Lisa - (Aussie Girl)’s Comments (group member since Sep 26, 2012)

Lisa - (Aussie Girl)’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

1462 pages on kindle and published 30 August 2022

Hi team, my first book for the challenge is going to be The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith. It’s got lots of pages and a U. Feel free to pop it somewhere on the spread sheet. 🥰

Hi team, Lisa checking in..

I’ve had the pleasure of being in a team with quite a few of you, hello again. To those I’ve yet to meet , pleased to meet you.

I’m a mum of 3, Nanna of six, small business owner with my husband (dairy farm), avid reader and traveller.

I’ll be a bit quiet for the first week as I’m cruising around Japan right now but will be reading and adding my books when I return on 19 October.

I love searching for obscure tasks or letters and will read anything for the team including space smut and some real clangers. 😖

Happy reading all.

Hi Elisabeth, yes partners in crime again. Great to be teamies for another wheel.. I’ve been saving up my U’s. 🤣

Hello everyone in Team Interior!

Great.. heading over there now. 🥰

Hi wheelers,

i am away till the 19th and only have my phone.. and the team members aren’t coming up.

What team am I on?

Thanks.. after start date I have a loaded kindle and a few sea days.. so ready to read!

That’s a tricky one. If you run it through tineye it says dark blue., but we can make individual judgement calls. So I’ll leave it up to you. Vicky might weigh in with an opinion.

Cut the head off the snake - Python is defeated.

New Monster - Queen of the Elves (Discworld)

Yay... let's have a Wheely good time teamies (Sorry, I couldn't resist, LOL)

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about two women, centuries apart—one of whom is the real author of Shakespeare’s plays—who are both forced to hide behind another name.

Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.

In 1581, young Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats. Her lessons on languages, history, and writing have endowed her with a sharp wit and a gift for storytelling, but like most women of her day, she is allowed no voice of her own. Forced to become a mistress to the Lord Chamberlain, who oversees all theatre productions in England, Emilia sees firsthand how the words of playwrights can move an audience. She begins to form a plan to secretly bring a play of her own to the stage—by paying an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work.

Told in intertwining timelines, By Any Other Name, a sweeping tale of ambition, courage, and desire centers two women who are determined to create something beautiful despite the prejudices they face. Should a writer do whatever it takes to see her story live on . . . no matter the cost? This remarkable novel, rooted in primary historical sources, ensures the name Emilia Bassano will no longer be forgotten.

This looks really good so I'll be reading and answering questions but I'm away for the next two weeks so can't commit to doing the questions this time. Sorry.

Wintersmith is done.

New monster is Bad Romance - Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley

Alicanto is also despatched.

Wintersmith from Disc World is up next

Dragon King of Arms is gone.

Back to the Greek Monsters with the mighty Python!

Happy slaying.

Natasha wrote: "I'm happy to announce that I had two books that fit two tasks."

That's great Natasha. It's a team effort . 😁

Tipua has been despatched!

Our first monster from the new Disc World Wheel is - Dragon King of Arms.

Keely wrote: "I added the new wheel to the spreadsheet and updated the Fun Stats tab as well."

Thanks Keely!

Hey team.. A new monster Wheel is up..

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

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

Reason - It's an Old School classic that somehow I haven't read yet.

Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shocking details of the disastrous marriage she has left behind emerge. Told with great immediacy, combined with wit and irony, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence and creative freedom.

The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?

In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a book - an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there is a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors, and that any door is every door .

What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows an extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy are exploring all that the Book of Doors can do, swept away from their quiet lives by the possibilities of travelling to anywhere they want.

But the Book of Doors is not the only magical book in the world. There are other books that can do wondrous and dreadful things when wielded by dangerous and ruthless individuals - individuals who crave what Cassie now possesses.

Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is, it seems, Drummond Fox. He is a man fleeing his own demons - a man with his own secret library of magical books that he has hidden away in the shadows for safekeeping. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all . . .

Because some doors should never be opened.