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

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

Round 1 complete! (#86)

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

I know right?
MPG Fantasy, MPG YA... so easy peasy that it feels like a trick!


As for needing a replacement E, it still looks like there are plenty of E alternates that can be moved around if/when The Eighth Guardian gets moved to Y.
So if people (Geri? ;D) are running out of vowels, the replacement book could also be for C, R, or T...

/end backseat captaining ;D

That being said, I am secretly hoping to squeeze in a 10th book for this round that happens to be an E title. But it's a huuuuuuge stretch, unless I take a day off work -- and we need three E's per word for Round 5 anyway, so.
ETA: The E book that I was thinking of also happens to be tagged NATURE! Decision made: push to Round 5! :D

Laura wrote: "Apparently Cat was bored.

Round 5 word:

OVERNIGHTEXPRESS

Round 5 tags:

Spring
Bloom
Renaissance
Nature
Fairy/Fae"

Nice!

*book ideas are forming*
*mustn't get too excited about Round 5 before finishing Round 4*
*slaps self*

JC wrote: "I have loved everything I have read by this author!"

Me too, as far as I recall! Atwood is so great that even a "bad" Atwood book is still good. :)

W00t!
I just updated the planning sheet and made it Red, so you can turn it back to the right color after you get a chance to update the official sheet.
Yay! Another tag down!

Hold up... we can use PLURAL/SINGULAR for tags, right???
Because I just had another look at the tags for The Titan's Curse which I read last week, and 1 person has it tagged as BATTLES:

https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Score?!

LOL, I think she's saying she's DNFing it because it's bad.

My new SPACE book doesn't have any Y's as far as I'm aware without having started it yet, but it looks like there are several books w/ Y's currently being used for other stuff -- mainly I's, where it sounds like they are still needed, but my current E book has a Y, so I'm sure Laura will be able to shuffle stuff around if necessary.

It's getting closer to the end of the round, but there may also still be more teammates who haven't added stuff yet too, for whatever letters. At least, I hope so :D

I will go ahead and add my last short SPACE book to the spreadsheet, and just hope I can get to it in time.
That will make a total of 9 tagged books... But obviously if more people want to add tagged stuff and we go over 10, that's even better, as it will make us a bit surer of success. :D

Michelle wrote: "My current book is tagged, just need to add it to our sheet!"

If you mean the Jim Butcher book, it is already on there, and part of Laura’s count in comment #751 :)

I should know for sure by Tues if I will have time to add my extra Space book. I think I will actually be finished with 2 of my 3 current books by then!

Oh and also, I am planning another Tagged “Space” book but haven’t added it to the spreadsheet yet. I want to finish at least one of my current 3 books before I commit!

I wasn’t sure if Mortal Heart, book 3 in a series, would include the character Ismae from book 1, but it does! So there’s another “I” book if you need to switch it.

It also turns out that The Eighth Guardian has a whole bunch of characters known only (or at least mainly, since I am not done with the book) by Codenames, including Red, Indigo, Violet, and Yellow! So that’s a whole bunch of good letters.

I will update the spreadsheet now...

Laura wrote: "We have a few that can be swapped in for Is. I was just lazy last night and only did the one. :)"

As long as Magister's Bane stays on Y, move my other books around as much as you want. I literally only didn’t DNF that book because we needed more Y’s at the time. So I will feel bad if it ends up on another letter, lol. 😂

Finished another book — it pays to be in a car for several hours and then be unable to sleep for several more hours after arriving at one’s destination, I suppose!

I started my next Tagged book. I still have some other (untagged) stuff planned on the spreadsheet, and depending on how fast I can get through, I will try to add at least one more Tagged book for the round. But it looks like we are still pretty short on Tagged books and most of them are mine already...

Xeno, York, and Zayn?! It’s like the book was written just for NBRC challenges, lol.

Keli wrote: "I think I read this in high school. But I can't remember. Think I will give it a second go after your review."

I was impressed by how Not Dated it was. It’s hard to believe it first came out in the late 1970s. There were some bits near the end that dragged a little for me, but not enough to bring down my rating :)

Finished #s 21 and 22.


The Blast was disappointing. It started out okay (aside from glaring plot omissions, and errors regarding the effects of, say, radiation sickness...) but ended up not being at all what I was expecting. In a bad way. Starts out as a decent if unoriginal post-apocalypse story about one girl's experience of surviving the end of the world, but turns into a kind of syrupy, rather patriarchal ode to weddings and babies. :/

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the other hand, was GREAT! I know, I know, everyone has read this before but me. No idea what took me so long. I didn't add it to my Goodreads TBR until relatively recently, when I somehow acquired a paperback copy, but I'd been wanting to read it since first hearing about it in high school in the 1990s. I have probably missed so many references to this book without even realizing.

Laura wrote: "I see the Adventure tag. I would say it fits the spaceship task."

I'll stick to MPG Adventure for now, and let you know before the end of Round 4 if I want to change it (like Titan's Curse).
There's another book I am thinking of reading soon that would also work for set on space ship... Lemme think about it some more.
Sorry I'm being annoying about task choices. ;D

Laura wrote: "Alysa wrote: "FYI, I finished The Titan’s Curse yesterday, and started H2G2, but I can’t update the spreadsheet until tonight or tomorrow, and I don’t think I put tasks in for either of those yet a..."

Thanks! I updated the task. I thought about using "set in US" but went with "#3 in series" -- hopefully I will not regret this choice, but I have over a week to let you know if I change my mind again. ;D

Also finished 2 more books today, including The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- task is MPG Adventure, if captains would like to verify just in case it drops off ;D
I was also wondering if I could use the "set on a space ship" task, but I don't know if it has to be set on ONE space ship? I mean, at least half of the book takes place on multiple space ships...

FYI, I finished The Titan’s Curse yesterday, and started H2G2, but I can’t update the spreadsheet until tonight or tomorrow, and I don’t think I put tasks in for either of those yet anyway. So, stay tuned :)

Also I think I will add another book for a Y... We seem to really need those!

Cat wrote: "It's after the end of the challenge, but we are into the last few hours for people to nominate the September BOMs!

Head over here to find the threads :)"

Thanks, Cat!
I should set a monthly alarm for these things...