Monica’s Comments (group member since Dec 31, 2017)

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

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B - Sunshine
R - Patty
A -Tahmina
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I - Pendra William Shakespeare's The Clone Army Attacketh by Ian Doescher
L - Monica (me!) Lovecraft Country - by Matt Ruff

Who is our Team Captain? Do we get co-pilots and flight attendants, too? :p

If we only have a week to get this done, we should decide soon!

I don't really even know what spell out is, but I'd prefer we read something set in the country we're *visiting.*

Just to clarify - once the type of book is chosen - we all get to read different books that match the topic, or do we all read the same book?

Hello! So excited to be here!

I like Gone with the Books also - it does happen to resonate with my favorite book ever! :)

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Duration: January 8, 2018 to January 9, 2019

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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell



From the author of the New York Times bestseller Eleanor & Park. A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love.

Cath is a Simon Snow fan.

Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan...

But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.

Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words... And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?

And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault by James Alan Gardner



Monsters are real.
But so are heroes.

Sparks are champions of weird science. Boasting capes and costumes and amazing super-powers that only make sense if you don't think about them too hard, they fight an eternal battle for truth and justice . . . mostly.

Darklings are creatures of myth and magic: ghosts, vampires, were-beasts, and the like. Their very presence warps reality. Doors creak at their approach. Cobwebs gather where they linger.

Kim Lam is an ordinary college student until a freak scientific accident (what else?) transforms Kim and three housemates into Sparks--and drafts them into the never-ending war between the Light and Dark. They struggle to master their new abilities--and (of course) to design cool costumes and come up with great hero-names.

Turns out that "accident" was just the first salvo in a Mad Genius's latest diabolical scheme. Now it's up to four newbie heroes to save the day, before they even have a chance to figure out what their team's name should be!

I've just discovered this group, and I'm excited to jump in with this fun sounding book! Huzzah!

I would love to join.

(I missed the cut-off for Cut-throat bookclub, but I am so delighted to have found this corner of GoodReads! :) )

I'm ready to travel, as soon as 8 other people are! :)