Allison Ann’s Comments (group member since Oct 19, 2014)

Allison Ann’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

I'm reading this now, I think it's a reread but as I was probably about 8 years old the first time I read it, probably doesn't count. I didn't enjoy the first part of the book at all, it got slightly better during the sea voyage and now that they have arrived at Treasure Island, I'm quite enjoying it. Makes sense since it is called Treasure Island after all, not Admiral Benbow Inn or Hispaniola.

Left - Read a book by an author you have already read in the past - Without Fail by Lee Child - 12/13/14
Left - Read a book with less than 500 pages - Cruel Intent by J.A. Jance - 12/14/14 - 340 pages
Right - Read a book written by a woman - End in Tears by Ruth Rendell - 12/15/14
Right - Read a book published in the last 5 years - Death Come Quickly by Susan Wittig Albert - 12/17/14 - Published 2014

I have reached the centre of the maze. I have no idea how to make one of the actual mazes show up here, so please use your imagination. Sadly Rachel is already booting her way out of town with the cash so clearly I have to follow her east and engage her in a duel to the death for the treasure. Hopefully Tory will be sitting in the hallway reading causing Rachel to trip over her legs, thus slowing her down.

I have a very rich inner life. :D

Left - Read a book published more than a century ago (before 1915) - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - 12/18/14 - Published 1883
Right - Reread a book you loved in the past (you must have given it at least 4 stars) - The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You by Harry Harrison - 12/18/14 - 4 stars
Left - Read a book with something silver on the cover - An Island Christmas by Nancy Thayer - 12/21/14 - silver star on tree
Left - Read a book whose author's last initial matches your last name initial - Yesterday by Fern Michaels - 12/22/14 - my last name starts with M
Right - Read a book that starts with a B for Balefire - Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs - 12/25/14

Hi Andrea! Yay vacation. Hope you enjoy it. My Christmas vacation is closing 2 hours early on Christmas Eve and taking Christmas Day off to relax. More than enough for me. Boxing Day I am raking in the cash because nobody else is open. Yay for paying bills! :D

Today was another day of baking instead of reading - 950 billion sugar cookies baked and decorated and packaged (I may be exaggerating slightly) - off to the charity bake sales I support. I have read approximately 5 pages of Death Come Quickly, we'll see how long I can stay awake.

I've been meaning to read Dexter. Too many books in the world.

Eight times I have picked up this book in the last week or so, eight times I have read the first page and then put it down and read something else. I liked this book 20-odd years ago, I'm not sure why I just can't seem to get into it now. I'll get back here someday. :)

I just finished a direction book too if we need one, End in Tears by Ruth Rendell. I'll add it to my list and let me know if we want to use it for the Quest, I'll edit.

Third place!!! Yay team, awesome week for us.

Ashley wrote: "I liked it until the very end!! I felt ripped off. First of all Dorothy didn't die! and second, I didn't appreciate being left hanging. "

But she must die! What happened to truth in advertising? ;)

Finished Cruel Intent for 20 pts.

I wouldn't have told either. There's enough guilt involved in this disease as is.

Just started today, only got through 100 pages or so mainly because I'm reading this on my computer and I HATE reading on a screen instead of a page. The core group hasn't been all together in so long I'm really hoping it happens sometime in this book.

That list started out just fine, then the stupid people started voting. :D I mean the people with opinions differing from mine aka wrong!

Anyway, if we still need a good girl/good boy book I have read Cry No More which is about a woman who spends 10 years searching for her missing son and starts a foundation that helps to find other missing children. She's pretty darn good I think. I also read Without Fail - a Jack Reacher novel and I think Reacher's a good guy (not when played by Tom Cruise, but in the books...). He only kills bad guys. :)

Also I read Ready Player One which was okayed for a yellow cover and I'm currently reading Written in My Own Heart's Blood which is over 800 pages.

I know all these books are spoken for, but it seems like half our team never checks in so if we need them, go ahead.

