christene_littlelibrary’s Comments (group member since May 03, 2022)

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

All my recent books didn't reach 300 lmao I'll put them on ss at the end of the month if we still lack books to give space to higher pages books

September 2022

📖 Mirror, Mirror ~344pages
📖 Pumpkinheads ~209pages
📖 Daisy Darker ~352pages
📖 Six Crimson Cranes ~454pages
📖 White Sand, Volume 1 ~160pages
📖 White Sand, Volume 2 ~160pages
📖 White Sand, Volume 3 ~160pages
📖 The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes ~352pages
📖 Uncharted Waters ~49pages
📖 The Plot ~320pages
📖 The Dark One ~219pages

Group total: 1,447,564

Kira wrote: "Woohooo! We ended up at 2nd place in the voting!

Top 3 You're the hottest place in town this week and everyone wants to try your meals. Now is the time to think about what your niche market is lo..."

Yey! Congrats team time to search for book for round 2... lmao

6 days til the end of round 1
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Yes and currently on the 3rd place! Nice one team. 😊👏

Natasha wrote: "I've added some words that work for the curry meal (hope that's alright?) Did we want to start another meal so we have some more options?"

You can add meals that goes with your books! Just marked red like Kira if your lacking some more items so that it will be easy to fill up! Let's go team! 😊 This challenge makes me more hungry while reading! tryin to find all those foods.

DQs Day 3 - Mimi - Sophie
9. Now, we know they are one big (not so) happy family. What do you think of the family dynamics? Do you think it is odd to live in an apartment in someone else’s house? This also means that anyone could have a key.

10. We have learned about the father and his view on sex/chastity with two of his children (“becoming a man” and his daughter’s outfit). How do these two scenes reflect on the family and character development?

11. Ben seems to have been investigating the family business. What do you think is really going on and is represented by the “wine” transactions? I think there is one obvious choice, but I will wait for others to comment.

12. Finally, do you have a favorite character so far? Do you think the characters have developed much or are they still mostly defined relationally?

Day 2 DQs Jess to Jess

5.) This section opens with Jess and Nick meeting which provides more insight into Ben and his relationships with friends. The conversation Nick and Ben had about the apartment rent seemed really odd, why was the rent for that apartment so cheap? And how could Nick really arrange it?

6.) More layers added to the Concierge, she seemed to like Ben because he treated her like a person. Anyone else think he had an angle there and he wasn't just being a decent person? However, she's following Sophie's instructions about Jess and vaguely threatened her. Any thoughts as to why?

7.) Things are not looking good for Ben, I'm back to pondering the freshly planted flower bed in the courtyard. Any guess at what he's been up to? The blackmail of Sophie?

8.) The police station. Do you think Nick told them what Jess think he told them? Or do you think he told them "this is my friend's nutter sister who thinks he's missing when he's off getting laid".?

Maybe we should try to complete the monthly special menu it has 80 points the biggest one but the hard one... It needs like 500+ pages books lol

◈ Fijian Chicken Curry (chicken, spice(s) (generic term or a specific type), tomato, coconut milk, chutney, roti, chilli, rice. Must contain chicken, spice(s) and rice. This dish has a minimum of 6 and maximum of 8 items.

Kira wrote: "we also need vinegar!!!!! I can finish quiches with my current book if I happen to update it before you but I am planning to start fish and chips with vinegar, so it'd be bomb if you have that in y..."

Lol I happen to have vinegar in my current book. We'll see i'll just fill up the missing ingredients once i finished

Kira wrote: "We need 2 salts and one milk to finish 2 quiche meals! I've left the book entries blank in the meal preparation tab so if anyone finds these in their books, could you fill out these 3 entries first?"

I have salts and milk in my current book. But maybe I'll be finished reading tomorrow.

Natasha wrote: "I should be finishing my first book today and have requested access to the spreadsheet. Feel free to move around or change anything I put in there (I'm not entirely sure if I know what I'm doing qu..."

Same I feel you. No idea at all I just follow what Kira does lol

DAY 1 QUESTIONS - PROLOGUE - CONCIERGE

1. Lucy Foley has been a very popular author over the last few years starting with The Book of Lost and Found in 2015, this is her sixth book. How many have your read? Have you a favourite? What is it about her writing style that keeps you coming back? And if you are a newbie what are you expecting from The Paris Apartment?
I just recently discovered her books so this is my first read books from her! I just started reading mystery thriller books this year so there's that!

2. Ahhh.. Voila. Paris the city of love and light. 💕 How important do you think the apartment's location will be to the story? Have you been to Paris or is it on your travel bucket list? Any memories/stories you want to share.
Paris is definitely a travel bucket list for me. Haven't been to any out of the country travel, but hopefully soon!

3. And now to the prologue. Does is set the scene? What are your initial thoughts of Ben and what is to come? PS Isn't the key so cute with the Paris landmarks on it. I want one!
Idk yet but Ben seems mysterious with all the characters reaction to him I wanna know more, don't ya?

4. It's a bit of a femme fest with all the main characters at this stage women. Jess, Sophie, Mimi and the mysterious Concierge - all seem to be full of subterfuge and secrets. Compare and contrast these women and what do you think their ongoing role in the novel will be?
Concierge definitely is the mysterious out of them. I wonder if Ben got some Affair out of this women, Ben seems the charmer type of a person as describe by them.

MY RESTAURANT ROCKS September-November 2022

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Onyx Coins: 1
Total: 2

BOTM- September 2022 The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

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Ruby Coins: 2
Total: 8

NetGalley- September 2022

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Spessartite Coins: 1
Total: 5

Kira wrote: "Also since I already used bread in the sandwich from my boo, I think we should switch it with a different ingredient from yours?

Edit: switching bread with carrots!"

Done putting everything! You do the edit stuff hahaha thanks
I already fixed the red stuff so we're good

Kira wrote: "Christene, I added 4 ingredients for a sandwich in the ss and we need 7 minimum so can you try and look for more of the materials to complete our meal?"

I have 10 but max 7 only so we're good

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Kira wrote: "Hi!

This is my first time participating in this challenge and I am not sure what I am doing wrong but the spreadsheet for Team Nacho Problem is a bit wonky for me, I tried following t..."

Hi I'm also from Nacho Problem Team. I already requested permission to edit the ss but up until now it's in view only mode. I would just like to ff up. thank you so much!

I look at others spreadsheet and they have like the option buttons for that column maybe that's why it's red? But in our ss the buttons doesn't show so idk what's wrong. And I'm still waiting for my request to edit lol