Nyssa’s Comments (group member since Jan 07, 2011)

Nyssa’s comments from the MobileRead Book Challenges group.

Excellent start! I hope you enjoy all of your reads for the remainder of the year! :)

Thank you! :D

Don't you dear! You read them; therefore, they count!

Nyssa wrote: "January has always been a good reading month for me, but this has had to have been the best month I've had in years! "

25 books/stories read!

It's been a good reading day so far!

I read/listened to the first story in the AOS Bloodlands collection, and I completed the second book in the Cradle series.
Unfortunately, I did so prematurely, so I'll have to take a break from Cradle for a few weeks so that I don't end up too far ahead of schedule.

*Snort*

Wait!?! The last book!?!
Man, I don’t know if I could have done that.
You must have been more than done with the whole thing.

I've decided to walk away from the Jellyfish Princess series. I'm just not enjoying it. I find myself getting frustrated instead.

Christa wrote: "Oh, the worst is when something is both subbed and dubbed but from different translations. It amazes me how some shows spend a ton of money on voice actors for high quality dubs but the subs look like they were done by Google Translate."

^^THIS!^^

Christa wrote: "But the subs... oh boy. The subs were hilariously bad."

**Cringe** LOL

Christa wrote: "I also feel like when the CC and audio are both in English, I sort of subconsciously meld the captions into my experience rather than "reading" them, if that makes any sense."

Exactly! That makes perfect sense!


Oh, and my daughter corrected me. She doesn't hate Dub per se. She finds Dub annoying if she has already seen it in Sub - especially when the Sub and Dub don't match, their mouth movements are off, and/or the original and Dub voices are very different from each other.

When I initially responded, I could not think of the word "subtitles" to save my life!

I keep subtitles / CC on for everything I watch, but if I have to rely on them due to a language barrier, I end up reading instead of watching (which defeats the purpose).

My daughter doesn't always want to watch anime with me because she HATES dub! LOL

I find I have been having a more difficult time concentrating on when I have to rely on closed captioning.
So, I do not watch many foreign language shows anymore.
And while Dub is okay for anime, it drives me nuts on live action shows.

Christa wrote: "I saw a few episodes of Murdoch Mysteries some years back and I remember really like it. I should hunt that one down to watch soon."

I breezed through the first 4 or 5 series and then fizzled out. I think I got tired of their romantic issues getting in the way. Like, marry each other already, damn!
The crime-solving was fun to watch, though. I especially like that we got to "meet" Tesla, H. G. Wells, and other historical figures.

Oh! I think I remember seeing a thing for that when it came out.
I had intended to check It out but then I forgot about it.

Christa wrote: "A Million Little Things. Ensemble friendship drama is usually NOT my thing but I totally fell in love with the show. "

Are you able to give a synopsis without spoilers?

*Hoping I'm not kicking a dead horse here *

I mentioned in my reading thread that I have been on a British TV kick and wanted to give an update:

-Midsomer Murders - I am now on season 16 - I love this show!!

-Death in Paradise - Season 10 - I Love the show, but the newest DCI is not as fun as the previous ones. And the detective in training annoys the bejesus out of me!

-Shetland - Season 2 - I Will resume when I have caught up on MM & DiP; I like the characters.

-Vera - Season 1 - Will resume when I have caught up on MM & DiP; I'm either going to love her to hate her - I don't think there can be a middle ground.

-Wallander - Season 1 - Will resume, but most likely after Shetland and/or Vera. Seems VERY serious.

-New Tricks - Season 1 - On the Fence; It's amusing but also kind of boring.

-Spooks - Season 4 (I think) - Abandonded! The second team is "prettier," but I don't care about them like I did the original set.

Wishing you recovery from all of the aches and pains soon.
Congratulations on completing the first read of the year.

Christa wrote: "Congrats on having a great January! :)

Thank you! :D

Christa wrote: I think you should be fine on having three months in a post. Most of my cover posts contain the entire year, and I've had some other really long posts in some past years, and I never ran into any issues.

Awesome!

A few thoughts:

1. January has always been a good reading month for me, but this has had to have been the best month I've had in years!

2. Knowing that I would be reading many short stories, I set an additional goal of 5,000+ pages for the year. I just hit 2,000 pages this morning! However, my average over the last nine years only comes to about 6,200 pages (give or take), so I think I'll leave that goal where it is.

3. Does anyone know just how long our individual posts can be?
Each of my reserved posts is meant to hold three months' worth of reading. I wasn't expecting to have 18 in January alone.
I wonder if I need to move January and February to my original post and then change the others to have two months each.

Christa wrote: "I don't think I've read any true crime since 2011 when I read Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest. Which apparently left an imp..."

That story sounds awful! No wonder you can't forget it.
I will keep to "short" atrocities, thank you very much! LOL