Joanne’s Comments

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

Note: Joanne is not currently a member of this group.

Allison Ann wrote: "Even driving, I can only listen to books I've already read, so when I zone out and come back, I have an idea of what is happening.

So I'm looking for recommendations. :D I seem to have run out of..."

Titles that I've enjoyed:


Not sure if you're looking for E authors also, so I restricted my list to titles only.

So many books I've read and loved on here. And lots I want to get to, so I'm excited for mini-challenge possibilities.

Megan wrote: "3. American Gods I generally do not get the hype of this book. It felt all over the place, if someone said he had been under the influence of any alcohol or drugs I wouldn't be surprised, at all."

I also didn't like this one. I listened to the audio and was bored throughout the whole thing.

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Ok, just found 3rd book to add

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 - this is not Harry Potter. Not even close. (I've checked - it has enough words to work for challenge)..."

Agreed. While I didn't HATE it, I can't believe this gets to be canon, while there are so many much better fanfics out there.

Sophie wrote: "Looking back at other people's choices there's an uncomfortable mix of some of my favourites (Outlander, The Girl Who Played with Fire) and some that I equally couldn't ..."

I'm most interested in the books people list that everyone seemed to love but them. I love going to a book page and seeing all my friends 4 and 5-star the book and then reading the review of one friend who tears apart the book on their one-star review, even if it's a book I loved.

Funny to see so many people who hated The Knife of Never Letting Go. This is one of the most polarizing books I know of. I am one of those who absolutely LOVED the whole series. Especially the second book!

Ok here we go (Team Ira):

You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
This book was... weird. So weird I didn't know what to make of it. It's like when you have a dream and try to put it into words to tell someone and it just doesn't make any sense. Either this book was a case of the emperor having no clothes, or it's genius but completely above my head. I actually didn't find it a chore to read, but I didn't get any kind of story arc or understanding of what was going on in the characters' minds. I was so baffled.

Until November
People loooooove this book but I HATED it! I thought the writing was so cringe-worthy and full of cliches. The male main character was an absolute jerk and not at all sexy or romantic, and he used intimidation on the heroine constantly to get her to do whatever he wanted.

I'll Give You the Sun
Blegh, another book everyone loved but me. The writing style, the metaphors, all of it just wasn't for me. Re-reading my review, I did give the book two stars instead of one because of the ending. Still annoyed that I bought this one in hardcover because I expected such great things.

Judith wrote: "3. Wolf Hall. This is typically the kind of book I enjoy. Intrigue, royal shenanigans, murder, mayhem. But I didn't like it at all. I'd heard such good things about this and Bring Up the Bodies, that I still read Bringing Up the Bodies. Didn't like that one either. I don't think Mantel is the author for me."

I spent so many years hearing how great Wolf Hall was, but couldn't get past 72 pages. I couldn't imagine slogging through something so boring for another 600 pages.

I hear you. It is frustrating to read a book you need to get to with 410 pages and see others read something with 119 pages worth way more points!

Jenny wrote: "Keri, how is Turf this time? I was on the first one, team Blue, and it was intense! We couldn't quite beat out Red, but damn we tried! I can't believe how many books I read for that challenge. I de..."

Jenny, I'm missing you on my team for Turf Wars! It's fun this round, and super intense of course. There are some changes, like a spell-out for every turf every round, and handicap points, so strategy is keeping me on my toes more so than last game.

Kerri wrote: "Welcome to Team Ira, Rebecca! Your cats sound like they have a lot of personality! I don't understand folks that think all cats are aloof... we have three cats and they are all so different.

Sorr..."

Totally agree. When people say they don't like cats (which I will be honest, totally judging over here), I always think, "you would like my cats". They are so affectionate, always snuggling and looking for rubs.

To me it looks gold. Or maybe brown?

Vicki wrote: "Howdy and yes I did and I liked it a lot, but what I don't like is that now I can't read it. LOL Sorry if I was snooping and HELLO Team Ira!"

LOL, snooping is allowed. I only found out you read it because I was snooping myself!

FYI, someone I'm friends with on Team Jealousy (Vicki) read Wilder Girls on July 10, 2019, so we're all good to read it and finish whenever to qualify for Sin Bingo.

None of the BOMs were already on my TBR and my library doesn't have ebook copies of any of them, but Wilder Girls sounds interesting, so I did put a hold on it for a physical copy from my library (not willing to pay $11.99 for the ebook). I'm number 32 on 7 copies so I don't know if I will get it in time, but I'll try.

It seems like we have the hardest sin bingo so I can't imagine us winning Pride, but I'm open to giving my all to whatever else we end up feeling might be possible for the team to accomplish.

I've been looking through books for additional sin bingos. It is definitely hard, but I found one not listed on the planning spreadsheet. Getting two out of three isn't any additional points right? It's either all three or just any one?

Do we get the same amount of points for any of the sins that we read for? Like if I have a book that works for a cover colour or a genre, I can put it toward either and they would be the same amount of points? Do we have any strategy yet about whether we want to spread our points out over all the sins or focus more on some than others?

I also worked, but not that many hours ;)

Melindam wrote: "Hello Team Ira! :)

This is Team Sloth dropping by & wishing You All happy reading! :)

*waving to Susanne & Joanne* :)

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Hi! :)

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