Insiyah’s
Comments
(group member since Apr 12, 2022)
Insiyah’s
comments
from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.
Showing 481-500 of 609
Completion Post
Book: Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Date Read: 07-May-2023
Pages: 402
Rating: 3 stars
Brief Review: I liked the complex worldbuilding, did not enjoy the confusion of it though. Loved the characters, loved the pacing and layers. Was very, very confused by the names being super complex and 'alien', so to speak, or very... (juvenile seems the right word here).
Mini Challenge:
Winners Towers:
Paplatine - Set in space, where the protagonists are constantly under threat of a 'dark force' that aims to destroy their worlds.
Spell out:
S (Title: Shards, Character: Solace)
A (AFN: Adrian)
T (ALN: Tchaikovsky)
I (Character: Idris)
O (Character: Ollie)
K (Character: Kris)
Eldarwen wrote: "Not even a week into the challenge, and we're doing quite well :-)Here is a little look at our core towers as they currently stand:
Our Core Tower
10 x 100-199 : 7
20 x 200-299 : 8
30 x 300-399..."
I'm starting The Luminaries today - it's 834 pages. I came across it in a charity shop and got it for less than a fourth of the retail price and HAD to get it.
Hey everyone! After a nightmare of a flight where I could barely read without being interrupted by screaming toddlers or rude crew, I'm back home in London! Which means I can finally get back to my copies of Samantha Shannon. I'm going to wait to read them until the poll for the next BOMs are over, though - A Day of Fallen Night is an option for one of them.
So far, I'm about 25% through Shards of Earth. It's pretty fascinating so far, and kinda complex, and the world-building is amazing. Other than that, I just looked through the remaining Mod Towers books. I've shortlisted one, The Wind in the Willows which Ashley has read. Other than that, let's see.
Michael wrote: "That makes a LOT more sense now. Is there a limit on how many teammates can earn pts for the team for each BOM?"No, there's no limit on the amount of people in a team reading a BOM.
There is a limit on the DQs per BOM, which is limited to one person per team.
Aaaaand....begin! Happy reading, everyone!
You're going to need to tell us what you think about this book, Lisa. Erin Morgenstern's books always seem to inspire extremes - people either love them passionately or hate them with the fury of a thousand burning suns. I'm in the first - I loved how ethereal the books were.
So the trick to using GR on your phone is to use it on your browser, because the app is terrible. Then when I need to embed a link, I usually select desktop mode on my browser menu and use it as the desktop app. Only issue i have with the browser is that the spellcheck gets weird. I have an orange cover with The Priory of the Orange Tree, and whatever colour A Day of Fallen Night is - primarily blue, I think?. I'll have beige as well with The Luminaries.
Exactly why I want to read it - it fits about 6 different challenges I have ongoing right now, and I really just want to watch the Keira Knightly movie. I have a thing for Joe Wright dramas, and I need to see it (once I'm done with the book, of course).
To be fair, that's exactly why I estimated 7 books a month. I usually average about 10 a month, but then big books, so...
Hey everyone! I'm Insiyah, one of the co-captains. I'm living in London, though I'm currently in Cairo, which is why it took me so long to introduce myself. 😅 This is my second TT, and I've got a lot of giant books lined up. The Roots of Chaos series by Samantha Shannon, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, and The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton. I'm hoping to get through a my big books in May and June, before the chaos starts.
S
Winners TowersTower Teams Hall of Fame
Remaining: 0/5
Potential Reasons: Title or author starts with 'C', Author or character name matches a member of Team C
Moonstone
Remaining: 1/5
Potential Reasons: Semi-precious stone, blue and white cover, 'Moon' in title, Astrology based, etc.
Thundercats
Remaining: 1/5
Potential Reasons: Alien characters, set in Japan, Japanese author, published between 1985 to 1989 (the show's run time)
Remaining: 0/5
Potential Reasons: Jackal, Egpytian mythology, Death is a character
Remaining: 0/5
Potential Reasons: Fight between good and evil, Mean grandpa character
Remaining: 0/5
Potential Reasons: Werewolf character, professor character
Remaining: 0/5
Potential Reasons: Seven deadly sins, giving in to temptation
Remaining: 1/5
Potential Reasons: Assassin character, Discworld series book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Ve...)
Electra
Remaining: 3/5
Potential Reasons: MC kills family, Greek re-telling
Crayola TowersRemaining Letters: (done)
Blast Off Bronze
Remaining Letters: (done)
Cadet Blue
Remaining Letters: (done)
Cerulean
Remaining Letters: (done)
Electric Lime
Remaining Letters: (done)
Leather Jacket Black
Remaining Letters: (done)
Mango Tango
Remaining Letters: (done)
Mauvelous
Remaining Letters: U
Remaining Letters: (done)
Purple Mountain's Majesty
Remaining Letters: U, U
Radical Red
Remaining Letters: L, R
Tickle Me Pink
Remaining Letters: T, K, L, E, M, E, P, N
Wild Blue Yonder
Remaining Letters: I, L, D, B, L, U, E, O, N, D, E, R
Hello!
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.
Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!
McFayden was the perfect Darcy, though. He's tall and so, so painfully awkward all the time which is exactly how Darcy is described in the book.
