Cat’s Comments (group member since Jan 28, 2015)

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

I finished off Marianne & Willoughby, and spun Fictional Humans in the hope of Bob. Instead I got a different new one that had slipped the net:

Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
1 100 to 175
2 MPG Humor
3 "nuclear" in text
4 Set in the US
5 Series has more than five books

oh.....

well, one of the books that is taking me forever to get to has an instrument on it

sadly it's MPG High Fantasy not Epic Fantasy, but is unfinished series

at the moment it's covering page count and GREED in title, but I can swap in a different long book for page count. ETA and one I've already finished for GREED

Shall I switch, or leave it as it is?

Oh big hugs :(

and yes, do mindlessness on your travels, totally understand that need!

Nope, what determines the official page count is the Mods!

This is for BOMs only, for all other books you use the edition you read (default main page for audio). Your Caps will help if needed for you regular reading

I've also abused my mod privileges and added it to post 1 :)

30 mins to go!

I'm currently polishing off a current read. My other, that is marked as started last week, I've only read a couple of chapters, so I'll be restarting that from the beginning

I've a (very much shorter) retelling of The Count... on my list: Countess

There is a sheet (it's a tab on the official challenge sheet), but if you're placed you'll get a message from your captain / the mods / both :)

Melindam wrote: "Finally I'll be able to get on with The Unicorn Hunt. I just checked the default edition as I have it on audio, and it's 656 pages, LOL.

But I'm sure something will turn up for the ..."

of course it is!

D.O.E wrote: "I nominate ‘A Christmas carol’ by Charles Dickens"

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Black Narcissus

In the days when it was the General's 'harem' palace, ladies with their retinues and rich clothes could be seen walking on the high windy terraces. At night, music floated out over villages and gorges far into the early hours. Now the General's son has bestowed it upon the disciplined Sisters of Mary. Beginning work in the orchards and opening a school and a dispensary for the mountain people, the small band of Sisters are depended for help on the English agent, Mr Dean. But his charm and insolent candour are disconcerting. When he says bluntly 'This is no place for a nunnery', it is as if he already knows their destiny ...

Chelsea wrote: "The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year"

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They stopped emails and also cleared the history of everyone's saved threads for notifications, so you have to manually refollow them, and remember to check the notification function in app.

Particularly annoying for those threads that are passively in the background or if you aren't on gr daily

Hi Mia! No worries at all. GR hasn't helped with it's changes to notifications. You're here now and that's the important thing!

Also, all we ask it that you pop in to post once a week, any more than that is a delightful bonus, so focus on school 😀

oh! for UK readers, the November BOM, The Spellshop is available as kindle for 99p

@Preeti I read Ulysses many many years ago and enjoyed (most of) it. I certainly didn't fully grasp everything that was going on, but instead enjoyed the experience. and, a bit like the opera Aida, the last section was wonderful and made the struggles worthwhile!

Christina wrote: "tell me about it Cat, I have a book at exactly 800 pages which I already wanted to read for Book Games but didn't get around to it :/"

grrrrrrr!
The move from bands of page points to a multiplier has made me forget this type of annoyance.
But... is it weird to say it's quite nice to be having those frustrations again?!

ARGH! just realised that at 400 pages long this doesn't get the "over 400 page" bonus points! Curses!
But a pub in 2021 date is good!

Hi everyone! So, we have our Round One word!

TAKE OUT GARBAGE

only the one U this round, but we can't relax too much on that front, as there are a LOT of U words!

Feel free to start adding planned books to the tracker sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Also: BOMs. The Theme BOM (The Road Trip) will count for bonus points (and a B and O!) so do head over there to volunteer for DQs / get ready to answer questions : https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...