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

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

Title and Author: Archenemies by Marissa Meyer
Date Read: 12/8/18
Rating: 3
Page Total: 560

Spell-Out Letters:
M: marissa meyer [author]
I: insomnia [superhero alias]
S: silva [character LN]
T: tucker [character LN]
L: leroy [character FN]
E: everheart [character LN]
O: oscar [character FN]

Bonus Options:
carrot in text
dog name - max


Title and Author: Firestarter by Tara Sim
Date Read: 12/8/18
Rating: 3
Page Total: 488

Spell-Out Letters:
M: meena [character]
I: ivor [character]
S: sim [author LN]
T: tara [author FN]
L: liddy [character]
E: edmund [character]

Bonus Options:
8 in page number
characters on a plane - it's a steampunk world so it's like a zeppelin / air ship - not sure if that counts?


Title and Author: Dexter Is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay
Date Read: 12/8/18
Rating: 3
Page Total: 350

Spell-Out Letters:
M: dexter morgan [character LN]
S: tyler spanos [character LN]
T: tyler spanos [character FN]
L: jeff lindsay [author LN]

Bonus Options:
300-500 pages
has a birth - rita and dexter's baby is born at the beginning
black text on cover

ok i'm officially done!

ok cool, and yes they are the 3 on my currently reading shelf. i'll still try to look through the list to see what i find in case you want to move them around. i should be posting them to the read books post within an hour or two

i've got 3 more that i will finish tomorrow but unfortunately i'm not sure what bonus options they will work for yet

Title and Author: Santa is a Vampire by Damian Serbu
Date Read: 12/6/18
Rating: 1
Page Total: 247 per Amazon

Spell-Out Letters:
M: margaret [character]
S: simon [character]
T: trixy [character]

Bonus Options:
window - 201 to 300 pages
christmas ornament on cover
snow on cover? [falling in background]
carrot in text: "I saunter after him, petting each reindeer and giving them an extra carrot." i can look up page # at home if you need me to

is the thread for next year up yet? i only ask because i already have ARCs and stuff I need to put on it lol

@Louise oh i thought it mean like 'read a book with a bbq' meaning a bbq was in the book 'or with bbq food on the cover' mean either in the book or on the cover. oh well

haha yeah i will definitely take gory over mushy any day of the week

haha and yet definitely not the grossest thing that happens in that series -_-;

i've got the BBQ thing covered. i totally forgot the plot of the fifth dexter book was cannibal BBQ lol

yeah i can't really remember what happens with raysel when they wake her up, i guess it can't have been too crazy if it didn't make an impression on me lol

and oh god toby and tybalt's children would be out of control lol incredibly stubborn nearly indestructible cats with even more of a taste for blood than usual. save us all

Title and Author: Shadowed Souls by Jim Butcher
Date Read: 12/5/18
Rating: 3
Page Total: 338

Spell-Out Letters:
M: seanan mcguire [author LN]
I: ishiah [character]
S: shadowed souls [title]
T: rob thurman [author LN]
L: lucy snyder [author FN]
E: erik scott de bie [author FN]

Bonus Options:
8 in the number of pages
dog name - Molly
angels or devils - a few of the stories had demons and one had angels

toby: through no fault of my own of course

@Melanie i don't blame you for not starting game of thrones yet. i got about halfway through book 4 i think before running out of steam and now i would have to start all over to remember all the plot points so i'm waiting to see if he actually ever finishes the series before i start over again lol

high king: ok toby please promise not to unseat the entire monarchy system
toby: i mean who can really promise anything
high king: [nervously sweating]

just finished up!

@Cathy yeah Toby is certainly putting herself through a lot in this book lol

also it's nice that they made some like ~social progress~ in this book i guess but there's still a long way to go and when they made toby swear she wasn't going to try to destabilize the entire continent i just laughed because i'm like mmm you really SHOULD though. or someone should.

