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

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

Aiswrya wrote: "Just finished Chapter 8. this is some depressing stuff, Alysa :( It's making my heart break. And honestly, I can't bring myself to sympathize with Kit at all. If I saw my mom wasting her life away ..."

I just finished Ch. 8 too.
I hate the mom so much. Sometimes the way she’s described is sexist, but unfortunately that seems like the author’s way of painting a particular picture. Like, it’s not because she insists on skimpy clothes and whatnot that she’s a bad mother. It’s because her alcoholism, immaturity, and insecurity make her selfish and neglectful that she’s a bad mother.
Re Kit... I disagree. Like, I don’t agree with his poor, adolescent decision-making but I sympathize because I do understand it. And it is pretty common for kids like that to follow their parents shitty paths even when they have seen the outcome, sometimes unconsciously, and sometimes because they think they are superior and it won’t happen to them.

Food + books = love.

Also, @Aiswrya — congrats on becoming a Mod! I didn’t know until now :)

I am just now debating whether to read chapters 5 & 6, or go to sleep and save them for tomorrow. I guess I will wait... I am taking tomorrow off work, so I can probably read 5-8 if we do want to stay on the original schedule :)

Eh, he is 13 and caught in a bad situation, and biting the hand that feeds him.
This mom. Kind of a stereotype, the way she is written, but no less awful.

I wish I could say that no school would let kids out to a stranger without verifying they’re on file or hearing directly from the parents about it first, but unfortunately it can happen. So bizarre that apparently this Sandra has been asked to pick up the kids several times before and yet still the school had nothing in their files, so clearly the teacher is a a moron, even before her nasty comments to Lochan and Maya.

Just read the first 2 chapters. Aw, these poor kids!

Happy End of Wheel, everyone!

Congrats on good reading, everybody!

Me too! Resumed my Scribd membership because library doesn’t have it!

Yay!

Cool.
I'm going to keep reading my book, and I can always add it back later if I pull off the improbable and finish it in time.

Otherwise, it feels really weird to be basically done with Wheel two days early. I do not like this feeling!

I just finished Darkfever but I am extremely unlikely to finish my O book.
I’m going to take it out, so y’all can more easily see the empty slot!

I’ve started my last planned book (still reading the 2nd to last as well) and hopefully I will finish it in time. This week is nuts!

Haha, ditto both Mary and Devann.

That is pretty impressive, Sammy! 👏

Michelle wrote: "Go team go! We have a long hard word this time, so nice work."

After being so productive during Round 4, I feel like I am so slow now. But at least I have finished 3 of my 6 planned books so far and a good chunk into the next.

I am finally going back to working part of my time in my actual office this week, which means I’ll have part of my commute reading time back... So we’ll see what happens. I might be too anxious to concentrate on reading on the subway. :/

If the book it good, it'll be hard to read slowly. If the book is not good, it would be hard to read fast.

The struggle is real!
:D

Shane wrote: "Hello everyone! My name is Shane and I'm looking for some goodreads groups to get active in, so I have other people to talk with about the books I'm reading..."

Welcome, Shane!
Fellow booklover, fantasy-lover, pasta-lover... and Scorpio. I'm November 5 :)

No worries, Chava! This BR was your idea and we don’t want to leave you behind. We’ll see how things go. :)

Laura wrote: "Cindee wrote: "
Pages:307
Letter:S
C:Shirin
Task:52
text only cover"

Just double checking with you. It looks like, from the book description, there ..."

Definitely. Confirmed also by searching the hardcover in Amazon. :)