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

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

Cat wrote: "I've basically given up on the idea that I'll actually decrease even my hard copy TBRs :-/"

Oooh, that is a good idea for a 2020 goal! Focusing on Hard Copy TBRs!
*jots down*

For me it depends a lot on the narrator or narrators.
I can be super picky about the production too. I hate when there's background music, I HATE HATE HATE when there's a narrator voice with different actors for the actual speech:

Like:
"Come here often?" she asked with a smile.
But "Come here often?" has one performer and 'she asked with a smile' has another.
OMG I cannot listen to those at all.

There are also some books that I just don't think work well in audio format. Usually it's books that have "clever" structures that jump around a lot. You see this with Literary Fiction sometimes. *shudder*

You can clean with a book in your hand? That is like a super power!
Unless you mean a book in your ears... ;D

Alysa wrote: "Alysa wrote: "Looks like my library hold will come in time! I also volunteer for DQs.
Will update with TT team name once assigned :)"

Ah, I see the Mods helpfully assigned my team name! Thanks!

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Hi there! My Ira teammate Frankie is the most actively excited about the chance to write BOMs for this book. We both volunteered, but can you please make Frankie the primary Ira volunteer instead of me (I will still be a back-up)?
Thank you!

Judith wrote: "16. Where do you see the relationship between Nathanial and Elizabeth going?
To the Love Shack where we can get together"

That’s where it’s at!

Sounds like you have even more going on than you originally expected even with the wedding! It’s nice that you can get some books in too, just for your own sanity if not for this challenge 🙂


If anyone cares (which you might not, since we finished the Countdown Tasks a while ago), the Floor will be Echidnas on Thursday morning. They sure gave everybody a long time this Round!

That sucks. That happened to me recently, but luckily it was a book that I had already decided not to read for Lava at that time.

I haven't gotten much reading done today because of how much time I've been spending on Tower Teams stuff. I need to stop and get back to my books!
I have a feeling we are all going through that.
Are all 4 of us on different teams, or are any of you together?

Jessi wrote: "M wrote: "The edition I have of this book is metallic gold "

We will get back to you on this one. Cover colors can be so tricky!! No matter what though if you want to read this one then read it an..."

@M and whoever else is interested:


This is being considered Brown, by executive Mod decision.

Is the problem that you cannot actually make changes on the spreadsheet? Or you can make changes but are worried about making a mistake?

Hi Ozana! Right now, the only books on the spreadsheet are the “Sin Bingo” ideas for whoever is interested.

For the books you are really going to read, they will go in “Books Week 1” (or whenever you finish them: Week 2, Week 3...)
There are no books there yet except for a “SAMPLE”, because TT hasn’t started yet 🙂

You do not have to include any links to GR on the spreadsheet. You will just need to make sure you added the books to your TT shelf.

Does that help? Really, if it is a problem to use the spreadsheet, no one will be mad if you use Completion Posts/ Books Read thread.

One more week!
How is everyone doing?
😃

Whether it's pink or purple, I would say it's not more than 1/2 of the cover so it can't be used for either.
But you can use it for Historical Romance anyway :)

LOL, Jessi and I keep x-posting over each other because we don’t know who is online. Sorry!

Ozana wrote: "I may not be able to mark finished books in spreadsheet but I'll try. I am use to put my read books in a treads when I finished them in past 5 or 6 TT. It's easier for me but not for you. I will tr..."

If you have any difficulties with the spreadsheet, or if you strongly prefer to use the Completion Thread, that is totally fine. That’s what it is for :)

Anybody on the team can read the BOMs — the whole team can read the BOMs if we want to, and we would all get points! 🙂
But only one person on each team can write DQs (daily questions on BOM) at a time, and is not a guarantee that our team will get to do this at all, because there are more teams than there are questions to write.

Besides BOMs, best is to read big books. Cover colors are better than the other reasons, but not by very many points so it’s not a big problem if your books fit genre instead, or the other sin reasons.

Does that help?

Jessi wrote: "[[ Frankie ]] wrote: "Okay, so I have a question... I see the team planning spreadsheet, then I see the regular team Ira spreadsheet (which I’m assuming is the one we will use to input finished boo..."

What Jessi said :)

On every team, I think only Caps and CoCaps have access to their official team spreadsheet, as the Mods need to send us private invitations for permission to edit.
But all team members can still VIEW it, for transparency (and of course to point out in case Jessi and I make any huge mistakes).

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No prob, just wanted to follow up. Anyway, if there is any more debate, if/when you read it, we can just move it to a different criteria.

Rebecca wrote: "I’ll be fine with the space opera genre it’s just not my first choice. 😃 I’m just happy to be on a team and to be reading 📖"

I hear that! 😄 Really, don’t worry about space opera unless you are going for “Sin Bingo”. Color covers are worth more than genre matches, and you can read for any sin you want. The rest of us have had over a week already to wrap our heads around the rules and strategies, and we’re happy to help you catch up if you need.
Team Ira would love to win something 🏆 but as I think our Captain would agree that ultimately the most important is for everyone to have fun, read whatever they want, and be part of a good and friendly team :)

Rebecca, is that Ciara or Mr Charlotte in your user pic?

I love cats, but sadly I am super allergic so I have to live vicariously through cat owners :)

Re your not liking sci-fi, it’s too bad for you that our “official genre assignment is Space Opera, lol, but you certainly don’t have to read any if you’re not into it. 🙂 For at least the first bit of TT, our strategy is to go for longer/longish books (more points!) and BOMs (more points!), so sin assignment becomes somewhat secondary.

I am still upset with myself for missing the Harry Potter TT last year. And it turns out that I didn’t even have a good reason; I had simply, being relatively new to team challenges at the time, misunderstood the nature of TT and didn’t think I would be able to play. Silly me!