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

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

Hey Lexi!

It was great fun playing with everyone!! Sloths rule the world!!

I won't finish in time. It's great and I'm taking my time reading it. I'll finish it tonight but after 7 am AUS ET

Date Read: 12/14
Rating: 3 stars
# of pages: 142
Sin: Lust
Criteria: Color Cover - Red
Alternate: Avarice (Anything goes)

Sure can.

Great work everyone!

I have a couple small books I read this week but didn't post in case we ran out of room.

Also, I will be posting some final DQ responses for the last BOM before time runs out.

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Book: Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews
Date Read: 12/15
Pages: 260
Sin: Avarice
Criteria: Top Shelf - Dystopian

Mini-challenge: Vanity
From the Favorite Book recommendations page

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Date Finished: 12/14
Rating: 5 stars
# of pages: 461
Sin/Criteria: Avarice (Yellow cover, MPG Dystopia, Anything Goes)
Sin Bingo: Yes

I'll finish 2-3 books by the time the clock winds down.

BOM, Sin Bingo and Favourites Recommendation

I updated the end date for Stop #5 to Jan 8, 2020, and pushed Stops 6-8 back one week.

For Stop #5 we are doing the detour:

Read a book where the author's first name is one of the top 100 female names in The Netherlands according to nameberry (http://nameberry.com/popular_names/Ne...)

If you can't find a book that works, you may read any book.

Stop #4 - Calgary, CA
Task: read a book set in Canada or by a Canadian author

Date Finished: 12/13
Rating: 3 stars
How it fits: set in Canada

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Date Finished: 12/13/19
Rating: 3 stars
# of pages: 310
Sin: Sloth (blue cover)
Alternate: Avarice (anything goes)

Way to go!!

Yes I think that's a really good idea!

Found another Sin Bingo to read for so I'm reading that now too. I should have 3-4 books by the time this challenge ends.

Yes I am. I'm only 35% in but I really like her character. Can understand what people have told me about this series now.

I’m reading the BOM and Magic Bites now

Day 2 - Chapters 5-8

5. In chapter 5, we meet Professor Marguerite Belbalm who Alex has a meeting with. What do you make of their meeting? Why is she proving help for Alex? Do you think she's just being a helpful teacher or that she has a sinister reason, like wanting to use Alex for something? How do you think this will influence Alex's behaviours and choices in the book?

That's an interesting thought about her wanting to use Alex. I think you might be on to something there. She has assistants from the other houses

6. Whilst Alex is looking at the crime scene of Tara 'on the other side of the intersection', she has a sense of familiarity and then remembers Hellie and Len struggling in the apartment. Len asks her to let them out. What do think happened in that situation and why did she remember it? I feel like it is something important to the story. Do you think this memory will lead to a large reveal or is it just a small and not so important memory?

Hmm. Maybe there was some Gray action there and Len wanted out

7. In chapter 7 we get a glimpse into Alex's past and what she had to go through to deal with the ghosts. I honestly wasn't expecting us to find out about her past until past halfway mark. She mentions a lot of issues she had to deal with like no one believeing her, kids making fun of her and ostracising her, her parents, that awful bathroom scene, her illicit drug abuse... Why do you think the Lethe society didn't reach out and help her through all that if they were watching her?

I think Lethe was in stealth watch mode to see how far she could develop her own talents, and seeing how she coped with self-medicating.

8. I'm interested in what you guys think of the writing style so far. We have a chapter written in the present tense with Alex and a snippit of passages from books. Then we get Darlington's POV in the past. Are you in favour of this? What do you think of the snippits and are you paying much attention to what they say?

I think the little snippits in between chapters help to set the tone of the societies Alex finds herself dealing with. I also think Darlington's POV on the past is helpful in setting some background for a big reveal later in the book

I'm in. This book looks really interesting. I found it on audible on Scribd.

Date Read: 12/12
Rating: 4.5 stars
# of pages: 288
Sin/Criteria: Lust (red cover)
Alternates: Envy (Top Shelf YA), Pride (LGBT book)