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

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

DQs Day 1: Prologue - 11:00AM

1. Both Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo have been BOMs in this group before. Have you read these books (or others) by Taylor Jenkins Reid too or is Malibu Rising your first book by the author? What are your expectations going in? I have read both the other books and thought they were good - well written. Neither of them was a favorite of mine though. I love the information you gave about the appearances of Mick in the other two books!

2. We have been introduced to quite a lot of MCs and their different POVs in the first 20% of the book. Do you prefer one character/POV over the others or is it still too early to tell?I slightly prefer Nina's to the others, but not really sure why. It's a lot to take in right now.

3. The writing has quite a contemporary feel to it, especially the 1983 timeline, which makes it easy to forget the book is actually set in the past. What's your opinion on the writing and the back and forth between the two timelines so far, and how does it compare to other TJR books you've read (if any)? It has the same general feel and foreshadowing as the other books. I'm ok with the two timelines so far.

4. "The story of June and Mick Riva seemed like a tragedy to their oldest child, Nina. It felt like a comedy of errors to their first son, Jay. It was an origin story for their second son, Hud. And a mystery to the baby of the family, Kit. To Mick himself it was just a chapter of his memoir."
We don't really know how June and Mick's marriage post kids 1 + 2 went (and ended) yet, but from what we've learned about each of the siblings and their (love) lives so far, how do you think their parents' story has affected them after reading the quote above?I really liked this quote! I thought the last part, not mentioned here, that to June it was a romance made me really like her and want to hear it from her point of view. It did make me curious about what will happen, although I don't think I'll be greatly surprised.

I can't believe there's only 10 days left. Where did time go!?

I think it has to have been read during the challenge by another member. But that'd be great for on the tbr awhile! Yay!

It sure is! I'm glad we can do this!

Super proud of you for finishing a book! But more relieved that you are not feeling horribly sick!

Thanks for the mini update! I put about 3 books in there for the Comedy - but I won't be offended if those totally get changed.

But hopefully Ashlee actually reading it will see something. I need to finish Upgrade then will go to this one.

Ushashi I couldn't find anything. I searched for instrument, piano, guitar, drum, accompanied, trumpet and none of those appeared as an instrument. I didn't see any instruments with "song" although looks like June's song could be used as lyrics (which I suspect you know).

Ok - it's the tokens giving us too many entries. I fixed that and gave them the link to our sheet for the proof. So fingers crossed - we have the max # of "raffle tickets" so it's the best we can do :)

I'd say just going in order for Electra, lets do:
Ushashi (with token)
Aamaace83 (with token)
Suzanne (no token)
CB

We have the tokens tracked here on our planning sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

If that doesn't work, our team BOM sheet (official) is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
but the token tracking isn't as obvious.

Let me know if you need any more information (and sorry I didn't respond to this sooner)

Glad you noticed that CB - wow yay us for being so good at volunteering. I'm ok bowing out as well. I'll go look at that thread now.

I like the Tragedy so far - you are doing great! I have The Agathas I want to try to get to, which might work for this, but we'll see!

It seems like we've gotten a lot of the harder tasks claimed - that's great! And thank you for the list - it helps to know where to focus future reads.

I'm sure grateful for audiobooks!

Wow Leslie that's busy for sure! I'm so glad you have made time to participate here as well!

Oh no, Christina! I hope all of you recover fully and as quickly as possible!

Thanks for the information Ushasahi. I volunteered too. And wow nice work creating squares.

I volunteer for Electra too, and also want to use a token for extra entry.

Thanks Alyana. You are so dependable and helpful!
Sounds like this has been a tough few weeks for quite a few of us!.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend. Just a heads up that its a new week's round of warships - so you can head over to the planning thread in the mythics group and see if there is a genre you want to read for (finished by next Friday). Our team has 4 spots (for the week) left.

Here is the planning thread link:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

That's great Ashlee!