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

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

finished a Shanghai book, Our Violent Ends, which is #2 in a duology that takes beats from Romeo and Juliet. #1 was much better, and as a whole I didn't rate it as a R&J retelling. As a gangster / political mayhem book it might have fared slightly better, but then there was added magic monsters so it got a bit tooo much

509 pages

Current total: 1,556,367

Set in 1757, Calcutta is on the brink of war and the East India Company, led by the fearsome Sir Peter Chilcott, is quickly advancing. The Nawab’s neglected daughter, Meena, is desperate to escape her gilded cage and when she meets the intriguing James Chilcott, nephew of Sir Peter, she finds herself falling under his spell.

James is different from the white men she has been taught to fear, and the lovers find themselves fleeing Calcutta with blood on their hands and stolen gold in their pockets. As Meena finds herself in a foreign land with no one to turn to, she is forced to find out what she is willing to sacrifice when love turns to hate.

122 pages
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182 pages

Current total: 1,554,837

Andy wrote: "for anyone interested, a short book (140 pages) that works for Berlin
Marzahn, mon amour by Katja Oskamp

one of my favourites recently - too soon to reread"

Just read this (found on Scribd) - it was lovely and evocative of the people of that place and era. Thanks for the rec!

got them on the sheet for you Marie :)

Finished one and got a sparkling new one!

Kilgrave (Jessica Jones)
1 350 to 450
2 MC can change thoughts/actions through magic, mind control or psychic powers
3 Purple cover
4 Author initials (all) in KILGRAVE
5 Character has "jess" in name

V_Nerdbooks wrote: "I'm hoping someone finds a book for Liverpool, otherwise I'll be resorted to read one of my mum's books by Nadine Dories, and nobody deserves that LOL"

Argh! No, that would definitely be taking one for the team!

That's brown!

Finished a Seoul book 😄

super impressed that we've got four locations under our belt completed already, with lots more planned! Go team Britpop! :)

Ah, Perry FTW! :D

I doubt I'll get to that Western book this week though - want to get through some location books first. I've got Seoul, Shanghai, Paris, Brazzaville-Congo, Varanasi and Bogota lined up for sure, with possibly Havana and Sydney too!

At some point we'll no doubt stumble over 306 pager, and be filled with righteous glee

It really shouldn't surprise you at how unjoined up we are in these things!

Just means that I shall have to cope with those two tasks going unfilled this round!

that Western tag is annoying me. I might hunt out Lone Woman (Victor LaValle) to fill it (I'm assuming we are OK with MPG Westerns rather than the singular....) as is the 30 in page count, but CBA hunting that down right now

not at all irksome that our two location tasks for the monsters (Russia and SE Asia) are absolutely USELESS for Round 2 bonuses! gah!

502 pages
649 pages
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207 pages
288 pages
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610 pages

reporting 2,998 pages

Current total: 1,552,479

New spin: title starts A- K

reading Untold Night and Day

listening to Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
opening lyrics .... watching the sun rise strongly indicates the presence of night and day

finished Skin Game - Chicago location + brown cover

yup we could do 3* every location!

I've found Rep of Congo book - The Lights of Pointe-Noire (set down coast from Brazzaville). The author has other books set in Pointe-Noire, but I can't tell if they have UKLE characters :(