Alysa’s Comments (group member since Jun 27, 2015)

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

Deanna wrote: "

Spin 6 - Tower Teams 9: Muses
"Pick four different Muses, for each Muse, read a book that fits their role
Thalia (Comedy); Clio (History); Euterpe (Music); Melpomene (Tragedy); Terpsichore (Dance); Erato (Love); Polymnia (sacred poetry); Urania (Astronomy); Calliope (epic poetry)"
Melpomene (Tragedy) - Rebecca

Ideas: Thalia - MPG Humor, Clio - MPG Historical Fiction/History or historical setting, Euterpe - instument on cover, musician characer, Erato - MPG Romance, Urania, night scene on cover. These are just to get you started. Feel free to suggest alternatives...."

I have a book loosely inspired by mythology that has some gods and goddesses and such as characters, and one character is named Calliope (might be the actual muse but without having read the book yet I’m not sure).
Would that work for Calliope?

Alysa wrote: "I have "heron" in my current book and I'm almost done"

Done!

I have "heron" in my current book and I'm almost done

Jean wrote: "I have heron in my book "

I was just coming to say I have Heron it in the book I'm currently reading!
But I've been a bit slow lately because things are kind of insane IRL. So you will probably finish first.

Kimberly wrote: "Thanks Snowtulip!
So we’d just need a book that starts and ends with S and we’d have our quadrilateral!

T—->W
W—->S
S—->S
S—->T"

I'm planning to read The Sea Queen at some point this month, if that helps. But obviously, if I am taking too long, use something else 🙂

Alysa wrote: "I'll be done with #53 tomorrow :)"

Well I finished Sunday morning, not on Saturday, but... finished is finished 😁

I'm off to update spreadsheet and figure out what to read next!

I'll be done with #53 tomorrow :)

Jhmingos wrote: "Cordelia, what did you think of Fourth Wing? Seems like everyone is reading it."

Even me! I'm hoping to Audiobook it, next week! :)

Deanna wrote: "

53: Film 10s - 10 - Read a book with 10 (or ten) in the title - Alysa..."

I'm about 2/3 done with my book for this. If necessary of course it can also be used for page range 600+, but someone else would need to read for the chipmunk task.

I have not been tracking character names. LMK if I should start doing so. There's a large cast.

Just checking in.
Still working on my long book for #53.
I didn't have as much reading time as I'd hoped, after Monday, but I should get a good chunk done over the weekend :)

Deanna wrote: "

NEW TASK
🐾 80: X Books - Read a book where the title starts with X

39: 10 Awards - Read a book that won a RITA - Corderlia
53: Film 10s - 10 - Read a book with 10 (or ten) in the title - Alysa
6..."

I finished my Wolverine book yesterday and just got online to update everything. But it looks like someone else took over the task since last time it appeared with my name in the run-down. :/

I hadn’t really been keeping track of character names much because it was slotted for Wolverine, so hopefully what I put in is sufficient for it to fit somewhere. IDK if it has a majority color cover. Or maybe some other word-in-text will come up.

I’ve started my “Ten in title” book. It is long, but is going pretty well for me as I had a ton of reading time yesterday. Hope it won’t take too long!

I can also read a book with the word “ten” in the title, which works for 3 of the tasks currently open, except it’s a really long book and will take me a while to finish.
It’s Ten Arrows of Iron, and I do want to read it in any case. So, “wolverine” book first, and then “ten” title book. :)

Just finished X character name book! Going to update spreadsheet.

I’m going to start a book now that has the word “wolverine” in the text, for task #68

Deanna wrote: "

NEW TASK
65: X Books - Read a book where a character name starts with X - Alysa"

Hahahah!!! Perfect!
And I will finish the book sometime today!

The book I am reading turns out to have a character with a name that starts with an X.
Too bad that is not one of the tasks (yet?!) 😁

Just finished my MPG Science book. Going to update spreadsheet now.

Oh, nice!

I didn't even think of it. Happy accident :)

Skipping:
Task: Read a book with the word hot, love or steam (plurals are acceptable) in the title
Direction: West (Odd Number of pages)

H : The Fifth Doll, by Charlie N. Holmberg
E : Esmeralda, character in Jenny Plague-Bringer
L : MacKayla Lane, character in Bloodfever
P: Luke Parrish, character in Saving Time

And with that, I have *finally* gotten all the way back to the last wrong turn in my maze!

Jhmingos wrote: "I finished Perdido Street Station for a Rainbow Towers black cover or Crayola for the letter "Y", but it's also been tagged as MPG Science. I'll leave it to the captains if you want..."

Yep, I am working on it! Should be done by the end of the week; it's not a very long book.

Jenn wrote: "Alyssa if you’re already planning on science I’ll let you have it :)"

I'm going to read The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu which has MPG Science.
But if I am too slow and you or Stacey have a back-up book of course that is totally fine!