Cat’s Comments (group member since Jan 28, 2015)

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

I'll roll the Asian I think

Day 3- Chapters 15 - 22

11. We get an actual romance - you happy with this rather than friendship?

12. First kiss energy... Is this a thing?! I mean, GREAT kiss energy I get, but I've had some bad first kisses!

13. So, George the bug man, quiet unshowy intelligence or Arthur the Renaissance man, had to have the limelight.... Which attitude do you prefer?

14. Ewww! Hope Lovett haunting Gabe's mother and lover?!! Did you find any romance in the unveiling of this secret relationship? Do you buy Jo's view that as a poet, Katherine might have found a metaphor to support this trysting location?

This is a super laid-back challenge, so I'm ok with books finished today being used for tasks

or the Boar! I'm totally fine with only being allowed to spin the Greek as a very special treat!

we do always have the page counts here, if nothing else.

I'll spin a fourth monster in for us (we can have up to 5) as Mel is joining - yay! - I've exercised patience!

Sammy wrote: "Cat, can you remember if Gideon the Ninth has a funeral in it? (it seems like the kind of book that should have!) That one's my next-up audio and so far it doesn't fit anywhere else..."

ummmm.... maybe kinda if we squint. There are deaths, and events that could maybe be classed as consigning the body to the next stages / funerary remembrance rites. possibly a flashback that would work as such?

I also read the two Virginia Woolf books for Turf Wars.... went from them to the latest St Mary's book - felt the need for some action action action after all that wafting about thinking thoughts about art and life and keeping the men happy!

8s are (nearly) as good!

well, my current actively reading books are not helping me out here!

one is 350 pages, and in a S American influenced location, but it's entirely fantasy land, so that's of only limited use. It might have cave in though, so I'll check that and confirm! - ETA: It does! so I've got those two in El Duende :)

The one I'm mostly actively avoiding does have one eye on it, but I'm really not sure I can take the pain, even though reading it would get it off my TBR closet, and that darn Line of Shame is creeping up again!

Sophie wrote: "Would you like some company?"

We'd love to have you, yes!

ok. I am not allowed to spin! first one is Cerberus! @#*%&ing musical instrument and MPG!

yay!

shall we spin one of each wheel for starters?

I knew you had another in line, but couldn't remember details :)

and might have to shoe-horn the Triffids into that one too - I introduced my eldest nibling to the Triffids & Wyndham this summer - received pretty raptorously

@Elinor - I can see what that song lyrics would be in your head!
also, re the Crisis and detail of how it happened - do you think Ng decided to put all the detail in to show how close we are in reality to going down that path? as a sort of shout that we are possibly sleep-walking into a similar situation?

all my questions too Judith!!

When's the next team challenge going down, so we can con people into reading this to find the answers???

ETA: to be clear, I do NOT, under any circumstances, want that comment to be taken as serious, and will be shooting down in violent flames any suggestion that it becomes a backroom BOM!

Sammy wrote: "Hahahaha!! We'll need a dino team image 😂"

why do I do these things? Apparently the author's plumbed the depths (shallows?) of Dino Island and has moved on to a new series...




but, I pulled myself back from plunging into ALL the questions and have instead cobbled together an image for us. obvs team name and image are moveable feasts...

Post for quick reference information to follow

Team Members:
Cat
Sammy
Sophie
Mel
Domi
Sonia

Team Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... (totally stolen off Vicky!)

Wheels:
Greek: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
✔ Asian: https://wheeldecide.com/?c1=Ropen&amp...
✔ Urban Legends: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
✔ Fictional Human Monsters: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
Specific Literary Monsters: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
✔ Doctor Who: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
Bad Romance: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
Vegi-Might: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
✔ Discworld: https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...
World Villains - https://wheeldecide.com/index.php?c1=...

Master Sheet of Tasks: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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9 Mar info on Monsters
A. Had Three Times (respin):
Joffrey (Game of Thrones) - Wheel has been completed
Python
Charybdis
John Willoughby and Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
George & Martha (Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf)
The 456
The Gelth
Kabhanda - Wheel has been completed
Ropen - Wheel has been completed
Gremlin
Hungry Grass
Vampire Pumpkins
Dragon King of Arms
Wintersmith

B: Not Had At All:
The Luggage (Discworld)
Cal Hockley (Titanic)
Ent
Vegetable Lamb

lots of World Villains

Sammy wrote: "Definitely! so long as you come up with a team name, lol."

well that's dangerous, as right now I'm stuck on Hot Prof ideas!

Thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

and my thinking cap is on for a better (or at least less annoying) name!

Sammy wrote: "Cat wrote: "Hot Prof's dinos"

Also, thank you for the lovely spray of fruit juice I now have all over my monitor..."

my pleasure! ;-P

oooh! we talked about teaming up to tackle some monsters - wanna do that?

Where are our bookish creatures first?

We've got a couple of Discworld ones already from TTX, plus a basilisk, and I'd add in things like:
- Tock the Watchdog from Phantom Tollbooth
- Nagini / Voldermort / Umbridge from HP
- Shelob, Gollum, Nagzul from LotR
- Pennywise because Jenny
- R Daneel (I Robot)
- Hot Prof's dinos
- Morlocks (and arguably also the Eloi) from The Time Machine
- Triffids
- Phantom from Phantom of the Opera

Dracula, Frankenstien etc if not elsewhere