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

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

Wow, how the hell did that happen! Nice :)

How about 5th Feb?

Nichole wrote: "I'll read The Darkest Night with you."

Fantastic. I can read it any time in Feb, so when would work for you?

There are two series I have really wanted to try.

One is Larissa Ione's Lords of Deliverance series and the other is Gena Showalters's Lords of the Underworld series. Is anyone interested in a BR for the first book in either of these series Eternal Rider or The Darkest Night. Maybe in February?

lol, yeah people would think we were nutbags if they came into the thread midway!

(view spoiler)[yeah the storyline has a lot more kapow in this book. I also found I was never 100% of sure of everyone's motives either. (hide spoiler)]

1. Poehler stated she struggled with choosing a quote that would set the table her readers and establish an important tone for her book. Now that we have started the book and have read at least 49 pages we have an idea of her style of writing and what her book is about. Do you have a quote that would be a good choice for the book? If so please share it with us.
I am terrible with remember quotes so can't think of anything off the top of my head.

2. Poehler said, "I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they "want to do" and start asking them what they don't want to do. How do you feel about her opinion?
I agree. Youth seems to require you to make decisions about the rest of your life that you aren't in a position to make properly. If I could go back and tell my younger self what I wished I had decided to do, it would be completely different from what I thought at the time I wanted to do.

3. While reading her book do you feel like you are getting to know or understand her? Has this changed your view of her?
Definitely. I didn't know a lot about her before starting this book. I just knew she worked a lot with Tina Fey and that was about it.

4. Have you found any humor or insight in her writing?
I like her style of humour and am enjoying it, but I got the biggest insight from her chapter on getting older. I thought her statement that we should embrace getting older because there are dead people that would give anything to grow old was very true and did make me appreciate the fact that I am getting to grow old. So far, so good anyway ;)

5. Are you enjoy the book?
Yep, it is a very enjoyable read

Thanks!

Can I join please? I want to check out a couple if the threads.

Yeah, there is so many it is almost overwhelming. I would like to get through them all over time though. Its a pretty awesome world Terry Pratchett has imagined.

That is fabulous! We are slowly but surely clawing our way up :)

33. Wow, Aervyn can port across the country. How terrified would you be if your 4 year old could get lost in the whole country instead of just down the road?
I think it would be terrifying, and like a majority of the book, is a fairly serious subect that isn't really tackled.

34. What did you think about how everyone ended up together? (even the couch!)
I think it was pretty expected, considering how sugary sweet the story is. I would have been surprised if they hadn't.

35. Do you think they'll still buy the building in Chicago or will Nat sell off her business there and move it?
I think she will sell her business and move it.

35. What did you think about the book? What did you end up rating it?
I only rated it 2 stars. It was way to light and fluffy for me. There was no tension and very little character development, which for me resulted in a fairly boring story.

36. Would you read the rest of the series
I don't think so.

Ok, The Stand is finished. Phew, that was a looong book! Thankfully it was also awesomly good as well. If anyone ever needs to read a 1200 page book, I highly recommend it :)

Oh her writing is definitely as good. You won't be disappointed Zee :)

V Audio Nerd wrote: "Emma can you change your version on your shelf to the one with the higher page count, I can add it to the spreadsheet then"

I have changed my edition to one with a page count over 900 for the spreadsheet.

V Audio Nerd wrote: "Yay good stuff, that also means that we have completed the mini challenge too!!

IN YOUR FACE EARTH TEAMS !!!"


I don't think it does V, I read it in December before the mini challenge. However I will be finished The Stand today, so we will complete it soon anyway :)

Hey V, The mods have posted on the Dragonfly in Amber thread that because the page count of the editions vary so much they are going to base it on word count. In doing this they are going to count it as 901+ book, so we can add another 10 points to that book for me (it just needs a page over ride). The link to what they have said is below.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Yay... It feels good to get to the 1000 point mark... Onwards and upwards ;)

I wish i could start it straight away, but I have to hold myself back from getting it as I have booked myself out with buddy reads for the next couple of weeks.

Cynthia wrote: "Chapter 62

Finished!!! Wow, I loved this book as much as Daughter of Smoke and Bone.

(view spoiler)[ I agree with you Cynthia, I am realling like Lira now. She has had some great character development.

I loved the twist at the end where they put Kiri into Thiago's body.. what a stroke of genius. I was so confused as to why she resurrected Thiago until it was revealed.

I thought Laini Taylor built beautifully on what she had already established in DoS&b. And it looks like a new world will be opened up to us in the next book with the Stelians.

I really can't wait to see what happens with the Chimaera and Misbegotten working together. I think this will make for a very interesting third book. (hide spoiler)]