Geri’s Comments

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

Note: Geri is not currently a member of this group.

I posted my book for bingo G4 guitar. Since there is a guitar on cover. I’ll read another book with a musical instrument on cover to fill that task!

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The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
Date Read: 6/26
Pages: 360
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

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Grave Expectations by C.J. Archer
Date Read: 6/27
Pages: 252
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
66. features a necromancer - MC, Charlotte, is a necromancer

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Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie
Date Read: 6/28
Pages: 336
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
Bingo G4 - guitar on cover

I checked the spreadsheet. I can read a book for MC is a necromancer. And a book with a musical instrument on cover. I’ll have them done this week.

Carrie wrote: "Completion Post:
The Disappearing Act

Catherine Steadman
Date Read: June 26, 2021
Pages: 320"

I see you read the book I recommended. Glad you enjoyed the book. 🙂 I‘ll be reading Hostage soon.

Not really sure what tasks we still need. I’ll wait for an update to see what else I can find. 🙂

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Dead of Winter by Annelise Ryan
Date Read: 6/24
Pages: 352
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

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The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
Date Read: 6/24
Pages: 391
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Louise wrote: "Discussion Questions have been allocated for July BOM's. We got The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Date Chapters (end page) MPDQs
2 Jul Part 1, I - Part 1, XIII (p67) Lori (Gran..."

That’s great, Louise! Hopefully, you enjoy the book. I really enjoyed it.

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Kneaded to Death by Winnie Archer
Date Read: 6/22
Pages: 352
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
Jackanory
Describe your protagonists - photographer, back home after her mother’s death

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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Date Read: 6/23
Pages: 464
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
Jackanory
What's the next plot point? - family travels to California where they can live a better life not filled with drought and dust storms

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The Next Wife by Kaira Rouda
Date Read: 6/23
Pages: 306
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
Jackanory
Describe your antagonists - second wife who poisons her husband when she realizes her husband wants to leave her to get back together with his first wife

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Neon Gods by Katee Robert
Date Read: 6/21
Pages: 391
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
75. MPG Mythology

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Majesty by Katharine McGee
Date Read: 6/21
Pages: 384
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
242. crown on cover

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Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne
Date Read: 6/22
Pages: 354
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
78. Turtle on cover

My book Leave the World Behind from message 706 wasn’t added to the spreadsheet. I know you are checking, Jenny. 🙂

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The Road to Rose Bend by Naima Simone
Date Read: 6/20
Pages: 400
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
Bingo
B3 Jelly baby - MC goes back to hometown, pregnant with her ex husband’s baby
Jackanory
Describe your protagonis - 27 yr old woman pregnant with her ex husband’s baby

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The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Date Read: 6/20
Pages: 352
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
Jackanory
Describe your antagonists - angry, deranged man from an abusive home
What's DEATH up to? - murdering university women by stabbing/slashing them with a big knife

I don’t think anyone has claimed the tasks crown on cover and MPG Mythology. So I’ll read books to fill those tasks next. 🙂

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Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Date Read: 6/19
Pages: 256
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
What's the next plot point? - power goes out, leaving no internet, tv, phone or gps
What obstacles are in the protagonists' way? - strange things happen like loud noises in the distance and then they start to feel sick
And now to wrap things up for the protagonists, - they decide to stay in the middle of nowhere and try to survive as a group

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Animal by Lisa Taddeo
Date Read: 6/18
Pages: 336
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
Bingo
E8 fierce cat - title
Jackanory
Describe your protagonists - woman with a dysfunctional family and troubled past
What's DEATH up to? - her married lover kills himself when she takes another lover

Jammin Jenny wrote: "I probably had Echo Wife on the brain because that is on my TBR. Did you like it?"

Not as much as her previous books. Unfortunately. 🙁

I noticed an error. I read The Echo Killing. But The Echo Wife was entered on the spreadsheet.

I actually did read The Echo Wife a few months ago. Too early for a re read, though. 🙂

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The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
Date Read: 6/16
Pages: 400
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
Describe the setting of your story - summer camp where 4 people were murdered in 1978.

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The Ivies by Alexa Donne
Date Read: 6/17
Pages: 320
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
Time for the final twist! - he killed her so he could have a better chance at getting into an Ivy school

Jammin Jenny wrote: "Are we saying "echo" is onomatopoeia?"

Yes. It was on a list I found online.

Carrie wrote: "I just added that to my tbr list. I had 2 other books by her on there as well. Just not enough time!!!"

Yeah. Never enough time!

Hopefully, you enjoy The Echo Killing when you read it. It was really good! Now I have to read more of the series. 🙂

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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Date Read: 6/15
Pages: 320
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
Jackanory
Describe the setting of your story - in the future where parents buy AFs (artificial friends) for their children
What obstacles are in the protagonists' way? - she is trying to figure out how to keep her child from dying

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The Echo Killing by Christi Daugherty
Date Read: 6/16
Pages: 368
BOM/Participation: No
BOM/Writing DQs: No

Possible uses and reasons/justifications:
201. Onomatopoeia in title