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

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

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Day 5: Chapters 40 - 56

20. Cade goes to each of the other travellers and has final words with them. Do you think he learned any new information about his travellers? Or did he learn something about himself?
Hmmm. I don't think there was much learning at all actually! I'll be interested to see what others thought

21. The journey to The Seven Brothers is full of many challenges. Did this journey remind you of any other quest you've read?
I think it is typical for this kind of story, but it didn't seem like a main focus

22. We now find out about the Pandorals, how they were using The Seven Brothers as vessels. Quite interesting how this was accomplished. Did this surprise you how they were formed ? What did you think of why they came to acquire the red soil?
It was all pretty disgusting. Especially those bugs out of the mouths!

23. It was determined that Cade be the one to use the apparatus. What attunement do you think he chose?
That fortune / luck one?

24. What was your overall impression of this story? What was your favorite part of the story? Will you read the next in the series or try one of the authors other series
I loved Greatcoats and this is a pale comparison. I still enjoyed it, though, despite it's flaws. I think the audio added something perhaps. I was surprised to see so many of us really dislike it :o

Preeti wrote: "Having finished both the book and the movie (I watched it last night), I am rearing to get into book 2. I had completely forgotten that the entire Avox storyline was removed from the movie. That wa..."

Oh yes me too. When the Avox appeared here it jolted me a bit and I wondered why I had forgotten. That’s the answer! It was cut from the movie

Eldarwen wrote: "That paperclip was horrendous!! It annoyed the hell out of me hahaha.

But spot on with that meme, Laurie! ;-)"

Haha yes!

I’ve never watched that show! Will add to my list.

Killian Jones for me

I use AI continually at work now. I can’t imagine not having a paid Chat GPT account - as soon as I subscribed I realised the ENORMOUS difference between it and the free version and I would say it has freed up at least a half day of work every week for me, but I’ve also reduced the work of my outsourced copyrighter and VA so that $30 per month for CGpt has saved me over $500 each month in their costs.

Ashley wrote: "Honestly, I might just start signing off all my email "With righteous indignation""

lol!
Love it 🤭

Andy wrote: "this must be so difficult Cass, figuring out where AI is being used for essays"

I agree! That must be super hard. Well done for getting all Nancy Drew on them

Ashley wrote: "Karen! Next week is my birthday too! Mine is the 29th! I always enjoy finding birthday buddies!

Love your "isolated" garden Andy!!

I'll check in later with my one thing... So far nothing interes..."

Woohoo. Happy birthday Gemini 🎉

Eldarwen wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Oh do tell - what’s the stamp order?"

Postal stamps, lots and lots of them. I think I'll have enough to last me for at least two years now haha. I may have gone overboard... but t..."

Oh so you don’t collect them but use them to post letters? That’s cool!
I collected stamps as a kid (which was well before the internet!) and I probably still have books of them in the garage somewhere. I used to love buying stamps from overseas and imagining all of those far away countries 😊

Andy wrote: "here comes my "helper" to see what I'm doing

luckily I'm here by myself, so no-one can see that she has freedom of the garden and I'm shut in the dog-run 😳

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Love it!

Eldarwen wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: " Tell me one thing about your day that I wouldn't already know?"

I'm going to the post office later today to pick up my enormous stamp order!! :-D"

Oh do tell - what’s the stamp order?

Thanks Andy!

Oh that sounds very cool. Makes me think of Clarkson’s Farm 😊

Melindam wrote: "And the people living in the Capitol, accepting or ignoring or craving the price others' pay for their entertainment...

Well, Terry Pratchett says it all and says it so much better than I ever ca..."

👏👏👏

Melindam wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Did make me wonder though.... It has been over 10 years since I read these... were there ever mentions of people running away before the reaping or taking their own life during the..."

I thought the same - The Capitol would go for the family - but surely there would be kids doing it anyway?

Melindam wrote: "Base on this discussion thread, this is one of the books I decided to recommend to D when he gets old enough. So many thins to contemplate."

For sure. My kids want to read them and I said they can but not yet. A few more years 😊 Then I’ll probably re-read again with them

Melindam wrote: "I guess also the fact that my son is 10 years old and I just couldn't help drawing parallels and thinking about sending children (no matter their age) to be killed and forcing parents and siblings ..."

Absolutely! Actually J saw me reading Hunger Games the other day and he said "isn't that Squid Game for teenagers?" and then we started a whole conversation about it. He said that if he was chosen he would just run and hide because he wouldn't want to kill anyone or be killed. I said that would be a great idea (and didn't tell him how the game makers would find a way to kill him).
Did make me wonder though.... It has been over 10 years since I read these... were there ever mentions of people running away before the reaping or taking their own life during the games rather than participating?

Hello hello 💛

What a week.

Funny how a pandemic changes us.

I had 3 days in the city this week and I am wrecked. Haven't done that since 2019 🤣
It was great to see people and feel "normal" but also means that I don't have a whole lot of down time for fun things like goodreads ;)
Although I did finish the cutest Chirstina Lauren book. I actually downloaded it for UNO due to the lovely yellow cover and then didn't get to it. And I decided it looked pretty good for the train this week.

I'm almost done with The Malevolent Seven and I have salt & bone on audio and kindle ready to go.
I still need to fit in my IRL book club book, The Work in there somewhere before starting Catching Fire. Ah. #firstworldproblems

Next week is my birthday so we have some dinners and things set up, the week after I fly to Brisbane for work, and the week after that to Bali. It is going to be rather hectic but I will read as much as I can on the planes and check in to let you know how I am going in between 😊😊

In the meantime, there's a question I ask my son every day after school that I'd like to ask you all....
which is Tell me one thing about your day that I wouldn't already know? (for example, I know you are on GR otherwise you wouldn't be reading this post. And.... go....

Melindam wrote: "Just reached the hardest part. RUE...
am on the commute train and hardly keep from crying.... and then when Catniss gets the bread from a starving District 11 is making me want to cry even more :'..."

Omg.
Heart breaking.
I don't know what it is that makes it so bloody emotional seeing that we really don't know Rue (no more than Katniss did), so it is definitely kudos to the author to make those tears flow... even when we know it is coming! Ah!

Starling House has an 8 week wait and Wishing Game isn't at my library.
Will see how I go as we get closer to the start dates!