1. What type of books do you mostly read?
fantasy [mostly urban but also some realistic and some high]

2. What type of book would you like to have suggested by your not so secret Santa?
something fantasy or fantasy-adjacent would be best [or even if it is another genre like historical fiction, i would like it to have a supernatural element]. i do read YA sometimes because it's rather unavoidable but prefer to read adult or new adult. if you do really want to rec a YA book then i ask that it not be romance heavy or have a love triangle [really this goes for any book you rec, although i find it's more of a problem in YA than in adult books]

3. Would you like the secret Santa and possibly others to discuss the book with you?
i am open to discussion although it's not necessary

4. Would you be willing to discuss the book with the person you make a book suggestion to?
again yes, although i am ok with not discussing it as well if there is someone who chooses that option

5. What is your age range:
B) (17 - 29)

6. On average how many books do you read in a year?
oh it seems to increase every year now lol. last year i think i was just shy of 500 and this year i think i will probably pass 700

7. Do you want a book readily available from your local library or would you mind purchasing something new?
i would prefer a book that is available as an ebook somewhere [doesn't have to be kindle, just any online retailer] but i think that is most books nowadays so that shouldn't be a problem unless you are going to rec me an old one, which i would still consider but i do vastly prefer ebooks.

i feel like i've answered these questions WAY more in-depth than anyone else so far so sorry to ramble but i can be a bit picky and i find it's best to be thorough lol

October
[181] Cryptid Creatures: A Field Guide by Kelly Milner Halls
[182] Iron & Velvet by Alexis Hall
[183] Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw
[184] Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids by Kimberly Brown Pellum
[185] All Systems Red by Martha Wells
[186] Theater of Terror: Revenge of the Queers! by Justin Hall
[187] Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
[188] Rules For Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
[189] Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger
[190] Salvaged by Madeleine Roux
[191] Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression by Iris Gottlieb
[192] Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997 by Alvin Orloff
[193] The Grave Digger by Rebecca Bischoff
[194] Kraken by China Miéville
[195] The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
[196] St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
[197] Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh
[198] Teen Frankenstein by Chandler Baker
[199] What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre by John Joseph Adams
[200] The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
[201] My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland
[202] The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig
[203] The Thornthwaite Inheritance by Gareth P. Jones

November
[204] The Spirit Thief by Rachel Aaron
[205] The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night by Jen Campbell
[206] The Deep by Rivers Solomon
[207] The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity by Joshua Palmatier
[208] Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
[209] Slashed and Mashed: Seven Gayly Subverted Stories by Andrew J. Peters
[210] Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson
[211] The Night Fair by Pax Asteriae

December
[212] A Study In Lavender: Queering Sherlock Holmes by Joseph R.G. DeMarco
[213] The Time Invariance of Snow by E. Lily Yu
[214] Queer Heroes: Meet 53 LGBTQ Heroes From Past and Present! by Arabelle Sicardi
[215] Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
[216] The North Star by Kat Shepherd
[217] Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky
[218] Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You by Scotto Moore
[219] Testament by Jose Nateras
[220] Jinxed by Amy McCulloch

July
[114] The Crow: The Story Behind the Film by Bridget Baiss
[115] Moth & Whisper Vol. 1 by Ted Anderson
[116] Dancing with the Lion: Becoming by Jeanne Reames
[117] Stone Cold Magic by Jayne Faith
[118] Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
[119] Wilder Girls by Rory Power
[120] Fairy Tales for Fearless Girls by Anita Ganeri
[121] Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me by Carrie Ann DiRisio
[122] Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestly
[123] Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
[124] Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
[125] Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
[126] The Martian by Andy Weir
[127] Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom by Brian Olsen
[128] The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles
[129] The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi
[130] Spellbound by Allie Therin
[131] Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells
[132] Null Faeries, Volume 1: Dust Pilot Down by Chad Cicconi
[133] House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
[134] Odd & True by Cat Winters
[135] Barbary Station by R.E. Stearns

