Dev’s Comments (group member since Sep 09, 2017)

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

i think that if using green makes it a sin bingo and tineye says green then we should probably call it green. looking at it it is kind of somewhere in the middle but since tineye backs green and it is more advantageous points-wise then i would vote for that.

i don't really think we should move books that work for color cover to the mini challenge because it doesn't really work out points-wise but that's just my opinion

and i agree that some stuff on the worst reads list i'm like really??? i mean i could see not loving some of them but to me worst is a bit much lol

i haven't seen anyone but i also get green on tineye so definitely worth looking into

well you get 2 points per book and then 14 points for each set [for the story mini challenge] so ...i guess if we had a bunch of books that only worked for the 3rd tier criteria and were otherwise going to be worth only 1 point each then it would be worth it, but yeah that one didn't seem especially good to me either.

the one from the terrible reads thread next week sounds good since they're worth 5 points each, but still the same as cover color if you're reading for that anyway. i see a few books on there that are on my tbr so i will check out the first chapters and see how they go.

the bingo one coming up could be interesting since they're worth 5 points each and then you get some bonus points as well. i guess it depends on what the cards looks like when we see them.

i'll be honest though, i'm just like barely holding on here in terms of keeping myself reading for this challenge at all and it seems like at this time in the year a lot of us are feeling the same way. so if we are trying to do a mini challenge and i have something that will help i'll try to read it [definitely read some things for the animals thing i might not have otherwise lol], but right now i'm kind of in the 'read anything that i can actually get through more than one chapter of' boat so that's what i'm doing for the most part.

Vicious by V.E. Schwab
Date: 11/7
Pages: 366

Sin: Lust
Criteria: cover is 84.3% Cardinal (Red)

i really liked the coldest girl in coldtown. almost didn't read it because it had so many bad reviews but glad i did

The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Date: 11/17
Pages: 176

Sin: Sloth
Criteria: cover colors are
48.4% Hippie Blue (Blue)
38.9% Nile Blue (Blue)
2.2% Light Blue (Blue)

@Mary is there any audio book version of it? if the audio is more than 3 hours then they might let you use it

i usually do 1.5 although sometimes do 1.75 or 2 if the narrator seems especially slow or if it's a book i've read before. some british narrators i have to slow down to 1.25 because it seems they speak faster on the whole, but i agree listening at normal speed always seems very slow.

when i do it on my computer it comes out

50.0% Jet Stream (Green)
13.9% Ming (Green)
2.0% Killarney (Green)

and no blue whatsoever. i agree it looks blue to the eye but if tineye gives majority green then i would go with it lol

https://labs.tineye.com/color/709eb71...

i do hope she's going to say 'zombie super powers activate' for the big showdown in all the books because like it's dumb but it's also hilarious

agree that i totally don't trust pietro and am interested to see where all that goes.

not sure really why her turning the second guy didn't work. it would have made sense if it was 'too soon' but then the first guy turned made several other zombies right away ...although they were messed up and that might have just been because of the fake brains?

whenever they shot the guy in front on her and she was like OH I HAVE TO SAVE HIM! i was like lmao girl, i get that being nice is like one of your things but you totally don't. yeah he's dying but he literally signed up to become a zombie so that he can go ~kill people for america~ so i would have no problem sitting there and letting him die rather than turning him. but maybe i'm just an awful person. i mean maybe it would be different if he was a random dude they pulled off the street but he knew and he volunteered and he did it particularly to become a ~super soldier~ soooo not much sympathy from me.

also i did end up liking this one a bit more than the last one and gave it a technical 3.5 but rounded up to a 4. i think the pacing was much better and i was actually invested in finding out who was behind what was going on

haha i actually finished earlier today but didn't stop by to comment again yet.

(view spoiler)[i agree that even though marcus wasn't aware of everything bad going on he's still kind of on my shit list. i'm glad that she decided to kind of dial their relationship back a little bit. and if him and his family are going to be a large part of the series going forward i hope the books continue to deal with what classist jerks they are

i really have no memories of ed from the first book before the big reveal where he was the bad guy at the end, but i thought it was hilarious that he used goth/emo as a disguise so for that alone i did enjoy his reappearance in this book lol

but yeah him and marcus both seem very naive in that they just blindly do what these other people tell them to without thinking about what might really be happening or the consequences at all. hopefully we'll be dealing with that more in the future.

i feel like dr. cherish is being set up to be a recurring 'bad guy' in the series or at least maybe for a few more books so i'm sure they will get her in the end but i get the feeling the author wants it to be a bit more of a chase. (hide spoiler)]

Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland
Date: 11/6
Pages: 312

Sin: Sloth
Criteria: cover is 50.8% Dark Cerulean (Blue)

could maybe also work for the 'what they said' option or whatever it's called at the end of the mini-challenge group

i'm on chapter 21 right now and about marcus (view spoiler)[at this point i'm still not sure if he is in on the whole thing with the rest of his family or if he really is just that naive about the whole thing, but either way he is on my shitlist and weirdly ed is actually redeeming himself lol

and yeah i guess the parasite thing makes more sense for how they function in this universe and with us trying to figure out if she was actually 'dead' or not in the last book. although i'll admit my eyes did glaze over A BIT during the explanation ;) (hide spoiler)]

through chapter 11 now and i've gotta say marcus (view spoiler)[is looking more and more like a dick with every passing second. on the one hand maybe i'm jumping the gun because i didn't really like him that much to start to with and i honestly don't want him to be the main love interest for the series, but god he's condescending. (hide spoiler)]

i'm through chapter 7 so haven't looked at cathy's comments yet but i just wanted to say that marcus is being a little bitch lol (view spoiler)[i mean i get that he totally isn't meaning to but i'm definitely on angel's side right now with all this. i would be so mad if my boyfriend didn't tell me i was going to a huge super fancy party beforehand and then all the other stuff ~for her own good~ isn't great either. like she said it ended up being a good thing that he made her a zombie and got her on the right track but it definitely causes a power imbalance in their romantic relationship and he seems to be just trying to make that gap bigger all the time. (hide spoiler)]

@Claudia god it's so good and it fucking tricks you! like oh here's a series of unrelated little creepypastas this is fun OH NO IT WAS ATTACHED ALL ALONG AND ALL MY CHILDREN ARE IN DANGER. seriously impressive though, i usually think horror short stories are absolutely awful and the dude has basically written 160 of them and they're all good. every episode has the 'statement' that is the main part of the episode and then there's the real-time character development that comes before and after it kind of as 'notes' to it. last season starts in april so now is probably a good time to get started if you're gonna be a normal person and NOT listen to the whole thing in a month lol

@Cathy i guess it depends on what you want? lucifer is my favorite series and it's definitely good as an urban fantasy story that weaves a LOT of world religions and mythologies together. the crow is my favorite standalone and that's more like urban fantasy/horror i guess. but i mean there's all kinds of stuff. like if you wanted something that is lighter lumberjanes is really good or for contemporary giant days is good.

no it's a horror podcast and i listened to all 160 episodes that are out so far in the past month and also am WAY too attached to the main character and of course everything is horrible for him so i'm just like aaaaaaah what do i doooo. also now it's on hiatus until april so ...that's great lol

i was going to try the chestnut man but it not really my usual thing anyway and i definitely don't think i can do it now lol

do you guys read graphic novels? i usually reread the lucifer graphic novels every year / every other year and i haven't done it yet this year so i was thinking i might once towers is over.

i actually did not start yet, although i will try to tomorrow. you are probably gonna be the one to finish way ahead this time because i just caught up with the magnus archives yesterday and it has fucked me UP i'm finding it hard to focus on anything else lol