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

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

Oh did that many years ago Sammy!

Ann-Marie wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Oh good choice Ann-Marie. Now I’m wondering if I can listen to them in January too 🤔😊"

I picked them up a while back and now that I decided to listen I can't wait! lol"

I’m so glad you posted as I didn’t realise there was an audio version. The description and the cast look amazing!
I’m trying to decide if I’m best to watch the tv adaptation first or the audio first …. 🤔

Oh good choice Ann-Marie. Now I’m wondering if I can listen to them in January too 🤔😊

Audible: 32 hours, 28 mins

Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move.

As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human.

While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand upon the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity's greatest and final hope...

I finished!

Took me over three months but better late than never ;)

It starts off incredibly slowly, but half way through the actual story gets going and was hard to put down

review

Sammy wrote: "I tend to find the switching back and forth takes me out of the story. I have no issuers with multiple narrators in the sense of different POVs a chapter at a time, but the "radio play" thing doesn't really work for me (especially when they go adding in music and sound effects too!)..."

Oh I understand with the sound effects... it doesn't always work.

Two exceptions I can think of...

I'm listening to and there are parts where she is reading a diary where words have been crossed out and they use a sound effect to do the crossing out... and at first I was "what the?!", but it actually works really well with the spookiness of the story.

I also like the BBC abridged Agatha Christie, but maybe because I am familiar with the stories and I can picture it all happening so the full cast and sound effects work well.

And I just laughed at myself as I thought by Brian Cox you meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_C...
#nerdbrain

Best of luck Suzanne!
Glad I’m not alone 😬🙌

Haha thanks Sammy. I still don’t feel I can go there 😆

Phew! I finished!!

The writing is great and I loved being transported into the time period but William and Waleran became so hard to read. I found myself super uncomfortable every time they came onto a page from part four. My sense of justice was just very challenged!! I’m glad I finished but wouldn’t continue the series.

Thanks to everyone for helping me push through!

Eldarwen wrote: "Does that mean, I should hold off another few years before reading Locke Lamora?? ;-))"

haha
It will be a while, just go ahead and read it ;)

Tricia wrote: ". Am I supposed to see the old spreadsheet when I click on the link? ."

There is a different tab for 2023 😉

Sammy wrote: "I'm in! even if the first month's theme is one I'm not a huge fan of, lol..."

oh no! I hope you find some good ones, then. I quite enjoy a full cast - don't come across them too often though. I'm going to test out from audible freebies for this one. Could be great or awful :o

Haha I need to look at what door stoppers I still have to read and get my nominations in 😬

I also started a process last night of looking at the oldest books on my shelf (2016/2017) and indiscriminately deleting them if they had a GR rating of under 3.5 and I don’t remember why I added them 😆
Next I’m going to see what is available at the library and what isn’t will also be ruthlessly deleted!
Hopefully it will make my list for 2023 books that I will read and I will finally succeed at this challenge 🤪🥳

We have a new monthly audio challenge starting in 2023 here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

😉🙌

15/12
Total 'want to read' as at 1/1/23 - 357 books

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READ
January February
March April
May
June
August
October
December
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This time I'm also adding how to get them as I want to read my list this year and not delete. Starting with some large oldies that keep being put on this list every year!!

2013
The Name of the Wind (purchased, audible)
(audio, owned)

2015
(audible)
(audible)

2016
Exposure Age of Swords
(overdrive)
We Are the Ants Calamity Johannes Cabal the Detective
Ringer Challenger Deep



2017
Knight's Shadow
Ship of Magic
Warbreaker Understory: a life with treesA Plague of GiantsFate's Edge

2018
The Toll

I'm in ;)

Start of Month
Total audiobooks to read: 5
Audiobooks in monthly category to read: 2

Books in category:
To be decided... or maybe even


FINISHED


End of Month
Total audiobooks read this year: 5
Audiobooks in monthly category read: 2/2

MY MONTHLY RECOMMENDATION (and why):

In category - narrated by Meg Ryan and it was very silly and quick

Not in category - I loved it and can't wholly explain why. Just a great character driven novel exploring friendships

I went ahead and deleted these from my TBR


I can't get them from the library and I don't care enough to buy them.
I may get through 2 more this year, but the rest will need to wait. There are some door-stops, but also a couple I only added for challenges so I don't want to delete them and also don't want to read them right now. haha

Sammy wrote: "#105

I'd had this sitting in my bookcase for years, but after reading (and hating) The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, it pretty much pl..."

Haha oh dear. I love Schwab and both of those books 😆

And you can do it! I’ll live vicariously through you achieving this challenge this year 😂

It only took seven years but I started this series! 😆


Quite enjoyed it and now to continue on to book 1

Congrats Team Trouble. 2 in a row!