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

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

So sorry Jessi!

Last spring we were in Florida visiting some family, and were just driving along when we got a flat tire from what turned out to be a giant metal bolt on the road. It was completely embedded like 8 inches deep into the tire and all the air went out within two minutes.
The mechanic that was sent out by AAA said that we were the latest of several with the same problem that day in the area.

So either a construction crew lost a box of bolts off the back of their truck... or some evil jerk was throwing bolts around just gleefully sabotaging everybody.

Ugh.

@Frankie, you're still reading , right?
I was just checking to see if it would fit anywhere in Wrath mini-challenge... and we're in luck!

#57 Read a book containing the phrase "see red" :
Hunter "almost literally saw red" in Chapter 6.
It's been confirmed in Caps group that that counts.

We could use it for Sin again but since this is the Wrath mini and we're a "wrath" team, using it for mini could be fun :D

Alysa wrote: "Suzanne wrote: "I just finished and I started reading last night. Not sure if I'll be abl..."

Actually Jessi reminded me that the BOM started on 7 Oct!
It was moved back from 2 Oct so that it would coincide with the start of TT.
So that means you actually have a few extra days to participate.
:D

I just had to google religious crime...

“What is a religious crime?
Religious offense means any action which offends religious sensibilities and arouses serious negative emotions in people with strong belief and which is usually associated with an orthodox response to, or correction of, sin.”

So I think this would be, like, a Jewish person eating pork or something like that. Not a person being jailed for their religion.

And I found a Mini-Challenge spot for the Chelsea Handler!

Suzanne wrote: "I just finished and I started reading last night. Not sure if I'll be able to finish it b..."

Re Gideon, I believe you would just have to finish reading (and answer 3 sets of DQs) by 2 Nov, which is one month from when the BOM started.

Ooooh... in captains group another team just said they are gonna "go for maximum points then and go for Ira"

Them's fightin' words!

:D

Cat wrote: "Alysa wrote: "Maybe you could give her that "7th" section you were considering?
[I can take another crack at the page/chapter breaks]"

Could you please?

I've been headless chicken solution hunti..."'

ookay how about this! There's still one section that's a lot longer but it's not crazy [and its based on natural breaks]:

1-19 (68 pgs)
20-38 (69 pgs)
39-62 (76 pgs)
63-78 (59 pgs)
79-98 (97 pgs)
99-113 (69 pgs)
114-130 (63 pgs)

Maybe you could give her that "7th" section you were considering?
[I can take another crack at the page/chapter breaks]

Oooh yay, Team Ira (Jessi) got picked for DQs on The Chestnut Man!


Still have to wait for DQ assignments for the YA book, but in the meantime the polls should be opening soon for the December Adult BOM. Keepin' my eyes peeled...

I liked all of those books, haha.
None was 5 stars, but all highly enjoyable to me for different reasons :)

Hi Ozana!
We understand about real life and work stuff :)
For Week 4, just read what you like best from BOMs and your long books.
Like Jessi said in her last post, BOMs and long books are best strategy! 🙂

Suzanne wrote: "I finished just now!"

Thanks, we will use it for Week 4!
Can you check if there are any mini-challenge tasks it would work for? Would be a shame to have to use it for a 1 point ‘sin specification’ if there’s a chance to get more out of it :)
ETA: Amazon sample and Google Books show expression “Fly off the handle” on pg 166 — are you able to verify that?

Joanne wrote: "This is not my usual genre, so it worked out really well."

Not my usual genre either, though there are exceptions.
I wish this was the right week for The Chestnut Man! I thought about reading it for this week because of the mini-challenge, but since that BOM doesn’t start officially start until 2 Nov, I would probably forget too much of the book before most of the questions get posted. 🙃

Yay Team Ira! We moved back up to 1st!

Lust & Acedia aren't crazy far behind us, but Lust focused a lot on the Mini-Challenge, which slowed them down a lot on Week 3 page points, and Acedia (2nd) nearly matched us for Week 3 page points but lags behind on BOMs.
I would not be too complacent about some of the other teams either.

But! More proof that our "long books" and "everybody do BOMs" strategy is still sound... :D

Go Team Ira! Dies Irae!

@Suzanne, I guess you should start checking if the Rue McClanahan book has anything for the Week 4 mini-challenge! Like, a theft, or the phrase “hot-tempered” or some sort of catastrophe or something :)

Mine is done!
I did say it would be tight ;)

We are kicking butt!

Yup! A lot of short animal books happened to us. 😄

Allison Ann wrote: "Okay. If we don't need it for an easy animal, it might work for yellow cover for a couple of extra points. As usual, it looks much more yellow in person. "

Looks yellow to me, too :)
Thanks Allison! We're putting these "extra" Animal books down for Sins, and will move them to Animals if/when we have enough for a collection.