Vi’s Comments (group member since Jun 04, 2011)

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

Good to know, Amanda. I'm getting really tempted to pick it up but it'll work well for the September Challenge.

Lisa Kay wrote: " HP

Well, even though I'd deep into the "buddy read" of Shadow of Night, I managing to read a chapter or two of [bookcover:Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Az..."

LK, the beginning of each chapter has those illustrations, right? Those are really good! I'm tempted to pick up the DTB but I decided to do straight audio this time.

Yay, Karen!! I'm so glad you liked it. I liked it for the same reason too - no angst and no love triangle. That's like a double rare commodity in the YA market. I think you might like Jellicoe Road even better. Starts off a little confusing but it progresses so beautifully!

Ashley Marie wrote: " HP

Saw this on Geeks are Sexy and thought it was funny!

The Harry Potter Books According to Draco Malfoy"

That link is good, Ashley. The titles are giggle worthy.

Amanda wrote: "Finished (genre). It was really good, and I loved reading about a male main character for a change."

Ooh, glad to know that was good. It's on my TBR and I'm thinking off pushing it up.

Me too. And sounds like there are way too many cards in the game.

Ashley Marie wrote: "I'm sorry to hear that, Vi :( It is a weird book, and I definitely understand why people find it a miss, but it just wiggled its way into my heart. "

I'm glad it was a hit for you Ashley! It definitely was a good book.

There are information regarding the September Monthly Challenge

1. The mods have modified the September Challenge a bit:
- If we just aim for the % (without fitting the books into the challenge)
9.9% = 4 BAP
8.33 to 9.8% = 2 BAP
7 to 8.2 = 1 BAP

- If we aim to fit the books into the challenges (the original version):
9.9% = 9 BAP
8.33 to 9.8% = 7 BAP
7 to 8.2 = 5 BAP

There is no change to our challenge plan as we have already decided to go with the original challenge. The best news is that when we hit the number, we will get 9 BAP.

2. Which brings us to... We have to choose our two challenges by the end of the month:
◈ For the A-Z Challenge, we suggest either:
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge OR Title Alphabet Reading Challenge. Please post which challenge you would prefer in the September Discussion Thread.

◈ For the third challenge, we have decided to go with Animal Alphabet Spell-It-Out Challenge as it gives the maximum flexibility for us to fit all our books.

Please note that we have time till September 20 to change our challenges if we face any difficulty.

I did check my CoS DVD and I don't have the extra scenes. Time to check if youtube has it.

Me! Me!!

Ashley Marie wrote: " HP

I love the little extra scene at the end of the movie though, with Gideroy Lockhart in the straightjacket!"

There is an extra scene? *rushes off to find the dvd*

Movie

I saw the movie on Thursday and this is one of my least favorite movie. The book starts off with Harry trying to do his homework muttering Lumos and it sort of went downhill from there. The Marge incident was funny but the movie lacked any emotional punch. Everything was sort of dealt with superficially. The fights between Hermione & Harry, Ron are not at all portrayed well and this was one of the strong points in the book. The movie turned into a straight adventure kinda thing. *Sigh* It sort of ruined that night for me because I just couldn't watch the movie without getting all annoyed and irritated.

Quick post about - I so expected to love it. I mean, it had my name written all over it and I even waited for weeks for it come off hold. But sadly, I didn't love it. It was just.. ok for me :(

Ah, the Silver Lining was my first so I'm partial to it. I loved Jenny but not as much as Low Down. I think we should do a marathon and rate the books, LK. :P

Lisa Kay, I think is the best of hers. The others are good but as much as this.

No, Nancy - there are some differences..

It's still on my e-reader when I just want to peek-read into after my recent re-read. Low Down is such an awesome character!

Yay, Leslie! I'm so, so glad you liked it! I had the same reaction as you - it was hard letting go of the book.

Wow that is a lot. I did think of signing up for the Western but I'm already so much behind on my reading that I don't want to commit to another.

No worries, LK! The Shadows of Night by itself should be enough to complicate everything.

★ gwendolyn ★ wrote: " HP 2


Did You Know?
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Mai...

•That Lucius Malfoy attempted to have the story The Fountain of Fair Fort..."

Ugh. Doesn't surprise me in the least that Lucius Malfoy would do that.