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

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

haha i'm in pretty much the same boat. i generally read adult urban fantasy which are usually between 300-400 pages [weirdly enough it keeps YA fantasy is much longer in general] so i rarely have anything over 500 pages on my tbr.

and even in genres that tend to be longer i find that 9 out of 10 long books don't really NEED to be that long and there will inevitably be a large part of the book where i will get bored and think 'why is this even in here'. there are obviously exceptions, but i feel like a lot of authors these days put in a lot of filler because readers are starting to expect longer books even when the story is not that complicated.

ok cool. are either of you doing the floor is lava? it starts on the 12th so is it okay if we push our start days back to mondays for the duration of that?

DQs Day 1: In the Beginning - Eleven Years Ago

1. What's prompted you to pick up the book (except BOM points!)? Is it a first time read, a reread, a rereread, because of the mini-series?
this is the third time i've read it. think i read it first about ten years ago, then read it last year after they announced the mini series, and now i'm listening to it on audio to see how that is.

2. I really enjoy the humour in the book, but am aware it's a very British sort of humour. Do you find it funny? Any stand out lines so far?
i guess it is a very british humor but at this point in time so many of us in america have grown up with so many british shows that it just seems very normal to me and i feel like the lines between 'american' and 'british' humor are becoming much more blurred.

there are so many good lines in the book but i think my favorite is the one about how most book about witchcraft say that witches work naked and 'this is because most books about witchcraft are written by men'. although i'm not sure if that's in this first part or later ...oh well, not very spoilery at any rate.

3. In the very first section the angel and demon discuss whether the two actions they took in the Garden of Eden (tempting of the apple and giving up the sword) are actually actions for the opposite team: is it good for humanity to have knowledge? Do you have a view?

i mean i feel if humanity didn't have knowledge then they wouldn't be humanity, we'd still just be animals. whether that would be 'better' or not is i guess a matter of opinion but it would certainly be different.

4. The best part about this section, imo, is the frenemies relationship between Aziraphale & Crowley. Do you enjoy it? Do you have a favourite of the two?
i guess they are literally frenemies but it's so weird for me to hear them referred to that way because to me they are just friends. i guess that comes across more from the start in the mini series than the book, but i don't think they've really been anything resembling enemies for a very long time. but yeah, crowley and aziraphale are definitely 95% of the reason i like the book, they're just such disasters i love them. i think crowley is probably my favorite just because i'm always gonna pick the demon, but i do love aziraphale too

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Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager

date started: 8/1/19
date finished: 8/2/19
pages: 277
genre: No

Q: Title

looking through my tbr and this week is gonna be rough lol. i have one Q book and no U ones. weirdly enough i seem to have several Z books, the only time i would ever say this but why couldn't we have gotten a Z word ;)

i think this one will be better because there's a wider variety of tasks and also we can kind of set our own pace. and read shorter books. it seems like every other thing i've wanted to read these past two months is under 160 pages so i can't lol

i'm glad we planned a bit because now i have some books that i know i shouldn't read during wheel. and wheel seemed ROUGH this year for whatever reason, i'm ready for it to be over so we can start on this! one more week lol

i just posted my last one so i'm done for this week

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Assassin's Creed: Renaissance by Oliver Bowden

dates started: 7/30/19
date finished: 8/2/19
pages: 516
genre: No

B: Oliver Bowden [author]
R: Rodrigo Borgia [character]
O: Oliver Bowden [author]
N: Niccolò Machiavelli [character]

i can get both of them on audio so i guess we'll wait and see what cathy thinks

hey guys, think i am gonna start good omens tomorrow so might not do this one until sunday or monday even.

have we decided which series we want to read next after this? i was thinking that I's would be good for the floor is lava challenge but incryptid, iron druid, and i bring the fire are all I series lol. and i don't really want to commit to dresden right now. maybe we could try that during tower teams because i'm sure a lot of people will join it and i think we usually get points for BRs during that.

@Sandy good to know! i haven't been paying the most attention to the challenge status sheet so i thought it just automatically updated as you added them to the finished books on our own person sheet and i was like nooo where are our points??? lol

hey i was just looking at the team status spreadsheet and none of our points for week 7 are showing up, might want to check with the mods and see if it's a glitch.

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The Quantum Thief

date started: 7/30/19
date finished: 8/1/19
pages: 336
genre: Yes

B: Scott Brick [narrator]
R: Hannu Rajaniemi [narrator]
O: Odette [character]
W: Adrian Wu [character]

i remember seeing it on the sheet one week for the challenge so she should be good for answering the questions. i'm planning on reading it as well, even though i literally just read it again last year lol

i can glance at my tbr but i genuinely don't think i have anything that would have sports as a top genre. i know i have a few Q books and probably a few U ones as well so i don't forsee the letters really being a problem, but i am just bored to death by anything mildly sports related lol

hahaha what the actual hell

[stands around nervously after reading the chipmunk announcement] what's our wooooooooooooord lol

@Claudia that's a good point too, like just gate them to the sun but stay behind. or open up gates in all of them or something. i mean i know there's 1000 of them but i don't feel like it's any more unrealistic than somehow going to the sun and surviving lol

and yes that whole scene is gold. it's just like

cal: oh man, what a fun prank!
robin and niko: ........ O_O .........

and i went ahead and requested the thread for friday, although i might not end up starting til later because i think i am gonna do the good omens BR and will probably just get carried away and listen to the whole thing instead of pacing it out. also maybe the horribleness of the last book will be a bit better since we have someone to complain with now ;) i've not listened to it yet on audio because i skipped it in my last reread so i'm interested to see if MacLeod Andrews can bring any shred of quality to it

i think i will probably do another one, and i think we have 8 on the sheet right now so as long as everyone gets done we should probably be good