Jammin Jenny’s Comments (group member since Jan 31, 2016)

Jammin Jenny’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Heli wrote: "Completion post:

Destined for an Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Date read: 6/15/2021
Pages: 355

Possible uses and reas..."


Do you like this series? I just started but so far I really love it.

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Book: Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
Date Read: Jun 15
Pages: 304
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. BINGO snowflake
2.
3.


Book: Death of a Celebrity
Date Read: Jun 14
Pages: 274 (default)
BOM/Writing DQs: n/a

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. JACKANORY - secondary character type
2.
3.

No, just include the hyperlink to your answers to the DQs in your completion post.

Okay, we're about a month in to this challenge and we're starting to fill out our JACKANORY. I'm going to put the current inputs in this post, and see if I can add it near the top of our thread too for easy reference. Here goes:

JACKANORY INPUTS
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What genres describe your story? (1/2)
- MPG Horror
Describe the setting of your story (2/4)
- Georgia, in a residential reform academy

CHARACTERS
Describe your protagonists (max 2 characters)
- 30 yr old teacher, lonely and loves her red wine, old enough to know better
- 17 yr old crime solving podcaster, loves someone against their better judgment
Describe your antagonists (max 2 characters)
- evil and delusional
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Describe your secondary characters (max 3 characters)
- one is a test tube baby, no male DNA in her system
- children eavesdropping into things they shouldn't
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What's DEATH up to?
- malice, murder, taking hostages
Who's the cameos (max 2)
- Alfred Hitchcock
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PLOT
What's the spur that starts the story?
- blood wedding, wicked gentlemen, a matter of love and death
What's the motivation of the antagonists?
- not going to prison, living new lives
How do the protagonists react?
- aiming a gun at them
What's the next plot point?
- fatal chaos when aliens attack
What are your secondaries up to?
- looking for a way to change their lives
What's the McGuffin?
- a grizzly bear
What obstacles are in the protagonists' way?
- ???
How do the protaganists overcome them?
- faking them out
Time for the final plot twist!
- the protaganist casts a love spell
- the antagonist is a vampire
- the antagonist is not the father of the child!

And now to wrap things up!!
- (hide spoiler)]

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Book: Hot to Trot
Date Read: Jun 13
Pages: 256
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A
Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. D#19 - horse on cover

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Book: Rebecca
Date Read: Jun 13
Pages: 339
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A
Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. #162 on list

I have a book for #239 - Read a book from Best 21st Century Non-Fiction if no one else wants to read for that. If you do, let me know and you can have it (unless I already finished it). :D

ETA: I am also finishing up right now a book that works for #55 - Read a book from The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK list, Rebecca

Thanks Louise :) Fixed.

Great! We're almost done this itinerary and ready for our next one!

Hey everyone. We are doing very well. Right now we are in second place!!

Here are the unclaimed tasks by theme if anyone is reading something soon to cover them:

R - Rincewind - all claimed! (if you can't finish one you claimed please let us know so we can open it up to others)

CW - City Watch
#85 - Hippo on cover
#201 - Onomatopoeia in title
#231 - MPG Race

W - Witches
#17 - Book set in South Africa
#18 - Read a book from Against Discrimination list
#104 - mask on cover
#107 - characters dress in costumes
#133 - MPG vampires

IR - Industrial Revolution
#55 - Read a book from The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK list
#56 - go to the cinema
#60 - sausage on cover
#235 - Steampunk MPG
#239 - Read a book from Best 21st Century Non-Fiction

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Book: Tucker's Last Stand: A Blackford Oakes Novel
Date Read: Jun 12
Pages: 313
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A
Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. BINGO B2 - Eagle - for America's involvement in the Vietnam war
2. Jackanory - what are your secondaries up to? war

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Book: The Heir
Date Read: Jun 2
Pages: 342
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A
Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. W#106 - the princess has a ball for all her suitors
2. O#164 - MPG YA
3. TA#142 - crown on cover
4. C4 - anthill inside - there are a lot of suitors for the princess in the castle
5. D7 - crown on cover



Book: The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Date Read: Jun 4
Pages: 312 (default)
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A
Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. D#152 - clock on cover
2. Jackanory - describe your protagonists/very smart (Hercule Poirot is MC)



Book: How to Survive a Horror Movie
Date Read: Jun 4
Pages: 176
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A
Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. D#93 - many of the characters are slashers, demons and other representations of death
2. W#133 - MPG vampires
3. BINGO B4 - vampires in story
4. BINGO B7 - to survive a horror movie, sometimes you have to stay up for seven days straight
5. BINGO E2 - you have to be foolish to enter into a haunted house
6. BINGO E6 - howling wolves are a bad sign in a horror movie
7. BINGO E8 - same thing about fierce cats (could be risen from soured ground)
8. BINGO F5 - troll doll could be possessed
9. BINGO G2 - a golem can help you evade monsters
10. Jackanory - how do protagonists over come them? - they take information from this book to evade the giant grizzly


Book: A Peculiar Combination
Date Read: Jun 11
Pages: 304
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A
Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. D#117 - MPG Espionage
2. Jackanory - what are the secondaries up to? - espionage
3.


Book: You Love Me
Date Read: Jun 10
Pages: 400 (default)
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A
Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. BINGO G4 - one of the characters plays guitar
2. Jackanory - describe your antagonists - insane
3.

Carrie wrote: "Yasmine wrote: "Louise wrote: "July BOM have been announced

The House in the Cerulean Sea and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue I’ll update msg8 with all the necess..."

I agree with Carrie and I rated them both 5 stars as well.

Of course, I've already read these books earlier in the year :)