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

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

176 pages

Current total: 1,827,512

Killed another, spun the literary wheel got a giant spid

Shelob (LOTR)
1 350-400
2 Giant creature in book
3 Book from list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3... (series sub ok)
4 Page number is a multiple of 8
5 All author initials in SHELOB

408 pages
100 pages
416 pages
585 pages

reporting 1509

Current total: 1,827,336

Hello! Hope everyone had lovely Christmas period 😊

Happy with splitting the books up

Laurie B wrote: "I've got an audiobook and a paper book going, and I should be able to finish both by the end of the year, which will be just enough to hit my goal! BUT, I only read 3/7 of what I considered my prio..."

Always next year to excel in 😊

It's ok, she's still failed to read Snuff! 😕

169 pages

Current total: 1,794,042

start total: 1782368

356 pages
334 pages
480 pages
280 pages
248 pages
562 pages
317 pages
354 pages
348 pages
318 pages
336 pages
252 pages
384 pages
258 pages
352 pages
185 pages
176 pages
365 pages
444 pages
384 pages
350 pages
145 pages
439 pages
184 pages
276 pages
235 pages
174 pages
515 pages
192 pages
242 pages
864 pages
181 pages
151 pages
208 pages
192 pages

reporting: 11,073 pages

Current Total: 1,793,441

Mine!

Bonus brownie points if I clear off 2016 & 2017! :D

2016
The Vanishing Witch
Winter Men
The Corrections
Silver Bay
Monsters in the Dark
The Taming of the Queen
A Perfect Spy
Spider Bones
Walk Into Silence

2017
My Name is Leon
Smiler's Fair
The Pigeon Tunnel
Love and War +
Barkskins
6 Feb Flame in the Mist
27 Mar The Mare

2018
The Russia House
A Glimmer of Hope
Time of Contempt++
The Winter Mantle
East West Street
Go Set a Watchman
Death's End
Bonfire
Merchant Adventurers
The Evolution of Mara Dyer
The Retribution of Mara Dyer
The Tethered Mage
Less
The Last of the Stanfields
5 Feb The Old Ways
22 Feb Game of Hearts
26 Apr Sea of Rust
22 May Single & Single
26 Oct The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

2019
The Anarchy
Holly Banks Full of Angst
Paris
London
The Conviction of Cora Burns
The Lonely Girl+
The Waking Fire
The Wolf and the Watchman
Maybe in Another Life
Expectation
Bad Day at the Vulture Club
The Vine Witch
Crown of Feathers
Ross Poldark ++
Beloved Poison
The Sealwoman's Gift
Meat Market
The Kingdom
Hild
A Perfect Heritage
Into Temptation
Something Dangerous
No Angel
The City & the City
The Binding
The Farm
The Favourite
The Penguin History of the World
That Glimpse of Truth
The Difference Engine
Always Coming Home
Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful
The Wicked Deep
Wyntertide
Stars in His Eyes
The Court of Broken Knives ++
The Red Knight
Blackwing
Cold Iron
France
The Goldsmith's Wife ++
Spice and Smoke
Light in the Shadows
The Great Passage
The House by the River
About the Night
All This I Will Give to You
An American Princess
The Murmur of Bees
A Farewell to France
The Outcasts of Time
All These Beautiful Strangers
The Emaneska Series
The Twisted Tree
The Rival Queens
Here Be Dragons
From a Low and Quiet Sea
The Sympathiser
Bellevue Square
20 Feb Toward the Midnight Sun
23 Feb Relative Fortunes
20 Apr Time's Convert
30 Apr Dogs of War
20 May The Tower
25 May The Traitor Baru Cormorant
16 Jun Ammonite
19 Jul The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
7 Aug This Is the Way the World Ends
26 Aug The Furies
2 Sep The Country Girls
13 Sep Think of England

2020 - 2022
I'm not going to pre-list these, but will add any from these years as I read them
13 Jan Real Men Knit
28 Mar An Atlas of Extinct Countries
31 Mar Chosen Ones
1 Apr Jump!
10 Apr The True Queen
29 Apr One Year of Ugly
7 May The Burning God
8 May Act Your Age, Eve Brown
12 May Outlawed
14 May This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health
15 May The Outside
18 May Daggerspell
28 May The Last Graduate
29 May All That’s Left in the World
1 Jun Sword in the Stars
1 Jun Jagua Nana
6 Jun Red Queen
18 Jun The Firmament of Flame
22 Jun A Woman
30 Jun The Ritual
20 Jul The Golden Couple
22 Jul One Night in Georgia
26 Jul Turning Darkness Into Light
28 Jul My Calamity Jane
1 Aug The Tiger’s Daughter
2 Aug Hammers on Bone
4 Aug The Other Ones
12 Aug The Unbroken
13 Aug October, October
17 Aug The Golden Enclaves
31 Aug Attachments
4 Sep The Curator
5 Sep The Sisters
22 Sep Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
22 Oct A Study in Charlotte
24 Oct A Song for Quiet
26 Oct The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
28 Oct Afterlives
9 Nov The Barrow Will Send What it May
12 Nov Fire from Heaven
16 Nov The Beautiful Ones
20 Dec The Bone Shard Daughter
23 Dec Half a Soul

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Tricia wrote: "Love this challenge! It really helps me get through all those old books that are lingering. In 2023 I read everything on my TBR from 2015 - 2018..."

That's fab work! I was happy to have got rid of those hanging around from 2015, but you've excelled there!

I'm good with that! :D

Thank you everyone for being such good teamies! Danielle & I had a very easy challenge because of that - love playing with you guys!

Danielle, thanks for being an amazing co-captain!

I hope everyone has a peaceful New Year - and maybe see some of you in challenges next year (Perks UNO anyone?!)

Finished my last book

Unclaimed tasks

in one easy place as a reminder:

*Seal or dog on cover
*Read a book with a ecological message/ theme (your interpretation)
100-150 pages
Author initials (all) in TORCHWOOD
* 350 to 450 pages
* MPG Mythology
* Torso on cover

*the first two and last three are friends, so books that cover seal+ecological or 350-400+MPG+torso for the win!


I've a a couple more that I need to focus on for Wheel, then I might have more time for hunting down specifics for this :)

I can take MC has brothers (mentioned but they don't get page time mind)

Oh, yes, finished Run Rose Run yesterday

oh! also: Death in Paradise! how is that (fictional) island still getting so many rich holidayers given the murder count. If I were the government of Saint-Marie I'd ban tourism - the loss of income would be more than made up by the saving on police overtime!

Yeah, I mean, they are ALL unbelievable, but most mainland UK press no long have local papers with extensive crime and/or court reporting. IoM, however, does, with marvellous name-and-shame court reporting (eg "Joe Bloggs (26) of 3, Somewhere Close, fined ££ for being drunk and disorderly and causing damage to a bush" - and I'm genuinely not exaggerating!) And the population across the whole island is something like 70 - 90k, so they'd really notice odd things like murder sprees! (fun fact: IoM didn't abolish death penalty until the 1990s!)

other short X books, if you can tolerate the stupidity: Diana Xarissa (in particular the "Case of..." series are all at the 105 - 115 page range, iirc)
The ones set on the Isle of Man I struggle more than most cosies to deal with. Going over there to visit my mother I see the local newspaper (one of my favourite things about a visit!) and they manage to spin out a "person was rude to a police office" court case over 2 pages, so I cannot cope with all the random murders in those books!

I thought it was marginal; Tin Eye says yellow so happy to say yellow!