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

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

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

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. 😂