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

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

Okay - updated again for our first 3 tasks in our first 3 books

Book 1 - Sorcerer's Stone - 6 unclaimed tasks

Task 1 - Defeat the Troll
Read a book with a double L in the title - Chasing Windmills- Ashlee
Read a book with a baseball bat on the cover
Read a book with “troll” in the title or text
Read a book with a only 5 word title- Sam (need name of book)

Task 4 - Esxape the Devil's Snare
Read a book with a predominately green cover - Bear Town - Karen
Read a book with “Devil” in the title
Read a book where the title starts with S- Sandman Slim - Devann
Read a book tagged at least 10 times as “relax” or “calm” - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Jenny

Task 5 - Mirror of Erised
Read a book which the authors initials are E.D.
Read a book with a mirror on the cover
Read a book tagged at least 50 times as “wish”
Read a book with a person on the cover with their hand in their pocket - Need to Know - Karen

Book 5 - Order of the Phoenix - 5 unclaimed task

Task 1 - Clean up the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix
Read a book with pixies or fairies- A Local Habitation- Devann
Read a book with "Order" in the title - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Abbey
Read a book a bird on the cover
Read a book with picture on the cover

Task 3 - Get a New Professor
Read a book with a predominately pink cover - Good Girl's Don't - Joanne
Read a book where the title is pink
Read a book with a teacher character
Read a book with a cat on the cover

Task 4 - Department of Mysteries
Read a book MPG Mystery - Into the Water - Ashlee
Read a book where someone dies- The Game - Ashlee
Read a book with a large battle- American War - Karen
Read a book where there is a "rescue" - Circe - Karen

Book 6 - Half Blood Prince - 8 open

Task 4 - Love Potion
Read a book with "Love" in the title
Read a book with chocolate on the cover
Read a book with a bottle on the cover Auntie Poldi Karen
Read a book with a heart on the cover

Task 5 - The White Tomb
Read a book with a white cover - A Darker Shade of Magic Joanne
Read a book with "White" in the title - White Cat - Devann
Read a book with a graveyard on the cover
Read a book where one of the main characters dies - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Colleen

Michelle - pick one more task from this book to finish

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
7/30/18
BR Linked on sheet
386 pages

R, E, C, W, O, M, P, A, J, D, H, K, S, N; Wade Owen Watts, Ogden Morrow, Parzival, Aech, James Donovan Halliday, Art3mis, Kira Morrow, Daito, Shoto, Nolan Sorrento

Yes it was asked in the Captain's Group. Here was the answer.

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Clarification question:

One of my team members asked is books started before the 31st (but not finished until August) can be used for Tri-wizard.

I was thinking yes, because it isn't a banked book, but wanted to check with someone who actually knows the answer ;)

Answer from Sonia: Yes
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So books started prior to July 31st but not finished until August 1st or later are not considered "banked books" and can work towards TWT tasks.

But your point is valid regarding letters we need a lot of for the Characters books. I will leave the decision to Michelle as to whether your books should go toward TWT or Characters. I jut know we need to finish the first 36 tasks under TWT before we can work on other tasks, so we need to make sure we are thoughtfully working on those first 36 tasks and finishing them by August 10th at the latest, to give us three more weeks to work on more tasks.

Karen, does American War work for "large battle in book"?

Open tasks to pick from for now - please pick if you can read them by August 10th...

Book 1 - Sorcerer's Stone - 7 open tasks

Task 1 - Defeat the Troll
Read a book with a baseball bat on the cover
Read a book with “troll” in the title or text

Task 2 - Get Past Fluffy
Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover
Read a book where the main character is a musician
Read a book with “Song” in the title

Task 4 - Escape the Devil's Snare
Read a book with a predominately green cover
Read a book with “Devil” in the title

Book 5 - Order of the Phoenix - 6 open tasks

Task 1 - Clean up the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix
Read a book a bird on the cover
Read a book with picture on the cover

Task 4 - Department of Mysteries
Read a book where there is a "rescue"

