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

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

I read that one last week!
I like it too, but didn't love it. And the loss of a certain character in favor of another, does not make me want to read the next book either.

Me too. I didn’t spot anything weird The Chestnut Man on about anybody’s shelves, like sometimes when someone uses the tags “ebook” or “overdrive” or whatever, but shelves the print.
If Allison hadn’t mentioned that she is reading an ebook, I would never have known, but since she DID mention it, well, better safe than sorry :)

I just picked my 3, but I feel terrible. I wish I could do some honorable mentions!

Re voting on the Lust stories — this is so hard! They are all fun, and there are 7 that I really like best (all from other teams ;D)
How to narrow it down! Everyone did so well!

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BTdubs,
I moved my "Successful" book to "Butler" so the former is freed up for whatever.

@Allison: Thanks!
@Rebecca: yes, we can use word in text!

I would just add, the word in context should keep to the spirit of the Avarice theme. I can't imagine many cases where it wouldn't (and rules do say we should be creative) but like... IMO, if someone says "Hey, I'm gonna jet to the grocery store" that is... not a Jet.
:D

We are supposed to shelve the edition we actually read -- always -- and just fudge page count on our speadsheet to match the page count of the edition declared for BOM.
Since you haven't submitted the book yet, it can still be changed.
(Even if we changed it after submission, I think that would actually still be fine because the page count will not change :D)

Re word-in-text, I am nonplussed that it was even in question! But some teams are just being super careful, I suppose.

Allison Ann wrote: "I have a better book for exclusive but since I am reading the stupid electronic version of The Chestnut Man, I can do some searching when I finish. Also, I have [bookcover:The White..."

Re Crown, go for it if you want.
If I (or anyone) wants to add an extra book towards the end of the week, we will just have to work with whatever squares are still open.
I am hoping the harder ones get filled first, just because that is a better strategy overall, but whatever happens happens :D

Re Chestnut Man: if you're reading an electronic version can you make sure you have the right edition shelved? Right now everyone on Team Ira seems to have same red HC shelved except for Frankie, but it would be good to get edition shelving as accurate as possible.
You probably don't need to look up anything else. I used the search feature on Amazon and then verified the page numbers in the HC which is still sitting here on my desk, and I was pretty thorough.
But if you have a better book for "exclusive" then that is great too :)

It was an abridged adaptation, done as a play, in one of those "Scholastics" Magazine type thingies. I think the whole point was to get the 11 & 12 years olds thinking about those issues.
Dunno if it worked, or if it was preaching to the converted.

Sonia, that spell-it-out looks awesome!
And nowadays, I have a partner with a degree in engineering and a daughter who (so far) loves math too, so it is always around me. Things dramatically improved after 6th grade :D

In general? No.
But in 6th grade? Yes. Especially when it came after my one and only chance to get petted by that boy!

Lenny was being played by a boy that I had a huge crush on at the time... so I was actually looking forward to getting... petted...
Dammit.

We probably had to go to Math after or something boring like that.
Dammit.

I actually played Curley's wife in a short adaptation of the play in 6th grade... but we ended up running out of time in class and never got to the death scene.

I think Sonia is fixing to remedy that...

Hey! I am not that bad!

*do not squish me*

That last bit, about the roasted chestnuts for parents to eat, would be okay possibly.
But I still think it is better that there is a whole section about Erik and Anne Sejer-Lassen and their big house in Klampenborg, an affluent "exclusive" suburb of Copenhagen, and it is made clear that Erik has made a lot of money, ergo "successful" in the sense of avarice/greed:
Pg 139: "The[ir] house is one of the biggest in Klampenborg... [with] imposing electronic metal gates"
pg 227: "Anne Sejer-Lassen is described as an upper-class airhead who is... obsessed with money and luxury"
Pg 169: "Erik had made some lucky investments in various biotech companies"

Oh dear, I am going to be thinking about Lenny and George and Curley’s wife all day now.

Way back in the day, a few years before I discovered Goodreads, a friend of mine recommended Outlander to me. I was a few chapters from the end when I saw that friend again, and it came up that the book was merely the first one in a long series. I was like “WTF? Why did you not tell me that in the first place?!”
It’s not that I hated it outright, but it is not something I would ever have read without that particular friend selling me on it, or if I had known going in that it wasn’t a stand-alone.
I tried the first episode of the TV show, having been told it was well done, and apparently not having learned my lesson from the book. I was like, “Yep, it is well made. Still not my thing.” And not how I pictured any of the characters, but that part is my problem.

Re The Chestnut Man: aren’t there some wealthy characters who live in an “exclusive” neighborhood?
I have the HC so can’t do a quick word search, but even if that word is not used, it could still fit. [eta: I think all of us have the HC, actually. o_0]
Maybe “successful” too, for successful businessman or whatever. In which case I could move my “successful” book to a different square.

Ugh I may have spoken too soon on being able to do 4 complete long books this week, so I am going to remove one of the 2 that I haven’t started yet.
The “crown” one. Should be easy to replace!

LOL, I think that is a stretch.
Isn't there at least one scene where the characters eat food though? Like, leftovers or take-away or something? Still a little funny when there are more food-related books out there, but less of a stretch. ;)