Karsyn ’s Comments (group member since Mar 01, 2017)

Karsyn ’s comments from the Badass Reading Challenges group.

Randemonium is kindof unique. There's the overall Ruff scale of doing them all (minus the timed one that don't count for those who join in later) and then Ruff scales for each random-ness.

Randemonium is FF on the scale. For the first task, Reading a book with Welcome in the title is R, Reading books with titles starting with WELCOME is U and the titles with RANDEMONIUM is FF.

We plan to do a lot of read-a-thons so hopefully you'll be able to join in when your schedule allows. We like to just do random ones, like we had last minute on the 4th.

Our next one will be for Bout of Books and it runs a week. That'll be at the end of August.

I didn't get NEARLY as much reading done as I planned to. In total I think I'll only have read around 12 hours out of the 48. Pathetic, for me. LOL!

I don't think I can do anything impressive either. Guess for those who aren't tech savvy, that I can put together a desktop computer on my own might be impressive.

We really really really want a car. It's been 8 years this month since we last had a car. It was ok in FL, they have great bus systems, but up here, not so much. I've been stuck in this teeny tiny town for a very long time and wish I could get out of it sometimes. :/

I'm not sure, probably what books they like. It's been a very very long time since I met anyone new, in person.

About something major? When I was 16 and started questioning religion. I would have technically been considered agnostic from my teens into my early 30s. After that, my opinions didn't change, just became greater and I've been an atheist since.

Hope that offends no one, I want every person at BARC to be accepted no matter what they believe, look like or whom they love. :)

Disney songs are the best. :)

I guess I wish I knew more about computers. I'd love to be able to code and write programs. I just haven't taken the time to try to learn.

Any song I really love, I know by heart. I'm actually good at memorizing songs after just hearing them a few times. Superfruit (2 of Pentatonix members) released an EP and I've only listened to it less than 10 times and know 3 of the songs by heart and most of the rest. Disney songs I know by heart, most of them through the early 2000 anyways, including musicals like HS Musical and Newsies.

My Hubby giving me attention / kisses / telling me He loves me randomly always makes the day better. I can be a little needy and want His affection all the time. :/

I don't watch most things, I'm not big into movies/tv, like I am with reading/gaming. I watch ANW and HTGAWM religiously, but other than that, I can take it or leave it.

I don't watch any reality (except ANW), any news, any girlie crap..... nothing really. I'd rather read or play games.

Welcome Carmen! So glad you came willingly. :) Glad you liked the challenges you spied on, jump right in whenever you get a chance. We're having our first Group Challenge starting on the 31st, hope y'all will join us for that. :)


Glad you like the token Plethora. That challenge will be coming in Oct and it's a biggie. Hopefully everyone won't be drowning in all the other challenges here to jump into that one when it starts. :D

Yep, correct. You can do Titles or Series or both.

That's music to my ears, that they are wicked/badass. Just what we were aiming for!!

We'll allow you some more sentences, if you'd like, we love the chatty folk!!

Welcome, glad you are jumping right in. I hope you looooove our more challenging challenges!! :D

You'd have to re-roll for that. Not ideal, but the only way you could get over the 200 mark. Just re-roll any that start with a 1, if you don't want to switch any of the numbers around.

Didn't think anyone would actually go for the FF! ;)

WELCOME to our new members. We've had a few new Pack Mate join us recently. We hope you will come in, introduce yourselves and enjoy your time here at BARC.

If you are looking for a place to get started, Getting Started with BARC has a list of all our challenges.

About half of our numbers have never posted. We hope everyone will start coming out of the shadows and join in the fun! We can only grow with everyone participating and helping spread the word of BARC. We want to bring Team Challenges to BARC but need many more active members to do so.

In the meantime, we are starting our Pack Challenges. Basically a Team Challenge but there's only one team ~ the group as a whole ~ and we'll work together towards a goal.

What will that goal be? You'll have to come back to find out. We will give you information on Return to Hogwarts this week and sign ups will open on the 26th. The challenge will start July 31st and members can join anytime, though it'll be easiest to start right away.

24 in 48 started today. Anyone joining in?

I wasn't going to, finally having my gaming PC back online, but I'm behind on my Yearly challenge so I'm gonna read some. Don't know if I'll read the full 24 hours in 48 but gonna try.

Must resist the call of Overwatch, don't know if I can. :D

Stupid laptop. It was all kinds of messing up. Sorry about that!

