Jenny-Lee’s Comments (group member since Feb 10, 2014)

Jenny-Lee’s comments from the All About Books group.

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TBR:

Alannah wrote: "I will kick this off and start with Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham"

I will second this. Great pick!

I'm in.

Mon: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires 40 pages
The Bewitching 95 pages
Lights Out 122 pages
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre Pickman's Model- 11 pages In the Vault -7 pages
Total: 275 pages

Tues: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires 119 pages (finished)
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre The Silver Key - 10 pages

Wed: 😒

Thurs: Lights Out 45 pages (finished)
Out There Screaming 17 pages
Total - 62
Fri: The Dead Romantics 150 pages

Sat/Sun The Dead Romantics 218 pages (finished)
The Bewitching 100 pages
Total: 318

Readathon total - 934 pages.

I'm in.
To be read:



Mon 22nd: Katabasis 72 pages
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches 42 pages

Tues 23rd:The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches 44 pages
Katabasis 57 pages

Wed 24th: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches 150 pages (finished)

Thurs 25th:Katabasis 67 pages

Fri 26th: Katabasis 117 pages
Ordinary Saints 61 pages

Sat 27th:Katabasis 42 pages (finished)
Ordinary Saints 189 pages

Sun 28th:Ordinary Saints 118 pages

Total: 960 pages

Steve wrote: "I nominate Shakespeare Saved My Life by Laura Bates. Ms. Bates teaches Shakespeare to inmates of a notorious SuperMax prison for the most violent male offenders in Indiana. This book is eye opening..."

This sounds really interesting. I'll second it.

I nominate ONE WOMAN WALKS EUROPE by Ursula Martin.

My books:

Mon 18th: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism 127 pages
Bad Manners 62 pages
Daily total - 189 pages

Tuesday 19th:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 165 pages
The Last Correspondent 16 pages
Daily total: 181 pages

Wednesday 20th:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 86 pages
The Atlas Six
Demon Copperhead
The Last Correspondent 167 pages (finished)
Daily total: 253

Thursday 21st: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 144 pages (finished)
Bad Manners 150 pages
Daily total : 294 pages

Friday 22nd: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism 95 pages
Bad Manners 157 pages (finished)
Daily total: 252 pages

Saturday 23rd: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism 160 pages (finished)

Sunday 24th:Demon Copperhead 168 pages
The Reformatory 50 pages
Daily total - 218 pages

Monday 25th:The Atlas Six 5 pages
The Reformatory 46 pages
Demon Copperhead 45 pages
Daily total - 96 pages

Tuesday 26th:Demon Copperhead 179 pages
The Atlas Six 37 pages
Daily total : 216

Wednesday 27th: The Reformatory 40 pages
Demon Copperhead 33 pages
The Atlas Six 37 pages
Daily total: 110 pages

Thursday 28th: Demon Copperhead 135 pages (finished)
The Reformatory 89 pages
Daily total: 224 pages

Friday 29th: The Atlas Six 85 pages
The Reformatory 40 pages
Daily total: 125 pages

Saturday 30th:The Reformatory 11 pages

Sunday 31st: The Atlas Six 212 pages (finished)

Final total: 2,615

Alannah wrote: "I will nominate Passing by Nella Larsen" Ooh I will second this and nominate The Masterpiece by Emile Zola

I finished this one a bit early. I thought it was ok. An easy read but it did drag on a bit with the same things happening repeatedly e.g. getting seperated, Dutchess getting them all in trouble, etc. I didn't really see what the addition of Sally brought, and felt that she didn't get an end to her story either. Her pages could have been left out and it would have made no difference.
Having said all of this, it was fine.
I'm looking forward to see how everyone else feels about it.

I was very much looking forward to this. Poison, botany, glamorous parties and a whodunnit are all top notch ingredients for a fun book. Sadly I'm finding it all quite dull. I'll finish it, but I could also happily DNF.

Got to get out of this reading slump. Hoping to make progress on:


Mon 19:A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons 50 pages

Tues 20:A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons 89 pages (finished)
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 10 pages

Wed 21:101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 14 pages
Artificial Condition 43 pages (finished)
Spring 46 pages

Thur 22: Spring 114 pages
We Were the Mulvaneys 11 pages
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 11 pages

Fri 23:101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 12 pages
Spring 62 pages (finished)

Sat and Sun - The Lincoln Highway 136 pages
We Were the Mulvaneys 98 pages

Total - 696 pages

I'm in
Monday April 14: The Fix 86 pages
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 34 pages
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls 31 pages

Tuesday April 15: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous- 208 pages (finished)

Wednesday April 16: 😟 (Mini reading slump)
Thursday April 17:☹️ (Still slumping)
Friday April 18: 🫤 (Will I ever read again?)

Saturday April 19:Witchcraft for Wayward Girls- 82 pages
The Fix - 19 pages

Sunday April 20: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - 176 pages

Monday April 21: The Fix - 45 pages

Tuesday April 22: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls-193 pages (finished)

Wednesday April 23: Utz 127 pages (finished) The Fix -79 pages (finished)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow- 68 pages

Thursday April 24: Enough: the violence against women and how to end it -150 pages (finished)
Freedom -35 pages
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow- 55 pages

Friday April 25: Freedom- 21 pages

Saturday April 26: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow- 84 pages

Sunday April 27: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - 271 pages (finished)
Freedom - 38 pages
The Turn of the Screw- 24 pages

Monday April 28: Freedom -68 pages

Tuesday April 29: Freedom-117 pages

Wednesday April 30: Turn of the Screw - 61 pages (finished)

Total pages - 2,062 + 600 pages of graphic novels (if counted)

Finished:
Also read:

spoko wrote: "I nominate Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (244 p., pub. 1862)."

