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

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

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Book: Carrie
Date Read: May 14
Pages: 253
BOM/Writing DQs: n/a

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. IR#55 - #90 on list
2. O#76 - Margaret White is a religious zealout
3. W#135 - MPG Paranormal
4. TA#191 - Stephen
5. TA#192 - King

6. BINGO - movie clapperboard (made into a movie)

DQ for Day 2
Chapters 11-20


6. Picking up on the previous grief question to turn it around towards Willowdean and her mother. Will seems to think (I'm paraphrasing here) that her mother is a heartless cow and wants to use Lucy's room all to herself without any consideration whatsoever for anyone else. I can't help but wonder though if the mother isn't somehow trying to be close to Lucy - her own sister - by setting up a craft room in Lucy's space. Everyone deals with grief in their own way, and while yes, I agree with her (unlike Will) that the dusty old things will eventually need to go, I feel like she's trying to find a way to cope at the same time.
She might very well be doing that. Sometimes, being in a place that was special to someone close to you does bring those feelings back.

7. Will and Bo. Thoughts? More particularly, Will's reaction to finding out that Bo will start going to the same school?
I can understand her reaction to finding out Bo will be at school with her. Will he still acknowledge and be friendly with other people around? Sometimes, teenagers especially are guided by their peers and he might be overly influenced by others.

8. The more I read, the more I wonder how Ellen and Will are (still) friends with the way they talk to each other. According to Will, they are drifting apart because Ellen is having sex and because of Callie (she doesn't quite say it but it is definitely there). Their interactions however do make me wonder, a lot. I feel like they're friends more because it's a habit than anything else. They're both dependent on each other - Will because she doesn't seem to have other friends and can't stay in the pool alone? Ellen because she needs a back-up when she goes to pick up her pay check?) What do you make of their friendship now that we know more. Irreparable rift? Habit? Undying friendship?
I think it is probably a habit from when they were very young. High school is where you often see close friendships fall apart especially based on peer pressure and which road each of the people take going forward.

9. And this inevitably brings me to Will's interactions with Callie. It seems like Callie is at least trying, even though there is the fat-girl-issue, but she isn't completely ignoring Will, unlike Will herself, who barely manages to be civil to the girl. Sure, I completely understand the jealousy of thinking that someone is stealing your (best) friend from you, but it isn't helping Will's case that she is basically being a douche to the girl.
But if you look at it from Will's perspective, always being called the "fat girl" and being laughed at, I can understand her behavior toward Callie. Callie totally disrespected her when they were at the pool during the summer.

10. Did anyone else have that moment of "oh shit, something really terrible is going to happen on the date" when Ellen and Tim tell Will that Patrick Thomas is Mitch's best friend. Or is it just me who thinks that there is a very obvious lack of mobbing and finger-pointing? Not that this is a bad thing, on the contrary! Though I do find it odd since Will has A LOT of issues and basically hates people who are not Ellen (and Bo).
I think Will has all those issues from how people treat her - from her own mother, to the other students she knows from school. I don't think she's trying to be a douche - she may come off that way but I think it's a form of self-protection so she doesn't get hurt.

I should be reading my W book this week.

I can take an A and an R

DQs Day 1 - Chaps 1 - 10

1. What do you think of Willowdean? Does she feel like a sufficiently real person?

Yes, I think so.

2. What you you think about her relationship with Ellen? They are starting to keep secrets from each other now - do you think that this is the start of a drifting apart or will they stay close?

I think this is typical of teenage girls and the drama that can start. I am hoping they will keep back together.

3. Bo is interesting - the opposite of Will in terms of being reserved in comparison to her chattiness, but with something lurking in his backstory. Do you want to have a guess at what's up with him? Would anyone NOT have done the same as Will and followed him to the abandoned school in the hopes of more making out?!

I think it's cool that Bo and Will made out. I hope they end up together.

4. Will claims ownership of "fat" when she introduces herself to Bo. How successful do you think she is in her aim to stop it from being an insult?

I think it's something a lot of us do - call attention to our shortcomings before someone else can to help us feel better about ourselves.

5. Lucy has clearly been a big influence in both Will and Ellen's lives, and yet they haven't been talking about her at all since her death. Do you think this is a normal reaction to a sudden death? Would you be like Will's mother, and get rid of everything, or keep it?

I think it is a normal reaction, and everyone reacts differently. I don't think I'd get rid of everything though because I would regret it later on.

I can take

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Book: The Night Whistler
Date Read: May 7
Pages: 400
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. D#119 - someone makes a new friend (Hal makes a new friend with an aboriginal girl)
2. TA#226 - Time of day in title (midnight, morning, noon, etc)

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Book: The Once and Future Witches
Date Read: May 9
Pages: 517
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. BINGO F7 - three witches

2. CW#113 - Spell out A (author)
3. D#118 - title has all the letters in D-E-A-T-H
4. W#136 - MPG Witches

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Book: A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead
Date Read: May 13, 2021
Pages: 736
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
1. W#103 - MC is in the performing arts (MC is The Grateful Dead (famous band))
2. CW #112 - L spell out (title)
3. D#151 - (ALL) inital letters of title words spell out a word (like TOT) min 2 words (ALST spells out LAST)
4. D#167 - title includes an adjective (Long)
5. CW#171 - L spell out (title)
6. TA#175 - cover has only men (one ok) PLUS something blue (men and blue in Grateful Dead logo)
7. TA#227 - Memoir MPG

Bingo
G4 - guitar (MPG music)

Just checking in with everyone to make sure everyone's doing okay. Even if you haven't finished a book yet this month, please make sure to check in at least weekly so we know you are still around. Many thanks.

I'm going to be doing the backroom read, and volunteered for DQs

Cilla, can you please add your Harry Potter book to your TT shelf?

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Book: Les Misérables
Date Read: May 6, 2021
Pages: 1,436
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
R
28 - H - Author Hugo

CW
88 - set in a large city - set in Paris, France
111 - C - Cosette
113 - A - Azelma
169 - L - Title

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Book: On Basilisk Station
Date Read: May 6, 2021
Pages: 458
BOM/Writing DQs: N/A

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
R#6 - the cover has yellow, green and purple on it

I love it when I get a book that works for two or more challenges.

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5. Hiroshima (JP) - Kathmandu (NP)
Task: Read a book where the first word of the text is The
Book Read: Dead Dead Girls
How it fits: "The wind whips around her face."
Date Read: May 4, 2021