Karen ⊰✿’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2012)

Karen ⊰✿’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

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Nice one Mel!

Lovely - enjoy Lisa!

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For me it is Meg Ryan's hair. I can't believe I still come across it a few times a year and get quite excited 🤣

Wooot!
Excited to join

Sure 👍

Richard wrote: "I haven't seen a place where I can add my books, other than just putting them on my shelf. I guess...here?

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I've now added to our planning sheet.
You can use that or post here :)

I finished my book that I had started before the challenge, so am now into my U book.
I also intend to buddy read a chunkster with Eldarwen (Words of Radiance) so I'll add some other little books in a long the way so I can keep contibuting. To that end I also started Hard Eight. Not just a super fun series but completely different to Branden Sanderson which will be a nice break in between 😂

Eldarwen wrote: "Shall we create a BR thread for the next book?"

Yes :)
When would you like to start? I just need a few days to finish my U book 😂

Re: Seth
(view spoiler)[ I think there is the potential here for him to not be bound by the oathstone. Perhaps it can be destroyed by Kalladin? Or perhaps he can free himself (the same way he could once not walk on stone but now can). I am so intrigued by him. (hide spoiler)]

Re: Elhokar
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I'm not sure that the wife / daughter would get the throne under their rules. They haven't really said but I've only heard about Kings so far.
That is why I would think that Dalinar would be able to lay claim (I remember that there was something about he could have when the father - his brother - died and he chose not to? Maybe I'm remembering wrong. (hide spoiler)]

Melindam wrote: "Relieved I'm not the only one who finds it hard to fill the before-challenge reading gap.

As the challenge starts 10pm my time and am not a night-owl person, I don't think I'll be starting anythin..."

It's always hard that day before. I am still finishing two books which means I need to push myself today to get at least one done. The other is a non-fiction that I just read a little bit of before I go to work each day so it will just hang around for another week or two. But If I can get through Lion in the Valley today than I will start my U book today also :)

I had my kids birthday party yesterday and so got nothing done (apart from running around and wrangling kids!) so I'm looking forward to a lazy Sunday today

Eldarwen wrote: "I diiiid!
And in the year it was supposed to be read as well!
What a novelty :-p"

haha! true!

Eldarwen wrote: "Finiiiiiiished!
Can absolutely understand why you want to know right away how this continues. I do, too!
Sometimes, it's a good idea not to read series as soon as they are published haha. Otherwise..."

Sadeas - completely agree!! (view spoiler)[ and the whole 'unite them' that Dalinar took to also mean trying to make alliances. I wonder if that is something to do with the shard blades themselves being united together again. Or maybe it is about the Parshmen / Parsendi?...
Anyway I was so disappointed with Sadeas, and you're right, this also impacts on the relationship of Dalinar and Adolin. Although I really like how that is progressing and I think Adolin is a "good one" (hide spoiler)]

Shallan - (view spoiler)[ yes you're right, a stop to find out more about her father would make perfect sense. I also want to know more about the nature of his death and if her brothers know. (hide spoiler)]

Dalinar - (view spoiler)[ He is awesome. On some level he doesn't yet understand he knows the shard blade is not the answer. We saw glimpses of this when he was killing and then he suddenly was horrified by what he had done and the black smoking eyes. We know Kalladin also can't/won't touch them so somehow the shardblades corrupt? (hide spoiler)]

Parshendi - (view spoiler)[ Can't wait to find out more about this and how the Parshmen are related. Their shardbearer too.... Is that what has made them seem to be slightly different beings to Parshmen? (hide spoiler)]

Seth - (view spoiler)[ and his master are super interesting and some of that research into the last words will be relevant to all these visions. Somehow it is all coming together for people to remember the history they have forgotten. I'd like for Seth to end up being on the "good" side.
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Renarin - (view spoiler)[ I like your theory. I am one of those people who has written him off as the "other" son. You're right it is too deliberate to not mean something down the track.... (hide spoiler)]

Elhokar - (view spoiler)[ I *loved* that scene where Dalinar showed him how easily he could be killed. I suspect Elhokar will be killed or disappear in the next book and then maybe we end up with two factions with both Danilar and Sadeas claiming themselves King?..... (hide spoiler)]

Woohoo E! You finished 🎉

Melindam wrote: "What You Are Looking For Is in the Library is also on my wish-list, I hope I'll get to that soon. 😊
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oh that does look good. I've reserved it too ;)

Yes - I totally didn’t see that coming E! You’re better at predicting than me 🤣🤣

Eldarwen wrote: "I'll join for book 2!!

I just need to pace it a little bit as I need to read a 500 pager for book club at the end of the month as well so I won't be as quick as I've been with this."

Sounds good! I’m a slow reader anyway and need to wait for wheels to start 😊

🎨 3 all-time favourite books or series you'd recommend

So hard! If I had to choose over the last few years it would be:
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
If I Had Your Face
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience


🥽 2 books you loved/liked the most from your 2024 reads
AH! Stop it!
I'll go with

Anatomy of a Soldier
The Way of Kings

🖌️ A book you are looking forward to reading

Words of Radiance
(cheating as I just finished book 1, but it was SO GOOD)

Richard wrote: "My first 2 chunky books will be:

Horror Films of the 1980s - 1,615 pages
UXL Encyclopedia of World Mythology - 1,231 pages

Will we need to strategise or say what l..."


For the UXL Encyclopedia we need to add a page count to GR and I can't find it on sites that GR considers acceptable (https://help.goodreads.com/s/article/...)

Do you have "An individual user's scans or photos, taken of books they own or have in their possession OR
A screen capture of an ebook cover for that specific edition"

Then I can add the page count into GR. Otherwise it won't count for the challenge :(