August
[136] Clockwork Wings: the Chronicles of Icarus by Stacy Buck
[137] The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
[138] Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager
[139] Assassin's Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden
[140] California Bones by Greg Van Eekhout
[141] The Catalyst by C.M. Raymond
[142] The Good Fight by Scott Bachmann
[143] A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying by Kelley Armstrong
[144] Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
[145] Confessions of a Virgin Sacrifice by Adrianne Ambrose
[146] Hounded by Kevin Hearne
[147] Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman
[148] Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni
[149] Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
[150] Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
[151] InterWorld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
[152] Isabellae Volume 1 by Raule

September
[153] Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker
[154] The Black Mage by Daniel Barnes
[155] The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang
[156] Fairlady, Vol. 1 by Brian Schirmer
[157] Mythologica: An Encyclopedia of Gods, Monsters and Mortals from Ancient Greece by Stephen P. Kershaw
[158] Rebel Girls by Elizabeth Keenan
[159] Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
[160] Signy Kráka: Part One by N.H. Kerr
[161] The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
[162] The Resurrectionist of Caligo by Wendy Trimboli
[163] Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz
[164] Legacy by Charlotte Greene
[165] The Ogre Gods Vol. 2: Half-Blood by Hubert Boulard
[166] Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark by Chronicle Books
[167] No Good Men by Thea McAlistair
[168] Ash by Malinda Lo
[169] Speaking of Feminism: Today's Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Women's Movement by Rachel F Seidman
[170] Bloodlust & Bonnets by Emily McGovern
[171] The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz
[172] The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
[173] Lifted: Of Gods & Thieves Vol. 1 by Shawn Pryor
[174] A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
[175] The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
[176] The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
[177] Ziggy, Stardust and Me by James Brandon
[178] The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in the Haunted House by Mary Chase
[179] The Vampire's Werewolf Bodyguard by Liv Rider
[180] Curtain Call by Nathan Squiers

April
[058] The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
[059] How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage and Style and Women and Also Cocktails Ever Written by Sterling Archer
[060] A Study in Honor by Claire O'Dell
[061] My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
[062] Royal Rescue by A. Alex Logan
[063] Tamamo the Fox Maiden and Other Asian Stories by Kel McDonald
[064] The Midas Flesh Vol. 1 by Ryan North
[065] Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
[066] Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
[067] Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta
[068] Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes
[069] Fissure by Tim Daniel
[070] Carmilla by Kim Turrisi
[071] Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard
[072] The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson
[073] Saint Young Men, vol. 1 by Hikaru Nakamura
[074] The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
[075] Mycroft Holmes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

May
[076] The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
[077] Phantastic Fantasy by Resa Nelson
[078] The Beast That Never Was by Caren J. Werlinger
[079] Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren
[080] A Lover’s Mercy by Fiona Zedde
[081] The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk
[082] Des Dieux et des Hommes - tome 1 - La fin du Commencement by Jean-Pierre Dionnet
[083] The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
[084] I Know an Artist: The inspiring connections between the world's greatest artists by Susie Hodge
[085] Maiden, Mother, and Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes by Gwen Benaway
[086] Magical Mechanications by Pip Ballantine
[087] Painless by Rich Larson
[088] The Fiction by Curt Pires
[089] Don't they know it's the end of the world by Ehud Lavski
[090] Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling by Jaym Gates
[091] Phaethon by Rachel Sharp
[092] Lucifer Vol. 1: The Infernal Comedy by Dan Watters

