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

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

Yay Allison!
With "PAINTING" done, we completed that top horizontal line :D
Can you stick your GLUTTON and RIVIERA books on the spreadsheet so everyone knows they're being worked on there?


Organization is how to win! But it doesn't work if people don't read, and this team is doing SO GREAT with reading reading reading!!!

I need to go finish my BUTLER book and stop mucking around online...

ETA: I am also super happy we have a Spell Out. It's pretty relaxing now that we have chosen our words :D

I pulled this from the last Wheelathon rules, if it helps:


How a "spell it out" works
Spell out the word(s) using the first letter in the book's title, the first letter in the author's first or last name, or the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter of the series name.
As always, if the first letter of a title starts with an indefinite or definite article ('A', 'An', 'The', etc.), you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word. If the first letter of a title is a numerical digit, then you use the first letter of that digit for your spell out (i.e. 1984 is N; 2046 is T; 1Q84 is O)
If you are listening to an audiobook, the first letter in the narrator's first or last name also can be used. We're also allowing for Translators names, as long as the edition you are reading is a translation version.

Usual NBRC spell-out rules should apply:

Title (T)
Author (A) first or last name but not middle; multiple authors if applicable
Series (S)
Characters (C) first/last/nickname; need to be speaking characters
Narrator (N) if listening to audiobook
Translator (T) if reading a translation

New mini challenge is up for next week!
Envy

Everyone take a look at the rules.
It is “Boggle” — a Spell-it-Out challenge!

So... Jessi and I have done what we think is a a pretty thorough assessment of the Boggle chart and and found various 7+ and 8-letter words. Based on Team Ira’s average books per week so far, we will start with five 7-letter words. We can add another later if it looks like a good idea; we are also allowed one partial word.

You are all free to suggest other words, obviously, but we picked the ones that seemed to offer the most interest and variety, though the limitations of the chart also offer a decent ability to move stuff around). And we would prefer that the team not spend too much time word-hunting when everybody could be reading. 🙂

Will go post the Envy mini tab to the planning sheet now...

Yay!

Okay, really going now. Dinner plans 😁

@Allison, just to follow up my last comment! Yeah, the more I look at the chart the more I think you should do “glutton” and “riviera” if you can only do 2 more. That is 2 straight line bonuses!

Then we will just see where people (including me) are at with possibly adding anything else. Such as “crown” which is a pretty easy one anyway.
ETA: The final “hard” one we would need after Glutton and Riviera would be “Tuxedo”, in case anyone wants to take a look.

Lastly before I am offline for a few hours -
Ozana has another book that is not on the spreadsheet yet, just in case, but will work for Palace and Pretty.

Maybe it is time to let go of focusing on the open “black bold” squares and just finish as many straight lines as we can of whatever is available, based on the “grey” squares that we have managed to fill.

Like, if Allison does “Crown” but no one fills “Tiara”, it won’t really help, but if she fills “Riviera” or “Glutton”, each of those by itself completes 1 line.
So... maybe let’s do that?

Also I stuck Ozana’s Wilder Girls in for “Boat” but I forgot that it is a Sin Bingo!
If it looks like “boat” is all we need for a straight-line bonus we can put it back. Otherwise, it’s a couple more points for the Sin Bingo than it is for a lone square.

Just an update on that though — I am *really* not sure if I will be able to squeeze in the “Riviera” book in time, and either way it would take time away from potential Long Books I would otherwise be starting for next week.
So if someone else has a “Riviera” book they wanna read, please go for it.

If we don’t finish a straight lines or two, that is only 7 (or 14) bonus points we don’t get, and it’s not like we are going to finish a whole card anyway. So it might be better in my case to skip a 20something point book in favor of starting another 100something point book.

I will just have see what’s day/time it is when I finish Abhorsen, but I predict Saturday afternoon. (I will finish To Say Nothing of the Dog tomorrow for sure.)

I am not opposed to it, but I don't want to commit to anything until I know for sure that my library loan will come in time...

BOM thread is up for December:

December 2019 Adult BOM - starts 2 December:
Ninth House

wren wrote: "I'm starting The Glittering Court today and I think it might be my last book for the week."

Cool. Hopefully after that you can get through Two Can Keep a Secret before it needs to go back to the library.

A couple years back, I was mostly boycotting library books in an effort to concentrate on reading Books That I Own But Have Not Read Yet. But since I work in a library this was pretty damn hard and I gave up. :P

I only ever use the website. Notifications still not working.
I just have this page open and keep refreshing!

@wren -- Are you still reading Glittering Court for this week?

@Wren: no worries, just finish whatever you can, whenever you can.
It's more than okay if we get more books for this week -- we can have up to 45 without a penalty and right now there's only 35!

If you read Two Can Keep a Secret before the countdown, you can still answer DQs for it after the fact. :)

Suzanne wrote: "I finished reading today!"

Great!
We'll see if it fits any Bingo squares. If not, then we can use it for Blue cover. :D
ETA: I found "money" in it via Google Books search. There is also "coin" if we need to move it (@Joanne's "coin" book also has "Gown").

ETA2: your Read date on GR is 11/13. Did you finish it today or last night?

Joanne wrote: "So funny and unexpected. My current read has a dog named Ira in it!"

LOL

(and this weird GR notifications problem seems to be spreading -- anyone else having problems besides me and Jessi?)

Couple of things:

@wren:
Can you please fudge your read date on The Princess and the Fangirl to 11/11? We know you finished in your time zone on Sunday night but since it was after 11/11 AEST, that is how we keep the info clean.
Also, don’t forget you need to answer 2 more sets of DQs on The Chestnut Man BOM you started. :)

@everybody:
Only a couple more days left to do theWilder Girls BOM if there are any last-minute takers! Then the Two Can Keep a Secret BOM will be starting too.

Aw, hang in there Jessi!

I found "rich as Croesus" in like 3 different Kindle books too, but all of them were short things that I didn't want to commit to, lol.

IF I have time left before the end of Week 6, I plan to see what's left on the spreadsheet. I'm sure there will be only "gray" squares by then, because THIS TEAM IS DOING GREAT!