Alyana ’s Comments (group member since Feb 14, 2021)

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

Duration: January 1 - April 5, 2021
Update to message 605
Progress: 50/50 - FREESTYLE

◈ Female Narrator
An audiobook with one female narrator.
--> The Hating Game - (Katie Schorr) read on 01/02/21 ★★★☆☆
--> Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Cathleen McCarron) - read on 02/1/21 ★★★★☆
--> The Couple Next Door - (Kirsten Potter) - read on 02/11/21 ★★★★☆
--> Turtles All the Way Down - (Kate Rudd) - read on 02/14/21 ★★★☆☆
--> The Silence - (Emily Sutton-Smith) - read on 02/25/21 ★★★★☆
--> It Ends with Us - (Olivia Song) - read on 03/09/21 ★★★★☆
--> The Girls I've Been - (Tess Sharpe) - read on 03/27/21 ★★★☆☆

◈ Male Narrator
An audiobook with one male narrator.
--> History Is All You Left Me - (Tom Picasso) read on 01/02/21 ★★★★☆
--> The Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons - (Frank Muller) - read on 02/14/21 ★★★☆☆
--> Red, White & Royal Blue - (Ramón de Ocampo) - read on 03/09/21 ★★★★☆
--> The Choice - (Holter Graham) - read on 04/02/21 ★★★★☆

◈ Duets
An audiobook with one female and one male narrator.
--> Coming in from the Cold- (Joe Arden and Maxine Mitchell) read on 01/22/21 ★★☆☆☆
--> Fangirl - (Rebecca Lowman and Maxwell Caulfield) - read on 02/1/21 ★★★☆☆
--> The Honey-Don't List - (Patti Murin and Jon Root) - read on 02/18/21 ★★★☆☆
--> The Shadows - (Hannah Arterton and John Heffernan) - read on 02/23/21 ★★★☆☆
--> Five Feet Apart - (Joy Osmanski and Corey Brill) - read on 03/07/21 ★★★★☆
--> Captivated by You - (Jeremy York and Jill Redfield) - read on 03/20/21 ★★★★☆
--> The Foxe & the Hound - (Luci Christian Bell and Joe Arden) - read on 03/28/21 ★★★★☆

◈ Full Cast
An unabridged audiobook with several narrators; there is a narrator per character (e.g. American Gods by Neal Gaiman). To find these, you can search most sites by the term “Full Cast.”
--> Into the Water - (Laura Aikman, Sophie Aldred, Rachel Bavidge, Imogen Church, and Daniel Weyman) read on 01/02/21 ★★★★☆
--> Wonder - ( Diana Steele, Nick Podehl, Kate Rudd) - read on 03/12/21 ★★★★★
--> The Cousins - (Sarah Skaer, Kate Reinderes, David Garelik, Julia Whelan) - read on 03/15/21 ★★★☆☆
--> Yes No Maybe So - (Aisha Saeed, Tiya Sircar, Michael Crouch) - read on 03/27/21 ★★★★☆
--> The Guest List - (Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens, Rich Keeble) - read on 04/03/21 ★★★★☆

◈ Celebrity Narrator
Category name says it all: Somebody famous narrates. Examples: James Marsters reading Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series or Anne Hathaway reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. BTW, when searching, audible.com is calling this their “A-List Collection.”
--> Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - (Stephen Fry) read on 01/06/21 ★★★★★
--> The Midnight Library - (Carey Mulligan) - read on 02/4/21 ★★★☆☆
--> Dad Is Fat - (Jim Gaffigan) - read on 04/05/21 ★★★★★

◈ New-to-Me Narrator
A narrator that you haven’t heard before.
--> The True Believer - (David Baker) read on 01/15/21 ★★★☆☆
--> The New World - (Humphrey Bower) read on 01/13/21 ★★★☆☆
--> The Snow Child (Debra Monk) - read on 02/1/21 ★★★★☆
--> Stolen - (Emily Gray) - read on 03/21/21 ★★★☆☆
--> My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - (Joan Walker) - read on 03/26/21 ★★★☆☆

◈ Favourite Narrator
A narrator that you have heard and loved before and would recommend to others.
--> The Broken Girls - (Rebecca Lowman) - read on 02/11/21 ★★★★☆
--> More Than This - (Nick Podehl) - read on 03/21/21 ★★★☆☆

◈ Less Than 3 Hours
An audiobook that you can read in one day!
--> The Deal of a Lifetime - (47 minutes) - read on 02/15/21 ★★★★★

