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

Nyssa’s comments from the MobileRead Book Challenges group.

FoF Group Reads 2016 :


✓ 1. Stations of the Tide ~ 01/16
2. Uprooted
3. Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1)
4. Midnight Never Come (Onyx Court #1)
5. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld #1)
6. The Killer Next Door
7. The Martian Chronicles
8. Quag Keep (Quag Keep (Greyhawk) #1)
9. A Head Full of Ghosts
10. Rebel Mechanics (Rebel Mechanics #1)
11. Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)
12. Weaveworld
13. The Archived (The Archived, #1)
✓ 14. Lexicon ~04/15

FoF Group Reads 2015 :


✓ 1. The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1) ~ 02/15
2. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
3. Snowblind
4. Mister Monday (The Keys to the Kingdom, #1)
5. The Night Circus
6. The Gone-Away World
7. Dragons at Crumbling Castle
8. Sharp Objects
9. Leviathan Wakes (Expanse #1)
10. Pines (Wayward Pines #1)
11. Blackbringer (Faeries of Dreamdark #1)
12. The Innocent Mage (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker #1)
13. The Six-Gun Tarot (Golgotha #1)
14. Daemon (Daemon #1)
15. Ex-Heroes (Ex-Heroes #1)
16. The Carpet People
✓ 17. The Stand ~circa 1990
18. The Shining Girls
19. London Falling (Shadow Police, #1)
20. The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)
21. The Neverending Story
22. The Gates (Samuel Johnson, #1)
23. Revival
24. Fahrenheit 451
25. Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 #1)
26. The Thief of Always
27. Discord's Apple
28. Pump Six and Other Stories
29. Song of Kali
30. Too Many Curses
31. The Dead Run
32. All You Need Is Kill
33. Angelmaker
✓ 34. Dogsbody ~ 06/16
35. The House of Shattered Wings
36. Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)

FoF Group Reads 2014 :


✓ 1. Steelheart (Reckoners #1) ~ 01/14
2. The Book
3. Swan Song
✓ 4. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) ~ 01/14
✓ 5. Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle #1) ~ 02/14
✓ 6. Earth Abides ~02/14
7. Gardens of the Moon (The Malazan Book of the Fallen #1)
8. Mr. Shivers
9. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland #1)
10. Shadowland
✓ 11. Ready Player One ~ 03/14
12. Lord of the Silver Bow (Troy #1)
13. Seraphina (Seraphina #1)
14. The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter #1)
✓ 15. * Shards of Honor ~ 04/14 (Vorkosigan Saga #s1 & 2 Chronological)

*The reveiw is of Cordelia's Honor, an omnibus which pairs Shards of Honour with its direct sequel Barrayar.

16. Vicious (Vicious #1)
17. Blood Song (Raven's Shadow #1)
18. Let the Right One In
19. Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1)
✓ 20. The Martian ~ 01/15
21. The Alchemist of Souls (Night's Masque #1)
22. The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman #1)
23. The Strain (The Strain Trilogy #1)
24. The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Sequence #1)
25. The Goblin Emperor
26. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy #1)
27. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1)
28. Blindsight (Firefall #1)
29. The Painted Boy
30. The Minority Report
31. The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin #1)
32. The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
33. The Troop
34. Bird Box
35. Revelation Space (Revelation Space #1)
36. Ysabel
37. The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes #1)
38. The Company
39. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
40. Sabriel (Abhorsen #1)
41. Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga #1)
42. Dead Weather and Sunrise (The Chronicles of Egg #1)
43. Consider Phlebas (Culture #1)
44. Maplecroft (The Borden Dispatches #1)
45. The Girl with All the Gifts
46. Dust (Jacob's Ladder #1)
47. The Great and Secret Show (Book of the Art #1)
48. The Dark Lord of Derkholm (Derkholm #1)
49. Retribution Falls (Tales of the Ketty Jay #1)

Read in 2016 - Book Club Tallies:


Flights of Fantasy :

2014 Reads: [00] || 2015 Reads: [01] || 2016 Reads: [01]

After Earth :

2015 Reads: [00] || 2016 Reads: [00]

My focus this year will be the two main book club groups of which I'm a member:
Flights of Fantasy and After Earth.

Wow, you're getting an early start! :)

And I'm first on your post again. Yay, me!! LOL

OMG! You're not early... I'm late!!!! Well damn.

Christa wrote: "We missed you. :)"

Hi Christa. :)

Thanks. Missed you too!

MrsJoseph wrote: "Nyssa!"

Hi Mrs. J. :)

GA wrote: "Hi Nyssa! I see that you are a member of Small Biz Buzz. Me too!"

Hi GA.... Umm, that may be someone else I'm not familiar with the name of that site.

