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

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

I remember reading a study somewhere that said certain parts of the human brain react to the loss of beloved TV/series characters the same way they react to the loss of real friends and family!

I don't know if that's true, but it's very interesting!

Jessi wrote: "Sammy wrote: "Jessi wrote: "Sammy wrote: "Jessi wrote: "Finished my first!

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Did you enjoy it?"

I did very much yes! It's been awhile since I read the first one so I had t..."

There are a few sequels that I've been afraid to pick up because I'm scared that I won't remember enough of the previous installments' details without rereading. I need to get over this fear, and just proceed, one way or the other!

I just deleted 40 books! I’m on a roll!
But I will stop for tonight so I can, ya know, actually keep reading the good books that I am 1/2way through. 😁

Finished one!



One of those books it feels like everbody has read but me. I actually really loved it! I was not expecting that!

Thanks, and happy new year!

For this challenge I like to count only Read books towards the goal, with deleting stuff in addition to Read books as gravy! :)

I didn't manage to finish my last two 2020 reads before midnight on 12/31. I finished both yesterday though, so I'm going to start my first old TBR books today!

Hi @ Mods!
Have you decided if Decades 2021 is going to start on Feb 22?
It looks like some years have covered Jan1-Dec31, but the most recent years have started later in Jan or Feb...
Eh, maybe you haven't thought about it yet, but some of us with a certain OCD would love to plan ahead, LOL.

Ditto to all of that, Laurie! And congrats on finishing too!

I am in again for 2021!
Goal is 30, targeting books on TBR since 2015 or earlier.
Same goal as last year. I'm not moving it up to include 2016 because I still have way too many 2013-2014 things on there, in particular.

I joined GR in 2012 and added a ton of print books that I already owned at the time -- for over a decade already in some cases - and STILL have not read. Yikes! Let's do this thang!

Read:


33/30 books as of 12 December 2021

Challenge complete!

Done! #73

I technically finished a while ago, but there were a couple of books from 2016 & 2017 that I wanted to replace, such as a collection whose contents were not all originally published in the exact year, or a 130 page novella swapped in for a long novel. Stuff like that. I am weird. 🙃

New 2 U Authors 2021

Level: Devil May Care (20+ books)


Round 1

Read:
Max Brooks : World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Lindsay Buroker : The Emperor's Edge
Patrick Wong : Balancer
Jordan Castillo Price : Among the Living
Elizabeth George Speare : The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Oliver Pötzsch : The Hangman's Daughter
L.J. Smith : The Awakening
Katherine Paterson : Bridge to Terabithia
Caroline Criado Pérez : Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Mia Marshall : Broken Elements
Natasha Ngan : Girls of Paper and Fire
Annette Marie : Chase the Dark
Victor LaValle : The Ballad of Black Tom
Bob Proehl : The Nobody People
Wesley Chu : The Lives of Tao
Fiona King Foster : The Captive
Barry Estabrook : Just Eat: One Reporter's Quest for a Weight-Loss Regimen that Works
Gayle Forman : The Wickeds
Krystal Sutherland : House of Hollow
Allison Saft : Down Comes the Night

20/20
Round 1 complete!
3/28/2021

1 Amethyst Coin


Round 2

Read:
S.B. Divya : Machinehood
Cate Simon : Courting Anna
Amie Kaufman : Aurora Rising (co-author Jay Kristoff not new to me)
Steve Turnbull : Murder Out of the Blue
C.E. Murphy : Easy Pickings (co-author Faith Hunter not new to me)
Stacey Halls : The Lost Orphan
Jeremy Robert Johnson : The Loop
Robert Kurson : Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Frances Hardinge : Cuckoo Song
Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James : Winging It (both authors new to me)
Kenzie Cade : Prickly Business (co-author Piper Vaughn not new to me)
Stephanie Diaz : Extraction
Edward W. Robertson : The Red Sea
Micaiah Johnson : The Space Between Worlds
Megg Jensen : Hidden
Ryan Douglass : The Taking of Jake Livingston
David Grann : The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Kara Jorgensen : The Earl of Brass
Susi Hawke : Pumpkin Spiced Omega

