Alicia’s Comments (group member since Dec 25, 2019)

Alicia’s comments from the Around the Year in 52 Books group.

I’d actually say, the main character that is an athlete in that book is YOU. You don’t have to be a professional athlete or an organized sport to be an athlete.

I’d consider someone that takes part in a general sport (also broad definition) and trains for improvement an athlete.

Unfortunately for me, walking to the fridge likely isn’t a sport.

Bea wrote: "I'd love to tell you about a book that I rated 4* and woke up this morning realizing it had more depth and that I was still thinking about it. I raised the rating to 5*. And, yet, it does not fit m..."

Ooh just added it to my TBR

Hayley wrote: "Re-read the Harry Potter series and finish all the ATY prompts."

I actually did this in November and December. I'm finishing up the Deathly Hallows this week. It was fun re-reading them again. The older I get my opinions on everyone changes

Ellie wrote: "I haven't read Fourth Wing, so can't comment on it specifically, but I think romantasy is generally where the romance is the main plot of the story which just so happens to be in a world with fanta..."

That's exactly how I see it. And there are a lot of those like Lana Harper's ThistleGrove series Payback's a Witch or The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.

With Fourth Wing, there are definitely spicy scenes, but it's a 5 series book. And after reading the 2nd, the plot is about the fantasy world and elements. To me its like Game of Thrones, sure there are vivid sex scenes, but the romance is just incidental. And I truly hope Game of Thrones is not romance or we're all doomed.

Similar to how there is usually some love interest in most fiction books, but we don't call them all romance because that's not the focus of the book. I read a lot of fantasy and I'm having a hard time thinking of one that has no romantic relationship of any kind. But they can't all be Romantasy.

There’s a new category for the Goodreads awards this year, Romantasy. I originally was excited because I love them, but am disappointed with the options as some of them I don’t think count. Like I LOVE Fourth Wing. But Romantasy it is not.

I only have The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.

I strongly disliked Tomorrow ^3 and refuse to read storied life of aj fikry because I’m convinced I’ll feel the same

Ooh I love audiobooks. I also discovered them as a child when my aunt would listen to them on cassettes for long car rides to Disneyland or the snow.

I used to always have one print/ebook going and one audiobook pre-2020 when I had to commute 3 hours total to the office everyday. Now I almost exclusively do audiobooks with a toddler. I’m just so tired by the end of the day, even reading with my eyes is a struggle.

There are still sometimes where the narrator completely turns me off (Demon Copperhead). But I’m pretty flexible now since I read so much.

One voice I’m embarrassed to say grates on my last nerves is Elizabeth Acevedo. I just wish she would get someone else to narrate her wonderful books.

For one that’s not mentioned that I love, I’d recommend Adam Lazarre-Smith. He reads SA Crosby’s book.

Too late this year, but you can save it to suggest for 2025!

Thank you all! We’re going to the library this weekend and now I have a good list to look for.

My family was a bit weird with books and movies. I read kids books of course, but they were very insistent that I know classics of everything. In case a bunch of kids started randomly talking about Shakespeare, Singing in the Rain or Some Like it Hot, I would be able to hold a conversation.

As a note, no child ever asked me about those things lol. So I never read a lot of these books besides Nancy drew and RL Stine which I think are too old for her now

As a note I don’t expect her to fully understand the story. Just something enjoyable we can do each night before bed.

Question, I want to start reading a book, one chapter a night, to my toddler after we read our regular kid books. She just likes listening to me read and I wanted something a bit longer at night. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I think I just see things a little oddly as I’m working on letter sounds with my daughter. So the letter T sounds like “tuh” when saying how does T sound. But I get your point that then it would just be words that end with that letter. So while rhyming technically does switch the prompt to a new meaning.

I’ll admit I’m a bit confused. How are we pronouncing the letters for rhyming?

Is it A = bay, T = bee, Y = bye

I don’t know why I used all b words.

Or is it any version of the pronunciation. So

A = baa, T = bit, Y = bee

Really prompt fatigued with travel. I feel like some version should be on the pre-suggestion poll at this point. Either something with transportation, travel in cover or title, time travel, regular travel. Travel travel travel lol

I’m the same as Bec I’ve never used one but I usually have more than 52 options. But I also kinda cheated on the wild animal. I put Clifford the Big Red Dog. Despite it being “12 pages” I can confidently say I’ve read about Emily and her big Red Dog close to 100 times already this year. So my page count isn’t too low for that one

Also a shoutout to Emily, Robin and Jackie for making this year, and every year, fantastic! Your time and hard work spoils us. So grateful for this group.

I love the midweek hints. It gets me all excited again.

If I remember correctly, we used to have a big wild discussion thread throughout the year, but people didn’t really post I’m there either. That’s how we got the monthly threads, because people said it would be easier if it wasn’t so divided.

I’d love to chat all year, and maybe I’m just a pessimist, but I think the issue is more that there isn’t one common theme/goal everyone is committed to. So eventually conversations just start to die.

I actually disagree. The intention of the prompt may be a media group/conglomerate, but since it just says media I think it does expand to Facebook, Instagram, podcasts etc. all of those are forms of media.

Also, since it says media book club lists, I’d count podcast book clubs and similar ideas since those are forms of media.