mina’s Comments (group member since Nov 01, 2018)

mina’s comments from the The Procrastinators Book Club group.

Ooooh, I forgot that there are two audio versions of this book, the US and UK one.. I have the UK one.. and a Scottish M-bot 😄 it's so amazing

“Likely,” M-Bot continued, “I regard humans as I do only because I’m programmed to do so. But hey, that’s no different from instinct programming a mother bird to love the twisted, featherless abominations she spawns, right?

I don't remember much of the book, so I guess a re-read is good when I plan to read the novellas and the third book. I like M-bot, it was, and probably still will be, my favorite character. I finished Part I of the book.

where's the fun if you don't participate in everything :D

January: A retelling of a fairy tale/classic Beasts and Beauty
February: One word title Evershore
March: Blood in the title
April: Crown or throne on the cover
May: "This," "That" or "These" in the title
June: Flowers in the title
July: Pronouns in the title
August: A two-word title
September: A color in the title
October: Queen in the title
November: Bones on the cover
December: Character name in the title

Level: Fairy Godmother
Completed: 21/24 ☑

Yeh-Shen. 3/8 ☐
☐ 1. Read a book published before 1900
☐ 2. Read a classic (published before 1950) written by a BIPOC author
☑ 3. Read a book written with two POVs Tools of Engagement
☑ 4. Read a book that's been on your TBR over four years Sanctuary
☐ 5 Read a book published when you were 10
☐ 6. Read the longest book on your TBR
☐ 7. Read a 2022 release from a debut author
☑ 8. Read a five-star (to you) book A Holiday by Gaslight

Cendrillon 3/7 ☐
☑ 1. Read a 2022 PBC Group Read She Who Became the Sun
☑ 2. Read a Goodreads Choice nominee book Malibu Rising
☑ 3. Read a Nebula/Hugo/Locus Award finalist Black Sun
☐ 4. Read a Man Booker Prize, Women's Prize for Fiction, or Pulitzer shortlist book
☐ 5. Read a book that's popular on Booktok
☐ 6. Read a translated bestseller
☐ 7. Read a National Book Award For YA Literature nominee, Odyssey Award shortlist, William C Morris nominee, a Lambda Literary Award Winner, or Kirkus Prize for YA Literature nominee

Aschenputtel 2/6 ☐
☐ 1. Read a LGBTQ+ fairy tale retelling
☐ 2. Read a book that has been turned into a movie or tv show
☐ 3. Read a book that is based on a video game, board game, or comic book
☑ 4. Read a retelling of a classic (e.g., Peter Pan, Little Women, The Great Gatsby, etc) Beasts and Beauty
☐ 5. Read a mythological retelling (e.g., Greek mythology, the Bhagavad Gita, Arthurian legend, etc)
☑ 6. Read an book with creatures from legend (e.g., Coyote, vampires, gumiho, golems, djinn, etc) Iron Kissed

Donkeyskin 5/5 ☑
☑ 1. Read a book with a red cover or shade of red in the title Fair Game
☑ 2. Read a book with a orange or yellow cover, or orange or yellow in the title Sandstorm
☑ 3. Read a book with a green cover or shade of green in the title The Accidental Beauty Queen
☑ 4. Read a book with a blue cover or a shade of blue in the title Unravel Me
☑ 5. Read a book with a purple cover or a shade of purple in the title Loveless

Cap O'Rushes 4/10 ☐
☐ 1. Read a book with this, that or these in the title
☑ 2. Read a book with a celestial title or cover Fevered Star
☐ 3. Read a book where the title is a song lyric
☑ 4. Read a book with gemstones or precious metals in the title Darling Rose Gold
☐ 5. Read a book with a type of insect in the title
☐ 6. Read a book with dream in the title
☑ 7. Read a book with wolf/wolves in the title or on the cover The Girl in Red
☐ 8. Read a book with a type of flower in the title
☑ 9. Read a book with blood or bone in the title Blood for Blood
☐ 10. Read the book with the prettiest cover on your TBR

Cinderfella 2/9 ☐
☑ 1. Read a book written by a Pacific Islander Year of the Reaper
☑ 2. Read a book written by a Latine(x/o/a) author The Spanish Love Deception
☐ 3. Read a book set in or by someone from the Caribbean
☐ 4. Read a book written by a South Asian author
☐ 5. Read a book written by a West Asian author
☐ 6. Read an #ownvoices book by a Jewish author
☐ 7. Read a book by an Indigenous author
☐ 8. Read an #ownvoices book about body positivity
☐ 9. Read a book by a trans or gender nonconforming author

