Lauri’s Comments (group member since Jan 23, 2016)

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

Elsbeth wrote: "Cait wrote: "Guess what, friends?!

I just got my first tattoo and its BOOKS!

Also a John Green reference.

IM SO EXCITED!!"

What? No photo? Or is it private? I don't have any ink, but if i did, I'd want to rock it!! :)

That sounds great, Cait!"

More insomniac craziness... I just finished Mambo in Chinatown and Ask The Parrot yesterday 5/18/16. 'Mambo' was excellent! I really enjoyed it & stayed up way too late reading. I know we don't need them, but still... You gotta read 'Mambo!'

I LOVE chatty teams! I admit I was on GR for over a year quietly logging my books and secretly stalking different groups & challenges in stealth mode. Then I decided to jump in & WOW! I've gone totally crazy now. The best and most amazing thing to me was meeting all the other people who read even more than I do and the way everyone loves to discuss books. I had never in my life met anyone who read as much as I did. It's fabulous, really. I'm really looking forward to WOBBLE!

Hi, ladies! I've taken another 'Monday Mental Health' day off again... So I just finished Water for Elephants which was really, really good and am working on Paper Towns -- which will be my 2008 book as well as a bunch of others for various challenges. And it's library day again with pot roast for dinner. It just doesn't get any better than this!

should we add it to the spreadsheet or is it just overkill at this point? Cathy can decide! :)

Amy "the book-bat" wrote: "I just came across this TBR calculator

According to this, I will finish my TBR in 2053 at the age of 80. Of course, it doesn't take into account the additions between now and then..."
OMG Amy! So of course I had to try it! I have 2440 books on my TBR list! So if I don't add any more books (HA!) I will be 69 years old when I finish these in the year 2035 -- and hopefully not blind yet...

224 pgs. 371 pgs. 287 pgs. 290 pgs. 304 pgs.

Total 987,818 pgs!

I just finished Some Girls Bite on 5/12 & Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War on 5/13... Both were excellent, but I think I'm going to be reading more of the vampire series! Gotta love a new vamp who is snarky!

Can someone add them onto the spreadsheet for me, please?

Maya wrote: "It's SO. GOOD. It's so funny and all the book references make me happy.

The Eyre Affair is the first one."

Hi Maya! Welcome. I love Jasper Fforde! Anyone whose name starts with a double F has got to be cool, right? I have to check out this series...

Cool! I was off today and finished Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey, which does not count for this challenge... and
When Breath Becomes Air which was transcendent! I cried so much, people will probably think I lost a fight tomorrow. But I don't care. It was that good!

Yaaayyy! I'd like to use Come Rain or Come Shine for my Amazon 1-2lb. Shipping weight. It's listed as 1.2 lbs.
Thanks, Greta!

Greta wrote: "Happy Mothers Day to you too! We will spend time going to a garden center & possibly planting :-)

If you open the book on Amazon, click on the hardcover version, scroll down to Product Details it..."

Cool! I'll try it. I'm sure that ar least one of my books will qualify...

What's everyone up to this weekend? Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! My baby is on vacation in California & Arizona, so I'm childless this year.

One weird question for y'all: how do you determine Amazon shipping weight? I never buy books, so I don't know. I'm pretty sure one of my recent books would qualify...

I just finished The Kitchen House -- it was amazing! I didn't want to read any other books or go to sleep at decent hours... Also Making Money which I just couldn't get into although it was clever and witty



Could someone add them on to the spreadsheet for me, please?

Lauri's Tremendous Towers!

Slow and steady wins the race!
Start May 6, 2016 -

1 book that intimidates you
Here be Dragons

2 books with covers that you don't think fit the story line or covers that you don't like - but everyone raves about the books
1. Interview with the Vampire
2.

