Jen’s Comments (group member since Dec 28, 2017)

Jen’s comments from the 2018 Reading Challenge! group.

For this task, I will count One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews, since "one" is a number. This is the third book in the Innkeeper Chronicles, and I adored it. :-)


I read this book on February 21, 2018. :-)

For this task, I will count Hell Divers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith (audio performed by R.C. Bray). I went online to view a Sale on Audible in January and discovered this book. I downloaded it because 1) R.C. Bray performs the audio; and 2) I hadn't heard of it before and this was a task in the readathon I participated in that week. :-)

So it definitely counts for this task! :-)



Oh! And I really loved this book, too. :-)
I read it January 24-26, 2018.

For this one, I think I will count The Widow by Fiona Barton, which I partly read in print and partly via the audio edition: The Widow. This book was a non-paranormal ("vanilla") mystery-thriller, and I don't read many books that are not paranormal in some way. But this book was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month for a Swap-Bot.com swap I joined, so I read it.

It was pretty good. I gave it a solid four stars. The ending wasn't wholly unexpected, but it did twist in one way that I wasn't expecting. :-)

Molly, if you enjoyed Volume One of Paper Girls, I would definitely recommend Volumes Two and Three! I enjoyed them very much. :-)

I read a bunch of books with magic in January, but I think I'll count book one in the Merry Gentry series for this task: A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton. Merry gains two hands of power in this book, one of which is revealed! :-)



I read this book January 12-14, and on January 28th, I finished the series! :-)

Audiobooks can count, right? Because I listened to Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) on January 28th. :-)

I read A Lick of Frost by Laurell K. Hamilton on January 24th and, according to TinEye Labs, its cover is 100.1% blue!

I read Hoodoo by Ronald L. Smith on January 11-12. It was pretty good! I really enjoyed this middle-grade Horror story. :-)

I think I'll count Whichwood by Tahereh Mafi as my book for this task. It is book two in the Furthermore series (I read book one in October of 2017, I think). :-)



I read this book January 12-13, 2018. :-)

I read Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire on January 22nd and it can work for this task. One of the main protagonists is on the L part of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. :-)

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire, which I read on January 21st, deals with mental health, so I hope it can count for this task! The main character suffers from a form of depression.

For a book mentioned in another book, does it have to be mentioned by title? Because I read Otherworld January 20-21 and it had a line in it about Harry Potter and the "mythical creatures" in the games:



And then I read Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them on January 28th.

Let me know if you want an exact title mentioned to then be read. I think I read another line in a book recently that mentioned an exact title.

For "A book about time travel," I hope graphic novels are okay? Because I read the first three volumes in the Paper Girls series by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang in January and the paper girls time travel in this series. I think they went forward into the future in book one, and by the end of book three, they were far into the past.



Volumes One and Two were read on January 1st.
I read Volume Three on January 14th.

I have a number of books that I Meant to Read in 2017 But Didn't, so I'll just count the first of these that I read: White Night by Jim Butcher. :-)

I finished this book on January 7th. It was wonderful. :-)

Way to go! I haven't yet read ANYTHING! And it's been 2018 for over 14 hours! :-O

Not sure which challenge I'll knock off first. I need to check the list again.... ???

:-)