Would this be considered orange - looks it in real life, not as much on the screen?


If not, how about ? I don't physically have it yet, but it looks orange on the screen.

I was checking out the "worst" list for a left turn. Twilight and 50 Shades of Crap made me happy, but then To Kill a Mockingbird showed up and Dune and A Wrinkle in Time and then Little Women and I had to stop looking because if Anne of Green Gables showed up on that list I would have no choice but to quit work, pack up the Jeep and travel the world killing every single person who voted for Anne as worst. No choice!

Updated my post to include Without Fail for 20 pts and people have finally started talking about Still Alice so I added BR points for that. No worries, I'll keep chatting about it as other people read it so the points will be accepted. :)

I don't know what to read next. I guess I need to figure out my next left turn.

I was concerned about reading a book about Alzheimer's also. Both my grandmothers had the disease and my mother has never had a good memory to begin with, sometimes her forgetfulness makes me panic a little (and her name is Alice, damn book). :)

In any case, I think I was okay with this book because (view spoiler)[ the writing was almost clinical to begin with. The emotions were there but they weren't too over the top, too sad. Alice was mainly methodical about her illness and it made me comfortable. The husband stressed me out though. I didn't lose it and turn into a sobbing mess until her speech. I was so sure that the author was going to make the success of the speech a figment of the Alzheimer's, so I was so thankful and happy that Alice had that (possibly last) triumph. (hide spoiler)]

Hey Debbie - It's nice to see someone else on Team Asshat and the Idiot. :D Can't wait to see where they go with book 2.

Okay, this game is very cool, thanks for putting it together guys. I have had yet another day of no reading - driving, bloodwork, appointments, shopping, more driving and baking, but now I am going to bed and reading for a couple of hours. Ahhhh! So, I am going to start from the North because (DUH) I live in the north and there are no dragons in northern Canada so clearly I will have to go south to find their treasure. It's only logical. So....

Left - Read a book by an author you have already read in the past - Without Fail by Lee Child - 12/13/14
Left - Read a book with less than 500 pages - Cruel Intent by J.A. Jance - 12/14/14 - 340 pages
Right - Read a book written by a woman - End in Tears by Ruth Rendell - 12/15/14
Right - Read a book published in the last 5 years - Death Come Quickly by Susan Wittig Albert - 12/18/14 - Published 2014

I would absolutely play in a mini-game of some kind. Sounds fun.

I didn't read a word of any book today, instead I've been in the kitchen baking and cooking. Birthday cakes and dinners, charity baking and christmas cookies. Plus my eyes got a bit of a rest. :D

Can I just say to you chickadees that I love checking the tower threads every night after work and while I've been gone all day each of the teams has added 1 or 2 new comments, maybe 7 or even occasionally 13 and then you all have 86. :D Bravo!

Thanks Angel!

Rachel, your BR points are insanely impressive. Only that crazy reading machine over on the winning team ;) is higher than you, and not by much. Way to go!

I'll be here when you're reading. I have many thoughts and feelings. :)

I'm better. Stayed up last night and finished Still Alice which was excellent and only made me sob like a baby for the last 50 pages or so. Twenty points only but it will be a BR too when someone else finishes and talks to me about it. Then I finished Cry No More which wasn't outstanding but definitely good enough and another twenty points.

Does anyone else seem to get themes in their reading? I pick my books quite arbitrarily from the library. I pick ones that various groups are discussing, the next edition in the series I am reading, books I have heard about on the radio that sound interesting, then books that grab my attention in some way - a new author, a pretty cover, an attention grabbing colour, whatever. Yet as random as I think they are I end up finding similarities as I read. 3 of the last 4 books I read discussed early menopause, completely out of the blue. Two completely different genres used the same random quote. Once I was reading three very different books and they all had a character with the same name - and the name wasn't Jim Smith either, it was an odd one. :D Maybe I'm a book witch?