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

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

i think as long as it is the two words together exactly as they appear then it counts.

i'm going to a friends house to cook out and do fireworks so unfortunately my cat will have to fend for herself at home lol she had plenty of little hidey holes though so i think she'll be okay

also i just noticed that i have stone cold magic on my tbr so i can probably take that one for o.j. simpson [unless i read the first few chapters and think it's awful lol, but the summary sounds good so crossing my fingers]

so that means the ones we don't have covered yet are

Black Dahlia
Black Widow
Andrea Yates
White Woman

thanks, i will probably go ahead and read it tomorrow night after the changeover just to start off with something short and fun :)

haha yeah i saw two people already added it on the planning sheet but i will definitely read that one, not sure why i didn't read it while i was reading his other books actually. and i still need to go through my tbr today to see if i have anything that works for any of the other tricky words

i like seth graeme smith so i can do the how to survive a horror movie one.

i'm doing war of the worlds for the genre points even though it's unfortunately under 200 pages. i could also do the scarlet pimpernel if we're going to need another one but again, it's just under 200 pages so if we're gonna be set on the genre i will try to find something else just over 200 lol. it looks like we have just enough on the planning sheet now if everyone is going to get them finished on time

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Dancing with the Lion: Becoming by Jeanne Reames

date started: 6/30/19
date finished: 7/3/19
pages: 282
genre: No

H: Hephaistion [character]
O: Olympias [character]
A: Alexandros [character]
T: Thessalonike [character]
E: Erygios [character]

i read Project Cain several months ago and it's about serial killer clones so i'm pretty sure it had Charles Manson somewhere in it. although i didn't read it as an ebook so i can't check with a quick search. i didn't think it was amazing but it pretty good in a weird way lol

what are the books you have that you know have those words? maybe one of us would be interested in one of them as well. unfortunately the one i read a few weeks ago was the 6th book in a series so that's not really feasible for someone else to just read that lol

wish we had waited til next week to read this one for wheel lol, it had freddy krueger and michael myers in it

haha not thrilled with this [more with spelling beige again than anything else] but i guess i need to do some text searching. is there any limit on how many words we can find in a single book? unfortunately i read one that i'm pretty sure had michael myers AND freddy krueger in it like a week and a half ago -_-;

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Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

date started: 6/30/19
date finished: 7/2/19
page count: 613
genre: No

C: Ling Chan [character]
H: Henry DuBois [character]
O: Evie O'Neill [character]
L: Lair of Dreams [title]
A: Adelaide [character]
T: Theta Knight [character]
E: Evie O'Neill [character]

haha honestly me reading the book will be a small miracle if it happens, there's no way i could write questions for it.

also i'm planning on doing the audio for war of the worlds so that will be another genre point

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The Crow: The Story Behind the Film by Bridget Baiss

date started: 6/30/19
date finished: 7/1/19
page count: 288
genre: No

C: Crow [title]
T: The [title]

also i saw that the backroom BR for this month has been chosen. it's not really what i normally read [i don't do much contemporary romance] but it doesn't sound awful so i might end up trying to read it lol

@Melindam ok good to know! i think that one probably would have been close to 200 pages anyway if 4 hours = 160 pages and it was 5 hours so not much lost, but i will try not to listen to anything really long without a real page count til the challenge is over ;)

@Megan haha i've done something similar before when authors have republished the same story / series but under a different title, or when they publish parts separately and then combine them later. usually goodreads helps me figure it out but not always

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The Mapmaker's Daughter: A Steampunk Novel by Joanna Emerson

date started: 6/28/19
date finished: 6/30/19
page count: 369
genre: No

C: Cavendish [character]
H: Hoshiko [character]
O: Paddy O'Brien [character]
L: Liam [character]
A: Akemi [character]
T: The [title]
E: Joanna Emerson [author]

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by Jewelle L. Gómez

date started: 6/29/19
date finished: 6/30/19
page count: 252
genre: Yes

O: Adenrele Ojo [narrator]
A: Anthony [character]
T: The [title]
E: Eleanor [character]

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures, Volume 3 by James Goss

date started: 6/28/19
date finished 6/29/19
length: 5 hr 4 min. this one has no print version so there is no page count and also isn't on audible but if you go to the big finish website and click under production details it will confirm the length at 304 minutes or 5 hours and 4 minutes. also under the cast tab there is the whole cast list which can confirm all the 'narrators'
genre: No

C: Catherine Tate [narrator]
H: Helen Goldwyn [narrator]
L: Lauren Cornelius [narrator]
A: Rakie Ayola [narrator]
T: David Tennant [narrator]
E: Eleanor Crooks [narrator]

no big plans this weekend so hopefully i'll get some reading done if i don't get distracted lol

also wanted to give a heads up that my doctor who book is audio only so it doesn't have a page count. it's 5 hours 4 minutes so it's long enough but i don't know if you need to ask the mods if that counts as under or over 200 pages.