◈ Between 3 - 5 Hours
An audiobook that falls in this range.
--> A Monster Calls - (3 hours, 51 minutes) - read on 02/6/21 ★★★★☆
--> The Five People You Meet in Heaven - (4 hours, 38 minutes) - read on 03/16/21 ★★★☆☆

◈ More Than 5 Hours to 9.9 Hours
An audiobook that is over 5 hours in length.
--> Verity - (8 hours, 10 minutes) read on 01/04/21 ★★★★★
--> The Family Upstairs - (9 hours, 34 minutes) read on 01/09/21 ★★★★☆
--> At First Sight- (8 hours and 35 minutes) read on 01/19/21 ★★★★☆
--> Attachments - (8 hours, 55 minutes) - read on 02/14/21 ★★★★☆
--> What If It's Us - (9 Hours and 48 Minutes) - read on 03/01/21 ★★★★★
--> The Perks of Being a Wallflower - (6 hours and 18 minutes) - read on 03/03/21 ★★★★☆
--> Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man - (7 hours and 5 minutes) - read on 03/15/21 ★★★★☆

◈ 10 Hours to 14.9 Hours
An audiobook that is a CHUNKSTER! ;) More than 10 hours in length, but less than 15.
--> The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo- (12 hours, 10 minutes) read on 01/19/21 ★★★★★
--> Entwined with You- (11 hours, 2 minutes) read on 01/25/21 ★★★★☆
--> Beach Read - (10 hours 13 minutes) - read on 04/05/21 ★★★★☆

◈ 15 Hours to 19.9 Hours
An audiobook that is a Colossal Chunkster! More than 15 hours in length, less than 20.
--> American Dirt- (16 hours, 45 minutes) read on 01/16/21 ★★★☆☆
--> A Time to Kill - (16 hours, 47 minutes) - read on 02/21/21 ★★★★☆
--> Becoming - (19 hours and 4 minutes) - read on 03/02/21 ★★★★★

◈ “Buddy Read” via Audiobook
Read a “Buddy Read” book via audio and/or listen to your book with another person.
--> The Whisper Man - (578 minutes) - read on 02/07/21 ★★★★☆

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Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Absolutely, Alyana if you want the challenge to be for the 2021 year or you can just start now for the next 12 months"

Thanks Karen!

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Welcome Alyana 🥳"

Thank you Karen. Can I use the books that I listened from January 2021?

Wow! Finally found a challenge for an audio reader! I will be aiming for the Executive Director and will do the Freestyle.

Carrie wrote: "Alyana wrote: "No problem for me for the spell out but for the detour, would 1 year and 5 days count as more than a year?"

Sure would :)"

Cool! Thanks Carrie! :)

Carrie wrote: "April wrote: "Option 1 or 3
But what if you don't have a book over a year old. I never used good reads just used books on my amazon wish list"

That’s a great question! Do you any have books on yo..."

I checked April's TBR, her oldest book added is Dec 2020.

No problem for me for the spell out but for the detour, would 1 year and 5 days count as more than a year?

I'm in too! :D

Thanks Bernadette! ☺️

I just received the newsletter from NBRC. There will be another team challenge that will start in October. Anyone joining? :)

I'm good with 1 or 3 too.

I can switch my book Good Girl, Bad Blood from A to Z letter but that character is not one of the major characters, a supporting, I guess. Would that count?

Maddielucy(Patti) wrote: "If April wants to take one of the letters I claimed — feel free!"

I second Maddielucy. :)

Carrie wrote: "Alyana wrote: "Carrie wrote: "We have a few more people finishing up so I thought I'd put up the options for the next round for everyone to think about!

Option 1: Spell it out:
Almaty Kazakhstan

..."

Great! Thanks Carrie! :)

Carrie wrote: "We have a few more people finishing up so I thought I'd put up the options for the next round for everyone to think about!

Option 1: Spell it out:
Almaty Kazakhstan

Option 2: Read a book set in o..."


I'm good with 1 and 3. For the detour, is there a list of NBRC BOM books, so we can check?

Carrie wrote: "Just a quick heads up: The book I picked has over 500 pages. I'll try to read quick but it may take me a bit longer than normal!"

Whew! I guess I'm not alone then, I have another book that got available from my library and I have GoT to finish too, so I might take longer to finish my book for this stop.

Woohoo!!!

Finished my last book for this challenge. A big thanks to you all especially to our captains, Cat and Danielle! Three months went by so fast. Taking a break with team challenges but I'm looking forward to the next one! (There's another one, right? lol)

Didn't enjoy much my Spanish setting book. Lack of action for me.

I think I'm good with any of the three.

Finished More Happy Than Not.