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

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

Sammy wrote: "I've not read any of the Harper Connelly ones. will have to keep an eye out for them! and I recently started the Lily Bard ones :)"

They have aged a bit. I really enjoyed both, but Lily Bard a little more (no spoilers, but Sonia knows why!!)

Melindam wrote: "I am close to finishing the graphic audio edition of and I am so glad I gave it a try, prompted by this challenge. 😊

This all-cast production is very well done ..."

I still haven't started the series. Maybe that is the way to begin if the originl narration isn't good? Or are the full cast quite dramatised or abridged?

Sammy wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "I really enjoyed it, but in part that was due to the character cross over from other books"

Which books be those, pray tell? lol."

Manfred is from the Harper Connelly series 😬 and Bobo is from Lily Bard.
There are some others who appear too but I can’t remember off the top of my head

My second one done. Which gets me to the goal for this theme!


Another audible freebie. I thought this would be a 3 star listen, but by the end it was a little boring and the characters (and the lack of chemistry between the two leads) didn't engage me. A fairly short holiday read, but I could have enjoyed my time more with something else.

Sammy wrote: "#10

An ok 3 stars from me, though I've heard a lot of good things about this series, so I think I'll pick up the next in the series if it pops up in a sale...."

I really enjoyed it, but in part that was due to the character cross over from other books

Carmen wrote: "#3


Yeaaah. This book was exactly what I had expected, and I still don't know what the point of writing this was. At least I read it so I can..."

haha. oh no
I never did put it on my list. Sounds like that was a good decision :o

Sammy wrote: "#7

It's taken me many years to get around to this and I'm ambivalent about whether it was worth the wait. Some cracking stories in ..."

I felt that way trying to read

I don't like short stories generally so I'm not sure why I put this on my list... I should have tried to read it years ago when I was reading the main series

yay :)
and not a terrible average at 72%. I'm sure we can smash it in 2023

Melindam wrote: "Sneaking in shamefacedly ....

I have to admit that I never managed to finish this challenge despite the best of intentions. 😞🥺

Maybe I expected to much from myself. So knowing me and this, I am ..."

Don't worry... I join you with that face and this is meant to be "my" challenge. haha

Haha fair enough.
I’m also being sure to not read cover colours; and stick to my RL book club books and my tbr closet 😬😆

Kristie wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "...I kept thinking about the 'old days' before TV when there were the wireless shows.... I guess this is the modern day version!..."

I always think of that when I listen to full c..."

So true. Makes me nostalgic for a time I never knew! 😆

Finished

Free from audible and narrated by Meg Ryan. So nice to hear her voice ;)
It is a silly dark comedy, but only a few hours long. I really enjoyed the full cast style with this as it was made for audio (rather than a book that is adapted/abridged). I kept thinking about the 'old days' before TV when there were the wireless shows.... I guess this is the modern day version!
I'd recommend this if you want something quick and silly without a lot of thinking required. It is summer here so was the perfect new years day read by the pool

Well done, Sammy!

I also have my first one done. I just couldn't get it finished for 2022, so brought it over here and increased my goal by one also.

Great conclusion to the series - would have benefited from reading it 5 years ago, but anyway... I managed to remember enough :o

Annalisa wrote: "I made a discovery that a book I read didn't end up on my read list and thus I actually made it to my goal of 30 books from the list! That was a pleasant discovery."

nice!

Eldarwen wrote: "I always add the number of books on my TBR to my post on the TBR Tackler challenge, as well as the number at the end of the year. It's usually pretty consistent since a lot of the books I read are ..."

Hmmm
I added 113 in 2022 and read 100. Whoops 😅

Keely wrote: "I learnt to do that so I can keep track. When I'm next on my pc I'll have to see how it has changed over the last few years. I know I was doing well until I found a site that shows me daily deals w..."

Yeah those daily deals can be dangerous 😬

I deleted 3 more from 2015... It just isn't going to happen.
The rest I have moved to my 2023 challnge. Two I am currently reading and should finish before I go back to work next week.

So ended 2022 at 77%.
2023 will be more achievable

I was thinking of adding the number of books on my tbr to my 2023 post and then seeing what it is at the end of next year. I honestly have no idea if it goes up or down - will be interesting to see!

20/30 completed. Hoping to get in a last one today (you never know!!) but likely it will need to be in my 2023 list

LittleRedRidingHood wrote: "It is safe to say I failed again. I read 29 books out of 30. My last book is a proper brick Bleak House and if I had two more weeks maybe I would finish it. But I did better then other..."

Well done for getting so close. That is a big book and hard to jam in!