Jessica-Robyn’s Comments (group member since Feb 10, 2011)

Jessica-Robyn’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Looking at my TBR for this challenge really made me realize how off my sense of time is! I can't believe how long ago I added books that I would still really like to read. I think I'll be focusing on my 2010-2012 additions since that gives a good range of options.

Duration: 01/01/2020 - 12/31/2020
Goal: 10
Completed: 0/10

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Duration: June 1-30 2019
Level: Easy (3-5 books)
Books Completed: 3/5

Old: None
New: None
Borrowed: How Long 'til Black Future Month? (Read 6/22/19)
Blue: Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1 (Read 6/14/19)
Luck: Love & Luck (Read 6/12/19)

Duration: May 1-31, 2019
Level: Easy Breezy (3-4 books)
Books Completed: (3/3)

Selected Challenge Prompts:
1) “May the force be with you.” - Read a book set in outer space.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
2) “May he rest in peace.” - Read a book where someone dies.
Murder on the Ballarat Train
3) “April showers bring May flowers.” - Read a book with flowers or rain on the cover.
The Sun and Her Flowers

Duration: 1/1/2020 - 12/31/2020
Level: Associates Degree (7 Books, 1 Per Subject)
Books Completed: (0/7)

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Literature:
History:
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Art:
Language:
Athletics:

Duration: 03/31/2019 - Never Ending (*For already started series, only books read after start are shown)
Level: Succession 25-50 books
Books Read During Challenge Duration: (30/50)
Graphic Novels Read During Challenge Duration: (23/25)

COMPLETED/CAUGHT UP SERIES: (5/--)

Wayward Children, Seanan McGuire (7/7)
- Every Heart a Doorway (Read Nov 2019)
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Read Nov 2019)
- Beneath the Sugar Sky (Read Dec 2019)
- In an Absent Dream (Read Dec 2019)
- Come Tumbling Down (Read Apr 2020)
- Across the Green Grass Fields (Read Mar 2021)
- Where the Drowned Girls Go (Read Feb 2022)

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (5/5)
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Read March 2019)
- Life, the Universe and Everything (Read April 2019)
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Read May 2019)
- Mostly Harmless (Read Aug 2019)

The Backstagers (3/3)
- The Backstagers, Vol. 1: Rebels Without Applause (Read May 2019)
- The Backstagers, Vol. 2: The Show Must Go On (Read July 2019)
- The Backstagers, Vol. 3: Encore (Read Sept 2019)

Saga Collected Editions (9/9)
- Saga, Vol. 2 (Read April 2019)
- Saga, Vol. 3 (Read May 2019)
- Saga, Vol. 4 (Read July 2019)
- Saga, Vol. 5 (Read July 2019)
- Saga, Vol. 6 (Read July 2019)
- Saga, Vol. 7 (Read Nov 2019)
- Saga, Vol. 8 (Read Nov 2019)
- Saga, Vol. 9 (Read Dec 2019)

The Brown Sister, Talia Hibbert (3/3)
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown (Read Oct 2020)
- Take a Hint, Dani Brown (Read Oct 2020)
- Act Your Age, Eve Brown (Read Apr 2021)

The Detection Club, Jean Harambat (2/2)
- The Detection Club - Volume 1 (Read Mar 2021)
- The Detection Club - Volume 2 (Read Mar 2021)

The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman (2/2)
- The Thursday Murder Club (Read Mar 2021)
- The Man Who Died Twice (Read Apr 2022)

Heartstopper, Alice Oseman (4/4)
- Heartstopper: Volume One (Read Apr 2021)
- Heartstopper: Volume Two (Read Apr 2021)
- Heartstopper: Volume Three (Read Aug 2021)
- Heartstopper: Volume Four (Read Feb 2022)

IN PROGRESS SERIES:

Finna, Nino Cipri (1/2)
- Finna (Read May 2020)

The Witch Boy, Molly Ostertag (2/3)
- The Witch Boy (Read Feb 2021)
- The Hidden Witch (Read Jul 2021)

The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells (6/6)
- All Systems Red (Read April 2020)
- Artificial Condition (Read May 2020)
- Rogue Protocol (Read June 2020)
- Exit Strategy (Read June 2020)
- Network Effect (Read July 2020)
- Fugitive Telemetry (Read May 2021

Welcome to Night Vale, Fink/Cranor (2/3)

