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

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

Sammy wrote: "#1 & 2 done! &

Not my favourite Dostoevsky to date, though not my least favourite eith..."

Well done! I think I've had my fill of Dostoevsky for a while. Def need to be in the right mood 😁

Keely wrote: "Same, LaurLa and Karen. That's why I'm partly going to focus on my Kindle books this year. I already know there are some of them that I will start and then delete because they don't seem worth my t..."

That’s what I found after the initial joy of free books. So many were terrible 😬😊

Beth wrote: "Question on task 3 "Read a book shelved (listed on the first page of the "top shelves" of the book) as dnf - plurals and minor spelling variations are acceptable":

Is it acceptable for the tag to ..."

Yes I am ok with that

Alison (Lady Coffin) wrote: "I'm in

Will try to get to at minimum - [bookcover:Magic Bites Dramatized Adaptation|1992..."

Oh! They would be super fun

LaurLa wrote: "I will sign up again! My goal will be 30 again - as always, working to remove some of the oldest on my TBR.

This year I will make it simple and just say my goal is to read 30 books that have been..."

Ah yes those Amazon freebies!! They are in the depths of my kindle somewhere 😂

Cat wrote: "Whooo-hoo!


When I reread that the other year I was laughing so much at the riverboat scene, and just imagining it on screen. but actually no! I like the City Watch in my head, not some weird inte..."

😂
I haven’t watched it either. I’m not sure I’m curious enough! The BBC adaptations of some of Pratchetts books have been great though

Thank you! 😍😊

I did it!
Oldest book on my TBR (from 2013) and on this challenge list for the last... 7 years? 😜
Not at all the book's fault, just that I wanted to do all the city watch series in order

I feel so accomplished!
Makes me kind of sad reading these though as Terry Pratchett was one of the good ones. Should have been in this world a lot longer

Sammy wrote: "I enjoyed this one last time!

But I'm in serious need of a challenge break, lol."

Me too. 😬 just focusing on my tbr closet for Jan

woot woot!

Vicki wrote: "Not sure what I did wrong, but I signed up for GOTM but linked it to the wrong challenge and now I can't find it. Is there a GOTM in this group?"

Not sure I know what rhat is.

If you go to the top right to your profile picture and click that and then comments.
Then you can check out your comments in different groups until you find it :)

I started from 2016 but after 90-ish pages I decided I didn’t want to keep going. So although I hate to do it, I bit the bullet and added it to my “gave up on” shelf! I won’t count it for this challenge though as I do want to actually read these oldies!
Started instead as Moyes’ books are always a lovely read

Congrats CiCi! 🥳

Lexi wrote: "I am right there with my last 2 non-classics ones. One is very YA and starts in a high school and the other is a YA fantasy book that seems very basic. I have started both but less than 10%. They a..."

I seemed to add a lot of YA back then! I think it was due to NBRC there were a lot of YA readers at the time that I was talking recs from. And when my kids were young they were perfect - don’t need to think reads. But I don’t really read much in that genre anymore

Suzanne wrote: "I was so horrible at tracking here - but I did keep the older books in mind and just entered the rest - I finished 52 out of my goal of 50 so yay!

Things I found:
I read zero from the first four ..."

Well done!
I’ve also found those older ones don’t necessarily suit my taste anymore either. I’ve become more ruthless at deleting 😬

I’m really happy with my challenge this year! I read the oldest book on my tbr (from 2013) and knocked out some other chunksters that have been sitting there for a while.
15/12 done AND my tbr actually went down by 10 to 347 as at the end of 2023 😊

Judy wrote: "I did iiiiiiiiiit!!!!! I've been doing this challenge every year since it first started and this is the first time I made it 🥳

#25 -

So so so so so go..."

Woohoo! Well done 👏

Finally!!
This has taunted me from my tbr for years. My oldest one (from 2013).


and I really enjoyed it! I will start book 2 soon and then wait like everyone else to see if book 3 is ever released.....

Jenny wrote: "I guess I never quite understand or forgive some of the choices that moviemakers decide on when they are adapting a book to the screen. Moving the battle with Shelob from Towers to Return, I get.
H..."

Haha now I’m going to be watching those coffee cups 🤭

I agree there would have been lots of people wanting to play Elizabeth. I guess I would continue on if I loved the book, but… too many other things to watch!!
I did just finish Scrublands tv series and it was great. Probably also as it has been a few years since I read the book so I didn’t really remember the mystery

Sammy wrote: "I'm going a little overboard this year... still checking books off the list even though I've completed my goal, lol.

#132 - this year's weighty tome. Managed to get..."

Oh yes Chocolat is so much better as a film! Same with The Elegance of the Hedgehog