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

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

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Am I the only person who loves cheese, but not halloumi. I think it is so bland and tasteless my husband argues it's how it's prepared?

Any tips on how to make it more to my taste?"

Make sure it is thickly sliced and in a hot pan so you get crispy on the outside and not on the inside. I love it with chilli oil 😋

6 hours and 15 minutes from now until round 2 starts

Richard, Kylie and I are all at our max cap

Lisa, you have 2 more max
Elisabeth, one more max

everyone else is safe unless you read a book and hour 😂

New tasks

63 Read a book that is an against all odds / survival story
65 Read a book with a famous landmark on the cover

I’ve also started for a book with the text that starts with “one”

I've found Flesh and Bone and Water from the library for "23 Read a book which has the main location (setting) on the South American continent" which has been hanging around for a while!

Elisabeth wrote: "I’d say world domination is hardest of those options. Does multiple generations mean a family saga type thing or where the characters are from different generations as in, grandparents, children an..."

I would see multiple generations as it covers a timeline of multiple generations. So it may explore the lives of grandparents, and then the parents and children across a timeline. Kind of like the Rutherfurd books.
Or in my book we go back thousands of years and it goes through different permentations of the people of the country of Roshar across generations

Thanks, Lisa and Tina!

I finished

and with that the first 5 book arc of the series 🤗 phew

It does work for:
40 Read a book which has several locations, none for over 50% of the book
43 Read a book with a character who desires world domination
and
58 Read a book that covers multiple generations

Not sure what we think is more difficult to read for that I should assign to it?

I finished!

The End

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Although I know there are still 5 books to go I have to say I expected more to be tied up by the end of this one. So much is still massively up in the air, and overall I have finished with a sense of sadness and exhaustion at the thought of what is ahead.

I really wanted Shallan and Adolin back together by the end of the book. And.. is Sanderson suggesting she is pregnant or am I reading too much into it?

Kalladin... I think this made me even sadder than Dalinar. Although I guess Kal will come back eventually

Wit and the Dawnshard and Sigzil... oh boy

I thought we would have more with Venli and the Singers coming together with the Humans. I guess we have to wait

and although Odium is not in the position he expected to be ; I had hoped for him to be more contained by the end of this book. And the sneaky little sod with Karabrath.....

That is all for now. I just feel really sad about this ending. (hide spoiler)]

Update

Cheese is complete! We also have some new tasks

Mini 1 - countries
Countries we have read twice
Afghanistan
Cuba
Fiji
Ghana
Israel
North Korea
Poland
Romania
Rwanda
Sweden
Thailand
Zambia
-we are in our 6th itinerary-

Mini 2 - tasks
Open:


23 Read a book which has the main location (setting) on the South American continent
40 Read a book which has several locations, none for over 50% of the book
43 Read a book with a character who desires world domination
44 Read a book that is in the Foreign Lands List: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/5... (Elisabeth can read for this if needed)
55 Read a book where the first word of the text is "One"
57 Read a book with MPG Travel
58 Read a book that covers multiple generations
62 Read a book tagged "Fun" at least 10x
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fun


Tina reading for 60 Read a book tagged "Education" at least 10x https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... and
61 Read a book that is in the Food for the Soul List
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...



Mini 3 - Wheel

United Kingdom:

WW5 umbrella on cover

WW8 N
WW10 T
WW12 D
WW15 N
WW17 D


Mexico:
WW185 character eats mexican food
WW187 letters AZTEC in title (any order)
WW188 "Day of the Dead" mentioned or celebrated
WW192 I


Lisa reading for WW186 character visits a (coral) reef, WW183 - author born in Mexico and WW194 O


Banked books - if any of these are yours please check if they may work for any of the open mini 2 tasks:

Hammersteins: A Musical Theatre Family	Richard
Undistracted				Richard
A Complicated Man			Richard
Psycho Shifters				Tina
The Butcher's Theater			Chava

chapter 129 opening (view spoiler)[
Omg I feel so stupid. Of course this book is named after kaladin and Szeth and of course they come the Knight of Wind and Knight of Truth 🤦‍♀️🤣 (hide spoiler)]

Predictions for the end

Ok, so here are mine. Starting with yours Judy...

