Judith’s Comments (group member since Apr 15, 2015)

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

Steven wrote: "The tasks are my favorite thing so that makes me sad. lol"

You can go look for vinegar and ube in text. LOL

Nine Tailed by Jayci Lee

An enemy on her tails, an innocent at her side, and a dangerous power within her that could destroy them all. Jayci Lee melds Korean folklore with modern Americana in this fiery new series.

Sunny Cho aspires to be the dullest, least interesting person in any given room, which can be challenging for a nine-tailed fox spirit. So she drifts from city to city—staying clear of any and all attachment—and keeps her fox buried deep inside her. It is better this way. She would rather live as half of herself than risk losing control of her terrible powers.

Ethan Lee, a friend she left behind eight years ago, is a brilliant and distractingly hot PI. When he tracks her down and asks her to help him find his brother’s murderer, Sunny knows her uneventful life is about to be turned upside down.

Traversing the mortal realm and the world of gods, Sunny and Ethan discover their quest is much more dire than mere vengeance, and their friendship might be…more. An ancient evil is stirring, and Sunny is faced with an impossible save the worlds from annihilation or claim the love fated by the heavens.


Reason: Korean folklore

My new nominate until I read it anyway or it wins :P



The Best Way to Bury Your Husband by Alexia Casale

A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done––and hide their bodies once they’ve killed them

When Sally kills her husband with a cast-iron skillet, she’s more fearful of losing her kids than of disposing of a fresh corpse. That just wouldn’t be fair—not after twenty years of marriage to a truly terrible man. But Sally isn’t the only woman in town reaching the brink. Soon, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group, and among them there are four bodies to hide. Can they all figure out the perfect way to bury their husbands . . . and get away with it?

First to join is former nurse, Ruth, who met her husband as a single mom. Now her son is grown and her husband’s violence builds by the day until an attack on the stairs leads to a fatal accident—for him. A few doors down, Samira’s last straw comes when she discovers her husband is planning a campaign of violence against her eldest daughter, who has just come out. Janey, Sally’s best friend, has just had her first child at forty-two. Sleep-deprived Janey needs a hero to slay the monster in the fairy tales she whispers to her daughter each night . . . and as her husband’s violence escalates, it might just be her.

Together, fueled by righteous anger but tempered by a moral core, the four women must help each other work out a plan to get rid of their husbands for good. Along the way, Sally, Ruth, Samira and Janey rediscover old joys and embark on new passions in work, education, and life. Friendship and laughter really are the best medicine—and so is getting away with murder.

Oh no! Steven :(

I hope your husband takes good care of you! (duh, I know he will but still)

Go for it Suzanne!

We could use a Y for the last letter in Germany if people are looking for a task

Pho is a delicious Vietnamese soup, ube is a type of purple yam from the Philippines that has become a really popular ingredient lately, pirogies are a central/Eastern European dumping


I’m not sure I’ve had ube flavored anything but I can recommend the other 2!

We have a new mini challenge!

Banked books are allowed for this one, though as a team we don't have all that many books not being used on minis right now.

But we are fairly close to finishing off Mini 2, this will give a home to most other books that don't fit in Mini 1 or 3.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

We'll work on getting something up in the tracking sheet

Suzanne wrote: "Oh I'm going to put in a few medium and hard country books in too - I'll just put them under Mini 1 - but if you want to add them to Column G so that we don't over-read a country?? But that is up t..."

I hope you had a lovely trip!!

I added all of the countries to columns G&H to account for the countries. But we can move them around depending on the order you end up reading them

Finished another monster and spun for another one. Stuck with the world/pirates wheel as many of us are reading international books for TT

John Julian (South America)
100 to 175
Takes place in South America
Tagged indigenous 10 or more times
published in March
author or character named John or Julian

We have finished our last pastry and left France for Russia!

New tasks:

Author born in Russia
Red, White and Blue on cover
"palace" in text
character (dreams of) going to St. Petersburg
character is an artist
letters VODKA in title (any order)
R
U
S
S
I
A

Ann,

when you get a chance can you add The Names to your TT shelf?

Thank you!

Steven, I’ll accept that for soccer/football.

Erin, this is my first read of Boy’s life and it’s great so far. I’ve read a bunch of the author’s other books though

I was surprised (in a good way) that the list has like 3000 books on there. And remember series substitutions are allowed. So that expands options a bit too

New mini 2 task: Sizzling Summer Sensations list

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...

Judith's BOM Tracking

Day 1: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 2: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 3: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 4: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Day 5: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

DQs Day 5
Chapters Fourteen - Seventeen


20. Well, I think we all knew that we were going to end up with Norma turning out to really be the lost girl and her being reunited with her biological family. Do you have any thoughts you'd like to share on that reunion? Or a comparison you'd like to venture between what we know of both of Norma's families?
I'm glad they all found their way back together. And it's a strange thing to realize you had the life you wanted but also grieve a life that could of or should of been had certain tragedies not happened.

[Personally, I find the fact that Norma had never laughed so much in her life a sad testament to the life she'd been leading under Lenore's thumb and the piled upon guilt. Laughing is so important (and let's face it, if you haven't snorted juice out of your nose, you're missing out) and it's a shame she never had that, not even with friends during all those years. Lenore's shadow seems enormous.]

21. Aunt June stays true to her word. She promised to help find Norma's real family and she managed to find the article that would bring this family reunion about. Do you think the conflict between the two women was well handled? From the moment Norma gave in to her anger and yelled at June to the moment where June told her that going to meet her family was not something for her to intrude upon.
I do, June was in a tough spot and if she'd taken a harder line at the beginning, Lenore just would of cut off all contact and that would of been that. Norma was rightfully upset at her but also worked through the anger in a way that felt realistic.

23. All in all, were you satisfied with the book? The story - did you enjoy following along Norma's and Joe's lives? The writing - did you enjoy the way the words flowed over the page, painting a world and its landscapes without however overusing words? Or maybe that's just my opinion - that it flowed nicely and pulled the reader along like a boat gently rocking on water.
I enjoyed the book and it was easy to read in that the prose flowed well.

24. Would you read another book by this author? Do you maybe have recommendations for Native American literature that you'd like to share with the group?
Sure, I'd read another book by this author.

or anything by Rebbecca Roanhorse or Darcie Little Badger

Note: football is soccer

We finished our trip to China last night and are now off to Germany!

WW158 Author born in Germany
WW159 Red, Yellow and Black on cover
WW160 character eats sausage
WW161 character plays football
WW162 letters BIER in title (any order)
WW163 castle on cover
WW164 G
WW165 E
WW166 R
WW167 M
WW168 A
WW169 N
WW170 Y

Ann,

when you get a chance can you add The Little French Bistro to your challenge shelf?

thank you!