Task 5 - The Lost Prophecy
Read a book with a seer/fortune teller character
Read a book with "Lost" in the title
Read a book with 'Prophecy" in the title or series name

Book 6- Half Blood Prince - 10 open tasks

Task 2 - Silver and Opals
Read a book with a necklace on the cover
Read a book with 'Silver" in the title
Read a book "Curse" in the title
Read a book "opal" in the text

Task 4 - Love Potion
Read a book with "Love" in the title
Read a book with chocolate on the cover
Read a book with a heart on the cover

Task 5 - The White Tomb
Read a book with a white cover
Read a book with a graveyard on the cover
Read a book where one of the main characters dies

Once we finish this first set of tasks, the other tasks will be open to read by August 31st.

Yes I feel you. I'm trying to plow through as many as I can by tomorrow night :)

Books can be started prior to the 31st, but cannot be finished until August 1st or later

The Outsider by Stephen King
7/30/18
561 pages
BR Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Characters: T, O, S, K, R, A, H, G, J, P, M, B; Ralph Anderson, Holly Gibney, Jeannie Anderson, Alec Pullney; Marcy Maitland, Bill Samuels

yes Circe would definitely work for that...

Yes

And articles do count in the five word title

Here's what I like for our first books and tasks...

Updated...

Book 1- Sorcerer's Stone

Task 1 - Defeat the Troll
Read a book with a double L in the title - Ashlee
Read a book with a baseball bat on the cover
Read a book with “troll” in the title or text
Read a book with a only 5 word title- Devann

Task 2 - Get Past Fluffy
Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover
Read a book MPG Music - Jenny
Read a book where the main character is a musician
Read a book with “Song” in the title

Task 4 - Escape the Devil's Snare
Read a book with a predominately green cover
Read a book with “Devil” in the title
Read a book where the title starts with S - Devann
Read a book tagged at least 10 times as “relax” or “calm” - Jenny

Book 5 - Order of the Phoenix

Task 1 - Clean up the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix
Read a book with pixies or fairies - Devann
Read a book with "Order" in the title - Abbey
Read a book a bird on the cover
Read a book with picture on the cover

Task 4 - Department of Mysteries
Read a book MPG Mystery - Ashlee Into the Water
Read a book where someone dies - Ashlee
Read a book with a large battle - Karen American War
Read a book where there is a "rescue"

Task 5 - The Lost Prophecy
Read a book with a seer/fortune teller character
Read a book with a prophecy as an integral part of the story - Karen Circe
Read a book with "Lost" in the title
Read a book with 'Prophecy" in the title or series name


Book 6- Half Blood Prince

Task 2 - Silver and Opals
Read a book with a necklace on the cover
Read a book with 'Silver" in the title
Read a book "Curse" in the title
Read a book "opal" in the text

Task 4 - Love Potion
Read a book with "Love" in the title
Read a book with chocolate on the cover
Read a book with a bottle on the cover - Karen
Read a book with a heart on the cover

Task 5 - The White Tomb
Read a book with a white cover
Read a book with "White" in the title - Devann
Read a book with a graveyard on the cover
Read a book where one of the main characters dies

Hi Devann. Great idea about people still reading HP books. I too finished all of them so no help there.

MPG stands for Main Page Genre. It's shown on the page where the book is listed over to the right.

Just finished the whole book! I loved it! Stephen King is an awesome writer and really gets into your dark psyche of scary!! As Holly would say Oogh.. (view spoiler)[Those worms were nasty and the nightmare Ralph had at the end with the worm coming out of his fingernail...just magnificent! (hide spoiler)] I hope we see Holly in another book to come.

Yes I am super excited...

The Tri-Wizard Team Tasks are up! Here is a link:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

As a team, we must pick 3 books, and 3 tasks within those first 3 books to complete, for a total of 9 books and 36 tasks. Once we finish those, we are free to go back and complete more as we see fit.

