Emma (M)’s Comments (group member since Dec 02, 2014)

Emma (M)’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Sammy wrote: "Sounds great Emma! :)

Molten is perfect, methinks. It averages out at 5 books over 2 weeks each, which should be doable :)"

Wonderful, the other lady I had messaged had already found a team, so we have the three of us for the moment and I’m just waiting on another player I’ve been talking to, to confirm.

No problem!

Sammy and Lisa, I’ve just asked someone who was keen to join a Molten team (up to 20 books) if she wanted to start a team, I have no idea if she will say yes, but if either or both of you wanted to join a molten team, I’m trying to start one up. If you both do and she says yes too, that would be four.

Leslie Ann wrote: "Looking for a team
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Could play molten level😀
6 -8 in 2 weeks"

Hi Leslie-Ann, I’m looking to play molten level too if you would like to start a molten level team with me?

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4-6 books per fortnight

Warbreaker
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Read: 19 July
Pages: 656 - this was an audio but the default says ebook: draft version at 688 pages. I’m not sure if this was acceptable to use so went with the next option in list at 656 pages. Either option equals the same amount of points.

Letters
B (author)
M (ch - Mercystar)

I’m so sorry but I won’t be able to finish both my books in time. I had time tonight to finish both but then we had an unexpected visit from family who were passing through town and now there’s no way I can finish both. However I just checked the spreadsheet and one of my books is sitting by itself on the SS Warbreaker and it will be the one I can finish and it has the same letters as the one I can’t finish Morning Star.

I’ll finish Warbreaker this round, which works for B (author) or M (ch).

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson


Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the wreckage of an ancient ship, she realizes this dream might be possible—assuming she can repair the ship, navigate flight school, and (perhaps most importantly) persuade the strange machine to help her. Because this ship, uniquely, appears to have a soul.

Recursion by Blake Crouch

Memory makes reality.

That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.

Neuroscientist Helena Smith already understands the power of memory. It’s why she’s dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious moments of our pasts. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.

As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face-to-face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease—a force that attacks not just our minds but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.

But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?

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Golden Son
Author: Pierce Brown
Read: 12 Jul
Pages: 430

Letter: B (Auth), L (ch - Lorn), T (ch - Tactus), N (ch - Nero), A (ch - Aja)

I’ll start with Morning Star for next week, without looking at characters it works for M and B.

Shifters isn’t a great one for me, I do like the shifters in Immortals After a Dark Series but I’ve only just reread them all!

I’ll be able to finish Golden Son this week too, it will work for A, L, N or T.

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Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
Alice Bolin
Read: 9 July
Pages: 288
Letter: A (Author)

Mini-challenge

Charles Manson: pg 121 ‘especially the killings committed by Charles Manson and his followers’

I haven’t read The Ravenels yet, but have started The Hathaway’s, which is also a follow-up series to The Wallflowers. I’ll have to look at The Ravenels series then too :D

Eldarwen wrote: "Lots of completions! And a crazy amount of words, yikes o.O

I'll post a completion for Secrets of a Summer Night when I'm back home tonight with the book on hand to look up some wo..."

What did you think of Secrets of a Summer Night? It was the book that got me into historical romances and I ending devouring the series (although I still have the last one to go)

❦ Tina ❣ wrote: "I’ve found a book with Charles Manson!"

I’ve nearly finished a book with Charles Manson, so don’t feel you need to read the book if that’s the only reason you’re picking it up :)

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The Awakening
Author: L.J. Smith
Pages: 272
Genre: yes
Letters: L (author), A (Title)

Mini Challenge
Marie Antoinette - pg 28 ‘No idea about the French Revolution, thinks Marie Antoinette was a silent film star’

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Thicker Than Blood
Author: Madeline Sheehan
Pages: 366
Genre: yes
Letters: S - Author, A - character (Alex)

Sammy wrote: "Hmmm, will need to come up with a new plan. Seems pointless re-reading a book just for one regular word, and the only tricky one I know I can find is Lucrezia Borgia (won't know if there are any ot..."

Agree, don’t reread a book just for a regular word