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Syl - I agree she will be corporeal but I think there will be a way for her to be separate from Kaladin. They will still have a bond, but not as it is. I don't think I want the romance to occur as they both need to move on and make their own choices as individuals.
But I don't see how Kal could ever be with anyone with Syl still around which is why I think she will go - perhaps to another realm even.
Maya - returns, but I have no idea about this one and what it means for all of those spren.
Dalinar - I think he will take on Honor's power but in a different way? Maybe he becomes more like the stormfather. I don't want him to die or lose his humanity as I like him and Navani.
Renarin and R'lain - so we have those visions of them together. This could be about what is about to happen on Roshar (more below)
Szeth becomes the new Herald but relinquishes the power? somehow? Don't know.

Ok, so the games Adolin and Yanagawn. .... Y lost because he thought he was powerful and couldn't be beaten, but the two "weaker" players joined up and beat him. When Adolin explained this to him that seemed to be a big clue that the humans and singers (because Venli is still out there doing something!) will come together and blindside Odium to be able to win.

I have no idea what this all means for Shallan - who has taken quite a back seat in the last few days - or Lift.
There seem to be so many threads still around for only 300 pages remaining.
But I guess that is the point of books 6-10 😂 (hide spoiler)]

Elisabeth wrote: "Finished my book Precipice pubbed in August 2024. It was interesting. Set just before and during WW1 and is a fictionalised historical about the true and bizarre infatuation PM Asq..."

Wow
And that was back when they were paper letters. Imagine all the information available today that people think they “delete” that may come back in years to come….

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Yay, Got picked for DQ's for the next BOM - "

🎉 nice one 🥳

End of day 9 and interludes

I agree Judy - so much going on it’s hard to know what to say!!

(view spoiler)[ I agree I’m starting to understand the world more and I like the Honor POV and finally finding out what happened.

Jasnah’s duel… her arrogance got the better of her. She should have known it was set up in a way she could not win. I understand Fen’s choice although I think assigning your people to slavery forever (no
matter how favourable the terms) is a big step!

Mishram does seem to be key. As is Dalinar who was being held by Honor in the realm and not Odium… curious.

You got it right about Nale and Ishar but I don’t think Szeth becomes Honor - he would become the head of the Heralds I believe.

I want to know about what Maya is doing too!!

And oh Sigzil. That was devastating. I hope he can find his spren and they can somehow coexist like Adolin and Maya.
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New tasks

57 Read a book with MPG Travel
58 Read a book that covers multiple generations
59 Read a book set in your home state/country

It became too difficult over the years to differentiate as there are some biographies that are factual versus others that read more like a story and used to always cause lots of questions in the captains group.
So we just went with a blanket basis that nonfiction doesn't have characters, including memoir/ biogs. Etc

Vi wrote: "End of Day 6.
Ch 75: [spoilers removed]

Dalinar and Storm father[spoilers removed]

Odium.... you said it better Karen. Fully invested but I also have to read for TT. Conundrums!"

I agree with you around ch75 and I’m not sure that your pondering over the stormfather is that far fetched. (view spoiler)[ there is definitely something going on with Honor’s power and you’re right that he and Dalinar can’t seem to trust eachother. Very different to syl - and also different to Shallan and Pattern also (hide spoiler)]

Elisabeth wrote: "It just occurred to me that the Travelling task in which a character seeks world domination could be a businessman/woman. Eg a fast food giant, a car manufacturer, pharmaceutical, technology person..."

No characters in non fiction though

I’m reading a fantasy book which fits this but it is a big one (1300+ pages) so I haven’t claimed the task but will be done in a few days

End of day 8 and interludes

Judy - I agree about the wedding. I always found that weird that we didn’t see it at the time

(view spoiler)[ I feel for Adolin but at the same time this injury takes him out of the battle field and maybe that forced removal is what he needs to keep building character? (hide spoiler)]

Rysn (view spoiler)[ I completely forgot about her! And who is this other dawnshard person? Wit? (hide spoiler)]