The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion
ARCHIVE Team Challenge: UNO 2018
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Team Andromeda
Don't worry if it only fits the one task! It's a task that needs filling and generally something that needs to be read for specifically anyway. So it's all good :-)Fingers crossed for Brief History of Seven Killings! If you still don't like it, don't force it. We'll read something else for those slots :-)
Moonraker should be a quick read for you. James Bond goes down quite nicely usually.
Putting that series on my TBR! I like a good dystopia and seems like this is a good one then. And it has lovely covers haha.
Eldarwen wrote: "Katie,sorry, I've been switching things around so I'll need some info from you again hehe. In Tangled Threads, who is the lawyer? I was thinking Mab Monroe, but I can't remember if ..."
No problem! Nope, not Mab, it's Jonah McAllister.
Eldarwen wrote: "Katie wrote: "I'll take 55 as well. A Brush of Darkness"Ooooh :-DDD
Phineas, I LOVE Phineas haha. I hope you'll enjoy that one!"
I JUST started it (am far enough in to have found the poem)...so far, so good. I haven't encountered Phineas yet, but am now looking forward to it! :)
It's been a long time since I read that trilogy. Maybe I should pick it up again and at least flick through to read through some of the passages again.
Eldarwen wrote: "It's been a long time since I read that trilogy. Maybe I should pick it up again and at least flick through to read through some of the passages again."or finish The Last Necromancer ???
;-P
I looked at that, and the cover just put me off - I have just no need for super short skirted girl covers in my life #judgingbycover
I didn't mean now ;-)Yeah, well, the short skirt on the cover... I honestly didn't notice at first haha. I saw the colours. and the story is actually pretty good. It has its ups and downs as most debuts do but overall, I enjoyed the trilogy a lot.
And I'm actually half-way through the Last Necromancer by now, yay! With a bit of luck I'll be done tomorrow evening.
Going to spend tonight on the couch with my Psy-Changeling book, yumm! :-)
Yeah, it's an awful cover, no doubt. Enjoy your Psy-Changeling book, Eldarwen! I love that series. I was so sad when I caught up and now have to wait with the masses for the next book.
finished The Stone SkyNK Jemisin author
#3 in series
Essun char
Nassun char
Hoa char
Tonka char
Schaffa char
Mini:
SKY in title
Hi team. I have finished Wicked Appetite and will be finishing Wicked Business and Amaretto Amberby the end of the week. I will update ny shelf later this evening.
Ashlee wrote: "Hi team. I have finished Wicked Appetite and will be finishing Wicked Business and Amaretto Amberby the end of the week. I will update ny shelf later ..."Cool, thanks!
Please also include all the options for the mini challenge in case we need to switch things around :-)
Katie wrote: "Yeah, it's an awful cover, no doubt. Enjoy your Psy-Changeling book, Eldarwen! I love that series. I was so sad when I caught up and now have to wait with the masses for the next book."
Definitely glad I have a few more books before I'm at the waiting stage!
Anxiously waiting for the new release in the Guild Hunter series though! And the cover was released not too long ago and it is beautiful!
Completion:Sweet Ruin
4/24
1 - Orion
2 - Thad
6 - Title
9 - Setting: New Orleans
Skip - Author
Mini:
1, 5, 17, 18, 69, 70
50 - Jo take a risk giving her heart to Rune when she knows he doesn't believe he's capable of commitment.
A Brush of Darkness
4/24
1 - Book 1 in series
2 - Talivar
5 - Ion
6 - Sonja
Skip - Author
Mini:
1, 5, 11, 17, 56
55 - Page 13-14
Remaining April Cards:Card 1: 5
Card 2: 2
Card 4: 3
Card 6: 1
Card 8: 2
Card 9: 1
Wild: 2
Eldarwen wrote: "And and??"only two?! I think she's teasing us, and there'll be more later today...
;-)
Cat wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "And and??"only two?! I think she's teasing us, and there'll be more later today...
;-)"
Hahaha, that too!!
I was also wondering what she thought of the book! Maybe I should have actually made that a little more obvious haha. Oh well ;-)
Just fyi: switching my Necromancer book from "country you do not live in" to "scientist as an important character".I have about 35 page left in the book :-)
LOL! I really enjoyed the book despite it's awful cover. :) I really want to read the next 2 right now, but I will put that aside for after I've finished my other UNO books. :PWho do you think I am, Cat, Danielle?!?!?
Katie wrote: "Who do you think I am, Cat, Danielle?!?!? "This month? yeah, actually! You've been reading up a storm - more books on the cards than I have, I think!
Not that it's a competition...
(It IS a competition! I'm going to switch to silly easy books once I've finished the massive A Brief History of Seven Killings (it's not brief, in the least!))
Hahahah :-))Maybe for the author it was brief?? ;-)
Oh yes, Danielle is a reading machine! So so many books!
Need opinions....Best audio book for a first timer. I have to go away this weekend for work, and would like to listen to something. I will have a total of about 7 hours car time.
