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

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

Vicky wrote: "That works! I found one but I definitely have other books I'd rather read. ;)"

No problemo, I'll read this one up next to complete. I bought in a sale 2 years ago, so it will be great to get it off my TBR. 470 pages

Vicky wrote: "That's awesome Natasha! I also unintentionally read a book that qualifies for that today too - so now we have both covered!

I'm desperately looking for a book with a 7 in the page numbers. None o..."

I have one Vicky if nobody else gets to it..

Natasha wrote: "I finished a book that fits the 100 to 175 pages."

That's great Natasha. Those smaller books between 100-175 are surprisingly hard to find.

Another Uno-er here... I'm sure some of my Uno books will still allow monster a hunting...

Oh, that's exciting. New monster.

Just a quick question. Author name starts with P N or G? Is that the first or last name, or either?

Ooh, new Asian monsters have been added. Looking forward to trying to kill them. bwahahahah.

Wow, that's amazing that one little book fits the whole category. I was happy to read it but it's not available to me in kindle only if I sign up to audible. And I like to read not listen.. so I'll have to pass. Maybe someone else can grab it. Thanks for the heads up Vicky anyway.

Like what you've done with the Spreadsheet, Vicky! Wish I had your skills, LOL. 👍😍

Laila Jane wrote: "I say yes!"

Thanks! We're slowly slaying those monsters. 👍😁

Hey team, do you think this is white enough for white cover?

Jaqueline wrote: "Hello, if ya'll still have room I'd like to join too, I know I'm probably a little late"

Welcome, Jaqueline. We have a full team of Monster Mashers. 😊

Keely wrote: "Hey Lisa, I could be wrong but I believe a book can only be used for one monster. You've put Hidden Scars in for the Bull and Hydra. As far as I remember, we can use a book for multiple tasks on th..."

Ooh, Thanks for the pickup. I'll go and fix the spreadsheet now.

Laila Jane wrote: "Would you consider Hades, the Greek god, royalty?"

I would, he's King of the Underworld.

Laila Jane wrote: "I'm just throwing these out there...

Book Slayers
Monster Mashers"

Ooh.. I like Monster Mashers.

Thanks Vicky, email for access sent. Thanks, got access now. 😊

Marauding Monsters makes me think of that old song Monster Mash by the Groovie Ghoulies. So maybe something along those lines for our name?

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. 😀