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

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

The two copies thing happened to me but luckily I caught it when I was updating my books for other challenges. That thing is really weird because I don't know what exactly triggers it.

Wow - that does sound bad. The HQN Presents are usually hit or miss too but certain authors like Sandra Morgan write such good books. I found HQN Superromance much better. Have you read one of those?

Judy wrote: "Every HQN Presents plot trope was in this book- rich billionaire, poor struggling actress working as waitress, insta-sex turns to insta-love, birth control malfunction, secret baby etc. - it seems like she had a list of things to cover and just checked them off.

I'm usually hit or miss with the HQN Presents line- this one was definitely a miss.
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Hi Leslie! I just finished up two books for other challenges - - The first book was ok but the second was much better. I'm now sorta invested in the series.

- This is the BOM for another group and it's a Romance from the guy's POV. The first 20% I didn't really like the hero, Drew. He was such a a-hole. But the h, Kate stood upto him on every count and the banter between them was very good as well. There were lots of hilarious moments too. And the grovelling part was very well-done.

Oo, have you read her Travis series? Those are really good too.

I finished up & . The HQN was so idiotic I was tempted to throw it away. I need to find better ones. Gah!

Thanks for the info, LK!

I was thinking the same, LK!!

The premise looked interesting but Sandra Marton usually doesn't work for me. Can I know what happened in those 30 pages?

Judy wrote: "I read 30 pages of and hated it- I'm not going to finish it.

I'm going to listen to tonight, and I'll try a new book..."

Karen, is that bird an owl? It looks like one except for the beak..

LOL, Oo - you always post the best pics.

@Oo - great job with Phoebe!! She looks so cute with the doll!

@LJB: You're welcome to use our thread (and tracking is made easier) Just reserve a spot at this page and post your completed books.

Be prepared for major butt-kicking!! :)

I'm all prepared too! I have some shorter books lined up.

I'm still halfway through and also finished up . The book was ok - the suspense and the romance part was good. And there was more showing for the most part. The major issue I had some was with the writing. It was not smooth - for example, A and B would be having a conversation and then all of a sudden, there'd be a summarized third-person narration of the rest of the conv/happening. It kept pulling me out of the book. A good Romantic-Suspense if the writing doesn't bother.

Karen, we'll have it relaxed - just have break points where we post our thoughts and the random ones as we usually do.

Awesome, Sheila! Welcome to Forest Green!!

The shelf setting doesn't have custom date parameters. So here's one way of doing it:

1. Click on the "date read" so that the books are displayed in descending order (books you finished recently will be at the top)
2. Display 30 (or any number you prefer) books per page. You can select this at the bottom of the page.
3. Select batch edit and click select all so that all 30 books in that page are selected. Now add it to the tower team shelf. Repeat this until you reach the date read of April 12.

This is the only way I know that is less tedious.

Sheila: here's the link - http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/9...

Hey Sheila! Welcome to Tower Team!! I'm not from Forest Green though I often pop by other team's thread.

Regarding your question, tag all the books you've finished on/after April 12 regardless of the start date. You'll have to batch edit and move to your tower teams shelf.

Good Morning, Team!! Hope everyone's having a great weekend! I went to movie which turned out to be just blah. Totally not what I wanted :(

On the book front, I took a break from and read . It was good revisiting Eve & Roarke.

How's everybody doing with their reading?

You put it way better than I could, Chris! That's true. I can see them both learning from each other. But, the thing was Brian was already sort of programmed or should I say, inclined towards this path. Take his dream worlds and such. Of course, he might not have walked this path if not for the events happening as they had but he had all inclinations for it. And that along with their difference in age has lead them to the present situation. If you can understand what I'm saying.

It's interesting.. this contradiction. It'll probably have even more play if the other brothers survived. They were more moldable than Mahon.

The other interesting thing in the book - Christianity vs Druidism and the Norse religion. Interesting how religion is being played.

No, nothing else that you need to do now, Judy.

The thread is HUGE so you don't really have to go through it all. I'll give you the important things you'll want to know:

1. The mods had a challenge that runs from June 1- July 19. We've pretty much completed it so it's just FYI for you.

2. From July 8 - July 21, we are facing off Leather Jacket Black (LJB), another Tower Team. The challenge is to read 100 books in 2 weeks. That's coming up in 2 days.

3. For the August month, we have to come up with our challenge. The mods are taking a break that month. The captains have come up with some 17 categories. Could you head over here to vote the top 10 categories you would like?

I think that summarized pretty much everything. If I've missed anything, I'm sure the team will jump in :)

Oh, starting date doesn't count. As long as they are finished between July 8 - 21, they count.