Completion Post
The Last Necromancer by C.J. Archer
Date Read: April 25th
Rating: 4 stars
Cards:
1 - #1 in series
3 - character: Lady Julia Harcourt
4 - character: Lincoln Fitzroy
6 - character: Seth
8 - character: General Eastbrooke
Mini:
1 - p. 180: "I was just having some fun."
5 - Charlie lies about who & what she is
11 - Charlie goes for a walk several times, with different people
13 - MC goes by the name of Charlie
22
28
50 - Charlie takes a risk in attempting to flee, and in attempting to rescue her friends
57 - Dr V.F. is a scientist and an important character
Ashlee wrote: "Need opinions....Best audio book for a first timer. I have to go away this weekend for work, and would like to listen to something. I will have a total of about 7 hours car time."
Harry Potter! They are the best ones I have listened too :)
Ashlee wrote: "Need opinions....Best audio book for a first timer. I have to go away this weekend for work, and would like to listen to something. I will have a total of about 7 hours car time."
Hmm my very first audio was James Marsters reading Harry Dresden. Those are good and definitely while away the time. They also got me hooked on going through the entire series on audio.
Other decent audio is found in the Iron Druid Chronicles.
Otherwise, I don't listen to much on audio because I am generally not a fan, but those two go down nicely as audios.
Kelly wrote: "Harry Potter! They are the best ones I have listened too :)"Yes! And those! Read by Stephen Fry obviously :-)
Next book:
I'll read it for the "40. with a newspaper or book on the cover" task, and it's a short one, too, yay!
I've found that listening to nonfiction works quite well well for me.I listened to Alan Cummings memoir Not My Father's Son recently, which was good. Harrowing, but good.
Wil Wheaton is a good narrator (Ready Player One / Redshirts)
The Rivers of London series, narrated by Kobna Holbrook Smith is brilliant. I loved the books then tried the audio - adds to the book content brilliantly.
Non genre fiction, Jeanette Winterson reads Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit so well, it made me love the book that I'd previously been indifferent to (ditto James Franco reading Slaughterhouse Five). And Rosamund Pike's version of P&P is excellent too.
Eldarwen wrote: "Kelly wrote: "Harry Potter! They are the best ones I have listened too :)"Yes! And those! Read by Stephen Fry obviously :-)"
I'm led to believe that the Americans have a different version of the audio. Heresy!
Did you hear the snippet that Stephen had difficulty with saying a phrase in one of them, asked if he could change the wording, JK said no & then used the phrase in all the subsequent (unwritten) books!?!
Hahah, really???Had not heard that, no. Evil *grin*
James Franco read Slaughterhouse Five? Well, well, I might have to try and get my hands on that audio! :-) He has an interesting voice.There's also an actor, can't remember the name now, who read You and that made the book rather brilliant where otherwise it might not have been as good.
Actually... Slaughterhouse Five.....Cat, since you've read, does it work for one of the remaining tasks? From the book's page, it seems like Billy travels to another planet, so.... task 10.
I'd just like confirmation please before I pick it up so I don't read something that isn't useful for the mini.
If it works, then I'll read it this weekend (I have my father's old copy) and listen to at least a part of it while reading - I want to hear what James Franco made of it hehe.
He does travel to a planet yup!Also aliens, complex plot.
and look at us, jumped to 9 complete hands! :)
Funny how that happens when a hole is suddenly filled ;-)And there's at least one hand completed already and a couple almost filled. We're getting there! :-)
Completed post 26/4/18The Little Bakery on Rosemary Lane by Ellen Berry.
0 Zoe
2 second in series.
5 Isabelle
6 Sean
8 Author
9 Nicola
Mini
3 Sean’s 50th birthday
11 Roxanne takes Stanley for a walk
17 Roxanne and Della
21 Cover
66 Sean
I haven’t chosen my next book. Any obvious mini challenges or main cards that need covering??
Kelly wrote: "I haven’t chosen my next book. Any obvious mini challenges or main cards that need covering??"1s! still lots of 1s needed. or 4.
Mini: the 4th April first pub date? or 29th of any month?
B & Q in title?
Camera on cover?
char is photographer?
orange cover?
you still planning on reading The Year at Meadowbrook Manor?
Yes that’s my e-book. I have a e-book and ‘real’ book on the go at once.
There is also a task with "Chance" in title if that could work for you, Kelly?Sounds like it could be a romance title maybe, something up your alley?
Eldarwen wrote: "There is also a task with "Chance" in title if that could work for you, Kelly?Sounds like it could be a romance title maybe, something up your alley?"
Bingo!
This is my next book - Take a Chance on Me by Jill Mansell.
and that is why E's our fearless leader, not me!
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After that, I thought I could pick up, on the audio, The Gustav Sonata, which has MPG music (should screenshot for proof, before GR mucks it off!) Down side is that I think that only works for that one task (sorry, mine haven't been very shiftable, I think :( )
I restarted Brief History of Seven Killings last night, hoping it'll go better now :-/
I'll fit Moonraker in too, don't worry!