Sha’s Comments (group member since May 08, 2018)

Sha’s comments from the The Perks Of Being A Book Addict group.

Mikayla wrote: "oh I didn't use arbookfinder to find a book. just to find out word count.

and how do I count the other Selection series books? they pretty much all have same characters"

Same as any other book. Duplicating characters is fine.

I tried reading another Blue Cover book but the only E in that was a bit character with no dialogue so. And the location wasn't helpful either. ;/

Kaylee wrote: "No theres no more blues but that counts as a reverse because Ive read it, and thats super helpful!!!

I hope you enjoy it, I loved those books when they first came out."

Actually, I've read a bit more of the Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday and I don't think it qualifies for Blue 8. Can The Selection cover that?

Use if it's >50% but not otherwise?

Another note: the character name for the Animorphs books is Visser Three, not just Visser, which is a title of sorts. The numerical part is essential to the species, and books without Visser 3 often tend to include Visser One.

Sorry for the nitpicking, but SFF naming conventions are weird and I don't want a hypothetical Animorphs reader coming in and saying "Visser isn't a name."

Edit: this is in reference to the spreadsheet

I do always try to fill slots up with characters before places, but I wanted to clear this up in case it ever comes up. Also, I have to admit I'm a little curious about the limits of the rules. :D

I suppose the closest I can think of for a generalized location is "the reaches" but that would again be a bit like saying "the Americas"

I thought of that too, but it seems both more complex and more irrelevant.

The area where some of the colonies are located is referred to as the suspended forest (I'm not sure if this is a location thing like Amazon or something more like the rainforest). Characters also sometimes refer to the region as the Far Reaches or the Eastern Reaches or the Western Reaches- the boundaries of where each of those begin or end aren't mentioned. I'm not sure if Emerald Twilight is in the Eastern Reaches or not, for example. It's never explicitly stated. The reference is always to the Emerald Twilight Colony Tree.

Also, the UNO FAQ did mention being as specific as possible- the example they gave was "X House qualifies if most of the story takes place there" so expanding the clearly stated location to something less defined seems counterproductive?

The world is called the Three Worlds. But that would be the equivalent of saying "this story takes place on Earth." Plus there are portions of this book (about a third if I remember correctly" that takes place on an island that's definitely not part of any suspended forest and may not be part of the reaches.

The book I'm reading so far has the cast flying to a indigo cloud colony, exploring the colony and finding the details of their ancestors who used to live there and then stressing out because the colony (which is basically a giant tree with multiple platforms and waterfalls in the tree the Worldbuilding is beautiful in this one) is dying so they go to Emerald Twilight where they meet other people of their species, deal with some of the fallout of the history their colony has with emerald twilight (kidnapping was involved), mc gets to have a better idea of how his life was supposed to get like, Queen's fight and they get plot-relevant information. Now they are travelling again~

Actually I was asked to come here for the opinion, and told it could be taken to the captains group if inconclusive.

Oops. Didn't realize I forgot to mention that.

Ah, I'll mark it down as ineligible, then. Thanks. :)

I asked the per chat group if multiple locations were allowed per book (as long as characters are there for a while and plot critical stuff happen). I wanted to ask because the Raksura books are sort of like quest stories where the characters travel a lot, and the main species lives in communes named things like Indigo Cloud Colony, Opal Night Colony and Emerald Twilight Colony where a lot of the stuff actually happens. I wanted to know if those were usable.

I'm thinking places which are (a) clearly named and identified and (b) essential to the plot- ie, omitting things that occur in or occur because be of those places makes the plot make no sense.

Like, in the first book they stopped at Sky Copper colony for a fight but I'm not counting that because there wasn't much exploration of it, and the conflict elements it introduced were not location-specific.

If a book takes place in multiple plot critical locations, can all of those locations be used for place name?

I can't find France in arbookfinder. Are there any other sites I can check the wordcount from?

Thanks for asking. :) I've mostly just been really annoyed over some stuff- but that's not a mood very conductive to reading things because I am then annoyed at everyone, including the characters. I already DNF'd The Rose Legacy because I kept yelling at things.

also I can't believe we got three of our Draw 2's in one hand T_T

I've been wanting to read those, so I could maybe use it for future reverses or something //makes note

Sorry for the lack of books. It's been a stressful couple of days. :/

It's not required for the challenge. The links Jamie and I posted are for our UNO shelves.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

I've added the completed books to this shelf~

//adds Class Action to to-read list

^ for a moment i wondered if you were reading Alanna: The First Adventure, because that takes place in a Court

The Cloud Roads counts for Yellow 4, so I can knock that off if it's okay with everyone else.

Yeah, it should be fine. You can always post the book here so that one of us can cross check the page count with arbookfinder too. That will take care of any uncertainties.

So I started reading The Cloud Roads and then realized it had a yellow cover. Should I save it for the next month, just in case? (It doesn't really matter to me if I read it now or in Mar/Apr since it's a re-read.)