Binti, Nnedi Okorafor (1/3)
- Binti (Read July 2020)

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket (1/13)
- The Bad Beginning (Read April 2020)

Lady Astronaut, Mary Robinette Kowal (1/4)
- The Calculating Stars (Read May 2020

Phryne Fisher, Kerry Greenwood (5/20)
- Murder on the Ballarat Train (Read May 2019)
- Death at Victoria Dock (Read Sept 2019)
- The Green Mill Murder (Read Oct 2019)

Paper Girls Collected Editions (2/6)
- Paper Girls, Vol. 1 (Read April 2019)
- Paper Girls, Vol. 2 (Read April 2019)

Fables, Collected Editions (1/22)
- Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile(Read June 2020)

Written in the Stars, Alexandria Bellefleur (1/3)
- Written in the Stars (Read Feb 2022)

London Calling, Alexis Hall (1/2)
- Boyfriend Material (Read Aug 2021)


Flavia de Luce, Alan Bradley (2/10)
Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (4/9)
Miss Marple, Agatha Christie (5/15)
Hercules Poirot, Agatha Christie (2/45)
Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde (1/7)
Nursery Crime, Jasper Fforde (1/2)
Lady Sherlock, Sherry Thomas (1/3)
Newford Series, Charles de Lint (3/20)
Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling (3/7)
Ms. Marvel, Collected Editions (3/10)
Delilah Dirk (2/3)
Cleopatra in Space (1/5)
The Adventure Zone (1/5)

The Agatha Christie Reading Challenge
Level: Hardcore Agatha Christie Reader
Duration: March 2018 - Present

Hercule Poirot Series 1/34
1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
2. The Murder on the Links
3. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
4. The Big Four
5. The Mystery of the Blue Train
6. Peril at End House
7. Lord Edgware Dies
8. Murder on the Orient Express
9. Three Act Tragedy
10. Death in the Clouds
11. The A.B.C. Murders
12. Murder in Mesopotamia
13. Cards on the Table
14. Dumb Witness
15. Death on the Nile
16. Appointment with Death
17. Hercule Poirot's Christmas
18. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
19. Sad Cypress
20. Evil Under the Sun
21. Five Little Pigs
22. The Hollow
23. Taken at the Flood
24. Mrs. McGinty's Dead
25. After the Funeral
26. Hickory Dickory Dock
27. Dead Man's Folly
28. Cat Among the Pigeons
29. The Clocks
30. Third Girl
31. Hallowe'en Party - READ October 2015
32. Elephants Can Remember
33. Curtain
34. The Monogram Murders

Hercule Poirot Collections 0/4
35. Poirot Investigates
36. Murder in the Mews
37. The Labours of Hercules
38. Poirot's Early Cases

Miss Marple Series 4/12
1. The Murder at the Vicarage
2. The Body in the Library - READ January 2013
3. The Moving Finger
4. A Murder is Announced
5. They Do It with Mirrors
6. A Pocket Full of Rye
7. 4:50 From Paddington - READ January 2013
8. The Mirror Crack'd
9. A Caribbean Mystery
10. At Bertram's Hotel - READ October 2010
11. Nemesis - READ October 2010
12. Sleeping Murder

Miss Marple Collections 1/2
13. The Thirteen Problems READ January 2016
14. Miss Marple's Final Cases

Tommy and Tuppence Series 0/4
1. The Secret Adversary
2. N or M?
3. By the Pricking of My Thumbs
4. Postern of Fate
5. Partners in Crime (Collection)

Superintendent Battle Books 0/5
1. The Secret of Chimneys
2. The Seven Dials Mystery
3. Cards on the Table
4. Murder is Easy
5. Towards Zero

Standalone Novels 0/13
1. The Man in the Brown Suit
2. The Sittaford Mystery
3. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
4. And Then There Were None
5. Death Comes as the End
6. Sparkling Cyanide
7. Crooked House
8. They Came to Baghdad
9. Destination Unknown
10. Ordeal by Innocence
11. The Pale Horse
12. Endless Night
13. Passenger to Frankfurt

Short Story Collections 1/15
1. The Mysterious Mr. Quin
2. The Hound of Death
3. The Listerdale Mystery
4. Parker Pyne Investigates
5. The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories - READ May 2017
6. The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
7. Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
8. The Under Dog and Other Stories
9. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
10. Double Sin and Other Stories
11. Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories
12. The Golden Ball and Other Stories
13. Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories
14. The Harlequin Tea Set
15. While the Light Lasts and Other Stories

