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

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

AND it was a closet book! so all sorts of wins, and an author not to follow either

oh! just checked my book I finished this morning (on the basis that actually it wasn't great) : 3.01!
but it was on a Turf list, so there's that!

and am reading the next Niccolo book, which is set in Africa - Mel, Sophie, you can confirm it's more than 50% in Africa, right?

I finished a purple cover, and spun the Greek wheel:

Mares of Diomedes
1 200 to 299
2 Fire on the cover
3 character gets poisoned (food poisoning is acceptable, does not have to be fatal)
4 Title contains all the letters of HERA
5 Goodreads rating between 3 and 3.5 (inclusive)

He's got that massive scar on his face!

I'd mentally put his irresistibility down to his bod and mind. Brains and humour being generally agreed to be alluring.
And then once he's bedded them he has Skillz, of course !

At the moment everyone is more excited about how gorgeous bastard King James is...

I'm enjoying it so far, though there has to be a lot of suspension of disbelief over how clever Niccolo is, with all his planning!

Finished the Daleks.
Spun

Nemean Lion
1 350 to 450
2 takes place in Africa
3 Both hands (of one person) visible on cover
4 open plain on cover
5 features a cat (cat shifter accepted)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/pic...

If only this existed!

that's super cool! <3

I am so sorry about my demanding team mates Judith! I told them not to pester about a new wheel & everything! honestly! ;-P

I had a fab time with you all, and especially loved how we all rose to the challenge of the District wheel!

Don't forget to keep an eye on this thread for demands and/or hints for the next challenge (which I tell you now, won't be until October, if not later!)

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

I'm going to push the start for this by a day: end of Wheels has caught me on the hop! I'll get the breakdown sorted in the next few hours :)

Sammy wrote: "Could be a lot worse!!

Also, it would appear that the Hoop Snake does not appear on sheet 3, or am I just going blind(er)?"

I've just read, like, 80% of my shorties to crank through the wheels! books in the 100 - 175 range are in scant supply chez Cat right now!

and, pleasingly, mostly good shorties, courtesy T Kingfisher!

I have to say, having done some crazy reading the last couple of days to crank through those wheels, I'm now at a loss! When's the next challenge start, to reduce options?!

Melindam wrote: "Maybe we could also petition the release of a new wheel. ;)"

let's maybe let the mods take a breath! (the wheel mastermod is currently looking at what damage everyone took, not sure we want to pester her during that phase!...)

Marty wrote: "This was a great challenge and really helped me get through my yearly reading goal, not mention paring down my TBR. Hope to team up with you all again!"

Always good to help increase your reading towards goal and also decrease your TBR! usually I find that my TBR has equally increased!

not going blind, but all fixed now.

Do we want to start saying that if we've done a given monster three times we can chose to respin?

I've finished my brown blurb!

is that blurb brown (beige-y brown)? I can get that done overnight

Hurrah!

we have a new District, with only a couple of tasks needed, for any over achievers:
- brown text on cover - Cat
- WALL in title - Danielle

just ONE O away from completing the spell out too (the ones in the bank got reshuffled)