megan’s Comments (group member since Jun 26, 2015)

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

I need to read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany for Popsugar's The longest book on your TBR list. It works for the two MPG War and the MPG Politics tasks. It's crazy long (my epub is 1614 pages), so it will take me a couple weeks, but will be worth a lot of page count points. Can I claim one of those three tasks? Politics might be the most difficult to fill? I don't want to read it and not have a task for it when I finally finish - my goal is by the end of the month.

Judy wrote: "Jillypenny wrote: "Hi! I am currently reading "The Answer is..." by Alex Trebek. I feel that this will count towards task 103, MC in performing arts."

Hmmm there's a thing about nonfiction not hav..."

Non-fiction limits options a lot. In the past it's really only been title and author for spell it out. It's not a 'story' so it doesn't have characters, from what I remember.

Of Princes and Promises
Sandhya Menon
320 pages
14 June

Tasks:
31. MPG Retellings (Princess and the Frog)
71. MPG Fairytales
186. Author is a person of color (From India: Indian American/Asian American)

Yearbook
Seth Rogen
262 pages
11 June

Tasks:
114: Spell It Out, Y - title
178/179 - only man/men and something blue (glasses lenses)

Can we count the lenses in Seth's glasses as something blue? I'm saying yes, but my judgement regarding NBRC tasks isn't always the best.

I have a science book I have to read for my nerdy coworker book club
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
320 pages
7 June

Tasks:
122. Boat/ship on cover - house boats
126. Artist/Engineer - character is a wood turner

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
Mackenzi Lee
533 pages
5 June

Tasks:
92. musical instrument on cover - violin
164. Young Adult
232. Character goes on holiday - European tour

What Comes After
JoAnne Tompkins
429 pages
1 June

Tasks:
119. Book where someone makes a new friend
166. MC is an educator
203. Features a murder
229. MPG Mystery
230. MPG Crime

Hello new friend!

Hello new team members!

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
354 pages
29 May

Task:
239: Read a book from:
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction listipia.

*let me know if we need another task for this and I’ll dig one up

The Memory Collectors
Kim Neville
399 PAGES
26 May

Tasks:
135: MPG Paranormal
137. MPG Fantasy
212. Spoon / cooking utensil on cover - wooden spoon (top right)

Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
496 pages
24 May

Tasks
40. Mummy in text - page 11 "Other than that, she was mostly a mummy."
229. MPG Mystery
237. Features an epic journey - a distance 12 light years to 17 light years away

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Walter Isaacson
536 pages
23 May

24. Has footnotes/end notes
38. Science
222. Non-fiction

The Kindest Lie
Nancy Johnson
18 May
336 pages

tasks:
108. Character has X in their name - Xavier
126. MC is an artist/engineer - chemical engineer
180. Cover has only one woman and something blue -

186. Author is a POC
231. MPG Race

PS - I can take care of task 239, the 21st century non-fiction task. I don't know how many other team members are non-fiction readers.

The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
17 May
1008 pages
Tasks:
4. 1st in series - Kingsbridge series
105. A poem or song in text - page 14:
A lark, caught in a hunter’s net sang sweeter then than ever,
As if the falling melody might wing and net dissever
At dusk the hunter took his prey, the lark his freedom never.
All birds and men are sure to die, but songs may live forever.”
143. Letters F-A-T in title
153. MPG Historical Fiction
155. MC uses horse as a mode of transportation - set between 1120 AD - 1175 AD, so it's horse or donkey
203. Features a murder - war for the succession to the English throne = lots of bloodshed
244. Important character dies - the villain dies and others that would be mega spoilers

Just checking in. I've been working on a Ken Follett book, so it's 1008 pages. Lots of points, but lots of time needed to read. And because it's so long, it fits a lot of the tasks.

Crying in H Mart
5 May
256 pages

Tasks:
#91 - Music MPG
#215 - garlic in text
#227 - Memoir MPG
#231 - MPG Race