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

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

Chava wrote: "Do you think the following book would fit for yellow? or is that more orange?

I will start [bookcover:Memory Man|..."

It looks mostly orange to me, but others might see it differently.

Bring on Tower Teams!

This has been a great team, I’ve enjoyed working with you ladies!

I think there is a few of us Aussies in this team Chava :)

Team Envy here.

Here’s my three picks:

The Replacement Wife This is probably the only book I’ve ever read that has enraged me, I saw red reading this. The storyline is truely horrendous and a big trigger warning for infidelity!

Feed I’ve tried to read this book on two seperate occasions and both times I dnf’d due to boredom.

Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession. This book was so disappointing and did not live up to the marketing. The blurb described it as essays on Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks, Britney Spears, and Serial, Bolin illuminates our widespread obsession with women who are abused, killed, and disenfranchised, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster a man’s story.’. What it actually is, is just a rambling memoir in essay format, one or two chapters of which discussed ‘dead girls’. Given her life story really isn’t that interesting, this book promised a lot and delivered very little.

Me too Sammy, a good end to the challenge :D

Finished my SZ1 book.

If someone gets a chance could you please link:
Once Confronted - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Thanks!

I’ve read three Jane Austen’s now and have concluded that her writing is just not for me. Persuasion was the one I enjoyed the most but it was still just an average three star read for me.

My work colleague has recently been diagnosed with migrainous vertogo. From her descriptions the vertigo sounds just awful. She’s on daily medication to manage to too but makes her super drowsy so she has to take it a certain amount of hours prior to work or she can’t function.

Oh.. and you’re not the only who has hoped for the big M to arrive, I too had some issues that had me praying for it to happen also (although the doctor has since found a way for me to manage it while I’m waiting, thank god!)

Ugh, migraines are the worst!

Ok, finished my last countdown book. If someone could link my three books when you have a chance, that would be much appreciated.

Unbeautifully
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Wound Tight
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

The Stranger
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

The cut-off Time has been different each round, but they usually announce the cutoff a few days prior. So far nothing has been announced, so I just assuming it’s exactly one week, which is 13.5 hours from now.

There hasn’t been any announcement about when the countdown finishes, so I’m going with 9pm AEST tonight since that’s a week.

I’ve had to change my last countdown book as I just couldn’t keep going with the one I was reading, it was so dull I couldn’t maintain any focus on it all.

Having TT to move onto after this challenge is great, the two challenges are polar opposites of each other as far as reading flexibility goes.

Don’t they have to had read it in 2019? Or have I been needlessly restricting my searches, lol!

I didn’t realise that the letters have different point values, so happy to stay with ‘I’. :)

The spellout for SZ3 which is currently ‘I’, would it matter if I change it to ‘A’?

Lauri wrote: "I'm leaning towards either The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo because I've still never read it! OR Crime Seen because I love this series....
So many possibilities!
[boo..."

I loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, it’s definitely worth a go :)

I’m working on my third one now.

Lol, it’s an addiction!

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Looks like we've got a really great team.. and chatty.. which is always a bonus.

I had a look at the Sin Bingo.. I think that's going to be harder than it looks to ge..."

Agree! And YA seems like a particularly difficult one to get a Sin Bingo given it would be really time consuming to go through every player’s shelves to see if someone may have read the book. I have a couple of green YA books, but I don’t have the will to be checking 100 player’s shelves!