll work on that now.

I’ll be finishing my planned 600+ Ruin, it’s just LONG lol
I’ll likely finish it on Thursday. It’s so good, I’ve just been taking my time with it really absorbing it all through the month and reading other things along the way when I don’t have the time to devote to falling into the characters and world. I love this series so much.

I will also be finishing two more books, one being Year of Yes and the other likely to be Dark Matter but depends what time I have left by the time I finish the other two. And also what we need by then.

Kaley wrote: "Michael wrote: "I hope to still finish What If? and maybe something else today… but Miss Independent herself, Kelly Clarkson, released her album Chemistry today and I cannot stop listening to it! (..."

Oh I’ll need to check that out too, I love her voice and didn’t even know she had one coming out!

Elisabeth wrote: "I just started . It’s one of those collaborations he does with other authors. Apparently he does a very detailed plot and chapter outline and the other author writes it."

I LOVE all the ones he’s done with David Ellis, now if he does one with him it’s auto-read for me. I’m going to try some of David Ellis solo work to see if I like it also.

Okay so does this mean we are no longer concerned with finding color covers/putting that in completion posts?

Completion Post

Book: Acts of Violet
Author: Margarita Montimore
Finished: 6/13/23
Pages: 336 pages
Rating: 3.5 stars
Cover Color: Purple? (not sure if it’s purple enough)
Spellout Options:
A—title
M—AFN & ALN
▪️Audiobook Narrators:
Brittany Pressley
Amy McFadden
Dan Bittner
Fred Berman
Hillary Huber
Johnny Heller
Katharine Chin
Ramón de Ocampo
Suzanne Toren
Alejandro Ruiz
▪️Characters:
Violet Volk
Sasha Dwyer
Gabriel Dwyer
Quinn Dwyer
Sally
Ace Morgan
Cameron Frank

I’m starting Ruin today and it’s around 750 pages so that’s be a big one to use :-)

Completion Post

Book: Whisper Down the Lane
Author: Clay McLeod Chapman
Finished: 6/5/23
Pages: 304 pages
Rating: 3.5 stars
Cover Color: Black
Spellout Options:
W—title
C—AFN & ALN
▪️Characters:
Sean Crenshaw
Richard Bellamy
Tamara
Elijah
Sandy Levin
Jenna Levin
Thomas Woodhouse
Miss Kinderman
Hank
Tommy Dennings
Miss Betty

That’ll be my last book for May as well!

My goals for June are the next in the Faithful and the Fallen so that’ll be a 600+ pager.
I may try and fit in a reread of City of Brass for the BOTM. I loved it and need to continue the series so a reread would be welcome :-)

I’ll know more when I get my board of challenge prompts tomorrow for a monthly challenge I’m a part of.

Completion Posts

Book: Portrait of a Thief
Author: Grace D. Li
Finished: 5/31/23
Pages: 369 pages
Rating: 2 stars
Cover Color: Blue
Spellout Options:
P—title
G—AFN
L—ALN
▪️audiobook narrator names:
Eunice Wong
Austin Ku
▪️Characters:
Will Chen
Irene Chen
Lily Wu
Alex Huang
Daniel Liang

Kaley wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "
A Little Update


Here is a little update on what we've accomplished so far in May - there are a few days left, so lots more can be done ;-)

Our Core Tower

Free Choice: 85
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Outlander books are such beasts of books! I own all the books released that I got super cheap and am so intimidated I haven’t even started yet lol

I just looked and tons of the past BOTM are on my TBR so I could easily fit one into my June TBR to cover reading for mod Susan

Eldarwen wrote: "Roger - president of NBR United - wrote: "Did you try all three locations .com .uk and .aus of arbookfinder?"


This is the only option I can offer as well. Unless there is an audiobook available f..."

I didn’t think to try all 3 sites (not even sure I knew there were three) but I’ll do that now. And I’ll try to search for audio as well just in case.

I’ve also read and
This group uses word count rather than page count and I can’t find it anywhere so I haven’t posted them. If anyone knows another place to search for that besides ARBookFind let me know! I have never found anything I’ve checked in ARBookFind I wish there was a better source for manga and graphic novels. Avatar especially had tons of words.