Ashley’s Comments (group member since Apr 27, 2022)

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

Bernadette wrote: "Our new opponent is another 800+ book monster. Added to the SS.

Lernaean Hydra"

The book I should finish tonight will meet "MC has a sister"
NM! I see that's been finished already! We are the best! :)

Alaina wrote: "Dang. Well, I could potentially jump into an audiobook of either The Winds of War, War and Peace or The Stand."

Yikes! lol

Alaina wrote: "Can we read a collection for the 800+ page task? I could read The Conjurors Collection. It works for Turf Wars as well. If not, I can look elsewhere."

From what I understand of the rules, we can read an Anthology, but not a set/collection (those would need to be broken into separate books).

Ok, I updated the tracker with The Lightning Thief!

I may be feeling a bit competitive after snooping this afternoon. Some of the teams are KILLING IT!!!

Alaina wrote: "ooo the hatmakers is tagged witches-sorcerers-magic - would that work? I know that they used magic, but no one flat out called them witches."

ooooo.... i would think if we note the tags and the use of magic, that would be ok? Captains!! Can we defeat another monster!!??

Melissa wrote: "Is anyone else able to read an 800+ book? I do have another one I can read but it will take me a while since I want to get the BOM's finished first so I'll be at least 3 books away."

Melissa, should we take your 800 pg book off the tracker, so we know for sure that someone can read for it?

Alaina wrote: "If they still have their powers in the sequel, I'll know tomorrow, then I can knock the second one out. Unless someone else has a book that fits for it."

My guess is it's yours since we've had trouble finding one. I was trying to find one to meet the body of water AND sorceress tasks on an available audiobook but didn't manage before I had to leave the house. Oh well!

Alaina wrote: "Do we still need another sorceress book? If so, witches count right? I'm reading For the Wolf and one of the main characters has magical powers."

YES! We actually need 2!

Alaina wrote: "I finished my Zeus book :)"

Ready to see what new Monster we get!!

Bernadette wrote: "Do you think this will work for hard-headed? It's in the book I'm reading now....

"She may have married Frances for hardheaded reasons.""

I think it works. It describes the person's actions, and therefore the person, as hardheaded.

Alaina wrote: "Also, opened some wine to celebrate both defeating a monster and getting some good doggy news. What a day!"

I'm enjoying whatever that TikTok cocktail that's going around is.... Rainbow sherbert, malibu rum, limeade and sprite... It's like a summery-tipsy-float. DE-LISH!

And I'm about to be finished with The Lightning Thief! Woo!

Melissa wrote: "For Read a book with a map there needs to be an image of a map somewhere in the book. Does A Good Girl's Guide to Murder show an actual map? I forget."

It's in chapter 3
If you go to the Amazon sample, you can see it at about 89% in

Alaina wrote: "Dog update! The vet just called, and they confirmed that Bailey DOESN'T have diabetes. Phew! I feel like I need a celebratory drink right now."

So good to hear!

I'm going to go ahead with for the body of water. I don't think there is technically speaking any sorceresses (maybe mentioned, but not characters) but if I do come across I'll add it.

ETA: Will also work for T28 - Lightning on Cover

Oh geez! Ok, I think that'll make it easier to find something... let me get back to audiobook searching at the library!

Maybe a captain can way in on this...

I've noticed that some of the teams have mentioned specific witch types (ie "Bone Witch) in their Justification for the book to meet the sorceress task. Is this allowed, because it might make it MUCH easier to find a book to read. I just don't want to start something I didn't already plan to read and then have no use for it when I could have found something else.

Alternatively... would this book work for "body of water on cover" and "sorceress"


Because I can definitely get this one done ASAP!

Mamacita aka MawMaw wrote: "Immortals after Dark series by Kresley Cole has a sorceress but I don't remember which book has her as the main character. I also know at one point in the series, The Witches all get together and p..."

Dark Skye maybe??
(Also unavailable at the library!- I need a new library!)

Would this cover meet the "Read a book with a body of water on the cover" task?

Don't I wish!!