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

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

Bwahaha, I love my team’s first tag list!
And the task list! 💕💞💗

@Alison, I think we're all dealing with this issue! I already asked my count to be lowered a bit, from 17 to 15, but I feel like my actual rate right now is closer to 10. Like, averaging a book every 3 days or so.
D:

I don't want to bug for a change AGAIN, so I am just crossing my fingers that I can make my reading level go up once summer camps announce their new opening plans, and shit like that, and a small bit of certainty comes back into life!

It’s Robin Hood: Men in Tights!
LOVE that movie!

megan wrote: "I love seeing notifications from this feed pop up in my app. With all that has been going on in 2020, I know I can’t be the only one who could use the distraction of a reading challenge. Especially..."

Ditto to your post, megan!!!

Except for the part about winning. I have no idea who will end up winning, and tbh, I don’t care that much this time around*, I just want to read books and have fun with all of you.


*Reserving right to take back this statement when I inevitability start to become competitive again. Because y’all know this is more likely than not. 😉

I have a very weird mental problem for a week or two after Wheel ends, where I see random stuff out in the world -- like the name of a store or restaurant or something -- and for a moment, I'm like, "That would work for M! Oh... wait..."

Welcome Emily!
Have you read all six of Legends of the First Empire yet? I’m only thru #4 so far, and wish I had your cool reading nook in which to read 5 & 6 🙂

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Ooh, is that a glimpse of the new Wheel in the Newsletter... or just a decoy. Enquiring minds want to know, LOL. If it's the real thing some of those words are going to .... challenging."

I saw that too and was thinking the same thing, lol.

Welcome Bernadette!
Library Board of Directors = love. ❣️

Welcome, Vaidehi!
And don’t worry, we all get carried away by our love of books here :D

I am the same with my print collection, and some of my private "What should I read next?" documents. I have several of those, with various criteria! I just don't tend to use Goodreads for shelves/tags very much, past the boilerplate Read/Currently Reading/Want to Read.

I'm also a librarian who spends up to 50% of every day (normally) on retrospective cataloging, so, there is that. :D

I have like 3k on my GR want-to-read, but I guess I just don’t mind scrolling, or switching my options from Infinite Scroll to 100 per page of whatever.
Or, I just don’t like having a lot of shelves. Whenever there are Challenge tasks that involve tags, I am like “Thank goodness for everybody else” because I hardly ever use shelves/tags unless I have to, lol.

The other Sandy wrote: "I don't limit myself at all, except for the challenge requirement of being on my TBR for more than one year. I did create shelves for the years I added them, so if I want to read a book I shelved i..."

You can also just sort your whole TBR by date-added. I do that a lot!

Sammy wrote: "Bookcases my husband built into our livingroom wall when we bought the house: (the little packets are a loose-leaf tea advent calendar, lol)"

*drools*

Melanie wrote: "Oh Sammy I really like your shelves. That's great that your husband is handy enough to build those.

I also have built-ins in my spare room that a friend built after I was having issues finding she..."

Great built-ins! But when I see that last shot of the standing bookcase, I am like “But there is still empty space in the corner for books to be shoved in!”
Sometimes I think that if one can see the wall, one is doing something wrong. 🤣

Haha, all of my print books are in a database too. I keep the database sorted by LC call number, but on the actual shelves there is a lot of leeway given for oversized items, etc.
But the scheme mainly ends up being fiction in the bedroom and hallway, and nonfiction in the living room and dining area. My partner is a food blogger and has a rather extensive collection of cookbooks, so they have their own large area, and many of the bigger volumes have spread over into the art/music books.

My daughter (9) has amassed a great many books as well, which remain uncataloged. However, a few of my books have migrated into her room, or to grandma's house. Those get a special note in the database in case I ever need to find them!

So excited!

Cathy M. wrote: "Totally bummed it was cancelled! Has the new time for Saturday been published yet?"

NBC News was saying 3:22 EST

Ugh, my daughter was really excited about it. Just have to wait until Saturday!

And could I pretty please lower mine slightly, to 15?

I put 17 (I think), but I just got some significant Day Job news that means less reading time over the summer.

I've read all the previous ones, it's the new one, Network Effect, that just came in and I'm trying to force myself to wait on reading.
But: we'll see how this waiting goes. ;D