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

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

Coming over from Don Quixote 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 hope you find something you like!

I have come from Don Quixote to answer Sammy's call for Sports novels...
If anyone reads MM, I highly recommend these two hockey series by Avon Gale:

Scoring Chances series:
https://www.goodreads.com/series/1655...

Hat Trick series (co-authored with Piper Vaughn):
https://www.goodreads.com/series/2091...

I discovered these when I had to find a "hockey player" book for a task during the Right Side Up Spring challenge last year. At first I was like... ugh, sports. But these books are addictive, and now I know all about hockey! :D

ETA: just to be clear, these are MM romance, but not trashy. They are real books! lol

I saw The Cruel Prince on a couple other teams' Book Recs lists. I should probably finish some other Holly Black series before starting a new one (a constant problem for me, esp with certain authors!) but I may very well end up reading TCP before Wheel is done :D

Hello Cats!
I am wandering over here from Team Don Quixote basically just to bug Jessi, lol.
*BUG*

Anybody read anything really good for Wheel yet?
:D

I finished my 2nd book earlier today (and updated spreadsheet).
I also added a 6th book, also for "T" and also tagged CREEPY.
:D

Finished #16


Liked but didn’t love, though I do still plan to continue the series.
This book was impressive in that I got into it right away even though it has been over 7 years (!) since I read Book #1.

Welcome, Victoria!

I have two Tagged books that I am currently reading. One (CREEPY) will be done tomorrow, and the other one (TWILIGHT) the next day, or Thursday at the latest. If we end up having more than 10, I don’t think it’s a big problem, we just won’t get extra points. So it’s probably better to plan a little over 10, to err on the side of caution just in case somebody doesn’t finish something :)

Geri wrote: "Laura wrote: "Geri, have you read A Dead and Stormy Night? It’s an RH cozy! I recommend it. :)"

I had no idea there was an RH cozy! Thank you!"

I just had to look up what you meant by "RH cozy" -- I was like... there is a Rocky Horror cozy? lol

Murderbot is so great.
I am mad at any book that is not a Murderbot book.
(Well, not really. But still. 🙂)

I only have like 30 pages left of Network Effect (it is so goooooood!!!), and I have also started Blameless, but my partner is doing an elaborate tandem online meal right now with friends in other countries (lunch here, dinner there) and vodka is happening...
One shot, I feel it. I am old 😂

Laura wrote: "Thanks, Alysa. We also have a thread set up in the captain’s group for librarian requests."

Oh good! I was wondering if they would keep that feature, from TT :D

If it helps any, the only NetGalley listing for that book is for paperback ISBN 9781728210230, which is same as the one listed on Amazon as 432 pages.
I am GR Librarian but trying to refrain from editing stuff for myself/my team during challenges, in case of conflict of interest.
You may want to take it to the Librarians Group.

I noticed that Emeli’s “stepdad” book also does not have a page count on GR.
ETA: well, it didn’t until a couple of hours ago, apparently!

[[ Frankie ]] wrote: "Has anyone read The Library of the Unwritten?

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Not yet, but I want to. I remember almost voting for it in BOMs during the last TT, but then switching to Ninth House for strategic purposes, lol.

14 minutes to go! Yippee!!

Oooh Carrie, I LOVE The Library at Mount Char!

Question:

Would y'all consider this cover as having a cityscape (for Task #26)?
I think it does, but it's not ONLY a cityscape because there's also a person in the foreground.

How young are your youngest?
I'm a bit worried about mine (9 1/2) being old enough for the last 3 HP books, when we get there. I was planning to space them out more, so she'd be like 12 by the time we get to Deathly Hallows, but with quarantine -- and with some of her friends reading them all and starting to do spoilers (THOSE LITTLE BASTARDS!) -- I don't know if that's realistic.

I usually read 2 or 3 books at a time as well, in the normal course of things -- or even 4 if I'm also in the middle of reading something long to my kid! -- but I actually often read fewer books at a time during challenges. It's like, I'd rather complete one after the next after the next, rather than a bunch of books all finished at the same time. But, we shall see. Current circumstances being strange.

I'm going to start with Network Effect effect, like I mentioned, and then probably Blameless (my hold came in this morning, yay!). Then I'll start in on the other books I already put on the spreadsheet.

I've been reading the Harry Potter books aloud to my daughter, and we are going to start #4 soon, which I am excited about. It's been really amazing to see her reactions to these books. Like, whenever Snape does something unfair in potions class, and she is like "WHAT?!" :D
We started a different book last night, something that's just a little too short to have counted for Wheel anyway. If we finish it during the weekend days, we can start HP #4 sometimes next week. :D

We usually do, yeah, though maybe Michelle's been checking everybody's shelves on the downlow.

I'll post mine here just in case:
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