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

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

Finished Wyrd Sisters and updated spreadsheet.


I have this paperback that looks totally Red in person but somewhat more orange (and black) on my PC screen. What do y'all think?:

✿~Danielle~✿ wrote: "Round two word - The Last House on Needless Street
Colour: Red
Genre: Mythology"


PERFECT TIMING!!!
Thank you!

Incidentally, I read Needless Street a while back and I loved it, but apparently I'm in the minority, LOL.

I know we can't bank books finished in Round One and use them for Round Two, but I thought it's only the Finished date that matters -- as usual in challenges, right?
Like if I start a book today and finish it next Thursday, it's a Round Two book.
So it'd be good to plan some weekend reading around just starting something that fits Round Two bonuses ;D

Any idea how far in advance of each week we'll find out the Word for the following week?

Finished Sunreach last night!
Now on sheet :)

Thanks Cat!

I should finish Sunreach tomorrow, if not tonight, and my Discworld book sometime during the weekend.
Is there a countdown timer for end of Week 1/start of Week 2?

✿~Danielle~✿ wrote: "I’m starting with Skyward"

Haha, I'm starting with Sunreach later tonight :)

I am halfway through the final story in the collection I started a long time ago and need to finish before Wheel begins…. It is by far the longest story in the book, dammit.
Cover is blue, too bad I can’t use it 😂

Darn. Well I’ll most likely read a different 10>tag Space Opera book, since the bonus is unlimited, and leave the blue covers to other people since we can only have 5.
I was excited about that book though! 😂

So… color cover question answered, but I just realized that even though my book has Space Opera as one of its top tags, that is still only 8, not the required 10, because so few people have read it. Ugh.

Maybe captains can run it through Captains Group in cases like this? I mean, this book is clearly a Space Opera. It’s a MPG on the new-style book page and presumably the old-style one too.

Got it.
Excellent.
Yay.

Ooooh I think I found my first book! It's a Space Opera with a Blue cover and it's next up in the series for me anyway! Joy!




ETA: To me this is a blue cover, but I REALLY do not want a repeat of the Infamous Tower Teams Color Cover Controversy, and I don't know if we're using TinEye or not because it's wonky sometimes. Do we need a second opinion on the color?

Hi team!!
I'm Alysa from NYC. I've played many NBRC team challenges before, and co-captained a time or two, but haven't been as active on Goodreads (or even reading as much) in the past couple of years due to RL stuff.
I'm excited to play Wheel with you all! And especially glad to finally be on a team with the lovely Cat :)

Not sure what my first book will be... I need to take a look through everything over the weekend. Trying to finish my current novel before Wheel starts, and maybe the short story collection at which I've been chipping away since early September...

I've been chipping away at my Book Maze, too, and my next task is "Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Humour(ous)" -- and I was actually planning to read a Terry Pratchett book for it, so it's fitting that I'm on the Guards!Guards! team, LOL.

Here is my shelf:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Finally finished my SKIP
Comment # 770

Onwards...well, technically Backwards...

Sophie wrote: "Thanks everyone for being patient with me! RL has been a bit of a trainwreck with 2 bereavements and a complete change of routine with my son starting school. I'm hoping that we have everything bac..."

Oh snap, I didn't realize about the direction!
Apparently that means 3 of the 4 books I used in my SKIP spell-out do not actually count. Ugh. I will have to swap them out before I proceed with the next task.
At least the book I entered in the actual Maze site was the one of those 4 that fit though. Silver linings...

I can relate, Sophie. Back-to-school has been nuts, and I also came home from a memorial service just this afternoon.
I'm sorry for your losses!

Finally decided to skip, using books I've read in the meantime. Argh.


Skipping:
Task: Read a book where a character gets into shape
Direction: North (Title starts with A-M)

S : Michael J. Sullivan - Age of Empyre
K : Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
I : Iain Pears - The Titian Committee
P : Paper Dolls

ETA 9/14 : apparently those K, I, and P books don't count as titles needed to be A-M. I will replace them...

S : Michael J. Sullivan - Age of Empyre
K : The Kingdoms
I : It's Your Funeral!
P: Paul Cornell - The Lost Child of Lychford

I got a task "Read a book where a character gets into shape"

I feel like that might be somewhat common in genres that I wouldn't read and know little about -- but can anyone think some fantasy/sci-fi where a character has to train hard to "get into shape" for something?

Or maybe a M/M romance (sports or not) where someone has to work out or train to get in shape for some reason?

ETA: also has to be North (Title starts with A-M)
Could also be West (Odd Number of pages) but I would prefer North :)

Great team, with special thanks to the Captains!

Happy reading, everybody!

3 1/2 hours to go!

https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...

Caps need time to log stuff before the official end though :)