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

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

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...

That's fine, I guess.

I strongly do NOT recommend Iron Flame for anyone hoping for anything other than ridiculous angst (friendship and relationship), ridiculous pining and kissing and ridiculous (postponed) sex scenes....
ETA: forgot, you also need to be braced for even more super specialness from the heroine.

The best dragon has vanished from the book so far too...

Sophie wrote: "Right the 'romantasy' genre and I have issues. I like romance and I like fantasy. I quite happily read smut/erotica. What I object to is having a decent fantasy world and plot being derailed by incredible levels of teenage angst (even if the characters may be functionally immortal) and graphic sexual scenes. I like this things separately, but they are different categories of mood read for me and I struggle when the 2 are combined.."

Agreed! I'm reading the second in the Fourth Wing series right now and I was HATING on the fake angst that the author created in order to build tension. And now she's half way through, so it's the "right" time for them to bang uglies and I am now HATING on the sex scenes... and the rest of it is all so stupid.
but it has dragons on the cover, which fits a couple of other challenge prompts, so there's that....

argh! y'all are stressing me out!

TBR books read: 0
Miles books read: 9

that Line of Shame is going to spank me so hard! :(

369 pages
586 pages
418 pages
368 pages
416 pages

reporting 2157 pages

Current total: 101,918 updated & correct!

I need to read a dragon book soon, so can take that carnivore on cover one :)

They are all yours!

also: you are cycling through coffee mug images at a rate of knots!

not Mel..... do you really want to risk me? - no!

Sonia, if you're about still - go for it :)

otherwise I'll wait an hour and then spin for us - which should motivate someone to rescue us from that nightmare!

ooooh! it looks like Mel's about to spin!

is that a woman wearing white on the cover?

if not, it works for the kowabunga page count

here's a question.....
I'm now reading Memory, in which Miles is recovered from death (he was fully dead, had to have new heart and lungs and such grown whilst his body & brain were in cyro)
Count as "undead" even though he's in no way a zombie???