June
[093] Sonnet by Emily Cheeseman
[094] Blood Is Forever by Asta Idonea
[095] Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
[096] Absolute Power: Tales of Queer Villainy by Erica Friedman
[097] Old Media by Annalee Newitz
[098] Dark Alleys by Lola Andrews
[099] Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings
[100] A Queer History of the United States for Young People by Michael Bronski
[101] Branded Ann by Merry Shannon
[102] Darkwood by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
[103] The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind by Jackson Ford
[104] Abbott by Saladin Ahmed
[105] Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
[106] Blood Divine by Greg Howard
[107] Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro
[108] Doctor Who: Pest Control by Peter Anghelides
[109] The Lavender Menace: Tales of Queer Villainy! by Tom Cardamone
[110] Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Volume 3 by James Goss
[111] The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden
[112] The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Gómez
[113] The Mapmaker's Daughter: A Steampunk Novel by Joanna Emerson

yay! Definitely reserving several spots this year as i think i ended up needing three separate comments for all the ones i read last year, i think i'm on 260-something now -_-;

January
[001] Spell Tracker by Alex C. Vick
[002] The Selkie by Nicole Field
[003] Sadie by Courtney Summers
[004] Killer Style: How Fashion Has Injured, Maimed, and Murdered Through History by Alison Matthews David
[005] She Spoke: 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World by Kathy MacMillan
[006] Man-Eaters Volume 1 by Chelsea Cain
[007] Pride: Photographs After Stonewall by Fred McDarrah
[008] Ripley's Believe It or Not by Tony Isabella
[009] Chronin by Alison Wilgus
[010] Haphaven by Norm Harper
[011] Gang of Fools by James Otis Smith
[012] Jamhuri, Njambi & Fighting Zombies by Ted Neill
[013] Fog Season: A Tale of Port Saint Frey by Patrice Sarath
[014] The Ballad of Sang by Ed Brisson
[015] The Missing Piece of Charlie O'Reilly by Rebecca Ansari

February
[016] Red by Ramsey Shehadeh
[017] The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho
[018] Concrete Park Volume 1 by Tony Puryear
[019] The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
[020] Prince of Air and Darkness by M.A. Grant
[021] Super Scientists: 40 inspiring icons by Anne Blanchard
[022] Nancy Drew: The Palace of Wisdom by Kelly Thompson
[023] Infinite Dark, Vol. 1 by Ryan Cady
[024] Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler
[025] The Lost City Explorers, Vol 1 by Zack Kaplan
[026] Submerged Vol. 1 by Vita Ayala
[027] Unicorns Don't Come to Black People by Shekina Spears
[028] Fairy Tales are for White People by Melissa Yuan-Innes
[029] A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo
[030] Her Infernal Descent Vol. 1: Contrapasso by Zac Thompson
[031] Arale by Tristan Roulot
[032] Badlands by Morgan Brice
[033] Voices of Powerful Women: 40 Inspirational Interviews by Zoe Sallis
[034] The Devourers by Indra Das
[035] The Only Living Girl #1: The Island at the Edge of Infinity by David Gallaher
[036] She Who Destroys the Light: Fairy Tales Gone Wrong by Shahida Arabi
[037] Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson
[038] Empire of Light by Alex Harrow
[039] Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig
[040] Hunting Monsters by S.L. Huang
[041] Bedtime Inspirational Stories: 50 Amazing Black People Who Changed the World by L.A. Amber
[042] The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
[043] Immoral Code by Lillian Clark
[044] New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl

March
[045] Gretel: A Fairytale Retold by Niamh Murphy
[046] She the People: A Graphic History of Uprisings, Breakdowns, Setbacks, Revolts, and Enduring Hope on the Unfinished Road to Women's Equality by Jen Deaderick
[045] The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
[046] Blood Stain, Volume 1 by Linda Šejić
[047] The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
[048] The Bride of the Blue Wind by Victoria Goddard
[049] Exorsisters, Vol. 1 by Ian Boothby
[050] Le Royaume d'Azur by Xavier Dorison
[051] Coffin Hill Vol. 1: Forest of the Night by Caitlin Kittredge
[052] Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes
[053] My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales by Kate Bernheimer
[054] Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator by Leighton Gray
[055] Superman: Dawnbreaker by Matt de la Pena
[056] Cranky Ladies of History by Tehani Croft Wessely
[057] War for the Oaks by Emma Bull