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

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

Stacey wrote: "
Finished. 5 stars, which is something from me for a non-fiction book.

I'm curious about scribd. When comparing I read info on how it has a smaller library and that you can't always get the title you want right away. Is this true? I use Audible..."

The Scribd library is smaller than Audible for sure. So unless you listen to a lot of Audible Originals / Audible Exclusives, the effectiveness of Scribd can largely depend on how many books (esp audiobooks) you can get from your public library, and when.

I like both Scribd and Audible, but I love public libraries more. :D

Celia Buell wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Celia Buell wrote: "Tina ❣ wrote: "Celia Buell wrote: "I read . On spreadsheet for frying pan bingo.

It was okay, better than the first in the..."

That's just happening because Celia has a LOT of GR shelves. On the book page, if a friend has the book shelved on lots of different personal shelves, the list of their shelves will be truncated. So you have to go to the person's specific TT shelf to see if the book is there.
I learned this the hard way when I was captaining TT7 :D

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Tina ❣ wrote: "That... is an amazing idea! I tried to do that with Audible but apparently you can only pause it for 3 months every 12 months. It was useful though"

Audible is great but I try to be careful about how much stuff I get there that can be got from the public library instead. Some stuff is on Scribd and Audible, and then it's kind of a matter of figuring out what is most cost effective, what UI you prefer, etc.
I used to have one of the Audible memberships where you get 12 credits per year but I have soooooo many TBRs that I "purchased" and haven't listed to yet that I switched my membership to the cheaper Audible Plus kind where you have unlimited access to only a certain catalog of stuff, and that stuff mostly tends towards being exclusive to Audible.

Tina ❣ wrote: "YAY! Awesome! Do you have anything fun planned? Amusement parks? Cinemas? Brunch?"

Well today I'm taking her and a classmate through Central Park and over to see this new soy grass turf park that's been installed on the plaza in front of Lincoln Center! Looks so cool!:
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainm...


In book news, do we think this cover might count for one of those "cover has only men (one ok) PLUS something blue" tasks?
There's a male centaur, and some butterflies that look blue to me:

Jessi wrote: "https://www.scribd.com/g/92lj6c

There's my link if anyone else would like to do the 30 day free trial of Scribd

ETA: So it's actually a 60 day free trial if you use my link and yes each friend gi..."


I'm not posting mine. Jessi needs the refs more than I do, haha.

I'm taking the next couple of days off work. My daughter has off from school. She and I have some fun things planned but I should also be able to get some decent reading done from tonight thru Sunday :D

Woohoo for a 4 day weekend!

Namita wrote: "Mine is a free trial. 1st month!!"

Yeah but if you do it through a referral code, sometimes the other person also gets a month free or something like that. Could have maybe gotten Jessi a freebie, since she doesn't have a fancy gift membership like me.
*grins*

I actually got my initial trial a few years ago through a code from Christina on Team Nanny Ogg. (If you're reading this, thanks Christina!)

Christina wrote: "Also, how many freaking food/drink words are in this book!!!?!?!?? I'm having flashbacks y'all 😂"

LOL, so many of us flashback on food words every time we pick up a book!

Aw, unfortunate cross-posting! lol

Scribd usually has free trial memberships with a referral, so if you're interested, Namita (or anybody else), one of us can send you a code. :)

My partner got me a 12 month Scribd subsciption for Xmas, but I get so many library books and netgalleys and have so many old tbrs that what I do is this:

Find a book on Scribd that I can't get through local library.
Read/listen to it.
Pause membership for 30 days.
Rinse, repeat.

Every time the membership pauses & reactivates, it adjusts the subscription renewal date by 30 days (or however many days you paused, if you unpause it early).
So I can basically go for several years on this one 12-mo gift subscription!!!

I read The Medium, and The Wrong Girl.

They've all had that cool Dark Victorian vibe. The Medium was quite charming, but it dragged whenever the romance trumped the plot (which was often), and there were too many loose ends.
The Wrong Girl and The Last Necromancer both had a million problems with the plots and character development being a hot mess, and also serious gender issues, especially with how the male characters treat the females.

Celia Buell wrote: "Huh. I read/listened another book by this author, The Palace of Lost Memories, and loved it. Sorry to hear she's not all equal on her books. I have the ebook of this one as well, so I hope I end up liking it a little more."

This is actually my 3rd time reading a book by this author, and I have rated them 3 stars, 2 stars, and 1 star, respectively. So I think this author just really is not a good fit for me? Or maybe if I try the one you mentioned, it would be 4 stars? Who knows. :/

Two more old TBRs down!



Read a couple of weeks ago. Meh. It had its good points but it was slow, and used some unfortunate problematic tropes.



This was awful. I would have DNF'd it if I hadn't been using it for Tower Teams. Also, I listened to the audio and the narrator did a good job with it, so it wasn't as painful as it could have been to read.

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It was terrible. I would have DNF'd it if it hadn't been for TT.
But, since it was audio and the narrator did a pretty good job with it, it wasn't too painful to listen to the whole thing. Probably a better experience than reading it would have been!

Oh cool, The Midnight Library is on Scribd too (it didn't show up when I checked the other day).
So if none of my library holds come in time, I will reactive my Scribd account a bit earlier than planned.
I volunteered as a back-up for DQs :)

Backup for Team Carrot :D

Jessi wrote: "@Alysa, I would say just list all the possible options it can fit for. I’m pretty sure we can move things around whenever if needed. We still have plenty of time left to complete tasks and such. I ..."

Okay, in that case I’m moving the book in my example back to the other task. Spell-outs are usually pretty easy and can be completed later!

Cat wrote: "Heyyy everyone! My name is Cat and I'm so happy I recently found this wonderful group!!"

Welcome to the madness, Cat! :)

I have a question that I should know the answer to but somehow I do not --
Are captains able to keep moving books around between tasks/bingo/etc as many times as you want, up until the very end of TT?

I feel like I don't know whether to put books on tasks that will complete a high-value subseries, or put them on other stuff that seems harder but is in a lower-value subseries, or what.
Like, yesterday I finished People of the City, which I had on #241 - last book in a completed series.
But #241 is in the "Tiffany Aching" subseries, so I moved the book to #172 for a spell-out in the "City Watch" subseries that seemed nearly complete...

But if Captains can keep moving stuff back and forth on the Main spreadsheet all the time until the very end, it doesn't really matter to much as long as we give plenty of options... y/n?

Will you just ask us for justifications on alternate options as the need arises?