SKIP Task: Read a book about a lion (or a shape shifter who turns into a lion)
Direction: South
(Because I am not planning on reading Narnia or Wizard of Oz again)
S: Selected Poems by William Wordsworth
K: The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
I: A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
P: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
I'm setting my goal to read 50 books that have been on my TBR before 2022 and are new to me.📖Completed: 26/50
1. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath 📖
On TBR since: 06-Aug-2017
Read: 14-Jan-2022
2. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini 📖
On TBR since: 15-Feb-2021
Read: 23-Jan-2023
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote📖
On TBR since: 06-Mar-2019
Read: 23-Jan-2023
4. The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West 📖
On TBR since: 24-Aug-2021
Read: 27-Jan-2023
5. Coraline by Neil Gaiman 📖
On TBR since: 31-Mar-2018
Read: 31-Jan-2023
6. Atonement by Ian McEwan 📖
On TBR since: 02-Jun-2021
Read: 31-Jan-2023
7. Maurice by E.M. Forster 📖
On TBR since: 26-Feb-2020
Read: 07-Feb-2023
8. Becoming by Michelle Obama 📖
On TBR since: 11-Dec-2018
Read: 28-Feb-2023
9. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart📖
On TBR since: 22-May-2021
Read: 06-Mar-2023
10. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys📖
On TBR since: 16-Jan-2016
Read: 23-Mar-2023
11. The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein📖
On TBR since: 30-Oct-2023
Read: 26-Mar-2023
12. Black Milk: On Motherhood and Writing by Elif Shafak📖
On TBR since: 06-May-2019
Read: 11-Apr-2023
13. The Giver by Lois Lowry📖
On TBR since: 08-Apr-2019
Read: 09-May-2023
14. Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno📖
On TBR since: 17-Jun-2018
Read: 24-May-2023
15. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy📖
On TBR since: 08-Jan-2016
Read: 30-May-2023
16. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue📖
On TBR since: 06-Jul-2020
Read: 31-May-2023
17. The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak📖
On TBR since: 05-Mar-2019
Date Read: 14-Jun-2023
18. The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri📖
On TBR since: 22-Jan-2021
Date Read: 04-Jul-2023
19. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell📖
On TBR since: 21-Jul-2021
Date Read: 31-Jul-2023
20. The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans📖
On TBR since: 14-Nov-2020
Read: 05-Aug-2023
21. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett📖
On TBR since: 01-Jun-2020
Read: 05-Aug-2023
22. Four Aunties and a Wedding by Jesse Q. Sutanto📖
On TBR since: 04-Sep-2021
Read: 23-Sep-2023
23. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari📖
On TBR since: 12-Feb-2018
Read: 28-Sep-2023
24. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen📖
On TBR since: 08-Jan-2016
Read: 29-Sep-2023
25. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling📖
On TBR since: 12-Feb-2019
Read: 03-Oct-2023
26. Circe by Madeline Miller📖
On TBR since: 24-Feb-2019
Read: 06-Oct-2023
27. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke📖
On TBR since: 31-Mar-2021
Read: 11-Oct-2023
(view spoiler)
Insiyah's Books2023January
1. Open Water
2. The Flatshare
3. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
4. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
5. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
6. A Single Man
7. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
8. Breakfast at Tiffany's
9. The Atlas Six
10. The Witches Are Coming
11. Coraline
12. Atonement
February
13. Skyward
14. Maurice
15. First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
16. My Policeman
17. Lady Chatterley's Lover
18. Becoming
March
19. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
20. The Mysterious Benedict Society
21. All Quiet on the Western Front
22. The Fifth Season
23. Eragon
24. Between Shades of Gray
25. The Moth Diaries
26. The Snow Child
27. Selected Poems
28. Shadow and Bone
April
29. Siege and Storm
30. Ruin and Rising
31. Six of Crows
32. Crooked Kingdom
33. Black Milk: On Motherhood and Writing
34. The Remains of the Day
35. Piranesi
36. The Red Pyramid
37. The Throne of Fire
38. The Serpent's Shadow
May
39. Shards of Earth
40. The Wind in the Willows
41. The Giver
42. A Day of Fallen Night
43. Summer of Salt
44. The Priory of the Orange Tree
45. Anna Karenina
46. The Pull of the Stars
June
47. The City of Brass
48. The Kingdom of Copper
49. The Empire of Gold
50. Never Let Me Go
51. The Bastard of Istanbul
52. The Alice Network
53. Sea of Tranquility
54. रेत समाधि
55. Young Mungo
July
56. The Lowland
57. Happy Place
58. Red, White & Royal Blue
59. In the Dream House
60. The Luminaries
61. Hamnet
62. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
August
63. Book Lovers
64. The Office of Historical Corrections
65. The Color of Magic
66. Sense and Sensibility
67. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
68. Another Brooklyn
69. Real Life
70. Lie With Me
September
71. The Shadow of the Wind
72. Practical Magic
73. Four Aunties and a Wedding
74. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
75. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
76. Water for Elephants
October
77. Seven Days in June
78. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
79. Circe
80. The White Book
81. 2001: A Space Odyssey
82. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
November
83. Just by Looking at Him
84. The Years
85. Self-Help
86. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
87. The Catcher in the Rye
88. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
89. The Sentence
90. Small Worlds
91. The Covenant of Water
92. Maame
December
93. A Winter's Promise
94. The Liar’s Dictionary
95. A Tale of Two Cities
