Tina ❣’s Comments (group member since Mar 09, 2016)

Tina ❣’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war—and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.

Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried—and some wounds aren’t meant to heal.

Lol thanks guys! Exam unit it is! xD

National Cheese Day Reading Challenge

COMPLETED

Start: 01/06/19
End: 30/08/19
Level: Mozarella
Read: 29/29

National Apple Pie Day Challenge

FINISHED

Start: May 1
End: June 30
Level: Pastry
Read: 8/8

I'm working as a medical receptionist whilst completing my degree. Message of the year from my doctors to me and everyone... 'Get your flu shot!'

Buuuutttt I hate needles


Or there's this one person in the group who contributes 5-10% and you only see them once. Twice if you're lucky

There There by Tommy Orange

Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking—Tommy Orange’s first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career.

There There is a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. It tells the story of twelve characters, each of whom have private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and unspeakable loss.

Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with stunning urgency and force. Tommy Orange writes of the urban Native American, the Native American in the city, in a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. An unforgettable debut, destined to become required reading in schools and universities across the country.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "❦ Tina ❣ wrote: "Oh CSU is a good uni isn't it?

Yay for psych! I'd prefer that over business haha

I think you'll be great though :P"

I study via distance and it is very good for that.
What are ..."

Definitely. I love online studying

Master in Public Health. I have 5 out of 16 units left. I started doing a major project this year (ethics, research, data collection and analysis then the thesis) but it got too much for me. ): Things happened that messed with me doing it.
So instead of the major project plus one unit, I'm going to do the 5 elective units now.

I'm trying to choose my last unit and can't decide on whether I should do a unit with an exam or with a group project! Haha
Any recommendations? xD

I volunteered as back up for this month's YA BOM

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

I'll be away for two weeks from 25th June to July 7th! So I'll miss out on July's first BOM

Oh CSU is a good uni isn't it?

Yay for psych! I'd prefer that over business haha

I think you'll be great though :P

I'll volunteer as back up for A Tangle of Gold! But Only for Days 1, 2 and 3 as I'll be traveling for Days 4 and 5

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Thanks Tina! Oh I wish that was an option. Unfortunately with post grad it is 4 assignments plus an exam for each subject. Thankfully after these exams I only have one more subject to go! Woot!"

Oh really? That's not what I have for my units in my post grad! Maybe it's different for each course and each uni?
Health at Deakin Uni is not that big on end of subject exams

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Hi Tina
I didn’t know what it was either!! Once I checked it out I realised I have actually read a few in the genre
http://goodreads.com/genres/space-opera

We could always use a chipmunk spin for..."

Oh wow. That's not what I was thinking - music in space! Haha

Cheers! I'll have a look and see if I have anything already

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "My shelf is Wheelathon4

Hello all!

So this is what it is like to be on a team with Europeans. I wake up to 54 unread posts. lol!
We've always tried to have Australia and Europe on different teams..."

Good luck with exams Karen! I hope you do well.
I choose units where we don't have to do exams. I can deal with the extra assignment :P

I hope we don't get space opera. I have no idea what that is and am kinda dreading it. I'll be okay with anything else though

My shelf link - > https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

DQ Day 1

1. When I started reading the book I thought that it was Achilles perspective. But it was Patroclus. What do you think of him as a minor character in the story we know, compared to being a major character in this story?

2. What do you think Achilles sees in Patroclus? Why him over the other boys?

3. Achilles has a different relationship with his father compared to him mother. What are your thoughts on the interactions we’ve seen Patroclus have with Pereus and Thetis? Why do you think Thetis had an opposition to Patroclus?

4. What do you think so far about the book? Do you know much of Achille’s stories and is this what you expect it to be so far?

Sorry guys! Questions will be coming soon!

:O

National Cheese Day Reading Challenge

Start: 01/06/19
End: 30/08/19
Level: Mozarella
Read: 29/29

Feta
Read: 4/4

F - Fairest by Chanda Hahn 12/07/19
E - When an Alpha Purrs by Eve Langlais 15/07/19
T - Twin Souls by K.A. Poe 08/07/19
A - The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli 21/06/19


Parmesan
Read: 8/8

P - His Banana by Penelope Bloom 17/06/19
A - Perfect Formation by K.B. Alan 21/06/19
R - Dust of My Wings by Carrie Ann Ryan 16/07/19
M - You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood 05/06/19
E - Half Wolf by Aimee Easterling 17/07/19
S - Ladies in Black: Film Tie-In of The Women in Black by Madeleine St. John 13/06/19
A - Flight by Alyssa Rose Ivy 29/06/19
N - Dry by Neal Shusterman 27/07/19


Belle Creme
Read: 10/10

B - In a Great Southern Land by Mary-Anne O'Connor 30/06/19
E - Inhibitions by Kimberly Bracco 30/06/19
L - When an Alpha Purrs by Eve Langlais 15/07/19
L - Long by B.B. Hamel 21/07/19
E - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 01/08/19

C - UnEnchanted by Chanda Hahn 11/07/19
R - Spinning Out by Lexi Ryan 25/07/19
E - Kiss of Fire by Rebecca Ethington 03/08/19
M - Heartaches and Christmas Cakes by Amy Miller 21/06/19
E - Scorched Treachery by Rebecca Ethington 05/08/19


Cheddar
Read: 7/7

C - Fable by Chanda Hahn 13/07/19
H - Forever by Chanda Hahn 14/07/19
E - Soul of Flame by Rebecca Ethington 08/08/19
D - The Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige 04/08/19
D - Yellow Brick War by Danielle Paige 07/08/19
A - Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte 02/07/19
R - Reign by Chanda Hahn 13/07/19

I'M GOING TO GET MY COPY TOMORROW!!!! Yay library! So I'm good for DQ!

The Kindle/Audible deals are different in Australia. We have no deals on for Kindle except the standard free month thingy. I'll get KU for the next Tower Teams :P