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

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

I guess you could have (Lust has a category for ARCs!) but I assume it’s much too soon for a re-read ;)
If you can put a read date on there, we can let other teams know so they can potentially use it for Envy...

I finished my last book just before midnight last night!
Woohoo!

@M — did you already read Gideon the Ninth?
You don’t have any start/finish dates on it but you do have 5 stars 🙂 Was it that good?

Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "I just finished one and about to start the other. I still have three left unmarked, eek"

Eek, yes, good luck!
At least if you end up starting&finishing your last Lava book tomorrow evening after TT starts, you would be able to use the book for both! I think! :)

Neat prize! Do you mean the winning team by total points (traditional)?

That reminds me -- what happened w/the 'three winning teams' of last fall's Wheelathon 2018 being able to test out a new challenge system or something? Is that the same as the challenge you're going to be announcing in early 2020?

Also: Mmmmmmm, cupcakes. *drool*

Definitely blue, yes :)

I'm almost done with both of my 2 remaining books.
I could probably have finished The House with a Clock in its Walls last night, but I don't like it very much so I read more of the other one instead!

[[ Frankie ]] - Punkins & Pages! wrote: "My first one will be Gideon the Ninth since it starts on the 7th... but I’ll be reading another book with that one, I just haven’t fully decided which yet. LOL. So many choices!"


I am also starting with the BOM, Gideon the Ninth, because my digital library loan is going to be yoinked sometime on Wednesday so I have to make sure that I finish by then!
Not sure if I will start another book concurrently, but if I do, it’s going to be The Pillars of the Earth. Very long, and cleared as Brown cover :)

Camilla wrote: "Camilla from team Luxuria here. I read a lot of kindle freebies, many of which are quite bad, but tried to list some less obscure books here.

1. Tender Is The Night I'm not fond of ..."


Hah, I haven’t read Tender is the Night, but I liked the other two!

Allison Ann wrote: "I did another challenge where they asked us for bad books. We didn't have to read the books nominated, but we had to pick books to tie into that bad nomination. Maybe we'll get something like that?"

Who know! *sigh*
I saw in your “bad” reccs where you said “if this is part of a mini-challenge, just don't read my books”. Lol.

M wrote: "Well, I just looked over the Bad Book recs and I saw at least a dozen books I love. If we need to read them for a mini challenge I will have no problem."

Hah, really does go to show how much overlap there is between the LOVE and HATE reccs 😄

Maybe more of us from Team Ira should post in Bad Book reccs, to help level the field, hehe.

More comment spam, but USEFUL comment spam:

I was just checking to see if there's a countdown clock to challenge start (no clock, but there's exactly 49 hours to go as of this comment).
I had totally forgotten that it starts at 7am *AEST*... and not 7am *EST* which is where I am.
So those of us in the US & Canada get to start on Sunday afternoon/evening here. Score!

:D :D :D

@Eni,
You are so right about Marked (House of Night series). The first few are okay but those books get worse and worse. And worse.

I just posted some stuff on the "Bad Books" thread... but I am kinda paranoid that they're gonna do something with it for mini challenges, like make us read each other's most hated books, lol.
At least I tried to make mine have a wide variety... XD

Okay, here I am from Team Ira!
ONLY THREE? Here goes...



Nevermor
Horrible Peter Pan fan fiction masquerading as an original fiction retelling. And so tedious that it put me to sleep 5 nights running.


Touch of Eternity
Like a cross between Highlander and Twilight, with few of the better qualities of either.


Compulsion
Insipid, boring, disappointing. Too much telling with very little showing. Southern Gothic gone wrong.


And in the "So bad it's good!" category, I submit:

Sanctuary Bay
Gorgeous Teens in Exclusive Prep School! on a Secluded Island! with a Scary Abandoned Mental Hospital! and a Dark Forest! and Secret Societies! and Neurological Tampering! and also Underground Tunnels! and even Nazis!!! I ask you, what hasn't this book got?!

Yay weekend binging! I won't be able to add more than the 2 books I've got going now, as I've got a bunch of kid/family stuff this weekend. But for now it looks like we're good.

Go Krakatoa Go Go!

Also I think they're both on Scribd.

Maybe it is time for me to finally do that 30-day free trial thing, because the wait times at my libraries are hella long.