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

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

332 pages
428 pages
91 pages

reporting 851 pages

Current total: 196,347

Me three!

I hadn't even realised there was a Basement of Shame below even the line!

But I am in progress on a book now, so might scrape onto the board next month

A MacDonald rather than a farm....


Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach out from the past, forever mindful of the tragic secret that could shatter the family to its foundations. Chronicling five generations of this eccentric clan, Fall on Your Knees follows four remarkable sisters whose lives are filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love. Their experiences will take them from their stormswept homeland, across the battlefields of World War I, to the freedom and independence of Jazz-era New York City.

Compellingly written, running the literary gamut from menacingly dark to hilariously funny, this is an epic saga of one family’s trials and triumphs in a world of sin, guilt, and redemption.


added bonus: it's on the 1001 Books to Read list

Lexi wrote: "If you have a theme suggestions, I am up for making another wheel - just not in March. I am spending much of March camping for work."

I've made a list of vegetable and mineral folklore, which could get tasks.... Shall share with you later

It was a very brown wheel! But also helped me work through some trauma from the WOBBLE wheel 🤪

Musical Wheels was fab! I'll fight anyone who says otherwise! My team had fun reading for all the venues, and finding lots of music genres

And Muse Towers, spawning the much loved Monster Wheel was awesome

I love that you think Quidditch was light relief compared to musical towers! people didn't sleep for days in order to play that game, and I'm not even joking!

I'll hold my hands up to being one of the Chipmunk wranglers for some of the more recent challenges. and will totally own the joys of a Chipmunk ReSpin :D

224 pages

Current total: 181,942

finished it.

spun an Urban Legend:

Bloody Mary
1 350 to 450
2 Repeated/reflected object on cover
3 Red cover (>50%)
4 Dark or variant in title or series name
5 13 in publication date or page number

It's not strictly her memoir (which I'd hunt down on the basis of this writing), but it's interesting, and would be very useful for anyone actually planning a campaign.

I've got a Jess book. the "character" is the author - it's a polemic type thing but with lots of personal experience, so I think it works as a memoir-adjacent book

121 pages
336 pages

Current total: 139,421

768 pages
206 pages

Current total: 130,024

I think that's tooooo stretchy, sorry!

639 pages
133 pages
400 pages
129 pages
320 pages
512 pages

reporting: 2133

Current total: 123,766

I'm good with that!

Snagged the VEGEMITE author taks

I think that Holden Caulfield is the polarising factor - you either get on with his viewpoint or not. Cynicism, especially in a teen character, can be hard for some people to enjoy.

Keli wrote: "She is a terrible writer and cringey enough without sex scenes. I can't imagine the horror of added genitalia...."

There's mostly been kissing, which involves detailed descriptions of tongues behind teeth (as in his behind her teeth) (as in "this is a sexy, sexxxxxxy kiss, and this description is super hot stuff"). I wish I were joking.

There's no rush on the steampunk!
and IIRC, The Subtle Knife starts off with Will, not Lyra, so we catch up with events from Northern Lights in-book.

which of us is finally going to find a Steampunk they want to read?!
I feel like people aren't writing steampunk anymore...