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

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

V_Nerdbooks wrote: "Elastica!!!!!! Loved them

I'll start looking for books"

me too! though they are also a band I don't actually listen to very often. There's an advert on TV at the moment with Connection as it's music, which I love bopping along to! couldn't tell you what the advert's for, mind!

Next week's word is UKULELE, with brown covers please!

There's also a new bonus - to read books in certain settings - at least 50% in one of these cities:

Austin, USA
Berlin, Germany
Bogotá, Colombia
Brazzaville, Congo
Chengdu, China
Chicago, USA
Detroit, USA
Havana, Cuba
Johannesburg, South Africa
Kingston, Jamaica
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Manchester, United Kingdom
Melbourne, Australia
Milan, Italy
Montreal, Canada
Nashville, USA
New Orleans, USA
Paris, France
Seoul, South Korea
Shanghai, China
Sydney, Australia
Tokyo, Japan
Toronto, Canada
Varanasi, India (also known as Benares)
Vienna, Austria

The big snag is that we can't duplicate locations - we need 10 unique locations to get the maximum points!

Finished a harmonica book and found an oboe for my next one!

Just Mandolin and Viola instruments unclaimed

DQs Set 2: Chapters 8 - 15

6. Were you expecting those wills? Why do you think both parents were so unfair on the kids?

I was expecting something odd, but not that. And why the "art" collection got left to Louise seems very oddly sadistic, given her dislike of the art during life!

7. Yikes! killer stuffed squirrels! The first violent haunting here, was it effective?

Argh! I dislike squirrels at the best of times, let alone stuffed and undead and zombie attacking me! Like Judith says, I would have burnt them up already!

8. Despite the various creepy things that Louise has experienced, she's refusing to let her aunt exorcise the house. Would you still be hanging onto rational reasons over accepting family help?

If someone offers me a free service that lets the creeped out estate agent to sell the property, I'd totally take it, whether I believed in hauntings or not. Given some creepy experiences, I'd be biting their arm off!

9. We've had more insight into the childhood of Mark and Louise. Does this change your opinion of either of them?

There are definitely hints that Louise is hiding something else, and Mark seems less of an ass, but really, their parents aren't coming out at all well!

DQs Set 2: Chapters 8 - 15

6. Were you expecting those wills? Why do you think both parents were so unfair on the kids?

7. Yikes! killer stuffed squirrels! The first violent haunting here, was it effective?

8. Despite the various creepy things that Louise has experienced, she's refusing to let her aunt exorcise the house. Would you still be hanging onto rational reasons over accepting family help?

9. We've had more insight into the childhood of Mark and Louise. Does this change your opinion of either of them?

And now starting one for a harmonica !


The BOM is good, Hendrix freaky horror with a large foregrounding of dysfunctional Southern family issues. But I totally get that it's not everyone's cup of tea!

Found a bassoon and finished the book,😄

DQs Day 1 - Ch 1 to Ch 7

1.) What are your first impressions of the family and of Louise and Mark? How pivotal do you think their relationship (or lack thereof) will play in the story.
Aside: I plan to steal and use the phrase "Terminal Assholism" in future. Thank you Hendrix!

The family seems a bit extra. I thought it was interesting how the confrontational dynamic when Louise &Mark were alone was completely undermined when they were with the matriarchs.nand also how the matriarchs caved from totally having Louise's back before Mark arrived and being more balanced when he was there.

2.) The book is organized into sections following the 5 stages of grief. Does this impact your expectations of the book at all?

Well the anger stage suggests it's going to get real quick, but the stages seem weird for pacing of a book. Interested to see how it works out!

3.) Okay. Life size dolls named after her children. Weird, creepy? Would you be excited to have them as part of your inheritance?

Life size dolls, immortalising me when I was peak self absorbed, as a kid? Noooooooo way!

4.) Have you ever experienced a family post-death squabble/fight like the one Louise and Mark had in front of the junk clean out guys?

Nope! My family aren't much for estrangement, so squabbles happen when they happen!

5.) Did anyone else google Fellowship of Christian Puppeteers? If so, were you surprised to find they were a real organization? Has anyone interacted with them before or a similar organization for other religious beliefs?

I didn't, and haven't. Not sure it's an organisation that's made it's way to the UK. I can see the benefits, but UK puppets tend toward violence (Punch & Judy, Emu)

I had a day of reading yesterday, and will get some done today, but am looking after my youngest nibling this week, so reading time will be down.

Oooof. Very close. Even for me!
But there's certainly dark sky, so I can see that as night

Magnus Mills! I've not read any of his stuff for YEARS!

383 pages

Current total: 1,519,112

We've disposed of a LOT of monsters already - 40 completed in a couple of months!

As far as fitting new tasks - My next after I finish Last First Snow will probably by Whisper Network, for the W title and the marimba in text!

New spin: >400 pages


sorry! spinning curse is moderately strong (at least it's not the multiple authors again!)

Reading:
(A title)

Listening: High, by The Lighthouse Family

link: ancestors are part of your (extended) family

New Spin: >400 pages

Reading:
383 pages

listening: Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden)

link (stay with me!): both 3 word titles involving improbably descriptors of an environmental / scientific fact (Snow - how last first?! Sun - how black hole, famously absent of light?!)

@VNerd - read as you will! books with O, I or P letters helpful, but so long as it works for a spell out & you want to read, have at it! :D

If you want a target task, you could always pick a book that has one of our missing instruments in?
Bassoon, Harmonica, Harp, Oboe, Piccolo, for instance?

and another! (I'm on a roll!)



not sure the main character needed to have synaesthesia and Face-blindness AND autism.
also not sure if the big reveal of the murderer was supposed to be a shock, but it was obvious from the get go...

432 pages

Current total: 1,508,896