Sophie’s Comments (group member since Apr 28, 2013)

Sophie’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Welcome back from hospital! Hope the kitchen refit has been done so you are at least back to a normal level of mayhem.

Impressed by how far through that list we've got! There are more Greek monsters left than I expected.

Urgh taxes. Mine get sent to my sisters so I can ignore them. Speaking of, I should check how they are going.

There are some jobs that should be shifted to people who are not me as a matter of routine.

I need to read the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie soon. Having read this, I recommended it to a friend (who isn't on here). It's been written with affection rather than just meanness which is sometimes missing these days.

I really enjoyed this one. The gentle commentary on the wealthy older English was the right level of acerbic for me.

More searching and less panicking has made our group realise that the tentacles tag has a much better mix than tentacle.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... for a summary list Sammy has creating.

The Graveyard Shift is tagged monster-tentacles if we find that an acceptable alternative and looks like there are no sexy times!

I can too! Looks like if you add monster or similar to the tentacle tag then they become more tolerable!

also looks reasonable.

If one of us tags the China Mieville book maybe someone else could read it.

I looked at that and yes, entirely porn.

A little mermaid retelling or a middle grade book including krakens would have been acceptable.

Has anyone found a book that is tagged tentacle at least once for the cthulthu that isn't tentacle porn. I'll read a lot of dubious material, but not wanting to go there.

Right the tentacle tags are entirely tentacle porn and I'm really not up for that! Anyone willing to volunteer?

Glad you made it back Cat! That aeroplane sit is not one to be repeated though if the plane isn't moving.

Melindam wrote: "Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a godsend. Drew Domi out of his reading slump. He's enjoying it very much. 🥰"

Joe is loving the Rowley spooky stories by the same author if you can find it.

Was about to let you all know about that when there was a meltdown about Duplo.

I can take MC is gaslit as Charmian is during Memento Mori. Also works for page length (224). Would also work for character over 70 if we can use Sammy's somewhere else as well.

I've got several on the go that have 1 U in the author, so close but not actually helpful!

Actually I've found I Know You by LoUise MUllins which also works for my current maze task.

Patience my pretties! It'll come when the time is right.

I'm good with that. Seems the same as a lot of the other things we've allowed to count.

We have had vague themes for the challenges for 2025 since about March! Which is earlier than standard but we do try to think a bit in advance.