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

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

im working on The Final Girl Support Group and God's Last Breath. might actually finish both of them today since i ended up not having to go into work. it probably depends on whether or not the loki finale completely devastates me lol i'm watching it right now and i'm like one fear! many fears!

Steven wrote: "Should show up in around 10 minutes, Devann. I confirmed it with Amazon's page count, so you should be good to go."

thanks!

@the librarians in the group, could i get a page count added to this book, it's 316 pages

thanks!

i think someone here said they were a goodreads librarian so could i get the page count added to this book i'm reading? it's 173 pages

Trickster's Law

haha yeah that might be a bit much. there are a lot of books where i just cannot focus on them or get through them in text format but i end up really enjoying them in audio format and i learned early on discworld definitely falls into that category

awesome! i always listen to the audio for discworld so i forget that the text versions apparently all have footnotes lol

just thought i'd pop in to say that i'm reading monstrous regiment in case anyone who's already read it knows if it fits one of our remaining tasks

i wasn't planning on getting sucked in since i haven't been into anything marvel movie related for at least 7 or 8 years but i should have know i just couldn't resist loki lol

for F3 you could move my book from earlier in the challenge A week in the future : Catherine Helen Spence's 1888 forecast of life in 1988 because the author is from australia. i think it was used for wedding for jackanory but it's an option if we think finding another wedding book would be easier than finding something else for australia

i'll claim the mythology task since i've got a few loki books i think i'm gonna reread now that i'm back into that particular obsession because of the tv show lol

Sammy wrote: "Devann wrote: "Gaiman is an interesting writer for me because he's written some of my favorite books ever and also some that I absolutely loathe, but I can definitely see how his particular style w..."

yeah american gods is one of my favorites, although i can't do stephen king so it's interesting that you compare it to his stuff. i don't generally like a lot of gaiman's short stories either but i'm also pretty picky about short stories in general.

i do really love rick riordan though so i might check out cerulean sea

Gaiman is an interesting writer for me because he's written some of my favorite books ever and also some that I absolutely loathe, but I can definitely see how his particular style wouldn't be for everyone or would be something you have to be in the mood for

Suzanne wrote: "Oh oops yeah I meant April for when I read those books. I guess words are hard :) And TIME is hard."

time is so fake lol

and yeah for me 300-400 pages is average so over 500 pages definitely counts as long. and 1000 pages is like why don't you just split that into two books lol. addie larue really didnt *feel* long because it was a really good book and there were enough things happening that it didn't feel like she was just trying to pad out the page space [which to me a lot of long books do feel like]

Suzanne wrote: "Sadly I've read both BOM for July in May. Boo! I loved The House in the Cerulean Sea and have no idea why it's classified as YA. No teenage love, in fact no teenagers in the book! I think people wi..."

if you read them during the challenge and answer the DQ questions then we still get points for it i think so overall not the worst thing to happen!

the invisible life of addie larue is very good although it's also very long so i doubt i'll be rereading it. definitely gonna check out guards though

Kaley wrote: "Lol Devann... I feel that one!! The ending — which I assume is how GRRM would end it — made me so mad!! The last season was so rushed but I dealt with it, but the very end.... I’m still upset about..."

yeah i'm guessing that he just gave them like broad strokes for the rest of the story so i'm thinking that if he actually finishes it then hopefully it will be like people end up in more or less the same places but their actual character arcs and motivations will make more sense XD

yeah i read the first few game of thrones books back when the show first started but fell off somewhere in the middle of book 3 i think and now i just refuse to finish reading them unless he finishes writing them, which is unfortunately looking less likely all the time. also if it ends up anything like the show i'm not sure i'd want to finish the books anyway lol

i'm way ahead but my issue is that i might run out of books before i hit 60 for the next coin -_-; i've got 26 books left on my tbr from before this year and i need to read 15 more. 6 of them are really long classics i know i'm gonna save for later, 12 are ones i think i can definitely read this year, and 8 are ones that i'm on the fence about and therefore might get deleted so hopefully i'll be able to squeeze by lol. it's my goal by the end of the year to not really have a tbr except for those longer classics and then series that i'm currently in the middle of so fingers crossed!

Start Date: 5/31/21
End Date: 6/20/21
Level: Never Ending Year [25+]
Any format and rereads allowed

1 - MC has a first experience
--- The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
2 – book about second chances
--- Jessica Jones: Blind Spot by Kelly Thompson

3 – has a wheel on the cover, a love triangle, or about three best friends

4 – set in the US
--- Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter by Kelly Thompson
5 - character with a strong need for approval
--- It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan
6 - MC is a man
--- Doubletake by Rob Thurman
7 – a book with a tight deadline
--- Deathwish by Rob Thurman
8 – a magical book
---Loki: The God Who Fell to Earth by Daniel Kibblesmith
9 – some stories set in a post-apocalyptic future
--- The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan

10 – a poetry book or a book with an MC who is a writer or struggles to save a precious item

11 – last book in a series
--- Jessica Jones, Vol. 3: Return of the Purple Man by Brian Michael Bendis
12 – book with a character named after one of the 12 Apostles [John]
--- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
13 – book about the occult
--- The Demon Lover by Dion Fortune
14 – set in 19th century America
--- The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister
15 – book showing the faint glow of light on the cover
--- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
16 – a YA book
--- Morning in America by Magdalene Visaggio

17 – book set in Japan or a book that puts a smile on your face
18 – book about a professional sportsperson or that features golf
19 – book with a character who is a Doctor

20 – a “number one book” [many women featured were the first/best in a category]
--- Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships That Changed History by Sam Maggs
21 – book with a character who struggles with some kind of addiction
--- Roadkill by Rob Thurman
22 – a police procedural, or has a strong police presence
--- Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
23 – book with an author with a last name that begins with "W"
--- Salvation Day by Kali Wallace
24 – a book that takes place all in one day
--- Cain: A Mystery by Lord Byron

25 – book about a horse or has a picture of one on the cover

26 – set aboard a ship
--- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
27 – Read books from 3 different trilogies
--- The City Stained Red by Sam Sykes
--- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
--- Jessica Jones, Vol. 2: The Secrets of Maria Hill by Brian Michael Bendis

28 – book with a black and white cover
29 – book where the MC is about to turn 30

30 – character w/ abnormal life spam and is older than he appears
--- Madhouse by Rob Thurman
31 – book about last chances
--- Benediction Denied: A Labyrinth of Souls Novel by Elizabeth Engstrom

if project hail mary gets picked for the july BOM and i read it in may and then answer DQs does that count for BOM points even though i read it before the BOM? because if so i know that me and one other person on this team have already read it during this challenge so voting for that might be good points-wise unless you guys have another book on the poll that you really want to read and don't want to read project hail mary lol

i'd been skipping over a lot of the jackanory list bc i don't read romance/erotica but i just realized that in the series i'm rereading one character comments about how big another character's dick is when he sees him naked in the next book so i guess i can take well-endowed male lol i'll probably read it sometime within the next week or so