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

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

oh nooooooo! go do looking after yourself stuff!

I am the same! and was shocked to read a Tchaikovsky book with no mini-beasts featured! Ok, yes, there was the wasp god thing, but that was so minor!

(though I've not actually read Dogs of War or Cage of Souls)

301 pages

Current total: 204,530

Sammy wrote: "You can do it, I'm sure. Just try to resist the Bujold a few more days 😉"

but it's so hard!

I've finished A Civil Campaign, which is an ending of sorts, so can probably not have to scratch that itch for a couple of weeks....

Sammy wrote: "Go Cat! Quick dash across the line before the end of the month?"

I'm already on #2, so mebbe, with a bit of luck! though it's a short month. longer than normal, but still short

I'm out of the basement!

First book done!


meditative strangeness that I enjoyed. Hard to describe what exactly the book is - not a travelogue detailing each walk, nor a history, nor memoir or biography, but bits of all of that together.

373 pages

Current total: 203,301

I think it's in the red section :)

oh! I found one for heroine! literally just 5 tags (ignoring all the "badass heroine" variants)

no 2013 books? I'll have a look tomorrow

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.