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

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

Hi Vicky,

I swore I was going to cut down on my challenges this year.. But can't resist a team challenge. Especially an easy going one. So, I'll join you...

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries.

Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches—a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.

On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking... and The Witching Hour begins.

It begins in our time with a rescue at sea. Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him.

As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, the novel moves backward and forward in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the France of Louis XIV. An intricate tale of evil unfolds—an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first "witch," Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit she names Lasher... a creation that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn.

From the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, as Julien—the clan's only male to be endowed with occult powers—provides for the dynasty its foothold in America, the dark, luminous story encompasses dramas of seduction and death, episodes of tenderness and healing. And always—through peril and escape, tension and release—there swirl around us the echoes of eternal war: innocence versus the corruption of the spirit, sanity against madness, life against death. With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us, through circuitous, twilight paths, to the present and Rowan's increasingly inspired and risky moves in the merciless game that binds her to her heritage. And in New Orleans, on Christmas Eve, this strangest of family sagas is brought to its startling climax. (less)

I’m still on my cruise with nearly non existent wifi. So I’ll sign off for now. Good luck with the end of the challenge ladies. Great playing with you.

Finished go tell the bees on 23 November. Please add to spreadsheet.

Finished The Cocoa Conspiracy on 14 November.,please add date read to spreadsheet. 😀

Hi ladies, having a great time in Greece.

Finished Restless by Susan Fanetti on 13 November. Please add read date to spreadsheet.,😀

Hi Team, I'm heading off on my holiday this afternoon. It's been three years in the making.. so super excited.

I'll just have my phone with me.. have filled in the spreadsheets with my 3 books ( one is Outlander 9 so a weightly tome..) I'll be reading. Not sure what the wifi situation will be... so if i just name the book here and the date read.. could someone fill in the date on the spreadsheet and the rest should be cool.

Happy reading!

All our romance words spots are filled now . 😍💕🌹❤️

Thanks Vicky and Kaley for the heads up. Great planning tip.

17 romance bonus words done - only three left to claim. 😍

Looks like we are placed 4th - so here are our bonus words for Round 3.

4-7 Keep up the great work, but perhaps get a bit more creative in round 3 to increase popularity.
Meals with the word "prawns" (shrimp is acceptable), "cherry", or "gelato" in the text or title, or used as a spell-it-out will attract more adults for round 3

I checked with the Mods - plurals are acceptable.

Ahhhh, I'm heartbroken I won't be able to "wheel" this time, as I'm away with unknown internet. Have great fun everyone!

Go for it, Kaley!

Great team work everyone.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Yay! The month three theme should be up your alley… although perhaps I should have gone more specific with some space romance 🥰🤪😆"

Ah yes.. but the mind would boggle when searching for "items to ignite passion". 😁

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Yes all good, Lisa 👍"

Thanks. I'm loving MRR's! 😍

Round 3 - just checking that plurals/singles are okay.. eg raspberries for raspberry or cherries for cherry? 😊

Yay Emma. Thanks for pushing through when you've had such a busy couple of months. 😍

Great work team. Seems like we have enough books, I will finish my current book then wait till next month to finish any more I'm reading.

I'll be reading less next month as I'll be away from the 8th, with unknown wifi.

Great. Thank you spreadsheet wizards! 😁

Thanks ladies. I have limited knowledge but couldn't see what I'd done either.

Do we need more books to get to our 90 this month? I have a few novellas under 100 pages I can read if we're short. But will hold off if we don't.

Going well, team.