Mary Westmacott 0/6
1. Giant's Bread
2. Unfinished Portrait
3. Absent in the Spring
4. The Rose and the Yew Tree
5. A Daughter's a Daughter
6. The Burden

2019 Challenge:
Duration: 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2019
Level: Remixer (6), Freestyle
Completed: 2/6

1. Celebrity Narrator - What I Know for Sure Read by Oprah (Mar/19)
2. Between 3 - 5 Hours - The Witches 4 hours (Oct/19)
3. Male Narrator
4. Full Cast
5. Classic Read
6. Duets

2018 Challenge:
Duration: 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2018
Level: Audio Technician (12), Freestyle
Completed: 6/12

1. Female Narrator - The Eyre Affair (Jan/18)
2. Dramatizations - Stardust BBC production, full cast abridged. (May/18)
3. Multitasking! - Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces (Jul/18)
4. Less Than 3 Hours - Milk and Honey (Feb/18)
5. Recommended by Others - Brown Girl Dreaming (Feb/18)
6. Planes, Trains, or Automobiles - Vancouver Trip - Space Opera (Aug/18)

This challenge is perfect! I just finished up a big clean up of my TBR and found that a lot of the books I added way back in 2010 still made the cut for things I really want to read.

Since quite a few are series or by the same author, I'm making a goal of reading at least 5 of the 17 books from my 2010 TBR.

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My first library check out in a loooooong while. This is just a small hint at a huge haul. I am so incredibly happy right now!!! Summer reading time is one of the few pleasures that I love the most!

Checkout:


Holds:

L. Mary wrote: "Checked Out
[bookcover:An Ember in the..."

AH! Such a stroke of luck, you just reminded me that I need to place a request on Between the World and Me. That's one that I'll never be able to see on shelf. There's already a line up of 40 at my library for it.

My library closes for the holidays so it isn't open for another 2 days, but I am so excited for it to be back! I've been putting out some holds so I can start my 2016 off right! Some of these are going to be a pretty long wait though...

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❅Rebecca❅ wrote: "Requested:
Gots:
[bookcover:All Our Yesterdays|..."

So many good books! Lips Touch Three Times is one of my faves and Anna Dressed in Blood looks sooo interesting. You have excellent taste in books!

Karen wrote: "lol Jessica-Robyn! That is quite the title

I have Let it snow on my TBR - you have inspired me to read it this December! Harold Fry is a great book and Me, Earl and the Dying Girl is also on my TB..."

Yay! I think seasonal reading is always the best and I'm really looking forward to reading everything I've picked up from this trip. I'm hoping that these books will help me get out of this inexplicable reading slump I've been in.

I've got some real gems here! I mean, Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime?!



Really though, I'm looking forward to December so I can finally break my Let it Snow curse. Every year I plan to read Let it Snow for Christmas and every damn time the book disappears only to be found in January. For real, its been three years running! I will break the curse!

Nicole wrote: "Jessica-Robyn wrote: "I got this bunch after my first real trip to my new library. I had gotten so use to seeing the same-old, same-old at my last library that it was just so interesting to explore..."

That's great to hear! I could not believe when I saw it on shelf.

For me the The Secret World of Og was read to me by my second grade teacher and completely stole my heart. Also, The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes series (Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining). They used to sell them at the grocery store and I just had to check if there was a new one every single time my mom took me shopping.

ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "I liked Agnes and the Hitman, Jessica-Robyn..hope you enjoy that one. It was cute.

I have a few books from the library right now:

(reading now)

[bookcove..."

I've been wondering which book I should start up first! Agnes and the Hitman will have to be my next read. I've been looking forward to it for a while now.

I got this bunch after my first real trip to my new library. I had gotten so use to seeing the same-old, same-old at my last library that it was just so interesting to explore and find new stuff. Hardly anything was familiar. I'll probably end up doubling my to-read list by the end of the month just from new finds. :D

The Haul:

Thank you so much Cathie! I'm totally looking forward to checking it out! :D

Cathie wrote: "Hey Jessica-Robyn :-). No I have not read the original Peter Pan story but have read many derivatives of it; that's a great idea to read the original alongside Tiger Lily!"

Of all the retellings I haven't seen a lot about Peter Pan, which has me excited to check them all out. Do you have any favourite derivatives of the story?