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

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

I have a little bit left of Outcast to finish in the morning.
My eyelids are closing. 🥱

I am having a small freak-out about which of my Round 2 book I should start first, and whether I try to do more tagged books instead of just 2-3, in case y’all have trouble finding stuff, but I will literally go sleep on it... 😴

Laura wrote: "Alysa, I’ve started listening to the next Guild Hunter book. It’ll be close to finish in time, but hopefully if your real life things are too crazy, between us one of us will finish off that last t..."

I'll be done with mine in about 20 minutes :D

Laura wrote: "I know I look crazy, with 3 books still unfinished on the spreadsheet, but I just finished one. The other two are both under 200 pages, so I should be done with all of them today. I may get one mor..."

When you look at everybody's Books p/round av, it makes total sense how many books we still have unfinished though. We are like, "There's more than 24 hours left? No problem!" :D

I have a .... surprising number of TBRs that have those new tags. So weird.

I am still on track to finish my remaining two books, but just in case I don’t have enough time (things a little nuts IRL right now), I will try to focus on my T book first, since it’s got the final tag bonus.

The other book is an O that can just be moved to next week’s word if I don’t manage to finish it. I should know for sure either way by early Friday morning. :)

Laura wrote: "Team! We have our next Round info! It's still only in the Official Spreadsheet, but as soon as she gets a chance Michelle will copy it over to the planning spreadsheet for us!

Word: Yodelling

Tag..."

Woohoo!

There are so many books with gorgeous covers coming out this year.
I mean, I guess that's probably true every year, but for some reason I've been drooling all over my screen lately.

This week is ALA Virtual, and lots of publishers are giving out ARCs or holding sweepstakes for ARCS, and I have been allllll over it.

Which means... I may not do so well on old TBRs for a little bit, lol.

Geri wrote: "OK. I thought the MPG just had to be on page 1. If there is a minimum number, let me know, Laura!"

MPG has to be on the main front page of the book, before you click through to "top shelves" :)

ETA: cross-posted with Laura :)

Geri wrote: "Laura wrote: "Geri, your book Shadow Falling doesn't appear to have MPG Zombies currently. Is there another task you can use it for?"

I do see zombies on page 1, column 2, 4th opti..."

I think Laura is asking because MPG is different from just anywhere in tags[top shelves] with no minimum number...

Hullo! Re Things in Jars (and my other non-tagged book) —
I will finish in time, though probably not until pretty close to the end of Round 1.

Any word yet in Caps group on when we will be getting our 2nd word?

Re recs, well, there are a lot of things that I wanted to read anyway, and my GR TBR is like a giant dump of every book that has ever sounded interesting. So out of control, lol. So this rec task situation will just make me bump those books up the list!

For Quidditch, I had also finally broken down and signed up for 2 months free of Kindle Unlimited because I thought it would come in handy depending on books being read during the match. So even though I have a bazillion other book sources and generally try to avoid reading bad books on purpose, I am trying to make the most of my 2 month membership by taking the opportunity to read stuff that was on my TBR anyway that happens to be on KU. I guess that’ll be only 2 books during Round 1, but more are planned for the next Rounds, depending on what words we get.

So many books, such a short human lifespan... 😄

Laura wrote: "Alysa, if you want to change your task for Network Effect, it was recommended by the Murder on the Orient Express team.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

I noticed that! But I made a long list of stuff I would like to read that’s been recommended by other teams, so I am going to save those slots.
I considered using that book for “space ship on cover” too but there is at least one other book I would like to read this summer that has a spaceship on the cover, whereas I am less likely to read something else with a brown cover.
These tasks, man. Difficult to know what ya might regret not saving. :)

I'm reading an indie Book 2 that's a little bit meh, but also started that re-read of Harry Potter #4 today. So yay to that.

Also, for some reason, a whole bunch of NetGalley approvals turned up in my inbox today. I haven't been requesting much stuff in the last few months, due to a combination of big backlog, reading less, and forgetting to check their website for new titles, but wow today was like Book Xmas, with whatever I did request, all coming in at once!
I got approved for The Conductors, which is exciting.

No, we had Machiatto and Eucalyptus. I think there was one other team that did 2 respins besides mine, but I don't know what their weird words were.

Definitely more laid back with 2 weeks per round!
I think it was weekly during the last wheel ("Brown" edition), and every 2 weeks the time before that ("Holiday" edition), which was only 6 weeks long.

The "Brown" edition was fun when we could ask for re-spins, and my team got some very bizarre words and themes. :D

Just a bit over 50%, which means that I am on track! Though I do like to be ahead, so to me this is like being behind, haha.
I can feel good about all those books that I deleted though. This fall I will try to take the time to do more of that as well. Maybe stuff I added in 2015-16.

Laura wrote: "I finally found the official countdown! They are in the Captain’s Group, with the check-in thread. Here’s the one for Round 1.


https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown......"

Cool. Hopefully the Mods will let everybody know the next round's Spell-Out words a little in advance of the actual deadlines though. (They usually do). It's always nice when it's, like, Wed night and you can start planning ahead for Fri night. :D

Geri wrote: "Alysa wrote: "I plan to answer DQs for the Adult July BOM, but unfortunately can't volunteer to write any, as I am tentatively traveling during that time.
Luckily, it's [book:The Sun Down Motel|458..."

I grew up almost entirely in upstate NY, so I am very curious to see how it is depicted in that book :)

I plan to answer DQs for the Adult July BOM, but unfortunately can't volunteer to write any, as I am tentatively traveling during that time.
Luckily, it's The Sun Down Motel, which I've been interested in reading anyway, and it's on at least 2 other teams' rec lists!

I just gave Navi a bunch of nonfiction recs, so I guess I will post them here too in case anyone else is interested! :D

Coming over from Don Quixote again -- this time to answer Navi's call for nonfiction recs!

Here are a few that I have given 5 stars...
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And pretty much anything by Rick Bragg or Mary Roach.

I had already rec'd Just Mercy in my earlier rec post here.
I just watched the movie too -- good, but the book is way better ;D