Please review the list and let us know what you think we should read for first. Thanks!

The Triwizard Maze is being done as a house - information on that should be shared in our Dungeon. Also, if you are interested in signing up for the last round of Quidditch (against the Hufflepuffs) sign up in the Dungeon as well.

I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
7/29
359 pages
BOM: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Characters: I, B, L; Jasper Dent, Billy Dent, Connie, Howie, G.W. Tanner

DQs 4: Chapter 28 - Epilogue

22. Jazz made a shocking decision to go visit Billy after no contact with him. He asks G William to help him get in quickly. Why do you think Jazz finally made the decision to visit Billy? Would you trust what Billy tells you?
I think he wanted to get the truth about his mother, and also to see if Billy had any idea on who the Impressionist was. I would not trust Billy at all.

23. Why do you think Billy’s request to Jazz about moving the birdbath signified? Do you believe it was a signal? Or just another way to mess with Jazz's head?
I thought it was just a way to mess with Jazz's head, but I was wrong.

24. The Impressionist tells Jasper that he was never supposed to talk to him or see him, which leads me to believe he was taking orders from someone. Do you think Billy was telling the truth about not having contact with him? Do you have any theories of who is pulling his strings?
I think Billy was pulling his strings somehow. I don't believe Billy at all.

25. The Impressionist has a pretty terrifying trophy in his finger belt! What do you think is the significance of the dual “L-O-V-E” and “F-E-A-R” tattoos?
I think that shows he was in contact with Billy since Billy had the same tats on his fingers in jail.

26. “Sure you are. You just ain’t killed no one yet.” Do you think Jazz killed his mother? Or is Billy messing with his head with the note?
I don't know. I hope he didn't have him do that but there are some really dark places in Jazz's mind.

27. Final thoughts of the book and overall rating? Are you intrigued enough to continue on with the series?
I loved this book. I gave it five stars. I am so interested in seeing what happens to Jazz in the future and will continue on with this series

DQ 3: Chapters 18 - 28

14. After sharing his theory and brainstorming, Jazz totally manipulated Connie and Howie to get them to go with him to look for evidence instead of calling the Sheriff. (And we've seen him manipulate a lot of people, especially women, before.) What do you think about this behavior?
I think it's perfectly natural given his upbringing by his dad. I hope he uses it for good.

15. Jazz spends a lot of time taking care of his Grandmother, and she is awfully toxic. Why do you think he is so determined to stay with her instead of going to a foster home? Is Melissa right to decide to move him out?
I think he is trying to atone for what he did under his father's direction. I don't think Melissa is right because I don't think he'd do well in foster care and he is almost 18.

16. Wow the scene with Ginny was very intense. What did it make you think of with regards to Jazz - his feelings of pleasure conflicting with trying to help? Do you like him any less or more?
I think Jazz is very disturbed and borderline sociopath. Hopefully he can use that for good.

17. Erickson keeps showing up and being pretty abusive? Is he a red herring or something more? (Ha I guess don't answer this if you have read this book before - unless you remember what you thought at the time.)
I had bad feelings about Erickson at the time, but I finished the book so I know now...

18. How did the Impressionist know about Jazz's room (or did he?)? Do you think he is going to interact even more with Jazz now, even though it is against orders?
I don't think he knew about Jazz's room, but I do think he and Jazz will end up interacting more in the future.

19. The scene with the dog and learning not to cry was really horrific. I think that interposed with the scene where he cries when talking to Connie are important. Any thoughts?
I think Jasper is messed up

20. Speaking of Connie, what do you think about what she said to Jazz in Chapter 28?
I think Connie is a tough cookie, and I think it's good that she's so up front with Jazz.

21. Is it right for the Sheriff to have Jazz help in the investigation?
Yes I think it actually helps Jazz to be useful and helps him calm his bad thoughts

Updated through here!

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
read 7/28
736 pages

T, O, P, G, H, A, B, M; Characters: Henry, Anne Boleyn, Mary Boleyn,