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

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

M wrote: "I had to read that book for book club this month. I already am reading one with Honey Bees in it for the challenge."

Saw that! Was just hoping for more animals. I read the Lunde a few months ago but can't remember whether in one or two of the 3 time periods somebody's got a pet or something.

In any case, I think your cover is much more on the green side than the middle of the blue/green spectrum:


Other votes?
I also read this in HC and remember it as quite green.

@M - can you please add The History of Bees to your TT shelf?
Also, I think I remember there being wasps in it. Wasp is on the list...
ETA nevermind re wasps, I was thinking of The Bees. But there might be some other animal(s)?

Allison Ann wrote: "I'd go for option C and then read the clownfish book if there was time. We read fewer long books this second week and went down in points. So clearly, long books are the only way to win. :D And I l..."

Yar, maybe I will do that after all. Haven’t started either one yet anyway (choir practice on Tuesday evenings).

Suzanne wrote: "Finished reading and will be starting "

Thanks Suzanne!
A couple of questions:
1) Is your Red Queen edition correct? You have the HC shelved but with a bunch of Audio tags. If you listened to an audiobook, that's what you're supposed to shelve (at least for the duration of TT)
2) Any animals in it?

And a comment:
Rue McClanahan! Awesome! [and I found "cat" in it, but didn't look for anything tricky]

Jessi wrote: "My vote is either B or C.

I know that's not much help. 😬"

That does help, actually. At least it narrows it down!
Maybe I'll start the "clownfish" book and just see how good it is and/or how long I think it will take to read!

Allison Ann wrote: "My furnace is out, so I've been hanging around waiting for my furnace guy to call back. Good for reading, not good for my bank balance."

That is annoying. I had the opposite problem over the summer, when our AC broke down during one of the hottest weeks. UGH.

I'm about to finish my first short Tricky Animal book.

After that... I need some help choosing between some options!

A) Read my shortish "Clownfish" book, and when it is done, try to squeeze in another shortish "tricky animal" book (not on spreadsheet yet)
B) Read my shortish "Clownfish" book, and when it is done, start a quite long "easy animal" book (not on spreadsheet yet) that I might or might not be able to finish in time, but that's okay because it would also work for a color cover in Week 4
C) Skip my shortish "Clownfish" book altogether and go straight for the long "easy" animal book mentioned in Option B, which I could most likely finish this week if I didn't have the "Clownfish" book. Slightly more overall points than the 2 tricky animal books combined, but obviously fewer of those points would be towards animal collection.

WHAT SHOULD I DO?!?!
*wide-eyed indecision face*

✿Danielle✿ wrote: "No on brown, that is some wishful thinking :)

The men in grey suits take up too much of that cover, to be brown."

Cat is asking for Team Wrath, but I am not asking for Team Ira.
To me (and my co-Cap) it is absolutely brown.
And I have a reputation for being strict on color covers! Good thing this is subjective, I guess. 🙂

ETA: also, fwiw, the forbidden website agrees with me! Informal vindication!

Haha, you are right about that model for Randall.

But no detailed scrutiny is even needed, really If I saw that book cover from across a big room, I would be like “Hey what is that brown thing?”
(Hopefully any such brown thing would be a bar of chocolate, but porn is good too 😉)

Even if you think the suits aren’t brownish (and I concede one is less brownish than the other), that would still leave way more than 50% brown on this cover.
Cat, I think you just hate brown THAT MUCH. Lol.

Jessi and I just can’t not see that cover as brown. The entire bottom half is dark brown, and the top is beige. Plus brown hair, and brownish-grey suits. The overall effect as completely brown.
Get over your achromatopsia and help build the Wrath Tower!

Cat wrote: "so, I've been wondering how to use Save the Date.

I found a couple of animals (dogs & ducks) that we can use, some metaphors (deer-hunting shirt, gym rat) that we can't, and some middling....
"you..."

Team Ira thinks the cover is brown like fine dark chocolate. Just saying. 😎

@Rebecca, can you please check your edition/page count for Perfect Couple?
Edition you have shelved has fewer pages than indicated on spreadsheet. Thanks!

ETA: also, don't forget to join the BOM discussion on Save the Date. It is... pretty fun :D

wren wrote: "Sorry for not being too active in this thread! I have midterms this week but I'm going to try and finish Gideon and then hopefully find an animal in another book."

No problem wren! Good luck with midterms.

Joanne wrote: "I thought it was an elephant on the cover too, but going by the book it's actually a genetically engineered elephant-derived animal called a megodont."

This made me LOL for some reason.
Ah, the things we readers read!

Good point on the Vanity Prize, but we'll see what happens. We got a big boost from Gideon the Ninth being tagged Space Opera and from most of our team reading it. It's unlikely that we'd be able to sustain or go up that ranking from here without sacrificing general points.

Allison Ann wrote: "I have a peacock book I can read if we need to complete the easy animal collection, but I'll focus on the tricky ones for now. I assume people will find lots of animals as they go along."

Yep! Hoping more are tricky ones, lol!

Joanne wrote: "I didn't specifically choose any books for animals, but in the one I'm reading, I already found one tricky and one easy. I'm making a note of the page numbers and quotes if we decide to move the bo..."

I already noted the elephant (easy) on the cover, if you’re talking about The Windup Girl. What’s the tricky one?

Btw regarding the Vanity prize, it’s not per sin group, it’s altogether. So if we read more Wrath books that Team Wrath, but Lust reads more Lust books than we read Wrath books, then Lust would win the Vanity prize. At least that is my understanding!
So it’s nice to grow the Wrath Tower, but we’re not going all out for that prize :)

Suzanne wrote: "Alysa wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "I finished reading , which has feral wolves in it if that helps with anything! I haven't fully caught up with all the posts but I saw a..."

Thank you Suzanne! We will just put page 40 and assume it’s the same in the kindle and paperback editions :)

It's worth more points as a sin bingo than as an easy animal..
UNLESS we end up needing it to help complete an "easy" animal collection for bonus points.
That is:
7 points (bingo) is greater than 5 (easy animal)
but
5 points (easy animal) + 10 bonus points (collection) is greater than 7 (bingo).

So if we have several "tricky" animal collections but only, like, 6 easy animals and we need a 7th to get the bonus, we would potentially move your Wilder Girls. (Maybe you can put an animal quote in the "alternate justification" just in case?)

We don't know yet which placement will make more sense, as it depends on what other books/animals people end up doing. So at this point it's just good to have our options open :D

@Jessi

LOVE.