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

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

M wrote: "Reading all but the last chapter of each one until the day needed and then posting."

See, that right there is what I suspected!
How you can do that, narratively, is impressive to me! I mean, personally I would not be able to move on to a "next" book without getting that closure from the previous book. But I guess if you have read them before it's not so much of a problem. Or if the books aren't super dependent on each other. :D

LOL, you just CLIMB THAT LADDER, girl.

You be the hare, we'll be the tortoise.

And I might read some Discworld!
It'd be either #28 or #30. Just one of them, though, since I want to work on longer books while I've got the Thanksgiving weekend reading time. :D

As of now, my adding one Discworld book, plus Allison's last-minute "In Death" option, gets us a multiple of 3.


@M - I'm a little concerned that your reading of 4 consecutive long #s is going to slow things down a bit. But it might not matter, depending on what other people are doing by the time you get to your second book. That is, there aren't too many definite rungs planned for after your stuff.
Do you have some idea of your reading timeline?

Joanne wrote: "You can put me down for #17. I'll read an In Death book. I'll read most of it and just leave the last chapter for whenever it's my turn. I check in multiple times a day so I should be able to finis..."

Sounds good!

M wrote: "I can to that in a couple of hours"

Yeah, I think it’s not possible until GR (California time) thinks it is midnight. I forgot about that.

@Joanne — I know, right? It looks like Lust had one person finish that long Xmas anthology, and they had plenty of other long books too. They may have more people still reading that anthology.
So we’ll see what we can do!

Joanne wrote: "Anyone else have a real Veronica Mars vibe from the ending?"

Lol, I said something like that in my answers! This book was clearly not written for people old enough to have seen that show in its original run. ;)

Well I won’t finish #4 until Tuesday afternoon/evening, so that gives Jessi plenty of time to catch up with you overachievers. 😄

M wrote: "Alysa wrote: "I finished is about 30 minutes ago, approx 1:30 pm pacific time"

Perfect. :)
If GR allows, can you fudge the read date to 25 Nov?
Wren, I think that would be good for your book too.
(And anybody else who finishes a book between now and whenever it actually becomes 25 Nov where you are)

wren wrote: "Just finished my #1 book!"

Wow, that is amazing! Go wren!!!

So long as you finished it less than 1.5 hours ago?

(Hi team, I am back! Hehe, we had 38 books again :D)

Hi Team!
I am going offline now and won't be back until after check-in, but all of our finished books so far have been logged, so Jessi doesn't need me anymore, lol.
Catch you on the flipside!

Allison Ann wrote: "It actually makes more sense to use the shorter books for the ladder and just read the longer books for the points, so I'm good with #5 and maybe one higher one. :D"

I am glad you two worked that out :D

Yeah, we definitely need a combo of lengths in order to pull this off. But since we're still hoping, overall, to do more long books for the week-at-large than we are ladder rungs for the Mini, we don't want to have the ladder be just a bunch of short books either. Then it just would not be worth doing at all.
Of course, our definition of "short" has kinda changed during TT, huh?! With the exception of my #4 book, everything on the Mini is objectively pretty long anyway, lol!

I'm gonna go get some audio in while I fold laundry and everybody else is sleeping. (I'm aiming to have this non-fiction behemoth done sometime during, Week 9, maybe into 10.)

Haha, poop emoji. 😂

Well, if we have two people reading #2s, we will just have to use whichever one gets finished right after Wren finishes that #1.
Or maybe we can even coordinate that kind of thing by color covers/top shelves, since at least we know that we can use whatever is not for the Ladder, for regular Sins.

I seem to be inordinately fond of the word “awesome” today.
Awesome!

Awesome! Yay!
So I will just do #4 and #6. After that, I will concentrate on some more long non-Mini-challenge books.
I have a feeling that this sequence of ours is going to work out awesome :D

Go for it. Either one [of the two long #2s]. Whichever one you feel like reading first!
I will plan my #3 and #4 books around you, and then you are reading #5 anyway before my #6.

@Jessi, if you wanna cover #3 (I think you said you have a decently long one?) this means you have time to let me know before I start reading.
I'll start a little of my long #6 before I hear from you, and then just switch to some #3 if you're not covering it.
(There's a little breathing space here now, due to Wren and Allison both reading long stuff first :D)

Okay, so right now I'm in between my last book for the week, and starting whatever I'm gonna read for next week. I need to go do family stuff, and after that I'll just start either a #2 or a #3, depending on whether anyone else has changed anything, lol.

Again, I can cover either, but not both. In either case my book will not be long, but my #3s are on average a bit longer than my #2s.
If someone says to skip both and just do #4 and #6 that is also fine with me!

(I keep giggling like a toddler whenever I type #2s)

Well what do you most WANT to be reading? :D
You seem to be getting through long stuff pretty fast, so I don't think you'll slow us down too much if you pick something long for #2.
I have to wait for Wren to finish their long #1 anyway, before I can complete my first series book.
Also, like a moron, I accidentally left my #4 book (an interlibrary loan) in my office when I left work yesterday, so I can't start it until Monday at the earliest anyway.
I plan to read about 2/3 of my #2 or 3 book, then stop until other people are done with #1 (and potentially #2 if you're gonna cover it).
Then I will have to switch to my #6 and read that until I get to my office, then switch to my #4 before going back to my #6 again.

So, assuming there's a long #2 that you are actually happy to read, the question is really: when do you think you would be done with it?

@Allison
If any one of your #2 books are longer than 800, do you want to swap #2 and #3 with me?

@Jessi, if you're around, do you wanna do a #2 or that #3 I think you mentioned at some point? If the latter is long, when would you finish?
We could also skip a number, esp since some higher ones are shaping up nicely :)

Nevermind, Allison just put in a long one for #3.
Decision made.
You have a good #10, right?