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

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

COMPLETITION POST



Nightlife by Rob Thurman
date read: 5/10/23
pages: 339

spell it out:
C - CFN - Cal
G - CFN - George
L - CLN - Leandros
N - Title
P - CFN - Promise
R - author FN
S - CFN - Samuel
T - author LN

Ashleigh wrote: "@Devann the main character is super unlikeable (not that mc's need to be likeable), but I just couldn't get into it or 'root' for her. She's a massive 'not like other girls' person and she looks do..."

ah that sucks. yeah i don't necessarily need an MC to be likable but i do really hate the ~not like other girls~ thing. i'll probably give it a chapter or two to see how i feel about it

Ashleigh wrote: "Completion Post


How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
400 pages
Rating: 2 stars :(
Date read: 10/05/23

Rainbow Tow..."

oh noooo i have this one on my tbr lol can i ask why you didn't like it?

also just wanted to check in and say i'm going to *hopefully* finish another book today and try to get another done by the end of the week. i was trying to decide between committing to 1 or 2 books a week when i signed up and now i feel like i maybe should have stuck with 1 lol but hopefully i was just off to a slow start last week and can get back into the groove!

COMPLETION POST


The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
pages: 112
date read: 5/3/23

spell it out options: T, S [title] and C, K [author]
weirdly/unfortunately none of the characters really had names lol

i figure it could also be used for one of the red options, probably the bright red?

Michael wrote: "This is wild to me! I am not a proud Hoosier by any means, I would prefer to live anywhere else (well not anywhere but tons of other places)... but it's so cool that there are three of us in one group! *insert dance emoji here*"

big mood. basically how i feel about indiana is like 'well it could be worse, it could be utah' 😂

hey everybody

i'm also in indiana so i guess we're just all located in the midwest or australia for some reason lol i mostly read horror with some fantasy and thriller and maybe a little bit of scifi. i would say most of what i read is between 200-400 pages although i have a few longer ones on the tbr that i've been saving to try out for this challenge so we'll see if i can get into any of them

and for some reason goodreads is giving me an error when i try to add the actual link to my shelf but it's at the very bottom of my shelves and is called 'z-23-tower-teams-x'

i'm planning on at least trying it so i might start it for tower teams. i've been kind of putting it off till other people seem to get more into it though because i know if i actually like it there's no way it would take me more than a month tops to get through. my brain just won't let me drag out a book over a whole year unless it's like short stories or something like that

Louise wrote: "Devann wrote: "Nanci wrote: "Devann,
Congratulations on being the first on the team to finish a book for Round 3! Great that it works for letter T, since we've got two of those in our spell out! If..."

ooop you're right forgot about the ghostwriter

Nanci wrote: "Devann,
Congratulations on being the first on the team to finish a book for Round 3! Great that it works for letter T, since we've got two of those in our spell out! If it works for any other lette..."

unfortunately it's non fiction so the people in it don't count as characters but i'm glad we at least need extra Ts

i will probably not end up finishing both of mine until monday morning but just wanted to say that i'll definitely get there, since i claimed the color and tag spots

i can take one of the mythology spots with Small Gods and one of the brown cover spots with We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories. those will probably be the only two i read next week since we've got thanksgiving and all

yeah literally the only good thing about the new book page is that i don't have to scroll past a mile of friends reviews before i get to the community reviews. everything else i feel like just made it harder to use and view tags or switch editions etc. it's like they decided to hide or minimize all the information i actually wanted to see.

hi i'm devann, this is my wheel shelf

don't think i have anything with a pink cover or tagged space opera but i'll make sure to start something for this tomorrow. hoping to get two books in this week because i really need to speed up if i'm gonna make my reading goal this year.

i went ahead and put the final trial on the spreadsheet with some notes so you can decide if you want to use it or not. also marked the kingdoms as finished and with that i think i'm officially done for this tower teams!

Steven wrote: "Devann, which book is it?"

it's The Final Trial by Kelley Armstrong. Audio is 9 hours if that helps, but it hasn't been added to AR book find yet, even though the earlier books in the series are on there.

if a book has middle grade AND young adult on the main page tags do we still need to verify the word count? i thought i remembered in one challenge where the YA tag would like override the MG one but idk if that's still the rule or if i just made that up lol

iirc someone was saying earlier that they needed catch up on the last few october daye books and the one that came out last year was #15 if they want to try to catch up before the end of the challenge. unfortunately i'm mostly allergic to very long series so i've got nothing lol

the poem or song lyric in text has to be like ...in the actual paragraph text of the book to count right? like if a book has poetry quotes at the beginning of each chapter that wouldn't work?

thats fine i was just trying to think of something so i wouldnt have to go back combing through hooked for a food or instrument reference lol but i can try to figure out something else it will work for. guess they could probably be used somehow in a story when we get to that point as well.

could we use and as a pair because they both have red covers with white text?