Suzanne’s Comments (group member since Aug 13, 2015)

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

Good for you! Life is to short to waste it on terrible books. Unless you are playing NBRC Quidditch :)

Welcome Home Cordelia! I hope you had fun!
Those seem like great books for this week.

It was just the formula in that last column. And thanks for putting your question answer links in there! 20 points is a lot - basically an entire other book! I also (just in case you ladies noticed) changed the page counts for Haunted House to 433, because that is the official page count for that particular book - they do that with the buddy reads.

Hmm....let me check on that. It should be just for asking questions - I'll get it fixed. Thanks for noticing that.

That's great you read that Amanda! It's a nice deal between the page points and the daily question points! If you aren't able to link your daily question answers just let us know and I bet one of us can do it :)

Always good to clarify though! I think out team will still come out strong in Round 2 - you all work together so well!

And thanks! The store was out of dry ice, aaah - how dare they change one of my plans!?

Well done team! It was exciting this morning waking up and seeing a whole other word completed!

What did you think of How to Sell a Haunted House, Nanci?

I'm thinking I will get a lot of reading done this weekend - I'm taking my son to Arizona for a few days - he'll be hanging out with his friends, so I will have a quiet hotel room to read as much as I want! It sounds pretty heavenly.

Today the hubby and I are doing a Halloween party for the 20 or so kids we work with. I THINK it'll all go well - fingers crossed! They are great kids, which helps :)

Just a heads up (although it doesn't affect us) - some of the other teams are getting a chance to get more bonus points by like - more color covers, cities, etc. I'm really glad the Mods are doing their best to keep things competitive and fair at the same time!

Also, we are done with our first word - hooray!

DQs Day 5 chapters 32 - end

19. I was excited that Louise and Mark were going to contact Aunt Gail. I liked meeting Barb. I was surprised that they could not really help, and suddenly, we were back where we started, in the creepy house with the puppets. Why do you think Barb and Aunt Gail were in the story?
I too was relieved to see Aunt Gail and Barbara and then wondered where in the world they went for the big fight scene, etc. Plus, doing an exorcism or w/e with a puppet that is known to possess other dolls, in a room full of dolls is questionable.


20. I found the horror of Poppy’s plight with Pupkin to be the most concerning. Did you find the horror in this book effective? Which parts creeped you out the most?
The dolls themselves, especially Pupkin, creeped me out the most. I dislike horror though, and didn't enjoy reading all of the fights, injuries, etc.

21. Gary Hendrix is also known for his humor. I laughed out loud when the puppets got together to form a golem. What parts (if any) did you find humorous?
I thought the extended family was the most humorous. I would have loved to see the various puppets arguing with each other in the golem.

22. I was shaking my head when Louise gave her daughter her stuffed animals. I would want no part of that house to be a part of my daughter’s life! How did you feel about that part?
I don't think my daughter would ever see another doll or puppet if I were Louise.

23. How do you feel about the ending?
Well, I was just glad to be done. I thought parts were rushed and didn't make sense, but some of that was I was trying to rush through and get on to something that didn't creep me out so much.

Volunteering for DQs from team Rap

@Leslie - I think you do have to read it / answer questions to get the points. I'm so glad to hear Violin Conspiracy is good!

@Kari - Wow - what useful books!

@LaurLa - that's wonderful about Nashville! And it does finish up our cities unless I'm counting incorrectly.

In other news:
(nominated by Bobbi) will be the book of the month starting Nov. 2. I've really been wanting to read this one! Bobbi - I believe the nomination means you automatically get to ask daily questions if you're willing. I'm personally happy that one won!

Our other book of the month is starting Nov. 16th. I hadn't heard of this one before the poll, but I think I'll enjoy it.

Bobbi - that is an awesome goal to look for X - thank you!

And thanks Nanci and Leslie for finding cities - we only need to find one more!

We also do need 5 books with white covers, so be sure to note it if you book has a cover that is more than 50% white :)

You are all amazing!

Yay team!

Great idea to recommend some books Nanci! Horse looks really interesting - I think I'd like it!

I think my round favorite was Wishin' and Hopin' which was kind of like reading "A Christmas Story". I did not enjoy the buddy read book (How to Sell a Haunted House) - but I don't like horror, and it was scary to me! I did also enjoy Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe, which featured short stories from the Scythe universe. As always with short stories, some were better than others, but that was a fun world to re-visit!

All done entering! We are allowed to have one partial word and as many full as we want, so we're in great shape! Well done team!

I'll look at the deadline, just in case anyone finishes something else. Right now we are in 2nd place, which is absolutely amazing!

We have 7 cities claimed for round 2, so need 3 more (in the next two weeks). It'll be so fun to see what we can do!

All our books for Synthesizer need to be finished in 4 hours from this post.
Countdown: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Then you can immediately start reading books for Xylophone. Well and enjoy life in there too :)

Thanks Janeylou! I agree it's hard finding the combination of letters and setting! Those mods are tricky!

I'll mark those on our list.

Amanda wrote: "I have all month to read How To Sell a Haunted House and answer questions right? I just got it from my library and have a couple other books first!"

You have to finish and answer questions within a month of when the discussion starts - so by November 16th. And yes - it's basically like reading 2 books points-wise.

probably any letter is ok as we can shuffle books if we need.

thanks Leslie! this 2 weeks has flown by!