Melindam’s Comments (group member since May 02, 2017)

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

I just removed this from my TBR. It has been there for a long time and as I was rearranging my physical bookshelves, I took this off the shelf, started reading and then decided that it's not for me ... or not for me any more. So it goes to a box and will hopefully find new home via my local book-exchange-stop.

Oh, good to know. I am around the 100th page or a bit further.

On a different note, I find myself middle-of-the-road with Lessons in Chemistry. I don't dislike it, but it won't be a favourite for sure.

And I'm starting to get bothered about the very unsubtle, black-and-white picture (all men are misogynist a-holes, all women, apart from the MC are vile, stupid conformists, and I think we'll be getting soon to the atheists=good, religious people=bad categorisation ... )

Sammy wrote: "I feel exactly the same about TJR 😆

But I'll give the dramatised version a miss. I vastly prefer a regular audiobook."

Normally, so do I, but I think this may work in that format. (or not.... I'll find out. 😉)

Surprisingly, Carrie Soto Is Back is tagged sand 1x.

I've been planning on re-reading it as the only book by TJR I really liked so far. (she may be my Sarah Waters, Sammy 😅)

I want to try the dramatised, full-cast version, so waiting for my next Audible credit to drop.

Good idea. 😆

🤭

I'm happy to go with the flow. 😊

#10

2 stars

This series took me literally decades to read. When I first read book 1 (after the movie came out), I was unimpressed, but after some years I made myself reread it and I found I really liked it. Still, it took me another 5 years to read book 2 and then I pushed myself to read this one with the now or never feeling.
It was a chore to finish. I did not like it at all. But finally I'm done with this series and I will not check out the other books Pullman wrote after the original trilogy.

😆
I spent today rearranging my bookshelves in the bedroom. I'm very territorial about those as hubby learned at his peril. 🤭 I also collected some books that will be taken to the free Library next week. And I ended up with a little extra space.
Quite satisfied with the days' work.

Sammy wrote: "No, sorry! Romantic relationships are all very much one-at-a-time and between 2 people only, lol.

But it was a very enjoyable read regardless!"

I don't mind about the absence of a triangle, just asked b/c of the task. 😊

Sammy,

is there a love triangle in Lessons in Chemistry? It works for the page count.

Hubby just brought it to me form the library.

Originally I wasn't planning on reading it, but your review & the fact that it's been translated and available in my local library tipped the balance. 😊

Then I'm volunteering.

Sammy wrote: "It's an idea. I'm thinking set in Hawaii.

Step 1: intensive location research..."

🤣

do you need an assistant?

Sammy wrote: "No thank you. Is there such a thing as a tropical beach faerie court? If so, I'll join that one please."

🤣

You could write a book about one, I guess. 🤭

Mel's DQ Tracking

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13. What do you think about Emily’s plan to wake the trapped King? Aside from for plot purposes, do you think it is consistent with her character that she would make this choice?
Well, she would think it was all right, as she used a scientific approach, right? 😂 But there was also a kind of desperation to it that also touched me.

14. We see a lot more faeries in this section. Would you like to be part of an ice court? Did you have any particularly favorite visual element from the book as a whole?
While I love winter markets, they are the cosy kind, not this distant, vicious stuff of faes, so I decline becoming part of a court like that.

15. Do you think Emily has grown as a person over this book and did your view of her change at all across the book?
She definitely got in touch with her emotions which she kept hidden and overall I found I really like her.


16. Did you like how the ending was told or were you expecting more details or have other suggestions?
I think everything in the book was strongly pointing at a book 2 being planned when I first read it and the book ending was in that style. It was OK. I'm not mad about the relationship bw Emily and Wendell, so I'm glad that Emily did not accept the marriage proposal right away.

Bonus. If your version comes with an extra story at the end, what are your thoughts on a gown with added hedgehogs and pomaded chickens? If you did not read this story, you are missing a lot of hedgehogs.
I wasn't riveted by them. 😂

Sammy wrote: "Oh, and also: Happy Dickens Day! 😁🥳"

Happy Dickens Day!!! 🥰

😂

I have 2 books as TBR from that list, but both are longer reads, so I don't think I'll get to them any time soon and The Warden is short at least. :)