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

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

I’ve not heard of them Vikki (but I’m so out of date with music!!) I’m playing them on my Amazon music app now. Can totally imagine that being a great concert!

Good morning all

So lovely to see you all - some new faces and some old friends!

I’m from Sydney, Australia where I run my own consulting business and I have two kids who are just this week turning 8 and 11.
I used to read a lot but these days it is more audio in-between other things and my kindle if I happen to be commuting into the city. Since COVID I don’t do that as much - most of our clients now prefer remote support. I did take an office space in 2021 as I got sick of working from home but if I go there I drive as it isn’t too far (and has free EV charging) or I ride my bicycle so only audiobooks for that commute!!
I read everything other than horror and I don’t typically read straight out romance. Like Lisa I enjoy the hunt for a book in challenges, though and have read some interesting ones over the years!!
Our team band was my choice (mod powers 😂) and I thought I’d go with a rock band with a Eurovision tie as that is my second great love of music haha. Growing up I loved the 80s/90s long hair rock like Poison, GNR, etc. my first ever concert was Alice Cooper!
My last concert was a while ago as it is hard with kids! Probably about 6 years ago and was Serj Tankian and possibly the best one I saw was when pregnant with my first child and it was Lenny Kravitz supported by The Cranberries (🥲) and Wolfmother. It was incredible!!

Oh and my guilty pleasure is Alone by Heart 🥰😊

Haha I love that Bonnie Tyler song too Lisa (shhh)

I finished my final book - 12/12 done for the year ! That’s the first time in a while I’ve completed this challenge!! I still have two books from 2013, though so I will try to get them done also

was my twelfth book which I read for the weighty time challenge. I really enjoyed it which of course brings its own issue as I now need to start the next book in the series haha

Yep you just made it Judy - nice work!

Finished!

Overall I really enjoyed this. Great world building, love the idea of the liveships and the characters were well put together. My only issue, is as above, in my own frustration with the role of womem but I also accept this was written at a time that doing otherwise may not have been commercially viable.

As for the ending (view spoiler)[
Man for almost 900 pages I wanted another 100. haha.
-Does Althea get back to Bingtown?
-Will Vivacia even want to see her?
-Does Kennit live? Will Vivacia break with so much trandition and expectation and 'bond' with him (can she?)
- Will Kyle get ehat he deserves? Or perhaps he already has with Kennit. Seems Marta will end up in the rainwilds so perhaps that along with Wintrow no longer being 'his son' is enough punishment?
- Etta is a sleeping lion. Will she be a threat to Vivacia somehow if she thinks Kennit gives the ship more attention?

Ah. I guess I need to start book 2

(hide spoiler)]

September success!!

Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 3
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2

Books in category:

FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 58 (was 55 end of August)
Audiobooks in monthly category read:

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

Gave a new perspective on Orwell and I learnt quite a bit about him and also his wife, Eileen, and it was great to reflect on the societal changes we have experienced since they were married

Christina wrote: "me talking about her in the Green Room thread that we ended up being Team POP, and with Delta Goodrem as our mascot. ..."


Yes it is. We thought you’d appreciate it 😊🥰

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Melindam wrote: "And the 2 books I just checked for ratings are 4.09 and 4.19. How frustrating is that?!!! lol

Checking my TBR, my choices seem rather limited. But so far, I have found 2 books that are just above ..."

Oh no - how annoying!!
Yes I agree it is hard to pick with wheel around the corner

Will be so interesting to see if they deserve the high rating ;)

Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 4
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2

Books in category:

FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 68 (was 58 end of Sept)
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 4

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why)

fantastic finale. Loved it. Actually have restarted book 1 now :o

Christina wrote: "Jhmingos wrote: "Christina wrote: "omg yay, I'm so excited!!!! and I do love music, especially live music, and had just been at one of the best concerts I've ever attended last week!! the possible ..."

🤭 love it.
I remember being at a local shopping centre about 20 years ago and there were people everywhere and some unknown called Deltora Goodrem from Neighbours was playing a concert in the middle of the centre 🤣

Cat - yes all very valid points. I am probably unfairly expecting a female author to have broken out of the trope - but at the time it just quite simply may not have sold books 🤷‍♀️
I am enjoying the book, it is just one of those things that really bothers me in fantasy where we should be able to make the world how we like and not how it is

chapter 26

Woohoo I’m on target!

Malta is a worry… (view spoiler)[ I already thought she’d end up in the rain wilds as payment but that now seems like a given as she accepted that dream box. She has so much of her father in her I guess. (hide spoiler)]

I am enjoying the development of Keffria and Ronica and how K is trying to find her place. Also the introduction of (view spoiler)[ policitical tensions and the bargains bingtown struck are adding layers to the story which I like - it’s not just shoved all in one chapter (hide spoiler)]

As for Althea… face palm at (view spoiler)[ giving her real name. And the story of her having to be a boy or otherwise all the men would treat her as a whore… I get a bit tired of these storylines. Surely fantasy is one genre where we can pretend the patriarchy and misogyny don’t exist?! I get frustrated that so many authors continue these themes in this genre when they can easily break from it. (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 19

Things are getting interesting! I'm still trying to picture the Vivacia and how she interacts with people seeing that she is a ship figurehead but also aware of everything within the ship. So interesting the development between her and Wintrow.

Getting close to catching up to the schedule now!! :o

I failed this one. Only read 4 books in August and they were all fairly recent :(

Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 3
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2

Books in category:

FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 58 (was 55 end of August)
Audiobooks in monthly category read:

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

Gave a new perspective on Orwell and I learnt quite a bit about him and also his wife, Eileen, and it was great to reflect on the societal changes we have experienced since they were married

Tati wrote: "no chance of anything wobbly, then?"

Blocks ears
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