Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Judy wrote: "I think I'll need it after Girl Made of Stars, this one really packs a punch..."

I just read the blurb and it seems heavy. I don't know if I'll ever be ready for that D:

His Banana is definitely a much lighter read

Eldarwen wrote: "Did you see the titles of the rest of the series???

--> https://www.goodreads.com/series/247819"

Yes! I'm thinking Her Bush is my favourite title xD

Completion post:

Title: Girl Made of Stars
Author: Ashley Herring Blake
Date read: 17/6/2019
Pages: 304
Letters: O (character Owen), C (character Charlie)

(and this time I didn't forget to put it on the shelf!)

❦ Tina ❣ wrote: "I just read the blurb and it seems heavy. I don't know if I'll ever be ready for that D:

His Banana is definitely a much lighter read"

It was definitely heavy, but very well-written and I thought it dealt with the topic very sensitively.

I think I'm gonna dip my toes into His Banana now 😂

All this talk makes me curious about the book. I keep saying that I want to take more of a step away from YA but there are so many interesting books that keep popping up.

I've been avoiding new YA fantasy for the past year or so because they kept disappointing me & I'm pretty happy with that decision. But I am still going strong with the contemporaries and if I venture out of contemporary, I mostly read authors I've read before and "trust".

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Did you see the titles of the rest of the series???

--> https://www.goodreads.com/series/247819"

that is just too much!
Nomination for next back room BOM perhaps? ha!"

Ok, I give in. Just grabbed it. If it comes up as BOM I may even read it, lol.

You could always go ahead and suggest it as a nomination?? ;-)

Mwahaha
I hope you guys like the book! But I’d understand if you don’t

OMG... Definitely has to be the next back room BOM.

I should nominate some Space Smut, bwahahahahaha..

It certainly sounds better than the current back room BOM!

Finished my first one (sorry, the first week is always slow for me).

Completion post:

Title: The Endless Beach
Author: Jenny Colgan
Date read: 17 June
Pages: 416
Letters: C (author), E (title), F (char Flora)
Genre: no

Someone go nominate His Banana then please :-D
I already nominated something else... sorry :-)

Camilla wrote: "Finished my first one (sorry, the first week is always slow for me)."

There's absolutely nothing to apologise for! :-D

Eldarwen wrote: "Camilla wrote: "Finished my first one (sorry, the first week is always slow for me)."
There's absolutely nothing to apologise for! :-D"

Well, I normally read 6 or 7 books per week, so if I only clock in 2 or 3 this week, it's much below what I've committed to.

There's always upcoming weeks to catch up, and besides, numbers are an estimate and fluctuate, especially during challenges.

I'm already reading one more than I committed to, so one less book you have to worry about ;-) They're short but oh well.

Woohoo! E character in the back room BOM. It’s free and the conversation is a hoot if anyone else wants to join us 😉👍

Well if there's an E as well, I might as well start it now 😂

Completion post

Title: Four Past Midnight
Author: Stephen King
Date read: 18/06/2019
Pages: 930
Letters: + reason

F - Title
E - Brian Engle (character)

Listed as suspense on first page

PHEW! Would have finished sooner, but have been down with a bug these past two days. Just managed to keep the first food down since Saturday! Huzzah for small victories, lol.

Do we get the next sneak peek at our next letter tomorrow?

Uhh, a stomach bug is the worst! I rather take three colds instead of one stomach bug.

Camilla wrote: "Uhh, a stomach bug is the worst! I rather take three colds instead of one stomach bug."

You and me both! lol.

We've been lucky in that our children have navigated more towards flus and ear infections than stomach bugs. I remember one time when our older daughter had a stomach bug, she was maybe 4 or 5 years. Hubby was away, daughter was sleeping in our bed, and she just kept falling asleep and throwing up half asleep, so no chance of getting to the toilet. Sometime during the night I gave up on getting clean sheets,pillows or anything like that, just folded a clean towel under her after every time she threw up. I probably did laundry for three days afterwards. Ughh!

Yech! Not much fun. It's bad enough as an adult, but so much worse with kids (and I have a stupidly weak stomach... Someone vomits in earshot, never mind in line of sight, and I end up joining them...).