Sorry I didn't get back to you before. I've been away from GR for awhile.

2015 Read #18


Magic Strikes & Magic Mourns
Author: Ilona Andrews
ITAO Category: Urban Fantasy
Review #1: HERE (Magic Strikes)
Reveiw #2: Here (Magic Mourns)
Series Challenge Info :
Series: Kate Daniels
Book#: 03
Monthly Goal [05 / 01]
Points:

- Read any book in a series that isn't the 1st = 10 points.

-Write a Review of your Series Book = 25 points.

-Short Reviews (less than 5 sentences) & Reviews for Short Stories = 15 points.

Total: 50 points

Grand Total: 767 points & 4 NSCs

Christa wrote: "Soooo... I've got my new Fire, and I'm all "WOW! I've got a lot of books in my Amazon account I've totally forgotten about."

Cool, right? Yeah, no. I mean, yeah, lots of books that are like found ..."
Welcome back to the land 'o reading, and congratulations on your new Fire! I hope you enjoy! :)

I did not think to check Smashwords. Thanks! :)

MrsJoseph wrote: "Nyssa wrote: "I saw your post about it. Sounds interesting! I had to remind myself that my TBR is too long as it is, though. Lol!

And thanks. I'm really enjoying both series and spoiled myself by ..."

I got the Curran POV, but can only read it via the Kindle app on my phone for some reason. It will not work if I try to send it to my Kindle via Calibre.

I did get Magic Gifts for free, a while ago. I knew I would read the series eventually, I just didn't know when.

As for the others...I'll have to let my wallet decide.

I saw your post about it. Sounds interesting! I had to remind myself that my TBR is too long as it is, though. Lol!

And thanks. I'm really enjoying both series and spoiled myself by buying all four of The Edge.
I'll be reading the Curran POV about the soup next, then move on to Fate's Edge.

I really wished all of the Kate Daniels short stories were in a single collection too! I don't know that I can afford to get them all. Some are sold by themselves (for $2.99) on Amazon, some are in anthologies, and there's a 2-parter called An Ill-Advised Rescue that I can't seem to find at all.
I hate when it's so complicated! I just want to read the darn stories already!

2015 Read #17


Magic Burns
Author: Ilona Andrews
ITAO Category: Urban Fantasy
Review: HERE
Series Challenge Info :
Series: Kate Daniels
Book#s: 02
Monthly Goal [03.5 / 01]
Points:

- Read any book in a series that isn't the 1st = 10 points.

-Write a Review of your Series Book = 25 points.

Total: 35 points

Grand Total: 717 points & 4 NSCs

2015 Read #16


Bayou Moon
Author: Ilona Andrews
ITAO Category: Romance
Review: HERE

Series Challenge Info :
Series: The Edge
Book#: 02
Monthly Goal [02.5 / 01]
Points:

- Read any book in a series that isn't the 1st = 10 points.

-Write a Review of your Series Book = 25 points.

Total: 35 points

Grand Total: 682 points & 4 NSCs

Bianca wrote: "The Rook. Daniel O'Malley by Daniel O'Malley.
Loved it!
A great combination of magic and mystery. The second book is also coming, though the release date got pushed back first from ..."

The Rook was pretty good, wasn't it! :) I see a reread in my future, right before book 2 is finally released.

2015 Read #15


Magic Bites and A Questionable Client
Author: Ilona Andrews
ITAO Category: Urban Fantasy
Review: #1 HERE (Magic Bites)
Reveiw: #2 Here (A Questionable Client)
Series Challenge Info :
Series: Kate Daniels
Book#s: 0.05 & 01
Monthly Goal [01.5 / 01]
Points:

- -Complete Monthly Goal = 50 points & 1 New Series Credit (NSC).

-Begin a New Series before completing the Monthly Goal or without spending a NSC = -10 points. Spending 1 NSC

-Write a Review of your Series Book = 25 points.

-Short Stories = 2 points each.

-Short Reviews (less than 5 sentences) & Reviews for Short Stories = 15 points.

Total: 92 points + 1 NSC - 1 NSC

Grand Total: 647 points & 4 NSCs

2015 Read #14


The Android's Dream
Author: John Scalzi
ITAO Category: Humour
Review: HERE
Series Challenge Info : N/A
(view spoiler)[Series: N/A
Book#: 00
Monthly Goal [00 / 01]
Points:
Total: N/A
Grand Total: N/A
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2015 Read #13


Lexicon
Author: Max Barry
ITAO Category: Award Winner
Review: HERE
Series Challenge Info : N/A
(view spoiler)[Series: N/A
Book#: 00
Monthly Goal [00 / 01]
Points:
Total: N/A
Grand Total: N/A
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