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

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

humans aren't affected by the pheromones, but even if they were i'm sure nik would be immune by sheer willpower lol

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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard

date started: 7/7/19
date finished: 7/9/19
pages: 368
genre: No

B: Believe [title]
E: Eddie Izzard [author]
I: Eddie Izzard [author]

19 standard word options: blood, bone, cat, cliffhanger, dark, death, devil, gore, hide, jason, knife, monster, night, nightmare, sam, scream, shadows, sofa, woods

if you want page numbers / sentences for a few different word options just let me know in the main thread

also cal and niko's conversation about 'post coital intimacy' absolutely kills me

I just started a bit ago and i'm in chapter 4 right now. the puck reunion just sounds AWFUL lmao. like you could not pay me enough. and of course they're all trying to get a piece of niko.

there's a lot going on in this one again but i like it and think it works well together. grimm, kalakos, and the panic are all around the central theme of family so i think it's interesting to look at what are the main characters' 'real' family and then the family they have chosen in each other.

this one might be my favorite one. either this one or the next one ...although that one has niko pov again so ...hmmm lol

i'm going to finish my first i book today and then i should be able to fit 2 more in this week i hope - 1 audio and 1 arc. i's are weirdly hard to find, like you wouldn't think they were so scarce but they are

Finished my first four diets so I'm gonna go again! I am also going to backdate the start to July 1st and hope to finish by the end of the year.

start date: 7/1/19
tbr start #: 476
tbr goal #: 400

finish date: 8/29/19
tbr: no idea what my tbr was at that time [several months ago now] but now it's at 411! almost there!

Vegetarian Diet
Select 5 books on your to-read list with animals on the cover or that are about animals.



1. The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur by Stant Litore
2. Heart of Stone by Lisa Edmonds
3. Fairy Tales for Fearless Girls by Anita Ganeri
4. A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying by Kelley Armstrong
5. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

Banana Diet
Pick a random letter of the alphabet - M. Choose 5 books from your to-read list that start with this letter

1. The Martian by Andy Weir
2. The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles
3. Midway by Melanie Karsak
4. Mutiny at Vesta by R.E. Stearns
5. Midnight Reynolds and the Phantom Circus by Catherine Holt

The Sleeping Beauty Diet
Choose 3 5 books from your to-read list. Listen to them in audio form!

1. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
2. Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Volume 1 by Matt Fitton
3. Slashback by Rob Thurman
4. Dark Harvest Magic by Jayne Faith
5. Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

The Cabbage Soup Diet
Choose 5 books on your to-read list that you got for free or can get for free.

1. Stone Cold Magic by Jayne Faith
2. Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom by Brian Olsen
3. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
4. The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
5. The Good Fight by Scott Bachmann

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Stone Cold Magic by Jayne Faith

date started: 7/7/19
date finished: 7/8/19
pages: 326
genre: No

B: Johnny Beemer [character]
E: Ella Gray [character]
G: Ella Gray [character]

tricky word: OJ Simpson
page 108 "Gregori Industries was like the O.J. Simpson of the industrial world"

i'm doing an audiobook now that has an I in it and am going to do another one after that. if anyone else needs some I recommendations the incryptid series by seanan mcguire is good and the mage tales and dark fae decree series by ilana waters are interesting and also fairly short as well.

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Heart of Stone by Lisa Edmonds

date started: 7/3/19
date finished: 7/6/19
page count: 496 [per Amazon, don't think it's listed on GR]
genre: No

B: Ben [character]
E: Lisa Edmonds [author]
G: Alan Garrett [character]

31 standard word options: anxiety, blood, bone, caleb, cat, clown, conjure, dark, death, devil, dracula, gore, hide, horror, invoke, jaws, knife, monster, night, nightmare, poison, psycho, scream, shadows, sofa, spider, supernatural, suspense, winchester, witch, woods. no tricky word options.

yeah i might actually not either but i'll see how i feel in the morning

i think i probably won't get this one started until tomorrow

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How to Survive a Horror Movie by Seth Grahame-Smith

date started: 7/5/19
date finished: 7/5/19
pages: 175
genre: Yes

G: Author

tricky word: Michael Myers
other words: blood, scream, horror, fright, creepy, terror, invoke, shadows, chills, bone, clown, cabin, dark, exorcist, devil, jaws, woods, nightmare, supernatural, satan, witch, knife, night, serial killer, cat, hide, sofa, death, monster

i actually just rechecked and one of my ARCs does have it so that's good. i somehow thought our genre was suspense instead of thriller for a few days there, i must have been out of it lol

unfortunately except for the how to survive a horror movie book i don't think i will be much help with genre this week. i've got two arcs i have to do and a non fiction that works for 3 letters so i want to get that in - it's so hard to read non fiction during wheel and tower teams - and then the other book i am doing for a tricky word also doesn't have it. i might be able to squeeze one in towards the end of the week if we need it but we'll see what happens

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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

date started: 7/4/19
date finished: 7/5/19
pages: 208
genre: Yes

C: Hugh Crane [character]
H: Haunting [title]
L: Luke [character]
A: Arthur [character]
T: Theodora [character]
E: Eleanor [character]

And that's it from me for this week!

i'm going to finish the haunting of hill house today and then i'll move onto book from next week. it works for classics genre so if anyone else wants to put off their genre book til after the deadline they can

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The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

date started: 7/3/19
date finished: 7/4/19
pages: 192
genre: Yes

H: H.G. Wells [author]
O: Oglivy [character]
T: David Tennant [narrator]
E: Miss Elphinstone [character]

ah crap, i already read it lol. but if they decide that black flower works then someone else could read

i've been looking around for black dahlia books but all i can find are the obvious ones that are about the actual murder which i am in no way interested in reading and also a bunch of erotica books which ...same lol

are there any other ones we can use cover substitutions for? like can black widow have a spider or black dahlia a black flower? bc i think i might have a book w/ a black flower on it ...pretty sure it's a rose not a dahlia but if they decide they're not gonna be that picky ...

i think the 'attractive white woman' one is actually the one that would count, despite the act that it has nothing at all to do with the woman in white legend lol