Vasilisa 3/7 ☐
☐ 1. Read a book featuring a natural disaster
☑ 2. Read a book set in space Sunreach
☑ 3. Read a book set in the 1990s Survive the Night
☑ 4. Read a book with a map Four Dead Queens
☐ 5. Read a book set during summer
☐ 6. Read a book with a climate change theme
☐ 7. Read a gothic horror book

I like how AGGGTM became the name of her podcast, and how we got the first book's title in here. I also liked how she watches things with Cara, it's something I did with my friend while watching the last season of GoT and it was fun.

Short chapters are so perfect, love that this is going to go so fast.

dammit.. my audio and ebook are not matching... again -.-
and this is another reason I hate why they made two versions

Again among the last to start this book and miss the fun of discussing the book with you all... I mostly haven't read the comments and will do that later.

I knew about there being two versions of the book(s) because I started the audiobook for book 1 & started reading along and I was confused when a sentence was missing... so I did some research and discovered what's up. I personally don't like that, if someone is going to enjoy a book it should be because of the plot, the characters, and the writing not the country it was set in.

Hey, team, how are you doing?

Are there some books you plan on reading by the end of the year?
I plan on reading these:
and maybe


Tasks to finish to get category points:
(the tasks are separated because of categories they belong to)

* South Asian MC (The Last Graduate fits this prompt)

* Noble Rank
* A [Noun] of [Noun] and [Noun} (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, it's a maybe)

* Takes place During Holiday (Window Shopping, it's a maybe)
* Set or published before 1880

* Takes place in Asia

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Okay, good I'm not the only one that wants to read it but hasn't started it yet 😅

Title: A Universe of Wishes
Author: Various
Start Date: Dec 9th
Finish Date: Dec 15th
Category and task: Why 4 - short stories
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? no
Pages: 416
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Well Matched
Author: Jen DeLuca
Start Date: Dec 13th
Finish Date: Dec 16th
Category and task: How 4 - blue cover
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? no
Pages: 336
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Empire of the Vampire
Author: Jay Kristoff
Start Date: Nov 1st
Finish Date: Dec 17th
Category and task: How 3 - mostly naked person
Graphic Novel? no
Buddy Read? yes https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Group Read? no
Pages: 725
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Title: Her Soul to Take
Author: Harley LaRoux
Start Date: Dec 13th
Finish Date: Dec 18th
Category and task: What 4 - pronouns
Graphic Novel? Buddy Read? Group Read? no
Pages: 458
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I get that Gabe's story is a longer one, and yes obvs we need something for book 2 but damn, I was liking it and wanted to read more about it.

Happy Holidays! :D

* Yey, Baptiste, de Coste and Gabe reunion :D
* 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 Celene. Damn that twist.
Gaaah, so many pages and still we don't get all the answers. I finally finished it, and omg it's amazing.. I mean I liked it from the beginning, but after a month and a half of reading it I still liked everything.
Sorry for being a sucky buddy for this one 😐😅

Welcome to the The Last Graduate Buddy Read Discussion thread! This thread officially opens on December 20th and anyone can join at any time. Please keep in mind that spoilers are allowed in this thread but only up to the group's current reading place. Do not spoil the book if you've read further than the group. Any extra days can be used to catch up!

Each day we will be reading by chapters or page numbers. Page numbers are an approximation based on the hardcover or paperback that is the default on Goodreads. The suggested Buddy Read discussion schedule is as follows:

Week of 12/20
December 20: Chapters 1-2
December 21: Chapters 3-4
December 22: Chapters 5-6
December 23: Chapters 7-8
December 24: Chapters 9-10
December 25: Chapters 11-12
December 26: Chapters 13-14

PARTICIPANTS
~ Mina
~ Darcey

I don't know if I had a favorite, but I liked A universe of Wishes, the Gemma Doyle one, The Weight, Wish, Unmoor.

* 😂 She got her own cupcakes. Although, I felt bad for her when they started teasing her and she started to feel bad.
* I remember not liking much of Stacy's book, and I now meeting her again... yeah, her character is annoying me a bit 😐
* Lulu is stressed and is working so much.. are we going to get a new book in the series maybe?
* April getting a costume and getting ready makes me want to get a costume too and participate too.. although we don't have anything like that here.

Finished the book.
Definitely better than the previous one. I liked it well enough.

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