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

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

End of Part I

Finished those last few chapters quicker than I thought!!

Ok, initial thoughts- I’m still a bit confused as to how the whole Prelude connects to the prologue and the current story. But with these big fantasy books I don’t like to overthink things and just wait for the pennies to drop! The interludes at the end of this part were also interesting for that reason.

Shallan - she is out of her comfort zone and I don’t think she will go through with her plan. She may discover this life with Jasnah to be a better idea than going back home.

Kaladin- what a character! And I am fascinated with Syl also. Looking forward to how this plays out. He seems to have inordinate levels of good luck….

Part 1

Here I thought I had done good progress but I’ve only just finished chapter 8 🤭🤣

I’m really enjoying it even though it is a slow read to start with trying to get my head around the character names and the places (not helped I’m sure by me being unwell the last week).
I tried the audio but the narration is not doing it any favours. The female narrator sounds like an AI bot and I actually couldn’t listen to her chapters at all. The male narrator is ok but I find it confusing as I’m not really across the character names yet.
So I’m reading slowly via my kindle. Hoping to get this first part done soon and then maybe try the audio from part two

Sammy wrote: "#146

This one had been sitting in my 'currently reading' for two and a half years. I ditched it during a team challenge in 2022 because it was really slow going..."

That’s been on my list for so long…. And I have the paperback and audio

Well done Carmen!

Cat wrote: "https://www.theguardian.com/books/pic...

If only this existed!"


Amazing! 😊

🤦‍♀️

Thank you all! I’ve enjoyed playing and getting to know you all 🎉

Eldarwen wrote: "Between a 3 and 4 star somewhere.

It's a fable and reads like one as well, so not the greatest literary work vocabulary-wise but so much truth about society."

I quite enjoyed it! And if you read Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life it’s an interesting look into his life and the input his wife likely had in the writing of Animal Farm

Sammy wrote: "#144

The very first book I added to my GR TBR when I joined back in 2014.

And I loved it!!

A sense of achievement in crossing off the oldest book, plus the j..."

Nice!!

New District Wheel

District 13 was in charge of nuclear weaponry

BOMB in title
orange colour cover (50%+)
#13 in series
orange text on cover
item related to district on the cover
author first & last initials in NUCLEAR WEAPONRY
set in United States (50%+)
plot element that can be linked to the district

Andy wrote: "finished one for WOOD in title - so we should be good for another District Wheel!"

Great!

I’ve finished my book 7 in a series 😊
That will be my last for the challenge

Sammy wrote: "Karen, thank you for the Sally Hepworth rec! I just finished The Good Sister and enjoyed it very much. 😁"


Great!

I’m currently reading a book 7 - I’ll just need to motor to get it done so if someone is faster that’s ok

New District Wheel is District 7 - lumber

WOOD in title
brown colour cover (50%+)
#7 in series
brown text on cover
item related to district on the cover
author first & last initials in LUMBER FORESTRY
set in Finland or Sweden (50%+)
plot element that can be linked to the district

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "I just finished the last book for the District Wheel, so we can request another one."

Thanks! Have requested

Keely wrote: "As some of you have mentioned it happening to yourselves, Battle Games has almost put a hold on me getting anything read from my TBR. My TBR has even gone up again as I acquired some new books on m..."

May need some hard core deleting :o

Tricia wrote: "I'm struggling with The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware. I'm 30% in and don't like the main character at all. She's neurotic, immature, and an alcoholic. I don't mind evil MCs, or morally gray MCs, ..."

I read it in 2017 so I don’t remember specifics, but I gave it 3.5 stars. so if you’re not feeling it now, I don’t think it was amazing enough to continue. I do remember doing it as a group read and a number of people being underwhelmed

Andy wrote: "found one I should be able to start and finish today that works for
DW1G set in Australia (50%+)

unless Karen you're likely to finish today, we could swap one in?"

Just finished the Australia book. Sorry had an all day strategy session and couldn’t update earlier

Laurie B wrote: "I finally read the comment last night that the one female triathlete said afterwards about seeing and feeling something in the water she didn't want to think too hard about...🤢"

Haha
Omg loving these comments - giving me the giggles! But I do also feel for them - that water did look revolting