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

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Christmas books that don’t have any Christmas in them!
Book descriptions or covers that misrepresent the book’s contents

I still grudge that alien santa christmas book that promised red skinned alien and failed to deliver!

And we are now almost half an hour into the Games!
Enjoy the reading :)

Sammy wrote: "you show that line Cat! 😁"

within 3%! and I've another from the closet going too! :D
I shall be above it at the end of this month! I shall, I shall, I shall!

#19 & #20 done! Both good in very different ways!

long division
imaginary numbers
integration


but, why leave it at maths, when we could embrace the delightful Grocers Apostrophe, or the Oxford Comma....

convo with work friend about the dangers of the baked spud:
I sent an article about someone who's going through a tribunal due to sleeping on the job after a jacket p lunch.
she commented that they are known dangerous foodstuff - "remember Brian Harvey and his potato?"
I expostulated that I knew about him driving over himself, but knew nothing about a spud (my mind was boggling as to what mayhem Brian and his muppets could have got up to with spuds)

the driving over himself was ALSO the spud story - he had had too many spuds, was throwing up, fell out and ran over himself!!!!!!

which just goes to show:
1. spuds are menaces, avoid! or at least, handle with caution
2. an earworm is lurking in the strangest of places.

you'll be pleased to know that my friend thinks it hilarious that she's infested me for the forseeable future! and being infested, I had to share the pain #sorrynotsorry



Also, Lexi, I feel we need Stay Another Day on the list, with spud related tasks! (tuna mayo filling, if that helps)

for the Brits, and via a conversation about baked potatoes being dangerous, I now have "oooh don't leave me alone like this...." stuck in my head!

("stay now ..[stay now]...")

Up to you! It's less work for us if you add details to the sheet, but it's always good to have a post about a finished book, especially if it's a strong rec / avoid warning! :)

Sammy wrote: "I've had this on my radar for a while, but worried it was going to be overly soapboxy. I prefer subtlety. Will I hate it, or is it done well?."

It's not completely soapbox, but it's also not subtle. I don't think you'll hate it though

and finished another! productive interregnum between UNO and book games!


fun feminist western, though the stupidity of the MC in blurting out the full truth anytime she was asked was annoying, even if necessary for a plot element.

I read a weird one about lacrosse....
the sport was strongly foregrounded, with a dose of witchy stuff and teen growth angst. I found the narrative voice a bit annoying, so it's not so much a rec as a "here's a sports book featuring a niche sport...." :-P

Hurrah! :D

#17
creeping up to being within 10% of the line!
perfect charming rom-com

oooh! that looks interesting!

finished The Burning God.
Hard read - no flinching from the horrors of war, for participants and civilians and the aftermath of "winning"

Woooo-hooo! we are all present and correct!

A heads up, as well as the BOMs (info in Danielle's post at the start of the thread), there will be points for participating in informal buddy reads of the three Hunger Games books. One book each month of the challenge. As with BOMs, we get 20 points for participation in the conversation, but it's much more informal, with no set questions to answer (and so no DQ points or volunteers needed!)

elsewhere, is the orange spine (LHS, lying down on the shelving unit) too piddling to work as an orange object on cover? (I already discounted the small tree as being a valid tree, to reshuffle Domi's shortie)

so I finished my lost book, respun and got

The Thames Ice Snake
1 100 to 175
2 Set in London or one of its sister cities (http://en.sistercity.info/sister-citi...)
3 Author initials (all) in THAMES
4 Antagonist not who it first appears (your interpretation)
5 Water on the cover

persistent blighter, give we've only just packed one off!