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

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

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.

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 animals mentioned in some."

Hi Suzanne!
I just searched Google Books for Wolf in this book (there's no searchable Amazon preview) and I found some wolf quotes but no page numbers. Can you please give us a quote and a page or chapter number?
Thank you!

Good luck M! Just do what you can :)

Ugh, my first DNF.
Cannot read Bloodrush without falling asleep, it is that tedious. So disappointing. At least I didn’t waste more than a couple of hours on it — and half of that time spent with my eyes closing!

I switched it for a different “tricky animal” book, but the new one is only 333 pages. Bloodrush was 482 :(

I am going to read my other more definite stuff first. That way, if other people start adding more “tricky animal” books to our little collections, it might end up making more sense for me to skip the 333-page book entirely and read a long book for Sins or “easy” animal instead. I will sit on the decision for a couple of days.

Goodnight everyone!

Haha, my first time writing DQs was for a Back Room a few months ago. Same situation ;)
Great job on your questions! I will go answer them in a little bit...

Dies Irae!

Not eligible for doing this BOM because I read the book just a few months ago (as y'all know!! ;D) but just wanna say I also really disliked the ending. Brought the whole book down IMO.

@Rebecca can you add a Read Date for Save the Date please? :)

You are BLIND.
That cover is like fine dark chocolate with some hazelnut on top.

Also FYI
Towards the end of Save the Date, there is "dog" in the sense of "maybe we'll get a dog someday" but I don't know if it will be worth using. We'll see.