Elen’s Comments (group member since Mar 07, 2018)

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

Cecily wrote: "Okay I have finished and reviewed contagion and put it on my shelf if someone could update the spread sheet for me"

Done :))

Eni wrote: "@Elen - what is the status on the BoM? Are you actually doing it or did you give up?"

No, no... I'm going to read it. I didn't get a chance to get to it. I will definitely read it in week 2 or 3.

As I am choosing my next read right now, do we need another classic or should I read whatever letter we need?

I can read at least 2 Horror books next week as it's one of my favourite genres :))

My vote: Definitely keep it :))

Sorry for being absent. I visited my parents, but now I am back in Uni.

I can read one more classic if we need it.

The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive.

In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They’ve mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style—but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost.

Invited to participate in an escape room as a team-building exercise, the ferociously competitive co-workers crowd into the elevator of a high rise building, eager to prove themselves. But when the lights go off and the doors stay shut, it quickly becomes clear that this is no ordinary competition: they’re caught in a dangerous game of survival.

Trapped in the dark, the colleagues must put aside their bitter rivalries and work together to solve cryptic clues to break free. But as the game begins to reveal the team’s darkest secrets, they realize there’s a price to be paid for the terrible deeds they committed in their ruthless climb up the corporate ladder. As tempers fray, and the clues turn deadly, they must solve one final chilling puzzle: which one of them will kill in order to survive?

Missing, Presumed Dead by Emma Berquist

With a touch, Lexi can sense how and when someone will die. Some say it’s a gift. But to Lexi it’s a curse—one that keeps her friendless and alone. All that changes when Lexi foresees the violent death of a young woman, Jane, outside a club. But Jane doesn’t go to the afterlife quietly. Her ghost remains behind, determined to hunt down her murderer, and she needs Lexi’s help. In life, Jane was everything Lexi is not—outgoing, happy, popular. But in death, all Jane wants is revenge. Lexi will do anything to help Jane, to make up for the fact that she didn’t—couldn’t—save Jane’s life, and to keep this beautiful ghost of a girl by her side for as long as possible.

Lexi wrote: "Elen, you are good on reading and using letters in cyrillic."

Thank you :D

Can't wait to start reading classics :P

Eni wrote: "On previous challenges we were allowed to read books in different languages, because what counts is the version we read. Let me check with the mods and get back to you on that though."

I have read previously in Estonian, which alphabet is similar to English.
But this time I'm going to try to read in Russian. Haven't read in Russian since I was a kid. But Russian and Englis alphabet are very different.

Example: English - P
Russian - П

I think we can't, cuz only I can say what letter is what and for Mods to search the letter to the letter would be a pain in the a** :PP

As I am going to read classics in the Cyrillic alphabet.
I think I know the answer but want to make sure it's correct...

Can or can't I use the title? Example Отцы и дети
I mean in this case the letter is obvious, but for some titles not so much

Btw, names are going to be in English

Cat wrote: "look at all your beautiful pink rabbits! <3 <3 <3"


I told my friend (playing too) that my team name is pink Hitler 😅😅

Hey! I'm checking in!! 😄😄

My shelf

I will definitely participate in all BOM's, but not in DQ's. 🤣

I already have couple classics in hand and will be reading them as the countdown for start hits 0. At the beginning of the year, I asked my mum to recommend her favourite Russian classics for me to read them, so I can tackle that challenge down in our first week. Also, my first week free from exams. Yey for me :))


I don't mind any of the genres as it's a challenge. But FPG New adult and Memoir are something I don't read at all, but I will if we will need them :D

Are we going to use tracking SS and will we post completion post right here, right? :))

Cat wrote: "That said, Elen - you're on the sheet :)"


Thank you!!

Can't wait to start NBRC another fun challenge and it starts exactly when my exam session ends. What a better treat for passing all exams :))

Can we get a google form to make sure our sign-up went through?

Cat's challenge is accepted - brown here we come!! 🤣

It's the end of June 3rd here 🤣🤣

Killing November by Adriana Mather

November is trapped.

At the mysterious Academy Absconditi, a school that’s completely off the grid, there’s no electricity, no internet, and a brutal eye-for-an-eye punishment system. Classes include everything from knife-throwing and poisons to the art of deception. And the other students? All children of the world’s most elite strategists, in training to become assassins, spies, and master manipulators. November Adley doesn’t know why she’s been sent to this place, or the secrets that make up its legacy, but she’ll quickly discover that allies are few in a school where competition is everything. When another student is murdered, all eyes turn to November, who must figure out exactly how she fits in before she is found guilty of the crime…or becomes the killer’s next victim.

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.

What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women.

For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time—but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.

- 496 pages (01.01.2019)

592 pages (07.01.2019)


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