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

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

i'm done for the week as well. i've started one book for next week so far and after only a handful of chapters it's got all the letters except for C & L so off to a good start!

also, has week 3 not been adding to the planning sheet yet or am i just not seeing it somehow?

Last Completion Post of the Week


The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden

date started: 6/25/19
date finished: 6/28/19
page count: 400
genre: Yes

N: Nicky Drayden [author]
A: Adam Patel [character]
M: Muzi [character]
O: Prentice Onayemi [narrator]


The Lavender Menace: Tales of Queer Villainy! by Tom Cardamone

date started: 6/26/19
date finished: 6/28/19
page count: 232
genre: Yes

C: Tom Cardamone [author]
I: The Inheritor [character]
N: Nathan Burgoine [author]
A: Animus Thrawn [character]
M: Marshall Moore [author]
O: Overman [character]

well i'm about to finish my last two books in the next hour and they both work for almost all the letters so i hope it's okay that i go ahead and finish them since i didn't mark down any character names for next weeks letters

god the next two are just SO GOOD. i mean i know i've been raving about most of the series so far but i just really love the next two so much lol

haha sounds good to me

haha we can still wait awhile if you want, i'm okay with whatever

yeah that's fine, so we'll wait until next wednesday to see what the new words are then decide?

i was going to ask if we wanted to do the next one right away but i just realized we haven't heard from mary this week. i wonder if we should wait for her to catch up or keep going? i know she's doing wheel so i figured she'd be around ...

yes! the fact that niko can't draw is just hilarious to me for some reason

lmao that was so good. if human cal just got drunk all the time and did karaoke then i would probably not mind him so much, it was just the constant ~am i a good person tho~ that got on my nerves. no! and for your life that's not necessarily a bad thing. let's move on.

i should have saved the last book in the lunar chronicles series for a challenge, it was like 840 pages lol but i was on a roll with that series a few months ago and finished it.

i should be able to finish prey of the gods and the lavendar menace by the end of this week, although if i don't quite make it then the second one is an anthology so it works for basically all letters

Completion Post


Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite

date started: 6/23/19
date finished: 6/26/19
page count: 355
genre: Yes

C: Christian [character]
N: Nothing [character]
A: Ann [character]
M: Molochai [character]

Completion Post


Athena's Daughters, vol. 2: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy by Maggie Allen

date started: 6/21/19
date finished: 6/26/19
page count: 354
genre:No

C: Carrie Ryan [author]
I: Imogen [character]
N: Nicole Givens Kurtz [author]
A: Tiffani Angus [author]
M: Megan Chee [author]
O: Megan O’Russell [author]

i promise i am actually going to finish the 3 books i'm reading right now before the deadline lol and they've got a good spread of letters so i think we can definitely do another spell it out. also yeah you guys who are reading long books are awesome! i had a few that were close to 500 pages but unfortunately didn't quite make it over that hump.

i would have to go back and reread the scene with robin but i think it was a pretty oblique reference and that cal pretty much already knew but this just kind of confirmed it a little bit. also i agree that chocolate mint toothpaste sounds horrible. i mean i don't like the chocolate mint combo anyway but i'm just like ...chocolate toothpaste??? i like chocolate but no that's just weird.

i'm okay with it. i was going to try to actually read some classics next month anyway [i agree megan, they are very accusing] so maybe i can get a few in with the genre tag and it's got a nice mix of letters. i do wish that one week would actually work for the two non-fiction books i've been wanting to read buuuuut maybe next week lol

haha i know how you feel. i'm like ...ok compared to the other books in the series it's just so annoying but compared to other books i read i obviously still like it more since i've read it so many times soooo??? i have the same problem with the hp series because like i still really like the books in the series that are not my favorites but at the same time i need some way to rank them in relation to the rest of the series

also yeah the ONE good thing about this book is that cal finally accepts himself for who/what he is. i mean i love his little emo ass but also it's good for him to grow out of it at some point lol

just checked out the planning sheet and you all are doing amazing this week! i feel like i'm slacking more than a bit lol but i am going to try to finish lost souls today and i also started the audio of the prey of gods this morning which is pretty interesting so far. both of those have lgbt genre but we seem to be doing okay on that front anyway :)

yeah i agree that having niko pov would have possibly ruined that whole little twist / reveal thing but i mean ...cal knew about it before we did and he was just super vague in his pov so i guess niko could do the same, or do kind of an unreliable narrator thing. would have actually been interesting since niko is usually so unflinchingly honest. the first several times i read this book i was so mad at niko for lying to cal but now i'm like ok it was still SO DUMB but he did think he was doing the right thing.

and i never thought about the other auphe-human attempts either but i guess it does make sense that there would be more. not sure i totally buy that they would keep them alive though. i mean yeah it's twisted enough for the auphe to think it was funny but also it seems like a lot of effort and they would have had to get money to sidle somehow for all those years and just so cal can come along and kill them? but like thematically for the book it's a very good choice so i won't nitpick it too much lol

and now for the good omens portion of the discussion: ;)

@Cathy i have such a love-hate relationship with neil gaiman and he has written some of my favorite books and also stuff i just genuinely loathe. but for the most part i do think he's trying and like ...growing as a person and an author i guess. and it's probably not entirely fair for me to judge him as a person just because some things he wrote 30 years ago haven't aged well.

i did like what he did with the good omens tv show though and appreciated that he admitted when he was writing out the script and was like 'wow there's a bunch of dudes in here maybe i should make some of the angels/demons/god women' and also specifically said he made adam and eve black not only because they actually would have been non-white but also so racist people would turn off the show in the first 5 minutes lol

oh man, having niko's pov during this book would be SO GOOD. he's so conflicted the whole time

and good omens is only 6 episodes so it's a pretty short watch lol