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

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

Hi team 👋

Just checking in - I’m currently in Brisbane (affectionately known as Brisvegas) and heading home tomorrow night.
Full on work days here and my brain is fried but I finished a book and have only two hours of audio in my chunkster to go. Yay . Then I’ll see what I can find for those mini gaps :)

Luke Evans :)

I am here 👋 just a busy weekend with bday stuff.

I have tried to update the surname to Abé but I’m not sure GR will get the difference and display it - but as her name is spelt that way on the cover it is ok for the task

May update

congrats to those 41% and above - you are on track for the year!

and...We still have many months for all of us to get above the line :)

Name		% Progress to goal
Gwen|| Bookish 	104%
Marla		100%
Gabby		97%
✨ Brianna Raquel ✨	93%
Melindam	85%
Sammy		84%
MelanieJoy 	80%
♞ Pat		79%
Cordelia	78%
Christina	75%
Karen ⊰✿		75%
Karen ♐		74%
Kellie		71%
Cindy		70%
Sophie		70%
Jim		69%
Keely		68%
Janis		68%
Kamaria		64%
Angie ☯		62%
Sophie (mod)	60%
Keli		58%
Joyce		56%
Jenny		56%
Jessica		53%
KelB		53%
Patty		53%
Judy		52%
Charlie		50%
Jessica (Gold	50%
Jenner		48%
Laurie B	47%
Rocsana		47%
Lexi		45%
Cat		43%
Elena		41%
Vicki Willis	41%

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The other Sandy	40%
Annalisa	37%
Jillypenny	35%
Tricia		35%
Pandamunky	33%
Trisha		29%
Elia		28%
Insiyah		28%
Maritza		28%
Eldarwen	28%
Roe		24%
LaurLa		23%
Linda C		20%
Chrissie	17%
LittleRedRidingHood	17%
Yasmine		17%
Carmen		13%
Jenn 		10%
Kim		10%
Michael		10%
Heather		9%
Jamila		6%
Cass☀️			5%
Rachel D.	5%
Amanda		5%
Beth (Jasonverlander)	4%
Sheri		4%
Karolyn		3%
Melanie		3%
Sarah (addtomytbr)	2%

Coops!

Sammy wrote: "Well he wouldn't say "awesome" 😆"

🤣🤣

Sammy wrote: "While I can certainly appreciate both, it's Reynolds for me. mostly because he's a dork 😆"

Omg I knew you would be mean but this is next level.

Of course I have to go with Gosling but it makes me feel like I am killing a puppy

Melindam wrote: "Maybe this category is a sign that I should really/truly/finally listen to Little Dorrit. 🤭"

I love all this chat about Dickens. Where is E? It is her favourite author 🤭🤣

tough
I'm with Channing Tatum today

Tricky!
(this is what happens when you make the themes in Dec and forget about what is coming up lol)


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edit - failed this one


Total audiobooks read this year: 43 (end of May was 32)

who knew it would be such a thing? lol

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Cornucopia is the new "vinegar" - you'll never stop seeing it again!"

🤣🤭

Heath

So tragic 🥲

Andy wrote: "next week I must pick up

Belgian White Chocolate & Raspberry Cookies


I know, I know,
its missing "U", but these are the sacrifices I'm willing to make for this team"

🤣🤣

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "I found another horn, thanks Jean for the idea.. horned alien (space smut) delivers again.. 😁"

🤣 love your space smut. Just keeps on giving in challenges

Sammy wrote: "Is this even a contest? Idris Elba, of course!"

Ditto!

Andy wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Andy wrote: "Ashley wrote: "@Andy!
The book you added for CORNUPIA doesn't have a U in the title/subtitle!"

Nooooo!!
😭"

I looked like 4 times! 😭And I foudn the U"

it could not be T-R-U-E 🧐
(thought I was losing it there for a minute)

..."


LOL
you guys made me almost spit out my tea

Judy wrote: "Did anyone else flinch at "the idea that Mr Rochester could've been there on the night I was conceived was both mortifying and... intriguing” (or whatever it was, I don't have a physical copy to do..."

🤢🤮🥴

DQs – Day 3 Protective Impulses-Pert Thing

11. What do you think about the revelation in the garden/the haunting? Did you see it coming, and do you think there are others involved with the “curse”?

I thought it was pretty obvious that she would be the one haunting. The whole arranged marriage / they all die young thing seems a bit flimsy

12. What do you think about Mr. Rochester sending away Jane and the staff? If you have read the original, how does this change Jane’s agency, and do you like the change? Either way, why do you think the author made it Mr. Rochester’s choice?

I lost any enjoyment of the book (not that I had a huge amount) at this point. That is Jane's character and strength in the original that she makes her own decision.

13. Have you ever visited an Apothecary’s Garden? Would you be interested in seeing one? Do you grow any herbs or are you interested in growing any?

No, but it sounds super interesting. I visited gardens in Thailand last year where the locals grow all their local produce and then we cooked it up. That was great

14. What do you think about the scene with Miss Ingram? What does this tell you about Mr. Rochester’s character and did that seem consistent with his character so far? Did his explanation make sense to you?

Urgh. I found the insta-love with Jane and Rochester quite irritating. From here on in the book was a toil

Have to go with the classic Newman