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

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

Cathie wrote: "My library checkouts are: Tiger Lily , One Breath Away , Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas , Take Me There , The Postman Always Rings Twice , Love, an Index , Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Den..."

Great selection! I've heard a lot of great things about Tiger Lily. Have you read the original Peter Pan? I've been putting it off till I can get around to both of them.

Valerie wrote: "This is a perfect challenge for me...I do this on my own already! I have a spreadsheet with all my favorite authors and a list of their books in order of publication. That's the only way I could ..."

Spreadsheets are possibly the best thing ever! I do the same thing to keep track of which books are up next for me. I would get so confused without a proper list to follow!

Barb wrote: "I'm really enjoying Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and I have to read The Pawn for this month's F2F book club. I've not heard many *good reviews of The Casual Vacancy, but I'm going to give it a..."

I've got The Casual Vacancy on hold right now and your right I've seen a lot of mixed reviews, but I'm still looking forward to seeing what it's like.

The Book Thief is one of those titles that I know it's going to be good, I know I'm going to enjoy it, but it's been sitting on my list for so long that I'm just avoiding it now because of my expectations. However, it is going to get read... in 2013.

Tori, I hope you enjoy The Book Thief. I'm been meaning to read that book for years. :)

And Barb, what an incredibly haul! I'm adding Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and The End of Your Life Book Club to my list right now.

I just went to the library for the first time in over a month. I've been so busy with school reading even the tinest bit was completely off the table. But I have returned! triumphant!

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All of these books have been on my to-read list for months now. I'm so excited to finally do some reading! The only question is... where should I start?

So many series!! I have 35 books on my series-in-progress shelf and 60+ series that are just waiting to get started.

Charles de Lint, Newford Series (3/24)

Meg Cabot, The Mediator Series (4/6)

Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games Series: (1/3)

Agatha Christie, Miss Marple Series: (4/15)

J.K. Rowling, The Harry Potter Series: (3/7)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes Series (4/9)

Louise Rennison, Misadventures of Tallulah Casey Series (2/3) On Going Series

Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine Series (1/2) On Going Series

Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke and Bone Series (1/3) On Going Series

Stacey Kade, The Ghost and the Goth Series (2/3)

Lisa Lutz, The Spellmans Series (4/5) On Going Series

Ally Carter, Heist Society Series (2/3) On Going Series

Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson Series (2/5)

Philip Pullman, Sally Lockhart Series (1/4)

Alan Bradley, Flavia de Luce Series (1/6) On Going Series

Laura Whitcomb, Light Series (1/2)

Began: August 2012
Completed: ----

Comedies
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
The Taming of the Shrew - March 2013
The Tempest - November 2015/January 2016
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Winter's Tale

Histories
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Richard III
Henry VIII

Tragedies
Romeo and Juliet - October 2012
Coriolanus
Titus Andronicus
Timon of Athens
Julius Caesar
Macbeth - March 2014
Hamlet
Troilus and Cressida
King Lear
Othello
Antony and Cleopatra - January 2013
Cymbeline

Allison wrote: "I am going to the Library tomorrow or today to check out a few Stephen King and Dean Koontz books. I just took back after having it forever."

Are you a Stephen King fan? I've been wanting to do the same and grab some of his stuff, but it's hard to pick where to begin.

I've been in a bit of a reading ditch so I tried to get some of the books that I know are well loved. When it came to Grave Mercy I requested it the moment I saw my library had it! ASSASSIN NUNS! How did no one think of that sooner?!

Come rain or shine I will go above and beyond to get to my library! Including walk in aforementioned rain, which was a lot more like the heavens had just opened up completely. These should hopefully hold me over until the sun resurfaces.

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I'm crowning myself the reigning Queen of going overboard! *SHABAM!*
Fingerprints
A Sickness In The Family
Happy Cafe, Volume 1
Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
Fruits Basket, Vol. 15
Fruits Basket, Vol. 16
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Volume 4
Heads You Lose
Ninth Key
Twenties Girl: A Novel
Pride and Prejudice
Knack Cycling for Everyone: A Guide to Road, Mountain, and Commuter Biking
Yesterday's Tomorrows

Waiting for Fruits Basket, Vol. 14 to still come in before I can read the ones I've got.

Adding these to the titles I already had from my last few trips I have somewhere around 22 books to choose from and all on some sort of deadline. Although a large majority are graphic novels/manga, so it really doesn't seem all that bad, but still pretty bad, or in my case pretty good, because I now have endless selection!

Any thoughts on where should I start?

But. it. gah! Just talking about The Fault in Our Stars, it's has been on the NYT list for 15 weeks. You have to really be purposely not buying YA to ignore that. If I lived in your area, we would totally be storming that castle together!

Sashana wrote: "They don't have The Fault in Our Stars, just checked."

That boggles my mind. It's one thing to ignore popular reading choices for a certain genre, but that also tells me they don't refer to bestseller lists, like the New York Times. I mean, that seems like it should be a standard.

Sashana wrote: "Jessica-Robyn wrote: "Such a conscience! I just saw Jay Asher in person today (nice guy) and yeah I'm another one of those people that love, love Thirteen Reasons Why. BUT I can completely see why ..."

Yeah it was! He was there with two other YA authors, Carrie Mac and Hiromi Goto. I'm just about to start adding there books to my list since I wasn't familiar with them, (Hiromi Goto has gone straight to the top of my list.) Small group, really fun, got a free t-shirt.

Such a conscience! I just saw Jay Asher in person today (nice guy) and yeah I'm another one of those people that love, love Thirteen Reasons Why. BUT I can completely see why people might not get into it or not enjoy it. It's not a crowd pleaser, and there are a lot of individual moments that a reader is either going to love it for, or hate it for.

I get all my books from the library and it is frustrating trying to get my hands on rarer books. Especially having to request things that get put on lower priority just because it hasn't been printed in Canada or the US, despite being really good quality.

But in the mean time, Check Out:
... = rivals a encyclopedia in weight.

On my way home from the library while feeling like I was dislocating my shoulder from my neck (my bag was so heavy, so very unexpectedly heavy), I sincerely wished I owned a wagon. How awesome would that be?

"I'm just walking to the library with my wagon!"

This needs to happen. *-*

I'm lucky to have never had to deal with a banning before, but the fact that people still think it's okay to do that is incredibly frustrating. It's like saying, I can expose myself to these things on TV, in theatres, or on the Internet, but I can't be in charge of what I'm reading because someone else thinks I shouldn't be able too. Gah!

On another note, I'm hoping that my library will try to get more Australian YA authors. They have a lot of YA in general but the selves are pretty dominated by North American writers.

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I feel like I'm overdoing it, but I'm having way to much fun rolling in my piles of manga to really care. ^-^

I've been curious about that one too! I've heard a lot of great things about the movie but not a lot of buzz around the book.

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So much to read so little time.