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

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

Suzanne wrote: "I finished it on the 13th!"

Good cuz that was what we had to put last week, based on your shelf :)

Sorry to heat about sick kids and hubby!
We will get Nice Girls Don't Live Forever added.
Let us know when you have more stuff :D :D :D

Maybe I will take a look at the sample (again, lol). If is seems like it'd be a relatively fast read for me, I could try tackling it over Thanksgiving.

Allison and M are the best among us with the long books though!!
The rest of us have some but nowhere near as many as those 2 overachievers ;D

Kerri wrote: "Yup! I'll be done with Two Can Keep a Secret by the end of the week. Completely forgot when the BOM discussion started, so I'm spending my day off catching up and I'll def be done by Sunday."

Great! I put it on the spreadsheet for you, on an E for Ellery (character name).
Just a reminder that you don't need to finish the DQs the same week that you finish reading the book. Like, if you need to use your free time just to finish the book before deadline, just concentrate on that. You can always answer the questions afterwards (unless you REALLY like using the DQ breaks to guide your schedule) ;D

I think we just did a good job reading Wrath books during the first few weeks that had no Mini Challenges, and then did well on the Wrath challenge, and since pretty much all the teams have been so focused on all the Minis that everything has evened out. That is my theory, anyway!

Just noticed that we are actually in the lead for the "Pride" prize of Reading the Most Books for Our Sin, by like 3 books. Teams Acedia and Vanity are tied for 2nd place. Not sure how that all happened, but heya!

If it gets to Week 10 and it looks like we are surely not going to win the Grand Prize ["Gluttony" for overall points], we can try going all-in for Pride. I think at this point we are also a shoo-in for the "Envy" prize of most BOM points, but let's not get too cocky ;D

@Frankie -- we put your Stalking Jack the Ripper book in for an S! It also works for A and W. Let us know if any other relevant letters popped up.

@Kerri -- do you think you will have at least 1 more book this week?

Everybody is doing so great! Yay for Spell-It-Outs!!!

I already did it :)

@Rebecca - Actually we're just gonna have to use title and author on those Nonfiction ones, because there can be some weirdness with "characters" in nonfiction. It's not always clear what counts and what doesn't in memoir type stuff so it's probably better to stick to title/author.

Just saw that! Everything looks good.
The DQ links for Days 2 and 3 were a little wonky but have been fixed, that was probably my fault anyway for doing at least 1 of those on a tablet. ;)

As for me, I stayed up late last night. Finished my first book and ended up reading about 1/3 of the second one -- the Vampire Academy finale. Those last few VA books are long but have gone down like candy!

Will also start another audiobook today.

I'm hoping to at least start the Two Can Keep a Secret BOM this week as well but am not sure. I have the Kindle version on a library loan but was hoping to get the Audio too and my Hold is just not in yet (and it's one of the things that got "temporarily removed" from Scribd for me, grrr) so I'm not sure which version I'm gonna end up using.

Hi Team Ira!
Happy Monday!

Jessi and I picked a 6th word to stick on the spreadsheet, based on the most common alternate letters that people have been finding so far.
We are allowed to have 1 partial word. If we finish all 6 of the words we have now, that'll be great, but if we don't that is fine too. Just so long as everybody is happy with what they are reading :D

Totally random but since MR Carey's The Girl With All the Gifts has been discussed on here, has anyone else read The Steel Seraglio? It was Carey's last book before The Girl With All the Gifts came out -- and I read it last week and it was SOOOOOO GOOOOOOD!!!!!

Kerri wrote: "Gotcha! I’ll get the date added today once I get home :) I plan on finishing at work today. Mondays are pretty slow, so I can usually listen while I work."

If you are using Audio mainly, don’t forget to shelve the Audio version, and then just stick in the page count from the ”default” version! :)

Kerri wrote: "So I'm not sure where we would like to put Warrior of the Altaii now that it's counting towards this week. I gotta get to bed, but let me know if you want to stick it under the Bogg..."

Hi Kerri,
We cannot use Warrior at all, since you finished it prior to the countdown :(
I did put Doctor Sleep on the Boggle for you though!

@Kerri, aw, too bad!
But at least if you are almost done with Doctor Sleep you might be able to finish at least 2 this week...

@M, jealous of your staycation!

Joanne wrote: "It's a good excuse for getting to those long ones that I always put off"

I know, right? This and the last 2 Wheelathons got me reading plenty of 500+ page books. Also, since some of them are from series, it’s been a good excuse to continue and sometimes finish series. I usually don’t read series installments close together, but for TT, I think I will...

I am going to DNF the book I started today, Wolfen, which is quite tedious unfortunately, and concentrate on the shorter one that I started yesterday, The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter.
Heck, by concentrating on it I can probably finish it by tomorrow night! Then I will start the next (and last!) Vampire Academy book, and probably another audiobook too, maybe Tangled Threads. The latter is shortish (default 357 pages) but that’s because I need to work on my ongoing nonfiction one.

Too many books, too few weeks left, y’all! 😄

Jessi used the Steak book for Man, since Allison was right about succession being on 2 lines (it is really hard to keep staring at that chart, for realz!)

Onward to Week 7!
Hopefully Kerri is okay, and if she has not finished her book yet we can still use it. 🧐

We are in the lead again, but we may have blown our load of giant books. Other teams reading that Xmas collection, for instance, haven’t finished it yet! Let’s hope we have enough big books to keep up! Go Team Ira!
Dies Irae, Dies Illa!

@Allison - also if your "Succession" book works for "Man" we can use it to back up that square if Kerri does not show up in time!!
That would be more important because it is a corner that completes 2 lines.

@Rebecca - we need you to answer a 4th set of DQs for the Chestnut Man, since there were 7 sets on that BOM. :)

We are gong to switch it if you finish Succession book.
7 points for the finished line plus 10 points for the two tiles > sin bingo points.

Your team is so good at reading 38 books a week! How on earth do you keep doing that?! :D
Love, Team Ira

Ozana wrote: "Alysa,
Please check is everything ok with The Dragon Republic edition while I'm still by PC at my mothers house, thank God she is near.
Did I remove other editions and leave just Ki..."

Yes, you are all good now :)