Cool Ora! We need an "Ora's Baking Tips" thread. :)

So is helping the butter along what makes my cookies flat? I don't bake 'em often but I've never been able to get cookies that are "puffy" for lack of a better word? They are always flat and crunchy.

I wish I was a better cook ladies. I've only really started cooking in the last few years. I was never taught and always said I was a bad cook. I'm actually an ok cook, since I've started trying more, but still a bad baker. I wish I could cook/bake better. :D


My Old-Fashioned thing would be writing letters. Though I don't do it as much as I used to, I've had pen pals on and off most of my life. I still write to my long time penpal (have "known" her over 16 years, though we've never met IRL) fairly often, though not as often as we used to. I have bad handwriting so I prefer to type but still prefer to send out a letter, rather than an email. Sometimes I miss having 10-20 pals at a time (like I used to) but I just don't have anything going on anymore to tell anyone about.


I don't think I have any interests in things people haven't heard of, I'm pretty simple with my interests. I suppose being able to build computers is something most people don't do, even if they know about it. I dunno! :)

I love designing things, such as parks and houses, so I've designed houses a few times, in my head, of some dream home I'd love. Always something unique. In H.S. a friend and I designed a cylindrical home, with a lazy river running around and through it. I've imagined that home a few different ways now.

I have all kinds of ideas like that, if I had unlimited funds. It would definite have a pool of some sort, depending on where it was built, something indoors to enjoy in the winter. I'd have the master bedroom somewhere above the pool, so that there's a balcony outside of it and a slide going down to the pool from it. I'd just get up in the mornings and slide down in and spend my day in the pool. Would want a grotto with a tv and lounging area with a fridge or grill.

Inside the house, a library is a must, with a fireplace and comfy seating. Then there'd be the video game room. :D It'd be not that wide, maybe 20 feet, with a big tv on opposite walls. We'd have PCs and consoles on both tvs so that my Hubby and I could actually play stuff together for a change. Maybe have recliners that swivel so we could watch things together on one, or play together on two different ones. :)


I'm good at whatever i do. I mean not that I'm the best person at it, just that I put my all into whatever I do. When I got a job at a BRU years ago I wasn't content just learning the one thing they wanted me for. I learned everything in that store that I could do, everything but the cash office, so I could work in any area at any time.

Dunno what I'd really be good at now. I'm not the people person that I used to be. I'd be good at running a sex toys shop. LOL! :D

Thanks Ashley! Last one is too short but the first one looks like something I'd like, 2nd one maybe too. Will go check those out further. :)

I dunno about the Tess series, I haven't read those. How about Anne of Green Gables or The Green Mile? A friend of mine loves Frannie Flagg and she has Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. Looks like there's a bunch of Green Titled Books so I hope you can find one you like! :)

Of the books I have, I only have This Green Hell for green. It's the 3rd in a series though and would make more sense read in order.

Third Task


RABID - COMPLETED 6/17/18
Go to the GoodReads Listopia
         Read ANY book on the 8th page of that list

Non Caucasian Protagonists in multi genres
Page 8 - #758
Second Grave on the Left - 6/17/18

UNYIELDING
Go to the Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of Over 4.5 List
         Read any THREE books from this list
         Must be new-to-you books you haven't yet read

FORMIDABLE FRENZY ~ COMPLETED
Go to the Lists My Friends Have Voted On Page

Kick Ass Female Sleuths ~ voted on by Becky
#20 ~ The Surgeon ~ 7/23/17

Best Novels with a Gay Romance and Crime Solving Plot Subplot ~ voted on by Stephanie
#2 ~ Fatal Shadows ~ 7/23/17

Best Picks Adult SF, Fantasy & Horror of 2017 ~ voted on by Candiss, Steven
#166 ~ The Fourth Monkey ~ 7/28/17

Can't Wait Books of 2016 ~ 15 friends voted (Danielle, Ashley, Suzanne, Ora....)
#38 ~ The Girl from Everywhere ~ 7/31/17

Best Female Crime, Mystery, Thriller Writers ~ voted on by ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)
#248 ~ Play Dead ~ 8/12/17

Best Books Ever ~ voted on by 25 friends
# 11 ~ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ~ 8/21

Best Humorous Books ~ voted on by Danielle & Kelsi
# 16 ~ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ~ 8/22

Ahhh, thanks Ashley!!

I LOVE giving recommendations, even more than I like getting them I think. It's so fun to share things I think are good or share things that someone might like because they liked something else.

It seems like I find a lot of stuff that just isn't as well known. A lot of people seem to just focus on the stuff everyone else is reading. I like finding all the stuff people miss. :)