I second this

Mon 24-Brotherless Night 84 pages (finished)
Imposter Syndrome 37 pages
Daughters of the Lake 52 pages
Daily total - 173

Tues 25- Imposter Syndrome 84 pages
Daughters of the Lake 99 pages
Daily total - 183

Wed 26- Daughters of the Lake 35 pages
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 4 pages
Daily total - 39

Thurs 27- Imposter Syndrome 43 pages
Daughters of the Lake 120 pages (finished)
Daily total - 163

Fri 28- The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery 94 pages (finished)
Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust 88 pages
Daily total- 182

Sat 29-Something Out of Place: Women and Disgust 81 pages (finished)
Imposter Syndrome 107 pages
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 12 pages
Daily total - 200

Sun 30-101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 13 pages
The House of the Spirits 61 pages
Imposter Syndrome 145 pages (finished)
Daily total - 219

Readathon total -1,159 pages

I would like to second A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons.

I'll be trying to make progress on:



Mon 27: Service Model -15 pages. Blonde Roots - 25 pages
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think- 15 pages
(55 pages total)

Tues 28: Service Model 68 pages
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 5 pages
21 Lessons for the 21st Century - 42 pages
(115 pages total)

Wed 29 - Service Model 38 pages
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 5 pages
No Logo - 28 pages
(71 pages total)

Thurs 30 - Service Model 63 pages
No Logo 20 pages
(83 pages total)

Friday 31 - Service Model 170 pages (finished)
No Logo 56 pages
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 14 pages
(240 pages total)

Saturday 1 - 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think 3 pages
Blonde Roots 56 pages
(59 pages total)

Sunday 2-No Logo 144 pages

Weekly total - 767 pages

Mon 16th Dec:By Any Other Name 116 pages
All About Love: New Visions 76 pages
Total - 192 pages

Tue 17th Dec: All About Love: New Visions 109 pages (finished)
By Any Other Name 27 pages
Total - 137 pages

Wed 18th Dec: The Diaries of Franz Kafka 31 pages
By Any Other Name 148 pages (finished)
Cher: The Memoir, Part 1 35 pages
The Power and the Glory 45 pages
Total - 259 pages

Thu 19th Dec: Legends & Lattes 49 pages
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 32 pages
Total - 81 pages

Fri 20th Dec: Cher: The Memoir, Part 1 72 pages
Legends & Lattes 261 pages (finished)
Total - 333 pages

Sat 21th Dec: The Power and the Glory 115 pages
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 8 pages
Total 123 pages

Sun 22th Dec: Cher: The Memoir, Part 1 57 pages
The Power and the Glory 61 pages (finished)
Total - 118 pages

Mon 23th Dec:Cher: The Memoir, Part 1 22 pages
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 55 pages
The Memory Police- 93 pages
Total - 170 pages

Tue 24th Dec: The Memory Police 115 pages

Wed 25th Dec:Cher: The Memoir, Part 1 215 pages

Thu 26th Dec: The Memory Police 66 pages (finished)
Cher: The Memoir, Part 1 32 pages (finished)
The Undertaking 88 pages
Total - 186 pages

Fri 27th Dec:The Undertaking 110 pages

Sat 28th Dec:The Undertaking 92 pages (finished)
Zero Days 131 pages
Total 223 pages

Sun 29th Dec: Zero Days 223 pages (finished)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 11 pages
Total - 234 pages

Mon 30th Dec: Milkman 92 pages
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 16 pages
Total 108 pages

Tue 31th Dec: Milkman 42 pages

Wed 1st Jan:Milkman 40 pages

Thu 2nd Jan: Milkman 86 pages

Fri 3rd Jan: Milkman 100 pages (finished)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 31 pages
Total -131 pages

Sat 4th Jan: A Talent for Murder 130 pages
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 23 pages
Total - 153 pages

Sun 5th Jan:A Talent for Murder 125 pages (finished)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 90 pages (finished)
Total - 215 pages

Books read:

GRAND TOTAL: 3,413 pages

I still have a pile of books to get through before the year's end, so I'm in!

TBR: ✅️ ✅️ ✅️

Monday 18th: The Diaries of Franz Kafka 32 pages The House on the Strand 36 pages
Total - 68 pages

Tuesday 19th:The Lives of Lee Miller 44 pages The House on the Strand 45 pages
Total - 89 pages

Wednesday 20th: The Diaries of Franz Kafka 33 pages The Lives of Lee Miller 32 pages
Total - 65 pages

Thursday 21st: The House on the Strand 106 pages (finished)

Friday 22nd:The Lives of Lee Miller 123 pages (finished) The Diaries of Franz Kafka 25 pages The Last 42 pages
Total - 190 pages

Saturday 23rd:The Last 350 pages (finished) The Diaries of Franz Kafka 22 pages
Total - 372 pages

Sunday 24th:The Diaries of Franz Kafka 26 pages

Total- 906 pages

I don't think I'll get much read, but I'll do my best.


Mon 23: Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent 55 pages

Tues:.👎 Wed 25: 👎

Thurs 26: Starling House 36 pages

Fri 27: Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent 35 pages

Sat 28: Starling House 72 pages
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent 80 pages

Sun 29:book:Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent|127280282] 46 pages

Total -292 pages

Not very impressive. Sorry

Alannah wrote: "Jenny-Lee wrote: "Alannah wrote: "I have to split my comment as my first one was too long.

Subtotal: 10,294 pages
Monday 26th:
*Start, Stay, or Leave: The Art of Decision Making* 2..."

Fab, thanks. I think I'll give it a go!