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

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

Amell with the salmon ladder. Shame the show got too ridiculous to carry on watching.

We'll all get there! Any of us who are healthy have a backup plan of going on a steam train and to do circus skills with my sister and her 2 children tomorrow so it's not all bad.

Melindam wrote: "Good idea, Cat.

I'll be Sophie's agent and put her book there. :)"

Keep organising me please!

Not a silly question at all! All you need to worry about is the tracking sheet. Stephanie, Teddie and I will sort the official sheet every so often.

Colin O'Donoghue for me too

She's 6 months pregnant so probably wasn't the best idea to take my bug up to see them anyway. Think now it'll be going up to meet the new addition in the autumn instead.

Sorry I wasn't meaning to be picky, I was trying to give ideas on how to think about the protest to see if it would fit the various categories.

My plans for the weekend have fallen through. Rather than going to Manchester to stay with my best friend who I haven't seen for 2 years, I'm staying home to look after my husband and kids who have picked up the temperature that I had earlier in the week.

Stephanie wrote: "Just wondering what the team thinks. Would a protest be counted as a siege or just a battle?"

What are they protesting? Are they defending a right or a location by the protest? Do they have any weapons (even one of amazing rhetoric)? Do they build any barricades or defenses against the police?

Just the fact it is a protest doesn't give us enough to go on to help.

Teddie wrote: "I volunteered for DQs for The Wishing Game, but I just read Starling House a few months ago so will be taking a pass on that one."

How was Starling House? Currently undecided about them both.

Stephanie wrote: "Life has finally finished sending me through the wringer for the past 5 days. I am looking forward to recovering with books in my bed."

No more wringing for you please from now on! Fingers crossed recovering with your books makes everything feel a bit better.

Yeah same here. That came back to bite me a bit but I managed to get them all reviewed eventually (if a bit late).

Book of the Month - June


Hello team! :-)

The BOMs for June have been announced.

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow and The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

For anyone wishing to read them for extra points for the team, or volunteer to write discussion questions for the group for even more extra points, here are the link to the threads:

Starling House - starting 2nd June

The Wishing Game - starting 16th Jun

Melindam wrote: "Sophie wrote: "In another couple of years I might start getting them again, but need to remember to be realistic about how much I can read!"

Yes, I request a few only now and make sure the publish..."

Much more sensible! I did the standard thing of getting overexcited when I first signed up.

Cecily wrote: "I can't even watch shows rn without seeing if the peoples names fit in the four categories hahaha"

Yeah this is going to get into my brain for a bit. I hear from people who have played in rounds of my restaurant rocks that noticing food items becomes an ingrained habit.

In another couple of years I might start getting them again, but need to remember to be realistic about how much I can read!

Catherine wrote: "Teddie wrote: "@Cat : Saw you are liking Five Broken Blades and it does look fun! My library has the audiobook and it has all those great weapons on the cover so I'm planning it as..."

Thanks for the heads up on the audio - eill try to remember that when it makes it off my tbr.

Melindam wrote: "So glad you feel better, Sophie! 😊

I will eventually get there to give Book 1 of Sholomance a try... one day. 🤭"

I got the first as an ARC many years ago (while I still managed to read them in a reasonable timeframe!) otherwise I'm not sure I'd ever have picked them up.

Your new ARC sounds like it should be awesome and love that it's a Hungarian author.

I was worried it was going to be Hiddleston Vs Ellis in the battle of the Toms so this is a relief.

Hiddleston here too

Cat wrote: "I got another cleared off! I can almost touch that line! annnndddd I'm currently reading not one but TWO more books from the closet! I will show that line who's boss!

Book finished: [book:The Towe..."

Keep going! You can do it!

Melindam wrote: "So I am reading Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman and enjoying it a lot.

I can understand readers' disappointment about the content, while not sharing the disappointment ..."

What I write down (when I get round to it), wouldn't read at all the same as a memoir that I was writing to get across my thoughts and personal growth. Sometimes the personal insights from that type of writing can be great when published, but it is unpolished and separate to an autobiography/memoir in my mind.


Tofino is properly isolated looking at a map - I spent some time in Campbell River (other side of Vancouver Island from Tofino at roughly the same latitude) and you didn't have to go far out of town to be in the woods. We had deer that would come and graze on the lawn.