3 books you've already read
1. The Far Pavillions
2. The Shelters of Stone
3. Spring Moon: A Novel of China

4 books you've started, but never finished
1. The Werewolves of London
2. Living Reed: A Novel of Korea 7/5/16
3. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
4. Dead Air 5/26/16

5 books which were recommended to you via Good Reads
1. Hounded
2. The Eyre Affair
3. Confess 6/7/16
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6 books that are anticipated releases (released after May 6, 2016)
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7 books that everyone seems to have read except you
1. Gone Girl
2. Red Rising
3. The Nightingale
4. All the Light We Cannot See 1/28/17
5. The Girl on the Train
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8 Novellas or short stories - they can be part of anthologies (you don't have to read the whole book in this case)
1. Kalona's Fall
2. This Year's Class Picture - The Living Dead 9/4/16
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9 Sequels, series continuations or spin-offs
1. Rip Tides #9 5/30/16
2. Fallout #2
3. Takedown Twenty #20 6/8/16
4. Dishing the Dirt #26 6/20/16
5. Cooks Overboard #6 6/13/16
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10 Books you randomly select from your shelves
1. Yes Please
2. In the Shadow of the Banyan 6/18/16
3. The Gathering
4. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
5. China Dolls
6. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
7. Spying in High Heels
8. Shakespeare's Landlord
9. The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
10. Crazy Rich Asians

11 Books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest
1. Zipporah, Wife of Moses
2. Bossypants
3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
4. Cleopatra: A Life
5. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
6. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
7. Eat, Pray, Love
8. Peter the Great: His Life and World
9. Daughter of Smoke & Bone
10. Grave Mercy
11. A Discovery of Witches

12 Books you've acquired most recently(after May 6, 2016)
1. The Restaurant Critic's Wife
2. Christmas in Paris
3. Silence
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Ok - I'll bite because I'm OCD... Sounds like fun!

All Abount You - Part One
Start May 1 - ?

Month one - May
Read your birthday month

O - Om Bao from In the Shadow of the Banyan 6/18/16
C - Captain Pyke from The Kitchen House 5/5/16
T - Lei Teixeira from Rip Tides 5/30/16
O - Otis fromWater for Elephants 5/16/16
B - Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey 5/9/16
E - Ethan Sullivan from Some Girls Bite 5/12/16
R - Ask The Parrot by Richard Stark 5/18/16


Month 2 - June
Read your birthstone
O - Old Buddha from Living Reed: A Novel of Korea 7/5/16
P - Poison 6/25/16
A - Any Place I Hang My Hat 6/29/16
L - Lula in Takedown Twenty 6/8/16



Month 3 - July
Read your sign
L - Lemuel in Midnight Crossroad 7/4/16
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B - Mrs. Blackstone in The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree 7/3/16
R
A

Month 4 - August
Read your Chinese Zodiac Sign
R
A
B
B
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T

I'll stop by for a spot of tea!
Completed!
5/5 as of 5/29/16
A - The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende 5/29/16
S - Some Girls Bite 5/13/16
S - Struck 5/29/16
A- Ask The Parrot 5/18/16
M - Mama Mae in The Kitchen House 5/5/16

Well, gang I've been real busy -- busy reading! I've finished:

French Fried 4/28
How to Tail a Cat 4/29
The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine 4/30
The Museum of Extraordinary Things 4/30
AND...
Aunt Dimity Digs In 4/30 which is my 4th in series book



Could someone add them to the spreadsheet for me, please?

I just finished Come Rain or Come Shine tonight. Fabulous book!! The latest in the Mitford series -- if you love Fr. Tim & company you gotta read this one!!

Hi! I finished The Kite Runner last nite 4/25/16. I'd like to use it for exceeding expectations -- it's #3 on the list. Absolutely fabulous book! I don't know why I resisted reading it for so long!
Could someone please add it to the list for me?

310 pgs. 337 pgs. 290 pgs. 296 pgs. 381 pgs. 200 pgs. 275 pgs. 304 pgs.

Current total: 797,280