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

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

Right now there are 3 “blue cover Sin” books that have been moved to my story, for lack of better options... and to make a fun story.
But if we are able to avoid moving any more Color covers than that, it will probably be for the best :)

ETA: when I say “any more than that”, I meant “any more than 3” - it can be ANY 3, not necessarily the ones I used, if someone else has a better story idea 🙂

We want to do one complete story, with majority comprised of Bad Books. A second complete story would be good — since we are so close — so long as we do not have to sacrifice too many of our Color covers. We can balance some of that loss with the bonus points we get for the story completion (plus potential Mod bonus points).

After that we can use any remaining “bad books” for an incomplete story, since they will get 2 extra points each like that.

Make sense?

[[ Frankie ]] wrote: "“Croesus”? Yikes. Good job to whoever finds that one!

Yeah, I won’t move anything around! I’m already halfway scared to add my books to the planning sheet. LOL. So you don’t have to worry about me touching any delicate spreadsheet info. :p

It's not so much that it's delicate, only that -- since I am apparently the only person who has been playing around in the "Story" area all week -- Day 5 of 7 seems like a weird time for other people to start messing with it before we start posting story options to the team, lol.

I don't care if people add their entire stories to the spreadsheet, just, further down the sheet with a note that there's no problematic "duplication", if that makes sense!

Re "Croesus”... right?! I guess it depends on how creative people wanna be in their interpretation!
ETA: Tip, word-in-text should not be that hard for Croesus!

Yup, you're good!

Some of those titles are in the "story" mini area with Question Marks. Don't worry about it.
We can use ANY Week 5 books we want in the story/stories, so long as our final submissions are consistent between the Lust mini and the "main" books sheet.

[[ Frankie ]] wrote: "I wouldn’t get your hopes up that it will be anything extravagant, but I can sure try my best. LOL."


"Extravagant", huh? I think you already have Bingo words on the brain :D
We went with Card #3 in part to avoid the "All-You-Can-Eat" one, but we did some other assessment too. Right now I'm just hoping that someone can cover "Croesus" lol.

Looking forward to any and all attempts at story!

I would just ask that nobody move the stuff that is in the spreadsheet, for now. It's just that the current entries took a lot of time. So, do the story-building elsewhere, post to the team (or PMs to Jessi and me if you're more comfortable) and we will fill the sheet in when we have final decisions.

[[ Frankie ]] wrote: "Allison Ann wrote: "I'm fine with whatever Bingo card you pick. I'll be honest, I think there are too many mini-challenges this round of TT. When you have one basically every week, then the tone of..."


Well, assuming there will be one Mini for each sin, there is one week more left than there are sins left.
So my guess is that either we'll get a "break week" (while Lust Part 2 is ongoing), or we'll be off the hook for Minis during Week 10. Or, there could also be another Mini that goes for more than one week. No way yet to tell!

[[ Frankie ]] wrote: "I just bought Ten Thousand Doors of January the other day & can’t wait to read it! Why won’t it be a part of TT? "

Because TT ends before the YA Dec BOM ;D

Put your "not purple enough" book down for Top Shelf for now! We can always move it later.

I'm hoping more people will take a crack at writing the story/stories for the Mini-Challenge. I've written one, which I've only shared with Jessi so far and which corresponds to what is currently in the "First Story" area of planning sheet, but I'm not married to it.

Anyone outside of NBRC would call this a major Nerd Alert, but all of you can understand:
I am SOOOOO excited that I will have more reading time than usual over the next week, and thus think I can still get in 4 books in Week 6 even though they average over 500 pages each! :D

The best place to post your explanation is probably in the original Bad Books thread or maybe the Sinful Chat. I don't think you need to cross-post it here in Ira thread.
Then Jessi or I just need to link to it in a check-in spot in Captains Group and you'll get the bonus points :)

On the one hand I agree, but on the other hand it is kind of fun to be pivoting each week. Keeps things fresh.

BTW Allison, I posted your "evidence" links for the BR participation so you're all good.

Probably. One of my books this week had a Z character, and I was like "Nooooooo! I could have saved that!!!"


***But TEAM, just to be clear, Jessi and I do not have any advance info regarding a Spell-It-Out or any other Mini Challenges past Avarice!!!***

I like tasks and spell-it-outs, and sometimes scavenger hunts.
I tend to avoid stories and bingo, at least when I've encountered them in Solo Challenges.

Not quite a “long” book but I will use this Bingo as a reason to finally read The Half-Drowned King.
It is not really my thing, but the author is an old friend of mine and not reading her books makes me a BAD FRIEND.

ETA: Hah! Version on Scribd is much longer than HC! I will read that instead :D

I do not, so I am glad there is something for everyone, between all these different mini-challenges.

I am looking at the words, and at my long books, and going 😕

In my relatively limited experience of Sanderson, it seems like he's good with First Books In A Series, but then I'm not really interested in the rest of the series.

Except for The Rithmatist, which... probably won't ever get a second book! o_0

In December BOM news...
won the poll by a landslide! Yay!


(And FWIW, The Ten Thousand Doors of January won for YA, but won’t be part of TT)

New mini challenge for next week!
It’s Avarice Bingo!

Jessi and I are still working out some details before Team Ira strategy announcement, but y’all can go check it out in the meantime.

Liked but didn’t love.
I would not have put it on the Bad Books list, but there were things about it that annoyed me mixed in with the things I liked.
And the ending, not a fan.

Finished Feed last night. Stayed up too late, because I was so close to the end... and then WTF WITH THAT ENDING.
Liked the book but did not love it, overall. But the ending pissed me off. I wish I had just gone to sleep earlier and saved the last few chapters for this morning. 🤨

Just finished Feed.
Must sleep now 😴