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

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

3.) Read a book where something physical is destroyed (e.g., building burning down and not a relationship being ruined)

In Planetfall which I finished yesterday, a barn is destroyed in a laser battle!
I am at the airport and can’t update spreadsheet just now…

Yes, it's already been claimed in the Battleship thread.

I don't get it, but I am SO HAPPY that other people do. XD

I'll start Ariadne as soon as the challenge begins, and probably finish it on Sunday -- I hope that will help with "Greece" or whatever...
Should I go ahead and put it in??

Tricia wrote: "Sorry!!! I'm pretty new to book challenges and was just trying to help."


Oh gosh, no worries!
It's hard to get a good sense sometimes as to whether a fellow reader already knows various tips and tricks around here, especially for people with whom one hasn't interacted much before :)

See, that's why I would make a terrible Mod, because I am infamously hard-ass and would have disputed some of those with Team Pandora, LOL.

In any case, it would be nice to have my book cover that one "Trickery" task, since it's already read, i.e., "banked", and I've barely been able to contribute to the Mini challenges :)

I found something!!!

Now I just have to figure out when I can get it from the library, and which library. My work library has it in Print Reserves with a 4-hour loan maximum, which is obviously not great. If the public library has E version, I am golden... *fingers crossed*

I would rather have gone West than North, but at least I won't be stuck!

3.) Read a book where a character engages in some sort of trickery (your interpretation).

I think either of the books I finished the other day would work for this, but especially Black Sheep:
Antagonist character Jakob West double-crosses (tricks) the MC

ETA: It works better than the book that's slotted into that task now (Wee Free Men -- the Feegles are pretty straightforward folks, not really engaging in trickery unless you count hiding from humans most of the time). Actually I don't think Wee Free Men works for Island or Farmer either, though Farmer is debatable; i.e., MC is a child who helps her parents on the family farm.
But it's only an Island in the sense that any very large continent is technically an island. Doesn't really get the spirit of the task.

If others disagree, cool. This is all just IMHO :)

It is so annoying that GR only lets you look through the first 25 or so pages of these lists. I remember the days when you could look at all of the results, like going to Page 100 and working backwards. That was great for "top shelves" tasks.

Yep, I know that (thanks Lexi 😉 and thanks for looking at those 2 books!), and indeed that's not true about what moves a tagged book higher on the list.

Next I think I will try sorting my TBR by lowest total number of reviews and hope that by some miracle one of those super obscure titles is currently tagged "started" by someone or other. But most of my super obscure books only have a handful of tags and this is not one of them.

I will probably be forced to do a SKIP.

I did that already!!!
The problem is that there’s not really anything there that has the right tag on Top Shelves. Only way way down 😩
I checked a gazillion books on that list, and I also checked random books on my TBR that I thought might have it, and I also checked various brand new books that people might have just tagged “started”. All to no avail.
I did not check on books that I have already read, because I don’t want to do a reread, though at this point I doubt any such book would have it on Top Shelves either.

CANNOT FIND ANYTHING!!!! Been looking for almost 2 hours, ARGH!

Has anyone else had this task and found something???

Again, it's:
"Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as started - plurals and spelling acceptable"

Has to be odd # of pages, or title A-M

I got the task "Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as started - plurals and spelling acceptable"

I'm having a really hard time finding something with "started" -- but I did find something with " series_started"

Is that okay?

ETA: Nevermind. That book is neither North nor West, gosh dang it, and those are my direction options.

I finished my 2 books and updated the spreadsheet, but it doesn't look like either of them fit the open Mini tasks anymore. Oh well!
I'll keep an eye out in case something else gets moved around, or we try for an additional monster.

I am going to try squeezing in one more short (>150 page) book before Battleship starts on Fri.

Starting Fri afternoon I will be on a 2 week vacation!!! Hoping to read more than usual, especially since I can enforce reading on long plane flights by not downloading any movies LOL.

I am going to read Ariadne for the BOM and apparently if I don’t start until Fri 9pm UK time, it can be used for this new mini Battleship thing that I am not going to try wrapping my head around at the moment. It is tagged “Greece” if that helps!

My current space opera book might work for the Journey task, and also it is 262 pages! The characters go on a long journey through space, intending to colonize a new system!
I think it’ll take me several days to finish though, so consider it a back-up plan.

I have a task to read a book shelved (top shelves) as "Priority"
I picked Dark Rise.

Since starting, the "Priority" tag has moved down the page and is now at the bottom. I took a screenshot several days ago when it was a bit higher, but I figured I would also mention it here too, so that other people can check and confirm I am not crazy, and the book will still count even if "Priority" gets bumped down to Page 2 by the time I finish it...

Hi folks!
I ended up finishing Fray on Monday, but I also finished another book (Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood) today 6/16 which apparently means it can be used for the Monster Mini?! I haven’t been on GR or the spreadsheet since last weekend so TBH I haven’t read about that Mini challenge yet, but I will figure it out.
I can look at the spreadsheet later tonight…

ETA: oh yay, my book fits a task for Monster Mini!
Spreadsheet is updated missing only the Hyperlink to Nowhere Girl, if Caps want to add that IT IS DONE :)

Sorry I have barely been online, but at least I'm nearly done with my 1000+ pager! I should be finishing it by tonight.
My other book, Fray, I'll finish sometime this weekend.

Bernadette, that is so cool!

Bernadette wrote: "Paris wrote: "Is there any update on when the June mini will start?"

Paris, I saw in one of the captain's threads that the next mini will start on June 15th."

So there's another half-month-long mini, in addition to the Maze starting at the beginning of June?
Interesting... :D