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

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

Judy wrote: "And #5 and #6 are done as well: Norse Mythology & The Emperor's Soul!"

Ooh, The Emperor's Soul was pretty good! I also need to read more Sanderson. :/

I recently read a so-so book that I would have DNF'd except it had the name "Severus Snape" in it, as well as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" because a character was reading it.

I also deleted an old Kindle Freebie book that I'd been considering, thought it also had at least one HP character name in it.

A few minutes ago, I was sampling through another old Kindle Freebie and randomly found "Marcus Flint"! And I was about to delete that book too! What to do, dammit, what to do?!

I also found the name "Draco Malfoy" in an eARC that I was looking forward to reading, only to discover that it's been removed from the final published version. Drat.

/end rant
:D

Finished another!


I thinks someone else here (Aiswrya?) read this recently too.
I liked this a lot in some ways, but disliked it in others. The way the Psychic Cops are woven into the real world is fairly clever and the plot moved at a good clip. But it's kind of dated in its portrayals of certain characters types (uh, stereotypes) and I actually did not like the sex scenes between the lead and the main love interest. The book would have been better without them.
I'm still adding Book 2 to my TBR though :D

Snowtulip wrote: "Just finished #3, The Windup Girl, this has been on my list since 2011! So far I'm liking all these older books :)"

I have been sitting on that one for ages! Not sure why, as I have liked everything else I've read by that author. :/
Maybe I'll read it this year too. :D

Finished #3


Meh. It's a book that's got its heart in the right place, but is somewhat tedious and screws up when you examine the details. TBH, I would have deleted or DNF'd it if I weren't using it for another challenge (it's got some words in text that I needed for a scavenger hunt).

✿~Danielle~✿ wrote: "Haven’t read any books for this yet. However, I have been spending time doing some cleanup of some GR shelves.

- Deleted 600 odd books, that for various reasons wouldn’t read now."

@Danielle, 600 deleted is AMAZING!
I've deleted about 100 since the start of the year, but I aspire to your number :D

Sammy wrote: "I can understand why other people like it, but the author just seemed too much in love with her own writing for my tastes. "

LOL, I think this might be the problem with The Once and Future Witches. It sort of works in 1000 Doors, because it's so meta, but in Witches it just comes off as pretentious. We'll see if I still think that after I actually read it.

Sammy wrote: "Aaaaand book 6 done!

Not a fan, unfortunately :("

Aw, that's too bad! I really loved that book.

However, I will say that I've tried to start reading the author's latest book, The Once and Future Witches, and was having trouble with it. Put it aside and will try again another day.

Finished #2!



That was super fun!
It didn't at all match how it's been described, IMO, but that's fine. Probably better that way. I will definitely read more of this series and this author.

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