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

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

Split the difference: 3 chapters a day?
Including the epilogue that's 27/3 so we'd finish in 9 days.

BTW, I removed an E book that I might not end up reading, and moved something else into that E slot -- a book that had previously been down as an S.

(If I change my mind again, the removed book actually works for both E and S too :D)

Me too! I am so looking forward to this...

Laura wrote: "It still works if the book doesn't have too many different tags"

Talk about defeating the purpose! Silly GR developers. 🙄

Yeah it sounds like Command+G on Mac is the the same as Control+F on a PC.
I can't do it from my iPad either, but I tend to toggle between iPad and PC in general.
I don't really like Macs but I like my iPad... for many things though definitely not all!

Re the "other" tag search method... In case anyone wants to try it, this is the best thing I've seen explaining that other thing I mentioned (the one that almost always times out!):
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I've seen it circulated around quite a bit. Maybe GR servers used to be more reliable?

Geri wrote: "I get tired after looking through 3 pages. 😁"

You have read so much for Wheel, I bet a lot of your books were tagged for whatever we needed in each round, but buried so far in the list that you didn’t get that far, lol.

Laura wrote: "It’s not so bad if you use the search feature."

Not sure what you mean by search feature. There is that thing where you can search a particular book for a particular tag, but GR times-out on that like 99% of the time.
So I always try that just for giggles, and then still end up having to just go thru the 100+ pages doing Control+F
:O

Sophie wrote: "I honestly can't remember whether I ever filled one of these in when I joined the group (in 2013...). Finding out that I'm going to be one of your new intake of mods seems like an appropriate time ..."

Lol, “welcome” Sophie! Congrats on becoming a Mod!
I don’t think I ever did an introduction post here either. Maybe I will fix that soon too, though my excuse isn’t as good as yours :)

I just randomly found a copy of Surfacing on the book swap shelf in my building’s laundry room. So that will probably be my next Atwood book.
There have been a whole bunch of great books down on that shelf lately. I wish I knew which of my neighbors has such similar taste!

Laura wrote: "I’ll take a look, Geri."

I took the liberty of fixing the problem:
The formula was missing from cell L-25 (in Geri's finished book, The Space Between Worlds)

ETA: formula was also missing from cell L-18 (your Thinking Racehorse). That was the only other one.

There's another O book that I could maybe read if I end up having time... or if I drop the BOM.
It's Parable of the Sower. Just for fun I went through over 100 pages of tags, and found both Spring (1 tag) and Nature (2 tags). So random. I think I saw "Sky Fairy" in there pretty early in my search, and was like WHY SKY FAIRY???

I added another Fairy book, which has an O character, and it looks like we need more O's...

So we have 10 now, but the more the merrier

*deep breath*
I picked another.
One of Cindee's recommendations, Splintered, is tagged both Spring and Fae :D

Laura wrote: "We're up to 7 tagged books for Round 5, currently."

I just added 1 more, and plan to add even more but am having Decision Fatigue.
I WANT TO READ ALL THE BOOKS! :D

Me too, last night.
Started some Round 5 books. Hard to believe it's going to be the last round!

I should be done with my SPACE book late tonight!
At the very least, tomorrow lunchtime, way in advance of Michelle’s PST deadline ;)

Cindee wrote: "
Pages:336
Letter:T
T:The Fell of Dark
Task: 190
purple cover"

Oooh, Cindee! What did you think of this book? It looks really good.

Awesome.

In other news, I am so glad that I didn't try to stick another book into Round 4, besides this short Space Opera one. A few days ago I still thought I might have time, but then my daughter's day camp -- which she literally just started on Monday -- got cancelled for two days due to storm/power failure, so I had to keep her occupied whenever I could break from work.
But at least storms/power failure closures are not coronavirus closures!

@Caps - Can you please confirm that Slow Bullets has MPG Space Opera, in case it drops off...

Round 1 complete! (#86)

I think I'll do another... :D