Preeti’s Comments (group member since Sep 26, 2021)

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

Laura wrote: "That's the battle completed for us. District 2 had a problem with one of their books. They didn't realize that it was only 67 pages and they weren't able to find a replacement that fit the correct ..."

What a combo to get a stuck on... I feel so sad for them.

Tom Hiddleston!

Book: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn (The Library Trilogy #1) by Mark Lawrence
Date Read: Jul 27
Page Count: 576


Weapon:
Pg. 138: Both wore the traditional owl-eyed helms and carried the weapons Meelan called arrow-sticks.

Shelter:
Library on the cover where some of the MCs have been living for many years.

Food:
Pg. 105: After three bowls of thick meaty soup and four warm crusty rolls the tiredness had returned in force and her thoughts had turned to sleep.

Defense:
Numerous books on the cover which can be used to build many walls.

Brad Pitt!

Book: The Ghostly Grounds: Murder and Breakfast (Canine Casper Cozy Mystery #1) by Sophie Love
Date Read: Jul 26
Page Count: 198


Shelter:
House on the cover

Food:
Posey Flynt is a cook.

Defense:
Blue on the cover

Tom Ellis!

The August Adult/Non-Fic BOM is Funny Story by Emily Henry.
I have volunteered for our team. I am adding the link here in case anybody is interested.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Keely, that is awful! So sorry to hear about it. Do take care of yourelf.

Book: One by One (Professor Maxie Reddick Files #1) by Helen Bridgett
Date Read:
Page Count: 385


Weapon:
Pg. 200: …like knife and acid attacks.

Food:
Pg. 173: Why have you ordered pizza?

Defense:
Green on the cover

I have been meaning to read this book for ages. I would like to volunteer for DQs.

I would like to volunteer for the Capitol.
(P.S. I would prefer any of the first 3 days, please, if selected. I will be travelling from the 5th and don't know if I will have internet connectivity where I am going. Thanks!)

Claire wrote: "Preeti wrote: "Book: One by One by Freida McFadden
Date Read: Jul 23
Page Count: 295


Weapon:
Pg. 26: I caught this one trying to pack a gun.

Shelter:
House on the..."

I really wanted to like it since the plotline is one of my favourites. I was very disappointed, however, with the characters, the plot and the so-called twist. I had figured out the major part of the twist almost at the beginning but the thing that irked me the most was the shoddy editing.

Book: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins
Date Read: Jul 24
Page Count: 390


Weapon:
Pg. 7: Gale had two sets of bows and arrows, one hunting knife, one fishing net, and over eight hundred terrified people to feed.

Shelter:
When the bombing of Sector 12 started Gale gathered as many people he could and took them to the Meadow, the only place he could think of where they would be sheltered.

Food:
Pg. 336: We eat a mishmash of our remaining food — canned peaches, crackers, and snails — leaving one can of salmon for Tigris as meager thanks for all she’s done.

Defense:
Blue cover

Christian Kane!

Book: One by One by Freida McFadden
Date Read: Jul 23
Page Count: 295


Weapon:
Pg. 26: I caught this one trying to pack a gun.

Shelter:
House on the cover

Food:
Pg. 45: I get the greasy burger with French fries…

Defense:
Blue cover

DQs Day 7

Chapters 50 - 58

31. Livira realises that the boy in the city that Evar and she visited was looking right at her. Arpix reminds her of the things she had told him, firstly, that Evar had said that the assistants could see ghosts as well, and secondly, about the two sets of children’s footprints that led from pools of assistant blood. By the end of this section, we have been given an explanation for all of this. What were your first thoughts when you read this bit and was it proved correct?

32. “The library is many things from many angles. Both blessing and curse. A razor blade given to a baby; a rope thrown to a drowning man.”
Do you think this statement of Yute’s makes sense? What came to your mind when you read this?

33. We have been given a whole of information in this section that casts all the previous sections in a new light. Have you changed any of your opinions from earlier in the book? What do think is going to happen next?

34. ”It’s always the books you don’t have that call to you, you know that. Not the ones already on your shelf. They can wait.”
As somebody who has an incredibly large ever-growing TBR list, I find this statement applies to me perfectly. What do you think about it?

35. (view spoiler)[Yute tells everybody that the two races lived in peace for generations, sharing not just the city but also the library and that the attack on them was by a third race. (hide spoiler)] Why is nobody willing to believe it and what do think you think he meant by that last bit?

Bonus: My mind kept going back to books like Fahrenheit 451 and The Book Thief while reading this book with the discussions about the control of information. Did you find yourself also being reminded of any other books / movies etc? What were they and what was it that brought them to mind?

Richard Armitage, please and thank you!!!

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "I usually do Jeffrey but will have to switch to Chris for this round!"

The Book That Wouldn't Burn (The Library Trilogy #1) by Mark Lawrence - Day 3

Chapters 17 - 25

11. We learn a lot more about the library in this section, for example that new head librarians create new systems to secure their power and make themselves indispensable. I know we have a few librarians in this group… how do you feel about that? 😅 If you’re not a librarian –what would you do if the library you use just changed systems whenever it felt like it?

I can understand the head librarians doing that as it is obvious that in this world, information is considered invaluable and it makes sense that they would want to make it so only they had absolute control over it as well as who got to access it and how.
I have been a member of libraries that made ridiculous changes… There was nothing I could do about it except adapt to it if I wanted to continue accessing their resources. Some changes made sense, they were attempting to better the library for the users. Many, however, looked like they were being done just so the head librarians could show that they had something.

12. We also finally had our stories converging, albeit briefly. Livira and Evar were exploring new places in consecutive chapters, both of them marking their origin/path (Livira with books, Evar with a knife) and then their journeys culminate in them meeting in what Livira identifies as an “in-between place”. Were you expecting them to meet so soon? What was your impression of their brief time together – and why did the meeting end so abruptly?

I had a feeling they were going to meet somewhere around this time as everything that happened until now seemed to be leading to this event. It definitely feels like there is a mastermind controlling the entire situation and I think they were meant to meet for a short time only to get to know of each other’s existence and to identify what information they had to gather before they got to meet the next time.

13. In her time in the library, Livira acquired a companion in the raven: is he an ally or guide? Or something sinister? Do you think it’s actually “just” a (magical) animal or maybe even a character we know already?

I think that it is convenient for the “puppet master” behind the scene to have the raven be a guide to Livira and it will be an ally only as long as what Livira does goes with what she is expected to do. As for whether the raven is a character we already know, I have been getting that feeling with many of the characters like the Soldier but that may just be me reading too much into it.

14. I can’t help but constantly think of the Book of the Ancestor as I’m reading this – the young girl protagonist who’s an outsider, the school setting, navigating friendships and political machinations while also learning about whatever type of magic there is… Have you read anything else by Mark Lawrence?

This is my very first Mark Lawrence so I can’t say. I do have many of their books on my TBR list and the one thing I have realised is that when I read any of them, I will definitely be either reading an ebook/paper book along wth or instead of the audiobook. With the audiobook, I don’t find myself being able to imagine the world as well as I would want.

Chris Hemsworth!