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

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

Yeah, the issue then just becomes “MPG Childrens on Goodreads” whether you agree with it for a particular book or not :/

So... Karen, just so’s I fully understand #297 (I am just joining the challenge now as a replacement player so I dunno from spreadsheet automation, lol):

Deathly Hallows, to use Christina’s example, could be used for Frozen (but not Dessert)... but since it is over 500 pages, could still be used to find up to 12 ingredients from the book, correct?

In case anyone is interested, last month I read Sin Eater. I can’t use it now but I recommend it, and not only because it has so very many foods!

*double high five*
😆

Y’all seem to have the spreadsheet well in hand, and I have no idea what I am doing. So I will probably list foods in posts here and let Lexi or whoever take care of creating meals if that is okay?


And a Big Book question:
I started rereading HP #5 yesterday. It is over 700 pages, but because it is Childrens, and the “Desserts, drinks and cocktails” category says that Children’s books cannot be used (making no mention of verified word count!) does that mean it will have to be used for “Frozen” instead, presumably with up to 8 scavenger words rather than the 12 it would otherwise have generated?

No longer just an unofficial mascot!
Woohoo!

Looking forward to cookin’ with you lovelies. I haven’t been reading as much as in past challenges but I will do my best 😄

My first (and hopefully only) DNF of the month. It also happens to be one of my oldest ARCs, from way back in 2017.


(my review)

A tedious mess, and particularly sad because some of the ideas were potentially really cool. Oh well.

Go Team Second Breakfast!!!
😀

The Drowsy Bookworm wrote: "Alysa wrote: "Hello Rachel, Lia, Jess, and Erin!
I hope you will all have fun around here. 😁"

Thank you!"

Erin, we have the same birthday! 5 November!
But I am 3 years older than you. It is also my own daughter’s birthday (yup, we share a birthday; she is turning 10 this year).

Hello Rachel, Lia, Jess, and Erin!
I hope you will all have fun around here. 😁

Gem ~Zero Shelf Control~ wrote: "Yes!!! Finished my first ever approved read from 2016 (oops), starting the next oldest too! I will get through these!"

Nice!

Since hitting 100% of my goal on this challenge, I haven’t read many old TBRs because I was trying to focus mainly on my NetGalleys, but here are 2 more oldies (and I am currently reading another...)


Was meant to be a BR but everybody else kind of bowed out. The writing is YA, as it’s meant to be, but the content is so adult and serious. What a tragic story!


Also a BR, over in the Back Room, lol. This was pretty bad, almost but not quite in a “so bad it’s good” way. Oh well!

First two NG reviews of October:

(my review)

(my review)

I am still a little behind on reviews, but only by 2 which is way better than usual!

Welcome, Charlotte!
You have the same birthday as my SO, who is from Paris. And your tastes are similar to mine. Partial psychic twins? 😁

I managed to get one more review done:

(my review)

I am still behind in reviews, but not enough to affect my feedback ratio. Which I did actually manage to move up by 1% even though I added one new book to the TBR!
Because that is what happens when your total NG numbers are so high that you need to write like 6 reviews just to go up 1 percentage point 😂

See y’all in the October thread!

Sure, why not? I’ll play :)

NetGalley Challenge Oct 2020

Beginning of month:
38 books -- not including 4 books read but still lacking reviews (not pictured)
Feedback ratio 92%

Read:
Box Hill (my review)
Sin Eater (my review coming soon)
Down Along with That Devil's Bones (my review)
Hench (my review coming soon)

DNF:
A Man of Shadows (my review)




End of month:
35 books (including 3 new ones, ugh)
Feedback ratio 93%

I am still pretty behind in writing reviews, though I will try to write some more tomorrow just so I can feel good about completing them before the month is officially over.

But here are two that I did manage to do. One more new book that was pretty meh, and one really old one (of my oldest NGs!) which ended up being a DNF:


(my review)


DNF
(my review)

Claiming spot!

Beginning of month:
38 books -- including 1 currently reading; not including 4 books read but still lacking reviews (not pictured)
Feedback ratio: 92%

Read:
Box Hill (my review)
Sin Eater (my review coming soon)
Down Along with That Devil's Bones (my review)
Hench (my review coming soon)

DNF:
A Man of Shadows (my review)




End of month:
35 books (including 3 new ones, ugh)
Feedback ratio 93%

I finished 3 more NGs, and have reviewed 2 of them...


(my review)

(my review)

I need to review the remaining one soon!:


I loved it. This coming week I will try to review it along with my 2 remaining super-overdue reviews from NGs that I read several months ago. 😬

Lexi wrote: "First review of the month for me. I read it earlier this month but only wrote the review today. The Book of Koli was a slow start for me but I was interested enough by the end to re..."

I loved both of those books!
I have The Trials of Koli to read soon too (I read the first one in the spring) but probably won’t get to it for a few weeks yet, which I feel terrible about, because the publisher just sent out a blast to NG recipients today... 😬