20/20
Round 2 complete!
7/15/2021

1 Amethyst Coin


Round 3

J.A. Sutherland : Into the Dark
Brian Jay Jones : Jim Henson: The Biography
Dev Bentham : August Ice
Camilla Sten : The Lost Village
Ginny Myers Sain : Dark and Shallow Lies
Mikel Jollett : Hollywood Park
Cassandra Khaw : The All-Consuming World
Robin Wall Kimmerer : Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Rose Szabo : What Big Teeth
Nicole Glover : The Conductors
Catriona Ward : The Last House on Needless Street
Nic Stone : Hazel and Gray
N.J. Rayner : The Time Table
Megan Crewe : Ruthless Magic
David John Griffin : The Unusual Possession of Alastair Stubb
Alison Goodman : The Dark Days Club
B.A. Shapiro : The Art Forger
Christopher Paolini : To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Evangeline Walton : She Walks in Darkness
C.J. Abedi : Fae

20/20

Round 3 complete!
12/12/2021

1 Amethyst Coin

I will do this one again for 2021!

Devil May Care, 20+ books.
Will probably complete more than once :)

Read:
Max Brooks : World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Lindsay Buroker : The Emperor's Edge
Patrick Wong : Balancer
Jordan Castillo Price : Among the Living
Elizabeth George Speare : The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Oliver Pötzsch : The Hangman's Daughter
L.J. Smith : The Awakening
Katherine Paterson : Bridge to Terabithia
Caroline Criado Pérez : Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Mia Marshall : Broken Elements
Natasha Ngan : Girls of Paper and Fire
Annette Marie : Chase the Dark
Victor LaValle : The Ballad of Black Tom
Bob Proehl : The Nobody People
Wesley Chu : The Lives of Tao
Fiona King Foster : The Captive
Barry Estabrook : Just Eat: One Reporter's Quest for a Weight-Loss Regimen that Works
Gayle Forman : The Wickeds
Krystal Sutherland : House of Hollow
Allison Saft : Down Comes the Night

20/20
Round 1 complete!
3/28/2021

Round 2

Read:
S.B. Divya : Machinehood
Cate Simon : Courting Anna
Amie Kaufman : Aurora Rising (co-author Jay Kristoff not new to me)
Steve Turnbull : Murder Out of the Blue
C.E. Murphy : Easy Pickings (co-author Faith Hunter not new to me)
Stacey Halls : The Lost Orphan
Jeremy Robert Johnson : The Loop
Robert Kurson : Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Frances Hardinge : Cuckoo Song
Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James : Winging It (both authors new to me)
Kenzie Cade : Prickly Business (co-author Piper Vaughn not new to me)
Stephanie Diaz : Extraction
Edward W. Robertson : The Red Sea
Micaiah Johnson : The Space Between Worlds
Megg Jensen : Hidden
Ryan Douglass : The Taking of Jake Livingston
David Grann : The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Kara Jorgensen : The Earl of Brass
Susi Hawke : Pumpkin Spiced Omega

20/20
Round 2 complete!
7/15/2021

Cleaning Out the TBR Closet 2021

Read:



Complete!
33/30 books as of 12 December 2021
(hit 30 in late Oct)


1 Emerald Coin

I read another one! Actually finished a few days ago but I haven’t been on GR.



It was fun, though the second half was a little slow.

That’s probably it for this year, having read 41/30 !
And all together, I deleted something like 350 books too. I shall count this as one of the few good things about 2020... 😂

I read another one, from ye olde 2013-2014 kindle freebie spree...



Entertaining, but nothing original whatsoever, and there was some off stuff that brought it down a star, to a solid 2 for “it was okay.”

I am trying to squeeze in a couple more of those 2013-2014s before the new year! 🙂

I didn't count any new authors I read this year prior to officially joining the challenge in late April.
Now I'm curious how many new authors I read between Jan and May...
But no way was it as many as Sammy though! Impressive!

Every time I see food items in texts now, my brain jolts.

Wow, we did particularly well on the Google words.
Whowoudda thunk?

Wow, we have a lot of meals! Including... so... much... coffee.

If we actually don't end up with any unfed customers this round, that will be funny :D

Choose Your Own Adventure: Harry Potter 12/12/2020 - 3/15/2021


2 Sapphire Coins