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

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

i'll try to do another Q book, i need one for my author alphabet challenge

COMPLETION POST

Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace
date read: 7/29/20
pages: 360

tags: no
bom: no
task: read a book with mpg mystery

letters:
B: breezy [character]
R: rain [character]

COMPLETION POST

Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran
date read: 7/26/20
pages: 464

tag: no
bom: no
task: read a book with a black cover
[68.6% according to tineye]

letters:
Q: queen [title]
R: rassa [character fn]
B: bayonn [character ln]

yeah i was just like mmm i got my promised amount in for wheel so i'll just go ahead and do it for the month, also im afraid if i fall behind i will never catch up lol

@Melindam, ok cool, i wasn't sure if the audio for the first book in the series would count as proof or not so i was just like i know this is long enough but how do i prove it!

LAST COMPLETION POST FOR THIS ROUND

The Gryphon's Lair by Kelley Armstrong
date read: 7/18/20
pages: 352 pages

tag: no
bom: no
task: read a book with mpg fantasy

letters:
R: rowan [character]

amazingly did all of this month's reading in the past couple days, didn't really do individual reviews of the stories while i was reading them bc i was just trying to keep moving and not run out of steam. i do feel like the stories are getting a bit better overall as we move closer to modern day but i'm also just like goddamn i have been reading this book for seven months will it never end? not that it's entirely unenjoyable or anything but this is BY FAR the longest thing i have ever tried to read and i don't think i've ever taken longer than like ...3 weeks to finish a book EVER so it's kind of a weird experience for me. ANYWAY:

★★☆☆☆ [DNF] “Egnaro,” 1981, M. John Harrison
★★☆☆☆ “The New Rays,” 1982, M. John Harrison
★★☆☆☆ “The Little Dirty Girl,” 1982, Joanna Russ
★★☆☆☆ “The Discovery of Telenapota,” 1984, Premendra Mitra

again i feel like the two star ones for me are either like 'this makes literally no sense' or 'what was even the point for me' so i really have nothing to say about these

★★★☆☆ “The Autopsy,” 1980, Michael Shea
★★★☆☆ “The Brood,” 1980, Ramsey Campbell
★★★☆☆ “The Belonging Kind,” 1981, William Gibson/John Shirley

these were pretty good, they were weird but you could easily tell what was going on, which is apparently my metric for a decent story in this book lol. the autopsy was a bit long i thought but it really picked up at the end and was pretty interesting.

★★★★☆ “Window,” 1980, Bob Leman
★★★★☆ “Soft,” 1984, F. Paul Wilson

really liked these! window went in a very creepy direction and it was definitely one of the ones where i could just see certain scenes incredibly vividly like if it was a movie. soft was also really creepy and had a definite short film quality to it.

i have a question about this book



i read it earlier this week bc it was a way overdue arc and it's got both middle grade and young adult on the main page genre. i know in a different challenge in this group they said it was fine to use without word count verification if it was tagged with both but i figured it might be best if you could double check in the mods group before i do a completion post, unless it's already come up somewhere and i missed it.

@judy - speak no evil looks very good but yeah also very heavy, i might give it a try and see if i'm in the right headspace for it though

@melindam - i will definitely check out those authors, thanks :)

im reading a Q book right now and i can wait to finish it until after the next round starts if you think we are good for this round.

also if anyone has book recs specifically with authors whose first or last names start with U i'd love to hear them. i need a U author for another challenge but don't have one on my tbr :(

i think shadow and bone is more 'classic' YA with like more of a focus on romance and a not-really-but-kind-of-almost love triangle but six of crows is really good and you don't need to read the original trilogy to enjoy it. i really loved king of scars as well but unfortunately you *do* need to read the grisha trilogy for that. i do enjoy the grisha trilogy for what it is but there's definitely a lot of places where it doesn't necessarily 'break the mold' of YA imo.

COMPLETION POST

Nightlife by Rob Thurman
date read: 7/15/20
pages: 339

bom: no
tag: no
task: read a book with mpg paranormal

letters:
R: rob [author fn]
L: cal leandros [character]
G: robin goodfellow [character]
N: niko [character]

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The Twilight Pariah by Jeffrey Ford
date read: 7/11/20
pages: 176

bom: no
tags: no
task: read a book with mpg horror

letters:
R [russell - character]
S [sondra - character]

COMPLETION POST

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
read: 7/5/20
pages: 384

bom: no
tag: no
task: read a book with mpg thriller

letters:
R: riley [author FN]
S: sager [author LN]

COMPLETION POST

Lacrimore by SJ Costello
date read: 6/27
pages: 178 per Amazon
[i already talked to melindam about getting a page count added to the goodreads page so let me know if i need to switch editions later]

bom: no
tags: no
task: read a book with a body of water on the cover [sea]

letters:
S - sivre [character]
C - costello [author LN]

LAST COMPLETION POST FOR WEEK ONE

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee
date read: 6/26
pages: 450

BOM: no
tags: no
task: read a book with mpg historical fiction

letters:
T: title [the]
L: title [or author LN, lee]
S: sim [character]
A: alexander [character]

COMPLETION POST

Cygenic by Monique Poirier
date read: 6/25
pages: 193

BOM: no
tag: no
task: read a book with a brown cover [54.7% according to tineye]

letters:
N: nate [character]
D: dante [character]
C: title
T: taire [character]

also if it will help for planning purposes: the last one i am finishing tomorrow morning will work for letters T, L, S, and A and i should have it posted by noon est

COMPLETION POST

Like the First Moon Landing by Matthew J. Metzger
date read: 6/25
pages: 179 per Amazon since there is no page count on GR

BOM: no
tag: no
task: read a book with a blue cover

letters:
L: title

i should get 2 or possibly even 3 more done, one tonight and then another 1 or 2 tomorrow morning, i'll definitely have them posted by noon est though bc thats when i have to go to work lol

COMPLETION POST

Elysium Girls by Kate Pentecost
date read: 6/20
pages: 400
task: young adult mpg
tags: n/a
bom: no
letters:
E - title
S - sal [character]
A - asa [character]
L - lucy [character]

let me know if you need anything else, this is my first completion post but i'm hoping to finish 2 in the upcoming week

haha well cosplay is a part of fandom so you weren't totally off! although i personally am not cosplaying. fandom is just like a term for all creative fanworks - fanart, fanfic, cosplay, podfic, whatever else - and different groups of people will sometimes put things together like this week is [x character] week and have different prompts for each day so every day people will make something based on the prompt and share it on twitter/tumblr or wherever. so i've been making moodboards and also reading a lot of fanfic just because people are currently writing a lot of fanfic lol