Zoë’s Comments (group member since Apr 30, 2019)

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

Selection Post:
Book:
Qualification for #7: 7th in series

Zuza if you could find the farm/ranch one (#9) I could do 7th in a series probably. I was just hating the one I chose and couldn’t find anything else! And let’s see between the four of us who can fit in #10!! If anyone finds something, let’s make sure to post ASAP so we know :)

Looks like the cut off time is 2 days and 9 hours from now. So whatever we think we can get done.

Completion post
Book:
Qualification: #8 - author is from Spain
Rating: 3 stars
Review: I’m not sure if this was a struggle for me because I was distracted this week or because it was actually this confusing. I felt like I didn’t fully understand who people were throughout the book. I did enjoy the premise but it never felt like it came together.

Yeah Zuza, looks like it. I don’t know if I’ll be able to finish for Sunday evening either, if that’s when it ends. I still have two books to go and I might finish one but not the other. :( We can definitely try the spell it outs next week though and see where we get. :)

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Book:
Rating: 4 stars
Qualification for #3: Has 261 pages
Date read: 9/23

Book:
Rating: 4 stars
Qualification for #1: Main characters are POC
Date read: 9/24

Finished the latter book and realized that the library had the e published date a day off. Uugghhh thank goodness it covers another one we needed though. I’m gonna update my post above!

Selection Post

#3
#8
#1
#4

They posted for round four! We can start in ten hours :) Figured I’d post it, Kerri, since I was here. ^_^

10 with something prickly/spiky on the cover (e.g. Echidna)
9 with a character who lives on a farm/ranch
8 written by a author from the Mediterranean
7 that is #7 or higher in a series
6 tagged MPG Adventure
5 from the I Only Watched the Movie list
4 first published on the 4th of a month
3 that has between 250 and 300 pages
2 with a perpetually grumpy/grouchy/bitchy character
1 with a non-Caucasian main character

Oh okay! Well we can try for whatever we can do. :)

Yay! We finished Flowers!

Sarah - do you want to take next week off and see if you still want to participate? I read a ton so you don’t need to, if you need the time. Though I think everyone is required to read to get full points? Kerri - is that correct? Do what you need to do Sarah - there are people who still want to join a team too, I think, so don’t feel like you have to for us!

Completion Post
Book:
Qualification: Author first name begins with "L"
Rating: 3 stars
Review: It's YA supernatural fiction, y'all. I feel lik it would've been much better had she or her friend had actually called out the guys for being super creepy and possesive. Like maybe just once "Hey dudes, I don't belong to anyone but myself, but thanks". But the romance piece, I know is juvenile, but I still think that it then, in turn, teaches young adults/teens/middle graders that certain things in relationships are okay. Anyway, the story itself is fun and the writing isn't bad. Would've received aother star had they just once acknolwedged the above.

I can read for “L” now too

Selection post

Qualification: Author name begins with “L”

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Book:
Qualification: Title starts with “W”
Rating: 3 stars
Review:
Well this was....odd it wasn’t bad. I enjoyed it while listening. But the ending felt abrupt to me. And there were definitely a few content warning moments. Nothing that went so far to make me put it down though. More like hints of things. Anyway, interesting but not te best ever.

Oh and Zuza, if you want to participate in the Monthly discussion for Recursion then we could get some Regenration points too! But no pressure. :)

Selection Post for W:

Book: Wonderblood
Qualification: Title begins with W

Awesome!!

I finished F, and E. I will start on W now and if Sarah can't do L, I'll see if I can fit it in before they call it!

(small little) Completion Post x 2

Book: The Fire

Book: Joy For Beginners

So I think I can do W and E as well. Hopefully we have enough time! :) So could everyone do one book each you think? L, O, and R? Or if there’s a W or E that you’re itching to read let me know. I have a bunch to choose from right now. My holds at the library are coming in all at once!

Just found this:

HINT: As group 3 is so broad, you’d only get into group 3 if you had finished 1 or 2 (or decided not to do one or both of them).

So as long as we don’t do Safezones 1 and 2, we are good.

Okay I figured I would go ahead and find a word that works with a book I just finished outside of this group and the one I just started. So I started spelling out FLOWERS. I have F and S covered. Can anyone else add in their round 1 books to that or read a book that works for L-O-W-E-R?

Thanks Moderators!

Team - I’m thinking we do safezone books and apply whatever we’ve been working to finish towards those, if possible, since they are worth more points anyway. What do y’all think?