Luckily my daughter is staying with her boyfriend and won't be here until next week, at which point hopefully everything has blown over, and my son has the constitution of an ox. :)

Stomach bugs are no fun at all :-/

For me, it's less the sound than the smell of vomit... When I smell it, I could hurl right there and then. Funnily enough though, at one of the worst house parties at uni, I was the one holding a friend's hair back while she had her head in the bowl haha. Didn't bother me in the least then, but now... I think my nose got much more sensitive since then.

Yes! Tomorrow, we'll get to know what our next word will be. I'm not sure when tomorrow, but some time tomorrow :-)

Any preferences?

Eldarwen wrote: "Yes! Tomorrow, we'll get to know what our next word will be. I'm not sure when tomorrow, but some time tomorrow :-)

Any preferences?"

Could really do with an adventure book, lol.

Actually, yes, I wouldn't mind adventure either. Then I could continue with a series I recently started :-)

Either adventure or LGBT. Those two are probably what are currently easiest for me. Honestly, as long it's not shifters or new adult I'll find something. I don't think I'm able to find anything for them😅

Yeah, those are my favorites too - let's hope the wheel does us good!

No preference. The ones I'm currently reading and will not finish before the end of first week work for adventure and horror.

I have shifters, but they're smaller books. But I guess I could do two if that came up as a category.

Classics work for me too at the moment :)

Shifters are usually easily doable for me. I enjoy reading shifter books so I have quite a few lying around still waiting to be read :-)

Eldarwen wrote: "Stomach bugs are no fun at all :-/

For me, it's less the sound than the smell of vomit... When I smell it, I could hurl right there and then. Funnily enough though, at one of the worst house parti..."

Nothing like reading all of this while eating my breakfast.
LOL

Hope you're feeling better Sammy

Eldarwen wrote: "Yes! Tomorrow, we'll get to know what our next word will be. I'm not sure when tomorrow, but some time tomorrow :-)

Any preferences?"

Just not memoir, I think! Anything else I can probably make work pretty easily.

Me too Karen. Got nothing for Memoir. Think I've got a couple for all the other genres except maybe horror as well.

I should be able to find a book for any genre we get, abut I’m still intrigued to see what it will be. However better get on with my books from this week!

Oh, I just noticed we have out new word for week 2!

CINNAMON
Genre - LGBT

We got CINNAMON, which means LGBT. Anyone got something for that? I don't think I have anything readily available.

LOL, we posted simultaneously, Karen!

Camilla wrote: "LOL, we posted simultaneously, Karen!"

teehee
Well the two BOMs I am reading atm (back room and YA) are both tagged LGBT. The last days DQs are on the 21st. So I'll just make sure I stick to the schedule and then not finish them until week 2 starts. Kind of works for me as Naked in Death is not a huge number of pages, but it is dense so takes time to read. And I've started another Poirot just for good measure :)

I've got What belongs to you on my TBR shelf, our library has got it, but it's currently out and the return date isn't until 08 July, so not much help for next week. I put a hold on it anyway, in case we get the same word later. It's only 194 pages.

Yayyyy I have SO many options on my immediate TBR for this! And at the first glance they also all work for the letters we need! 🎉

Oh that’s perfect. I’ll be able to use the back room book plus I’m sure I can rustle up another one. 👍

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Oh, I just noticed we have out new word for week 2!

CINNAMON
Genre - LGBT"

Yes! I started The Fifth Season that is tagged LGBT and definitely not going to finish it before week two, so this works great :)

Oh, I have been meaning to read the next Dacians/Immortals After Dark book Shadow's Seduction which is LGBT... so yay!

COUNTDOWN

This is the countdown for when week 1 ends and week 2 starts.

Any book finished before this deadline will count for week 1. Any book finished after this deadline will count for week 2.

So make sure you post at the right time :-)

I have several Lgbt books lying around, so I can easily cover at least one as well :-)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post is the first one that comes to mind as I only recently bought it.

The current Back Room would fit of course, but I'm going to finish that for the first week because.. well.. points, since my books are all sort of short this week.

I don't think I have much available for the top shelf option, besides Tipping the Velvet, which is only just over 400 pages, and Middlesex at 500. I could either read both of those instead of one chunky one or go with a chunky one outside the top shelf...

Either option gives 100 points total, but the LGBT option gives extra points for the shelf if we need them.

Thoughts?

Let's see how many LGBT books we can get together and then you can decide which way you want to go?

No problem. If we get enough this round, I can always hold them in reserve in case we get the same again :)